The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[JLAB]

Never too late to enter. People are starting new saves all the time.

[paullilly]

2 minutes ago, JLAB said:

Never too late to enter. People are starting new saves all the time.

Cool - I’m gonna take a crack at this later. Maybe Holland

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 11 – 2032/33 Season Preview

So in the world where we start our first season after getting a top 3 finish, our squad is only considered good enough to finish in 16th place. However, my board are looking for a mid-table finish despite what the media believes of us.

We also decided to change our tactic from a 4-3-1-2 formation to a 4-2-4 formation in an attempt to get ourselves further up the table and win promotion after missing out on promotion through the playoffs last season.

So I've got two videos to share. I actually made a video where I looked at the world of football 10 years on from my first season in charge at Beira-Mar. There has been some rather incredible things happening in the view-only leagues it seems.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 65 - Looking Around The World 10 Years On

The other video I put out also goes over the squad and looks at where our strengths and weaknesses are throughout the squad compared to the league and sees us play a Portugal Bwin Liga side in the Allianz Cup too.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 66

[XaW]

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2026/27 - JD Cymru Premier

Squad | Transfers | Finances

With the excellent promotion last season, I went into this season with an open mind and hopeful we could compete, and in some way we did. Of course, TNS and Bangor City is way out of our league currently, but we showed we could bite back at times. We held TNS to a 2-2 draw at home as the highlight in that regard. At the time of the league split we were only a few points off 6th and the upper tier, but we instead had to compete to avoid relegation. At that point it became quite clear Gap Connah's Quay and ourselves were better than the remaining four teams. Even with an embarrassing home loss to Flint Town couldn't drag us down into the relegation scrap. So we are staying up for another season, and that gives us something to build on. Now we also know what we are up against. For the record, currently TSN, Bangor City, and Colwyn Bay are the three professional teams. The rest are semi-pro, except Cardiff Met Uni who are always amateur, of course.

I finished the Continental Pro license, so those are done. This season we also got our very first improvement, the board accepted improved junior coaching, and the youth intake proved it was a good investment.

Welsh League Cup: We lost to Flint Town on pens in the 2nd round.
Welsh Cup: We beat Porthcawl Town, Llanwit Major, and Trefelin BGC before we lost on pens to Bangor City on pens in the semi final.

Youth intake:

A much better intake than before, possibly linked to the improve junior coaching. Some much needed talent.

Jordan Hulse 27f fills a nice left back shaped hole in the team. Probably first choice next season.

Paul Bailey 27g is not the biggest talent, but he is a Model Citizen, and who doesn't love one of those!

Josh Turner 27k is the biggest talent this year. Not the position I needed the most, but nice free kick taking!

Trophy cabinet

JD Cymru North - 1 (2025/26)

[The7Striker]

28 minutos atrás, XaW disse:

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2026/27 - JD Cymru Premier

Squad | Transfers | Finances

With the excellent promotion last season, I went into this season with an open mind and hopeful we could compete, and in some way we did. Of course, TNS and Bangor City is way out of our league currently, but we showed we could bite back at times. We held TNS to a 2-2 draw at home as the highlight in that regard. At the time of the league split we were only a few points off 6th and the upper tier, but we instead had to compete to avoid relegation. At that point it became quite clear Gap Connah's Quay and ourselves were better than the remaining four teams. Even with an embarrassing home loss to Flint Town couldn't drag us down into the relegation scrap. So we are staying up for another season, and that gives us something to build on. Now we also know what we are up against. For the record, currently TSN, Bangor City, and Colwyn Bay are the three professional teams. The rest are semi-pro, except Cardiff Met Uni who are always amateur, of course.

I finished the Continental Pro license, so those are done. This season we also got our very first improvement, the board accepted improved junior coaching, and the youth intake proved it was a good investment.

Welsh League Cup: We lost to Flint Town on pens in the 2nd round.
Welsh Cup: We beat Porthcawl Town, Llanwit Major, and Trefelin BGC before we lost on pens to Bangor City on pens in the semi final.

Youth intake:

A much better intake than before, possibly linked to the improve junior coaching. Some much needed talent.

Jordan Hulse 27f fills a nice left back shaped hole in the team. Probably first choice next season.

Paul Bailey 27g is not the biggest talent, but he is a Model Citizen, and who doesn't love one of those!

Josh Turner 27k is the biggest talent this year. Not the position I needed the most, but nice free kick taking!

