here is the league pack for all nations/federations in Asia. It also includes the continental competitions for the 2024 format with coefficients.
! for Official 24.3.0 Update Database only !
Creating the world is a very time consuming task, and I do not have the time to support and test all databases. So I am going with the latest version only. The bright side is that it is for free. Tips are more than welcome though :-)
This file contains leagues and cups in real formats for all member federations of the AFC.
please see the readme.html for details.
Changelog:
v24.13
- Contintental Cups: fixed qualification to Shopee Cup
- Hong Kong (HKG): Premier league transitions from 11 to 9 to 10 teams in the first 3 seasons. U23s are no longer in the league from 2024 onwards. Also fixed qualification to AFC Cups
- Thailand (THA): fixed relegation from Thai 3 League and promotion from lower leagues
v24.12
- Singapore (SGP): fixed mistake in foreigner rules
- UAE: adjusted foreigner rules for lower leagues (5 instead of 2)
v24.11
- Refactored every nation.
- Continental Cups: fixed registrations and match rules. Winners of ACL2 and ACGL qualify for the ACLE and ACL2 of the following year.
- Afghanistan (AFG): adjusted to 2024 schedule
- Australia (AUS): refactored Australian Cup (added preliminaries and playoff round), added federation cups, extended formats for NPL
- Bangladesh (BAN): added tier 2 and u18 league, updated foreigner rules, extended format for Federation Cup
- Bahrain (BHR): refactored
- Bhutan (BHU): refactored Premier League + qualifiers to new schedule. League is played first, then qualifiers are played to determine who plays in league next year. Non-Qualifiers are relegated. Updated foreigner rules.
- Brunei (BRU): updated foreigner rules
- Cambodia (CAM): extended format for C-League. Updated foreigner rules.
- China (CHN): League 2 extends in 2025 from 20 to 24 teams. Two B Teams are added in 2024 and 2025 (from clubs who won the U21 league)
- Guam (GUM): corrected 2024 format
- Hong Kong (HKG): updated 2024 formats
- Indonesia (IDN): updated foreigner rules and corrected 2024 formats
- India (IND): refactored, updated schedules and corrected qualification to AFC Cups
- Iran (IRN): updated schedules, foreigner rules and formats
- Iraq (IRQ): corrected formats for both tiers, modified schedule to finish before AFC Cups start
- Jordan (JOR): updated formats for 2025 onwards, corrected format for Shield Cup, added prize money for leagues
- Japan (JPN): corrected formats
- Kyrgyzstan (KGZ): refactored and corrected formats
- South Korea (KOR): added promotion/relegation from 2026 onwards, corrected formats, updated foreigner rules
- Saudia Arabia (KSA): refactored and updated foreigner rules for 2024 onwards
- Kuwait (KUW): added tier 2, corrected Super Cup, updated foreigner rules
- Laos (LAO): updated to new schedule (Sep->May), updated foreigner rules
- Lebanon (LBN): refactored
- Macau (MAC): refactored
- Malaysia (MAS): updated to 2024 schedule (May->April) and updated 2024 formats and foreigner rules
- Maldives (MDV): refactored, added prize money to Dhivehi League
- Mongolia (MNG): added tier 2, updated foreigner rules, extended Mongolian Cup
- N. Mariana Islands (MNP): corrected format and schedule (now using Spring and Autumn Seasons)
- Myanmar (MYA): changed schedule (Jul->Jun) to 2024 format and updated foreigner rules
- Nepal (NEP): changed schedule (Jul->Jun) and updated foreigner rules
- Oman (OMA): added league cup
- Pakistan (PAK): changed schedule to end in May, updated foreigner rules
- Philippines (PHI): corrected formats of league and cup
- Palestine (PLE): refactored, corrected Gaza First League
- North Korea (PRK): added Torch Cup, fixed transfer windows and registration
- Qatar (QAT): adjusted schedules of cups, updated foreigner rules, corrected formats of some cups
- Singapore (SGP): adjusted foreigner rules, refactored cup to use all 9 premier league teams
