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[Ronaldo Beckham]

Feyenoord 43/44 Season Review

A nice little cup win

I managed to finish 5th in the league. I don't think I will be staying at Feyenoord as I don't think we are strong enough to win the Dutch league with Ajax being so dominant.

Best Player - Dustin Huymans - 25 Year Old Dutch Striker

My best of a bad bunch was Huymans who got 13 goals from 27 games played.

Club Career

21/22      Cancun FC              Mexican Expansion League       13th                      Daniel Delgadillo

22/23       Cancun FC              Mexican Expansion League        2nd                      Fernando Garcia

23/24        Pumas                    Mexican First Division                  1st                       Bryan Angulo

24/25        Amazulu                South African Premier League    3rd                      Victor Fakude

25/26        Amazulu                South African Premier League     1st                      Victor Fakude

26/27        Amazulu                 South African Premier League    2nd                     Victor Fakude

26/27        Shenhua                 Chinese Super League                12th                     Paulinho

27/28        Shenhua                 Chinese Super League                  1st                      Victor Fakude

28/29        Shenhua                 Chinese Super League                  1st                       Victor Fakude

29/30        Rosario Central      Argentinian Premier Division      6th                      Luca Martinez Dupuy

30/31        Rosario Central      Argentinian Premier Division       1st                      Alejo Veliz

31/32        No Club

32/33         Lyon                       French Ligue 1                                5th                      William Lehmann/Ektoras Zeniou

33/34         Lyon                       French Ligue 1                                2nd                     Alex Collado

34/35         Lyon                       French Ligue 1                                1st                       Joao Pereira

35/36        Liverpool               English Premier League                 16th                    N/A

36/37        Wolves                   English Premier League                 4th                     Lukas Rasmussen

37/38        Wolves                   English Premier League                 1st                      Lukas Rasmussen

38/39      Bayern Munich      German Bundesliga                         1st                     Julian Cruz

39/40      Lazio                        Italian Seria A                                    6th                   Giorgio Valia

40/41    Inter Milan               Italian Seria A                                     1st                   Risto Lazarevski

41/42   Athletic Bilbao         Spanish First Division                        4th                  Marcos Romo

42/43   FC Barcelona           Spanish First Division                        1st                   Lukas Rasmussen

43/44   Feyenoord                Dutch Eredivisie                                5th                   Dustin Huymans

International Career

Season	Nation		Rank	   Continental	            World Cup	          

21/22        Mali                           25th           Won African Nations                         N/A

22/23        Mali                           23rd           Qualified To The World Cup           Failed To Get Past The Group Stage 

23/24     Costa Rica                   69th            No Competition Played Yet             

24/25     Costa Rica                   63rd           Got To The Quarter Finals Of Copa America

25/26     Costa Rica                    45th            Won The Gold Cup

26/27      Qatar                           30th             Won The Asian Cup

27/28     Venezuela                    54th             

28/29     Venezuela                   40th             Qualified For The World Cup

29/30     Venezuela                   22nd            Reached the World Cup Semi's - Finished 3rd Place

30/31     Venezuela                   18th             Unbeaten in World Cup Qualifying So Far

31/32     Venezuela                    6th              Won The Copa America 

32/33     England                        1st              Unbeaten So Far In England Qualification Games.

33/34     England                        1st              Won The World Cup

34/35     England                        1st               Top Of European International League Group Table

35/36     England                        1st               Won The Euro's

 

Challenge Progress
9/10 Leagues - Mexican First Division, South African Premier League, Chinese Super League, Argentinian Premier Division, French Ligue 1, English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Seria A, Spanish BBVA		
9/10 Cups - South African FA Cup, Chinese FA Cup, Copa Argentina, French Cup, English FA Cup, German Cup, Italian Cup, Spanish Cup, Dutch Cup,	
5/5  Continental - North American Champions League, African Champions League, Asian Champions League, Copa Libertadores, European Champions League,
1/1  Worlds - Club World Championship

5/5 Continental - African Nations, Gold Cup, Asian Cup, Copa America, Euro's
1/1 Worlds - World Cup

 

[Ronaldo Beckham]

Hopefully My Last Job Of The Challenge

 

[Ronaldo Beckham]

Challenge Completed

Celtic 44/45 Season Review

A nice easy cup run as well with us beating Rangers in the final as the cherry on the cake.

Best Player - Emrah Ozcelik - 26 Year Old Turkish Striker

 34 goals in 44 games. A striker too good for the Scottish league and will go onto better things.

Club Career

21/22      Cancun FC              Mexican Expansion League       13th                      Daniel Delgadillo

22/23       Cancun FC              Mexican Expansion League        2nd                      Fernando Garcia

23/24        Pumas                    Mexican First Division                  1st                       Bryan Angulo

24/25        Amazulu                South African Premier League    3rd                      Victor Fakude

25/26        Amazulu                South African Premier League     1st                      Victor Fakude

26/27        Amazulu                 South African Premier League    2nd                     Victor Fakude

26/27        Shenhua                 Chinese Super League                12th                     Paulinho

27/28        Shenhua                 Chinese Super League                  1st                      Victor Fakude

28/29        Shenhua                 Chinese Super League                  1st                       Victor Fakude

29/30        Rosario Central      Argentinian Premier Division      6th                      Luca Martinez Dupuy

30/31        Rosario Central      Argentinian Premier Division       1st                      Alejo Veliz

31/32        No Club

32/33         Lyon                       French Ligue 1                                5th                      William Lehmann/Ektoras Zeniou

33/34         Lyon                       French Ligue 1                                2nd                     Alex Collado

34/35         Lyon                       French Ligue 1                                1st                       Joao Pereira

35/36        Liverpool               English Premier League                 16th                    N/A

36/37        Wolves                   English Premier League                 4th                     Lukas Rasmussen

37/38        Wolves                   English Premier League                 1st                      Lukas Rasmussen

38/39      Bayern Munich      German Bundesliga                         1st                     Julian Cruz

39/40      Lazio                        Italian Seria A                                    6th                   Giorgio Valia

40/41    Inter Milan               Italian Seria A                                     1st                   Risto Lazarevski

41/42   Athletic Bilbao         Spanish First Division                        4th                  Marcos Romo

42/43   FC Barcelona           Spanish First Division                        1st                   Lukas Rasmussen

43/44   Feyenoord                Dutch Eredivisie                                5th                   Dustin Huymans

44/45   Celtic                        Scottish Premier League                   1st                   Emrah Ozecelik

International Career

Season	Nation		Rank	   Continental	            World Cup	          

21/22        Mali                           25th           Won African Nations                         N/A

22/23        Mali                           23rd           Qualified To The World Cup           Failed To Get Past The Group Stage 

23/24     Costa Rica                   69th            No Competition Played Yet             

24/25     Costa Rica                   63rd           Got To The Quarter Finals Of Copa America

25/26     Costa Rica                    45th            Won The Gold Cup

26/27      Qatar                           30th             Won The Asian Cup

27/28     Venezuela                    54th             

28/29     Venezuela                   40th             Qualified For The World Cup

29/30     Venezuela                   22nd            Reached the World Cup Semi's - Finished 3rd Place

30/31     Venezuela                   18th             Unbeaten in World Cup Qualifying So Far

31/32     Venezuela                    6th              Won The Copa America 

32/33     England                        1st              Unbeaten So Far In England Qualification Games.

33/34     England                        1st              Won The World Cup

34/35     England                        1st               Top Of European International League Group Table

35/36     England                        1st               Won The Euro's

 

Challenge Progress
10/10 Leagues - Mexican First Division, South African Premier League, Chinese Super League, Argentinian Premier Division, French Ligue 1, English Premier League, German Bundesliga, Italian Seria A, Spanish BBVA, Scottish Premier League		
10/10 Cups - South African FA Cup, Chinese FA Cup, Copa Argentina, French Cup, English FA Cup, German Cup, Italian Cup, Spanish Cup, Dutch Cup,	Scottish Cup
5/5  Continental - North American Champions League, African Champions League, Asian Champions League, Copa Libertadores, European Champions League,
1/1  Worlds - Club World Championship

5/5 Continental - African Nations, Gold Cup, Asian Cup, Copa America, Euro's
1/1 Worlds - World Cup

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[SaintsFCFan7498]

ANYANG FC WIN THE KOREAN FA CUP

Spoiler

We came second in the league in our first season in the K League 1 but Jeonbuk were a mile away. With no other competitions and qualifying for the AFC Champions League being reasonably simple, the focus was on this. I'm glad I don't have to worry about this for the rest of my time with the team and use it to rest players.