Trophy cabinet

JD Cymru North - 1 (2025/26)

I'm imagining the GK take a free kick and than run down the pitch to save a goal 

@JLAB i notice that you have twins as CB 

Edited January 14, 2022 by The7Striker

[XaW]

3 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

I'm imagining the GK take a free kick and than run down the pitch to save a goal 

 

Quite possible to happen! I will make a gif if it does!

[darren1983]

On 12/01/2022 at 20:05, Pauldinho7 said:

@darren1983 for the HoF!

 

Walk in the park....

 

Unbelievable scenes at the final whistle!!!

 

They only managed one shot on target...

 

Some of the key players in this team:

Goalkeeper Juan Carlo

 

The main midfield pairing:

Wonderkid Rui Elias who is destined to move from Right Back to Right Wing in the not too distant future:

 

And of course the main main Steevan Sousa who now has 221 goals in 363 games for the club - LEGEND:

Congrats mate, you have put the 6 Pauldinho's that came before you to shame  

Have added you to the HoF. 

[darren1983]

9 hours ago, JLAB said:

Thought it was an interesting video to bring up the concerns of the dynamic youth rating thing, since we're doing youth-only saves.

I did fear this when I saw the announcement at the time, things like this that look good on paper usually take a couple versions to get right sadly. 

[Winski]

Garbarnia Kraków
2023/2024 (season 2)
Ekstraklasa; 7th
League table | Competition overview | Finances | Facilities | Transfers |Youth intake | Club overview | Manager profile

 

Long time ago since I posted something here. I was very busy, so not much time for FM. And I also started another (youth only) save with IF Brommapojkarna which is a lot of fun. But that team is ofcourse not allowed in this challenge. But I'm back at this save now! I finished my second season with Garbarnia, and our first season in the highest league in Poland. And it was a very decent one! We were never in relegation danger, but also never really competing for the European spots. So we finished 7th, with 20 points behind a European spot and 23 points behind the champion Legia Warszawa.
Our best performer this season was by far Kamil Kuczak, with 17 goals and 12 assists. I am also very happy with Jakub Kuczera's contribution. I retrained him as a right inverted winger and he scored 8 goals, together with 8 assists.
After our last game, we earned some very welcome money, so we finally have black numbers again.

Youth intake

The preview was very promising with lot's of A's. The intake itself was a very good one! Some really nice youngsters. Our facilities are still quite awful, so I'm very happy with this intake. We even got a Belgian lad!
 

Spoiler

[Gersdude123]

 

Happy with how the rest of the season went next season is going to be much tougher  

[OlivierL]

INTRO | S1 | S2| S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8

Africanos Bragança - Portugal - Season 9 (2030/2031) Review - 1st tier - Liga Portugal BWIN

Squad| Youth Intake 31 | Transfers | Finances| Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2

Liga Portugal BWIN:  What a rollercoaster, it has been a long time since I experienced such a relegation battle and I have enjoyed and suffered. On the last match day we were two points ahead of Vizela , they had to face Braga at home and we had to face Porto. I knew I wasn't going to win... we lost by 6 0 but Vizela didn't win , so we stay in the BWIN for another year! This is really a miracle with this squad and I don't know if I can do it again next year. Varela 28D  had a great season with 9 goals and 12 assits. Our best academy player Veiga 27G finally signed a new contract (unfortunately with a very low release clause) . Miranda 30C was the youngest player ever in the BWin and also youngest goal scorer. And do you remember Evora 25J , the player who didn't want to talk anymore and left for free a few seasons ago ? after three seasons of searching for a club he retired . it's a shame !

Taça de Portugal: Lost in the 5th round against Famalicao .

Taça De Liga - Allianz Cup: We beated Vizela and Moreinense to finish last in the group stage.

U23:  First season for our U23 and they finished last with only 2 points. No relegation.

U19: Our U19 finished 10th in the first tier and managed to stay up after finishing 4th in the relegation playoffs.

Key Players

 

For the first time , not one but two Academy players as key players . Lopes 30F had a very good first season as first choice goalkeeper and Antunes 29A had a good season as second best central defender.

Academy graduate with most Appearances (This season)

Veiga 27G is our best player and played the most minutes.

Miscellaneous & Finances

New kits for our first season in the BWIN. We got Betano as shirtsponsor, they were already kitsponsor for Benfica, Sporting , Braga and many more. In real life they almost were the main sponsor for the Portugese first division : BWIN will be the main sponsor of the Portuguese League while BETANO threatens legal action (

We received a U23 team. They will play in the U23 Liga Revelaçao . 

