Unlock new International Competitions in Football Manager 2021 with Dodgee Gamer’s Megapack
International management has always been one of my favourite 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 21 additional senior and youth tournaments to expand your international management options.
Which Competitions are included in this collection?
By downloading the collection you’ll receive 21 new senior or youth tournaments added to Football Manager 2021. You’re able to download the competitions either one by one or download the international competitions megapack at the bottom of the article.
The collection includes new international tournaments that will come in the future or includes regional tournaments happening every second year which Football Manager has not included for whatever reasons.
Here is a breakdown of the tournaments I’ve created. The breakdown includes a list of participants in the created international tournaments and when they are first held in Football Manager 2021. Including these competitions will let your player’s to participate in more competitions that will enhance their experience and development or give yourself a new challenge if doing international management saves.
If you like to learn more about managing national teams or great national management challenges you can discover more tutorials, tips and recommendations at my Youtube channel.
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, 1st 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)
All files are compatible with each other (tested up until 2057). I have also tested them with Timo’s add-on leagues and they have worked fine.
A custom database which unlocks 22 new senior and youth international competitions in the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and South America! Get the international competitions megapack today!
