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[SkyjumperTalon]

On 15/08/2022 at 22:40, SkyjumperTalon said:

Club

A solid season - I came into the team when it was mid-table, and immediately shot to the top of the table. We couldn't hold onto the pole position, and therefore dropped to 3rd. Enough for champions league qualification. Next year, the goal is to win at least one trophy, be it league, cup, or champions league. I don't think we're strong enough yet to win a treble. If a great signing comes, we'll take it, but the squad is looking strong.

Country

I took over as USA manager, and not much has happened. A relatively straightforward qualification group saw us easily qualify for the World Cup, which I think we have a decent chance at performing in. I'll stay until maybe the next Copa America? Depends on if the USA is invited again.

Challenge Progress
Club: Daegu F.C.
Country: USA

Domestic Leagues

2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2024: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2027: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Domestic Cups
2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2025: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2026: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Club Continental
2028: Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 8/32

Club
Season        Team                Position            Notes and Achievements
2021/22        Aizawl FC            1st                Champion of Airtel I-League, Indian Confederation Cup. Runner-up in Durand Cup
2022/23        Aizawl FC            3rd at resignation  Resigned with 1 game left in the season (title already decided). Joined Bhayangkara partway through the season. Runner-up of Durand Cup again
2023           Bhayangkara          4th                Runner-up of Piala Indonesia. Qualified for Asian Confederation Cup. Sacked after declaring international job interest
2024           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Go-Jek Liga 1. QF in Piala Indonesia.
2025           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Piala Indonesia
2026           Persib Bandung       1st (at time of departure)
2026-27        Orlando Pirates      1st                Domestic Quadruple (League, MTN 8, Telkom, Nedbank)
2027-28        Orlando Pirates      1st                Treble (League, Nedbank, Champions League)
2028-29        Brentford            6th                Lost in Playoff Semi-Final
2029           Daegu FC             3rd
2030           Daegu FC             1st                League Champions



International
Season         Team                Competition                Notes
2022/23     Indonesia U-23         U-23 Asian Cup Qualification        Guided the team to an unlikely qualification after beating Thailand 2-0 in an upset. Every goal mattered, qualifying as a 2nd place finisher on goal difference
2024        Bermuda                CONCACAF WCQ              Resigned after 2026 WCQ failure
2025        Congo RC               CAF WCQ                   Qualified for 2026 World Cup
2026        Senegal                World Cup                 Lost in Third Round to Brazil
2027        Senegal                AFCON                     Won in Final vs Morocco 4-1, resigned after win
2029        USA                    CONCACAF WCQ              Qualified for 2030 World Cup
2030        USA                    World Cup                 Quarterfinalists


MVPS
2021/22: Richard Kassaga
2022/23: Travis Major
2023: Andik Vermansyah
2024: Wander Luiz
2025: Agus Santoso
2026-27: Agus Santoso
2027-28: Agus Santoso
2028-29: Shakur Omar
2029: Mariano Gomez
2030: 

CLUB

A mixed bag of emotions for the club season, a wonderful performance in the league, taking the title over 5-time defending champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. However, embarrassing exists in both the cup and the champions league mean another season in South Korea is to come. The pressure is less on the league, but fully on the cups this time around.

COUNTRY

A solid performance in the World Cup! We didn't win, but wins against the likes of Spain were unprecedented, and we would've beaten Germany if not for a 93rd minute winner. Focus now is Gold Cup.

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Daegu F.C.
Country: USA

Domestic Leagues

2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2024: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2027: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2030: South Korea (Daegu FC)

Domestic Cups
2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2025: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2026: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Club Continental
2028: Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 9/32

[Crowy]

VFB STUTTGART

2047/48

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2048

Key Players: Fernando Jose ~ Brian ~ Mohamed Ben Ammar ~ Rino Grippo ~ Florent Steiner

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: Bundesliga ~ Bundesliga II | Champions League | DFB Pokal

So as I'd planned I didn't make many changes too my squad at all and if you look we got off to a fantastic start, for the first half of the season. I'm unsure what happened in the second half of the season at the end of results it was a lot of "we should of won with the chances we created" etc. We were the better team in the majority of the matches but for some reason our form became really inconsistent. I'm not sure where to go from here in terms of this squad, I'll probably give them another season and see how it develops and go from there. As expected in the Champions League we didn't really get that far, thankfully had a nice group and we gave Chelsea a good go too. In the Pokal semi final it really could have gone either way and just summed up our second half to the season.

 

 

SPAIN

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2048

And last but not least Spain, without the S! As you can see from the xG in the first screenshot it's a game we should of won realistically, hitting the woodwork 2 or 3 times didn't seem to help and this just summed up my season over all. That's two losses in finals of the European Championships and seems like the game doesn't want to let me win one. Spain haven't sacked me but I may move on to try and do Asia Cup as I think that is next year before the World Cup, if not I'll stay here as the Euro's and Copa America have both just been played and are not for another 4 years anyway.

  

CLUB PROGRESS

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS

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CAREER STATS

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[libbyshuss]

South Africa

2023/24 and 2024/25

2023/24

I joined with 10 games to go and the All Stars top of the Championship. It was gonna take something special for me to screw that up. and I didn't, guiding us to a  comfortable title win. Woohoo!

and another trophy for the cabinet, albeit one that doesn't count for the challenge

2024/25

So up to the premier league, where we were favourites to go down. Trouble is, we have a ridiculously low wage budget, by far the lowest in the league. So the squad had to be trimmed and we went in with around 16 first team players. Some decent free signings made it a balanced team though, and our striker was easily good enough for a higher team. We started ok, hovering around 11th or 12th for the first few months and then hit a nice bit of form at the end of the season to finish 6th. which was better than I expected!

trouble is, with that small wage budget, I have a feeling I've already taken this team as far as I can. My contract is up.... do I quit or sign a new one?

Career

[libbyshuss]

Season 2025/26

South Africa

Premier League

Season Summary

So, I signed a new contract for another season! And we we were great, finishing third. I got offered a job at Mamelodi Sundowns - they had 10x the wage and transfer budget!

But I did manage to get another coaching badge, which is nice, and a reputation of 50%. Whoop!

So, that's it. I'm leaving the All Stars and seeing what happens next. I can't see me catching the top teams here any time soon.

Career Summary

Manager record

What's next?

Resigning and seeing what happens! I loaded up all the top leagues in Europe as well as Brazil, Argentina and so on so plenty of chances

 

[Anners]

Previous:

On 23/09/2022 at 22:54, Anners said:

Previous:

2036/37 & 2037/38 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Nation: Jamaica

So, I'm doing 2 seasons here as it's been fairly quiet and I genuinely forgot to do the season update after 36/37. I resigned from Sevilla after the 35/36 season and was actually clubless from July to the end of March until the Lille job came up (I am needing the Ligue 1 title specifically).

 

36/37:
League - Cup - Europe

37/38:
League - Cup - Europe

France Ligue 1:
So I joined very late for the 36/37 season, but managed to secure 2nd position and Champions League football. I only had 8 games here, but 6 wins was good enough to get us there. You can very much see PSG are still dominant here - Pochettino is still the manager and shows no sign of leaving. Oh, and PSG play in the Mauricio Pochettino stadium now. This is why it's a bit of a "boring" update - I'll need to dethrone PSG unless they have a stinker of a year somewhere.

Coupe de France:
Had been knocked out when I arrived in 36/37, but I was incredibly pissed off to get knocked out in 37/38. PSG had managed to get knocked out in the last 16 by Monaco and I very much fancied us at that stage to get the cup. Instead, we get knocked out on penalties to the eventual winners.

Champions League/Europa League:
Again, knocked out in 36/37 before I arrived and we managed a horrible group in the 37/38 edition, finishing third behind Real Madrid and Juventus in the Champions League. A first leg loss to a 36 year old Karim Adeymi-led Newcastle meant a 1-1 draw in England put us out.

 

2038 World Cup:

A fairly simple qualification group that was done before I arrived to Jamaica in 2037 ahead of the 2038 South African hosted World Cup.

Group Standings

I genuinely didn't expect much here until the 18th minute against Sweden where we were 2-0 up. I thought we were going to spring a huge shock but then we couldn't withstand the onslaught and collapsed.

2038/39 Preview:

Haven't done this before but I'm a bit excited/curious for this season:

Transfers Out: 11 (£116m)
Transfers In: 45 (£160m)

Lille Squad - I actually don't have any French player in the first team! The board are incredibly strict on signing u23 players (the most I've seen actually), so 19 of my 26 player first team are 23 or under. Could probably go wrong but I might be at Lille for a few years!

Internationally though...

We need the Gold Cup and the Asian Cup.... hopefully we'll get one of those at the end of the season!

History:
 

 

2038/39 & 2039/40

I was fairly sure I did a round-up for the 38/39 season but came to post 39/40 and didn't see it so a double update again.

38/39:

League - Cup - Europe

39/40:

League - Cup - Europe

2039 Gold Cup:

Results

France Ligue 1:
We're getting closer... A bit of a meh 38/39 campaign after some building blocks were put in, we were much better in 39/40 especially defensively. However an absolutely terrible end to the season left us 3rd, when we should have at least finished within 3 points of PSG, if not better. We're not too far off them thankfully, but they're still an incredible team.

Coupe de France:
You can really tell who I'm having trouble with in this challenge! 38/39 we get knocked out in the Semi Finals by PSG - not wholly unexpected, but still greatly annoying. We're not having huge amounts of trouble with teams, a couple of penalty wins aside against other Ligue 1 opposition, but it's also that team from Paris that causes issues! Thankfully, we managed to get past them in 39/40 and take home the first piece of silverware that I've been able to for a while!