We also got our first affiliated club , a team near Lisbon. 

We received 3M TV money + 2.4M sponsorship money and had a much higher attendance in our rented stadion so our Finances are looking much better now.

After receiving our sponsorship money, we are healthy again and we got two upgrades.. Junior coaching only the second upgrade since season 2.

Aim for next season

I am satisfied with our progression. an U23 team, a first partnership, financially healthier, some upgrades ! Hopefully I can survive a few more years and then take the next steps. In the short term I hope to do some upgrades and keep the better players for two,three years till i get some new good prospects.

Cape Verde Watch

National Team | U23 Squad | U20 Squad

Cape Verde reached the Fifa World Cup group stage, but lost both games.

Belgium won the Fifa World Cup.

Cape Verde reached the group stage of the African Cup of Nations but failed to qualify for the knockout fase.

 

MVP Cape Verdean International

Season Facts

[OlivierL]

On 08/01/2022 at 11:57, DrJones said:

Recreativo de Huelva 2030/2031

We did not manage to defend the title, our rivals Sevilla surprised everyone and won it. We had our focus on Champions League so the league games were not really the main goal.

Champions League

We did it! We played every english team in the tournament and they could not handle the mighty Huelva. To be honest we should not have won the final, they slaughtered us and the only reason it went to overtime was our amazing keeper Marquez. But Newcastle were so frustrated with their missed opportunities and received a red card. Three minutes later Pablo Bejarano steped up and scored the winning goal. A real smash and grab to be fair. Well this means that the challenge is completed, much faster than I expected of course and I feel a little bit empty, I have got really attached to this club and the players.

The Winning XI

                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                          

History

Vamos Recre!

@darren1983 this also needs to be added to the HoF , i think  thanks

[JLAB]

2 hours ago, The7Striker said:

@JLAB i notice that you have twins as CB 

They will be twins no longer. I decided to get rid of the NewGan facepack as some of them were not working as well as I hoped it would be.

[andreidvb]

LOCHORE WELFARE FC

SEASON6 2027-2028

1st PLACE - EAST OF SCOTLAND CONFERENCE X (SCOTTISH 8TH TIER) PROMOTED

 

SEASON SUMMARY

SQUAD

TRANSFERS

YOUTH INTAKE

 

 

SEASON7 2028-2029

8TH PLACE - EAST OF SCOTLAND FIRST DIVISION CONFERENCE A (SCOTTISH 7TH TIER)

 

SEASON SUMMARY

SQUAD

TRANSFERS

YOUTH INTAKE

 

SEASON8 2029-2030

11TH PLACE - EAST OF SCOTLAND FIRST DIVISION CONFERENCE A (SCOTTISH 7TH TIER)

 

SUMMARY

SQUAD

TRANSFERS

YOUTH INTAKE

[jepze]

   

Jepze - UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole - Season 2025/26

This season is the worst one so far. We lost in the first round of the cup, ended 12 out of 17 in the league. A funny thing is, That since we got promoted to the National 3 - Paris Île-de-France, there have been one extra team in the league every season. I think it have something to do with the teams who relegates geopgraphy, but more matches means more gate receipts, but also more travelling. One of the good things with all the matches are, that i have played a lot of youngsters in the last half of the season for ther development, and some of the players have develop a bit. We need to go for the promotion push at some time, then we need to make our best players better. At this point, our 3 best players are in there mid an late 20's, but 2 of our own players are in the last 2 spots of top 5 in the club. I'll show one of them later in this post.

Squad | Transfer | Finances

The 4th youth intake was again an 5 star excellent, where we would get a good goalie, but i couldn't find him, when i got the youth candidates, so a bit disappointed. We got an E in the winger spot (can't see on the picture), but one of them is going to rock our world next season.

Spoiler

As i said in the begining, onw of our new players are Top 5 of the players in the club. Here you have Kenny Shaiëk, who is an good ML/AML. He's fairly average in our useful stat, but at this level, it's good to be around 8-9 in every stat for his position. The only negative i can't find is, that he will turn 16 in november, and players can first play first team football at an age of 16.

Next player is another DM/CM to our team. Welcome to Kévin Lafargue. He looks like an decent BWM on the DM, where we don't get a youth player. He will be starting in the first team squad, get some subs, but has to fight a lot to be our first choice. He will matbe get some game time on CM, otherwise he will play, when our DM gets an injury or suspension. 

