Horse 1561 - A-League 2023-24... from FIFA'04

	Woolworths A-League	P	W	D	L	For	Against	GD	Pts
1	Sydney FC	38	28	7	3	73	35	38	91
2	Adelaide Utd	38	26	6	6	66	37	29	84
3	Western Syd Wanderers	38	21	11	6	70	34	36	74
4	Richmond	38	19	9	10	52	35	17	66
5	Melbourne Heart	38	17	12	9	49	32	17	63
6	Melbourne Victory	38	17	10	11	64	44	20	61
7	Brisbane Roar	38	18	7	13	61	47	14	61
8	Hawthorn	38	16	13	9	50	38	12	61
9	South Sydney	38	15	13	10	50	54	-4	58
10	Newcastle Jets	38	14	9	15	43	52	-9	51
11	Newcastle Knights	38	12	14	12	46	44	2	50
12	Adelaide Crows	38	11	10	17	35	50	-15	43
13	Melbourne Storm	38	12	7	19	40	57	-17	43
14	Perth Glory	38	10	11	17	55	70	-15	41
15	Carlton	38	10	10	18	48	61	-13	40
16	St George-Illawarra	38	8	14	16	42	60	-18	38
17	Sydney Swans	38	9	11	18	34	52	-18	38
18	Central Coast Mariners	38	8	11	19	33	58	-25	35
19	Brisbane Lions	38	6	6	26	38	57	-19	24
20	Bundaberg Spirit	38	5	5	28	39	71	-32	20
	Woolworths A2-League	P	W	D	L	For	Against	GD	Pts
1	Geelong Cats	46	24	16	6	71	32	39	88
2	Melbourne Demons	46	23	15	8	83	58	25	84
3	Brisbane Broncos	46	24	8	14	69	42	27	80
4	Parramatta Eels	46	23	11	12	76	54	22	80
5	Canberra Raiders	46	20	17	9	77	51	26	77
6	NZ Warriors	46	20	15	11	69	50	19	75
7	Royal Hobart	46	19	15	12	81	70	11	72
8	North Melbourne	46	18	14	14	65	61	4	68
9	West Coast	46	18	13	15	62	48	14	67
10	Pride of The North FC	46	19	10	17	76	71	5	67
11	Sturt	46	16	17	13	52	51	1	65
12	Penrith Panthers	46	17	11	18	68	68	0	62
13	Wests Tigers	46	18	8	20	62	68	-6	62
14	Wollongong Wolves	46	16	13	17	77	71	6	61
15	Manly-Warringah	46	17	9	20	62	65	-3	60
16	GWS Giants	46	15	13	18	53	60	-7	58
17	Canberra United	46	14	14	18	55	66	-11	56
18	St Kilda	46	14	13	19	54	58	-4	55
19	Auckland Kingz	46	13	10	23	58	71	-13	49
20	Fremantle	46	12	12	22	44	69	-25	48
21	Port Adelaide	46	11	15	20	55	81	-26	48
22	Gold Coast Titans	46	10	12	24	54	79	-25	42
23	Collingwood	46	11	9	26	44	79	-35	42
24	Western Bulldogs	46	12	6	28	43	87	-44	42
	Qantas A3-League	P	W	D	L	For	Against	GD	Pts
1	Casey Scorpions	46	26	12	8	85	41	44	90
2	Tamworth Guitars	46	22	17	7	80	45	35	83
3	Monaro Panthers	46	23	13	10	58	37	21	82
4	Swan Districts	46	22	11	13	64	43	21	77
5	Hobart Utd	46	20	13	13	74	58	16	73
6	Essendon	46	20	13	13	76	61	15	73
7	Adelaide Comets	46	21	10	15	73	63	10	73
8	Gold Coast Suns	46	17	16	13	59	56	3	67
9	Dubbo Elephants	46	17	15	14	56	51	5	66
10	Eastern Suburbs	46	17	15	14	69	66	3	66
11	Kalgoorlie Super Pit	46	17	13	16	52	56	-4	64
12	Wellington Phoenix	46	15	17	14	52	58	-6	62
13	Devonport	46	17	9	20	50	60	-10	60
14	Bendigo Gold	46	16	11	19	58	65	-7	59
15	Norwood	46	12	21	13	66	60	6	57
16	Logan United	46	13	14	19	48	64	-16	53
17	Wagga Wagga	46	14	11	21	52	69	-17	53
18	NE MetroStars	46	12	16	18	58	58	0	52
19	Hume City	46	11	19	16	62	70	-8	52
20	Claremont	46	12	15	19	49	71	-22	51
21	Darwin City	46	13	11	22	55	81	-26	50
22	Heidelberg United	46	13	9	24	60	74	-14	48
23	Glenelg	46	10	12	24	50	78	-28	42
24	North Qld Cowboys	46	6	19	21	50	75	-25	37
	Qantas A4-League	P	W	D	L	For	Against	GD	Pts
1	Canterbury-Bankstown	46	29	9	8	92	38	54	96
2	Belconnen United	46	26	10	10	81	41	40	88
3	Redlands United	46	26	10	10	80	46	34	88
4	Preston Bullants	46	23	10	13	72	56	16	79
5	Ballarat	46	21	13	12	74	59	15	76
6	AFC Albany	46	22	10	14	71	64	7	76
7	Launceston	46	18	16	12	65	53	12	70
8	Capricorn Cougars	46	19	9	18	68	57	11	66
9	Cronulla Sharks	46	19	7	20	58	57	1	64
10	Whitsunday Miners	46	16	14	16	55	63	-8	62
11	Coburg Tigers	46	16	13	17	57	56	1	61
12	Peel Thunder	46	16	13	17	49	46	3	61
13	Nefarious FC	46	17	9	20	56	60	-4	60
14	Central District	46	14	14	18	53	56	-3	56
15	Armidale Scorpions	46	14	14	18	49	67	-18	56
16	Green Gully	46	14	13	19	57	71	-14	55
17	Orange Orange Oranges	46	12	16	18	55	70	-15	52
18	SPC Shepparton	46	13	13	20	54	64	-10	52
19	Wentworthville Uniting	46	13	12	21	50	72	-22	51
20	Wodonga-Albury	46	10	21	15	48	62	-14	51
21	Gippsland Electric	46	13	11	22	50	64	-14	50
22	Subiaco	46	13	10	23	52	71	-19	49
23	Nth Qld Razorbacks	46	11	16	19	48	69	-21	49
24	Figtree Albion	46	10	11	25	55	87	-32	41

