The FM20 Youth Academy Challenge

The first thing I noticed after the promotion last season, was that the 2nd tier was not much better than the 3rd. And it showed as the season went on. We started quite well and stayed well out of the relegation zone. Even though we didn't always sparkle going forward we were really solid in the back. A lot of that was thanks to Hørður Midjord 22a, who is way too good for this league, and potentially the whole of the Faroe Islands! So going towards the latter part of the season we had a good chance of getting another promotion, but one of the biggest competitors were Royn, the team that got promoted with us last season. And that really shows the small difference between the two lower tiers in the Faroes. Before the final match we were in 2nd place and out final match was away to EB/Streymur. TB played away to NSÍ2, and Royn played home to B71. TB were 3 points ahead of us and Royn 2 points behind us. So a win would do it, and probably a draw also with our better goal difference. In the end we beat EB/Streymur after they had an early red card and we got in a goal shortly after, then controlled it. Royn also won, but couldn't catch us. The real surprise was that TB lost to B71, so we climbed above them thanks to our goal difference and we won the division. And got promoted to the top tier.

Páll Mortensen (one of the OG's) had a great season as our playmaker and I've already mentioned Hørður Midjord 22a. One who didn't play as well as I had hoped is Pætur Lisberg 22b, who also have played for the Faroese U19 team a couple of times this season. I mean, he didn't play horrible, but I had expected more.

We had another great youth intake this season. The fun thing is that we had a few players with different nationalities. I have no idea how a random Georgian player ended up here, but I'll take it. Also Faroese-Tanzanian is an amazing dual citizenship. The two who stand out though, are Andrias Joensen 23a, a really promising central midfielder with a professional personality, and Eiler Petersen 23b, a really interesting pressing forward.

In the Løgmanssteypið we.... just didn't play and I have no idea why. The cup went on it's merry course, but without us this season.

Armeniar · June 25, 2020

S8 – Liga NOS (5th) – Taça de Portugal Placard (Semi final) – Taça da Liga CTT (3^rd phase) - Squad (U23) - Transfers

Transfers

Very sad to announce the moment has finally come: Tito, our very last original player, has left the club. I love the fact that he’s been with us for 7 years, from playing in the third division to the Liga NOS. Nevertheless, he started losing importance as from the season we gained promotion to the first division. It was time for us to say goodbye, but his name goes into the history books. Our gay defender Gomes was also released, he played around 150 games for us. Luis Sanches & Cabral, two prospects I had high hopes for when they arrived, also got a free transfer. They disappointed and didn’t develop a single bit despite playing an awful lot of games. Finally, I decided to give our Dutch goalie Gomes another loan spell, this time in the Liga II Ledman at Casa Pia.

Our best defender Sousa could make a move to Inter & Premier League side Leeds in July (highest offer 3,7 million), while Fortes - who recently got the media tag “wonderkid” and was chosen as African Promising POTY - received an offer from Arsenal, Sheffield, West Brom and Liverpool (highest offer 13,75 million). Sporting CP wanted Duarte and Baessa. The board didn’t consider any of those offers to be sufficient, so they all stayed. Apart from Fortes, who feels like he outgrew the club (I mean, I can’t blame him), they all even signed new deals in exchange for a considerable pay rise on deadline day. Inter came back for Sousa in the winter period, the board accepted an 5,5 million offer but I was able to protest against it so he stayed.

Season review

Finished 12^th in our first season at the top tier, something I wanted to repeat this year. From my point of view, we were not in the position to aim for more… Boy, was I wrong. After keeping our starting players here despite all the interested clubs, I knew we were a more than capable side to compete with the other Liga NOS teams. Fernandes, kind of unexpectedly, grew into a very decent goalkeeper for this level, Sousa is our rock in defence, Fortes leads the team as our playmaker and more importantly: our legendary striker is back! Carvalho struggled to adapt last season, only scoring 8 goals all competitions together. This season he already reached that amount after only 10 league games. The best part is that his back up Garcia took quite a lot of Carvalho’s game time, as we only play with one striker, since he played that strong. He scored 13 goals, same amount as Carvalho in less appearances, making him top scorer. Garcia might actually be the illustration of how the whole group really delivered. We went in the winter break being 3^rd in the Liga NOS, incredible. The team had a very difficult period in February where we didn’t manage to win any of our 5 games, but we recovered and stranded on the 5^th place. Oh, and at the end, ~~the Germans~~ Benfica always win… 7^th time in a row now.

Reached the semi-finals in the Taça de Portugal Placard where we faced Braga. Lost both legs, so they got the honour to get beaten by Benfica in the final. In the Taça da Liga CTT we had another very unlucky group stage. There’s only one team that proceeds to the next round, we faced Benfica last year and Porto now so you know that one team won’t be us. FC Porto actually ended up winning the final against Benfica which means they don’t secure the quadruple for the third time in a row.

Class of 2027 - Best prospects

Dos Santos – Wasn’t involved in the first team much as we have a pretty strong base there with Fortes, Andrade and sub Almeida. He is however starting to develop, I should figure out how to use him more as I believe he has the talent to become a regular. Sporting CP tried to poach him.

Graça – If it wasn’t for a couple of injuries, he would have had more game time coming from the bench. Baessa is untouchable for the moment, but Graça is an interesting sub and can grow into more than that. He should step up next season.