Our first game was a simple tie against lower league opposition in Yangju FC. We dispatched of them comfortably with a 6-0 win. In the next round, we were drawn against Gimcheon of the K League 1 where we won 4-0. Daegu was up next in the Quarter Final and was easily the tightest game of the run which we edged to a 1-0 win. A win against Ulsan Hyundai and we were through to the final. We did after going 2-0 up and losing that lead before scoring again to win it.

The final was fairly simple. We won 2-0 away at Suwon Bluewings to take an advantage to our home stadium. We took the lead before they pegged us back. We then repeated the feat but beyond that, it wasn't an issue. We were never at risk of losing the tie so that's #11.

 Thread Summary

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Season      Country           Team                      League                  Position         Best Cup           Continental    Notes and Achievements
2021/22   South Africa     Polokwane City        GladAfrica Championship          3rd        Preliminary Round          N/A        Third Period Winner and Qualified for Playoff Mini League
2022/23   South Africa     Polokwane City        GladAfrica Championship          1st          Second Round             N/A        Won the title
2023/24   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             5th            Winners                N/A        Won the Telkom Knockout
2024/25   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             3rd          First Round            Finalist     Won the MTN 8
2025/26   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             1st            Winners              Winners      Won the title, Telkom Knockout and CAF Confederations Cup
2026/27   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             5th            Winners              Winners      Won the CAF Super Cup, Champions League, Telkom Knockout, MTN 8 and the Nedbank Cup
2027/28     Senegal       Senegal National               N/A                      N/A              N/A                  N/A        Won the African Championship of Nations with the B Team
2028/29     Senegal       Senegal National               N/A                      N/A              N/A                  N/A        Won the African Cup of Nations
2029       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)         Primera Nacional             18th              N/A                  N/A
2030       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)         Primera Nacional              5th          Quarter Final            N/A        Promoted by winning the inter-league playoff vs Argentinos Jnrs
2031       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)     Liga Profesional de Futbol       11th           Sixth Round             N/A
2032       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)     Liga Profesional de Futbol        6th           Fifth Round           Winners      Won the Copa Sudamericana
2033       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)     Liga Profesional de Futbol        1st            Winners              Winners      Won the Recopa Sudamericana, Copa Libertadores, title and the Copa Argentina
2033/34     Mexico            Mineros             Liga BBVA Expansion MX          7th              N/A                  N/A
2034/35     Mexico            Mineros             Liga BBVA Expansion MX        1st/1st         Semi-Final              N/A        Won the Apertura and Clausura Double
2035/36     Mexico            Mineros                 Liga BBVA MX              5th/2nd        Second Round             N/A        Won the Clausura
2036/37     Mexico            Mineros                 Liga BBVA MX              5th/5th          Winners              Winners      Won the Campeones de Campeons, Campeones Cup, Copa MX, Liga MX Clausura and the CONCACAF Champions League
2037      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 2                 9th              N/A                  N/A
2038      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 2                 1st          Second Round             N/A        Promoted by winning the league
2039      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 1                 2nd            Winners                N/A        Won the Korean FA Cup           

Challenge Progress

Club

3/10 top domestic leagues (2025/26 DStv Premiership (Polokwane City), 2033 Liga Profesional de Futbol (Gimnasia (Mendoza)), 2035/36 Liga BBVA MX Clausura (Mineros))

4/10 domestic cups (2023/24 Telkom Knockout (Polokwane City), 2033 Copa Argentina (Gimnasia (Mendoza)), 2036/37 Copa MX (Mineros), 2039 Korean FA Cup (Anyang FC))

3/5 club continental championships (2026/27 CAF Champions League (Polokwane City), 2033 Copa Libertadores (Gimnasia (Mendoza)), 2036/37 CONCACAF Champions League (Mineros))

0/1 club world championship

International

1/5 continental tournaments (AFCON 2029 (Senegal))

0/1 world tournaments ()

 

[SK]

2048-2056

So I haven’t posted on here for awhile but I’ve come back to hopefully finish this save. I left after finishing the club side of the save and needing the European Championship and Asian Cup.

I took over the French national team with World Cup in 2054. In the leadup I won the nations league for the first time. Unfortunately the World Cup was a bust, I lost in the QF and got sacked.

Luckily the Australian job came available after they had a horrible WC. I was feeling confident heading into the Asian Cup in 2055. Unfortunately I lost to South Korea in the SF 2-1. That was a heart breaker as I dominated the game and then got sacked post tournament.

I holidayed through to the next works cup to see what teams would be available.  I took over Portugal to have a crack at the 2056 European Championship. In the leadup, the Nations League ended in a group stage knockout. The qualifiers were easy enough with 10/10 wins.

I had a fairly challenging group with France, former World Champions Bulgaria and XX. I started with a strong 3-0 win over Bulgaria and 1-0 over France meaning I qualified with a game to spare. A fully rested side won 4-0 against Romania to top the group. I got a stitch up of a draw, drawing England the second rank side. I put in a cracker of a performance and won comfortably 2-0. This is as good as I got as I didn’t turn up in the QF against Northern Ireland where I won 3-2 needing a 118th minute ET win. I had the home nation Scotland in the SF and I just didn’t get going and lost 3-0. This one hurts as I really should’ve beat Scotland and the draw bad opened up so I would’ve had Belgium in the final. Portugal wanted me to stay in but I didn’t want to do a full 4 year cycle so I resigned and will see if any jobs come up after the next WC and try again.

I’m gonna stick out this save now until I either get it done or go bust.

 

Season	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

 

 

6 International Tournaments (4/6)

- FIFA World Cup		       Brazil (2046)	
- UEFA Euros (Europe)			
- AFC Asian Cup (Asia)							
- 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 30/32

[vikeologist]

@Ronaldo BeckhamCongrats on completing again, for the 4th time.

[Ronaldo Beckham]

27 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

@Ronaldo BeckhamCongrats on completing again, for the 4th time.

Cheers buddy. It is a hard slog every time I do it but I do enjoy the whole process of it all and where my journey goes.

I hope you all complete it as well.

[SaintsFCFan7498]

Anyang FC Win AFC Champions League and K League 1 Double

Last season, it felt inconceivable that we'd be in this position. It felt like we were too far behind Jeonbuk but we turned some of those results around and dropped fewer points elsewhere. We did exactly that. We got a win against Jeonbuk and another draw as well as achieving the other aim of dropping fewer points. We were clearly second before but this season, our young squad continued to progress and won the league as Jeonbuk failed to win and we failed to lose on the final day. Our goals scored would have been enough to win the league as that's how South Korea is ordered.

It was a little easier in the Asian Champions League. We were comfortable in our group including Melbourne Victory, Urawa Reds and Kunshan. We won every game bar one which rewarded us with a game against Vissel Kobe. We comfortably won that game for a Quarter Final draw against Seoul E-Land. They were tricky in the league and we won that. In the meantime, Jeonbuk lost to Daegu which handed us an easier game than anticipated.

We won that and assured we'd be the South Korean team in the FInal against Al-Jazira. We were comfortable and took the lead and held until half time. They got a penalty in the 59th minute before we took the lead with a corner into Kim Jun-Sik. We held the lead until the end of the game to win our fourth continent of Champions Leagues.

 Thread Summary

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Season      Country           Team                      League                  Position         Best Cup           Continental    Notes and Achievements
2021/22   South Africa     Polokwane City        GladAfrica Championship          3rd        Preliminary Round          N/A        Third Period Winner and Qualified for Playoff Mini League
2022/23   South Africa     Polokwane City        GladAfrica Championship          1st          Second Round             N/A        Won the title
2023/24   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             5th            Winners                N/A        Won the Telkom Knockout
2024/25   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             3rd          First Round            Finalist     Won the MTN 8
2025/26   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             1st            Winners              Winners      Won the title, Telkom Knockout and CAF Confederations Cup
2026/27   South Africa     Polokwane City            DStv Premiership             5th            Winners              Winners      Won the CAF Super Cup, Champions League, Telkom Knockout, MTN 8 and the Nedbank Cup
2027/28     Senegal       Senegal National               N/A                      N/A              N/A                  N/A        Won the African Championship of Nations with the B Team
2028/29     Senegal       Senegal National               N/A                      N/A              N/A                  N/A        Won the African Cup of Nations
2029       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)         Primera Nacional             18th              N/A                  N/A
2030       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)         Primera Nacional              5th          Quarter Final            N/A        Promoted by winning the inter-league playoff vs Argentinos Jnrs
2031       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)     Liga Profesional de Futbol       11th           Sixth Round             N/A
2032       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)     Liga Profesional de Futbol        6th           Fifth Round           Winners      Won the Copa Sudamericana
2033       Argentina     Gimnasia (Mendoza)     Liga Profesional de Futbol        1st            Winners              Winners      Won the Recopa Sudamericana, Copa Libertadores, title and the Copa Argentina
2033/34     Mexico            Mineros             Liga BBVA Expansion MX          7th              N/A                  N/A
2034/35     Mexico            Mineros             Liga BBVA Expansion MX        1st/1st         Semi-Final              N/A        Won the Apertura and Clausura Double
2035/36     Mexico            Mineros                 Liga BBVA MX              5th/2nd        Second Round             N/A        Won the Clausura
2036/37     Mexico            Mineros                 Liga BBVA MX              5th/5th          Winners              Winners      Won the Campeones de Campeons, Campeones Cup, Copa MX, Liga MX Clausura and the CONCACAF Champions League
2037      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 2                 9th              N/A                  N/A
2038      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 2                 1st          Second Round             N/A        Promoted by winning the league
2039      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 1                 2nd            Winners                N/A        Won the Korean FA Cup
2040      South Korea        Anyang FC                 K League 1                 1st          Quarter Final          Winners      Won the league and AFC Champions League

