San Marino - The Ultimate Challenge!

[HotChocolate]

Great to see you back in the Champions League

[Makoto Nakamura]

Get in!!!!

[deltablue]

Late away goals are awesome.

[HotChocolate]

You definitely earned the draw.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Just sticking my foot in a bit....

[Makoto Nakamura]

And then my foot gets deeper.....GROUP STAGES!

[HotChocolate]

You posted the first leg, again!! We can only assume from your caption you beat them!

[Makoto Nakamura]

We couldn't have been put in a worse group really...

Barcelona:

European Champions Cup

Winners - 2011, 2014, 2024, 2028

Club World Championship

Winners - 2011
Runner Up - 2014, 2024, 2028

European Super Cup

Winners - 2011, 2014, 2028
Runner Up - 2024

Liga BBVA

Winners - 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029
Runner Up - 2012, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2024

Spanish Cup

Winners - 2016, 2018, 2021, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028
Runner Up - 2011, 2015, 2024

Spanish Super Cup

Winner - 2015, 2026
Runner Up - 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2027, 2028, 2029



A.C. Milan


European Champions Cup

Runner Up - 2025


EURO Cup

Winner - 2023


European Super Cup

Winner - 2023


Serie A

Winner - 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2026, 2027, 2028
Runner Up - 2013, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2029
Third Placed - 2014, 2017, 2022


Italian Cup

Winner - 2012, 2015, 2020, 2022, 2029
Runner Up - 2018, 2025, 2026, 2028


Italian Super Cup

Winner - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Runner Up - 2015, 2018, 2019, 2027, 2028


Olympique Lyonnais:

European Champions Cup

Runner Up - 2017


EURO Cup

Winner - 2014


Ligue 1

Winner - 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025
Runner Up - 2015, 2021, 2023, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029
Third Placed - 2011, 2013


French Cup

Winner - 2012, 2014, 2024, 2025
Runner Up - 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2028


French Champions Trophy

Winner - 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2025, 2028
Runner Up - 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2024, 2027, 2029

[Makoto Nakamura]

Sorry about that, post updated...hehe

[HotChocolate]

Great win, glad to see you were drawn an easy group

Should be looking to progress and challenge for 1st place?

[TWFL]

Should be able to easily progress!

[Turbodave222]

Too bad you cant get more people in the stadion in the CL, because of the little seats you can provide...

But 7 mil's for getting into groupstage is a huge amount for a small team!!

Gratz!!

And update!!! i'm addicted to your story

[noikeee]

Barça, Milan and Lyon. At least you'll pack your tiny stadium in those matches. Now prize money might be a little difficult.

[deltablue]

They won't look forward to weeknight trips to San Marino.

[deadfncat]

Mate how did u hax and get such an easy group ? good luck!

[Mad Mario Balotelli]

Top read, well done buddy and keep it up! Keeping me sane while at work

[hawkiiz]

Oh my god what a tread! One of the most exciting I've seen online in a very long time!

Thanks for not writing long updates - just the important ones. Makes it possible to catch up! I just wish I saw this later, so I didn't have to stop reading now!

Amazing job, though. And man, those occasions with laptop crashing and Steam being hacked scared the cr*p out of me Glad it all worked out though. Hope you reach your goal soon! Looks like you will be done well ahead of schedule lol!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Thanks everyone! sorry for the lack of updates, it's been due to an impulse of exams as a christmas present from the school and a slowly crippling dying computer....only just gotten to the end of the Group Stages and that went EXACTLY according to plan!

[noikeee]

Well, at least you scored two.

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 8th - Youth Candidate Day

[deltablue]

Must have been a cunning plan.

[macco88]

March 8th - Youth Candidate Day

Rino looks like he would be a San Marino legend right away!! lol

[Paolo Willenté]

Rino looks like he would be a San Marino legend right away!! lol

He has a good name as well.

[Johnny Drama]

Just read through this entire thing, wow great stuff mate!

[Coentrao]

Good to see this rolling again

[Tuvalu]

I love this.

[HotChocolate]

Shame about the Champions League.

[arinceo]

Great to see this back buddy, you were very unlucky with the group stage opponents, but at least you got that all-important TV revenue

[Makoto Nakamura]

Just read through this entire thing, wow great stuff mate!

Thanks Johnny!

Good to see this rolling again

Thanks Coentrao, amazed that I actually got this back to be honest.

I love this.

Thanks Tuvalu, glad you enjoy it!

Shame about the Champions League.

I know, hopefully I won't get another group like that until I actually have a chance of winning.

Great to see this back buddy, you were very unlucky with the group stage opponents, but at least you got that all-important TV revenue

Thanks arineco, it's given us £12,000,000 in the bank! Every cloud has a silver lining.

[abulezz]

Wow, Rino looks fantastic! Im sure you plan on starting him right away?