UEFA Champions League/Europa League:
As I've said previously - I don't need to win the Champions League but I'll always give it a decent go. That being said, I'm not really doing anything with Lille. A Europa League Semi Final appearance is probably the best we're going to get for now, before emerging Huesca took us out.

 

 

2039 Gold Cup:

As shown in the last post - we managed to get the Mexico job and we entered as overwhelming favourites to get the win. With that being said, I expected more of a challenge as cocky as that sounds! In 6 games, we scored 6 or more goals 4 times, and the only team we scored less than 4 against was Trinidad & Tobago in the Group Stage! A very straightforward final against USA awaited us as well.

 

 

History:

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[SkyjumperTalon]

On 27/09/2022 at 15:38, SkyjumperTalon said:

CLUB

A mixed bag of emotions for the club season, a wonderful performance in the league, taking the title over 5-time defending champions Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors. However, embarrassing exists in both the cup and the champions league mean another season in South Korea is to come. The pressure is less on the league, but fully on the cups this time around.

COUNTRY

A solid performance in the World Cup! We didn't win, but wins against the likes of Spain were unprecedented, and we would've beaten Germany if not for a 93rd minute winner. Focus now is Gold Cup.

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Daegu F.C.
Country: USA

Domestic Leagues

2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2024: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2027: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2030: South Korea (Daegu FC)

Domestic Cups
2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2025: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2026: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Club Continental
2028: Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 9/32

GOLD CUP CHAMPIONS! Straightforward tournament brought silverware back to the homeland!

Challenge Progress
Club: Daegu F.C.
Country: USA

Domestic Leagues

2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2024: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2027: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2030: South Korea (Daegu FC)

Domestic Cups
2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2025: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2026: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Club Continental
2028: Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)
2031: North America (USA)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 10/32

 

Club
Season        Team                Position            Notes and Achievements
2021/22        Aizawl FC            1st                Champion of Airtel I-League, Indian Confederation Cup. Runner-up in Durand Cup
2022/23        Aizawl FC            3rd at resignation  Resigned with 1 game left in the season (title already decided). Joined Bhayangkara partway through the season. Runner-up of Durand Cup again
2023           Bhayangkara          4th                Runner-up of Piala Indonesia. Qualified for Asian Confederation Cup. Sacked after declaring international job interest
2024           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Go-Jek Liga 1. QF in Piala Indonesia.
2025           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Piala Indonesia
2026           Persib Bandung       1st (at time of departure)
2026-27        Orlando Pirates      1st                Domestic Quadruple (League, MTN 8, Telkom, Nedbank)
2027-28        Orlando Pirates      1st                Treble (League, Nedbank, Champions League)
2028-29        Brentford            6th                Lost in Playoff Semi-Final
2029           Daegu FC             3rd
2030           Daegu FC             1st                League Champions



International
Season         Team                Competition                Notes
2022/23     Indonesia U-23         U-23 Asian Cup Quals      Guided the team to an unlikely qualification after beating Thailand 2-0 in an upset. Every goal mattered, qualifying as a 2nd place finisher on goal difference
2024        Bermuda                CONCACAF WCQ              Resigned after 2026 WCQ failure
2025        Congo RC               CAF WCQ                   Qualified for 2026 World Cup
2026        Senegal                World Cup                 Lost in Third Round to Brazil
2027        Senegal                AFCON                     Won in Final vs Morocco 4-1, resigned after win
2029        USA                    CONCACAF WCQ              Qualified for 2030 World Cup
2030        USA                    World Cup                 Quarterfinalists
2031        USA                    Gold Cup                  Champions
 

MVPS
2021/22: Richard Kassaga
2022/23: Travis Major
2023: Andik Vermansyah
2024: Wander Luiz
2025: Agus Santoso
2026-27: Agus Santoso
2027-28: Agus Santoso
2028-29: Shakur Omar
2029: Mariano Gomez
2030: Paik Sang-Hoon

 

 

[vikeologist]

4 hours ago, SkyjumperTalon said:

 

TOTAL PROGRESS: 10/32

 

 

 

Welcome to the leader board. I think this is the most crowded the board has ever been. 

Edited October 4, 2022 by vikeologist

[Crispypaul]

  

  

    

    

   Crispypaul
Tottenham Hotspur
English Premier League
2030/31

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - not quite there as we lost out to bloody Arsenal

FA Cup - Fixtures - into the semis until knocked out by Newcastle

EFL Cup - Fixtures - retained the trophy 

Champions League -  Fixtures | Table - Real Madrid excepted a good group which we finished top.  In the 2nd round a thrashing of Leipzig got us into the quarters.  There we faced Man Utd, and penalties at home saw us through.  Benfica were our surprise opponents with a win in Portugal and a straightforward home win setting up a final against Barcelona.  Sadly it was not to be as they just beat us.

Transfers - mainly sales

Finances - usual riches

Squad 

Key players:

Fabio Viera - key player

Emerson Royal - solid at right back

Junior Ebagua - very good striker weirdly released by Arsenal

Cole Palmer - the Man City youth product was great up front

Leonard Gabrijelić - wonderkid Croatian striker

Chris Geiles - youth product continues to score

Dean Henderson - great in goal, but wants far too much money for a new contract

Forgot any pics for Brazil but we played a couple of WC qualifiers.

 

Domestic
Season	 Team			Division		Position			Notes						
2021/22  Black Leopards    	South African 1st  	 1st				Champions, Promoted
2022/23	 Black Leopards	 	South African PSL	 7th
2023/24	Supersport United	South African PSL	 1st				Champions, AFCL, Nedbank, MTN8 winners
2025	LA Galaxy		MLS			1st				Champions, won US Open Cup and NACL
2026	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won KFA Cup
2027	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won AFC CL, KFA Cup
2028	Independiente		Primera Division	 2nd		
2029	Independiente		Primera Division	1st				Won Cup, Copa Libertadores
2029/30	Tottenham		EPL			5th				Won EFL Cup, FA Cup, Europa League
2030/31	Ottenham		EPL			2nd				Won EFL Cup

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
2026		Iran				Appointed after World Cup
2027		Iran				Won Asian Cup, resigned
2027		Ivory Coast			Appointed after AFCON
2028		Ivory Coast			Qualified for AFCON
2029		Ivory Coast			Knocked out in AFCON semis, resigned
2030/31		Brazil				Played WC qualifiers
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 4/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029)
 5/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2029/30)
 4/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2027; Independiente, Argentina, 2029)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 1/5 continental tournaments (Iran, Asia, 2027)
 0/1 world tournaments

[Crispypaul]

  

  

  

    

    

   Crispypaul
Tottenham Hotspur
English Premier League
2031/32

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - considerably better this time was we lifted the league title with games to spare

FA Cup - Fixtures - lost on penalties in the final to Man Utd

EFL Cup - Fixtures - won this again (and beat Man City 8-1 on the way)

Champions League -  Fixtures | Table - last seasons winners Barcelona were in our group, however we topped this over them, Sporting and Besiktas.   Napoli were our 2nd round opponents who weren't too much trouble.      Fellow Italians Inter were beaten in the quarters, then we got Arsenal in the semis and a home win got us through to the final.  There we faced Juventus who were less trouble than expected to to lift the trophy for the first time.

Transfers - splashed the cash a bit

Finances - a stadium expansion taking some of this

Squad 

Key players:

Fabio Viera - continues to be great

Leonard Gabrijelić - one of the best now

Chris Geiles - capped by England

Yaser Asprilla - the Colombian had a better season 

Jasper Dowse - prolific youth product had been on loan, came into the squad and capped by England

Fatih Batur - interestingly named Belgian striker

I resigned after winning what I needed.  Will post on Brazil at the Copa America shortly.

 

Domestic
Season	 Team			Division		Position			Notes						
2021/22  Black Leopards    	South African 1st  	 1st				Champions, Promoted
2022/23	 Black Leopards	 	South African PSL	 7th
2023/24	Supersport United	South African PSL	 1st				Champions, AFCL, Nedbank, MTN8 winners
2025	LA Galaxy		MLS			1st				Champions, won US Open Cup and NACL
2026	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won KFA Cup
2027	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won AFC CL, KFA Cup
2028	Independiente		Primera Division	 2nd		
2029	Independiente		Primera Division	1st				Won Cup, Copa Libertadores
2029/30	Tottenham		EPL			5th				Won EFL Cup, FA Cup, Europa League
2030/31	Tottenham		EPL			2nd				Won EFL Cup
2031/32	Tottenham		EPL			1st				Won CL, EFL Cup, resigned

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
2026		Iran				Appointed after World Cup
2027		Iran				Won Asian Cup, resigned
2027		Ivory Coast			Appointed after AFCON
2028		Ivory Coast			Qualified for AFCON
2029		Ivory Coast			Knocked out in AFCON semis, resigned
2030/31		Brazil				Played WC qualifiers
2031/32 	Brazil				More qualifiers
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 5/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2031/32)
 5/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2029/30)
 5/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025; Busan, Asia, 2027; Independiente, South America, 2029; Tottenham, Europe, 2031/32)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 1/5 continental tournaments (Iran, Asia, 2027)
 0/1 world tournaments

[Crispypaul]

    

Brazil
Copa America 2032
 

Group Stages - Fixtures

Won our first three fixtures comfortably but then two very disappointing defeats led to a 3rd place finish and a tie against Argentina..