Challenge Progress

Club

4/10 top domestic leagues (2025/26 DStv Premiership (Polokwane City), 2033 Liga Profesional de Futbol (Gimnasia (Mendoza)), 2035/36 Liga BBVA MX Clausura (Mineros), 2040 K League 1 (Anyang FC))

4/10 domestic cups (2023/24 Telkom Knockout (Polokwane City), 2033 Copa Argentina (Gimnasia (Mendoza)), 2036/37 Copa MX (Mineros), 2039 Korean FA Cup (Anyang FC))

4/5 club continental championships (2026/27 CAF Champions League (Polokwane City), 2033 Copa Libertadores (Gimnasia (Mendoza)), 2036/37 CONCACAF Champions League (Mineros), 2040 AFC Champions League (Anyang FC))

0/1 club world championship

International

1/5 continental tournaments (AFCON 2029 (Senegal))

0/1 world tournaments ()

Edited July 14, 2022 by SaintsFCFan7498

[Crowy]

SBV Vitesse

2034/35

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Club Overview ~ League Table ~ Squad Overview ~ Finances

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So after leaving Chelsea and being able to get the Brazil job I was was going to be patient for my next job unless something excited me and I realized I still need to go to Holland, Portugal and Argentina in order to complete this challenge so when Vitesse came up sitting in 14th with a media prediction of 4th, I thought this this would be a nice little challenge. Vitesse have an okay squad and with Ajax being totally dominant, I'd like to try and knock them of their perch for a season. One of my issues for the first part is I don't have a left back so I'm already looking forward to January!

[Jivesinator]

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.

Edited July 15, 2022 by Jivesinator

[SkyjumperTalon]

On 14/06/2022 at 07:31, SkyjumperTalon said:

Club

A perfect season without a single loss in any competition. I've never accomplished such a feat in FM before and have my star players to thank for the most incredible season I've ever managed.

 

 

I managed to also develop and sell three wonderkids to Europe, all near Minimum Release Clause values: Thabang Jaftha (450k), Thapelo Badboy (around 800k), and Fortune Basadien (around 500k)

I brought on my favorite player from managing at Persib, Agus Santoso. Santoso and I together broke into club history as "Favored personnel" in the first year. Agus had a stretch of 9 games where he scored in every game he played, despite being a central midfielder. He also developed into the best player on the team. I need to keep him for another year, win the champions league, and then bring him wherever I can go.

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Orlando Pirates
Country: (None Currently)

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

Continental

2027: Africa (Senegal)

Global

TOTAL PROGRESS: 7/32

 

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). Runner-up of Durand Cup again
2023/24        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)



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

Club

A very solid season. Not the perfect season from last year (with two semi-final cup defeats), but we won the most important competition - the Champions League!

After another wonderful season from my favorite player, Agus Santoso, we were able to comfortably take the champions league in the final.

I've moved on to Brentford, a club under a transfer embargo after failing FFP. Hopefully we can sell some players for good money and help alleviate the deficit.

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Orlando Pirates
Country: (None Currently)

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



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


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

 

[Crispypaul]

    

   Crispypaul
Black Leopards
South African PSL
2022/23

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - we can be very happy with a mid-table finish I think

NedBank Cup - Fixtures - knocked out by Supersport in the quarters

Telkom Knockout - Fixtures - a good run to the semis until defeat by Swallows after extra time

Transfers - mainly free transfers apart from one purchase

Finances - passable, managed to get to National B license by the end of the season at least

Key players:

Lwandile Ngcobo - good young midfielder on loan, joining on a free transfer at the end of the season

Kingston Nkhatha - experienced Zimbabwean striker

Siphelele Nene - great left back

Letsie Koapeng - another good experienced striker

Mohau Mokate - as is he

International news - I took the Panama job ahead of the 2023 Gold Cup so will post on that

Future: at the end of the season the Supersport United coach left so I took over (forgot to screenshot! sorry)

Domestic
Season	 Team			Division		Position			Notes						
2021/22  Black Leopards    	South African 1st  	 1st				Champions, Promoted
2022/23	 Black Leopards	 	South African PSL	 7th

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				-
		
Challenge Progress

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 tournaments

[Crispypaul]

 

Panama
Gold Cup 2023

Group Stages - Table

United States 2 Panama 1 - not bad I think

Trinidad and Tobago 0 Panama 2 - our rivals for 2nd spot so a good win

Panama 7 Bermuda 0 - that's a win

 Quarter Final 

Spoiler

Mexico 0p - Panama 0 - heartache on penalties although the bizarre federation thought I did a terrible job...in any case I resigned at the end of the season.  Good first international experience mind.

Semi Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

 

Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

 

 

[Crispypaul]

  

    

   Crispypaul
Supersport United
South African PSL
2023/24

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - top notch season where we kicked off Sundowns finally to lift the title

NedBank Cup - Fixtures - got to the final against NFD side Cape Town City which we won 4-2 to lift the cup

Telkom Knockout - Fixtures - a good run to the semis until defeat by Swallows after extra time

MTN8 - Fixtures - our first silverware as we retained this trophy

African Champions League - Fixtures | Table - AS Otoho of Congo and TP Mazembe of DRC were our preliminary round opponents.  We topped a group stage of Young Africans (Tanzania) AS Vita Club (Mali) and Highlanders (Zimbabwe) to meet Club Africain of Tunisia in the quarter final whom we got past 5-2 on aggregate.  A tough semi against Egyptians Zamalek was passed thanks to a good away until ES Tunis, the holders, were our final opponents.  An easy 3-0 win meant we lifted the trophy.

Transfers - mainly frees, one great purchase in January.

Finances -wealthy

Squad

Key players:

Kegan Johannes - strong right back

Levon Vardanyan - a January purchase this Armenian international striker was superb including a hat-trick in the Champions League final

Sifiso Ngobeni - great left back

Sipho Mbule - really strong midfielder

Pavol Šafranko - strong Slovakian striker on a free

Oswin Appolis - another good CM

Getaneh Kebede - experienced Ethiopian striker

Future: with Africa done I resign for pastures new

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

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 1/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24)
 1/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24)
 1/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 0/5 continental tournaments
 0/1 world tournaments

[Anners]

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On 05/07/2022 at 20:27, Anners said:

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2026 Season Report:

Club: Internacional (Brazil)
Country: Brazil



Internacional - Appointment
Brazil - Appointment

As you can see, we've managed a double change and a complete trip to Brazil! We managed to pick up the Internacional job and surprisingly the Brazil job after a Quarter Final exit at the 2026 World Cup. Though that Brazil appointment page has to be the least amount of text for an announcement that I've seen for a while!

League - Cup - South America

A lovely double means South America is complete for club trophies! I could do with a lot less of the drama though, not sure how I was able to cope with both the league and the Libertadores.

Serie A:
We sneak home a Serie A win here on goal difference as Internacional themselves retain the title whilst I win it for the first time. We took over halfway through the season and managed to claw back the gap and take home the title.

Copa do Brasil:
A disappointing semi final exit, though I wasn't as annoyed thanks to the Libertadores penalty win a week earlier. A bit frustrating, but the other silverware made up for it.

Copa Libertadores:
 Thank god for no away goals, as we absolutely sneak past Athletico Paranaense in the Semi Final before a very very comfortable 2-0 win over Sao Paulo in the final. Thank god for no stupid glitch this time, so I can finally feel like I can get this challenge started this time. 

