[BBGiovanni]

I've had this idea for a long time but haven't ever gotten around to doing everything (replace nameset, simulate history, etc.) to make a template I can import to replace Italy's Serie A when I start a new game. Someday

In the meantime, I've had enough fun making graphics lately to put these together in hopes someone else will use them. I couldn't find much in the way of fantasy/alternate Italian unis of any type except for some random teams stuck in international leagues. I didn't troll the various soccer uni threads either, but I couldn't find a complete attempt to do this.

I took the symbols and colors from some of the Serie A calcio squads, and adapted them to fit the baseball context. I made no effort to include sponsors on the unis, I realize that's completely normal for football but I dislike ads on baseball uniforms and it would kind of defeat the purpose of the project.

I've found that replacing the current baseball teams/kits makes for more immersion for me, the familiar symbols and colors and cities looks more "real" to my brain. No disrespect to places like Godo and Collecchio, but I suspect that (since I had to look them up on the map) most OOTP players don't recognize them in the game. And one or more will probably drop out next season anyway!

With a couple exceptions I chose the largest cities in Italia, filling out a Northern and Southern League (hence "Leghe Italiane") corresponding to Serie A football programs. Many of them sprouted from sporting associations, so my fictional history is that the football sides sprouted baseball squads after World War II when baseball spread through northern and central Italy.

No city has two teams in the Leghe, with the slight exception of Rome and Nettuno for reasons I'll explain when I post the Nettuno kit. And there's no Juve in my universe, make those for yourself if you want them, or just use the Yankees I've assumed teams follow the football scheme with dark jerseys at home and white on the road. I've included some alt unis, but in some cases (especially Bologna) there aren't a ton of alternate symbols or schemes available. In some cases I've emphasized different colors to help differentiate the teams, Bologna and Genova are both navy and scarlet, but I used more navy in the Genova set and more scarlet in the Bologna set to try to keep them distinct.

Also, I've used the actual city names, not the foreign/translated versions the game recognizes. So, for example, the "Roma Lupi" are from Roma. If you make a fictional setup, you could use the English names when you generate the league so that the ballparks are in the right places, and edit them afterwards. Also, I've followed the baseball-style convention of City+Mascot for names, and used one of the common nicknames used for the football side for the mascots.

That's most of the general background I can think of, use them in good health and be sure to include an Italian league in your games!