Youth intake

Youth recruitment was upgraded three times (!) compared to our previous intake, it’s on a “excellent” level now just as our junior coaching. Moreover, we finally found some money to improve our youth facilities which qualify as “adequate” afterwards. We also parted ways Danielson, who’s been our HOYD the past two years. He wasn’t too bad, but not that special either. His replacement should deliver much better work: model citizen Régis Le Bris! I had him on my shortlist as potential HOYD but he didn’t want that role at first. After a year at the club as our U19 manager, the Frenchman accepted the role given a huge pay rise. He’s earning far more than any other of our staff members, but his profile really suits the job…

Youth intake preview already looked very promising. My expectations were extremely high given this, our new HOYD and the youth improvements. I can’t say lived up to this :rolleyes:

Spoiler

No-one really stands out as a potential first team player. Signed Rosario, Fernandes, Alves, Andrade and Duarte. Fernandes looks like he could become a decent full back, but we already have Silva, Mendes and Andrade there. Alves and Andrade might prove worthy if we lose Sousa or Fortes.

Next season

Hope we can keep the squad together, although keeping Fortes here would be a miracle. There's 18 big European clubs willing to throw big money at him and he only has 2 year's contract left. If it's possible, I'd like to keep him atleast one more season. Some other players are wanted as well, but I feel like that shouldn't be an issue for now unless the board starts acting weird.

Edited June 25, 2020 by Armeniar

Makoto Nakamura · June 25, 2020

As is standard in the lower leagues everyone has 5* PA.

Makoto Nakamura · June 25, 2020

2023 End of Season Review

We were as low as 10th after 8 games but we managed to snatch another promotion!

Overall Best XI

2023 Best XI

Evgeniy Prokopyuk (YP2m) - Andrey Demeshko (YP1f) - Sergey Shreytor (YP2f) - Vyacheslav Ivanov (YP1n)

Valeriy Gurenko (YP1k) - Alexandr Gorbach (YP2j)

Gennady Savitskiy (YP1a) - Alexandr Pavlov (YP1m) - Igor Kovalyuk (YP1b)

thomas_e · June 25, 2020

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South Shields FC

Season Summary 2039 - 2040

Back-to-back Premier League championships & Champions League winners

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

What a season! After getting knocked out by Bayern Munich in the first knock out leg last year I expected this to be one more season of valuable experience in the Champions League. The goal in the league was a top-4 finish, but obviously aiming for the title. We had quite a lot of injuries this season which made rotation a bit difficult, considering the terrible quality of our backup players. Our ball winning midfielder Stuart Hunt only got 5 starts in the Premier League this year due to injuries, which gave 21 year old Colin Dillon the chance to shine. His only experience was being on loan in the Championship, but he stepped up to the challenge and did great!

James Farmer broke into the first team last year and I had high hopes for him this year. Wow, did he deliver! 27 goals in 36 Premier League games and a 7,27 rating! He really led the line and he is so dangerous in the box!

Darren Graham has been a great player for us over the last 5 seasons. Creative, hard working and quick, he was moved to an inside forward role this year, operating on the left wing. 7 goals and 13 assists in the Premier League is great, but 10 goals and 4 assists in 12 Champions League games is magic. Champions League Golden Boot winner from the wing is truly amazing.

But the player of the season is Bob Dolan in defense. His CB partner Ryan Hughes is probably the better defender (and the best paid player in the world) but Bob Dolan combines great defense with a fantastic offensive threat. A 7,47 rating is extremely good.

The Premier League has four CL spots and already early on it was obvious that those four spots would stand between South Shields, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Man City and Liverpool. I think all six teams were top of the table at one point, but unlike the others we avoided a really bad run of form. We struggled badly against the top teams away, but at home we were really solid. We had great attacking chemistry and were deadly on set pieces. Even though we only won the league with one point I was confident over the last 5 games that we would get the job done and we rotated quite a bit when we entered the latter stages of the Champions League. Our goalkeeper and all four defenders ended up making the Premier League Dream Team.

In the Champions League we drew FC Porto, Lyon and Schalke 04. We finished on a solid 16 points and that included a 0-0 draw at home to Porto which we should have won easily! The first knock out round saw us face AC Milan. A tough draw, but we could have faced Juventus or Barcelona, so I guess it wasn't too bad. 0-0 away and a solid 2-0 win saw us through to the next round.

The next opponent was PSG. A truly fantastic team with no real weaknesses. The first game was away in France, and we started great! We scored twice within the first 20 minutes and all of a sudden we were looking at a major upset. PSG turned the game around and ended up winning 3-2 but it was still a great performance. As was the case in the game against AC Milan we won 2-0 at home after goals from Bob Dolan and James Farmer.

We faced FC Bayern in the semi final, with the first game at home. As against PSG we started great with goals in the 9th and 15th minute. We ended up winning 3-0 and that was enough to see us through, even with a 2-0 loss in Germany.

We faced Valencia in the final which was quite an unexpected opponent. We were slight favorites going into the game, but the first 30 minutes were dominated by Valencia. We were lucky to take the lead in the 34th minute, and 1-0 was the score at half time. The second half was an even affair, but when Bob Dolan scored 2-0 in the 69th minute the game was over!

We could raise the Champions League trophy and with back-to-back PL trophies that is the challenge completed for me!!! A fantastic journey, but I was extremely surprised that we won the CL so quickly! A little bit of luck for sure!

