Turkey Tier 3

TFF 2. Lig - Red Group - Kırmızı Grup

League Guide & Facts

The third tier of Turkish Football
Teams are divided into 2 groups
White Group has 19 teams (36 games)
Red Group has 20 teams (38 games)

Promotion

1st place in each group automatically promoted
2nd - 5th place entered in promotion playoffs

Relegation

Bottom 4 in each group are relegated

Other

Maximum of O foreign players
The match squad must have at least 2 Under-23 players trained by a club in Turkey.
The match squad cannot have more than zero players on youth contracts.
Domestic Under-21 players are automatically eligible to play in all matches.
Niğde Anadolu F.K. are ineligible for promotion due to being a feeder club

Promotion Play-Off System

Location Of Teams

Red Group - Kırmızı Grup

Suggested* Additional Nations To Load

Explore Southern Europe

*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 gives a nice regional feel.

It is advisable however to run as many top tier leagues of major nations as you can to keep the continental club competitions competitive

Media Prediction, Board Expectations and Title Odds

*Your odds and board expectations may vary slightly from save to save
*Media prediction is slightly broken in the Turkish leagues, possibly due to teams withdrawing prior to the leagues start and some teams are predicted to finish in the same positions
*Niğde Anadolu can be managed but NOT promoted as they have a feeder arrangement with a team in a higher division

Football Manager 2022 - Turkish TFF 2. Lig

Club Culture

No clubs have any particular club culture other than not being allowed to sign foreign players, except for Niğde Anadolu F.K who want the following:

Sign Players Under 23 For The First Team

Develop Players Using The Clubs Youth System

Sign Players Based Domestically

Play Possession Based Football

Football Manager 2022 - Turkish TFF 2. Lig

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 -