does anyone play as an a league team in football manager series? 

or even in fifa 

Yeah man, always play as the Vuck!

how do you find it? i see random players have really high stats like kosta petratos is pretty much the messi of my league in 2021 

looking forward to 2020 with the new teams joining 

Yes I always do and I always put Australia in Europe continent. Create a 16 team A-league with bottom 2 relegated to 2nd division of 16 teams with bottom 2 playing off against npl final series from each state and I have each state up to its second division. 

Within 20 years got Australia to 5th on co-efficient for champions league and won the champions league twice 

I played CCM last year - had an insane youth academy and became the best team in Asia. This year the best A-League prospects are Strain, Tilio and Singh. 

I tend to also play around with the editor haha - created 5 national divisions at one point haha

As a tactical nonce who has only ever played FIFA, is it worth picking up? I've always been intrigued but always been hesitant because I grew up playing Aussie rules instead of football and thus have next to tactical sense.

Yes, it’s fun but it’s addictive.

I grew up playing Aussie rules as well and FM has taught me a bit about tactics.

Agree with this... playing the newest FM is the single best tactical education ive received. That and when i read fossies bookabout 10 years back

extreeeemely time consuming

Meh! Games are for kids! But I did use to play FM 2008 and old FIFA games.

I always play a Vuck save after I play a Wolves save. It seems they don't take as much care in the league as they do others. At one point this year (maybe around Jan transfer update) Honda wasn't even on the team, he was just the Cambodia manager.

Too boring playing as an A-League side. I've been playing FM for years, almost every night. The wife hates it :D

I usually start in the English National League or National North/South and build from there.

There's some guys who have done a whole Australia open pyramid though, so keen to get George Cross up to the A-League 

I saw the Australian pyramid that you’re talking about, it’s amazing the depth they have gone to. Worth a look if you play FM

One of the greatest things I have ever seen.

I like to play it in the background tonight I was winning 2-0 against victory last five minutes they change their formation and win 3-2 fml 

It's beyond dull if you haven't messed with the editor to create a proper pyramid with P/R. 

Is it the one that has Tassie etc in the A-League?

It has every club in Australia by the looks of it.

Noice

does it have real players from south metro division or are they fake names? 

what's the lowest ranked team that has gone on to join the a league? 

They've created a 14 team A-League and 14 team B league with a national NPL underneath it - then state NPLs and then lower leagues beneath that. Insane number of clubs and leagues. I think I noticed some made up clubs at the bottom of the pyramid too, representing bigger suburbs without football clubs!

Oh wow, a boy can dream.

Give me that and the UEFA Champions League expanding to a FIFA Champions League and watch me take Ballarat North United from the regional leagues to the Champions League final lol

Glenroy Lions is about as close as I can get to a 'home' team it seems. 11th tier...this could be fun :laugh:

This going to be harder than I thought. I have 0 staff. A senior squad of 18 players, one of them above 10CA (he has 68 which seems crazy lol) and a youth squad of 35, none of them above 10CA (4 of them do have a PA of over 20 though so small victory). Yes, I have the in-game editor on. I wanted to see what figures showed up all the way down here in the 11th tier.

The club has $2,000 in the bank, $0 transfer budget and my wage budget literally says N/A lol

This is pretty much just Sunday league manager for you. 

Turns out you can sign a lot of guys to amateur contracts who are WAY too good for this level lol. Will cruise for a few divisions I think

https://www.mediafire.com/file/hpnrs2nn7kh0nv4/Australia+Full+Promotion-Relegation+Pyramid.fmf

this is not working for me 

How do I get the link please?

Is it fun to play? If it’s just regens and not real life players I would find it boring 

An alternate reality, the year is 2019 and following the decline of Rugby League and Australian Rules Football at grassroots level as well as on the professional stage the Football Federation of Australia (FFA) have adopted a "European" type system which includes:

No salary cap, 
A nationwide cup that actually means something (winner qualifies for Asian Champions League) 
A fully professional second division, 
A semi-professional nationwide third division 
and most exciting of all Promotion and Relegation from the top tier of Australia all the way down to the bottom fourteenth tier.

