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Revised American Pyramid V2

**MEANT TO RUN WITH CONCACAF - US PYRAMID MERGER V1.0**
**HAVE NOT TESTED SEPARATELY, MIGHT NOT WORK**

This is a simple, revised U.S. pyramid consisting of four tiers of 24 teams each with pro/rel between them. This pyramid uses existing clubs with some altered characteristics (reputation, bank balance, transfer budget) so that each club at each tier starts on equal financial and reputation footing, with descending amounts for each tier.

The season shifts to a European-style calendar to match the CONCACAF competitions, beginning in early August and ending in early May with a season reset date of June 30 each year. Transfer windows are the full month of January and the full summer period of July 1-August 31.

The four tiers are as follows:

American Premier Division (Tier 1) - MLS clubs, minus a few
American Championship Division (Tier 2) - Remaining MLS clubs, independent USL Championship clubs minus a few
American First Division (Tier 3) - Remaining independent USL Championship clubs, independent USL League One clubs, NISA clubs, plus a few higher-end amateur clubs
American Second Division (Tier 4) - Best amateur clubs from USL2/NPSL

All tiers have identical matchday rules featuring 30-man roster limits and a requirement of 5 Homegrown (3 years trained in nation between 0-21) players in the match-day 18-man roster. Kept restrictions low here to encourage more fun gameplay, higher standards felt too restrictive.

All tiers have prize money based on finishing position in tiers (winner, top four, top half, bottom half, relegated) as well as parachute payments for relegated clubs.

Tiers 2-4 promote three clubs per season - two automatically and one via a four-team playoff of clubs placed 3rd-6th. Tiers 1-3 relegate three clubs per season automatically based on finishing position.

All clubs feature U23 and U18 teams. All "2" clubs are removed from the database. Lower divisions remain relatively untouched and unplayable to add diversity to friendlies and complete USOC (Note that Charlotte FC exists in the lower divisions, but will never leave them as they weren't yet set to enter MLS).

USOC re-formatted, consists of every single pro and lower-division club in the game (384 teams). 288 Lower-division clubs play four qualifying rounds and 32 advance to first round proper where all pro teams enter. Pure knockout from there forward. All qualifying and regular rounds feature ascending prize money.

Also smaller supplemental cups added (American League Cup for tier 1 only, American Independent Cup for tiers 2-4). Both award ascending prize money.

American Challenge Cup is a SuperCup style competition between USOC and American Premier Division winners to open the season in early August.