[FM21] Dodgee Gamer’s International Competitions Megapack

Unlock new International Competitions in Football Manager 2021 with Dodgee Gamer’s Megapack

NOTE! Some of the more recently created files are only available for the 21.4 update. Make sure you start a new save with the latest database if you want the full experience!

International management has always been one of my favorite challenges on Football Manager. While it lacks the depth of the club game, it allows for a change of pace and it makes for a fun second save.

Of course, the major continental championships are all in the game such as the Euros, Copa America, and AFCON. Minor competitions such as the UEFA Nations League and the Asian sub-confederation tournaments are also in the vanilla game, but there are several regular tournaments that are missing.

I have therefore delved into the editor to create 50+ additional senior and youth tournaments to expand your international management options.

Which Competitions are included in this collection?

The initial megapack (compatible with 21.0 and listed further down this post) contained 21 senior and youth tournaments. Since then, thanks to messages and suggestions from the FM community, I have found many more!

I have therefore now made 3 different collections:

• International Competitions Collection (19 real senior tournaments and friendly competitions)
• Youth Competitions Collections (more than 20 tournaments for age groups from U18 to U23)
• Bonus Competitions Collections (10+ past or fictional tournaments)
  

More competitions are being made and added all the time so subscribe to the Steam collections to stay up to date. If you have any requests or suggestions for an international tournament to be created, join my discord.

If you like to learn more about managing national teams or great national management challenges you can discover more tutorials, tips and recommendations on my Youtube channel.

Editor’s Pick

International Competitions Collection

Intercontinental:

• FIFA Arab Cup
• Indian Ocean Island Games
• Airmarine Cup (annual friendly tournament hosted by Malaysia)
• Bangabandhu Gold Cup (biannual friendly tournament hosted by Bangladesh)
• China International Cup (annual friendly tournament hosted by China)
• HERO Intercontinental Cup (annual friendly tournament hosted by India)
• King’s Cup (annual friendly tournament hosted by Thailand)
• Kirin Challenge Cup (annual friendly tournament hosted by Japan)

Africa:

• CECEAFA Cup
• COSAFA Cup
• WAFU Cup of Nations

Asia:

• AFF-EAFF Champions Trophy
• CAFA Central Asian Championship
• Gulf Cup of Nations
• International Friendship Tournament (annual friendly tournament hosted by Iraq for west/central Asian nations)

Caribbean:

• ABCS Tournament
• Leeward Islands Tournament
• Windward Islands Tournament

Europe:

• Baltic Cup

Link (21.4 Update) – Steam Download
Link (21.4 Update) – Mediafire Download
Link (21.3 Update) – Steam Download
Link (21.3 Update) – Mediafire Download

Youth Competitions Collection

Intercontinental:

• Bolivarian Games (U18 tournament for South and Central American nations)
• Central American & Caribbean Games (U20 tournaments for South/Central American and Caribbean nations)
• COTIF U20 Tournament (annual youth tournament hosted by Spain)
• Jeux de la Francophonie (U20 tournament for French speaking nations)
• Lusofonia Games (U20 tournament for Portuguese speaking nations)
• Mediterranean Games (U20 tournament for nations on/near the Mediterranean coastline)
• Panda Cup (annual U19 tournament hosted by China)
• Valentin Granatkin Memorial Cup (annual youth tournament hosted by Russia)

Asia:

• Central Asian U23 and U19 Championships
• China-ASEAN Youth Tournament (annual U19 tournament hosted by China with nations from South-East Asia plus one European guest)
• EAFF U19 Tournament
• East Asian Games (U23)
• Gulf U23 Cup of Nations
• South Asian Federation Games (U23)
• South East Asian Games (U23)
• South East Asian U22 and U19 Championships
• WAFF U23 Championship

Other:

• Baltic Cup (U21 and U19)
• Central American Games (U20)

Link (21.4 Update) – Steam Download
Link (21.4 Update) – Mediafire Download
Link (21.3 Update) – Steam Download
Link (21.3 Update) – Mediafire Download