Season Summary

Top Performers

Top Talents

Season	|	League                      |   Position    |    FA Cup     |       League Cup            |   Europe
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2020/21	|	Vanarama Nat. League South  |	  1st       |  1st round    |       2nd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2021/22	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  7th       |  3rd round    |       2nd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2022/23	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  5th       |  3rd round    |       2nd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2023/24	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  7th       |  1st round    |       4th Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2024/25	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  1st       |  2nd round    |       3rd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2025/26	|	Sky Bet League 2            |	  7th       |  1st round    |       2nd round             |   N/A
2026/27	|	Sky Bet League 2            |	  3rd       |  2nd round    |       1st round             |   N/A
2027/28	|	Sky Bet League 1            |	  13th      |  4th round    |       1st round             |   N/A
2028/29	|	Sky Bet League 1            |	  1st       |  1th round    |       2nd round             |   N/A 
2029/30	|	Championship                |	  20th      |  4th round    |       1st round             |   N/A
2030/31	|	Championship                |	  11th      |  4th round    |       3rd round             |   N/A
2031/32	|	Championship                |	  2nd       |  Qtr final    |       2nd round             |   N/A 
2032/33	|	Premier League              |	  16th      |  4th round    |       3rd round             |   N/A
2033/34	|	Premier League              |	  14th      |  3rd round    |       2nd round             |   N/A
2034/35	|	Premier League              |	  9th       |  5th round    |       Qtr final             |   N/A
2035/36	|	Premier League              |	  6th       |  Semi final   |       Semi final            |   N/A
2036/37	|	Premier League              |	  5th       |  5th round    |       3rd round             |   N/A
2037/38	|	Premier League              |	  4th       |  3rd round    |       3rd round             |   Europa League semi-final
2038/39	|	Premier League              |	  1st       |  Runner-up    |       4th round             |   First CL knock-out stage
2039/40	|	Premier League              |	  1st       |  5th round    |       4th round             |   CL winners

@dafuge, I guess this completes the "dafuge's FM20 Challenge" as well? Obviously I havent used any customised DB's and no editor.

darren1983 · June 26, 2020

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Just short update from me here as due to real life stuff it took me 10 days to complete this season and I've forgot most of what happened. Basically there were no big sales, we failed in the cups and still lack a regular scorer. We did though manage to finish in the playoffs again by finish 5th. In the home semi final Norwich beat us 2-0 which pretty much killed us. In the away leg it was 0-0 at HT but then an inspired 2nd half saw us go 3-0 up and heading to the final before an 88th minute goal from a corner tied us up. In extra time another goal from a corner made it 3-2 and we were out.

Youth Intake - Not too bad, with a couple standouts.

Paul Cheston 34A - CB with some sound attributes to start with
Johnny Kearney 34B - always nice to have a keeper
Michael Mackin 34C - promising wide man
David Thorne 34D - DM, needs some work (namely his vision) but could be our DLP

Career Progress

Season		League		Position	Junior Coaching		Youth Recruitment 	Notes
2020/21		VNLN		8th 		Adequate		Fairly Basic
2021/22		NVLN		3rd 		Good			Average			Recruitment and coaching upgrades Lost playoff semi finals	
2022/23		NVLN		14th 		Good			Adequate		Youth Recruitment upgrade, started first coaching badge
2023/24		VNLN		7th 		Excellent		Good			Got first coaching badge. Promotion via playoffs
2024/25		VNL		5th 		Excellent		Good			Won promotion via playoffs. Got Youth facility upgrade
2025/26		League 2	14th 		Excellent		Good
2026/27		League 2	5th 		Excellent		Good			Lost in playoffs semi finals
2027/28		League 2	8th 		Excellent		Good			Finally got 2nd coaching badge
2028/29		League 2	1st 		Excellent		Good			National A Coaching badge
2029/30		League 1	4th 		Excellent		Good			Promotion via playoffs. Continental C coaching badge
2030/31		Championship	18th 		Exceptional		Excellent
2031/32		Championship	19th 		Exceptional		Exceptional
2032/33		Championship	4th 		Exceptional		Exceptional		Lost in playoff semi final, moved from youth level 4 to 3
2033/34		Championship	5th 		Exceptional		Exceptional		Lost in playoff semi finals

Cookie147 · June 26, 2020

6 hours ago, thomas_e said:
South Shields FC

Season Summary 2039 - 2040

Back-to-back Premier League championships & Champions League winners

CHALLENGE COMPLETED

What a season! After getting knocked out by Bayern Munich in the first knock out leg last year I expected this to be one more season of valuable experience in the Champions League. The goal in the league was a top-4 finish, but obviously aiming for the title. We had quite a lot of injuries this season which made rotation a bit difficult, considering the terrible quality of our backup players. Our ball winning midfielder Stuart Hunt only got 5 starts in the Premier League this year due to injuries, which gave 21 year old Colin Dillon the chance to shine. His only experience was being on loan in the Championship, but he stepped up to the challenge and did great!

James Farmer broke into the first team last year and I had high hopes for him this year. Wow, did he deliver! 27 goals in 36 Premier League games and a 7,27 rating! He really led the line and he is so dangerous in the box!

Darren Graham has been a great player for us over the last 5 seasons. Creative, hard working and quick, he was moved to an inside forward role this year, operating on the left wing. 7 goals and 13 assists in the Premier League is great, but 10 goals and 4 assists in 12 Champions League games is magic. Champions League Golden Boot winner from the wing is truly amazing.