History:
 

 

2027/28 Season Report:



Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: Brazil

Dortmund Appointment

A slight jump in the future - there wasn't much to add in the 2027 season with Internacional. Won both the league and the Copa Libertadores but found no joy in the cup again but I spent most of the season trying to get a decent European job and got one in the form of Borussia Dortmund.

League - Cup - Europe

I joined Dortmund in the middle of the winter break (literally January 1st - happy new year I guess!), so only had half a season with them. We were still in both Cup and European competition though. We did still have Youssoufa Moukoko as well.... for 11 days. Bayern triggered his £126m release clause within about 2 days of me joining!

Bundesliga:

We were always up against it, but to sneak 2nd is something I'll definitely take. Bayern are far and away the best side within Germany - they have a yearly salary of £249m, with the 2nd best being me on £100m and even then most clubs are sitting around the £40/50m area which shows just what we're up against! The table ended fairly dramatically for the European places, with 2 points separating 2nd and 6th!

DFP-Pokal:

I was fairly confident I could win this if we avoided Bayern..... and we didn't avoid Bayern. A 3-1 loss in the Semi Final at home put paid to our hopes here. A couple of dominating victories against Frankfurt and Hamburg meant if anyone knocked Bayern out, I was super confident of taking home a trophy but alas, it wasn't to be.

UEFA Champions League:

Managed to grab Dortmund as they went straight into the Champions League knockouts, so a "nice" landing for me.... till the games. A hugely disappointing 2-0 aggregate loss to Arsenal meant we were dumped out at the first knockout stage.

Now for Brazil.........

A trophy!

A straightforward Copa America for us as we surprisingly face Chile in the final. Importantly, we got through Argentina in Semi Final which was clearly the biggest obstacle. Thankfully we've got it at the first attempt - I'll be staying with Brazil until the 2030 World Cup and then moving on. Compared to my previous attempt which was bugged out by the Copa Libertadores, I'm just glad I'm nearly out of South America!

 

History:
 

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[Crowy]

SBV Vitesse

2035/36

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2036

Key Players: Vedran Stamenkovic ~ Josip Matijasevic ~ Victor Mandarino ~ Daniel Bialek ~ Andrew Sinclair

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: Eredivisie I ~ Eredivisie II | Europa Conference League | KNVB Cup

After a tough first season in charge at Vitesse almost getting the sack, we managed to rotate the squad and find some absolute bargains ready for my second season in charge and it duly paid off. Vitesse will be set up for the next few years financially with the players in that squad. We managed to win the league comfortably, sadly we lost to Ajax in the semi final of the cup and we got hammered in the final of the conference league. I'm pretty pleased with the season and I was going to stay to get the cup but I want to keep making progress in this save, none of the big jobs in the main leagues are coming up very often so completing most of those leagues will take 3-5 years to rebuild and overtake the major sides so decided to leave for another club.

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Copa America 2036

Brazil

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GROUP STAGE

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Quarter Final (If Applicable)

Spoiler

Semi Final (If Applicable)

Spoiler

Final (If Applicable)

Spoiler

GOD DAMNIT! PLEASE DON'T SACK ME BRAZIL...

 

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Villarreal

2036/37

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Club Overview ~ League Table ~ Squad Overview ~ Finances

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So my next club is Villarreal, I can't see any of the major clubs becoming available soon and this is the kind of squad I like, high valued older players..... Can see this taking me a long time to win though, I still need to win the Champions League in Europe yet and not sure what club I'll want to stay at long enough to do. I'll either go back to Wolves for it or I'll do a team in Germany or Italy I think, obviously if I get the chance to win it at any club I'll take it.

As for Brazil I'm hoping they won't sack me my rating is an F at the moment so I'll let you know how that goes apologies for the huge update for one trophy! 

 

 

CLUB PROGRESS

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CAREER STATS

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[Crowy]

 

Brazil decided to sack me in the end, thankfully there are a ton of international jobs available at the moment, just hoping they were too busy to notice my Copa America performance...

 

 

Knew England would have faith in me...

Edited July 19, 2022 by Crowy

[Crispypaul]

Took a while but I finally got another job, and am being brave this year and joining the MLS where I will be LA Galaxy manager

We're still in the NACL so a good chance to try and tick this one off early.

[Anners]

Previous:

On 18/07/2022 at 19:18, Anners said:

Previous:

2027/28 Season Report:



Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: Brazil

Dortmund Appointment

A slight jump in the future - there wasn't much to add in the 2027 season with Internacional. Won both the league and the Copa Libertadores but found no joy in the cup again but I spent most of the season trying to get a decent European job and got one in the form of Borussia Dortmund.

League - Cup - Europe

I joined Dortmund in the middle of the winter break (literally January 1st - happy new year I guess!), so only had half a season with them. We were still in both Cup and European competition though. We did still have Youssoufa Moukoko as well.... for 11 days. Bayern triggered his £126m release clause within about 2 days of me joining!

Bundesliga:

We were always up against it, but to sneak 2nd is something I'll definitely take. Bayern are far and away the best side within Germany - they have a yearly salary of £249m, with the 2nd best being me on £100m and even then most clubs are sitting around the £40/50m area which shows just what we're up against! The table ended fairly dramatically for the European places, with 2 points separating 2nd and 6th!

DFP-Pokal:

I was fairly confident I could win this if we avoided Bayern..... and we didn't avoid Bayern. A 3-1 loss in the Semi Final at home put paid to our hopes here. A couple of dominating victories against Frankfurt and Hamburg meant if anyone knocked Bayern out, I was super confident of taking home a trophy but alas, it wasn't to be.

UEFA Champions League:

Managed to grab Dortmund as they went straight into the Champions League knockouts, so a "nice" landing for me.... till the games. A hugely disappointing 2-0 aggregate loss to Arsenal meant we were dumped out at the first knockout stage.

Now for Brazil.........

A trophy!

A straightforward Copa America for us as we surprisingly face Chile in the final. Importantly, we got through Argentina in Semi Final which was clearly the biggest obstacle. Thankfully we've got it at the first attempt - I'll be staying with Brazil until the 2030 World Cup and then moving on. Compared to my previous attempt which was bugged out by the Copa Libertadores, I'm just glad I'm nearly out of South America!

 

History:
 

 

2028/29 Season Report:

Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: Brazil

League - Cup - Europe

 

Bundesliga:

An 80 point season only sees us finish 2nd in the Bundesliga, 6 points behind eventual winners Bayern. I've gone back through wiki and taken a look through previous Bundesliga seasons and nobody has got close to that.....fun. We actually kept up with them pretty well, but we ended up losing 4 of our last 8 games, including one against Bayern. This league genuinely just feels like a better Scottish Premiership...

DFB-Pokal:

Again, exactly the same as last year. Comfortable against anyone not named Bayern Munich. I hate that team.

UEFA Champions League:

Surprised myself here by actually getting past PSG in the last 16, but sadly fell to Inter in the Quarters.

 

We're probably 3/4 players away from being able to compete with the best in Europe. We're lacking a couple of good full backs, a defensive midfielder and a left winger. I'm hoping we can get at least 2 of these filled and we can grab a trophy next season, otherwise it'll be a bit of a long delay in Europe getting any trophies!

History:

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[Anners]

Previous:
 

On 20/07/2022 at 21:21, Anners said:

Previous:

2028/29 Season Report:

Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: Brazil

League - Cup - Europe

 

Bundesliga:

An 80 point season only sees us finish 2nd in the Bundesliga, 6 points behind eventual winners Bayern. I've gone back through wiki and taken a look through previous Bundesliga seasons and nobody has got close to that.....fun. We actually kept up with them pretty well, but we ended up losing 4 of our last 8 games, including one against Bayern. This league genuinely just feels like a better Scottish Premiership...

DFB-Pokal:

Again, exactly the same as last year. Comfortable against anyone not named Bayern Munich. I hate that team.

UEFA Champions League:

Surprised myself here by actually getting past PSG in the last 16, but sadly fell to Inter in the Quarters.

 

We're probably 3/4 players away from being able to compete with the best in Europe. We're lacking a couple of good full backs, a defensive midfielder and a left winger. I'm hoping we can get at least 2 of these filled and we can grab a trophy next season, otherwise it'll be a bit of a long delay in Europe getting any trophies!

History:

 

2029/30 Season Report:

Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: Brazil

League - Cup - Europe

I was almost going to start this with a rant about Bayern... but a couple trophies calmed me down!

Bundesliga:
Bayern are just so god damn consistently good. We better our points total by 3, but still land 4 points behind eventual winners Bayern Munich again. We lost to them both times in the league which has proven to be the downfall completely. We're dominant against every other team, but the Bundesliga title still eludes me - one more attempt then I'll be moving on.

