The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[Daddy]

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2029/30 Season Review:

Shakhtar's reign has ended! It would have been nice for us to be the ones to topple them, but I can't complain about a second place finish. Our highest ever.

If I was shocked to have won the Conference League last season I'm stunned to win Europa League this season. Each team we faced I figured would be too much for us, but each time we won. I guess if the pattern follows I win Champions League next?

I was finally able to get another Youth Facility upgrade

Nothing major here

Really nice intake. No one pushing for first team minutes, but our U19 and 2nd team are getting very strong. 

2030/31 Season Preview:

We enter at group stage for Champions League, so whenever I get that far I'll post it. In league I want to keep pushing for the league title. The backups have been developing nicely due to the schedule congestion. I expect that will continue and if not this year, hopefully next we'll be winning league.

[Neo_Geo]

@XaWsuper talent with your DM, one to build the team and around and start praying you can keep him for a good few years!

@glennuk well done getting back to the EPL

@Daddycongratulations on second place and the Europa win. You seem to be making real steady progress and if you are bulking up your numbers and quality in the youth team you will be well positioned to finish this challenge

[glennuk]

Can we stop the league now?!?

Fun Fact, this is double the amount of points I had in 19 games in my first season in the Premier League (5 years ago).

 

[JLAB]

Well this is awkward. 

What makes it all the more awkward is that Fiorentina and Napoli have been offered to loan the player back to me. I know that I can't accept the loan back, I honestly should've been smarter and tried to have it so he joined the clubs in the summer instead of the winter.

[glennuk]

6 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

@XaWsuper talent with your DM, one to build the team and around and start praying you can keep him for a good few years!

@glennuk well done getting back to the EPL

@Daddycongratulations on second place and the Europa win. You seem to be making real steady progress and if you are bulking up your numbers and quality in the youth team you will be well positioned to finish this challenge

Thanks @Neo_Geo.

 

On a side note, I never post my cup results as I just play my youth and inevitable crash out relatively early...hope that's okay.

[Neo_Geo]

29 minutes ago, glennuk said:

Thanks @Neo_Geo.

 

On a side note, I never post my cup results as I just play my youth and inevitable crash out relatively early...hope that's okay.

To be honest I feel like I take longer writing up the season end than actually playing through a season, so no issues from my point of view if you skip out some of the detail. It’s the league that counts until that becomes a given then it’s all about Europe.

[Daddy]

Once again back with the statements around "seeing where we match up" as this is a tough looking group to me.

[Diego D10S]

   

                                                                             Season 2022 / 2023

Ended up starting over with my beloved Arzignano. Got close to promotion again but I prefer to stay in Serie C for now.

Got a couple of good talents in first intake.

GL ALL !!   

Edited July 9, 2022 by Diego D10S

[glennuk]

On 19/06/2022 at 19:51, glennuk said:

 

Paul Price (YP18A) - I was excited by him as soon as I saw him. He isn't far from first team level (CB is one of our weakest areas), he has a great personality and when he signed his contract he was immediately worth between 10-17.7 mil. Which would make him our 4th highest valued player. He does need to improve his mentals and he has been put on defensive positioning training straight away. He will get playing time very soon indeed. Could he be a wonderkid? Only time will tell, but either way he is the most promising player to come out of our youth intake in a long time.

Thought this was worthy of a post. My FIRST wonderkid!!

I thought Paul Price (YP18A) had the potential to be a wonderkid when I first saw him and he has just officially turned into one now, also not long ago he changed from Driven to Perfectionist.

[serenade0]

FC ENERGIE COTTBUS (S1 - 2022/23)

 

Excited to manage an East German club for this challenge, and one of the few that have history playing in the top flight of Germany at that. Going to be a difficult start to the save, however, with expectations of my first season especially low. We aren't expected even to stay in the 3. Liga, only to fight bravely against relegation. 

 

 

Existing Facilities

Manager Profile

 

Development Centre - Something to be excited about, plenty of decent youth talent already at the club and a 'very strong' U19 side which gives us something to build on. None of the U19 players are quite first team level yet, but quite a few will be in a year or two. Should help improve our quality or, at the very least, replace the existing deadwood already at the club.

[JLAB]

OFK Beograd - Season 6 - Youth Intake

So we've had just 6 matches since the winter break started, and we have gone unbeaten. I'd have liked to have won more games, but 12 points from a possible 18 possible points is a good sign.

We have managed to secure a top-four in the first part of the season already, so we will be fighting for a 2nd promotion in six seasons. I don't see the title being a realistic possibility having already lost twice to Zeleznicar (P) this season. Still, having beaten OFK Vrsac we have a great chance of getting promoted automatically.

Still, we've had our youth intake and while the quality of potential was exciting, the personalities of the players were disappointing, and makes me wonder if I want to be keeping hold of my current HoYD.

Still, despite the personality not being as good as I'd hope it'd be, Ljubomir Miljkovic is an exciting young winger. I'll be training him to be able to play higher up the wings, but I believe he'll be able to cope rather nicely.

