Competition changes:
*Australian league restructured to 10 teams.
*English National League restructured to 24 teams.
*English Northern Premier League Premier Division restructured to 22 teams.
*English FA Cup & English FA Trophy team selections adjusted to accomodate the above restructuring.
*French leagues restructured to 20/20/18 teams.
*Greek leagues restructured to 16/16 teams.
*Italian Serie A + B restructured to 20/22 teams.
*Polish I Liga restructured to 18 teams.
*Portuguese ProLiga restructured to 20 teams.
*Puchar Polski format and team selection rewritten to largely match modern version.
*Taça de Portugal format and team selection rewritten to largely match modern version.
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*Argentine Cup replaces the Polish League Cup (thanks gio!).
*CONCACAF Champions League re-enabled.
*CONCACAF Gold Cup replaces the old FIFA World Club Cup competition.
*FAI Cup format and team selection rewritten to match modern version.
*FIFA Club World Cup updated close to its modern format using the now defunct German League Cup [thanks gio!].
*French Coupe de la Ligue rewritten so that all clubs in the three divisions enter.
*German DFL-Supercup replaces the Intercontinental Cup (thanks gio!).
*Greek Super Cup disabled.
*International competitions begin in the correct year.
*Irish Presidents Cup disabled.
*Irish Super Cup disabled.
*Korean League Cup disabled.
*Korean Super Cup disabled.
*Polish League Cup disabled.
*Recopa Sudamericana replaces the Inter-American Cup (thanks gio!).
*Scottish Premiership playoffs enabled (Scottish Premiership (11th) and Scottish First Division teams (2nd & 3rd) will play off for a place in the Scottish Premiership.)
*World Cup teams and groups are now

Minor competition changes:
*African Cup of Nations: now played in June instead of February.
*Australian A-League: Final renamed to Grand Final.
*Australian A-League: Grand Final now played a week after last Closing Stage fixture.
*Australian A-League: Opening Stage winners called Premiers instead of Minor Premiers.
*Copa América: Extra-time removed from Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Third Place Playoff (penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*Copa América: Guest entrants now China and Qatar (instead of Jamaica and Mexico) to avoid potential Gold Cup clashes.
*Copa do Brasil: Away goals no longer count in Final (penalties if level after both legs).
*Copa Sudamericana: Away goals now count in Quarter Final & Semi Final (away goals & penalties if level after both legs).
*Copa Sudamericana: Final no longer potentially goes to a third game decider (extra-time & penalties if level after both legs).
*Coppa Italia: Slight correction of tiebreak offsets.
*Coppa Italia Lega Pro: All rounds apart from Semi Final & Final now one leg (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*Coppa Italia Lega Pro: All rounds' draw dates pushed back one week, apart from Semi Final & Final.
*Coupe de Belgique: Final no longer potentially goes to a replay (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*EFL Trophy: Substitutes named increased from 5 --> 7.
*EFL Trophy: Extra-time removed from all rounds apart from the Final (penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*EFL Trophy: Section Finals now only one leg (penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*English FA Cup: Quarter Finals no longer potentially go to a replay (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*English FA Trophy: English National League North teams now fill out the competition instead of other lower divisions [thanks xeno!].
*English FA Trophy: Second, Third & Fourth Round no longer potentially go to a second replay (extra-time & penalties if level after replay).
*English FA Trophy: Semi Final & Final no longer potentially go to a replay (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*English FA Trophy: Away goals no longer count in Semi Final (extra-time & penalties if level after both legs).
*English leagues' prize & TV money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*English National League North: Relegation places increased from 2 --> 3.
*English National League North: Substitutes named reduced from 7 --> 5.
*European continental competitions' prize money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*FAI Cup: Final now played at the national stadium.
*FAI Cup: Replays removed from all rounds except Quarter Final & Semi Final.
*Fixture dates adjusted for:
--> Brazilian Campeonato Nordeste fixture #11.