DFB-Pokal:
In the round-up, you can see that Semi Final with Bayern Munich - a 10-9 victory on penalties. I had no nerves!! Again, a straightforward competition... as long as they weren't in it. Thankfully, third time's a charm and we knock out Bayern and take home the first cup competition of my career.

UEFA Champions League:
This was a fairly surprising win! I was fairly sure we were one of the better teams in the competition, but given the quality of teams in group stage, it wasn't the greatest of benchmarks. With that being said we did meet Real Madrid 3 times in the competition and won every game, so clearly I'm a bit stupid. A fairly controlled Last 16 and Quarter Final led us to the Semi Final against....... them. Not long after our DFB-Pokal penalty win over them, it seemed to get us over the hoodoo we've been facing as we comprehensively beat Bayern at home before taking down Real Madrid in the final.

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CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifers:

Table

A very straightforward qualifying campaign here - we were never in any doubt of not qualifying. Venezuela had 2 points after 8 matches, then picked up 27 from the remaining 30 points on offer! 

FIFA World Cup 2030:

Schedule

Spent the group stages absolutely terrified for 95% of the time. So that was fun. I'm still not entirely sure why we struggled so much against Turkey and Mali - we just simply couldn't put either of them away and get a 2nd goal in both games. For the remainder of the games, we went a bit more cautious which very much worked out and we eventually got the win over Mexico in the final. Scratch that off the list!

A much more even contest than I thought it would be in the final, but we get our hands on the big one... then I promptly exit stage left!

As the World Cup was held in England, it's a short trip across the channel...

History:

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[SK]

2058-2063

So I entered the 2060 European championship feeling somewhat hopeful of success with Spain.

I had made the nations league final and won all my qualifying games so I knew my squad was good enough against the big sides. Had put some great performances against some rivals. 

I started pretty poorly with a bore 1-1 draw against turkey. I then scraped past Israel 1-0 to basically secure qualification. A fully rotated side beat Sweden 3-0 to secure top spot. I kept a similar backup side to breeze past Denmark 2-0. In the QF I drew Holland and won a pretty comfortable 2-0 where the Dutch barely threatened. In the SF it was probably my best performance as I smashed France 3-0. I dominated from start to finish and didn’t really give them a sniff. The final saw me play against world number 2 Italy. I didn’t start well and Italy were pretty dominant against me. Luckily against the run of play my star CAM assisted my star striker to score with my first chance. After this I played pretty well before adding a second in the second half. I was completely gassed but managed to hold on and lift the trophy.

Overall I was very happy with the tournament, not conceding from open play is a fantastic effort. 

With this ticked off, I need just the one trophy: the Asian cup. After this I holidayed through to the 2062 WC. None of the big Asian sides had a change of manager but the Iran job was available so I thought I’d run the gauntlet on this and hope for a miracle. 

Iran's squad was pretty average but after some friendlies it was clear I was better than the lower ranked sides. I breezed through the group stage winning all 3 games to book a second round spot against Vietnam. I proceeded to beat them 1-0 with a late worldie. Up next was Saudi Arabia; I started well taking the lead 30 minutes in before they scored a long range strike in the 45th minute to equalise. I was the better team in the game until my player got sent off in ET and from there I held on until pens which I lost 4-3. This felt like a missed opportunity as Saudi Arabia really weren't great. Amazingly enough they went on to win the tournament which is even more disappointing to see.

So I resigned after the tournament and am holidaying to the East Asian Cup, WC and Asian Cup trying to get a job at any of the big Asian sides. I am now in 2067 and it is not looking good but fingers crossed I can get one soon.

 

Season	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

 

 

6 International Tournaments (5/6)

- FIFA World Cup		       Brazil (2046)	
- UEFA Euros (Europe)		       Spain (2060)	
- AFC Asian Cup (Asia)							
- 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 31/32

 

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2029/30 Season Report:

Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: Brazil

League - Cup - Europe

I was almost going to start this with a rant about Bayern... but a couple trophies calmed me down!

Bundesliga:
Bayern are just so god damn consistently good. We better our points total by 3, but still land 4 points behind eventual winners Bayern Munich again. We lost to them both times in the league which has proven to be the downfall completely. We're dominant against every other team, but the Bundesliga title still eludes me - one more attempt then I'll be moving on.

DFB-Pokal:
In the round-up, you can see that Semi Final with Bayern Munich - a 10-9 victory on penalties. I had no nerves!! Again, a straightforward competition... as long as they weren't in it. Thankfully, third time's a charm and we knock out Bayern and take home the first cup competition of my career.

UEFA Champions League:
This was a fairly surprising win! I was fairly sure we were one of the better teams in the competition, but given the quality of teams in group stage, it wasn't the greatest of benchmarks. With that being said we did meet Real Madrid 3 times in the competition and won every game, so clearly I'm a bit stupid. A fairly controlled Last 16 and Quarter Final led us to the Semi Final against....... them. Not long after our DFB-Pokal penalty win over them, it seemed to get us over the hoodoo we've been facing as we comprehensively beat Bayern at home before taking down Real Madrid in the final.

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CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifers:

Table

A very straightforward qualifying campaign here - we were never in any doubt of not qualifying. Venezuela had 2 points after 8 matches, then picked up 27 from the remaining 30 points on offer! 

FIFA World Cup 2030:

Schedule

Spent the group stages absolutely terrified for 95% of the time. So that was fun. I'm still not entirely sure why we struggled so much against Turkey and Mali - we just simply couldn't put either of them away and get a 2nd goal in both games. For the remainder of the games, we went a bit more cautious which very much worked out and we eventually got the win over Mexico in the final. Scratch that off the list!

A much more even contest than I thought it would be in the final, but we get our hands on the big one... then I promptly exit stage left!

As the World Cup was held in England, it's a short trip across the channel...

History:

 

 

2030/31 Season Report:

Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: France

 

League - Cup - Europe

We end the 18 consecutive Bayern Munich titles! Time to get out of Germany....

Bundesliga:
As you can see above, we ended the 2030/31 season as champions and pretty much demolished everyone on the way. Considering we got a 91 point haul, we still didn't get the title until quite late in the season as 2nd place got at least 80 points... again. The rest of German football apart from Dortmund & Bayern are really quite poor at the moment. Funnily enough, we beat Bayern in both fixtures this season. If we'd followed our normal course of losing twice, we'd have finished a point behind with that stupidly looking goal difference!

DFB-Pokal:
This was pretty much a complete destruction, although the only time we ever faced a team in the same division was the final itself, surprisingly.

UEFA Champions League:
The Champions League stays in Germany.... but travels to Munich in the hands of Bayern. Means German clubs have won 4 of the last 5 Champions League. Both Europa and Conference League were also won by German clubs. There's a football revolution going on apparently and it's all in Germany! We already won this last year, so wasn't a hugely important result but always disappointing to lose in the final to.... them.

 

 

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On 27/07/2022 at 19:15, Anners said:

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2030/31 Season Report:

Club: Dortmund (Germany)
Country: France

 

League - Cup - Europe

We end the 18 consecutive Bayern Munich titles! Time to get out of Germany....

Bundesliga:
As you can see above, we ended the 2030/31 season as champions and pretty much demolished everyone on the way. Considering we got a 91 point haul, we still didn't get the title until quite late in the season as 2nd place got at least 80 points... again. The rest of German football apart from Dortmund & Bayern are really quite poor at the moment. Funnily enough, we beat Bayern in both fixtures this season. If we'd followed our normal course of losing twice, we'd have finished a point behind with that stupidly looking goal difference!

DFB-Pokal:
This was pretty much a complete destruction, although the only time we ever faced a team in the same division was the final itself, surprisingly.

UEFA Champions League:
The Champions League stays in Germany.... but travels to Munich in the hands of Bayern. Means German clubs have won 4 of the last 5 Champions League. Both Europa and Conference League were also won by German clubs. There's a football revolution going on apparently and it's all in Germany! We already won this last year, so wasn't a hugely important result but always disappointing to lose in the final to.... them.

 

 

In the summer, I did manage to get another job and thankfully, fell on my feet with...

History:

 

2031/32 Season Report:

Club: Man City (England)
Country: France

 

 

League - Cup - Europe

 

Another one of the big 5 down, we take the Premier League, 6 points clear of Man Utd in 2nd. 

England Premier League:
The first half of the season was fairly close, with both Newcastle and Chelsea keeping up. Ourselves and Man Utd kept up the pace, whilst the others fell away. We never really went through a poor period thankfully, so we managed to come out on top. A relatively straightforward season with no huge surprises here.