BONUS Competitions Collection

Former Tournaments:

• Balkan Nations Cup
• Canada Maple Cup
• CEMAC Cup (Central African nations)
• Home International Championship
• Melanesia Cup (Oceania)
• Micronesian Games (Oceania/Asia)
• Polynesian Cup (Oceania)
• Nordic Cup
• Superclasico de las Americas

Fictional Tournaments:

• Copa Latina
• Mitropa International Cup
• UNAF Championship
• World Soccer Series

Link (21.4 Update) – Steam Download
Link (21.4 Update) – Mediafire Download
Link (21.3 Update) – Steam Download
Link (21.3 Update) – Mediafire Download

Intercontinental

FIFA Arab Cup
Overview: A new tournament announced by FIFA as a warm-up for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
First held: Nov/Dec 2021
Cycle: Only one tournament has been announced but I have added it on a four-year cycle with rotating hosts.
Teams: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen
Format: 12 lowest ranked teams play a single elimination preliminary round with 6 winners advancing. Group stage consists of those 6 nations joined by the 10 top-seeded nations in 4 groups of 4. Top two qualify for the quarter-finals.

Link: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

Indian Ocean Island Games
Overview: A senior international tournament between the island nations located in the Indian Ocean.
First held: July 2023
Cycle: 4 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, Reunion, Mayotte
Format: Preliminary play-off between Reunion and Mayotte. Winner advances to group stage. 2 groups of 3 with top two qualifying for semi-finals.*

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

*The real-life format for this is one group of three and one group of four but I couldn’t get this to work even in the advanced rules editor.

Africa

CECAFA Challenge Cup
Overview: A senior tournament between members of the East African football federation, and the oldest international tournament in Africa.
First held: December 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopa, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar
Format: 2 groups of 6, top two qualify for semi-final round.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

COSAFA Challenge Cup
Overview: A senior tournament between nations of Southern Africa.
First held: May/June 2020
Cycle: annual, permanently hosted by South Africa
Teams: Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini*, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Seychelles, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Format: Preliminary group stage featuring the lowest ranked 8 teams in 2 group of four. The two group winners qualify and join the six highest seeds in the quarter-final round.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

*Eswatini are still called Swaziland in the vanilla database. Downloading this competition file will update the nation’s name.

WAFU Nations Cup
Overview: A senior tournament between nations of Western Africa.
First held: Sept/Oct 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bassau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Format: Knockout cup starting with a round of 16*

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

*There is a secondary competition called the WAFU Plate Championship, which the 8 losers in the first round enter but I have not created this (yet).

Notes: There are also Central and Northern African sub-confederations but these do not have currently active senior football competitions. There are youth tournaments for each region but these currently double as qualifiers for the U20 African Cup of Nations. As there is already a qualifying tournament in the game (though not a regionalised one), I have not added these competitions.

Asia

AFF-EAFF Champions Trophy
Overview: Biannual ‘Super Cup’ played between the two most recent winners of the AFF (South East Asian) Championship and the East Asian Championship.
First held: April 2021
Cycle: 2 years, hosted by one o competing nations
Format: Single elimination match

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

Central Asian Football Association Championship
Overview: A senior tournament between member nations of CAFA.
First held: Nov 2020
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Iran, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan*
Format: Single round-robin league of five teams.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

*Afghanistan are also a member of CAFA but in the vanilla FM game compete in the South Asian Championship so I haven’t added them here as it causes a fixture overload.

CAFA U23 Championship
Overview: An U23 tournament between member nations of CAFA.
First held:
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Format: Single round-robin league of six teams.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

CAFA U19 Championship
Overview: An U19 tournament between member nations of CAFA.
First held:
Cycle: annual, rotating hosts
Teams: Afghanistan, Iran, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Format: Single round-robin league of six teams.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

Gulf Cup of Nations
Overview: A senior tournament between nations of the Arabian Gulf.
First held: Nov/Dec 2023
Cycle: 4 years*, rotating hosts
Teams: Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen
Format: 2 groups of 4, top two teams qualify for semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

*This tournament has been held at irregular intervals over the years. I have made it every four years falling in-between the FIFA Arab Cup, which all of these nations also compete in.