The first of two exciting defenders, and Luka Misic is really tall. Could be an amazing target for our corners, and could be a player that will really help us defending corners. His determination and personality will hopefully be something we can mentor.

This time, we have an exciting goalkeeper. Milorad Jovicevic's personality isn't ideal, but he's pretty exciting either way.

We have another exciting defender, and this time his personality is much better. His attributes are also pretty good, and Radoslav Mrda could give me more options at the back.

The last person I want to talk about is Stefan Dikovic, his personality is pretty good and his attributes are exciting as well. Having more options on the left wing and up from is always pretty nice to have.

[libbyshuss]

Argentina

Premier League

2050 (season 29 i think)

Season Summary

League - well, after selling £32m worth of players last season, which in Argentina is a ridiculous amount of money, I was prepared for a transtionary season. We had a very young team full of prospects but with a young team comes inconsistency, and so it proved. We were all over the shop but just about had enough quality to qualify for the Copa Libertadores again, which is what it's all about

Copa Libertadores - So this is the one! Did we win it? No, and we almost went out in the group stages. We were awful, losing 2 and drawing 1 of our first 4 group games. But we sorted our lived out in the final 2 games to get through. and then we managed to squeak through to the semis but met our old nemesis River Plate, who at the minute are head and shoulders above us. So we went out.....

 

Players

This is the young team I'm putting my fairth in. they have ridiculous potential some of them....

The two I'm most excited about are my English AMC Dean Duggan 48D and Federico Vilacorta 48A

Dean Duggan looks a real prospect at only 18. Check him out:-

Obviously he'd only sign a new contract with a ridiculously low release clause so there's not much I can do really. It's one of the most annoying things about South America.

But the best?

Wonderkids

Federico Villacorta 48A is a wonderkid! and not only that, a full Argentina international as well! My second one!

He's got a 6m foreign club release clause on him as well. So it won't be long before he's gone. Really, I just got to ensure I get a sell-on clause. This guy looks immense! 31 league goals in 29 league games at 18!!!!

1 in 10 at continental level though.....

youth

Weirdly my intakes seem to have improved since my youth facilities went down. Not sure why that would be. Anyway, this years intake looks like it could be the best yet!

To have 4 elite talents with the right personalities and determination at this stage of the save is pretty, pretty good! Segalla looks the pick of the bunch. those physicals at only 15 years old are very encouraging.

Career

Still plugging away for that final trophy! I do like the fact you're forced into a team rebuild every 4 or 5 years in Argentina, but it is a very frutrating place to play in a lot of ways. No money being the main one!

 

 

Edited July 9, 2022 by libbyshuss

[serenade0]

The pre-season review doesn't rate us very highly and we're favourites to get relegated (as expected). At least we're not predicted to finish dead last, so as long as we manage to overperform our expectations by one or two league places we will be fine. On the other side of the spectrum, Nürnberg are firm favourites to go up, with Kaiserslautern expected to finish second.

 

 

Our squad is rather unbalanced, with a majority of our most talented players being central midfielders. It would have been nice to have more diversity among our best players, but at least it presents an opportunity to give some of our youth players a chance in the first team. None of them are really good enough to be starting yet but they can certainly have an impact as a sub or as a rotation player. 

 

 

I've decided to call up 4 youth players to our first team. This will help them develop and also to replace our outgoing players (mostly old deadwood leaving on frees). First is Theo Harz, who has the highest potential (according to my staff) of all our current U19 players. He's pretty mediocre currently, but has good pace and fitness. Not going to start this season over our first choice winger Zografakis, but a solid sub.

 

Next is our highest potential striker Leon Kammradt. Actually already a pretty decent player given his good finishing, touch and dribbling. Not very slow either, and knows how to move without the ball. Unfortunately he's really let down by his physicals. 4 stamina, 8 NF and 9 strength means he just isn't going to ever be a consistent starter, but really good as an impact sub. Really a shame his fitness is so bad, since one of our weakest positions is striker. 

 

Finally I decided to promote Tristan Woitina. Cant really cross, or take a shot, or press. Really just a pace merchant, but with excellent flair and technique. His work rate and fitness isn't the worst, so he is going to be a useful squad player in a position where we sorely lack depth.

 

Finally I decided to bring in a new Head of Youth Development and Assistant Manager. Both are pretty good for this level and I'm surprised I managed to get both of them considering there was some interest from Bundesliga clubs. Interestingly our HOYD is ethnically Turkish and has a good reputation and knowledge of Turkey, so I'm hoping to see some good Turkish regens coming through our ranks.

 

[ANGL]

AS ARAPIRAQUENSE - SEASON 12 (2033)

Manager Profile - Transfers - First team Squad  1, 2 - Finances - Club Info

 

SERIE A

CHAMPIONS!!

Made it! On top almost from the begginning to the end, most of the time with tight differences to 2nd qualified, and in the end they started dropping point. One made, one to go!

 

COPA LIBERTADORES

Again, out in semifinals. I had beaten in league all the other 3 teams which made it to semifinals, so I thought I had a good chance. Unfortunately, was knocked out.