 Quarter Final 

Spoiler

Argentina 1 Brazil 1p - not a classic but penalties enough to get through to Mexico

Semi Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Mexico 0 Brazil 1 - not the most exciting but we got through to face Colombia

Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Colombia 0 Brazil 3 - finally turned on the style to lift the Copa America

 

Edited October 4, 2022 by Crispypaul

[Crispypaul]

After Spurs I have a new job - at RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga

[SkyjumperTalon]

On 03/10/2022 at 22:05, SkyjumperTalon said:

GOLD CUP CHAMPIONS! Straightforward tournament brought silverware back to the homeland!

Challenge Progress
Club: Daegu F.C.
Country: USA

Domestic Leagues

2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2024: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2027: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2030: South Korea (Daegu FC)

Domestic Cups
2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2025: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2026: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Club Continental
2028: Africa (Orlando Pirates)

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)
2031: North America (USA)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 10/32

 

Club
Season        Team                Position            Notes and Achievements
2021/22        Aizawl FC            1st                Champion of Airtel I-League, Indian Confederation Cup. Runner-up in Durand Cup
2022/23        Aizawl FC            3rd at resignation  Resigned with 1 game left in the season (title already decided). Joined Bhayangkara partway through the season. Runner-up of Durand Cup again
2023           Bhayangkara          4th                Runner-up of Piala Indonesia. Qualified for Asian Confederation Cup. Sacked after declaring international job interest
2024           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Go-Jek Liga 1. QF in Piala Indonesia.
2025           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Piala Indonesia
2026           Persib Bandung       1st (at time of departure)
2026-27        Orlando Pirates      1st                Domestic Quadruple (League, MTN 8, Telkom, Nedbank)
2027-28        Orlando Pirates      1st                Treble (League, Nedbank, Champions League)
2028-29        Brentford            6th                Lost in Playoff Semi-Final
2029           Daegu FC             3rd
2030           Daegu FC             1st                League Champions



International
Season         Team                Competition                Notes
2022/23     Indonesia U-23         U-23 Asian Cup Quals      Guided the team to an unlikely qualification after beating Thailand 2-0 in an upset. Every goal mattered, qualifying as a 2nd place finisher on goal difference
2024        Bermuda                CONCACAF WCQ              Resigned after 2026 WCQ failure
2025        Congo RC               CAF WCQ                   Qualified for 2026 World Cup
2026        Senegal                World Cup                 Lost in Third Round to Brazil
2027        Senegal                AFCON                     Won in Final vs Morocco 4-1, resigned after win
2029        USA                    CONCACAF WCQ              Qualified for 2030 World Cup
2030        USA                    World Cup                 Quarterfinalists
2031        USA                    Gold Cup                  Champions
 

MVPS
2021/22: Richard Kassaga
2022/23: Travis Major
2023: Andik Vermansyah
2024: Wander Luiz
2025: Agus Santoso
2026-27: Agus Santoso
2027-28: Agus Santoso
2028-29: Shakur Omar
2029: Mariano Gomez
2030: Paik Sang-Hoon

 

 

TREBLE WINNERS!

Club

It was an incredible season, winning the treble and building one of my strongest teams ever. I'm not entirely sure where I'll be going for my next team but as of right now it's looking like Eintracht.

Challenge Progress
Club: Daegu F.C.
Country: USA

Domestic Leagues

2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2024: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2027: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2030: South Korea (Daegu FC)

Domestic Cups
2022: India (Aizawl FC)
2025: Indonesia (Persib Bandung)
2026: South Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2031: South Korea (Daegu FC)

Club Continental
2028: Africa (Orlando Pirates)
2031: Asia (Daegu FC)

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)
2031: North America (USA)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 12/32

Club
Season        Team                Position            Notes and Achievements
2021/22        Aizawl FC            1st                Champion of Airtel I-League, Indian Confederation Cup. Runner-up in Durand Cup
2022/23        Aizawl FC            3rd at resignation  Resigned with 1 game left in the season (title already decided). Joined Bhayangkara partway through the season. Runner-up of Durand Cup again
2023           Bhayangkara          4th                Runner-up of Piala Indonesia. Qualified for Asian Confederation Cup. Sacked after declaring international job interest
2024           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Go-Jek Liga 1. QF in Piala Indonesia.
2025           Persib Bandung       1st                Champion of Piala Indonesia
2026           Persib Bandung       1st (at time of departure)
2026-27        Orlando Pirates      1st                Domestic Quadruple (League, MTN 8, Telkom, Nedbank)
2027-28        Orlando Pirates      1st                Treble (League, Nedbank, Champions League)
2028-29        Brentford            6th                Lost in Playoff Semi-Final
2029           Daegu FC             3rd
2030           Daegu FC             1st                League Champions
2031           Daegu FC             1st                Treble (League, FA Cup, Champions League)



International
Season         Team                Competition                Notes
2022/23     Indonesia U-23         U-23 Asian Cup Quals      Guided the team to an unlikely qualification after beating Thailand 2-0 in an upset. Every goal mattered, qualifying as a 2nd place finisher on goal difference
2024        Bermuda                CONCACAF WCQ              Resigned after 2026 WCQ failure
2025        Congo RC               CAF WCQ                   Qualified for 2026 World Cup
2026        Senegal                World Cup                 Lost in Third Round to Brazil
2027        Senegal                AFCON                     Won in Final vs Morocco 4-1, resigned after win
2029        USA                    CONCACAF WCQ              Qualified for 2030 World Cup
2030        USA                    World Cup                 Quarterfinalists
2031        USA                    Gold Cup                  Champions
 

MVPS
2021/22: Richard Kassaga
2022/23: Travis Major
2023: Andik Vermansyah
2024: Wander Luiz
2025: Agus Santoso
2026-27: Agus Santoso
2027-28: Agus Santoso
2028-29: Shakur Omar
2029: Mariano Gomez
2030: Paik Sang-Hoon
2031: Cho Sang-Jun

 

[SkyjumperTalon]

Gone for CF Monterrey, highest ranked team in North America. Should be a 1 year stint in NA with a treble 

[Anners]

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On 02/10/2022 at 20:22, Anners said:

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2038/39 & 2039/40

I was fairly sure I did a round-up for the 38/39 season but came to post 39/40 and didn't see it so a double update again.

38/39:

League - Cup - Europe

39/40:

League - Cup - Europe

2039 Gold Cup:

Results

France Ligue 1:
We're getting closer... A bit of a meh 38/39 campaign after some building blocks were put in, we were much better in 39/40 especially defensively. However an absolutely terrible end to the season left us 3rd, when we should have at least finished within 3 points of PSG, if not better. We're not too far off them thankfully, but they're still an incredible team.

Coupe de France:
You can really tell who I'm having trouble with in this challenge! 38/39 we get knocked out in the Semi Finals by PSG - not wholly unexpected, but still greatly annoying. We're not having huge amounts of trouble with teams, a couple of penalty wins aside against other Ligue 1 opposition, but it's also that team from Paris that causes issues! Thankfully, we managed to get past them in 39/40 and take home the first piece of silverware that I've been able to for a while!

UEFA Champions League/Europa League:
As I've said previously - I don't need to win the Champions League but I'll always give it a decent go. That being said, I'm not really doing anything with Lille. A Europa League Semi Final appearance is probably the best we're going to get for now, before emerging Huesca took us out.

 

 

2039 Gold Cup:

As shown in the last post - we managed to get the Mexico job and we entered as overwhelming favourites to get the win. With that being said, I expected more of a challenge as cocky as that sounds! In 6 games, we scored 6 or more goals 4 times, and the only team we scored less than 4 against was Trinidad & Tobago in the Group Stage! A very straightforward final against USA awaited us as well.

 

 

History:

 

2040/41 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

France Ligue 1:
*Insert Jaws Music*

We're almost there - we've got the team to compete with PSG on a good level, but losing twice to them this season hurt us massively. This feels a bit like my season with Dortmund before we won the Bundesliga - we're incredibly close and it'll just take 1 or 2 players to put us over the edge.

Coupe de France:
A competition, a bit like Europe, that isn't too important to us right now. We played a bit of a rotated team in this competition to concentrate on both the league and Europe.

UEFA Champions League:
Considering our performance in the group, I'm actually incredibly disappointed we got knocked out by Man City in the way we did. We managed to knock Real Madrid out, but went 1-0 up away to Man City in the knockouts and then completely collapsed.

We've still got to try and get an Asian National Team job, but as soon as the Ligue 1 title is captured that's when we stop staying at clubs for more than 2 years!

History:

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[Anners]

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On 08/10/2022 at 22:42, Anners said:

Previous:

2040/41 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

France Ligue 1:
*Insert Jaws Music*

We're almost there - we've got the team to compete with PSG on a good level, but losing twice to them this season hurt us massively. This feels a bit like my season with Dortmund before we won the Bundesliga - we're incredibly close and it'll just take 1 or 2 players to put us over the edge.

Coupe de France:
A competition, a bit like Europe, that isn't too important to us right now. We played a bit of a rotated team in this competition to concentrate on both the league and Europe.

UEFA Champions League:
Considering our performance in the group, I'm actually incredibly disappointed we got knocked out by Man City in the way we did. We managed to knock Real Madrid out, but went 1-0 up away to Man City in the knockouts and then completely collapsed.

We've still got to try and get an Asian National Team job, but as soon as the Ligue 1 title is captured that's when we stop staying at clubs for more than 2 years!

