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Restructured German League Fan Proposal

German League Restructuring - The Fan's League

This is a Fantasy League, albeit one that's based on realistic proposals and very detailed. It is based on a compromise solution from various fan groups and is mainly aimed at improving things for the lower level teams. In Summary, the proposal can be reduced to three main components:
No B-Teams participate in the regular leagues
Abolition of the Third Division and Reintroduction of the three-tiered Regional Division
All Champions will be guaranteed a promotion spot.

The pyramid looks as follows:
Bundesliga
2. Bundesliga
3 Regional Divisions (Nord - West - Süd)
12 Oberligen (Hamburg/SH, Niedersachsen/Bremen, NOFV Nord, NOFV Süd, Westfalen, Niederrhein, Mittelrhein, Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar, Hessen, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern Nord, Bayern Süd)

The second division has three direct relegation spots, and the fourth team from the bottom participates in a playoff round with the three second-placed teams of the Regionalliga, with the winner gaining the right to play second division football the following year. The four bottom teams of each Regionalliga get relegated and the 12 Oberliga champions get promoted. From the Oberliga, three teams get relegated and replaced with regionally appropriate teams from a non-playable 5th division.

All leagues start out with 18 teams each, but the Oberliga is flexible in size and can range from 16 to 20 teams to adapt to regional demands. Even after simulating for many years, the regionalization is stable and teams do usually end up where they should.

The regional cups have been modeled accurately, with the right teams playing in their respective cups every year. The winners (and for some cups second placed teams) do qualify for the DFB Cup the following season.

The youth setup has been modeled after the real-life Under 19 League. The Bundesliga contains three groups, the Regionalliga nine, and the Oberliga 18. The U19 Oberliga is not modelled after real life but is instead composed of the best remaining youth teams that are not already playing in the Bundesliga or Regionalliga. This ensures that even newly promoted teams will have a youth team in a competitive league.

All teams have a regualar Reserves team instead of the old B-Team. They are competing in a standard Reserves round like in England. There is no U21 or U23 team, only the Reserves and U19.

This is a long running project I started in FM14 and continued for FM16. It is meant for a long-term save and therefore pays attention to many details, such as correct ranking information (so that the board can correctly judge your position in the table), realistic prize money for regional cup winners, history entries, and a few awards for the lower leagues.

Works well with the long name fix from Meistertrainerforum.de and Susie's Realname Fixes, but it's possible that Regionalliga Süd shows up as Regionalliga Südwest instead, which shouldn't be that big of a deal.