 

COPA DE BRASIL

Another win! Made a double with a League and Cup win.

CAMPEONATO DE ALAGOAS

I'm not counting this one anymore, 9th win in a row in which feels like a preseason friendly tournament.

 

 TOP RATED PLAYER - José Ivan 5A (7,68)

TOP GOALSCORER - José Tulio 6F (56)

 

YOUTH INTAKE

Looks like a good one. I'm craving for a good goalkeeper!!

 

SAVE SUMMARY

TOP 10 ACADEMY PLAYERS

Grey: no longer at the club

[XaW]

XaW - Knattspyrnufélagið Afríkuliðið - Youth intake 2029

Another strong intake, but the lower end starts to dip, and that's a positive, as it means the first team is getting stronger.

A deep striker. Not a bad addition to the team!

[XaW]

The board just sold one of our best players for a pittance...

[darren1983]

Marbella Season 2022/23 Review Segunda Division 2 RFEF

 

League - Was an odd season really, we started well and hit top but then our small squad caught up with us. We had so many games where we just couldn't kill teams off but after the first third of the season we never really trouble Real Murcia who ran away with the league. We should have been closer to them but our small squad meant we had spells of being unable to win mixed in with me spending too much time playing around with tactics and the starting 11. It mean we ended up in the playoffs where we beat Guijuelo and Pontevdra, the later saw us have to come from a goal down at the break but we won promotion at the first time of asking

Copa del Rey - enjoyed our run here as actually beat a La Liga side in Osasuna on penalties after pulling ourselves back from being 3-1 down. Sevilla in the next round were far too good for us but I feel a 2-0 loss at least kept it respectful 

Copa RFEF - this, it seems, is a cup for all sides in the bottom division. Board didn't care what we did so I rotated, issue is that our squad was so small that rotation didn't really change much, either way we found our way to the final which we won with 2 late goals. Nice to get a cup win under our belt though which is nice 

Transfers - none in and none out this season

Squad - As you can see, small squad but I managed to nurse us through the season. No one really ready to step up for next season though which is a worry as our really old players are likely to retire and will leave gaps

Finances - awful. Board invested 725k and we still ended up 1.3m in debt.

Youth Intake - not great really, not one 5* PA which is less than ideal but expectations were low for me anyway. The pics got lost so the ones under ware from the end of season not when they first came through

Jose Alejandro Luque 23A - a CM, fact he's our best rated player should show the level of the intake
Carlos 23B - he's a natural CB but at 5'8" he's unlikely to ever play CB for me, training him at LB
Javi Sanz 23C - likely to be a wide option for us
Pavlos Togias 23D - again more of a wide option than someone who will play through the middle for me
Ibrahima 23E - same as above really but has good pace and decent off the ball which should be helpful
Benjamin Olmedo 23F - could get games as our RB but also as an option on the left 

Career Progress

Season		League			Position	Notes
2022/23		Segunda División RFEF	3rd		Promotion through playoffs. Won Copa RFEF

 

[Vlach]

Youth Intake Season 7

Well, a GK and two possible strikers as elite talents. Basically exactly what we need, just the personalities are not that great. Well a CD would be nice as well, maybe next time? In general i am quite happy with that intake. Sure those unamibitious guys annoy a bit, but i dont have the resources available to expect much better right now.

 

 

[XaW]

XaW - Knattspyrnufélagið Afríkuliðið - Season 2029 - Íslandsdeildin

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Well, this was another surprise for us. We are going into Europe next season! We were far off Valur and Keflavik, but I'm more than happy with how this season went.

Bikarkeppni karla: For some reason we weren't in the cup this season...?
Deildabikar: We drew Njarðvík, Stjarnan, Akureyrar, HK, and Fjölnir. We finished 2nd and got knocked out.

Trophy cabinet

3. deild - 1 (2025)
4. deild - Group A - 1 (2023)

[Vlach]

Season 7 Review

It was a tough season. We had a good start with 11 points out fo 6 games, but then we lost many in a row and i started experimenting with tactics. To make things worse my board sold our best defender d'Amato 25A in the winter, which made our previously mediocre defense quite shaky.  Our strikers needed numerous amounts of chances to score usually, but the main problem i saw in the second half were the wingers - they were simply too slow ( a general problem of our squad btw, just most obvious with the wingers). At the end of the season i left wingers away completely and played with a narrow diamond and two strikers - that helped us at least to secure place 16.

In the end we had to play the relegation playoff against Genoa. Lost the first away leg 3-2, fought back at home and won 3-2, overtime didnt decide anything so we had to win our first penalty shootout ever. And we did One more year Serie B!

Next season almost all of our original players will be gone - only Cozza and Mantorel will be left.  The first season without Tuttisanti as main force in the central midfield. I will continue to try my luck with narrow formations for a bit, because the younger wingers in our system also lack some speed. And simply hope we can survive Serie B for one more year.