U23 Gulf Cup of Nations
Overview: An U23 tournament between nations of the Arabian Gulf.
First held: January 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE
Format: 2 groups of 3, top two qualify for semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

U23 WAFF Championship
Overview: An U23 tournament between nations of the Arabian Gulf.
First held: October 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen
Format: 4 groups of 3, top teams qualify for semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

East Asian Youth Games Football Tournament
Overview: An U23 tournament for the ten members of EAFF held as part of the multi-sport East Asian Youth Games
First held: Dec 2023
Cycle: 4 years, rotating hosts
Teams: China, Chinese Taipei, Guam, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, Northern Mariana Islands, North Korea, South Korea
Format: 2 groups of 5 with top two from each group going to the semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

East Asian U19 Championship
Overview: U19 tournament held between 7 lowest ranked nations of EAFF
First held: Aug 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Chinese Taipei, Guam, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, Northern Mariana Islands, North Korea
Format: Single round robin league, 1^st place wins the title.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

South Asian Federation Games Football Tournament
Overview: U23 tournament for teams from the SAFF held as part of the multi-sport South Asian Games
First held: Dec 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka
Format: All seven nations play in a single round robin league, top two qualify for final.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2:  Download (Mediafire)

South East Asian Games Football Tournament
Overview: U23 tournament for teams from the ASEAN federation held as part of the multi-sport South-East Asian Games
First held: Nov/Dec 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Format: Brunei and East Timor enter in the preliminary round*, the winner joins the other 9 nations in the group stage. 2 groups of 5 with top two from each group going to the semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

*Again, this is normally one group of six and one group of five in real life but I added the preliminary round to make life easier in the editor

South East Asian U22 Championship
Overview: Regional U22 tournament for ASEAN nations, which also includes Australia.
First held: February 2021
Cycle: 2 years, rotating hosts
Teams: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Format: 2 groups of 6, top 2 qualify for semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

South East Asian U19 Championship
Overview: Regional U19 tournament for ASEAN nations, which also includes Australia.
First held: August 2020
Cycle: annual, rotating hosts
Teams: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Format: 2 groups of 6, top 2 qualify for semi-finals.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

Europe

Baltic Cup
Overview: Mini tournament between the three Baltic states
First held: June 2022
Cycle: 2 years, matches played home or away
Teams: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Format: Single round robin league.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

Baltic U21 Cup
Overview: Mini tournament between the U21 teams of the three Baltic states
First held: July 2022
Cycle: 2 years, matches played home or away
Teams: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Format: Single round robin league.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

Baltic U19 Cup
Overview: Mini tournament between the U19 teams of the three Baltic states and Finland
First held: July 2021
Cycle: annual, rotating hosts
Teams: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
Format: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

South America

Superclasico de las Americas
Overview: Prestige friendly between Argentina and Brazil. Discontinued in 2018 but I have revived it.
First held: November 2020
Cycle: annual, neutral hosts around the world
Teams: Argentina, Brazil
Format: single match.

Link 1: Download (Steam)
Link 2: Download (Mediafire)

NOTE! Comments and feedback are welcome to help me improve the competitions. If downloading from Steam, please leave a rating!

How to install the files?

Download from Steam Workshop

• Locate the competition you want to add from Dodgee Gamer’s workshop (link)
• Click ‘subscribe’

Downloading the files directly

• Download the competition or megapack
• Copy/extract the files into Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2021/editor data (create the folder if it is not already there)

• Start FM21 and start new career
• Under ‘Database’ click on the ‘Football Manager 2021’ dropdown menu
• Make sure the competitions you want are selected (you may also want to add some leagues for the nations you want to manage as well)
• Start your game as normal and enjoy your international career!
• Enjoy a more realistic Football Manager 2021!