USA Fantasy Update and Continental Cups

Hints:
- Both files in the archive must be activated before you start the game, they are not independent.
- You should tick "add players to teams" at the beginning of the game, for lower league clubs.
- There is no way to change the starting date at the beginning of the game, thus to start in Summer (so at the beginning of the season), you should select at least one other competition starting in Summer.

Background:

USA stated in 2013 that Soccer is finally a valuable sport, and decided to promote it all over the country. They invested a lot in facilities to improve youth development and reorganized the leagues in an European ways.

Led by this changes and under pressure of the big USA, CONCACAF and COMEBOL decided to merge their competition and created two new continental cups to replace the old ones : the American Gold and Silver Cups. Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and now USA can compete in a super continental league that now challenges the European ones.

Changes for the USA:

- Interest of the country for the Soccer set on very high
- Regens value higher to the same level as Brazil, Canadian regens level set to a moderate level
- Transfer/wages values raised to the same level as England
- New USA league organization: 4 professional leagues of 20 teams (all playable) + 1 amateur league / 1 US Open Cup
- Competitions reputation raised to the same level as England

Premier League details : the North American Soccer Superleague

- European calendar dates: from August to May
- 20 clubs / 3 relegations : 19 from the former MLS - Chivas USA + New York Cosmos + Orlando City
- Squad rules: 40 players registrated, including maximum 20 foreigners.
- Starting team rule : Max. 11 foreigners, so at least 7 US players in the starting team
- Canada & Antigua are considered as non foreign countries

All awards have been created.

National Cup : US Open

- All 4 professional leagues + the amateur one
- Superleague clubs enter the competition for the 32th finals
- Single game, with extra time and penalties
- Money prizes added

Other Leagues:

- European calendar dates: from August to May
- 20 clubs / 3 relegations : 19 from the former MLS - Chivas USA + New York Cosmos + Orlando City
- Squad rules: 40 players registrated, including maximum 20 foreigners (10 for League 3).
- Starting team rule : Max. 11 foreigners (7 for League 3), so at least 7 US players in the starting team
- Canada & Antigua are considered as non foreign countries

All awards have been created.

Finance and Facilities:

- Facilities level have been increased for many clubs to promote higher level of regens.
- Clubs reputation have been increased based on their league level and the past/expected results --> transfer of major European players to the US championship is now reality
- Balance, Transfer budget, wage budget, incomers have been reveiewd for all clubs
- Some Sugar Daddys have been added to clubs (Miami, Las Vegas, Hollywood for lower leagues clubs for instance)
- President have been created for clubs with Sugar Daddys
- Some new stadiums have been created
- Stadium frequentation reviewed
- Money prizes added for championship position

Continental Cups:

- North & South American continental cups deleted
- 2 new continental cups created : American Gold & Silver Cups, mixing clubs from both North & South America.
- 1 supercup created; American Platinium Cup

All 20 countries of North & South America are involved + the 5 best countries of Caribbean.

C1/C3 principle:

C1 has 2 qualification rounds, and then it is groups stage as for the European Champions League.

C3 has 1 qualification round, and then it is groups stage as for the European Champions League.

Qualifications are as follow: (cup means the national cup winner)



Note that Canadian clubs are qualified inside the US championship. Thus the Canadian club in C1 is the best places Canadian club in the US championship, even if it is 10th.

- Squad rules: at least 4 players formed in the counrty and 1 in the club
- Money prizes added
- Awards added

C1/C3 reputations are the same as the European continental cups.

American Platinium Cup :

- Gold Cup winner against Silver cup winner. End of August. 
No game the first year.

FIFA Club World Cup modification:

Club World cup have been updated to take into account that only 1 C1 cup is remaining in America. All is working fine.

Trophée Jacques Cartier :

Trophy between Montreal Impact and the French Ligue 1 winner, occuring end of July at Montreal.

Overview of the playable Leagues:

Other small changes have been done to make the whole update consistant. it has been tested many times through many versions, so normally you shouldn't find bugs... If you find one, please don't hesitate to report it so that I can fix it!

Looking forward for your feedback.