  
    League

    

Competitions

    Line Up

    

Accolades

 

   Transfers

    

Shirts

        

3 featured players

Alessio Tuttisanti - bit sad that he is leaving us - was in the first XI all the time since now. 
          
        

Walter Cozza - the only one besides the GK Mantorel of the original players left
          
        

Ferro 26B - our best central defender now ... i hope he continues to develop a bit
          
  

 Summary

   
    
   

 

[XaW]

Another great player has left us, but this time I sanctioned it. His contract was running out and he refused to talk about a new one.

[OlivierL]

    

Njarðvik FC - Youth intake Season 4 - 2025

Youth intake preview

The best intake attribute average wise with 38.68 and one potential star from my home country.. belgium! We needed a DMC and we got a superb one. and we got our first players from outside Reykjanesbær.

Spoiler

 

  

With Jónsson 25F we got our future DC (maybe next season) , with Ólafsson 25E i think that i can retrain him to an inside forward and he could become a first eleven player. Our absolut star is Wolfs 25B , he'll start next season as our main midfielder !

[DazRTaylor]

I have missed the Youth Only Challenge, so I am back in the lower reaches in The Netherlands.  VV Den Ham finished bottom of their league in the seventh tier, so I have taken over.

Club Introduction

VV Drachtster Boys

The Manager

This is me.

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation               Qualifications    Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   WWY   Ada   Det   PlK   YoK   LoD   MaM   Mot
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At start   Minimal       (0.25*)    None                1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     4     1     1     1     4     1     1     1

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Below Average        Below Average     Basic                 Average          Fairly Basic       Local   (0.50*)

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     TOTO KNVB Beker                    Achievements
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Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
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Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets
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Edited July 11, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[XaW]

We keep losing our best players...

[XaW]

Ah FFS!

[OlivierL]

It is realistic that you are losing that kind of players but not good for this challenge @XaW . You really had some great intakes and i love all those nationalities in a country like Iceland, very special.

[glennuk]

Worthing FC - Season 23 - English Premier League - Mid Season Review & Youth Intake Preview

We started the Premier League season with a bang, with two wins in a row. I truly feel that the new tactic has worked wonders and we are much better prepared for the rigours of the Premier League. We have held our own in general, we even beat an ailing Liverpool team 2-1, but do tend to conceded a lot of goals, hence the low goal difference.

League - 12th

We are cruising in the league. Our home form is in the top 7 in the league (our away form is 3rd from bottom), which has given us hope against absolutely everyone. It looks like we are well away from the relegation battle and look more likely to finish in lower mid table (as hoped) than be facing a end of season battle to stay up.

Youth Intake Preview

After the disaster of the Season 22 intake (we don't talk about that generation), we just needed to have some good news. Broto has given me hope that we are on the uptick in terms of youth. Luckily the GK is not the highest rated in the Youth Intake Preview...woohoo.

Stadium & New Affiliate

We have now got a decent size stadium for the Premier League at 33,120, which we sold out for every home game since. Hoping that with 100% attendance we may be able to get another expansion soon.

We also got an important new affiliate, which will give us youngsters from the selected team. We were thinking about a team from Portugal, Germany or Belgium and in the end we went with Royal Excel Mouscron, who have great training and excellent youth facilities along with good academy coaching. This could be a big boon for the club.

Edited July 10, 2022 by glennuk

[XaW]

32 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

It is realistic that you are losing that kind of players but not good for this challenge @XaW . You really had some great intakes and i love all those nationalities in a country like Iceland, very special.

Yeah, I know, but I'm just annoyed the board are selling them over my head. I mean, I sold the one guy who had a contract that was running out and was way too good for this league. A few of the other guys were not even rated as top tier players. It's mostly down to the clubs lack of reputation since I ran up the leagues as fast as I did. It will even out soon enough, but still annoying when it happens. And especially since it was my 3 best central midfielders...

[OlivierL]

9 minutes ago, XaW said:

Yeah, I know, but I'm just annoyed the board are selling them over my head. I mean, I sold the one guy who had a contract that was running out and was way too good for this league. A few of the other guys were not even rated as top tier players. It's mostly down to the clubs lack of reputation since I ran up the leagues as fast as I did. It will even out soon enough, but still annoying when it happens. And especially since it was my 3 best central midfielders...

Yes that is not a good thing , if you compare it with my current team, nobody is trying to get any of my players yet and that is not realistic.. but also because of our reputation is already big enough to keep most icelandic or nordic teams away.

Edited July 10, 2022 by OlivierL

[_JHTB_]

Enfield Town Season 10

Vanarama National League – 18th

Transfers – Fixtures (1) – Fixtures (2) – Squad – Table – Key Player – Hot Prospect

Not much to note coming into the season, and only one outgoing across the season again just a youngster who was never going to trouble the first team.

League

This season was very hit and miss a heavy loss in our opening game 3-0 before somehow winning our 3^rd game 5-0. I did try altering my tactics a little bit due to the pressure our current tactic places on our defense trying both 4231 and 442 diamond but ultimately, whilst they did make us a little better defensively they took too much away from our attacking prowess so we ultimately reverted to our 442 system that won us the league last year.