Last player i'll show is an CD who looks decent. Christain N'diaye needs some pace and strength, but overall, he looks like a good player, who will get som game time next season.

Manager statistics

[darren1983]

14 hours ago, OlivierL said:

@darren1983 this also needs to be added to the HoF , i think  thanks

Has been added

[BustaRaymes]

*FM20*

Molodechno-DYuSSh-4

2037 - season 18

Belarussian Highest League

Another boring season. The tactic needed some tweaking and two periods in which I played the top 4 in a month time stopped our streaks, denying us a place closer to the top.

We did get another youth investment increase after the board plugged some holes in our finances, and we are still in the cup - QF draw against Isloch - so we still have a chance at European football.

 

Transfers

Long-serving Chichev was fed up so I let him have some playing time in his final few years. Kudravets had kept our bench warm for years and went on elsewhere as well.

 

Squad

No one really stood out, but we did have a different take on the squad this year.

We let a lot of players leave on a free and are only keeping the most talented players from now on. Training with the first team, playing their games in the B-squad. I've been unhappy with player progression in the U19 so that team is empty now, only to be used again when we make money yearly.

 

Youth intake

Our first intake since the upgrade seems interesting already. The first time in years we have more than one 5* PA, and overall CA is higher as well. Especially Vasilkov is right on time as my only AML options are both 30 now.

I've signed the first 5 and Novik, as he's currently the 4th best CB:

 

Next season:

Just hoping for a little luck as midtable is boring, but we can't seem to get out of it. We need something that pushes us in the yearly European cups to make the next step.

[paullilly]

I think starting in Holland may have been a mistake. 20th in the league and not long to go, might be restarting soon!

[Gersdude123]

any tips on how to make money so i can ask for upgrades to my Facilities etc 

[XaW]

3 minutes ago, Gersdude123 said:

any tips on how to make money so i can ask for upgrades to my Facilities etc 

The only options is get far in cups, sell players, or get promoted. Not exactly groundbreaking info, but lower leagues are hard with the lack of money.

[Gersdude123]

4 minutes ago, XaW said:

The only options is get far in cups, sell players, or get promoted. Not exactly groundbreaking info, but lower leagues are hard with the lack of money.

thanks for the tip got a feeling it's going to be a really hard season in the National League

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Youth Intake 2034

 

A really solid intake. A couple of really talented players and plenty of potential all around. Moritz Janz-Bolz has the potential to become class I think. 

 

         

Edited January 15, 2022 by thomas_e

[Gersdude123]

Going to Stick with this Tactic again for next season did really good for me last season 

[paullilly]

I can't believe I survived! I've never had such a bad season!!

 

Now its time to see what these youngsters can bring to the squad. Im playing 433 narrow so the wingers ill try to convert to full backs or forwards.

 

[JAwtunes]

Any laptop recommendations anyone!?

[Gersdude123]

Got a real feelings I’m going to struggle badly with my squad against the teams in this division did a few pre season games against them and there dominating my team 

[Daddy]

2026 Season Review:

Really solid season. The intake players from the previous few seasons finally starting to take over. Figured I had an outside shot at Sudamericana and happy to make it. 300K just for making it and a win into the group stage will be 1M. That's as far as I could realistically expect to go. 

I didn't want to lose Y22A, but his contract was up and wasn't staying. He needed to go to a "bigger club", so I got 700K and he joined the team that got relegated...

2026 Youth Intake:

The striker and central defender immediately make senior squad.

2027 Season Preview:

The luck of the draw for Sudamericana is the deciding factor on a quick exit or some group stage play. First time media hasn't given me 1000-1 odds.

Edited January 15, 2022 by Daddy
posted too early by accident

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 11 – 2032/33 A Club Legend Is Sold

The season has been going well so far. We're doing well in both of the cups, and we even beat a Liga Portugal Bwin side in the form of Gil Vicente. Our league form is going well, even if we managed to be beaten by Estrela da Amadora much to my own surprise. We are scoring a lot of goals though, even if we almost blew a 4-goal lead against Leixões.

Are things stands, we are currently in 2nd place. Looking like our defeat in the playoff final last season hasn't affected us too badly, and our new tactic is also working a treat in the league, once again. Two tactical tweaks in two seasons has made us hard to play again, which is always lovely.

