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While I am waiting for the friggin' FM08 to show up at the door, I have been fooling around with an Italian team in C2B. For some reason, the team can play in the C-Cup , but not in the Italian Cup.
Does anyone know how the Italian Cup works in FM, or is this a bug? There are worse teams plaing the cup, so I don't understand what is going on...
The higher-placed teams (somewhere between the playoff places and the top half) in Serie C2 qualify for next year's cup qualifying rounds, as well as either all of C1 or much the same arrangement there.
I'm a little rusty on the exact positions you have to be because I only seem to finish at the arse end of the table or in the playoffs, never the middle. But it's something like that. I qualified for the preliminary rounds with C2/A Varese in my 07 game through finishing 5th.
On June 28, 2007, the format of the 2007-08 tournament was released. The new format reduces the number of competitors to the 42 teams which will play in Serie A and Serie B for the 2007-08 season; no Serie C teams will participate in the tournament. Also, the rather unusual two-leg final has been eliminated. A single-match final will be played at a venue which is yet to be determined.
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Seeding is allocated as follows:
a) seed 1 to last year's Italian Cup Winner
b) seeds 2-8 to the participants playing in the Champions League/UEFA Cup competitions other than seed 1. If less than 8 teams are participating then the next highest placed Serie A team(s) complete(s) the list.
c) seeds 9-17 to the 9 remaining Serie A teams to 17th place.
d) seeds 18-20 to the 3 Serie B teams promoted to Serie A this season.
e) seeds 21-23 to the 3 Serie A teams demoted to Serie B this season.
f) seeds 24-37 to the 14 Serie B teams finishing to 17th place but not promoted to Serie A, and seed 38 to the play-out winner in Serie B
g) seeds 39-42 to the 4 Serie C1 teams promoted to Serie B this season.
Thanks Rourke for all the info, it all makes sense now, given that in FM06 I don't really make the playoffs, I don't get invited to play in the Italian Cup... I guess I won't get the memo this year either...
Italian lower leagues... 
, but not in the Italian Cup.
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