History:

 

 

2041/42 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

Ligue 1:
ARGH I'M SO CLOSE! 5 points behind PSG, but we can only have ourselves to blame as we drew a massive 11 games. Incredibly disappointing for me here - not entirely sure what to add.

Coupe de France:
I'm not sure what happened to Ligue 2 Metz this season, but they decided to put on a show in the Coupe de France. They beat Monaco, myself and Rennes all on the way to winning the Coupe de France. PSG were knocked out by Rennes in the Semi Final on penalties too! I'm bloody glad I won this competition already because if I hadn't, I'd be throwing everything out of the window probably! (I've played through quite a bit of the 42/43 season - Metz advanced into the knockout rounds of the Europa League...whilst still in Ligue 2!)

UEFA Champions League:
Another Champions League Quarter Final defeat and it seems we've got a bit of a hoodoo on our hands here. Last year we go out to Man City, this year we go out to Man Utd. Just take me out of Manchester please! I thought we could actually win the competition when we beat Juventus. However after a bit of a look - no Italian side has got to the final, never mind won, of the CL since the 22/23 season.

 

History:

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[Anners]

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On 11/10/2022 at 17:36, Anners said:

Previous:

 

2041/42 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

Ligue 1:
ARGH I'M SO CLOSE! 5 points behind PSG, but we can only have ourselves to blame as we drew a massive 11 games. Incredibly disappointing for me here - not entirely sure what to add.

Coupe de France:
I'm not sure what happened to Ligue 2 Metz this season, but they decided to put on a show in the Coupe de France. They beat Monaco, myself and Rennes all on the way to winning the Coupe de France. PSG were knocked out by Rennes in the Semi Final on penalties too! I'm bloody glad I won this competition already because if I hadn't, I'd be throwing everything out of the window probably! (I've played through quite a bit of the 42/43 season - Metz advanced into the knockout rounds of the Europa League...whilst still in Ligue 2!)

UEFA Champions League:
Another Champions League Quarter Final defeat and it seems we've got a bit of a hoodoo on our hands here. Last year we go out to Man City, this year we go out to Man Utd. Just take me out of Manchester please! I thought we could actually win the competition when we beat Juventus. However after a bit of a look - no Italian side has got to the final, never mind won, of the CL since the 22/23 season.

 

History:

 

 

2042/43 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

Ligue 1:
After 6 and a half seasons... we've finally got it! It came down to the last day, but ourselves and PSG were absolutely miles ahead of the rest of the league. We were both unbeaten for about 22 games to start, which involved very loud sighs from me, thinking PSG were going to have one of those kind of seasons they are known for on FM. Alas, we were able to prevail and finally take home that last major league. Now... let the adventure begin!

Coupe de France:
You would have thought looking at this, that I had rested my main team looking to concentrate elsewhere. Yeah.... no. I went out in very embarrassing fashion against Dunkerque. It was both an acceptable loss and an unacceptable loss.

UEFA Champions League:
We needed a 93rd minute goal to beat Bayern, but we finally got over our Quarter Final hoodoo... only to lose to PS... bloody G. On penalties! I actually thought we could have won this this year, but a penalty loss to PSG led us to a Semi Final loss.

So, we're finally able to leave European land (albeit we may be back at some point), and our first port of call?

 

History:

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[libbyshuss]

I'm still plugging away but not much to report on in the last 4 seasons!

2027/28

After leaving CT All Stars in South Africa in July I applied for loads of jobs, including Mamelodi Sundowns, who would have been a real upgrade, but got no offers. So I kept going and it wasn't until November i got two offers. The team 5th in South Korea's top division, or Brest, who were bottom of Ligue 1 in France. I went for Brest, figuring Brest is best. I also applied for, and got, the Ivory Coast job afte the ACoN in January.

 and 

Brest were bottom but had a decent squad. The only issue it was an old squad so it would need major surgery in the next couple of seasons. I managed to steady the ship and we put on a nice run in the new year to finish mid-table. Ivory Coast had a good squad but it was mainly friendlies and a couple of World Cup qualifiers (for 2030)

2028/29

and 

After euro 28 I got 4 offers from European teams, Belgium being by far the best. I couldn't resist it!

A great season for Brest! I brought a couple of younger players in who performed really well but we were up against it in terms of transfer funds and wage budget. Still, we managed a 6th place finish and European qualfication! But i'd need to do something drastic to improve more

2029/30

and 

 

After our 6th place finish I decided to gamble. Sold our best two players for combined £60m and went on a spending spree. It paid off and we went unbeaten from January to finish second behind PSG. Two of my signings turned out to be wonderkids, which is always nice.

Belgium qualified for the world cup easily!

2030/31

 and 

World Cup! we lost to France in the semi-final, then after i got offered the England job? did I take it or stick with Belgium?

Brest were annoying. really inconsistent in the first half, better in the second and only managed third after winning the last two games. Frustrating as PSG had their worst season in years. They still won the title, obviously, but lost 7 times on the way. Anyway, Brest were annoying me so I quit at the end of the season. I had 4 star reputation, just been to a World cup Semi-final, should be no problem getting a top job right? right?

anyway, four seasons and no progress in the challenge! its looking unlikely i'll do it before FM23 to be honest....

Career

 

 

 

 

[Anners]

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On 13/10/2022 at 19:43, Anners said:

Previous:

 

2042/43 Season Report:

Club: Lille (France)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

Ligue 1:
After 6 and a half seasons... we've finally got it! It came down to the last day, but ourselves and PSG were absolutely miles ahead of the rest of the league. We were both unbeaten for about 22 games to start, which involved very loud sighs from me, thinking PSG were going to have one of those kind of seasons they are known for on FM. Alas, we were able to prevail and finally take home that last major league. Now... let the adventure begin!

Coupe de France:
You would have thought looking at this, that I had rested my main team looking to concentrate elsewhere. Yeah.... no. I went out in very embarrassing fashion against Dunkerque. It was both an acceptable loss and an unacceptable loss.

UEFA Champions League:
We needed a 93rd minute goal to beat Bayern, but we finally got over our Quarter Final hoodoo... only to lose to PS... bloody G. On penalties! I actually thought we could have won this this year, but a penalty loss to PSG led us to a Semi Final loss.

So, we're finally able to leave European land (albeit we may be back at some point), and our first port of call?

 

History:

 

 

2043/44 Season Report:

Club: Tigres/Deportivo Guadalajara (Mexico)
Nation: N/A

A twofer special here!

Tigres:
League - Playoffs - Cup - North America (N/A)

Deportivo Guadalajara:
League - Cup (N/A) - North America

 

Liga MX:
Had to check about 4 times, but I'm able to knock Mexico off my list with an Apertura win here with Tigres. I actually started incredibly inconsistent, but the further we got into the season, the more we were a bit unstoppable! Although saying that, I did get INCREDIBLY lucky in the Semi Final - literally only going through because we were a higher see than Tijuana.

Cups:
I'm gonna be honest - I genuinely had no clue what exact cup I was aiming for here. Nevertheless, it didn't end well! Knocked out by Monterrey on penalties - was absolutely gutted here. Should have been a competition we won and I probably needed to win given the disparity between how many leagues I've won and cups!

CONCACAF Champions League:
Over to Deportivo Guadalajara for this! After a mid-season move, which was 100% about having the opportunity to win the Champions League, we take home the North American competition... quite easily? Considering how shocking Guadalajara's year was, I had my eye on the job almost from taking over Tigres. The board eventually pulled the trigger right before the Semi Final and I nipped in and claimed all the glory!

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Just for my sanity - I am allowed to count that Champions League win, right? Was an incredibly fortunate time to pickup the job.

 

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[vikeologist]

@Anners That's fine. As long as you're in charge when a club actually wins the competition.

[libbyshuss]

2030/31

and 

England

So i took the England job after the world cup. They got a good squad but a worrying lack of stars under the age of 25. First game? Away to Belgium, who won 2-0! Other than that though it was a good season with my new striker I promoted scoring 12 in a run of 4 games. We'll see how the Euros go next season

Borrusia Dortmund

I applied for a few jobs (Arsenal, PSG, Flamenco) and got interviews but not one offer. And then, in March, along came Dortmund. They'd sacked their manager while they were 3rd in the league, in the Quarters of the Champions League and Semi finals of the domestic cup. They had an amazing squad, still had Bellingham and Moukoko at 27 and 26, and three wonderkids to boot. Seemed too good to be true!

And it was, as I manged to balls it right up. 6 league games, all I needed to do was finish 4th to guarantee Champions League foortball next season. So I managed to lose 3, draw against the team bottom of the league and finish 6th. Beyond awful.

Champions League? Beat Lyon 7-3 in the quarters, draw 3-3 at Old Trafford in the semi first leg only to lose the second leg 3-1. gah.

And then Bayern beat us 1-0 aet in the pokal

Honestly, it was a shambles. I'd sack myself but for some reason the board are giving me a chance. I need to start the next season strongly or I'm for it.

[Anners]

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On 17/10/2022 at 18:52, Anners said:

Previous:

 

2043/44 Season Report:

Club: Tigres/Deportivo Guadalajara (Mexico)
Nation: N/A

A twofer special here!

Tigres:
League - Playoffs - Cup - North America (N/A)

Deportivo Guadalajara:
League - Cup (N/A) - North America

 

Liga MX:
Had to check about 4 times, but I'm able to knock Mexico off my list with an Apertura win here with Tigres. I actually started incredibly inconsistent, but the further we got into the season, the more we were a bit unstoppable! Although saying that, I did get INCREDIBLY lucky in the Semi Final - literally only going through because we were a higher see than Tijuana.

