City rivalry save ideas
Derbies, capital cities and local power struggles to settle. 51 save ideas, difficulty from 3 to 9 out of 10. 35 are playable in the base game.
- Chongqing Tonglianglong
Chinese Super LeagueChongqing's established top-flight club folded in 2022, leaving one of the world's largest municipalities without an elite side. Chongqing Tonglianglong rose from the…
- Dalian YingboChinese Super League
Dalian Shide won eight Chinese championships before disappearing in 2012, leaving one of China's great football cities without its old dynasty. Dalian Yingbo are a…
- Dukla Prague
Czech First LeagueDukla won 11 Czechoslovak league titles and reached the European Cup semi-finals in 1967. The army club's old dominance disappeared after the communist era and the…
- FC Utrecht
EredivisieUtrecht were formed by merging three clubs in 1970. One of them, DOS, had won the Dutch title in 1958, but FC Utrecht have never repeated it. Break that run and win the…
- Göztepe
Süper LigGöztepe became the first Turkish club to reach a major European semi-final when they made the last four of the 1968/69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. İzmir has never had a…
- Iraklis
Super League GreeceFounded in 1908, Iraklis are one of Thessaloniki's great historic clubs and won the Greek Cup in 1976. Financial and licensing problems repeatedly destroyed their league…
- NEOM SC
Saudi Pro LeagueFormerly Al-Suqoor, the club was transferred into the NEOM project and rebranded before rising into the Saudi Pro League. You are effectively building the flagship…
- OFK Beograd
Serbian SuperLigaOFK's predecessor BSK was one of Yugoslavia's great pre-war clubs, while OFK later reached a European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final in 1963. After years outside the elite…
- Slavia Sofia
Bulgarian First LeagueSlavia Sofia have seven Bulgarian championships and became the first Bulgarian club to reach a major European semi-final in 1967, but their last league title came in…
- Sparta RotterdamEredivisie
Sparta are Rotterdam's oldest professional side and six-time Dutch champions, but their last title was in 1959. Feyenoord have been the city's main attraction for…
- Sport Boys
Liga 1Sport Boys are the pink-shirted pride of Callao and six-time Peruvian champions, but their last league title came in 1984. Turn one of South America's most distinctive…
- Wieczysta Kraków
EkstraklasaWieczysta were playing regional football only a few years ago and reached the Ekstraklasa for the first time in 2026. Kraków already has historic giants in Wisła and…
- Wisła KrakówEkstraklasa
Fourteen-time Polish champions Wisła spent four years outside the Ekstraklasa before finally returning for 2026/27. Their city now contains three top-flight clubs…
- Zbrojovka BrnoCzech First League
Brno are from Czechia's second-largest city and won the Czechoslovak league in 1978, yet have spent much of the modern era outside the top flight. They are back in the…
- El Gouna
Egyptian Premier LeagueEl Gouna exists because the founder of the purpose-built Red Sea resort decided his new town needed a football club too. Turn a holiday destination into a football…
- Ghazl El MahallaEgyptian Premier League
Ghazl El Mahalla are the football club of one of Egypt's great textile-industry cities and produced a remarkable league title in 1973. Outside Cairo's giants, national…
- Highlanders
Zimbabwe Premier Soccer LeagueHighlanders are one of Zimbabwe's biggest and oldest clubs, carrying the football identity of Bulawayo, but they have not won the league since 2006. Dynamos and the…
- Inter Bratislava
2. LigaInter Bratislava won back-to-back Slovak championships in 2000 and 2001 before the original senior side effectively disappeared and the club had to be rebuilt. They are…
- Kapaz
Azerbaijan Premier LeagueKapaz won three Azerbaijani titles during the 1990s and draw support from Ganja, the country's second-largest city. They have not been champions since 1999 while Baku…
- Omonia 29M
Cypriot First DivisionOmonia 29M were created by supporters in 2018 after Omonia Nicosia's football operation moved into private ownership. The fan-owned breakaway raced through the pyramid…
- ŁKS ŁódźI liga
ŁKS won Polish championships in 1958 and 1998 but have spent the modern era bouncing between the top two divisions while city rivals Widzew rebuilt their own status…
- Atlético Morelia
Liga de Expansión MXMorelia effectively lost its Liga MX club when Monarcas were moved hundreds of miles away and became Mazatlán in 2020. Atlético Morelia revived the identity in the…
- Bangor 1876
Cymru NorthBangor 1876 were created by supporters in 2019 as turmoil engulfed historic Bangor City. They won the Ardal North West in 2025/26 and have reached Cymru North. Rebuild…
- DC Motema Pembe
Linafoot Ligue 1DC Motema Pembe won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1994 and remain one of Kinshasa's great clubs, yet local rivals Vita Club and TP Mazembe have carried far more…
- FC EindhovenEerste Divisie
FC Eindhoven won the last Dutch championship before professional football began in 1954. Their neighbours PSV have rather dominated the city's football story since. Get…