But the player of the season is Bob Dolan in defense. His CB partner Ryan Hughes is probably the better defender (and the best paid player in the world) but Bob Dolan combines great defense with a fantastic offensive threat. A 7,47 rating is extremely good.

The Premier League has four CL spots and already early on it was obvious that those four spots would stand between South Shields, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd, Man City and Liverpool. I think all six teams were top of the table at one point, but unlike the others we avoided a really bad run of form. We struggled badly against the top teams away, but at home we were really solid. We had great attacking chemistry and were deadly on set pieces. Even though we only won the league with one point I was confident over the last 5 games that we would get the job done and we rotated quite a bit when we entered the latter stages of the Champions League. Our goalkeeper and all four defenders ended up making the Premier League Dream Team.

In the Champions League we drew FC Porto, Lyon and Schalke 04. We finished on a solid 16 points and that included a 0-0 draw at home to Porto which we should have won easily! The first knock out round saw us face AC Milan. A tough draw, but we could have faced Juventus or Barcelona, so I guess it wasn't too bad. 0-0 away and a solid 2-0 win saw us through to the next round.

The next opponent was PSG. A truly fantastic team with no real weaknesses. The first game was away in France, and we started great! We scored twice within the first 20 minutes and all of a sudden we were looking at a major upset. PSG turned the game around and ended up winning 3-2 but it was still a great performance. As was the case in the game against AC Milan we won 2-0 at home after goals from Bob Dolan and James Farmer.

We faced FC Bayern in the semi final, with the first game at home. As against PSG we started great with goals in the 9th and 15th minute. We ended up winning 3-0 and that was enough to see us through, even with a 2-0 loss in Germany.

We faced Valencia in the final which was quite an unexpected opponent. We were slight favorites going into the game, but the first 30 minutes were dominated by Valencia. We were lucky to take the lead in the 34th minute, and 1-0 was the score at half time. The second half was an even affair, but when Bob Dolan scored 2-0 in the 69th minute the game was over!

We could raise the Champions League trophy and with back-to-back PL trophies that is the challenge completed for me!!! A fantastic journey, but I was extremely surprised that we won the CL so quickly! A little bit of luck for sure!

Season Summary



Top Performers



Top Talents
Season	|	League                      |   Position    |    FA Cup     |       League Cup            |   Europe
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2020/21	|	Vanarama Nat. League South  |	  1st       |  1st round    |       2nd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2021/22	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  7th       |  3rd round    |       2nd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2022/23	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  5th       |  3rd round    |       2nd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2023/24	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  7th       |  1st round    |       4th Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2024/25	|	Vanarama Nat. League        |	  1st       |  2nd round    |       3rd Round (FA Trophy) |   N/A
2025/26	|	Sky Bet League 2            |	  7th       |  1st round    |       2nd round             |   N/A
2026/27	|	Sky Bet League 2            |	  3rd       |  2nd round    |       1st round             |   N/A
2027/28	|	Sky Bet League 1            |	  13th      |  4th round    |       1st round             |   N/A
2028/29	|	Sky Bet League 1            |	  1st       |  1th round    |       2nd round             |   N/A 
2029/30	|	Championship                |	  20th      |  4th round    |       1st round             |   N/A
2030/31	|	Championship                |	  11th      |  4th round    |       3rd round             |   N/A
2031/32	|	Championship                |	  2nd       |  Qtr final    |       2nd round             |   N/A 
2032/33	|	Premier League              |	  16th      |  4th round    |       3rd round             |   N/A
2033/34	|	Premier League              |	  14th      |  3rd round    |       2nd round             |   N/A
2034/35	|	Premier League              |	  9th       |  5th round    |       Qtr final             |   N/A
2035/36	|	Premier League              |	  6th       |  Semi final   |       Semi final            |   N/A
2036/37	|	Premier League              |	  5th       |  5th round    |       3rd round             |   N/A
2037/38	|	Premier League              |	  4th       |  3rd round    |       3rd round             |   Europa League semi-final
2038/39	|	Premier League              |	  1st       |  Runner-up    |       4th round             |   First CL knock-out stage
2039/40	|	Premier League              |	  1st       |  5th round    |       4th round             |   CL winners
@dafuge, I guess this completes the "dafuge's FM20 Challenge" as well? Obviously I havent used any customised DB's and no editor.

Excellent stuff. I failed miserably with South Shields, so this is great to see.

XaW · June 26, 2020

Congrats @thomas_e! Amazing stuff! :applause:

vikeologist · June 26, 2020

@thomas_e Well done. Glad to have company on the Hall of Fame, but doing it with South Shields is a fantastic achievement. If I'd had a Bob Dolan on my team, I'd have been making so many Bob Dylan jokes to see if people noticed.

I'd love to see your team's all time stats (Players / Stats / Competitions / All Time).

Are you relieved that the challenge os completed, or do you want to go on with South Shields even longer?

thomas_e · June 26, 2020

43 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

@thomas_e Well done. Glad to have company on the Hall of Fame, but doing it with South Shields is a fantastic achievement. If I'd had a Bob Dolan on my team, I'd have been making so many Bob Dylan jokes to see if people noticed.

I'd love to see your team's all time stats (Players / Stats / Competitions / All Time).