It was a tough season in general for us as we were in a big battle in each game to get any results and in general we never really drew any games so we were usually comfortably beaten or managed to win our games. This meant that we did actually survive fairly comfortably in the end 14 points clear of the relegation zone. We actually ended up with the 6^th best attack in the league but also the 3^rd worst defense. We actually set a league record this season which I think should stand for all time unless we contrive to 'better' it, we ended up with 190 yellow cards and 11 red cards.

Cups

Not much in the FA Cup we made it through to the first round where we were knocked out by league opposition. The FA Trophy likewise didn’t have much of a tale as we were knocked out in the 4^th round to promotion chasing Solihull Moors.

Youth Intake

A fantastic intake this season with a few players already improving the quality of the first team and will go straight to be regular starters for us. (I forgot to take a screenshot of the intake).

Andrei Lefter 10 – Another season where we have brought through a good goalkeeper, Lefter actually goes straight into the first eleven hopefully helping us improve our defensive statistics next season.

Eirik Stensrud 10 – We haven’t had a good option coming through in the midfield for years so Stensrud is a welcome addition, he’s immediately our best midfielder though physically does have some weaknesses.

Martin Parker 10 – Another player that is an immediate upgrade on the player who was in the first team in his position. Nothing spectacular, but no glaring weaknesses which is a positive.

There are 3 or 4 other players that could end up as squad players next season. A really positive intake.

Key Players

Muhammadu Faal – Faal just continued doing Faal things 23 goals and 7 assists for the 34 year old was a key component of us winning the battle against immediate relegation. Unfortunately, he’s not getting any younger so he’s likely to only have a season or two left for us. The game also no longer considers him to be our key player instead bestowing O'Brien 1 with that moniker.

Jason Clarke 2  – Clarke again had a good season for us, though I do feel he will be replaced in the team before too long as we do have some players with the potential to be better than him.

Reiss Bolarinwa 6 – Whilst not a massively fantastic average rating a pretty decent season for Bolarinwa with 9 assists to his name.

Infrastructure/Looking Ahead

We’ve now improved our junior coaching once more and it is now considered excellent, but our actual facilities are still lagging way behind. Unfortunately, we have a board that’s announced via elections so every 3 years we just get a new owner who’s the exact same as the old one to all intents and purposes. Only this new one decided to remove our senior affiliate so we’ve now got one less income stream.

We again will be aiming simply for survival this upcoming season but hopefully with our new intake we can maybe push towards a more midtable finish. Though the scheduling of the National League is weird in that both times I've been at this level I've had players need resting from playing where I've never had to rest anyone the divisions below.  

Notable Landmarks

Byron Cathline 3 – Passed the 300 mark for appearances this season.

Jason Clarke 2 – Suprassed 200 appearances for the club, incidentally has maintained over a 7 average rating across the now 227 appearances.

Keir Jepson 7 – One of two players to pass the 100 mark for the club this season

Marcus Giles 8 – Reached 100 appearances in record time, only his second full season at the club and already has appeared 100 times for the club.

 

[Daddy]

2030/31 Midseason Review:

Having to rotate a ton with schedule congestion and as a result we're just not getting the league results I think we're capable of. Hopefully we can get back in the top 3 and get a return trip to Champions League. 

Maybe I wound up with an easier group than I realized. Maybe we're just better than I realized and the Ukrainian League is the real mountain to climb. I'll laugh if I win the Champions League, which I don't think I'm doing this season - though who knows at this point, before I win the league title.

If I can beat Villarreal and Dortmund I expect to do well against Atletico. 

Disappointed to not see some strength at Full Back or Winger as that's where we're thinnest now. 

[OlivierL]

 

Njarðvik FC - Review Season 4 - 2025

We won the league after our draw against rivals Valur. We had a very good season in the league so i'm very happy with our second championship.

Pepsi Max Deildin :  A very solid season with only two losses at the end when we already won it !

Meistarakeppni: We won our third supercup against Valur, after penalties.

Bikarkeppni: First time we didn't got into the semi-finals. IA beated us in the fourth round.

Lengjubikarinn: We finished 2nd again in the group stage.

U19: They won the U19A for the second time and they also won the cup.

Europa Conference League: Survived two qualifying rounds but Cluj from Romania beated us in the third qualifying round. No group stage !

Squad

The squad is getting more balanced every season and i'll upgrade three youth players next season to replace some old senior players.

    

We retrained Sveinsson 23D from DR to DC and he was our best player ! Diock was once again our topscorer and he will stay a few mor years. Smarason had a solid season with 12 clean sheets and Gissurarson 23B will be soon our new topscorer,he scored already 16 this season.

Transfers: nothing special.

Youth Intake 2025: A superb intake with three players that will join the senior squad.

Finances & Upgrades

Finances: Finances are good even without a European group stage this season.

Our Junior Coaching is not at the highest level !