[Makoto Nakamura]

San Giovanni - Campionato Sammarinese - 2029/30

League Table
League Positions Graph

The closest season we've had in a long time, winning on goal difference after losing to Murata on the last league game before beating Tre Fiori 2-1 in the Final.


Coppa Titano - Unbeaten and we only conceded goals in the Semi-Final & Final.


European Champions Cup - Possibly the hardest Group there has ever been but at the very least we managed to score! Barcelona made it to the Quarter Finals and were beaten by Manchester United 2-1, A.C Milan beat Chelsea 1-0 in the Final and Olympique Lyonnais lost 3-2 in the EURO Cup 1st Knockout Round to eventual winners FC Porto.


Squad - No changes made here.


Finances - was £13,000,000 at this screenshot, now only £10,000,000 since the board are spending £3,000,000 on upgrading Youth Facilities!

Youth Players:

Raoul Belmonte (YP2)

Remo Ailelli (YP12)

Angelo Perra (YP13)

Fabio Bernardini (YP14)

Antonio Stanzione (YP15)

Antonello Carraro (YP16)

Antonio Costanzo (YP17)

Michele Centofanti (YP18)

Boris Oddo (YP19)

Pasque Missiroli (YP20)

Donato Cursio (YP21)

Rino Alizzi (YP22)

Season            Campionato Sammarinese              Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup         Average Attendance    Club Worth (£)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011/12                   6th                          3rd Grp C                     -                    -                       193              £26,000
2012/13                1st Grp A                      Semi-Finals                    -                    -                       243              £80,000
2013/14                1st Grp B                       3rd Grp B                     -                    -                       236              £95,000
2014/15                4th Grp B                     Quarter Finals           2nd Qual. Round             -                       200              £150,000
2015/16                3rd Grp A                        Winners                      -                    -                       180              £190,000
2016/17                2nd Grp B                        Winners                      -              1st Qual. Round               256              £400,000
2017/18                2nd Grp B                     Quarter Finals                  -              2nd Qual. Round               263              £575,000
2018/19                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               293              £350,000
2019/20                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               326              £575,000
2020/21                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               333              £350,000
2021/22                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group C        Champions Playoff             651              £1,500,000
2022/23                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               600              £1,600,000
2023/24                1st Grp B                        Winners                      -              2nd Qual. Round               566              £2,100,000
2024/25                1st Grp A                        Winners                      -              2nd Qual. Round               606              £1,100,000
2025/26                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group B        Champions Playoff             885              £1,600,000
2026/27                1st Grp B                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd. Qual Round               861              £2,400,000
2027/28                1st Grp A                        Winners                      -              4th Group D                   1178             £5,250,000
2028/29                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group F        Champions Playoff             1162             £6,250,000     
2029/30                1st Grp A                        Winners                      -              4th Group A                   1263             £8,750,000

[rancer890]

Did all your players become aliens or something?

[Makoto Nakamura]

Did all your players become aliens or something?

I don't know it happens on my game sometimes, all the regens faces suddenly disappear, it really confuses me

[Makoto Nakamura]

I've asked him to reconsider due to him being so loyal to the club, but I doubt that he'll want to stay on after this new season being his 20th season.

[Makoto Nakamura]

And we enter Europe, the only challenge left to conquer!

[Makoto Nakamura]

A bit out of the blue, but this next one is over-pricing at it's worst!

[Makoto Nakamura]

We so nearly bottled it, but in reward we get an easy tie against Irish side Glentoran.

[slich]

600K for a Central Defender with 8 Pace 7 Acceleration worth 8k... That's just too awesome.

Congrats on qualifying as well!

[Makoto Nakamura]

We lost to APOEL in the 4th Qualifying Round so we got into the EURO Cup Group Stages:

[Makoto Nakamura]

Right, this is really annoying every 2 months I'm getting an error, it's like a crash dump but it's the same thing that Scribe had on his Faroe Islands save, I don't know how to get rid of it, but it's annoying losing progress...

[deltablue]

Can you continue?

[Makoto Nakamura]

I can, I just get very annoyed by it crashing and closing unexpectedly.

[deltablue]

Trust me I know, try having it before, during (and even rarely now, after) every other match or so.

[DazRTaylor]

I can, I just get very annoyed by it crashing and closing unexpectedly.

Have you got the patch? Or do you play in offline mode? Patch it if you haven't already - this fixed it for Scribe.

[Makoto Nakamura]

I've gotten it on Steam and bought it through Steam so it should have automatically patched, I've noticed a few changes with U19 caps being counted which i'm thinking is in the new patch?

[rancer890]

I would recommend saving after every game. I've gotten crashes too (after I got the patch).

[SnakeXe]

Set it to a weekly rolling autosave if you can bear the extra processing time.