--> Brazilian Campeonato Paranaense televised fixtures #11.
--> Croatian 1. HNL fixture #19.
--> Croatian 2. HNL North & South fixture #19.
--> Danish Superliga (for seasons starting in odd years) fixture #22.
--> Dutch Eredivisie fixture #13.
--> Dutch Eerste Divisie: adjusted date of fixture #13.
--> German 3. Liga (South) fixture #22.
--> Norwegian 1. Divisjon fixtures #14 & #15.
--> Spanish Segunda División (even year) fixture #33.
--> Spanish Segunda División (odd year) fixture #38.
--> Spanish Lower Division (even year) fixture #33.
--> Spanish Lower Division (odd year) fixture #37.
--> UEFA Champions League: Phase 2 Fixture 1 & 2 dates changed (games no longer played on a Friday).
--> UEFA Europa League: Third Round First Leg game should no longer clash with international matches.
*German Bundesliga's prize & TV money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*German 2. Bundesliga's prize & TV money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*Hrvatski Cup: Quarter Final & Final now only one leg (extra-time & penalties after 90 minutes).
*Irish Cup: Replays removed from all rounds.
*Irish Leinster Senior Cup: All league teams now selected (previously overlooked Wexford FC).
*Irish Munster Senior Cup: Game now searches for the Munster clubs' updated database names.
*Irish Premier Division's prize money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*Italian Serie A's prize & TV money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*Kypello Elladas: Round of 16 now two legs (away goals, extra-time & penalties if level after both legs).
*Kypello Elladas: Quarter Final draw date pushed back one week.
*League of Ireland Cup: Final now only one leg (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*League Of Ireland First Division times teams play each other reduced from 4 --> 3.
*NIFL Charity Shield: Match goes to penalties if level after 90 minutes (instead of having no tiebreak at all!).
*NIFL Cup: Semi Final now only one leg (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*NIFL Cup: Semi Final pushed back a week so it no longer clashes with international matches.
*Norwegian Cupen: Replays removed from Fourth Round - Final (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*Prize money/TV rights updated to IRL values (when using £x2) for:
--> Belgian First Division [TV].
--> Danish Superliga [TV].
--> Dutch Eredivisie [TV].
--> English competitions [PM+TV].
--> European continental competitions [PM].
--> French Ligue 1 [TV].
--> German Bundesliga [PM+TV].
--> German 2. Bundesliga [PM+TV].
--> Greek Superleague [TV].
--> Irish Premier Division [PM].
--> Italian Serie A [PM+TV].
--> Polish Ekstraklasa [TV].
--> Portuguese Primeira Liga [TV].
--> Russian Premier League [TV].
--> Scottish FA Cup [PM].
--> Scottish Premiership [PM+TV].
--> Spanish La Liga [PM+TV].
--> Turkish Süper Lig [TV].
--> TFF 1.Lig [TV].
*Puchar Polski: Quarter Final & Semi Final now two legs (away goals, extra-time & penalties if level after both legs).
*Puchar Polski: Final now played at the national stadium.
*Puchar Polski: Final moved forward a couple of weeks to beginning of May.
*Scottish Cup: Semi Final no longer potentially goes to a replay (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*Scottish Cup: Semi Finals now played at national stadium (though not over the same weekend).
*Spanish La Liga's prize & TV money updated (IRL values when using £x2).
*Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: Match no longer shows as potentially going to a replay (as extra-time & penalties will always occur instead).
*Svenska Cupen: Final now only one leg (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).
*Taça de Portugal: Replays removed from all rounds.
*Taça de Portugal: Semi Final now two legs (away goals, extra-time & penalties if level after both legs).
*Türkiye Kupasi: Quarter Final & Semi Final now two legs (away goals, extra-time & penalties if level after both legs).
*Türkiye Kupasi: Semi Final & Final draw dates pushed back a week.