Club & Season Facts

Next Season

I am happy that I was able to become champion again and that I got a very good intake. Next season I hope that i can use this intake to replace some older players.  And to make a new attempt to reach at least the group stage of the conference league via the Champions path. This save will continue in two weeks as I will be going on holiday without a computer/FM. 

Edited July 10, 2022 by OlivierL

[LazyBandit]

FC Red Star Zürich - Season 3 (25/26)

League Table

This season was our first in the Promotion League, the 3rd tier, and I'd say it went pretty well. I genuinely don't know what came over the players this year, but they just decided they should play well above expectations. I didn't change anything about the tactic and it was mostly the same squad as last year, so I have no idea where this came from. Highlights of the year include having only 1 loss in our first 11 games and a 6-2 away win over 2nd place Bellinzona. I feel like we couldn't possibly continue this form into next year, but that's what I said at the beginning of this season.

Swiss Cup

Our form in the league couldn't be replicated in the Swiss Cup, as we lost 3-1 in the second round to FC Sursee, a team who got relegated this year. I'd like to give a special shout out to our 1 travelling supporter.

Intake

A pretty decent intake this year. Decent potential on a few players, and some could even challenge for backup spots in the first team. We are still in desperate need of center-backs though.

We added Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey in this year's intake

Countries: 20/227 (8.81)

Intake Map

Off The Field

We had no changes to our facilities this year, good or bad. I got my National C License in the middle of the season, but the board has so far not agreed to pay for the next course. Now that we'll be in the second division, I think the goal is to spend at least a few years there and repair the finances before we're really able to tackle improving our facilities.

 

[DazRTaylor]

My new Dutch save has crashed before I even got going!  I will use a different Dutch file, though it won’t go down as low as tier seven.  I will just edit my post to prevent spam.

[BigJack]

FC United Season 3 2024/25

Competitions

Overview

Vanarama North - League Table 

It was a weird season, we started horribly and only won 1 of our first 7 league games. We then hit some form and looked as if we  could make a run for the play offs before forgetting our shooting boots and only winning 4 of our last 18 fixtures, admittedly we also drew 8 of these games but we just went to pot in front of goal. We ended up finishing 14th but I can see the progress on the pitch and our intake players are starting to make an impact which should stand us in good stead for the future.

FA Cup - Lost in the 4th Qualifying round to AFC Flyde

FA Trophy - Lost in the 3rd round to Alfreton Town

Playing Squad

Squad    Transfers

The squad is looking more and more stacked as we start to bring through some good little players and we also now have a back up for every position basically. The intake players are improving more and more and we had 5 basically start most games this season and that will only get higher as we bring through more quality players. Key men this season were:

Luke Griffiths - Has been a mainstay in our 3 seasons in charge and will be for a while yet as CM is a position where we have some ok newgens but no one who looks like they could replace him just yet.

Filip Ekman 24b - He is going from strength to strength and I am hoping he will light the league up over the next few seasons and help us push for promotion.

Darren Black 24a - He had an up and down season but I am hopeful he will come good. I am struggling to get the best out of him ATM but he should be a key man for us in the future.

Youth Development

Intake Preview     Intake

Thorpe 25a 

Essien 25b

Sean Gannan 25c

Burke 25e

A decent intake again with a few players who can help our first team out straight away and the usual mixture of personalities. Thorpe and Gannon have come through at a great time as we really needed full backs and now I have one for each side.

Finances and Facilities.

Finances    Facilities

Another good year on this front as we got upgrades to our Youth Recruitment Network, Youth Facilities and Youth Category all upgraded. 

Manager Profile

Profile

I completed the continental B license and instantly started the Continental A license so going well on that front.

 

Edited July 11, 2022 by BigJack

[XaW]

XaW - Knattspyrnufélagið Afríkuliðið - Youth intake 2030

A very good intake again.

Well, a good midfielder is needed now that the board are selling all of my players.

[Diego D10S]

                                                                            Season 2023 / 2024 

Promotion too Serie B after a great season scoring alot of goals.

Its going to be a big challenge but hopefully team cohesion will do wonders.

It will be the 3rd and last season with the same first XI.

Youth intake have just been average so far, but investing alot in youth setup now so hoping for gold soon  

GL ALL !!   

 

 

Edited July 10, 2022 by Diego D10S

[SkiIIs]

Season 2041 / 42 - Championship

Something i didnt noticed last season was my u18's winning the Premier Division Cup which meant (i think) that they were eligible for the u19 Champions Cup. They did super well in this beating the likes of Lyon, Hajduk u20's, Slavia Prague, Ajax to make the semi finals before losing to Newcastle 2 - 1.