Are you relieved that the challenge os completed, or do you want to go on with South Shields even longer?

:lol: :lol: I know, I have missed out on many potential funny references there!

When you say all time stats, are you referring to historical stats, like most capped players, all time goalscorers etc?

Over the last few years the Challenge-section has been what motivates me with playing FM. Of course I love playing the game itself for what it is, but I love the fact that the challenges are really hard and we are all cheering each other on. And so many people here write really good, funny and interesting updates (i'm not one of them). But when I complete a challenge I am done with the save! I completed this challenge on FM19 as well, with Real Jean FC in Spain. When I won the CL with them I quit the save straight away and thats what I think I will do this time as well.

I want to try the challenge again, but in another country. Going all the way from Vanarama S/N to the Premier League is a big task and it takes such a long time. I've been thinking of trying the challenge in Holland, Belgium, France or Portugal. Any suggestions?

thomas_e · June 26, 2020

Thanks @Cookie147, thanks @XaW! Appreciate it!

vikeologist · June 26, 2020

3 minutes ago, thomas_e said:

I know, I have missed out on many potential funny references there!

When you say all time stats, are you referring to historical stats, like most capped players, all time goalscorers etc?

I want to try the challenge again, but in another country. Going all the way from Vanarama S/N to the Premier League is a big task and it takes such a long time. I've been thinking of trying the challenge in Holland, Belgium, France or Portugal. Any suggestions?

I was referring to this;

As for suggestions, come back to the Ultimate Challenge. We miss you.

thomas_e · June 26, 2020

4 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

I was referring to this;

As for suggestions, come back to the Ultimate Challenge. We miss you.

@vikeologist"As for suggestions, come back to the Ultimate Challenge. We miss you." :applause: Love to hear that! The Ultimate Challenge is fantastic, but I think I will give the Youth Academy Challenge one more go. Will have a think today for sure, as they are both great fun to play!

XaW · June 26, 2020

XaW - Miðvágs Bóltfelag - 2024

The Effodeildin, finally I've reach it! Now I just have to try to pronounce it! Effo-deil-din? No clue, but it's close to how I say it in my head. The leagues are pretty close here in the Faroes though, so I had hopes for survival. And we started really good, winning the first two matches, but then I faced some of the better teams and lost the next 4. Even with only 6 matches, that's still a third into the season... So we battled and we survived! TB, the team who got promoted alongside us actually finished as high as 4th, but I'll take a 7th in our i first season here. A few more seasons in and I think we can fight higher up the table in the future.

Páll Mortensen, our playmaker, had another good season, the same had Andrias Joensen 23a along him in midfield, and to be fair, he is way too good for this. Hørður Midjord 22a had another good season as the main defender as well.

The youth intake this season was not as good as the last ones, but still pretty good. Dane Kenneth Sørensen 24a looks like a really nice wide player, and Alisher G'ofurov 24b has the best dual citizenship I've ever heard of, Faroese-Uzbek!

In the Løgmanssteypið we beat TB, KÍ Klaksvík and Argja Bóltfelag to reach the final. Here we faced league winners NSÍ Runavik. In a surprisingly even game they scored first, but we got the equalizer just before half time. No one could get a goal in the 2nd half so it went to extra time. Then after 110 minutes Eiler Petersen 23b leaped salmon-like and headed the cross from full back Pól Hansen 22m and slotted it into the net. Then we held on for the rest of the match to claim our first cup title! And we are heading into Europe next season as well!

Cookie147 · June 26, 2020

SEASON 10 - 2029/30

JD CYMRU PREMIER - 5th Position

A superb debut season in the top flight of Welsh football where we comfortably finished in the top half, qualifying for the Euro play-off spots, and despite beating Haverfordwest in the semi final, we lost to Airbus UK in the final, missing out on a dream first season in this division. However, the team is constantly improving and the future is bright. We also reached the semi final of both cup competitions, meeting all criteria set by my the Chairman. This guy nearly sacked me two seasons ago, but now he loves me, but the feelings are not quite mutual as he sold my best midfielder for a whopping £15k! Finances are also improving, with all the success. Still in the red, but getting better all the time.

LEAGUE TABLE:

PLAYER OF THE SEASON:

Once we managed to hold on to star defender, Luke Vaughan-Evans (YP07A) he was always going to win this award. Seriously, he's too good for us, but I wont tell him that.

YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON:

Luke won this award too, but was pushed all the way by Dillon Marriott (YP07K), who was brilliant in his first season in the first XI.

YOUTH INTAKE:

Nothing special, but my favourite two are Kyle Andrews (YP10A) and Dion Barry (YP10C).

IMPROVEMENTS:

Finally, something to update in this section. Junior Coaching (now excellent) and youth recruitment all received an upgrade.

TRANSFERS:

PROGRESS:

Finally...

Man City are nicking my players, and I got offered the WALES job....!!

Cookie147 · June 26, 2020

2 hours ago, Cookie147 said:

SEASON 10 - 2029/30

JD CYMRU PREMIER - 5th Position

A superb debut season in the top flight of Welsh football where we comfortably finished in the top half, qualifying for the Euro play-off spots, and despite beating Haverfordwest in the semi final, we lost to Airbus UK in the final, missing out on a dream first season in this division. However, the team is constantly improving and the future is bright. We also reached the semi final of both cup competitions, meeting all criteria set by my the Chairman. This guy nearly sacked me two seasons ago, but now he loves me, but the feelings are not quite mutual as he sold my best midfielder for a whopping £15k! Finances are also improving, with all the success. Still in the red, but getting better all the time.