What wasn't lovely though, was the fact that the board decided to sell Hugo Sandoval to Al-Wasl of UAE. Admittedly, getting £425K for a 32-year-old striker is a good fee to get, but he has scored over 100 league goals in 11 seasons, so that's a massive number of goals that we will be missing. We even scored a hat-trick and got an assist in his last game of his career for us against Felgueiras 1932. The only club league of Beira-Mar will be missed.

Our latest video shows how we almost bottled a 4-0 lead and also shows how well we've been playing using our new system so far. It gives me hope that once again, we can be challenging for promotion next season. Wouldn't that be the dream?

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 67

[libbyshuss]

2065/66

Premier League

Season Summary

So, after winning the league last season I only had the Champions League to go. After two losing finals, could I do it this season?

Champions League Well, we were handed a nice easy group to be fair and we made short work of it. None of the teams could get near us really.

Round 1: Porto. We've played them a few times and they've never beaten us so I was quietly confident. A good 1-1 draw was followed up by a comfortable 3-1 win at home

Quarter Final: We got so lucky with the draw! Somehow Cadiz had made it to the QF despite being in the lower half of La Liga and having a pretty limited squad. They were by far the easiest option in the draw and it felt like a win even before we'd played the games. Luckily my complacency didn't stretch to the rest of the squad who dispatched them with ruthless efficiency

Semi Final: Again, we lucked out. We'd already beaten Villareal in the group stage and here they were again. There were much harder teams as well but there you go, sometimes you need a bit of luck!

So, through to our third final! And this one was a relatively easy rout through as well but with Bayern Muich waiting for us i knew it was unlikely to be as easy in the final. But surely third time lucky?

 

so onto the final and......

We did it!!!!!!

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!!!!!!!!

But it's tinged with a bit of sadness. I've grown to love these little number on a spreadsheet and am gonna miss them! And I still got so many amazing prospects coming through as well.....

League: Not that it matters but for the first half of the season we were amazing. Only Newcastle could keep up with us. Then in Feb we had a wobble, 2 defeats and 2 draws and Newcastle didn't wobble and suddenly we were chasing them. As I turned our attention to the Champions League the league results suffered and we finished second.

 

 

Players

So who were the Champions League winning side? This is who they were!

Branislav Mancic 54A - What a player! by far the best I think I've ever had out of a youth academy. He was ridiculous at times. In the first 14 games of the season he'd scored 30 goals. He had a run of scoring 4, 4, 1, 6 as well. He won every award going and finished with 64 goals in 43 games. And the winner in the CL final! Check out these career stats!

Charles Khumalo 61A - Bit weird that he's only 21. He's so good. Best player I've ever had straight out the youth academy in terms of CA. Premier League quality at 16! 50 caps and 160 PL games at only 21 as well

Emanuel Odita 51A - 98 caps for England! There's world cup in 2066 so I may hang around jsut to see him make him get to 100, and maybe win a world cup in the process.

Joe Turner 62A - The future of Whitby Town. Not only a Champiosn League winner but won his first England cap and was selcted for the World Cup as well. It would have been interesting to see how good he could have got, I think he could have made 100 caps like Odita easily

 

Youth

Ah, who cares anymore right? it was ok actually, couple of nice looking prospects.

Career

It took me a while but I got there in the end! it was a fun journey though, lots of ups and downs and play-off defeats. 

 

Onto the next challenge! Gonna give this custom Argentinian database a try. Goes down to tier 4 I think. 

 

 

 

Edited January 15, 2022 by libbyshuss

[JLAB]

Congrats @libbyshuss

[XaW]

Impressive @libbyshuss! Congrats on completing the challenge! 

[jepze]

Congratz @libbyshuss

[Daddy]

congrats @libbyshuss

[The7Striker]

Congrats @libbyshuss

[Vespertine]

Congrats @libbyshuss!

 

Took a break from my Ton Pentre save after losing a number of first teamers on a free to divisional rivals and almost getting relegated. I'm going to make a fresh start in a country where I can at least offer part time contracts, holidaying and reloading at the moment looking for a particular team..

[Winski]

Fantastic work, @libbyshuss

[paullilly]

second season, on an 18 game losing streak. Still C+ with the board...

[BustaRaymes]

Congrats @libbyshuss, beautiful run!

[OlivierL]

2 hours ago, libbyshuss said:

2065/66

Premier League

Season Summary

So, after winning the league last season I only had the Champions League to go. After two losing finals, could I do it this season?