[Makoto Nakamura]

I'll hopefully keep him on as a Coach but don't know how he got that knowledge of Cameroon?

[deltablue]

Was there a youth tournament held there or something (tenuous I know, but can't think of anything else)?

[ManUTactician247]

Maybe he went to do scouting there for when you get to the World Club Cup .

[Makoto Nakamura]

I know how he got the Cameroonian knowledge!

It's from when I had to make Martino Bazzoli 2.0, Yazar Yazici walked out as an Assistant Manager so I tried to find the highest profile ex-player who would be our new Assistant, that turned out to be ex-Cameroonian international Samuel Eto'o with 172 caps & 110 goals.

[Makoto Nakamura]

March 7th - Youth Candidate Day

WOW! nothing can be said, just, WOW!

[Scribe]

Wow indeed! Looks like he has room for improvement too.

P.S. Quick, save it!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Wow indeed! Looks like he has room for improvement too.

P.S. Quick, save it!

Don't worry, it's been saved, he is mine forever!!!!

Also wow, this thread has 20,000 views, thanks everyone!

[City2000]

Also wow, this thread has 20,000 views, thanks everyone!

It's a great thread

Great looking player there in Chiodo!

[Towardinho]

after reading this you have inspired me to do my own San Marino save but with Fiorentino....3rd season now but players keep bottling in it in the championship playoffs...you reckon that could be because the average age of my team is 19? pressure getting to the kids?

[rancer890]

Chiodo is amazing!

[dizzyp]

Ciodo Looks AWSOME

Shame he cant run!!

[Makoto Nakamura]

San Giovanni - Campionato Sammarinese - 2030/31

League Table
League Position Graph
Domestic Fixtures

A much better domestic season, a lot of green dots and yet it still took us a few weeks to get into first place.


Coppa Titano - Easily won again, with loads of goals, winning the Semi-Finals 5-3 and winning the Final 5-1.


European Champions Cup & EURO Cup - A loss to APOEL put us in a EURO Cup Group with Lille, Fiorentina & Zenit, and for the first time in a Continental competition we actually looked like we could win, we didn't, but it looked like we could.


Squad - Transfers - We made a £925,000 profit from selling 3 players even if I didn't get the £600,000...


Finances - £11,750,000 in the black and the Youth Facilities are going to be upgraded again!

Youth Players:

Raoul Belmonte (YP2)

Remo Aielli (YP12)

Angelo Perra (YP13)

Fabio Bernandini (YP14)

Antonio Stanzione (YP15)

Antonello Carraro (YP16)

Antonio Costanzo (YP17)

Michele Centofanti (YP18)

Boris Oddo (YP19)

Pasque Missiroli (YP20)

Donato Cursio (YP21)

Rino Alizzi (YP22)

Enrico Chiodo (YP23)

Season            Campionato Sammarinese              Coppa Titano                EURO Cup           Champions Cup         Average Attendance    Club Worth (£)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2011/12                   6th                          3rd Grp C                     -                    -                       193              £26,000
2012/13                1st Grp A                      Semi-Finals                    -                    -                       243              £80,000
2013/14                1st Grp B                       3rd Grp B                     -                    -                       236              £95,000
2014/15                4th Grp B                     Quarter Finals           2nd Qual. Round             -                       200              £150,000
2015/16                3rd Grp A                        Winners                      -                    -                       180              £190,000
2016/17                2nd Grp B                        Winners                      -              1st Qual. Round               256              £400,000
2017/18                2nd Grp B                     Quarter Finals                  -              2nd Qual. Round               263              £575,000
2018/19                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               293              £350,000
2019/20                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               326              £575,000
2020/21                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               333              £350,000
2021/22                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group C        Champions Playoff             651              £1,500,000
2022/23                1st Grp A                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd Qual. Round               600              £1,600,000
2023/24                1st Grp B                        Winners                      -              2nd Qual. Round               566              £2,100,000
2024/25                1st Grp A                        Winners                      -              2nd Qual. Round               606              £1,100,000
2025/26                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group B        Champions Playoff             885              £1,600,000
2026/27                1st Grp B                        Winners               4th Qual. Round       3rd. Qual Round               861              £2,400,000
2027/28                1st Grp A                        Winners                      -              4th Group D                   1178             £5,250,000
2028/29                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group F        Champions Playoff             1162             £6,250,000     
2029/30                1st Grp A                        Winners                      -              4th Group A                   1263             £8,750,000
2030/31                1st Grp A                        Winners                  4th Group J        Champions Playoff             1440             £9,750,000

[Makoto Nakamura]

after reading this you have inspired me to do my own San Marino save but with Fiorentino....3rd season now but players keep bottling in it in the championship playoffs...you reckon that could be because the average age of my team is 19? pressure getting to the kids?