Cups:
I'm gonna be honest - I genuinely had no clue what exact cup I was aiming for here. Nevertheless, it didn't end well! Knocked out by Monterrey on penalties - was absolutely gutted here. Should have been a competition we won and I probably needed to win given the disparity between how many leagues I've won and cups!

CONCACAF Champions League:
Over to Deportivo Guadalajara for this! After a mid-season move, which was 100% about having the opportunity to win the Champions League, we take home the North American competition... quite easily? Considering how shocking Guadalajara's year was, I had my eye on the job almost from taking over Tigres. The board eventually pulled the trigger right before the Semi Final and I nipped in and claimed all the glory!

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Just for my sanity - I am allowed to count that Champions League win, right? Was an incredibly fortunate time to pickup the job.

 

History:

 

2044 Season Report:

Club: Shanghai Shenhua (China)
Country: N/A

League - Cup (N/A) - Asia (N/A)

 

Chinese Super League:
We joined Shenhua with 12 games gone after a bit of a horrible start from them. We ended up winning 23 from 24 games. China in 2044 is a bit... messy. I've been given £900m to spend (that is 900 million), so it's been pretty straightforward. With the squad restrictions, I had to be a bit smart with transfers but we should be in a position next year to win this league. We'll have a shot at the AFC Champions League, so it should be an entertaining season I think!

History:
 

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[remix951]

It's been a while since I played FM but, with FM 23 coming out, I wanted to make sure I finished off what I started. 

 

I was fired by the USA for a disappointing Gold Cup. I found myself being hired by AC Milan who was in a bit of a down period. I managed them for six seasons, only able to muster a Coppa Italia, never able to get above 2nd place in Serie A. On top of that, we had made it to the UEFA CL final but fell painfully short.

 

After the third season in a row finishing Top 3, the Inter and Juventus jobs opened up. While Inter wanted nothing to do with me, Juve extended me the job.

Both Juve and Inter had much larger budgets than Milan and I was able to put Juve's to good use quickly. We ran through the season with little opposition and had a record-setting offense. We scored 138 goals and only allowed 18 over the course of the Scudetto. My striker had 29 goals and 10 assists and my inside fowards had 35 goals/9 assists and 35 goals/22 assists. Outside of Serie A, we racked up a UEFA CL win along with a win in the Club World Cup

 

This leaves me with one trophy to go: the Gold Cup. This will be a very tough nut to crack. Mexico has been ranked #1 for years and the USA is in the Top 10. The next closest is Costa Rica in 49th and the other countries aren't particularly close to CR. The only saving grace is that Mexico's manager is in his 60s. I can only hope he is considering retirement after a few Gold Cup trophies and an 88% win percentage through more than 70 games.

 

Cups: 31/32

Scope	League	Year	Team
Club	Premier League	2040	Liverpool
Club	Ligue 1	2042	Olympique de Marseille
Club	Bundesliga	2032	Borussia Dortmund
Club	La Liga	2033	Atletico de Madrid
Club	Serie A	2049	Juventus
Club	MLS Cup	2024	Los Angeles Galaxy
Club	Chinese Super League	2026	Guangzhou Evergrande
Club	Serie A (Brazil)	2030	Santos
Club	Liga MX Aperatura	2033	Cruz Azul
Club	DSTV Premiership (SA)	2035	Kaizer Chiefs
Club	US Open Cup	2025	Los Angeles Galaxy
Club	Chinese FA	2026	Guangzhou Evergrande
Club	DFB-Pokal	2032	Borussia Dortmund
Club	Copa del Rey	2033	Atletico de Madrid
Club	Copa MX	2034	Cruz Azul
Club	Telkom Knockout (SA)	2034	Kaizer Chiefs
Club	Nedbank Cup (SA)	2035	Kaizer Chiefs
Club	Coupe de France	2038	Olympique de Marseille
Club	FA Cup	2039	Liverpool
Club	Coppa Italia	2047	AC Milan
Club	UEFA CL	2049	Juventus
Club	NACL	2034	Cruz Azul
Club	Copa Libertadores	2030	Santos
Club	Asian CL	2027	Guangzhou Evergrande
Club	African CL	2036	Kaizer Chiefs
Club	Club World Cup	2049	Juventus
International	Euros	2040	France
International	Gold Cup
International	Copa America	2032	Argentina
International	African Cup	2022	Ghana
International	Asian Cup	2043	Korea
International	World Cup	2042	Spain

[SK]

2075

 

Challenge completed!!!! 

 

So at long last I have finished the challenge. After leaving Iran I couldn’t get another Asian job for another 7 years at which point I took the Iran job again in 2070. Like last time, I was good enough to make the QF but I lost to South Korea 2-1 which was right in line with expectations. Luckily the China job became available and they looked quite the powerhouse. Between then and the next Asian Cup in 2075 I won 2 East Asian Cups and made the QF of the World Cup so I was feeling confident.

 

As expected, the group stage was pretty easy and won 3/3. Unfortunately first place was a stitch up and got me on the hard side of the draw. The round of 16 was against Qatar I used the occasion to rest my team as well as the last game of the group and won convincing with a 5-0 win. In the QF I drew South Korea and smashed them 3-0. It was a routine win and showed dominance from start to finish. In the SF it was Australia’s time and the first half was very edgy finishing 0-0. Early in the second half in the 50th minute Australia struck. I made a few alterations and I struck back with two goals in the 54th minute and 70th minute to gain the lead. A few scary moments ensued but I held on and got the win in an even game.

 

One good thing about a hard draw was the final was against an easy team. The Saudi’s proved just this. It took awhile to get the break through but I did in the 43rd minute and from there the goals flowed and I finished up winning 7-0. 

 

So all in all, I finish the challenge in 2075. A bit longer than expected but the club side was finished in 2049 so it’s just these last two tournaments. Next time I’d like to tick off the continental international trophies earlier; especially the ones that only come every 4 years. It’s been great to try a whole bunch of different leagues and nations out. Haven’t played in a lot of these so it’s been cool to experience.  

 

eason	Club			Competition		Position	Notes & Achievements

2020/21 Uthongathi FC		SA First Division	3rd (promoted via playoffs)		
2021/22 Uthongathi FC		SA Premier League	4th
2022/23 Kaiser Chiefs	        SA Premier League       1st.  Won Knockout Cup and Be the Coach.
2023/2024 Kaiser Chiefs         SA Premier League       1st. Won Super 8 and Be the Coach. CL Finalists.
2024/25 Kaiser Chiefs SA Premier League 1st. Won Knockout Cup and Champions League.
2025    Guangzhao.               Chinese Super League.   3rd. Started in 3rd with 5 games to go.
2026    Guangzhao                Chinese Super League.   1st.  Lost the final of CFA Cup   
2027    Guanzhao                 Chinese Super League.   1st   CFA Cup winner
2028   Guangzhao                 Chinese Super League   1st CFA Cup Winner  Super Cup Winner
2029.  Guangzhao                 Chinese Super League    1st  Super Cup Winner
2030.  Guangzhao                 Chinese Super League    1st. Asian Champions League Winner Super Cup Winner
2030-2031 Hertha Berlin          Bundesliga.             10th (took over 13th).  German Cup Runner up. Resigned at seasons end
2031-32 Inter Milan              Serie A                 1st    Super Cup Winner
2032-2033 Inter Milan            Serie A                 2nd.   Italian Cup Winner and Super Cup Winner
2033-34.  Borussia Dortmund.     German Bundesliga.      1st.   German Cup Winner
2034-35 Cruz Azul.               Mexican First Division. 1st.   Mexican Cup winner
2035/36. Cruz Azul.              Mexican First Division. 1st
2036/37 Cruz Azul                Mexican First Division. 2nd    NACL Winner
2037  Corinthians.               Brazilian First Division 5th.  Took over in 9th place with 9 games to go.
2038 Corinthians                 Brazilian First Division  1st   Brazilian Cup Winner
2039 Corinthians                 Brazilian First Division  1st   Brazilian Cup Winner Copa Libertadores Winner
2040/41 Barcelona.               Spanish La Liga           1st
2041/42 PSG                      French Ligue 1           2nd.   French Cup Winner   
2042/43 PSG                      French Ligue 1           1st.   CL Finalist
2043/44 PSG                      French Ligue 1           1st.   CL Winner
2044/45 PSG                      French Ligue 1           1st.   CWC Winner
2045/46 Man City                 English Premier League   1st.   CL Winner. League Cup Finalist
2046/47 Man City                 English Premier League.  1st (at time of resignation). League Cup winner  
2047/48 Benfica                  Portugese Premier League 1st   League Cup & PT Cup Winner
2048/49 Maccabi Tel-Aviv         Israel Premier League    DNF   Premier League Toto Cup Winner

International 
2021-2023. Nigeria. Lost in QF of AFCON. Sacked. 
2023- present- Ghana. Lost in R of 16 AFCON. Resigned before being sacked.
2026-2027 Ivory Coast AFCON Champsions. Resigned after.
2029- 2032 Mexico. Lost in 3rd Round at WC. Gold Cup Winners. Copa America Finalist 
2032- 2036 France. Lost in Nations League Final 2033, Lost in WC Final 2034. Lost in SF Euro 2036. Resigned after Euro 36 
2036- 2038 Italy. Lost in Nationa League Final 2037. Made WC QF. Sacked after WC 2038. 
2038-2040 Chile . Lost in QF of Copa America. Sacked. 
2040-2046. Brazil. WC 3rd place. Copa America Winner. World Cup winner. Resigned after WC 2046.
2046- present. Spain. Lost in Euro QF. Resigned after Euro 46.
2048- 2050. France. Sacked at WC. Lost in QF 
2050-51. Australia. Asian Cup Semi-Final. Sacked 
2054-56. Portugal. Lost in SF Euro's. Resigned. 
2056-2058. Spain. European Championship Winner. Resigned. 
2062-63. Iran. Lost in QF Asian Cup. Resigned 
2070-71. Iran. Lost in QF Asian Cup. Resigned 
2071-2075. China. Asian Cup Winner