England FA Cup:
An absolute disaster. Disaster!! Leeds had 3 shots all game and scored on a 30 yarder out of nowhere. Whilst we were better all game, we just couldn't generate the chances or get the ball in the back of the net. Has to be the worst cup loss I've had in an incredibly long time.

UEFA Champions League:
Not an important competition for us, bug quite disappointed to get knocked out by Barcelona in the Quarter Finals. We took a nice 2-1 win at home to Barcelona before an abject display, scoring a late consolation in a 3-1 defeat.

 

Not huge updates domestically - a lot of going through the motions at the moment. France, Italy and Spain to go before an eventual move outside of the continent. Speaking of one of those countries...

 

EURO 2032:

 

That'll do nicely as well!! What I thought would be a relatively difficult European Championships actually turned into somewhat of a simple until the madness of the final. We found ourselves 1-0 down in the final against Spain, but managed to bring it back and win through Dayot Upamecano in the 84th minute.

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[Crispypaul]

  

    

   Crispypaul
LA Galaxy
MLS
2025

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - a great season, we won the supporter shield and had fairly comfortable play off wins to get through to the final where we beat Atlanta United to lift the MLS Cup

US Open Cup - Fixtures - I don't think this is taken that seriously, a big defeat of NY Red Bulls lead to us lifting the trophy

CONCACAF Champions League - Fixtures - luckily we were still in this, and with good performances against two Mexican and one US side we met surprise team Necaxa in the final, an entertaining final lead to us to lift the trophy

Club World Cup - Fixtures | Table - our CL win meant we qualified for this, expected to be long shots we defeated Roma and Internacional in the groups somehow only for PSG to be too much for us.

Transfers -a fair bit of chopping and changing, the trades aren't here for some reason?

Finances - pretty rich

Squad - balancing all the rules is interesting

Key players:

Johan Hove - strong Norwegian centre midfielder bought from Roma

Elias - £4.6m bought us a very talented Brazilian striker

Josh Sargent - bought in the US striker from Germany as our star DP

Bamba Dieng - Senegalese striker bought for a cheap £750k from Marseille

Chris N'Diaye - another Senegalese striker for a ridiculous £44k

Future: with North America done quickly I resigned

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

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 2/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025)
 2/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025)
 2/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 0/5 continental tournaments
 0/1 world tournaments

[Crispypaul]

A little later I took over Busan in the K-League - not a big side in South Korea but have a decent youth setup and a bit more of challenge than the big boys

[Crowy]

Villarreal

2036/37

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2037

Key Players: Matthias Otto ~ Franklin Abadaki ~ Enes Obadasi ~ James Hahn ~ Stefan Blok

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: La Liga ~ La Liga II | Europa League | Copa Del Rey

Very happy with my first season in charge at Villarreal, finishing 2nd and going on to win the Copa Del Rey without conceding a goal I just noticed. Matthias Otto and Franklin Abadaki costing a combined £80M was a steal granted £70M went on Otto. I wanted Abadaki and Vitesse but felt a few attributes let him down but boy did he prove me wrong in a much tougher league. We had an okay in Europa League losing out in the Quarter to Arsenal. I also felt our team were missing 3 or 4 players to complete the squad already to compete on all fronts so I don't plan on making many changes next season.

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Villarreal

2037/38

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2038

Key Players: Matthias Otto ~ Franklin Abadaki ~ Benson Siame ~ Hermann Kabeya ~ Stefan Blok

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: La Liga ~ La Liga II | Champions League | Copa Del Rey

So we made the few additions we needed to our squad and boy did we get off to a good start in the league winning our first 16 games I think, and we eased in to a 13 point lead, at some point that dropped to a 6 point lead but once we were knocked out of the Champions League by one of our previous employers in Chelsea we seemed to regain form and pull away again. We managed to make it back to back Copa Del Rey wins as well which is always nice, we did lose a couple of players in January too which limited our squad again but it didn't affect our season at all really.

I have the World Cup coming up this year and I'm not sure what I'll do from here again, I really like Villarreal so I may stay to try and win the Champions League with them, one of the reasons I might move on is I don't like doing transfer windows while involved in an international tournament.

CLUB PROGRESS

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CAREER STATS

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[Crowy]

ENGLAND

WORLD CUP 2038

11 years after winning my first international trophy, I finally have my second and it's the big one! England have won the World Cup for the first time since 1966, it could not of gone any better either, beating Brazil in the final who sacked me. We were comfortable all the way through this tournament, the biggest threat was actually Mexico who luckily got a red card to help us squeeze past them. Spain never really threatened and Brazil got a late consolation goal, thankfully nothing more than that. I'll be staying on with England to hopefully go on and win the Euros in 2040.

 

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PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN

2038/39

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Club Overview ~ Squad Overview ~ Finances

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The PSG job finally became available as their previous manager who was there since 2026 finally decided to leave and take the Spain job, I'd already resigned from Villarreal and looked set to become Benfica manager until this job popped up on my inbox. I'm hoping this will just be a one season job and I can win the League and Cup at least, if we can add the Champions League to that then excellent but I really don't need to do anything to this squad it's already a quality team.

 

[SkyjumperTalon]

On 18/07/2022 at 03:13, SkyjumperTalon said:

Club

A very solid season. Not the perfect season from last year (with two semi-final cup defeats), but we won the most important competition - the Champions League!

After another wonderful season from my favorite player, Agus Santoso, we were able to comfortably take the champions league in the final.

I've moved on to Brentford, a club under a transfer embargo after failing FFP. Hopefully we can sell some players for good money and help alleviate the deficit.

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Orlando Pirates
Country: (None Currently)

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



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


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

 

Club

A disappointing season - we went from challenging for the title to struggling to reach the playoffs. Unsurprisingly, we fell in the playoffs to Fulham in the 2nd leg. No promotion, I don't see myself ever winning the league or cup with this team, so I'm going to probably resign and start looking for a new club.

 

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Brentford FC
Country: (None Currently)

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



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


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

 

[SkyjumperTalon]

Going back to Asia!

[SkyjumperTalon]

And now Manager of the country!

[Anners]

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2031/32 Season Report:

Club: Man City (England)
Country: France

 

 

League - Cup - Europe

 

Another one of the big 5 down, we take the Premier League, 6 points clear of Man Utd in 2nd. 

England Premier League:
The first half of the season was fairly close, with both Newcastle and Chelsea keeping up. Ourselves and Man Utd kept up the pace, whilst the others fell away. We never really went through a poor period thankfully, so we managed to come out on top. A relatively straightforward season with no huge surprises here.

England FA Cup:
An absolute disaster. Disaster!! Leeds had 3 shots all game and scored on a 30 yarder out of nowhere. Whilst we were better all game, we just couldn't generate the chances or get the ball in the back of the net. Has to be the worst cup loss I've had in an incredibly long time.

UEFA Champions League:
Not an important competition for us, bug quite disappointed to get knocked out by Barcelona in the Quarter Finals. We took a nice 2-1 win at home to Barcelona before an abject display, scoring a late consolation in a 3-1 defeat.

 

Not huge updates domestically - a lot of going through the motions at the moment. France, Italy and Spain to go before an eventual move outside of the continent. Speaking of one of those countries...

 

EURO 2032:

 

That'll do nicely as well!! What I thought would be a relatively difficult European Championships actually turned into somewhat of a simple until the madness of the final. We found ourselves 1-0 down in the final against Spain, but managed to bring it back and win through Dayot Upamecano in the 84th minute.

History:

 

 

2032/33 Season Report:

Club: Inter (Italy)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

3 down, 2 to go for the main 5!

Italy Serie A:
11 points clear at the top of the table in the end, although it wasn't as comfortable as it seems. Juventus hadn't lost a game after 29 games, then picked up 12 points from a possible 27 to end the season. I was 7 points behind with 9 games left, which shows just how insane Juventus were going whilst I was having Dortmund/Bayern flashbacks! 

Coppa Italia:
Incredibly disappointing end here, although I do forget just how many little cup games you actually play in Italy till I play here. Losing out on penalties is a nightmare and we've had some absolute rotten luck in cup competitions this career. A late equaliser and a penalty loss might be one of the harder losses I'll have here.

UEFA Champions League:
Again, not needing to win this competition but I do like to give it my best. Things were going somewhat as expected, a Group Stage loss away to Barcelona was not the end of the world as we still made it through to the knockout stages. A favourable draw against Dynamo Kyiv saw us progress before an absolutely huge collapse at home against Man Utd thanks to a 4 goal haul in the first leg and a double in the 2nd from Axel Jimenez. Feel like he's basically Javier Hernandez reborn for Man Utd.

 

We'll probably look to move into either France or Spain as soon as possible - I'm not too fussed if we don't pick up the cups here as we only need the league titles.