LEAGUE TABLE:

PLAYER OF THE SEASON:

Once we managed to hold on to star defender, Luke Vaughan-Evans (YP07A) he was always going to win this award. Seriously, he's too good for us, but I wont tell him that.

YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON:

Luke won this award too, but was pushed all the way by Dillon Marriott (YP07K), who was brilliant in his first season in the first XI.

YOUTH INTAKE:

Nothing special, but my favourite two are Kyle Andrews (YP10A) and Dion Barry (YP10C).

IMPROVEMENTS:

Finally, something to update in this section. Junior Coaching (now excellent) and youth recruitment all received an upgrade.

TRANSFERS:

PROGRESS:

Finally...

Man City are nicking my players, and I got offered the WALES job....!!

I might need to reduce my junior coaching and youth recruitment. I didn't know how expensive it would be each month :lol:

XaW · June 26, 2020

Hey @Makoto Nakamura, I might stop by!

Makoto Nakamura · June 26, 2020

56 minutes ago, XaW said:

Hey @Makoto Nakamura, I might stop by!

Go for it! I'll show you all the best places, we'll be the brest of friends! :brock:

Makoto Nakamura · June 26, 2020

Fortuna Brest 2024 End of Season Review

Not a great intake.

No league win this time but we have a 4th promotion! And we still haven't upgraded any of the facilities!

Overall Best XI

2024 Best XI

Evgeniy Prokopyuk (YP2m) - Andrey Demeshko (YP1f) - Sergey Shreytor (YP2f) - Evgeniy Kazarin (YP2i)

Valeriy Gurenko (YP1k) - Anton Lebedev

Gennady Savitskiy (YP1a) - Alexandr Pavlov (YP1m) - Igor Kovalyuk (YP1b)

XaW · June 26, 2020

XaW - Miðvágs Bóltfelag - 2025

Another season in the Effodeildin flew away and this time we were part of a group much higher up the table. The defence is really starting to come together, as evident by us only conceding 12 goals this season. We do score a lot, but we are lacking goals from my main striker, Eiler Petersen 23b, who scored a whooping 4 goals in total this season... Still, as long as we keep improving I don't care who scores. In the end we finished in a very good 3rd place and qualified for Europe once again next season.

Pætur Lisberg 22b had a really good season on the left wing with both goals and assists. Gunnar Poulsen 20d keep doing well as our watch dog in midfield, and Janus Olsen 23j was the standout in our defence this season.

Now that I've managed to improve the academy coaching a bit we got an even better youth intake! Both Brandur Thomsen 25a and Gunnar Joensen 25b looks like really talented players.

In the Løgmanssteypið we beat Víkingur Gøta and ÍF Fuglafjarður before losing to KÍ Klaksvík in the semi final.

In the Europa Conference League we drew Belorussian side in the 1st qualifying round and lost 4-1 in Belarus while visiting a familiar manager. At home we managed a 1-1 draw, but we still got knocked out of Europe.

grff · June 26, 2020

NK Zadar: 2077/78 season review

Back to back league titles as we continue to try and keep charge in Croatia. Our CL journey ended in the first knockouts once again, making it almost ten years since we last made the Q/F.

Goals and assists were evenly spread across the squad.

Youth intake.

Transfers.

XaW · June 26, 2020

We had a takeover by a consortium who pumped money into the club!

Yeah, that's a whooping 12 grand the Faroese based consortium pumped in... yeah, that'll "make a difference"... They added £250k to the transfer budget though... :rolleyes:

They did approve of an improvement to the youth facilities though!

Makoto Nakamura · June 27, 2020

Fortuna Brest - 2025 End of Season Review

We start off with another poor intake but we have now improved our junior coaching.

September ruined it for us.

Overall Best XI

2025 Best XI

Evgeniy Prokopyuk (YP2m) - Andrey Demeshko (YP1f) - Sergey Shreytor (YP2f) - Evgeniy Kazarin (YP2i)

Valeriy Gurenko (YP1k) - Anton Lebedev

Gennady Savitskiy (YP1a) - Alexandr Pavlov (YP1m) - Igor Pitirimov (YP4g)

XaW · June 27, 2020

XaW - Miðvágs Bóltfelag - 2026

We are starting to establish ourselves as a decent team in the Faroes now, and we finished in 3rd again this season. There were no keeping up with KÍ Klaksvík this season as they just blew everyone away and ran of with the title early. We did have a long fight with TB though, but unfortunately, they got the better of us, even with our good end to the season. The main problems is still getting goals from my striker, Eiler Petersen 23b. I don't have any reasonable replacements either, so I'm kind of stuck using him for now. Lucikly, Andrias Joensen 23a made up for a lot of those missing goals from his midfield role.

The youth intake this season was pretty good, and it's actually good to see that not everyone is rated 5 stars, since it means the squad is getting better. The best one is fellow Norwegian Kjartan Oen 26g, a good winger. However, I'm thinking about converting him to a full back, since I REALLY need one...

In the Løgmanssteypið we beat Royn and NSÍ Runavík before losing to Havnar Bóltfelag in the semi final.

