One man's trash is another man's treasure ;-)

we are German Group of Top Eleven @ Facebook and we self organize Tournemants.
We are organizing 4 different kind of tournaments, Beginners Cup (Level 1-5), Junior Legaue (Level 6-11), Supra League (Level 12-17) and Ultra League (starting from Level 18 no limit).

We have 16-20 starters in the Junior/Supra/Ultra League and 8 starters in the Beginners Cup, all tournaments starts with a preliminary round where the teams compete in groups á 4-5 teams to advance to the quaterfinal.

There are always an away and one home game against each team. The first two teams of each group advance to the quaterfinal where they have to play two games again to reach the semi-final and later on the final. The final and the game about 3rd place are only one single game.

All games are played by friendly matches and the managers are talking to each other to arrange the games.

But the new update of friendly changes is for us very unhappy :-(
Perhaps to consider ways and means then every manger decide oneself and have the choice yes or not accept friendly games?
And all perfect satisfactory to both parties :-)