History:
 

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[Crowy]

PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN

2038/39

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2039

Key Players: Giordano Zuccaro ~ Anicet Kone ~ Ivan Radic ~ Daniel Bialek ~ Thomas Hillen

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: Ligue 1 ~ Ligue 1 II | Champions League | Coupe de France

In a season where domination was expected domestically, we delivered losing only 2 games as we went on to win Ligue 1 and Coupe de France. The surprising one was going on to win the Champions League as well, we had a good enough squad to compete but felt it wasn't good enough to win the whole thing but we managed to do it, it was fitting that our finalists were in our group stage where we both won a game each, the final was pretty dull but pleased to squeeze the victory out. As you would expect I'll be looking to move on from PSG no big jobs available but I hope that changes when I leave my role.

CLUB PROGRESS

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CAREER STATS

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JUVENTUS

2039/40

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Club Overview ~ Squad ~ Finances

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So thankfully the Juventus manager went on to take my old job at PSG paving my way to finally do Italy, the squad on the whole looks okay maybe a few additions to help strengthen, I'm not expected this to be a walk in the park like in France with teams such as Inter, Milan, Napoli, Roma etc. In my first season I'm not going to make major changes and if I don't won what I need then I'll look at making larger scale changes the season after if needs be.

[Crispypaul]

  

      

   Crispypaul
Busan iPark
K-League 1
2026

League - Season Review 1 | Season Review 2 - a bit of a shock but we ended up winning the league fairly comfortably

KFA Cup - Fixtures - lifted this as well after thumping Suwon Samsung Bluewings in the two legged final.

Transfers - got a bargain striker and Brazilian free transfer midfielders 

Finances - not bad

Squad 

Key players:

Yoon Jong-Gyu - strong right back from Suwon FC

Domagoj Drožđek - prolific Croatian striker now has a Korean passport (yay!)

Kim Sang-Soo - a very cheap £230k transfer from Jeonnam

Kim Jin Sung - defender loaned from Incheon, made permanent later

Ryan Edwards - passport collecting midfielder

Jeon Hoon - young centre half from Daegu

Ottar Magnus Karlsson - Icelandic international striker

Future: we qualify for the Asian Champions League which is dominated by Korean sides (Jeonbuk have won three in a row) so fingers crossed

I've also been appointed Iran manager ahead of the 2027 Asian Cup.

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

International
Year	   	Team				Achievements
2023		Panama				Gold Cup QF, resigned
2026		Iran				Appointed after World Cup
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 3/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026)
 3/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025)
 2/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026)
 0/1 club world championship 

International
 0/5 continental tournaments
 0/1 world tournaments

[Crispypaul]

  

Iran
Asian Cup 2027

Group Stages - Table | Fixtures

Beat Bahrain 2-0 , Syria 2-1 and drew 1-1 with UAE, enough to win the group and get a tie against Kyrgyzstan.

Second Round

Spoiler

Iran 3 Kyrgyzstan 0 - routine win.  Japan next.

 Quarter Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Iran 3 Japan 1 - strong win over one of the bigger sides.  Surprise side Indonesia in the semis.

Semi Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Iran 2 Indonesia 0 - routine win to setup a final with holders Qatar.

Final (if applicable)

Spoiler

Iran 5 Qatar 1 - absolute walloping of the holders to lift the Asian Cup.  With that done I resign after the tournament.

 

[Anners]

Previous:
 

On 09/08/2022 at 19:29, Anners said:

Previous:

2032/33 Season Report:

Club: Inter (Italy)
Country: N/A

League - Cup - Europe

3 down, 2 to go for the main 5!

Italy Serie A:
11 points clear at the top of the table in the end, although it wasn't as comfortable as it seems. Juventus hadn't lost a game after 29 games, then picked up 12 points from a possible 27 to end the season. I was 7 points behind with 9 games left, which shows just how insane Juventus were going whilst I was having Dortmund/Bayern flashbacks! 

Coppa Italia:
Incredibly disappointing end here, although I do forget just how many little cup games you actually play in Italy till I play here. Losing out on penalties is a nightmare and we've had some absolute rotten luck in cup competitions this career. A late equaliser and a penalty loss might be one of the harder losses I'll have here.

UEFA Champions League:
Again, not needing to win this competition but I do like to give it my best. Things were going somewhat as expected, a Group Stage loss away to Barcelona was not the end of the world as we still made it through to the knockout stages. A favourable draw against Dynamo Kyiv saw us progress before an absolutely huge collapse at home against Man Utd thanks to a 4 goal haul in the first leg and a double in the 2nd from Axel Jimenez. Feel like he's basically Javier Hernandez reborn for Man Utd.

 

We'll probably look to move into either France or Spain as soon as possible - I'm not too fussed if we don't pick up the cups here as we only need the league titles.

History:
 

 

 

2033/34 Season Report:

Club: Sevilla (Spain)
Country: Nigeria

 

League - Cup - Europe

 

 

A double change in the 33/34 season! A move to Spain to manage Seville, and a chance to take on the Nigeria job ahead of the African Nations.

 

LaLiga:
We joined half way through the season with Sevilla in 13th, with no European football on the season. Thankfully, with not much competition towards the top of the table we were able to claw this back and pick up Champions League football towards the end of the year after we caught a particularly hot run of form. Also, Huesca are good now, apparently? Think this is the first team I've seen in the top 5 leagues be at the top apart from the big guns.

Copa Del Rey:
A cup win! A relatively simple route to the final for us here until we met Barcelona in the final. We get a bit of retribution as we get a penalty win after the loss as Inter boss last year. 

 

 

With the Nigeria appointment, we've got a great shot at taking home the African Nations. Then hopefully we've got a Gold Cup and an Asian Cup remaining.

 

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Wrong year on season report

[SkyjumperTalon]

On 07/08/2022 at 16:43, SkyjumperTalon said:

Club

A disappointing season - we went from challenging for the title to struggling to reach the playoffs. Unsurprisingly, we fell in the playoffs to Fulham in the 2nd leg. No promotion, I don't see myself ever winning the league or cup with this team, so I'm going to probably resign and start looking for a new club.

 

 

Challenge Progress
Club: Brentford FC
Country: (None Currently)

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



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


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

 

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



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


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

[Mandy42]

That is Mr Grinch to you! 

[Crispypaul]

  

  

      

   Crispypaul
Busan iPark
K-League 1
2027

League - Table (no season review?) - we retained the title

KFA Cup - Fixtures - retained this too with a comfortable win over Daegu

AFC Champions League - Table | Fixtures - a very tough group of Melbourne Victory (A League regular season champions), Shandong (Chinese champions) and Frontale of Japan which we topped to meet fellow Korean side Seoul in the 2nd round, whom we beat at home.  In the quarters we travelled to Melbourne again to see off Melbourne City.  Then back again to Australia to Perth where we thrashed Perth Glory to get to the final against Emirati side Shabab Al-Ahli.  An easy 4-0 win led us to lifting the trophy.

Transfers - mainly sales, some larger purchases

Finances - all fine, although most of the AFC CL prize money went on bonuses!

Squad 

Key players:

Domagoj Drožđek - actually got a call up to the Korea side for the EAFF Championship (although didn't play)

Kim Sang-Soo - still prolific

Kim Jin Sung - glad I made his transfer permanent

Ryan Edwards - still doing a good job in midfield

Ottar Magnus Karlsson - another good season from the experienced striker

Future: with Asia completely done now I resigned for pastures new

Also (as seen above) I became Ivory Coast manager with a long view to the 2029 Cup of Nations

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

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
		
Challenge Progress

Club
 3/10 top domestic leagues (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026)
 3/10 domestic cups (Supersport United, South Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, USA, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2026)
 3/5 club continental championships (Supersport United, Africa, 23/24; LA Galaxy, North America, 2025; Busan, South Korea, 2027)
 0/1 club world championship 

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

[Crispypaul]

Took me a while to get a job (I don't think my rep is quite enough for the "Big 5" yet) however Independiente of Argentina came calling in June 2028

They only won the league in 2026 so plenty of potential here

[Gregg88]

Chivas & Australia

Well this is a long overdue update! Trying to get some good time in on the challenge has been difficult, but here we are.

I will keep this short and sweet as i'm still eary days into the challenge. But as you can below, I've finally got into the big leagues and i can now be selective with who i want to manage to be able to finish the challenge ASAP. I would have stuck with Dortmund, but the club world champs wasn't until 2034, so i ditched them. I will worry about that cup when it gets closer to the championships, wether it's 2034 or 2038 etc.