Anyhow, I enjoyed the season in the second division as it meant we were winning games, scoring goals and developing. We were second on the last day of the season equal with Watford with both points and goal difference but ahead on goals scored.  On the last day we beat Sunderland 2 - 1 whilst they won 3 - 0 meaning they finished second.  We then played Brighton in the first round of the play offs, coming off an 8 game winning streak we loss the first game 2 - 0 after missing a penalty at 0 - 0, then conceding a penalty shortly after.   At home we were up 2 - 0 at half time but copped a goal with 5 minutes to go to ensure we stay in the Championship for another season. With 93 points, we broke the record for highest points to make the playoffs, an unwanted record!

my first preview with my new HOYD was not great:

Youth intake was just as bad, if not worse than the preview.  I will give him another year to settle:

Next year will be an effort to keep my best players especially Gilbey who is wanting to move to a bigger club. Not overly devastated by not getting promoted, i think with this team it would have been straight back down anyways

 

[glennuk]

@skillsahh that's gutting. 93 points should get you up. Hopefully the 1 more year will put you in good stead for when you get back to the EPL.

@BigJackkeep on keeping on. I found the vanarama years much more difficult than the sky bet years.

 

[XaW]

XaW - Knattspyrnufélagið Afríkuliðið - Season 2030 - Íslandsdeildin

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Another strong season for us and we qualified for Europe once again. Valur are still very strong, but I have a feel that if I got to keep the best players I lost this season, I could have challenged them a bit more.

Bikarkeppni karla: We beat Haukar and Víðir before we lost to Kórdrengir in the 4th round.
Deildabikar: We drew Fjölnir, Grótta, Stjarnan, Þór, and Valur. We finished 2nd in the group and got knocked out.

Europa Conference League: We beat Hibernians of Malta and Vllaznia Shkodër of Albania before we lost to Shamrock Rovers of Ireland in the 3rd qualifying round.

Trophy cabinet

3. deild - 1 (2025)
4. deild - Group A - 1 (2023)

[Winski]

IK Sleipner

Season 2022 (season 1)

Division 2 Södra Svealand (1st)
League table | Finances | Facilities | Transfers |Youth intake| Club overview 

 

I'll had some fun on Iceland, but I wanted a different environment. I never did a youth only challenge in Sweden, allthough I had a youth only save with IF Brommapojkarna. I really liked it, and felt this was the right time to start this save in Sweden.
I holidayed until season 2022 started, and chose IK Sleipner out of the promoted clubs. They have won the Allsvenskan back in 1938, so it's a club with a history.

 

I already completed the first season, and had a wonderful season! We won the league on the final day, so we are promoted to the Ettan Fotboll Division 1 Norra(3rd level)!

Best players this season were striker Albert Johansson and goalkeeper Edvard Setterberg, who scored 4 goals this season out of Free Kicks.
We even managed to upgrade our Junior Coacing budget.

Youth intake
Well, you can't expect any fireworks with such basic facilities. The preview gave us 2 A's:

And the intake gave us 3 Elite talents, but it's difficult to say anything about their potential.

These four talents will go directly to our first squad, just to add some depth.

Spoiler

 

[serenade0]

 

FC ENERGIE COTTBUS - SEASON 2022/23 REVIEW

 

League (3. Liga) - 13th Position 

We managed to avoid relegation, and outperformed our pre-season review expected position by 4 places. Despite what is objectively a very good final result, I'm not at all happy with how we've played this season. We were very inconsistent, going on really good runs where we looked unstoppable and then immediately following it up with a month where we seemingly just let the opposition walk up and score whenever they wanted. One positive, however, is that we haven't lacked offensively. We scored the fourth most goals in the whole division, but we were severely let down by our defence and conceded joint most goals along with the worst team in the league Hannover 96 II.  I can't help but feel that if we improve defensively in the next season, we can definitely make a push to finish in the top half of the table. 

Several players stood out this season, but our two best players were unquestionably Niclas Erlbeck and Mathias Wittek. Erlbeck was phenomenal throughout and really carried us through some of our difficult patches, racking up 8 goals and 17 assists. Wittek was similarly great throughout, and provided two qualities that we are sorely in need of: leadership and consistency. It's funny that Wittek ended up as our top scorer (13 goals in the league) while being played most of the season as a centre back, that hasn't ever happened to me before in fm. He was on penalty duty and scored very consistently with headers while also making good offensive runs in the rare games where I used him as a central midfielder. Finally, I was also impressed with younger players like Eisenhuth, Zografakis and Geisler. I think those three will be key players going forwards.

Match to remember - FCN 4 - 4 Cottbus - Wonderful game where we came back from being down 4 - 1 away from home against one of the best teams in the league.

Match to forget - Cottbus 1 - 7 FC Bayern II - Not much to say, really, we just got stomped by a team that is far better than we are right now. Something tells me I should start getting used to getting destroyed by Bayern in this save :' ) 

 

DFB-Pokal - N/A

Continental - N/A

 

Youth Intake

I'm happy that we seem to have gotten some decent prospects in full back and goal. Our best prospects are Sven Dombrowa in right wing and Leander Althof in central midfield. Our starting goalkeeper Stalh has been awful all season so I'm happy that we don't have to keep him around very long. 

The good talent section is mostly just players that are really ever only going to maybe become bench warmers for us. Still some interesting nationalities represented at least (never expected to see a Pakistani regen).

Tables

 

Misc. 

