New national cup format

The cup will have a new format as from now.

The 130 best teams of each league (Top 1, Div 2 and Div 3 except the 2 teams qualified for Elite cup), will participate in the National cup. 128 teams, grouped in 16 groups of 8 teams (single legs). The winners of each group is qualified for the last 16 round and so on.

So, each team will play between 7 and 11 cup games

The remanining teams, limited to 1024, will join the Federation cup. 32 groups of 8 teams for all leagues except France and Italy (128 groups of 8 teams), with single legs.

Winners of each groups qualified for last 32, or last 128 (France and Italy).

So, each teams will play between 7 and 12 (14 in France and Italy) cup games

- The french non-eligible teams will get some money to make it up for lost income.

- Income for National Cup will be higher than for Federation cup

From 20 leagues down to 8

From the very start of RM the huge difference between number of teams per league has been a problem in the game. The now defunct North Europe league had, for many seasons, less than 40 active teams, while France had over 2000. In one case a team only needed 2 seasons or so to reach the Top 10 in their nation, while it was a goal that could take a dozen seasons or more to reach in the another country. Managers starting up a team in a nation like New Zealand would quickly be making much more cash each month compared to another team created the same day in France or Italy .... 

New Elite Cup.

A new competition is being introduced into RM this season. 'The Elite Cup' will be an International club competition featuring the league and cup winners from each of last seasons national competitions.*

The Elite Cup will consist of eight groups of four teams (drawn randomly, but with the proviso that no two teams from the same country can be placed in the same group).

The group draw for this season can be found on the cup page list under Elite Cup.

Each team will play a home and away leg in the group stages, six matches in total, then the top two teams in each group will advance to the knockout stages of the competition.

*From next season the competition will also contain the previous 'Elite Cup' winner. For this season that place has been filled by a French club as france has the largest number of active managers.

Good Luck to all the competing teams!

Academy change

As a consequence of the training changes (pyramid training - low level skills train quicker than high level skills), the academy training will be changed to give better outcomes, allowing players to reach a level 6 on trained skills. Without double training, but with two full training seasons on the skill and a little luck. The academy skill display will also change to make things easier. The display will change from 0-100 values to 0.00-10.00 values (the new values will have no connection to the old system), which will make the conversion from academy skills to senior skills very obvious. For instance, a level 4.45 in academy will be equal to 4.45 when the player turns 17 (even though you'll see '4' in your player's page). The decimals will only be visible in the academy, allowing you to tune the player exactly the way you want, and to track evolution week after week. The senior display will remain unchanged. Last thing: The training will contains some random in it. Each week, a random skill will give 0.15 point to all the academy players trained on this skill, another one will gives 0.05 while the 4 others will roughly give what we have today: 0,1. Last thing (part 2): the old random academy training (where any randomly selected skill, even those not being trained, could receive a small bonus) will be removed. Last thing (part 3): some players may grow with 1 or 2 cms when they turn 17. These changes will be active the 10th of december Later on, a fourth training slot for 17-20 years old will be available (february 2012?)

The 3rd RM World Cup.

We are pleased to announce that the first games of the 3rd RM World Cup will be played on wednesday the 27th of july.

The second group matches will take place the next day, thursday the 28th of july and the final game in each group will happen the day after that, the 29th of july.

The Quarter-final matches will take place on sunday the 31st of july.

The Semi-final games will be played on tuesday the 2nd of august.

The 3rd RM World Cup final will be contested on thursday the 4th of august.

All games will kick off at 17.00 C.E.T.

Here are the teams that qualified for the tournament..

Group A

Italia

Romania

Magyarország

World Barbarians

Group B

New Zealand

U.S.A.

England

Hrvatska

Group C

Australia

South Africa

Wales

Brasil

Group D

France

Scotland

Ireland

Portugal

We wish all the teams in this competition the best of luck!

The 2nd RM 'B' Series International Cup will be played to the same schedule as the World Cup.

Here are the teams that have qualified for this competition.

Group A

Nederland

Polska

Canada

Peru

Group B

Schweiz

España

Belgique

Andorra

Group C

Argentina

Uruguay

Chile

Deutschland

Group D

Sverige

Finland/Norge

Paraguay

Österreich

We also wish all the teams in this competition the best of luck!