Researchers wanted!

That s magnificent work, xflea! Thanks!

Oceania has had some major changes since 96/97
The australian top league now consist of 10 teams, one of those is from New Zealand. In swos there are 3 lower leagues, now there are 8. New Zealand only had 3 regional leagues in 96/97, now there is a top league played in the summer and four regional leagues in the winter. Not sure what to do.

I did Australia and New Zealand in 16/17 and it was a lot of research .
E.g. Australia has 10 leagues at Tier 2 of their football pyramid. The 8 leagues which form the National Premier Leagues but also 2 which form the Northern Territory.
This is what I did.

Australia
A-League = 10 A-League teams + 2 finalists of the regional playoffs
National Premier North = Top 4 from Western Australia / North Territory Region (2 from each league I think) / Queensland
National Premier South = Top 4 from Southern Australia / Top 6 from Victoria / Top 4 from Tasmania
National Premier South East = Top 4 from Australia Central Territory / Northern NSW and New South Wales
The two finalists I put in the A-League would have been in the National Premier South East, so I used the fifth place teams from their respective leagues.

New Zealand
ASL Premiership = 10 ASL Premiership teams
North Island = Top 5 from the NRFL and Central Leagues
South Island = Top 5 from the Mainland and FootballSouth Leagues

2nd division in Finland......throwback to the clubs I followed in the early nineties...Kuusysi Lahti and Reipas Lahti.
Kuusysi did well in Europe, actually won a leg against Liverpool (though they got thrashed in the reverse fixture) if I remember...
Be cool to see them

@ all researchers:

Good progress! This document is shaping up...

Some clarification to the duration tab:
We need this piece of info if competitions get extended.

Example:
Coupe de France of SWOS 96/97 is played with 32 teams from FEB-JUN!
If that cup gets extended to 64 teams (as of now), we need to let it start earlier in the season to get all rounds squeezed in the career calendar (SEP-JUN).

Can somebody summarize how far along we are now with this doc?

I have completed SOUTH AMERICA (in fact - CONMEBOL - SURINAM should be excluded) a few weeks ago.

I did 96/97 summary (that we know for sure) - highlighted in yellow.

I did not want to interfere with someone else s work on 18/19 status - I did not touch that.

BTW - which season do we want to recreate for the new update? 18/19, 19/20? because the information in 18/19 section sometimes includes conditional data, ie. now it is 20 teams but will be 16... I guess we need fixed data on everything to have clear indications to code leagues and teams, right?


PS. oh, one more thing: as far as I know SOUTH AMERICA competitions include only leagues - no national cups at all... seems the producers did not care for them question is: do we try to fix it or not?