 

 

 

6 International Tournaments (5/6)

- FIFA World Cup		       Brazil (2046)	
- UEFA Euros (Europe)		       Spain (2060)	
- AFC Asian Cup (Asia)			China (2075)				
- Copa America (South America)		Brazil (2044)
- Gold Cup (North America)		Mexico (2027)	
- AFCON (African Cup Of Nations)	Ivory Coast (2031)				
 
10 Leagues 
THE BIG FIVE (5/5)
- La Liga (ESP)				Barcelona (2040/31)
- Premier League (ENG)			Man City  (2045/46)
- Bundesliga (GER)			Borussia Dortmund (2033/34)
- Ligue 1 (FRA)				PSG (2042/43-2044/45)				
- Serie A (ITA)				Inter Milan (2031/32)	
 
AND 5 OTHER TOP LEAGUES (5/5)
- Chinese Super League  	        Guangzhou(2026-2030)
- Brazilian First Division.      	Corinthians (2038,2039)
- Liga MX Apertura \ Clausura (MEX)	Cruz Azul (2034/35, 2035/36)
- Dstv Premiership (RSA)		Kaizer Chiefs (2022/23-2024/25)
- Portugese Premier League              Benfica (2047/48)
	
5 Champions Leagues (5/5)
 
- UEFA Champions League (Europe)	PSG (2043/44)
- Asian Champions League 		Guangzhou Evergrande (2030)		
- Copa Libertadores (South America)	Corinthians (2039)	
- North American Champions League	Cruz Azul (2026/37)	
- CAF Champions League (Africa)		Kaizer Chiefs (2024/25)		

 
FIFA Club World Cup (1/1)	        PSG (2044/45)

10 Others (Domestic Cups from 10 separate nations) (10/10)

- DFB-Pokal (GER)			Dortmund (2033/34)
- Brazilian Cup (BRA)			Corinthians (2038,2039)
- Coupe de France (FRA)			PSG (2041/42)
- Copa MX (MEX)				Cruz Azul (2034/35)
- Chinese FA Cup (CHI)			Guangzhou Evergrande (2027/28)
- Nedbank Cup (RSA)			Kaizer Chiefs (2026/27, 2027/28)
- Italian Cup (ITA)  			Inter (2032/33)
- League Cup  (ENG)                     Man City (2046/47)
- League Cup & PT Cup (POR)             Benfica (2047/48)
- Premier League Toto Cup (ISR)         Maccabi Tel-Aviv (2048/49)

Total Trophies 32/32

[Anners]

@remix951 I'm somewhat in the same boat - scrambling a bit to get the challenge finished before FM23 comes out!

@SK That wait to complete the challenge must have been painful - congrats on getting over the line!

[Crispypaul]

      

  Crispypaul
RB Leipzig
Bundesliga
2032/33

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - bit annoying as lost out on goal difference to perennial champions Bayern, getting the highest points total without winning the league too

German Cup - Fixtures - at least we lifted this one

Champions League -  Fixtures | Table - first seeds due to winning the Europa League, still gave us a relatively tricky group with Chelsea, Inter and KRC Genk however we did well to win the group. Man Utd were out first knockout opponents with a good draw away and narrow win at home enough to secure a quarter final against the other side Man City, however they were too much for us.

Transfers - a lot of movement here, some required (we had no goalkeeper a month before the season started) some not

Finances - all fine

Squad 

Key players:

Dominik Szoboszlai - experienced Hungarian midfielder

Guilherme - known to me as Brazil manager, signed in January after West Ham met the release clause of another striker

Pascual - good Spanish striker

Takuhiro Nakai - good Japanese midfielder

Ibrahima Konaté - strong centre half but retiring so will need to be replaced

Brazil - we are top of our WC 34 qualifying group

Domestic
Season	 Team			Division		Position			Notes						
2021/22  Black Leopards    	South African 1st  	 1st				Champions, Promoted
2022/23	 Black Leopards	 	South African PSL	 7th
2023/24	Supersport United	South African PSL	 1st				Champions, AFCL, Nedbank, MTN8 winners
2025	LA Galaxy		MLS			1st				Champions, won US Open Cup and NACL
2026	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won KFA Cup
2027	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won AFC CL, KFA Cup
2028	Independiente		Primera Division	 2nd		
2029	Independiente		Primera Division	1st				Won Cup, Copa Libertadores
2029/30	Tottenham		EPL			5th				Won EFL Cup, FA Cup, Europa League
2030/31	Tottenham		EPL			2nd				Won EFL Cup
2031/32	Tottenham		EPL			1st				Won CL, EFL Cup, resigned
2032/33	RB Leipzig		BL			2nd				Won Cup

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
2026		Iran				Appointed after World Cup
2027		Iran				Won Asian Cup, resigned
2027		Ivory Coast			Appointed after AFCON
2028		Ivory Coast			Qualified for AFCON
2029		Ivory Coast			Knocked out in AFCON semis, resigned
2030/31		Brazil				Played WC qualifiers
2031/32 	Brazil				More qualifiers, won Copa America
2032/33		Brazil				Top of qualifying group
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 5/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2031/32)
 6/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2029/30; RB Leipzig, Germany, 32/33)
 5/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025; Busan, Asia, 2027; Independiente, South America, 2029; Tottenham, Europe, 2031/32)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 2/5 continental tournaments (Iran, Asia, 2027; Brazil, South America, 2032)
 0/1 world tournaments

Edited October 19, 2022 by Crispypaul

[vikeologist]

Looks harder than ever to get that first job without qualifications or experience.

 

But possible.

 

Won't have much time in next few weeks to play FM23, so please lt me know if you encounter any problems which will affect challenge.

Edited October 20, 2022 by vikeologist

[Anners]

On 18/10/2022 at 21:56, Anners said:

Previous:

2044 Season Report:

Club: Shanghai Shenhua (China)
Country: N/A

League - Cup (N/A) - Asia (N/A)

 

Chinese Super League:
We joined Shenhua with 12 games gone after a bit of a horrible start from them. We ended up winning 23 from 24 games. China in 2044 is a bit... messy. I've been given £900m to spend (that is 900 million), so it's been pretty straightforward. With the squad restrictions, I had to be a bit smart with transfers but we should be in a position next year to win this league. We'll have a shot at the AFC Champions League, so it should be an entertaining season I think!

History:
 

 

Previous:

Club: Shanghai Shenhua (China)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Asia

Chinese Super League:
I won 23 out of 24 games, drawing the other whilst taking over Shenhua last year, so we started with a bang. We lost 1-0.... yep. Although in fairness we then won 31 of 33 games, drawing the other 2. Damn early season game ruining the invincible season! As I said, China's a bit messy for some reason, so it's not actually that difficult in the league with 3/4 decent foreign players.

Chinese FA Super Cup:
Much like the league, we didn't struggle here. Eventually winning the final 11-0 over 2 legs. We bizarrely struggled against lower league opposition in the first 2 rounds, but when we faced Super League teams we were fine. Was definitely a bit of an odd situation!

Asian Champions League:
This was almost a perfect comparison to the league. Lose the first game, but win the trophy! I'm kind of glad we didn't face any more Australian teams after Sydney FC. Considering our performances against the other teams over the course of the competition, to come away with a loss and a draw is quite head scratching!

History:
 

Quote

 

[The Regista]

What's the ruling on doing this challenge on FM22 with Sortitoutsi database update? Is that not good form?

[vikeologist]

2 hours ago, The Regista said:

What's the ruling on doing this challenge on FM22 with Sortitoutsi database update? Is that not good form?

Sorry.  No non official databases. I won't be upset if people start a similar challenge thread with databases. 

[remix951]

O Canada!

In 2057, against the odds, Canada lifts the CONCACAF Gold Cup trophy for the first time since 2035 and, with it, I finished this challenge!

 

It took me a hell of a long time in real life (I took a four month hiatus from the game) and in the game. I captured my penultimate trophy in 2049 and wasn't able to score the final trophy for another 8 years. USA and Mexico refused to accept my job application despite my accolades so I had to build up Canada to compete with #1 Mexico and #13 USA. 

 

I'm thrilled to finally complete this challenge, thanks to @vikeologistfor being the caretaker of it. 

