South Africa Tier 2

GladAfrica Championship

League Guide & Facts

Second Tier of South African Football
16 teams play each other twice (30 games)

Promotion

Top team promoted
2nd & 3rd qualify for 3 team mini league also involving a team from the league above for 1 promotion spot

Relegation

Bottom 2 teams relegated

Other

The match squad must have no more than 3 foreign players (5 overall)
There must be at least 3 under-23 players in the starting ll. (Born after 25/8/1998)

Location Of Teams

Suggested* Additional Nations To Load

The English Speaking World

*As always this is only a suggestion, the leagues listed are in order of importance, feel free to run as many or as little leagues as you think your system can handle. The setup above is a pretty random one as South Africa are geographically (in FM terms) out on a limb

I'm aware that English is not the majority language in South Africa but to be honest it's quite hard to group them with other nations so this is as close to a solution as I could come to. Another solution would be to load at least one nation from each continent to give a truly worldwide save.

Media Prediction, Board Expectations and Title Odds

*Your odds and board expectations may vary slightly from save to save

Football Manager 2022 - GladAfrica Championship

Club Culture

*Teams not listed have no specific club culture

Football Manager 2022 - GladAfrica Championship

Facilities

Facilities Explained

Training Facilities

The better the training facilities the more chance (already visible) players will develop.

Here are the facilities ranking from worst to best -

Poor
Basic
Below Average
Adequate
Average
Good
Great
Excellent
Superb
State of the Art

Youth Facilities

The training facilities available for Juniors (only).

Does NOT apply to visible players already at the club. All visible players currently at the club use Training Facilities regardless of age.

In theory the better these facilities the greater your players will be developed on the day of intake. But there are a lot of factors at play.

Here are the facilities ranking from worst to best -

Poor
Basic
Below Average
Adequate
Average
Good
Great
Excellent
Superb
State of the Art

Junior Coaching

The quality and quantity of unseen youth coaches that affects the quality of players in your youth intake

Junior coaching is ranked as follows from worst to best -

Basic
Fairly Basic
Average
Adequate
Good
Excellent
Exceptional

Youth Recruitment

This determines how large a pool of players your team can recruit from. It is the size of your recruitment network. It increases your chances of getting the best young players from your area, nation and beyond.

Some clubs of course will have no youth recruitment at all, which means no youth intakes.

Recruitment is ranked as follows from worst to best -