In the Europa Conference League we started in the 1st qualifying round were we beat Jeunesse d'Esch of Luxembourg. Then we lost to Norwegian outfit Molde in the 2nd qualifying round. A good effort from the team.

Makoto Nakamura · June 27, 2020

Fortuna Brest - 2026 End of Season Review

A much better intake!

Promotion! Now we're up to the 4th tier, which means we'll be turning semi-pro next season.

Overall Best XI

2026 Best XI

Evgeniy Prokopyuk (YP2m) - Kirill Tchizh (YP4j) - Sergey Shreytor (YP2f) - Evgeniy Kazarin (YP2i)

Valeriy Gurenko (YP1k) - Vladimir Garapuchik (YP3a)

Gennady Savitskiy (YP1a) - Alexandr Pavlov (YP1m) - Igor Kovalyuk (YP1b)

Armeniar · June 27, 2020

Sad, but I knew this moment was going to come. Fortes just left for the Africa Cup along with 9 others and Liverpool made this offer. I can't even be mad at the board, 37,5 million is insane knowning he's the very first player we actually sell for money. The (only) good part about this deal is that we should get some money for our youth facilities now, maybe we should rename it the Fortes Academy

Goodbye, golden boy. We had a great first half of the season, especially in Europe, but I feel like losing him will really hurt our perfomances. And we'll miss 9 others for at least 1 month as well due to the Africa Cup...

Makoto Nakamura · June 28, 2020

Fortuna Brest - 2027 End of Season Review

A great intake but we really don't need any more AMC's.

A terrible season where we only finished three points above the drop but yet we came so close to getting promoted, and in fact the team that did get promoted finished 4th in their group.

Overall Best XI

2027 Best XI

Evgeniy Prokopyuk (YP2m) - Kirill Tchizh (YP4j) - Sergey Shreytor (YP2f) - Evgeniy Kazarin (YP2i)

Sergey Shloydo (YP5b) - Vladimir Garapuchik (YP3a)

Sergey Kovalchuk (YP2h) - Alexandr Pavlov (YP1m) - Andrey Priszyazhnyuk (YP6b)

Transfers Y. Preview Y. Intake

dkouv · June 28, 2020

@thomas_e congrats - a great achievement! Pretty fast progress considering you had to climb up from VNN, too Look forward to the next instalment - though if I were you I'd be tempted to give this challenge a bit of a break first

Edited June 28, 2020 by dkouv

Alsolate · June 28, 2020

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Season 3: 2022-23

Table Squad Finances

I've had internet problems so a late update. Nearly finished the next season too so will probably be writing that one tonight or tomorrow.

Mid-table again and long may it continue. Despite mediocre youth intakes, a couple of players are making the step up. Especially Bjorn Bremer. He's already my first choice cb. I renewed all senior players' contracts and facilities are improving. A lot of the senior squad are very similar in abilities so I'd like to sell some in the next couple of seasons when youth players are about ready to step up. We have a B squad but they only play the occasional friendly and I don't know if they climb the leagues automatically or what. So just putting youth players that aren't going to make it in there at present due to the lack of matches they play.

darren1983 · June 28, 2020

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Was a bit of an odd season really. After last season's playoff loss I felt we weren't too far behind the top sides and that maybe, with a bit of luck, we could challenge right at the top. So obviously we lost 1-0 at home to a newly promoted side on the opening day! We did then win 4 in a row but then only won once in the next 2 months (only 2 defeats in that time though) and from there we were consistently inconsistent for the rest of the season. We did manage to get ourselves in the playoff battle though towards the end of Feb before a run of 4 1-0 defeats in 7 games (all 4 games we conceded in either the 89th or 91st minute) made me accept we wouldn't challenge but then just as quickly we won 5 of the final 6 games (drawing the other) to end the season in 5th place and the playoffs just like last season.

Also like last season we faced Norwich in the semi finals. In the first leg at home an early goal was the difference as we won 1-0. The away leg we struggled and for some reason my players just tried to kick Norwich off the pitch. They finally made the breakthrough after 68 minutes and I felt we were done then up popped Ross Angus 30A (top scorer with just 12 this year) in the 92nd minute to send us through to the final. In the final we faced a Fulham side that only missed out on promotion on the final day as they drew with Blackburn (who finished 2nd) and we just never turned up on the day, completely outplayed in a 2-0 loss.

In the transfer market we were forced to sell Chris Lambert 33A an attacking full back but we have a lot of depth there so not upset especially with the fee. In the cups a rotated side lost home to league 2 Chesterfield in the League Cup while we had a nice little run in the FA Cup but still have never made it to the 1/4 finals or further.