- Sri Lanka (SRI): refactored
- Thailand (THA): updated formats for 2024 onwards, refactored league 3 and league 3 cup
- Tajikistan (TJK): added formats for 2024 onwards and adjusted cups for more teams because of that
- Turkmenistan (TKM): added format for 2024 onwards (4 rounds instead of 3), corrected foreigner rules (none allowed)
- Timor Leste (TLS): refactored
- Chinese Taipei (TPE): updated foreigner rules, corrected schedule of 2nd tier
- United Arab Emirates (UAE): refactored
- Uzbekistan (UZB): added format for 2024 Birinchi League. Updated Cup for more teams
- Vietnam (VIE): updated formats and adjusted schedules to finish before AFC Cups start. Updated foreigner rules, updated prize money for Cup
- Yemen (YEM): updated format and schedule
v24.10
- Philippines (PHI): now correct (new) teams are promoted to the league in 2024
v24.9
- Continental Cups: National Cup Winners now qualify for 2nd slot of their nation
- Continental Cups: removed foreigner restrictions for 2024 onwards
- Continental Cups: added ASEAN Club Championship (Shopee Cup) from 2024 onwards
- Continental Cups: registration for ACL2 should be fixed
- Indonesia (IDN): added Liga 2 format for 2024 onwards (transitions from 4 to 3 groups)
- Indonesia (IDN): updated foreigner rules
- Myanmar (MYA): added MNL League Cup
v24.8
- added continental cup formats with coefficients: AFC Champions League Elite, AFC Champions League 2 and AFC Challenge League
- Australia (AUS): A-League increases to 13 teams in 2024 (Auckland FC is added)
- Iraq (IRQ): fixed qualification for continental cup (1 year offset)
- Laos (LAO): fixed qualification for continental cup (1 year offset)
- Korea DPR (PRK): refactored schedule because it broke continental qualification. new schedule is feb -> oct
- Philippines (PHI): added format for 2024 with 8 more teams
- Singapore (SGP): fixed season windows, contract dates
- Yemen (YEM): fixed qualification for continental cup
v24.7
- Singapore (SGP): fixed registration, transfer windows and schedule. All schedules changed to Aug->May to reflect real life from 2024 onwards
v24.6
- GUM, HKG, IND, IRQ, KSA, LAO, QAT: optimizations of youth/reserve teams for better squads (by DaveIncid)
- Singapore (SGP): added format and foreigner rules for 2024 onwards. Competition also changes schedule to may-may for 2024 and aug-may in 2025. Teams play eachother 4 times instead of 3 times and 9 foreigners allowed (5 + 1 AFC + 3 U21).
v24.5
- All Nations: Update to Database 24.3.0
- All Nations: Fixed registration issue causing teams to register only youth players (happened for competitions with groups/subcompetitions such as China D2)
- All Nations: minor improvements (from things I learned while doing other league packs)
- Guam (GUM): format for 2024 added: transitions from 5 teams in 2023 to 15 teams in 2024
- India (IND): first step of Vision 2047 - in 2026 the top 3 tiers will have expanded to 14,14 and 12 teams
- Saudi Arabia (KSA): added prize money for tier 2 and 3
- many minor adjustments
v24.4
- corrected Vietnam qualification for AFC Cups - had to delay the qualification until VLeague1 was finished
v24.3
- corrected Vietnam V-League 1: number of rounds changed from 1 to 2
- corrected dates for Vietnam National Cup: it now starts in November as it is supposed to
- used real life teams for India I-League 2 by adding promoted teams from I-League 3: Sporting Goa, Dempo and Sporting Bengaluru
v24.2
- changed match rules for Indonesia Liga 1 to: 5 + 1 ASEAN
- added Indian I-League 2
- changed Indian Youth reserve league from U18 to U21
v24.1
- included Macau and Northern Mariana Islands, since they are also AFC Members.
I wish you a lot of success in your managerial adventures in Asia.
Master Igor.
(other packs: here is an overview)
Discussion: AFC Leagues for FM24 by MasterIgor v24.13 (with Coefficients)
256 comments have been posted so far.
