[FM 24.3.0] A New World Order

Introduction

In this alternate universe, May 27th is the most important turning point in the game's history. World Football made a sensational entrance onto the world stage by winning its case against the monopoly of the main football federations.

Their purpose ? Broaden football out of the dozen of European-only Superclubs so every continent has a chance to have its football dynasty.

Their proposal ? The "Franchise Football", a new wealthy and redistributing system composed of hundreds of brand new powerful franchises located in the biggest cities around the globe.
Clubs from the old-system (also called "Club Football") still compete in completely devaluated tournaments though. They are now doomed to become formation centers for almighty institutions. This gap will certainly never fill back.

Dystopia or utopia ? At least, football finally really tends to become what it has claimed for decades: The World's Game

World Football organization

The world is now divided in 16 zones and 4 Continents: Africa, Americas, Asia/Oceania and Europe. Zones contains 32 franchises each, splitted in a first and a second division of 16: the First and Challenger Series. Besides first teams, secondary competition systems have been organized concerning Reserve and U21 teams.


Continents have their own cups called "The Masters" with thrilling knockout match-ups.
"The Worlds" is the most prestigious competition in this new football landscape. This yearly cup gathers 32 among the best franchises worldwide to play a hosted tournament in May, at the end of the WF regular season.

Awards have been redesigned so they are more uniformized between competitions, countries and continents.


There is at least one franchise in 157 countries. Each franchise is affiliated with at least 4 clubs from their country. These affiliations never end and allow players to move freely between franchise and affiliated.

How to play

To install the database and configuration file, please unpack WorldFootball.zip in your FM 24 folder (in most cases C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024)

A graphics pack including logos and backgrounds for every teams and every competitions is available for download
Mediafire link

To install the graphics pack, please unpack WorldFootball-gfx.zip in your FM 24 "graphics" folder (in most cases C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2024\graphics)

This database is compatible with two databases included in the download.
- Fictional players removes every person in the database. Everyone will be generated by the game. You will find more easily new countries on top of rankings. Do not forget to enable "Use fake players and staff" to play with this file
- Global Draft removes every existing player contracts. Be the first to sign the free agents you want for your team.

For configuration, the file includes three game setup files according to three different game modes, in the folder game_setup.

You can load one by clicking here in the save creation screen :

Franchise squads has to be built from scratch allowing new scenarios for each save, great teams and legends you encounter are only part of your story.

Support

This is my first modding project on Football Manager: feel free to give feedbacks, suggestions and report bugs for upcoming versions !

Join the Discord server of the project !
https://discord.gg/bufdewGJnc

If you had a good time playing it, you can donate here
https://paypal.me/ELRAGADOR

Special thanks to Joe Dugroselier

Changelog
v1.4

• Franchise changes in North America (Minneapolis Loons, New England Forest)
• Franchise changes in India (Kerala Tuskers, new-look Madras Defenders)
• Some logo remakes
• Better regen players
• With Fictional Players DB, better free staff members pool
• Salary cap increased by 50%
• Little fixes (names, stadiums...)

v1.3

• New Cypriot franchise : Afroditi Lefkosia
• Polish franchises revamp
• Added fictional managers to franchises from the beginning
• Checked and fixed affiliate clubs
• Changes in Series registration rules
• Various fixes of reported bugs

v1.2

• New Cypriot franchise : Afroditi Lefkosia
• Polish franchises revamp
• Added fictional managers to franchises from the beginning
• Checked and fixed affiliate clubs
• Changes in Series registration rules
• Various fixes of reported bugs

v1.1

• Stats of franchise facilities are not maxed out anymore
• Mid-season break in January for AFCON and AFC Asian Cup
• Stronger affiliations between franchises and existing clubs
• The quota of 8 foreign players in registration will only be activated from 2030
• More active teams on transfer market in first years
• Enhanced fictional player generation
• Added Game Setup files for easier save configuration

v1.0 : Original release