*USA MLS: League games no longer enter extra-time after a draw (this used to occur from the second season onwards - thanks Fiestita!).
*Welsh League Cup: Semi Final now one leg (extra-time & penalties if level after 90 minutes).

Gameplay changes:
*AI clubs in background leagues will now hire managers.
*Australia moved to Asia.
*Bosman signings now allowed in Croatia and Poland, removed from Israel and Ukraine.
*Continental competitions load regardless of the leagues selected [thanks to gio for making this work for European continental competitions too].
*Golden goal offsets tweaked, it should prevent things like all clubs from the top division being drawn against each other.
*Human managers can apply for jobs at clubs in inactive leagues, causing that club to hire a manager (may be a human manager or an AI manager).
*Inflation: Values increased across the game (regardless of currency selected), particularly towards the higher levels.
*Jobs abroad: increased again the likelihood that managers will get jobs abroad.
*Loans: increased the likelihood of more loan deals being made in the game (mostly at lower levels).
*Manage any team, regardless of whether their league has been selected.
*Players on loan can now not be bought by AI/human managers.
*Players outside European leagues can gain second nationalities as long as they aren't European. For example, Uruguayans playing in Argentina can become Uruguayan/Argentine but Spanish players playing in Argentina won't become Spanish/Argentine.
*Regens from smaller nations will now regenerate at younger (normal) ages.
*Regens won't be promoted at AI clubs with 45+ players, in an attempt to keep the transfer market fluid when playing with a max database. There should be fewer AI clubs with 50 player squads, most of which are average regens (thanks xeno!).
*Reserve teams enabled for German, Portuguese and Spanish clubs without a B team.
*Scout roles can be offered to staff (except physios).
*Transfer windows added to all leagues (now updated for the 2017/18 season).

Minor gameplay changes:
*AI teams can now register on-loan players for Europe.
*Argentina: Copa Argentina history added.
*Argentina: Squad restriction of 4 foreign players added.
*Argentina: TV and prize money added to Primera B División, reduced in Primera División.
*Australia: 4 --> 5 foreign players allowed in match day squad.
*Awards: Continental awards will no longer be handed out straight away in the summer of 2017 [thanks xeno!].
*B teams removed from all international teams.
*Confederations Cup: last World Cup winners enter instead of last Confederation Cup winners (thanks gio!).
*England: League Two relegation places reduced from 3 --> 2.
*England: Players aged 24+ can now be loaned for a full season (instead of a maximum of four months).
*England: Simultaneous loans allowed increased to 9.
*England: Suspensions will display immediately after a match rather than after one day.
*England: Tottenham Hotspur will move to a new stadium in 2018.
*England: Wembley is always used for relevant English cup finals and England international games.
*European competitions: raised from 19 --> 21 the age for which players don't need to be registered for Europe.
*Germany: 18 non-EU --> no restrictions in match day squad (removes FGN symbol from squad screen).
*Germany: B teams added for FC Augsburg & TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (replacing the B teams of C.D. Badajoz & Real Unión de Irún).
*Germany: DFL-Supercup histories edited.
*Host nations for various competitions updated.
*Netherlands: Eerste Divisie relegation place removed (as it doesn't work).
*Obscene gesture suspensions will now take effect immediately instead of after 14 days.
*Poland: 18 --> 3 non-EU players allowed in match day squad.
*Portugal: B team added for Vitória Sport Club (replacing the B team of Tennis Borussia Berlin).
*Republic Of Ireland: Automatic relegation places from the Irish Premier Division increased from 1 --> 3 for the 2016/17 season.
*Republic Of Ireland: Automatic relegation places from the Irish Premier Division reduced from 2 to 1 from the 2017/18 season onwards.
*Republic Of Ireland: Loans allowed per season increased to 9.
*Republic Of Ireland: Loans can be made between clubs in the same division.
*Republic of Ireland: Simultaneous loans allowed increased from 5 --> 9.