Yes, I saw that page, but it is still unclear and not final (it says so in the yellow boxes). It says 12 teams for east and west, but then 13 teams are listed. And there is a preliminary round - or not? And 8 matchdays, but who plays who?
These things need to be final before I can make that in FM Editor.
However, Vietnam has changed its season dates after that and we are now in the 2023-2024 season. That and future seasons run from october to july.
This, because it is the future and not a one time occurrence, is the format which I used for the vietnam rule file.
It can be that the game picks vietnam teams for continental cups already in june. I will investigate this. In any case it should be correct from the next season onwards.
Does the league has a championship round and a relegation round? It doens't seem to happen when I look at the rules.
Also, the Cup seems too early (As an August tournament), date of start and end is 1900 and results appear for 2024/25 season already... Binh Duong plays Champions League but I don't think they should as they finished 12th last year. Would it be because of those dates? thanks
*Thanks
unfortunately I-League 3 won't be possible, because:
it serves as a platform for state champions (5th tier), so it would be different teams every season. On top of that, not all teams from the I-League 3 are in the Database. So it makes no sense to create I-League 3 without all State Leagues. For someone like me who wants to make rule files for every nation, this would cost me too much effort.
1. Indonsesia foreigners rule is wrong
-> yes, I did not update the original. This is a small change to do.
2. India youth league is not u-18 but u-21.
-> to explain, I did not implement real youth/reserve leagues because this would double my efforts. However, I can change u-18 to u-21 for the "unrealistic" youth league
3. India does not have I-League 2 or 3
-> As I write this comment, these competitions have not started or finished. I will add them in a future update, but I don't know when exactly.
4. AFC Continental Cups (2024 format)
-> I experimented a little and I can do it. However, at this moment the slots and format is not clear yet. I will add it in a future update when this is final.
thanks for your spot-on work!
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for CONMEBOL, OFC and CONCACAF, I have rule files from FM23 which I need to convert and there are some format changes (especially NZL). But this is the plan. After that I will try to tackle CAF (Africa) and UEFA (Europe) but the latter 2 have to be created from scratch.
The problem is that the AFC continental cups have 2 lists with nations (West and East) to draw teams from. In the editor I have only 1 list, so I did not know how to work around it. But while typing I had an idea for a workaround so I will try. But if it doesn't work out, then I just can't do it. In Fm24 it is probably hard coded.
It is actually happening in real life
Is it possible?
New AFC Champions league Format
On 23 December 2022, it was announced that the AFC competition structure would change from the established formats. Under the new plans, the top club competition of Asian football will only consist of 24 teams, divided into East and West regions (12 teams each), with each team playing eight other teams from their region (four teams at home and four teams away) in the brand-new league stage, which replaces the usual group stage. The top eight teams per region will advance to the knockout stage, where only the round of 16 will be played over two legs, and from the quarter-finals onward the matches will be held at a neutral venue. On 14 August 2023, it was confirmed that the new format would come into effect from the 2024–25 season onwards. In addition, the name of Asia's top-tier competition was changed to AFC Champions League Elite.
The second-tier men’s club competition will be named AFC Champions League 2 (ACL2), with the 32 clubs divided into eight groups of four teams each. The clubs will play home and away matches in a round-robin format in the group stage, with the top two sides advancing to the round of 16.
The round of 16, quarter-finals, and semi-finals will be two-leg ties, with the final as a single-leg tie.
The third-tier competition, meanwhile, will be known as the AFC Challenge League (ACGL), with the 20 competing clubs divided into five groups. The clubs will play single-leg ties in a centralized format with the top eight sides qualifying for the quarter-finals.
The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played over two legs in a home-and-away format before the final.
The restructure will see an increase in matches from a minimum of 274 to 287, bringing in more revenue for the AFC and its member associations. The federation also announced an increase in funding to the 76 participating teams, with the top-tier ACLE winners to receive $12 million compared to the $4 million that will be awarded to this season’s Champions League champions.
The runners-up will receive $6 million – a $4 million increase on this season – while the AFC said the ACL2 and ACGL will also see a boost in prize money and benefits.