- Paris FC
Ligue 1Paris FC and PSG were once part of the same club. Now Paris FC are in Ligue 1, have wealthy backing and play across the road from the Parc des Princes. There is one very…
- Politehnica Timișoara
Liga 2Timișoara has one of Romania's biggest football followings but its club identity has been dragged through relocations, ownership disputes and repeated restarts. The…
- Polonia WarsawI liga
Polonia were Polish champions in 2000 and regular European qualifiers before financial disaster in 2013 dumped them from the top flight to the fifth tier. They have…
- RCD Espanyol
La LigaEspanyol have lost two UEFA Cup finals, both on penalties, and have never won a major European trophy. They also share a city with Barcelona. End the European curse and…
- Red Star FCLigue 2
Jules Rimet founded Red Star, but the club that helped give football the World Cup has never won the French league. Build a proper Parisian rival to PSG, starting from…
- Santiago Wanderers
Primera B de ChileFounded in 1892, Santiago Wanderers are widely regarded as Chile's oldest football club and represent the port city of Valparaíso rather than Santiago. They have three…
- Torino FC
Serie AThe Grande Torino side dominated Italy in the 1940s before the 1949 Superga air disaster. Torino have only won the league once since and haven't done so since 1976…
- Viktoria ŽižkovCzech National Football League
Viktoria Žižkov were Czechoslovak champions in 1928 and won the Czech Cup as recently as 2001, all while living in the shadow of Prague's much bigger clubs. They now…
- CE EuropaPrimera Federación
CE Europa were founding members of La Liga and reached the Copa del Rey final in 1923. They now sit in the third tier, sharing Barcelona with two of the biggest clubs on…
- Ethnikos PiraeusGamma Ethniki
Ethnikos were challenging for the Greek title in 1957 when a row over attempts to sign Hungarian internationals ended in their exclusion from the competition. Neighbours…
- Fortuna Köln
3. LigaFortuna Köln reached the 1983 DFB-Pokal final and spent 26 consecutive seasons in 2. Bundesliga, usually living in the shadow of 1. FC Köln. They won promotion back to…
- Guarani
Campeonato Brasileiro Série CGuarani won the 1978 Brazilian title and remain the only national top-flight champions from a Brazilian interior city. They now play in Série C. Take Campinas back…
- Kári Akranes
2. deild karlaKári began in 1922 when a group of children in Akranes scraped together enough money to buy a football. They helped lay the foundations for the town's much bigger club…
- OstiamareSerie C
Daniele De Rossi bought his boyhood club in Ostia and helped take them back into professional football. They're still a long way from Roma. Make De Rossi's childhood…
- SV SpakenburgTweede Divisie
Spakenburg and IJsselmeervogels share a sports complex in a fishing village and absolutely cannot stand each other. Spakenburg also reached the Dutch Cup semi-finals in…
- Seoul E-Land
K-League 2Seoul E-Land, founded in 2014, are the second team in Seoul. Their city rivals, FC Seoul, are one of the most successful clubs in Korean and Asian football, with 6…
- Skeid
2. divisjonSkeid won the Norwegian league in 1966 and have lifted the Norwegian Cup eight times, but modern football has left the Oslo club far behind. They are now in the third…
- Union BresciaSerie C
Brescia's old club, once home to Baggio, Pirlo and Guardiola, went bankrupt after more than a century. Union Brescia have taken over the city's football future. Build…
- 1860 MunichRegionalliga Bayern
1860 Munich won the Bundesliga in 1965/66 - before Bayern Munich had ever been German champions - but in 2026/27 they are down in Regionalliga Bayern. That makes the…
- Panachaiki FCGamma Ethniki
Panachaiki were the first Greek club from outside the main football centres to qualify for Europe, back in 1973. Patras has never had a league champion. Get the city…
- SS TarantoEccellenza
Taranto is one of the biggest Italian cities never to have seen its team in Serie A. Another financial collapse has left the city's successor club in the fifth tier. End…
- Salgueiros
Campeonato de PortugalSalgueiros finished sixth in Portugal in 1990/91 and played in the UEFA Cup the following season, giving Porto a third top-flight club alongside FC Porto and Boavista…
- Stuttgarter KickersRegionalliga Südwest
Stuttgarter Kickers reached the 1987 DFB-Pokal final and have played Bundesliga football, but they now sit in the fourth-tier Regionalliga while VfB dominate the city…
- Wiener Sport-Club
Regionalliga OstWiener Sport-Club were Austrian champions in 1958 and 1959 and once beat Juventus 7-0 in the European Cup. They now play in the third-tier Regionalliga Ost. Take a club…
- GNK Šibenik
1. ŽNL Šibensko-kninskaHNK Šibenik were a Croatian top-flight club in 2024/25, then relegation, debt and licensing failure pushed the old entity out of the national pyramid. A new legal…
- AC AjaccioRégional 1
Ajaccio were in Ligue 1 in 2023 and ended up in regional football after a financial collapse. Rebuild them from the sixth tier, get the Corsican derby back on the…