One thing I have been meaning to mention in my round ups but keep forgetting is how well our U18s have been doing. They've won their league 7 years in a row (and 8 of the last 9) need to move up our youth level as soon as we can I think, in order to play better u18 sides

Youth Intake - Not a great one this time, my HOYD is retiring this summer so will be a new one for next year

Alex Hudson 35A - like him, not sure yet what MC role he will be best for so training him as a roaming playmaker to work on the most attributes while I make up my mind
Andrew Iddi 35B - another CB, nice to have one comfortable with either foot
Daniel Nemth 35C - inside forward that needs a lot of work

Career Progress

Season		League		Position	Junior Coaching		Youth Recruitment 	Notes
2020/21		VNLN		8th 		Adequate		Fairly Basic
2021/22		NVLN		3rd 		Good			Average			Recruitment and coaching upgrades Lost playoff semi finals	
2022/23		NVLN		14th 		Good			Adequate		Youth Recruitment upgrade, started first coaching badge
2023/24		VNLN		7th 		Excellent		Good			Got first coaching badge. Promotion via playoffs
2024/25		VNL		5th 		Excellent		Good			Won promotion via playoffs. Got Youth facility upgrade
2025/26		League 2	14th 		Excellent		Good
2026/27		League 2	5th 		Excellent		Good			Lost in playoffs semi finals
2027/28		League 2	8th 		Excellent		Good			Finally got 2nd coaching badge
2028/29		League 2	1st 		Excellent		Good			National A Coaching badge
2029/30		League 1	4th 		Excellent		Good			Promotion via playoffs. Continental C coaching badge
2030/31		Championship	18th 		Exceptional		Excellent
2031/32		Championship	19th 		Exceptional		Exceptional
2032/33		Championship	4th 		Exceptional		Exceptional		Lost in playoff semi final, moved from youth level 4 to 3
2033/34		Championship	5th 		Exceptional		Exceptional		Lost in playoff semi finals
2034/35		Championship	5th 		Exceptional		Exceptional		Lost in playoff final, completed coaching badges

XaW · June 28, 2020

Janus Olsen 23j just got his debut for the Faroese national team! Granted it was a 1-8 loss to Iceland, but still.

He really is a very good player for this level. And he is wanted by Grindavík in Iceland, a major team compared to us!

XaW · June 28, 2020

XaW - Miðvágs Bóltfelag - 2027

Now this was a very fun season! We drew away to KÍ Klaksvík in the first match, but from then on we never looked back and won all the remaining matches. Needless to say, we won the title with a good margin down to the rest. And I hope this is the start of an era. The main goal now, is of course to keep being dominant in the Faroes, and then make some progress in Europe. Oh, and become professional of course, and I think I'm going to save money until we can go pro, instead of trying to improve the facilities. I did get some good improvements to academy coaching and youth recruitment and that seems to have made a difference.

Because our youth intake was really amazing! And especially Bergur Joensen 27a of course. A 5 star talent with a Model Citizen personality? Well, colour me impressed! He'll go straight into the first team next season, and I imagine a few other other will do as well.

In the Løgmanssteypið we beat Suðuroy, Hoyvík and Havnar Bóltfelag to reach the final. There we lost on pens to 07 Vestur.

In the Europa Conference League we started in the 1st qualifying round were we beat Sutjeska Nikšić of Montenegro. In the 2nd qualifying round we drew Videoton of Hungary. An amazing away match were we lost 6-4 was the first leg, and in the away leg we were 2-0 up until we conceded in the 86th minute. Desperate to get the goal to get us through made us open up and concede another in stoppage time to end on a 2-2 and we got knocked out.

You thought I'd forgotten the map? Nope, just waited until we had visited a few countries. Here it is with Belarus, Luxembourg, Norway, Montenegro and Hungary marked.

Cookie147 · June 28, 2020

SEASON 11 - 2030/2031

JD CYMRU PREMIER - 5th Position

Another really good season in the top flight, where we competed right until the end, and again have nothing to show for it. Like last season, we finished the season in 5th place, putting us in to the Euro Cup II, play-off semi final. A home draw against Haverfordwest, like last season, but a mixture of ill timed injuries and suspensions meant we struggled to match them and lost 1-2. We did reach the Welsh Cup final the week before, versus Welsh giants, TNS. However, two first half red cards destroyed morale and we got pumped 0-6. So a brilliant season, and a final two weeks to forget.

LEAGUE TABLE:

PLAYER OF THE SEASON:

When your star centre back finishes top scorer with 17 goals, there is only going to be one winner of this award, and in all honesty I can't quite believe he's a product of our youth academy. He's so good! He also won the league player of the season, and is currently playing in the European U21 Finals, in Poland. The amazing Luke Vaughan-Evans (YP07A).

YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON:

It's Luke Vaughan-Evans (YP07A) again. He also won the leagues young player of the year award.

YOUTH INTAKE:

Nothing to write home about. I need more Luke's.

IMPROVEMENTS:

None - we're skint again. I've overspent on the youth upgrades from last season, and we're suffering the consequences. I think European money is the only way things will improve in the department. That's why the end of season form was so disappointing.

TRANSFERS:

PROGRESS:

XaW · June 29, 2020

:onmehead:

Cookie147 · June 29, 2020

48 minutes ago, XaW said:

Amazing result!

Padders · June 29, 2020

I think that's the most shots I've had in a PL match

Cookie147 · June 29, 2020

56 minutes ago, Padders said:

I think that's the most shots I've had in a PL match

Crazy, considering the possession was only 52%. You must have shot every time you had the ball. Love that.

grff · June 29, 2020

NK Zadar: 2078/79 season review

Three in a row in the league. Our CL season was gutting as we managed to reach the S/F after drawing Kobenavn and PSG in the knockouts, before facing Porto. We secured a 2-2 draw away in the first leg before suffering stage fright at home, losing 1-0 . Man utd beat Porto in the Final.

Some very good numbers. Our young striker was awarded the European Golden Boy.

Youth intake.

Transfers.

XaW · June 29, 2020

XaW - Miðvágs Bóltfelag - 2028