Managed to avoid relegation, but next season looks bright. Going to make some tweaks tactically to better our defence. Made a mistake requesting improvements to our youth facilities, which the board unexpectedly agreed to do and throw us into debt. Our financial status is now insecure and we have been given two years' time to improve the club's financial situation. Things don't look great on that end, but with us not signing anybody hopefully it is possible. I don't think I'm going to ask for any major improvements for a season or two, just until our finances are a bit more stable. I'm looking forward to next season, what could possible go wrong? 

oh...

 

Edited July 11, 2022 by serenade0

[Vlach]

Youth Intake Season 8

Well the personalities could be better, a lot. Otherwise i like that we got some decent striker and winger prospects - next time two really good central defenders please

 

[JLAB]

OFK Beograd - Season 6 Review

After the youth intake we had already been secured a top-half finish in the league, but what we needed to do was try and do really well in the 2nd phase of the league. Yet, we found ourselves losing 3 games in a row and it made me worry that something was going to go wrong.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have finally gotten our first piece of silverware. It took us until the last game of the season to actually ensure we were going up as champions. It really made me wonder if we could have bottled a league title win.

To show how close we came to actually bottling the league title, with 4 games to go we had an 8-point lead, and the 3 defeats in a row we suffered made things far more interesting than it should have done. We actually only officially secure promotion after losing to Zlatibor, which was rather annoying.

The fact that this was such a shock title win tells me that we will potentially be struggling in the SuperLiga next season. Hopefully we don't come crashing back down to the 2nd tier again.

We have also become a club icon with our first title win. It tells me that getting promotion to the SuperLiga in the first season made me a favourite person, which was rather nice of them.

Unfortunately the stadium problems we had last time we were in the top flight are in fact, still an issue.

We're also losing our best player Ivan Stosic to Napoli in the summer, which isn't ideal.

Another annoying issue is the fact that my best goalkeeper is looking to leave for a bigger club. I'm most likely going to need to sell him in the summer to ensure we don't lose him for free. This is not ideal as we attempt to survive in the top flight this season.

Also, to add insult to injury, our youth facilities have become downgraded as well. It keeps on getting worse by the day.

[Daddy]

On 10/07/2022 at 10:41, Daddy said:

Maybe I wound up with an easier group than I realized. Maybe we're just better than I realized and the Ukrainian League is the real mountain to climb. I'll laugh if I win the Champions League, which I don't think I'm doing this season - though who knows at this point, before I win the league title.

Not ready for my next update but I can confirm I did not win the Champions League. Fun little preview: I got demolished by a team with Moukoko, Mbappe, Vinicius Junior, Bellingham, and Tonali. 

[alex66678]

What would you say - is this challenge doable on Xbox version or is it too hard because of the fewer opportunities for micromanagement and the 30 seasons cap?

[hubwub]

It's been awhile since I played FM22. Got the itch again!

I wanted to manage in Europe as my previous attempts on this challenge have been in China. I ended up choosing Spain. I ended up choosing Barakaldo because they are in Spain and also are in Basque Country.

Barakaldo C.F. - Segunda División RFEF - Grupo II - 2022/2023

Manager | Club Vision | Facilities | Squad

There are three players in the previous youth intake that I'm very interested in seeing how far they can develop in our first season.

I have a question for those that previously played in Spain. Is this partnership going to be a problem in the future?

If I do get players from Athletic, I don't play on playing them anyway.

[Winski]

IK Sleipner
Youth intake preview 2023

It looks like a decent preview. I really need some defenders, as my current two DC's are a bit old (31y and 36y), while I've only got one back-up DC(from 2022 intake). So sometimes my back-up DR needs to play as DC. Let's hope that these two centre-backs from this preview are talented!

 

[Winski]

My goalkeeper just scored his 4th goal of the season with this beautiful free-kick, and is now our topscorer as well

 

[Vlach]

 

Season Review Season 8

I wanted to try narrow formation for this season - to make it short it didnt work Becoming desperate after heavy losses at the beginning of the season i reverted to a rather standard defensive 4-4-2. And while not producing sensational football we started to slowly earn points and record some wins. To be honest quite some luck was involved, but in the end i think it was generally deserved that we stayed clear of the relegation places - the first time in our fourth attempt in the Serie B!
Looking forward the future belongs to the youth. Finally our goalkeeper of the last 8 years, Mantorel, signed a new contract for four year - then our good GK prospects should be ready.. Our GK prospects are nice, but not ready imho.  From the first XI only our DR will leave us, it should be possible to replace him.
Our goal has to be to slowly improve most of the players and stay in the Serie B - and hope for a financial miracle, because otherwise I wont be able to upgrade any facilities.

Competitions

 

Best XiI

 

Accolades

Finances Overview

Transfers

 

3 featured players
  

 Diaco 29A - streaky striker, due to lack of alternatives already our number 2 forward 
      
  

 Dièye 25F - Senegalese u20 international, becoming the anchor in our central midfield
      
  

 Ferro 26B - without him our defense tends to break apart
      
 

   Summary