 

Trophies: 32/32

Scope	League	Year	Team	Post Link
Club	Premier League	2040	Liverpool	Link
Club	Ligue 1	2042	Olympique de Marseille	Link
Club	Bundesliga	2032	Borussia Dortmund	Link
Club	La Liga	2033	Atletico de Madrid	Link
Club	Serie A	2049	Juventus	Link
Club	MLS Cup	2024	Los Angeles Galaxy	Link
Club	Chinese Super League	2026	Guangzhou Evergrande	Link
Club	Serie A (Brazil)	2030	Santos	Link
Club	Liga MX Aperatura	2033	Cruz Azul	Link
Club	DSTV Premiership (SA)	2035	Kaizer Chiefs	Link
Club	US Open Cup	2025	Los Angeles Galaxy	Link
Club	Chinese FA	2026	Guangzhou Evergrande	Link
Club	DFB-Pokal	2032	Borussia Dortmund	Link
Club	Copa del Rey	2033	Atletico de Madrid	Link
Club	Copa MX	2034	Cruz Azul	Link
Club	Telkom Knockout (SA)	2034	Kaizer Chiefs	Link
Club	Nedbank Cup (SA)	2035	Kaizer Chiefs	Link
Club	Coupe de France	2038	Olympique de Marseille	Link
Club	FA Cup	2039	Liverpool	Link
Club	Coppa Italia	2047	AC Milan	Link
Club	UEFA CL	2049	Juventus	Link
Club	NACL	2034	Cruz Azul	Link
Club	Copa Libertadores	2030	Santos	Link
Club	Asian CL	2027	Guangzhou Evergrande	Link
Club	African CL	2036	Kaizer Chiefs	Link
Club	Club World Cup	2049	Juventus	Link
International	Euros	2040	France	Link
International	Gold Cup	2057	Canada	This Post
International	Copa America	2032	Argentina	Link
International	African Cup	2022	Ghana	Link
International	Asian Cup	2043	Korea	Link
International	World Cup	2042	Spain	Link

 

[vikeologist]

Congrats to @remix951 and @SK

7 completions in FM22, which is a lot.

Anybody planning to start this challenge with FM23?

I was / am planning to once my current deluge of work ends in a week's time, but I honestly can't say I'm enthusiastic about the new game. 

I'm in a weird situation where I'm enjoying my FM22 save, but it's so easy it's almost boring, while FM23 will require a lot of work setting things up and figuring out a new tactic etc.

If anybody does start with the beta, please do tell us about any bugs or things that might affect the challenge.

[goonergez]

I'm definitely going to be returning to this challenge on FM23 @vikeologist. Really enjoyed my attempts on the last couple of editions even though I haven't actually managed to complete yet. Currently deciding whether to start on the beta or just hold off until the full release. I've had a few months away from FM playing F1 Manager (can't take the database style game outta me) but am now refreshed and ready to have another go. Currently trying a simple learn the ways save with Antalyaspor but as I say am unbelievably tempted to just crack straight on with this challenge. I've a first baby due in march so got to rack as many hours in now before life takes a bit of my time away from me.

[Jivesinator]

On 14/07/2022 at 16:26, Jivesinator said:

RANS Cilegon FC

2021/22

 

Took longer than expected to get through season; ended up with not a lot of time to play FM. Joined the squad in October, which in Indonesia is the tail end of the season. Second tier promotion playoffs were ongoing and Cilegon missed it, so no choice but to just simulate forward. Other than the excitement of signing a HOYD far better than the quality of our squad, offseason was just free agents and end of contracts, and we ended up with a squad that looked well suited to promotion. So how did we do?

Not well.

Even with a cup run still alive, there's no keeping your job when your relegation is confirmed. We were sixth or seventh on the xG table, but seemed to never score. An average defensive unit couldn't save us, and almost half the games were 0-1 losses. If it's possible to be FM'ed over an entire season, then this is it.

On to the next job.

Madura United FC

2022

After a couple weeks of job hunting, the post opened up for two top flight Indonesian teams: Madura United and Bali United. They're both title challengers who were underperforming, but Madura had a cup run going, and therefore a chance at an immediate title. The league title was still mathematically possible for both, but nothing short of winning out was realistically needed. Unfortunately, my leadership didn't start off hot, as the cup dream died immediately and we only took one point from my first two league games. But fortunately, we finished the stretch strong and ended up rising all the way to fourth. With the form at the end of the season and the defensive side of the squad leading the way in goals conceded, there's a lot of hope to knock out a couple of titles early on, and maybe push for a dream Champions League. In all likelihood, though, I'll get the two trophies here and go off to either the K LEAGUE 2 or the Chinese League One.

Wow, it's been super long since I've gotten to this. I'm still actively going for it, and the quoted post here is to add context. Anyway, into the report.

Madura United FC

2023

It's been nearly four months since the finish of the last season, so I can't remember all the fine details, but I do remember that the offseason transfer window was a bunch of trialing domestic players and seeing who would stick. That got us a good right back and striker partnership, and our lone available foreign player slot went into a tailormade CM attack guy who predictably balled out. There was plenty of confidence that a trophy or two could come our way if we had fortune. So how did we do?

Reasonably well, but not good enough in the league.

And ditto for the cup.

We definitely had the talent, as we had a strong goalscoring output, a successful defensive unit that profited from our consistent attacking play, and xG for and against numbers that supported the case that we easily could've taken home the title. But unfortunately, it wasn't in the cards. The cup loss was particularly difficult to take, as we outplayed the opposition in the away leg only to draw, then gave up three goals to an opponent that had one off-target shot all game. They naturally went on to win the cup.

Aside from that, the save took a 180 near the end of the season. Lowly Madura United had a tycoon takeover. It started as a sequence of inbox items that originally started after the chairman had decided to step down. I didn't think much of it and neglected to screenshot the first few, but that first screenshot was when it started to become a lot more serious. About three in game weeks after the first message, the takeover was completed. Money was no longer a concern. My dumb idiot brain couldn't comprehend it. I think the lowest prestige league I've had a tycoon takeover happen in during a save was the Mexican top flight. Needless to say, it's Indonesian Galactico time.

Last thing, I have begun to sporadically stream this run and plan to at least do every trophy live. Not trying to self-promote, but if you see me in the FM22 Twitch category, that's what I'm doing. I'll edit out this part if self-promotion goes against site rules.

[Joaquimorais]

here we go fm23

[Joaquimorais]

finally

Edited October 26, 2022 by Joaquimorais

[goonergez]

I’ve had a brief trial run of the beta in turkey and it isn’t for me. Ill be beginning this years attempt of this challenge this evening. Hopefully a few more will jump in too and we can have this place absolutely buzzing.

[Joaquimorais]

POLOKWANE CITY 23/24 - FIRST SEASON

 

 

[SK]

Thanks @Anners. Yes it was a long and tedious wait with a few saves in between. Don't really enjoy international management so glad it is done.

Thanks as well @vikeologist. Finally got there.

[Anners]

Previous:

On 20/10/2022 at 21:37, Anners said:

Previous:

Club: Shanghai Shenhua (China)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Asia

Chinese Super League:
I won 23 out of 24 games, drawing the other whilst taking over Shenhua last year, so we started with a bang. We lost 1-0.... yep. Although in fairness we then won 31 of 33 games, drawing the other 2. Damn early season game ruining the invincible season! As I said, China's a bit messy for some reason, so it's not actually that difficult in the league with 3/4 decent foreign players.

Chinese FA Super Cup:
Much like the league, we didn't struggle here. Eventually winning the final 11-0 over 2 legs. We bizarrely struggled against lower league opposition in the first 2 rounds, but when we faced Super League teams we were fine. Was definitely a bit of an odd situation!

Asian Champions League:
This was almost a perfect comparison to the league. Lose the first game, but win the trophy! I'm kind of glad we didn't face any more Australian teams after Sydney FC. Considering our performances against the other teams over the course of the competition, to come away with a loss and a draw is quite head scratching!

History:
 

 

2046/47 & 2047/48 Season Report

Club: Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa)
Country: Thailand

A double update here because I genuinely forgot again for 46/47!

2046/47:

League - Cup - Africa (N/A)

2047/48:

League - Cup - Africa

DSTV Premiership:
A couple of fairly interesting seasons in South Africa! The 46/47 season saw us go toe to toe with Kaizer Chiefs. I thought we'd have the title Coming Home, but they kept their form up and took the trophy. 47/48 saw a few players come in and Oh My God, was it a bit of a better season! We only lost 2 games, playing our Modern Way whilst keeping up our performances in other competitions. We finished 17 points clear as we took the league title pretty comfortably in the end. Anyway, I've got to hope the Heat Dies Down after inputting all these Kaiser Chief songs so Thank You Very Much for reading this far. I Predict A Riot when someone actually reads this and replies...

Cup Competitions:
It's easier to lump these all together, as there was quite a few! We managed to win the Nedbank Cup in 46/47 - which I think is the main cup competition although I can't quite be certain as South Africa's a bit confusing! We backed it up in 47/48, winning the Telkom Knockout and the Nedbank Cup again thankfully.

CAF Champions League:
South African teams have been dominating this cup lately (I'm presuming having South Africa active for this long has helped this), so in what might have actually been the most stressfree continental competition I've played in (and I include CONCACAF in that!), we pretty much strolled through the entire competition on our way to winning it and knocking the final continental cup competition off my list!

Thailand National Team:

AFC Asian Cup Groups - Knockouts

In the middle of my South African adventure, the Thailand job came up. Now one of the better teams in the AFC, I figured we'd give it a good shot. South Korea are utterly dominant in this part of the world now, winning 4 AFC Asian Cups in a row so I knew we'd come up against it if we faced them.... which we did.

We were actually pretty decent throughout the tournament, controlling games well. We came up against our first proper test in the knockouts in the form of Australia in the Semi Finals, only squeezing by in a penalty shoot-out before the meeting with the South Koreans. Unfortunately, we were taught a footballing lesson which resulted in a 3-0 loss in the Final. It's a shame, but I wasn't fully expecting to win this competition and might struggle if South Korea keep their stranglehold.

