Scouts not following scouting restrictions

Hello, can you please upload your save file to us.

You can see how in the link below.

Will do. I've uploaded the save called: Durec 1.fm

Just before I uploaded it, I had to remove my scouts scouting the entire country yet again. 

Hope this helps.

I have had the same problem. I am playing in Swedish Division 2. I did not have the problem in the first season, but the first month of the second season, my scouts burned through my entire scouting budget and then some. The Chief Scout was in charge of assignments and was sending scouts to Norway, the Netherlands, etc. despite my scouting range being set at Division 2 or even No Scouting Range. The only way I could find to fix it was for me to have the scouting assignment responsibility. 

Thanks for providing your save file, the QA team will investigate further. If you also have a save you can share @rbarritt this would also be potentially helpful to the QA team.

I have uploaded my save file named Robert Barritt - Nordic.fm 

I reported the same a week ago. It absolutely kills you in the lower leagues with the scouting costs. 

I'm in the 2nd div of Sweden now, and I've blown my scouting budget in the first week of preseason.

It's impossible to play lower league right now.