File contains 126 Leagues to play in and 1580 real life Australian clubs to choose from.
A-League clubs get 5 million AUD at the start of every season while B-League sides get 2.5 million. Money is scaled down to the NPL and SPLs and below that there is no TV Money. 

Automatic promotion/relegation between the Hyundai Leagues. Promotion/Relegation Playoff between bottom B-League and winner of NPL. Promotion/Relegation Cup between bottom NPL and the 9 1st placed SPL sides. Underneath this promotion and relegation rules vary depending on what league you are in.

A-League has the current 12 real life teams as well as new franchises in Canberra and Tasmania.
B-League has new franchise in Darwin, NZ powerhouse Auckland City, Former A-League side North QLD Fury as well as teams from Cairns, Wollongong, Sutherland, Fremantle, Ipswich, Brisbane, Adelaide, South Melbourne, Dandenong, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast,
NPL has 2 teams from each of the 9 states/federations.

Please note: We haven’t touched the playing squads yet so you must select Add Players to Playable Teams at game start to get a better experience when playing. We will be releasing a 2019 squad update for this database in a month or two which will add roughly 8,000 real life players to the game and other squad corrections.

A-League squad limits have boosted to 30 and can have up to 7 foreigners.

As for it being fun, I like the game anyway so I always have fun with it

Do you need a researcher? because I would be happy to help 

Nothing to do with me. I just play it

Ok cool I might give it a try good way to get to know the npl teams 

Well FM 2020 is coming soon! playing in the a league is always fun should be good this year with western united and should be able to play as mcarthur united as well as they come in next season

I only play the Australians leagues if I download a full pyramid. Playing in just the A-League isn't enjoyable.

i want to win the asian champions league it's a challenge but it's also doable 

are you going to make a full pyramid for 2020? 

I will be ! :) but as always will move Australia to European confers to challenge champions league, coefficients, World Cup qualifiers. Makes it all the more challenging and entertaining 

You can win anything with the right tactic

no i think you need the right players, right morale ect 

As someone that was part of the creation of the Level 14 database mentioned above it's pretty cool to see it mentioned here.

I had the 'beta/test' version of the updated file with 8,000 players added into the game and I think we actually got the number to around 11,500/12,000 real players from every NPL1, NPL2, NPL3, State League and other lower leagues across the country. Unfortunately my laptop died and I lost the file and as far as I can see the project has been on a hiatus for the last few months.  

Was quite happy with how it turned out though after a lot of time researching and editing it. Currently managing Gold Coast United in the A-League and am pushing for an ACL place.

I also provided all the info for my club and players to be included in the game. Not sure if they were ever updated

They announced they are adding a new a league feature to 2020 you can request to the board you want money for a marquee 

ONE more thing and i will stop posting it has been confirmed wu and macarthur will be in fm 2020 

Playing with an A-League team is the dullest game ever unless you mod the shit out of it. Same goes for MLS. 

I respectfully disagree I like managing in the a league and if you think it's dull it will get better in the future when the a league improves in the future (eg more teams, p and r, better young players, progressing in acl, bigger ffa cup ect 

Wut, why would someone wait years for the FFA to sort its shit out to make a game available in 2019 more playable?

The A-League, as it is now in the Vanilla game, is severely lacking in long term playability as the lack of P/R, 2nd Div and a hollow AFC CL experience in addition to restrictive rules like the salary cap, small squad sizes or tiny bench just makes it a frustrating experience.

It might reflect real life but that doesn't stop it being woefully boring compared to building up a lower league team overseas.

Also the ratings of Australian players are woefully out of date or inaccurate, especially when it comes to physical attributes. 

anyone getting fm 2020? 

Been playing the beta since the start of November. A-league needs some work still. At least a patch for the new bench rules

i agree with the bench rule. what annoys me about the a league is how some players are overrated for melbourne city luna is a key player in real life he is a squad player. 

It was also crazy (no fault of the game) that when I started a vuck save 90% of my team was coming off contract

has anyone tried mcarthur in fm this year? could be fun building a squad 

https://www.footballmanager.com/news/football-manager-2020-play-it-free-right-now