History:

Quote

 

[Crispypaul]

  

      

  Crispypaul
RB Leipzig
Bundesliga
2033/34

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - finally did it after 21 years of Bayern winning to lift the title

German Cup - Fixtures - lost in the final to Bayern

Champions League -  Fixtures | Table - pretty good group of Arsenal, Aberdeen and Dinamo Zagreb which we topped.  Inter Milan we just edged past, then Barcelona were thumped at home in the quarters which was enough even with a defeat in the Nou Camp.  A repeat of the same results against Bayern led to Juventus in the final who were too much.

Transfers - splashed the cash

Finances - comfortable

Squad 

Key players:

Dominik Szoboszlai - solid again

Guilherme - top notch again

Aderito Rocha - strong Portuguese right back

Deni - another Brazilian, very prolific

Tassio - I like Brazilians - rotated a bit but still scored a lot

Oh Chul-Ho - signed the South Korean as our no.2 keeper last season but now the no.1

With Germany done I resign at the end of the season

Brazil - just about to play the 2034 World Cup I will post seperately

Domestic
Season	 Team			Division		Position			Notes						
2021/22  Black Leopards    	South African 1st  	 1st				Champions, Promoted
2022/23	 Black Leopards	 	South African PSL	 7th
2023/24	Supersport United	South African PSL	 1st				Champions, AFCL, Nedbank, MTN8 winners
2025	LA Galaxy		MLS			1st				Champions, won US Open Cup and NACL
2026	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won KFA Cup
2027	Busan			K-League 1		1st				Won AFC CL, KFA Cup
2028	Independiente		Primera Division	 2nd		
2029	Independiente		Primera Division	1st				Won Cup, Copa Libertadores
2029/30	Tottenham		EPL			5th				Won EFL Cup, FA Cup, Europa League
2030/31	Tottenham		EPL			2nd				Won EFL Cup
2031/32	Tottenham		EPL			1st				Won CL, EFL Cup, resigned
2032/33	RB Leipzig		BL			2nd				Won Cup
2033/34	RB Leipzig		BL			1st

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
2026		Iran				Appointed after World Cup
2027		Iran				Won Asian Cup, resigned
2027		Ivory Coast			Appointed after AFCON
2028		Ivory Coast			Qualified for AFCON
2029		Ivory Coast			Knocked out in AFCON semis, resigned
2030/31		Brazil				Played WC qualifiers
2031/32 	Brazil				More qualifiers, won Copa America
2032/33		Brazil				Top of qualifying group
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 6/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2031/32; RB Leipzig, Germany, 33/34)
 6/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026; Independiente, Argentina, 2029; Tottenham, England, 2029/30; RB Leipzig, Germany, 32/33)
 5/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025; Busan, Asia, 2027; Independiente, South America, 2029; Tottenham, Europe, 2031/32)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 2/5 continental tournaments (Iran, Asia, 2027; Brazil, South America, 2032)
 0/1 world tournaments

[Crispypaul]

     

Brazil
World Cup 2034

Group Stages - Fixtures | Table

Tanzania and Switzerland were not much of a test

2nd Round

Spoiler

Brazil 2 Turkey 0 - easy

3rd Round (if applicable)

Spoiler

Brazil 1 France 0 - marginal win there

Quarter Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Brazil 1p Italy 1 - not a classic but penalties got us through

Semi Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Portugal 0 Brazil 1 - another one not for the neutrals but enough to get a final against holders England

Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Brazil 0 England 3 - utterly smashed, that's not great.  I resign afterwards however so did the England manager - if you can't beat them join them so i do

 

[Crispypaul]

Took me a whole other season for a suitable club team but Pochettino finally left PSG for the glamour club that is, err, West Ham, so I am now manager

We have a Haaland..

[Joaquimorais]

Season 3

League

Cup

1/32

[vikeologist]

When the beta came out, I started an Ultimate save to see what jobs one could get, and this morning finally had time to play FM23, and my ultimate save is dead in the water straight away. (A pity because I spent enough time sorting out the responsibilities etc to be slightly invested in it)

It's not a bug, exactly.

I started the save quickly because it was just a test (with a medium database) without adding in all the Asian players etc, as suggested in my opening post. With England loaded, the only Manageable Asian nation is Australia.

I wouldn't say the number of African and S American nations is great either. 7 African, 5 South American.

I think this is very important. Generally speaking, the number of manageable nations goes down over a long save. It's possible SI have fixed this, but I doubt it, because I'm not sure anybody has even ever registered it as a bug. As it takes about 50 seasons to become a big problem, not many encounter it.

So, I would say that for anybody starting this challenge it is absolutely critical that you do this;

Quote

A Very Small Piece of Advice

I recommend using the advanced option when setting up the game to add current international players from Asia. This should increase the number of nations available to manage in Asia, and make it easier to win the Asian Cup.

I would be interested in others' experiences of the number of playable nations, whether or not you added the Asian international players or not.

The number of S American and African nations should be ok, as long as they don't become unmanageable during the course of the save.

Sorry it's taken me so long to realise this. Super busy for the rest of this year.

[vikeologist]

Vikeologist's 2022/3 Start of Challenge and Black Leopards Report 

With just the Australian and top 2 South African divisions loaded, it looked for a while like I might not be able to even get a job, but eventually I was offered one by Black Leopards.

I know that others have managed this club in this challenge. Oh boy, were they in a mess. Not just in relegation danger but in debt and about 50% over budget. This meant that I couldn’t bring anybody new in, because any decent player’s wage demands where way more than we could pay. Also, all our existing players wouldn’t re-up. Eventually 2 did, for increased wages we can’t afford, but essentially next season we’re starting from scratch.

But how did we fare on the pitch? Well, that was much better. I took over with just 8 matches to go. We won 6 and drew 1 of our first 7 matches which meant that unbelievably we went into the final match of the season in the playoffs and just needing a win. Unfortunately, despite dominating, it finished 0-0.

The club’s finances are awful, so if I can, I’ll get another job, but at least I know that the tactics I’ve used for the last 2 FMs work on this version.

Top Goalscorer - Promise Mkhuma - 16

Scored 8 goals in my first 3 matches in charge, and then just 1 in the remaining 5. My best player, but he’s determined to leave.

Highest Average Rating (minimum 10 matches played) – Rafiq Namwera – 7.84

Was the first to ask to leave, because he’s Malawian and the previous manager didn’t play him, meaning he wouldn’t get a new visa.

 

Man of The Match – Promise Mkhuma - 3

Most Valuable Player– Does it matter? They’re all leaving.

To be fair, me too, if I can.

Domestic
Season	Team		Division		Position	MVP		Notes										
22/23	Black Leopards	S African L1		5th				Took over with 8 matches to go and took them from edge of relegation to edge of promotion.


International
Year			Team				Achievements



Challenge Progress 0/32

Club
 0/10 top domestic leagues 			
 0/10 domestic cups 								
 0/5 club continental championships		
 0/1 club world championship

International
 0/5 continental tournaments 		
 0/1 World Cup	

 

[vikeologist]

On 26/10/2022 at 05:02, Joaquimorais said:

here we go fm23

Why did you start so late? (March '23) It's not as though it matters, but I'm worried that you thought you had to holiday for a season or something before starting the challenge.

[vikeologist]

I'm not sure whether it's new for FM23, but the Oceania Nations Cup is very playable on this version. I think it's because of the added Asian international players. (I don't see why it would be. It's a separate continent in the game setup, I think).

I know that @Surd won the OFC Cup, with Vanuatu. So it was possible before. I still don't think we can reasonably add the domestic Oceania Champions League, or whatever it is.

Surd, do you remember whether there were a lot of Oceanic nations playable?

Do you think we should add the competition to those you need to win? (Obviously that wouldn't apply to anyone who starts the challenge before the rule change, or anyone starting after to be honest if they want to stick to the old 32 competitions).

I know people have suggested adding this before, but I think in previous versions you'd have had to add databases to be able to win it. I've certainly never seen all these Oceanic nations as playable in FM before. (There's 11 on them on my save).

So 2 issues.

1. Because it seems to be because of adding Asian international players, we'd need to make it mandatory to do that in the game setup. It should be mandatory anyway, because as discussed, I think if you don't, winning the Asian Cup becomes very unlikely unless you win it in one attempt with Australia, or keep other Asian leagues playable until you win it).

2. Regardless of 1, do people want to add the Oceania Cup to those we have to win? Is Oceania really equivalent to the other 5 continents? Is this equivalent to the Asian Cup, or to the West Asian Championship, or European or North American Nations Leagues for instance?

 

Again, any rule stage at this point would only apply to the future.

I would however probably start a new thread, because the 2 things, (mandatory adding of Asian internationals and the Oceania Cup) change the challenge a bit. Everybody would need to post on the new thread, which wouldn't have FM23 in the title anyway.

Until playing FM23, I didn't appreciate how much the new game affects the challenge.

Edited November 1, 2022 by vikeologist

[Joaquimorais]

6 horas atrás, vikeologist disse:

Por que começou tão tarde? (Março de 23) Não é como se importasse, mas estou preocupado que você pensou que tinha que passar férias por uma temporada ou algo assim antes de começar o desafio.

Eu queria começar na Coreia e a primeira data era em Março de 2022, entao eu preferi começar em 2023 hahaha

[Joaquimorais]

@vikeologista 

Olha

[vikeologist]

47 minutes ago, Joaquimorais said:

@vikeologista 

Olha

OK. Now I wish I hadn't started in South Africa / Agora eu gostaria de não ter começado na África do Sul.