*Republic Of Ireland: Suspensions begin immediately instead of after 14 days.
*Russia: New game begins 10 days earlier (to give players a chance to make transfers).
*Russia: Squad restriction of 10 foreign players added.
*Scotland: Players aged 22+ can now be loaned for a full season instead of only four months.
*South Korea: League start date pushed back to May (due to empty calendar).
*Spain: B teams added for Almería, Getafe, Granada & Villarreal (replacing the B teams of Extremadura, Salamanca, SSV Ulm & SG Hoechst).
*Spain: Non-EU players allowed in La Liga match day squad increased from 2 --> 3.
*Spain: Real Sociedad can now sign Spanish players who don't have a Basque second nationality (thanks JohnLocke!).
*Spain: S.D. Éibar can now sign non-Basque players.
*Turkey: Foreign player limits updated for all three divisions (squad/match numbers per division is: 14/11, 10/5, 0/0).
*USA: Canadians no longer count as foreign players.
*Yugoslavia removed.

Display changes:
*Competition histories in correct years.
*English loan limit: the game now displays the correct number of loans allowed at one time (nine) once you have reached the limit.
*English Northern Premier League Premier Division renamed to English National League North.
*English National League North awards now reference that division instead of Wales.
*English National League North suspensions are shown to be for English matches instead of Welsh matches.
*Human manager's star players shown.
*Inflated € option added: select the Eurox2 currency in Game Settings to roughly double the values of everything in the game (symbol also changed from ¤ to E).
*Inflated £ option added: select the £x2 currency in Game Settings to roughly double the values of everything in the game.
*MLS clubs now named correctly.
*Obscene gesture suspensions described as 'Misconduct' rather than 'Use of an illegal substance'.
*Portugal and Spain's optional leagues now named correctly in 'Select Leagues' screen.
*Rename v1.4.4 included.
*Round names updated for various competitions (including three new names: Round of 64/32/16).
*Squad numbers can now be issued in all leagues.
*Toronto FC's nation is now shown as Canada instead of the USA (this is only cosmetic: Toronto's regens will still be American).
*Version info updated in Game Settings screen.

Known issues:
*Applying for jobs at tiny clubs/nations will give you an error message (manager_manager..cpp 12456). The error is harmless, although no manager will be appointed by that club/nation.
*Austrlalian clubs are selected at random for Asian continental competitions.
*Euro 2020: hosting is a bit messed up: whoever hosts Euro 2024 will be shown as hosting Euro 2020 when teams qualify for it in news items (or it will show as Afghanistan if the 2024 host hasn't yet been decided). Seeing as Euro 2020 doesn't really have a host IRL (I suppose Engand at a push) I'm not too bothered about it.
*League Of Ireland First Division's schedule tab still shows 36 fixtures instead of 27.
*Northern Ireland: Transfer window messages are shown twice, due to Denmark also using Northern Ireland's code.
*Norway: Transfer window messages are shown twice, due to Sweden also using Norway's code.
*On-loan players registered by their loan clubs for Europe will take one of their parent club's 25-man quota.
*Retirements: players set to retire in the player_setup.cfg file will retire immediately instead of on the date listed. (I have removed most of the major ones from this version (Carrick, Mertesacker etc.))
*Scottish First Division playoffs are not the real life version, they are just what was laying dormant in the exe.
*Squad numbers in the Swedish Division 1 can't be assigned in the first season.
*Transfer window messages won't display for:
- Belgium: Transfer Deadline Lifted message in second window (January 1st).
- Denmark: Any deadline lifted/approaching/reached news items at all.
- Germany: Transfer Deadline Lifted message in second window (January 1st).
- Norway: Transfer Deadline Lifted message in either window.
- Sweden: Any deadline lifted/approaching/reached news items at all.
*World Cup draw will not match the IRL one after the Round of 16 (the Quarter Finals will be different from what they could be IRL).