Pre-Season Tournaments Pack FM17

Hello,

This pack is for everyone who has always wanted to play the traditional pre-season tournaments in your saves. With this update, you'll have several pre-season tournaments being played annually, with different participating teams and recording all history and records!

In this first version we offer 21 tournaments; 19 are real events and 2 are fictitious. Please check the tournament list and participating teams:

Anglo Cup (CUSTOM)
- Champion of Barclays Premier League (England)
- Champion of Sky Bet Championship (England)
- Champion of Sky Bet League 1 (England)
- Champion of Sky Bet League 2 (England)
- Champion of Scottish Premier League (Scotland)
- Champion of Welsh Premier League (Wales)
- Champion of SSE Airtricity League (Ireland)
- Champion of NIFL Premiership (Northern Ireland)

Audi Cup
- Bayern München (host team - Germany)
- Random La Liga Santander team (Spain)
- Random Serie A TIM team (Italy)
- Random Barclays Premier League team (England)

Barclays Asia Trophy
- 3 Random Barclays Premier League teams (England)
- Champion of AFC Champions League (Asia)

Cape Town Cup
- Ajax Cape Town (host team - South Africa)
- Champion of Sky Bet Championship (England)
- Random Premier Soccer League team (South Africa)
- Random League NOS team (Portugal)

Colonia Cup
- 1. FC Köln (host team - Germany)
- Random La Liga Santander Team (Spain)
- Random Barclays Premier League team (England)
- Random League NOS team (Portugal)

Copa Chapecoense (CUSTOM)
* Tribute to the victims of LaMia Flight 2933 air crash *
- Atlético Nacional (Colombia)
- Chapecoense (Brazil)

Copa Ciudad de Avellaneda
- Independiente (Argentina)
- Racing Club (Argentina)

Copa Luis B. Nofal
- Boca Juniors (Argentina)
- River Plate (Argentina)

Emirates Cup
- Arsenal (host team - England)
- Champion of Liga Santander (Spain)
- Champion of Serie A TIM (Italy)
- Champion of UEFA Europa League

Eusébio Cup
- Benfica (host team - Portugal)
- Random La Liga Santander team (Spain)

Florida Cup
- 2 random Serie A teams (Brazil)
- 2 random MLS teams (USA)
- Random Primera División team (Argentina)
- Random Liga Águila team (Colombia)
- Random Chinese Super League team (China)
- Random Campeonato Nacional team (Chile)

Supercopa Euroamericana
- Champion of CONMEBOL Copa Sudamericana
- Champion of UEFA Europa League

Taça Ariano Suassuna
- Sport Recife (host team - Brazil)
- Random Primera División team (Argentina)

Telekom Cup
- 4 random Bundesliga teams (Germany)

Torneio Super Series
- 4 random Serie A teams (Brazil)

Troféu Cinco Violinos
- Sporting (host team - Portugal)
- Random Superleague team (Greece)

Trofeo Joan Gamper
- Barcelona (host team)
- Random Barclays Premier League team (England)

Trofeo Luigi Berlusconi
- Milan (host team - Italy)
- Random Serie A TIM team (Italy)

Trofeo Naranja
- Valencia (host team - Spain)
- Random Serie A TIM team (Italy)

Trofeo Santiago Bernabéu
- Real Madrid (host team - Spain)
- Random Serie A team (Brazil)

Some screenshots:

Important notes:

• All tournaments have realistic cash prizes for the best places;
  
• All tournaments was made as official competitions to make the contest more realistic and competitive;
  
• The tournaments match dates are adjusted to the club schedules, so if a club is invited to several pre-season tournaments in a season, this club will play some matches in a very short time (but this is a difficult situation);
  
• The pack also contains the graphics to illustrate the tournaments (logos and trophies);
  
• Some tournaments may have history errors (duplicate or missing past editions), despite all historical have been properly recorded in the editor. This only happens in a few saves, and we still don't know why. However this issue don't affect the update functionality.
  

How to install pre-season tournaments in FM17

1. Extract the files using 7-zip or some similar program.
   
2. Move the folders according to these guidelines:
   
* "editor data" files >> Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2017\editor data
* "graphics\competitions\normal" files >> Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2017\graphics\logos\competitions\normal
* "graphics\competitions\small" files >> Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2017\graphics\logos\competitions\small
* "graphics\pictures\trophies" files >> Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2017\graphics\pictures\trophies

3. Open FM and start a new game by selecting the tournaments you want to play in the save.
   

IMPORTANT - ABOUT GRAPHICS
Depending on the amount of updates selected in the save, some of tournaments may have IDs modified by the game. To check this, follow these steps:

1. Go to "Preferences >> Interface", and press "Show screen IDs in title bar to assist skinning" option;
   
2. Search the friendly tournaments and make sure the IDs were kept;
   
3. If any ID has changed, simply go to the "graphics" folder and rename manually the name of logos and trophy files to the correct ID; in this case you also need to change the corresponding line in the config file.
   
4. Reload the skin and enjoy!
   

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