Databases UK & Northern Ireland - British SuperLeague 1

So, if you'd like to find out how we came about with this super league formation read below. Alternatively, since lots of folk get scared by walls of texts, I made this YouTube video explaining it all also, click here to be happy ---→ ( ).

Right. Now before we begin, I'd just like to apologise to the beautiful people of Northern Ireland, Wales , England and Scotland. Not for what I'm about to say, but for the emotional damage I'm about to cause.

Since the United Kingdom can't agree on anything - flags, accents, how to pronounce the word 'scone', or even how to serve it with butter and tea. I thought, why not unite everyone the only way I know: by forcing everyone's football teams into one giant, chaotic league that nobody asked for, and even less people wanted.

For centuries, the nations of the UK have maintained separate football leagues, mostly to avoid dealing with each other - but today, I'm ignoring all that history because I want to watch Celtic and Millwall fight. I am a simple man. With simple dreams.

And so it dawned one me not too recently - how would it look if we took all the teams from England's top division, and all the teams from Scotlands, and all the teams from Wales, and the teams from Northern Irelands, and dropped them all into one big league?

Well, the very first thing I learned, is that with more than 50 teams all in one league, it would be completely ridiculous, unmanageable, and quite frankly, f****g stupid. There would be more fixtures than stars in the sky, and the whole thing quickly falls apart.

So I thought differently instead. Ok, how about if we take the teams from the top third of the English Premier, and the top third of the Scottish and so on and so on, and made THAT the new British Super Premier League?

Likewise, the middle of the English Premier, and the middle of the Scottish Premier and so on and so on, and made THAT the new British SuperLeague Championship.

And of course, the bottom third teams of the English Premier, and the Bottom third teams of the Scottish Premier, and the Welsh, and the Northern Irish, and made THAT the new British Super League Division 3 etc.

And then, if we just did that all the way down the system, right down to each country's respective conference and amateur leagues. What kind of god-like football system would we have?

Surely, it would be beautiful, right? So that's what I did. And oh boy, did I f up in quite a grand way.

Let me explain, and to those of you who are smarter than me, it might already be obvious, but for those of you are more like me, and not so smart, let me explain anyway.

Now, THIS, right here, is the new British SuperLeague 1 as explained above. It contains the 8 teams that currently sit in 1st to 8th position in the English Premier League, as of January 20th 2026 when I started making this mess. As well as the top 4 teams of the Scottish Premier. The top 4 from the Northern Irish Premier. And well, I guess the Welsh are just happy to be invited.

And well, I don't know if you can see it yet, but you might think you can predict exactly how this league is going to go, right?

If you're looking at this and thinking, well those eight English teams are probably going to get the top 8 spots, followed by the Scottish teams in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th. Followed by the four Northern Irish teams, and the four Welsh teams will probably finish bottom of the table. Then you, my friend, are a smarter man than me. Because I honestly, naively, and stupidly, thought it might actually go different.

So that is how it looked after just one season, and, aye, what was the point, really?

The other leagues are pretty much the same. Usually the English eight in the top eight spots, followed by the Scottish, then the Irish, and again the Welsh are just happy to be involved.

It kinda makes sense though, when you think about it for more than a minute. Of course, the English clubs with their vastly superior bank balances are going to dominate. But hey, sometimes you gotta see something with your own eyes before you truly understand.

And so, my dream of a British SuperLeague forming all the top teams of the various UK nations all in one division, very quickly slipped away.

So I had to rethink things. And by 'rethink' things, I mean, I had to just let nature take it's course.

I still wanted to make a UK Super League, but it became obvious that I couldn't structure it like I had wanted, and even if I did, it would just be a matter of time before all those Welsh teams found themselves in the bottom leagues.

And so that's what I've done. I let the game run for 25 seasons, letting nature take it's course, so to speak. And I have built a new Super League based on the positions of each team within that original league after 25 years.

And so that is what I present to you now. This United Kingdom and Northern Ireland SuperLeague, containing 20 divisions, and 476 teams, taken from each nations leagues as far down as Tier Six. With teams drawn from the English Premier, the English Championship, League One, League Two, the National League as well as the National Amateur Premier North and South Leagues.

Added this are the teams from the Scottish Premiership, the Scottish Championship, League One, League Two, The Highland League, and the Lowland League, as well as the top 5 teams from each of the Western Premier, the Southern Premier, and Midlands Premier, the Eastern Premier and the Caledonian Premier, as they stood on January 20th 2026.

Shoved into this mix are all the clubs of the Northern Irish Premier League, as well as the Northern Irish Championship, the Intermediate Premier, the Northern Amateur League, the Mid-Ulster League, and the Ballymena & Provincial League.