I managed to bag the AFCON quite easily, which was good. Now with the aussies, i should be able to get the Asian Cup in 2035 as I have some great youngsters coming through and just beat Brazil 5-0 (in a friendly) so i'm quietly confident.

I've gotten lucky with Chivas as they are in the North American Champions League already, so i can make a good challenge for that! Got a great team and decent finances. The only annoyance is that i didn't read the club visions properly when i joined and I can't sign Non-Mexican players! I'll test that at some point. "Not judging" apparantly.

[Crowy]

JUVENTUS

2039/40

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2040

Key Players: Hakim Darfalou ~ Joel Wellers ~ Mamadu Camara ~ Fabrizio Corti ~ Rolly Wissa

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: Serie A ~ Serie A II | Champions League | Coppa Italia

As expected we went on to win the league pretty comfortably, I weren't expecting much from this team in the Champions League this squad is not even close to competing and the Champions League is not a Priority anyway. It was the Coppa Italia that annoyed me dominating and them scoring their only shot on target with a 25 yard strike top corner. I'm going to stay one more year to attempt to win the cup as I do want to win a cup in top 5 major leagues too.

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ENGLAND

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2040

A gutting end to my time with England, we looked set to win a World Cup and Euro's back to back being 1-0 up in the final against Spain with 86 minutes gone and we concede an equalizer. Then in extra time not much happens looking like we're heading to penalties and the only highlight of extra time they score in the 117th minute to end our hope of back to back international tournaments. I decided to resign after that as the next tournament for England was the World Cup which we've already won.

I've now taken over Mexico who have the Gold Cup in 2041 hopefully we can go on to win that and assess what I need to do from there.

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JUVENTUS

2040/41

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Manager Profile:  Crowy - 2041

Key Players: Joel Wellers ~ Rolly Wissa ~ Kingsley Igwe ~ Fabrizio Corti ~ Saul Saiz

Squad: Overview ~ Match Stats

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COMPETITION OVERVIEW

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Results: Serie A ~ Serie A II | Champions League | Coppa Italia

We didn't win the league quite as comfortably this time we were bouncing between 2nd and 4th for the majority of the season and to be honest it was Napoli's collapse that won it for us. Also the FM gods weren't against us in the Coppa Italia this time around and we managed to get the main trophy we needed for this season. I think for my next stop will be Germany. Whoever I end up managing in Germany I'll stay with until I win the Club World Cup

CLUB PROGRESS

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CAREER STATS

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Edited August 19, 2022 by Crowy

[Gregg88]

Well that was nerve shuddering for a couple games! Time to press on for the NACL & Mexican Cup!

12/32 trophies!

*Edit*

North American Champions League ticked off! Quite easy considering they beat me in the league and mexican cup!

Edited August 20, 2022 by Gregg88

[Mandy42]

Took my until April 2022 to secure a job. 

Uthongathi in the GladAfrica Championship. There are only three games left in the season. Which is probably why I'm not being judged on my performance this year!

 

[Anners]

After my first attempt got sidelined through the Copa Libertadores bug which infuriated me.... this happens.

 

Pain.

[Mandy42]

4 hours ago, Anners said:

After my first attempt got sidelined through the Copa Libertadores bug which infuriated me.... this happens.

 

Pain.

surely game won would be an appropriate deciding metric before "randomly chosen" ?

[Anners]

2 hours ago, Mandy42 said:

surely game won would be an appropriate deciding metric before "randomly chosen" ?

Real life rules has it as:

Points
Head to Head
Goal Difference
Goals Scored
Fair Play scales (several things in here)
Tie-breaker in neutral stadium.

I thought it was games won at first till I saw the "randomly chosen" as well - really wish the go to for FM would be to just do a tie-breaker.

[vikeologist]

@AnnersSorry for being a bad thread host. I couldn't see the screenshot clearly on the TV I had my laptop hooked up to. Can you imagine of this happened in rel life which is why I guess they have the tie-breaker in neutral stadium). Not sure it can even really be regarded as a bug. I mean, how many times has this situation occurred even in the thousands of seasons played on FM.

Hopefully it's only going to delay you for a year. Think how good success will taste then.

@Mandy42 Welcome to the challenge. always nice to have new blood.

@Gregg88 Welcome to the leader board. I know I usually do memes to celebrate it. I'm just flat out of ideas. I think the meme thing has run its course. Perhaps I should start designing NFTs for getting on the leader board. 

So, ok. I mean, I guess I might need some practice.

[Mandy42]

4 hours ago, vikeologist said:

@AnnersSorry for being a bad thread host. I couldn't see the screenshot clearly on the TV I had my laptop hooked up to. Can you imagine of this happened in rel life which is why I guess they have the tie-breaker in neutral stadium). Not sure it can even really be regarded as a bug. I mean, how many times has this situation occurred even in the thousands of seasons played on FM.

Hopefully it's only going to delay you for a year. Think how good success will taste then.

@Mandy42 Welcome to the challenge. always nice to have new blood.

@Gregg88 Welcome to the leader board. I know I usually do memes to celebrate it. I'm just flat out of ideas. I think the meme thing has run its course. Perhaps I should start designing NFTs for getting on the leader board. 

So, ok. I mean, I guess I might need some practice.

thanks! have a feeling I will be here a while!

[Anners]

14 hours ago, vikeologist said:

@AnnersSorry for being a bad thread host. I couldn't see the screenshot clearly on the TV I had my laptop hooked up to. Can you imagine of this happened in rel life which is why I guess they have the tie-breaker in neutral stadium). Not sure it can even really be regarded as a bug. I mean, how many times has this situation occurred even in the thousands of seasons played on FM.

Hopefully it's only going to delay you for a year. Think how good success will taste then.

@Mandy42 Welcome to the challenge. always nice to have new blood.

@Gregg88 Welcome to the leader board. I know I usually do memes to celebrate it. I'm just flat out of ideas. I think the meme thing has run its course. Perhaps I should start designing NFTs for getting on the leader board. 

So, ok. I mean, I guess I might need some practice.

There's more important things than being a good thread host!

Going on La Liga tie-break rules, it would have gone to fair play which in FM terms would have been 55 for Sevilla (52 yellows + 1 red), 52 for Real Madrid (46 yellows + 2 reds) so technically Real would have won the league by 3 fair play points I guess? I'm trying to not have it be "random"! I was sure I'd seen playoffs before, but it's possibly Italy where this happens?

[Anners]

Previous:

On 15/08/2022 at 22:23, Anners said:

Previous:
 

 

 

2033/34 Season Report:

Club: Sevilla (Spain)
Country: Nigeria

 

League - Cup - Europe

 

 

A double change in the 33/34 season! A move to Spain to manage Seville, and a chance to take on the Nigeria job ahead of the African Nations.

 

LaLiga:
We joined half way through the season with Sevilla in 13th, with no European football on the season. Thankfully, with not much competition towards the top of the table we were able to claw this back and pick up Champions League football towards the end of the year after we caught a particularly hot run of form. Also, Huesca are good now, apparently? Think this is the first team I've seen in the top 5 leagues be at the top apart from the big guns.

Copa Del Rey:
A cup win! A relatively simple route to the final for us here until we met Barcelona in the final. We get a bit of retribution as we get a penalty win after the loss as Inter boss last year. 

 

 

With the Nigeria appointment, we've got a great shot at taking home the African Nations. Then hopefully we've got a Gold Cup and an Asian Cup remaining.

 

 

2034/35 Season Report:

Club: Sevilla (Spain)
Country: Nigeria

 

League - Cup - Europe

La Liga:
Going to be a short and sweet one here. Lost out to Real Madrid "randomly". Gonna be a sore one for a while. I'll be right back after I probably financially ruin Sevilla to get this league trophy.

Copa del Rey:
Wait ages for another cup win and get 2 in a row! This was an incredibly difficult run with an extra time winner v Real Sociedad, an 87th minute winner against Barcelona in the Semi Final and a tight 1-0 win in the final v Huesca.

UEFA Champions League:
A bit of a group of death with Milan, Porto and Lyon and somehow Porto only lose once but finish bottom. We end up getting knocked out by Inter in the Quarter Finals. Whoever managed them previously must have set them up a good team....

 

African Nations:

Internationally I don't seem to be struggling thankfully! I might be able to concentrate fully on club football to round out this challenge the way this is going.

This was probably one of the most straight forward tournaments I've ever had, the Quarter Final against Congo aside! We were helped out by an abject Egypt side who didn't score a goal in the Group Stage and the other side of the knockout draw having all the heavyweights (South Africa, Morocco, Cameroon and Ivory Coast). In the end, we faced South Africa again in the final and should have really won by 3/4 goals rather than the 1 goal margin here.

 

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