It might be, just try doing team meetings to get morale up, sometimes it has a drastically opposite effect though, just keep trying and you'll win

[BurnCM4X]

I have a test save in andorra that has all infra-structure maxed outand with a youth recruitment at lvl 9 i never had a player like that in the almost 10 years i played the save. Really impressed with the player!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Raoul Belmonte (YP2) - Retires age 34!

What can I say, 19 seasons at the club, at one point he was the best player in San Marino but then more Italian imports came in and the standard of San Marino improved....and the rest is history

[Makoto Nakamura]

I say an easy win, and it's time to see what happens when I partner Remo Aielli (YP12) with Enrico Chiodo (YP23)

[deltablue]

Thats a great prospect.

[Makoto Nakamura]

We went into this game 12-1 outsiders with the media "predicting Zestaponi to put 3 or 4 past us by half time" well, how wrong the media were!

[Makoto Nakamura]

And we get the easiest draw in the 3rd Qualifier against either Qarabag Agdam or TNS, I'm seriously hoping we play Qarabag Agdam as back in 2017 we went against them and lost 10-3, then in 2022 we had a rematch and won 4-2, so this will be a good game to see how much we've progressed!

[deltablue]

Definitely looks like a good draw, hope you get Qarabag.

[Paolo Willenté]

Great result that one. If I was manager of the other team, I'd be very angry that I had 64% possession and not only didn't score, but conceded 6.

Enrico Chiodo looks like he could be some player as well. Progressing nicely!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well we beat Qarabag Agdam 5-1 and placed in the playoffs against Red Star and here's how it went:




Now we just have to wait for the Group Stage draw!

[powells_red_army]

Well done, hope the draw is kind to you

[Makoto Nakamura]

I might be able to get a sneaky couple of draws against Rangers!

[HotChocolate]

Well done on getting into the Group Stages although it looks as though you will struggle yet again.

[Jpr]

Read all the way through and a great thread, great progress. I hope you can upgrade your stadium soon for more seats, you're missing on a lot of European ticket revenue. Great job!

[jackripper]

inspiring thread.

[askep]

This is just wonderful, great job and keep up the good work!

[oolsson]

No more updates?

[Plobdork]

Is This Dead Now?

[BurnCM4X]

Missing some updates

[SRL88]

Just caught up on this. Looking forward to the updates whenever Makoto gets back into them.

[Shake Appeal]

Same here. It's sheer insanity, but I have to know what happens next.

[Makoto Nakamura]

I've not actually played this since I last updated but transferring game onto new computer as we speak.

[sheeshy]

Just read this thread. Wow. What happened next?!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Nothings happened next, I haven't played it, just loading up now :P

[Makoto Nakamura]

How about this for a game to comeback with...

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well.....that wasn't in the script

[yeremeev]

Glad to see this back up and running again!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Can it get ANY worse?!?!?!

[egesagin]

Dude you've done so much since I've been gone Great job, really. I really missed reading your story. Tough luck with those games and Chiodo, but hopefully he'll be back. I think we were talking about 200 years but it looks like you may as well, make it in 150

[SnakeXe]

Broken legs are so bad on FM12, not one player I've had suffer one has come back anything like the same as they were.

[egesagin]

I think to of my wonderkids suffered that and returned to be great in the future, but yeah, generally, what Snake said

[Makoto Nakamura]

Broken legs are so bad on FM12, not one player I've had suffer one has come back anything like the same as they were.

I think to of my wonderkids suffered that and returned to be great in the future, but yeah, generally, what Snake said

Theres always some hope, I've taken a screenshot of his stats and will take another when he returns from injury, to see if he drops to much.

[Makoto Nakamura]

[yeremeev]

So glad to see this back up and running again. Such a shame about Centofanti though, is there anything more frustrating than one of your best players leaving the club on a free?

[egesagin]

hey man, you have so much money.. don't they let you improve your youth recruitment? If they do, you should.. It will cost yeah, but it will do wonders, I'm sure. And don't worry, he won't lose too many attributes. It'll just take some time for him to get better. Let's hope he doesn't become injury prone. Fingers crossed

[Makoto Nakamura]

And so it happens again...

we have YP 12, 16 & 18 leaving at the end of the season and another couple of players, including the San Giovanni player who's had the most appearances....I'm sensing a halt of "success" until new good youths come through and fill the gaps left by these players.

[Plobdork]

just keep on going!!!

[SRL88]

When your dominating Europe they wont even dream of leaving .

[Makoto Nakamura]

Youth Intake in a couple of weeks and Enrico is back in training, now for a before and after:

Before:



After:

[deltablue]

Looks pretty similar.

[Goldhawk]

No great shakes there; it was expected his physicals would drop so you should be okay. Get him back into training and good luck with the youth intake!