Finally, the Welsh are here in great numbers, with all the teams from the Welsh JD Cymru Premier League, as well as the JD Cymru North League, and the JD Cymru South League. And finally finally, all the teams from the Ardal North East, North West, South East and South West football leagues.

Which is a lot of leagues, and honestly I got bored typing them all out. But there we are, a total of 476 teams.

The New British SuperLeague 1 consists of the 20 teams that stood in this league after I'd let the old system run for 25 years, perhaps predictably, Rangers and Celtic are the only two non-English teams to have survived this high. This league has only 20 teams in order to allow more space in the fixtures for those clubs which have made Europe.

The following 19 divisions are 24 teams per division, again made up of the teams as they sat at the end of my 25 year long experiment.

I was going to type each division below, with each squad in it, but f that, I only have so much time, and my fingers are already tiring. But I have taken photos instead, hopefully you will find your club in there. They are all included, so you shouldn't have to search too hard.

I have also, as a result of this new massive 476 squad system, had to redesign the cups.

The New British Super Cup is pretty standard, it runs from August to December, is seeded and made up of all 476 teams, and consists of nine rounds, each of them is a knock-out round with one leg only, with the winner obviously going through to the next. Pretty standard stuff.

And then there is my favourite new invention, the UK Cup of Cups. Again this contains all teams and only the first three rounds are seeded. The first three rounds are also knock out rounds, one leg each. These matches are played in the first three Wednesdays of January. And then the remaining 80 teams are then dropped into stage four which is a Group Stage. In the UK Cup of Cups Group Stage, there are 16 different groups, 5 teams per group. Those four matches are played through February and March, with only the winner from each group going through.

I created it like this very deliberately, because I wanted to spread the wealth as much as possible, so for example, this season, diddy teams like the lower leagues Boreham Woods, had the chance to meet, and get the gate receipts from clubs like Grimsby, Middlesborough, Newcastle, and the mighty Plymouth, at which point they were roundly pumped and kicked out the cup. But its the gate receipt money that counts. The next four stages are knockout stages, played in April and May.

Finally, I have kept a lower league cup, only for the teams in the bottom ten divisions, and I have successfully named this the Nigel Farage Broken Cup, and it runs much like the UK Cup of Cups, but from August right through to May, with with only 4 groups at the group stage, nine teams per group, and two teams each group getting promoted through to the final 16.

It's a beautiful system. And it works beautifully. And everything is beautiful. And beautiful is beautiful. And that's all there is to say on the matter.

So, that's it. That's the new UK and Northern Ireland British football system, ready for you to download and play at your peril.

But have we learned anything from this mess?

Well, I have learned, and now decided that my dreams of seeing my Scottish clubs play in the English leagues have been smashed, and the dream is gone.

Why? Well the thing is, that when we keep the leagues separate, then those smaller teams have their own chances of appearing with the big boys in the various European tournaments. Such as Celtic, who this year are playing in the Europa League.

Or even much smaller teams like Bala Town from Wales, who this year were fortunate enough to get their chances in the Euro Conference League. And sure, they got pumped in the first round by a completely unpronounceable squad from Estonia, but my point is that at least they got to be there, off the back of their position in last years JD Cymru Premier League.

But when you shove all these teams together into one British Super League, then the truth is that almost none of the clubs outside England ever get a chance to feature, and that is sad.

We can see this even more bluntly if we take a look at the cups. Let's check the New British Super Cup, and if we go to the last 16 we can see that only TWO non English teams have made this far. Hearts are here, but knocked out 2-0 to Crystal Palace. And Aberdeen have made it, but knocked out 1-0 to Luton. In the other main cup, the UK Cup of Cups, only one non-English team made it to last 16. Glasgow Rangers, who successfully got beat 2-0 by Chelsea. Meaning that from the two main cups, and a combined 952 teams. Only THREE non-English teams have made it as far as the last 16 in this first season, none of them have made it any further.

And that is why I have learned and ultimately come to the conclusion, that its better that we just keep all our leagues separate. Rangers might be one of the big boys in Scotland, and get to feature regularly in Europe as a result, but they'd be a nobody if they ever joined the English Premier, and I'm pretty sure that they know it.

Anyway, download and play anyway, if you also are a glutton for torture. You can grab the .fmf file from the link somewhere in this wall of text.

And then you will have it to your game by dropping the file into the edits folder at C:\Users\YourNameHere\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\editor data

Then when starting a new career, be sure to choose the advanced start, and then in the top right of screen, in that little box, click into it and select the British SuperLeague file.

Then in the add a nations box at the top left, select England, and boom, you should now have all 20 divisions to play in. Courtesy of me. Send your love and or hate as is required.

In the meantime, I'm out.

Peace.