I have been playing FIFA '04 now for almost a decade. In that space of time, I've been able to get all sorts of neat editors for it which include the ability to create new kits, new stadia and entire leagues. The problem is that if you let me loose at something long enough, reall strange things start to happen.

Not being content with merely the A-League, I created an entire Australian league system based on the A-League, AFL, NRL; included some clubs from the VFL, SANFL, WAFL, state leagues and leaving out clubs with obvious ethnic ties, I found that I had two more spots left over and so added Wentworthville Uniting who I play for and Nefarious FC which is made up of some of history's greatest monsters (Idi Amin by the way, is a better goalkeeper than you'd think - but still rubbish).

The set of league tables above, are from the 20th season and that point FIFA'04 simply can't take it anymore and just completely freezes. 2023/24 is a vastly different sort of place from 2003/04 in this game. The richest club in the entire league system is Collingwood; yet the in-game news keeps on telling us about management disputes there - is in-game Eddie Maguire disruptive or something?
I've spent 20 seasons playing as Wentworthville Uniting and the best that I've ever been able to achieve is 7th in the league; which still isn't good enough for a play-off spot. Records tell me that the worst defeat that we ever had was in the 2008-09 Johnny Warren League Cup when Brisbane Roar ripped us 16-0. Mind you, it's kind of difficult when your in-game namesake is an equal worst player in the whole game rated paltry 9 and a proper football genius like Del Piero in 2004 was rated 99.

Of course being a computer game it doesn't have to deal with real world issues, like the fact that it's technically impossible to have Brisbane Roar, Brisbane Lions and Brisbane Broncos all play home games at Lang Park at exactly the same time.
I also have had a fair amount of fun copying elements from some grounds to create new ones too. Like the Zoo Stadium where the Dubbo Elephants play which has no grandstands whatsoever, the giant factory towers at all four corners of the ground of SPC Shepparton, the ridiculously orange stadium of the Orange Orange Oranges and the Stadium of Fire where Nefarious FC play, which is exactly as it sounds, a stadium which is made out of fire.
Some teams I had to move out of their existing stadia, like the Western Sydney Wanderers who now play out of the 85,000 seat Bogandome along with GWS Giants; Sydney FC now fills its own 70,000 seat stadium the Stadio Alessandro Del Piero which presumable is also in Moore Park and Hawthorn and St Kilda now play back at the 120,000 seat VFL Park.

At the end of 20 seasons, Sydney FC had won 7, Brisbane Roar 5, Melbourne Victory 5, Adelaide Utd 2 and South Sydney 1. I'd been fired from the management position at Wentworthville Uniting four times and actually had to put up with the computer selecting players in the starting 11 and deciding on the formation and one of the real surprise packets was Central Coast Mariners who after starting in the A-League in season 1, have bounced around through all four leagues at various stages.

If only...