Champions League Well, we were handed a nice easy group to be fair and we made short work of it. None of the teams could get near us really.

Round 1: Porto. We've played them a few times and they've never beaten us so I was quietly confident. A good 1-1 draw was followed up by a comfortable 3-1 win at home

Quarter Final: We got so lucky with the draw! Somehow Cadiz had made it to the QF despite being in the lower half of La Liga and having a pretty limited squad. They were by far the easiest option in the draw and it felt like a win even before we'd played the games. Luckily my complacency didn't stretch to the rest of the squad who dispatched them with ruthless efficiency

Semi Final: Again, we lucked out. We'd already beaten Villareal in the group stage and here they were again. There were much harder teams as well but there you go, sometimes you need a bit of luck!

So, through to our third final! And this one was a relatively easy rout through as well but with Bayern Muich waiting for us i knew it was unlikely to be as easy in the final. But surely third time lucky?

 

so onto the final and......

We did it!!!!!!

CHALLENGE COMPLETE!!!!!!!!

But it's tinged with a bit of sadness. I've grown to love these little number on a spreadsheet and am gonna miss them! And I still got so many amazing prospects coming through as well.....

League: Not that it matters but for the first half of the season we were amazing. Only Newcastle could keep up with us. Then in Feb we had a wobble, 2 defeats and 2 draws and Newcastle didn't wobble and suddenly we were chasing them. As I turned our attention to the Champions League the league results suffered and we finished second.

 

 

Players

So who were the Champions League winning side? This is who they were!

Branislav Mancic 54A - What a player! by far the best I think I've ever had out of a youth academy. He was ridiculous at times. In the first 14 games of the season he'd scored 30 goals. He had a run of scoring 4, 4, 1, 6 as well. He won every award going and finished with 64 goals in 43 games. And the winner in the CL final! Check out these career stats!

Charles Khumalo 61A - Bit weird that he's only 21. He's so good. Best player I've ever had straight out the youth academy in terms of CA. Premier League quality at 16! 50 caps and 160 PL games at only 21 as well

Emanuel Odita 51A - 98 caps for England! There's world cup in 2066 so I may hang around jsut to see him make him get to 100, and maybe win a world cup in the process.

Joe Turner 62A - The future of Whitby Town. Not only a Champiosn League winner but won his first England cap and was selcted for the World Cup as well. It would have been interesting to see how good he could have got, I think he could have made 100 caps like Odita easily

 

Youth

Ah, who cares anymore right? it was ok actually, couple of nice looking prospects.

Career

It took me a while but I got there in the end! it was a fun journey though, lots of ups and downs and play-off defeats. 

 

Onto the next challenge! Gonna give this custom Argentinian database a try. Goes down to tier 4 I think. 

 

 

 

Amazing journey, great job and some great academy players . Good luck in Argentina.

Edited January 15, 2022 by OlivierL

[libbyshuss]

Thanks everyone, had great fun with Whitby!

I went on holiday for a season just to see how we did. I got sacked on 6th November lol! we weren't even doing that bad!!!

I'm holidaying a few more seasons, just to see where my ladds end up. I just can't let go at the end of a long save like this. it's really sad!

[TheWillsy]

Congrats @libbyshuss !!

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Season summary 2033 - 20234

Consecutive top 4 finish and Champions League reality check

 

Our first season in the Champions League and it was a season that put our squad depth to the test. From March the fatigue on our key players were dreadful and we struggled with injuries all along. We did however manage to finish 4th, something I was really happy with. This was technically a step back from our 3rd place last season, but considering the fact we played in the Champions League I am happy that we managed to finish top 4. Overall we were pretty solid, but we are really vulnerable to injuries. We have some really talented players in our U19 and out on loan, but I am nervous about bringing them into the first team too early.

I experimented between a classic 4-2-3-1 and a 4-2-2-2 all year. We are struggling a bit finding our tactical identity and we have to figure that out for next season. 

In the Champions League we got a group of death. Man City, Inter and Ajax.. We managed to beat Ajax home and away, but from the first game against Man City it was obvious we were not going to reach the knock out stage. Finishing third, we ended up in the Europa League. We beat Anderlecht and Athletic Club comfortably, but we got knocked out with a bang against Benfica. A 5-0 loss away and a 0-1 loss at home and that was the end of our European adventure. 

Next season is going to be another transitional year for us as I will be looking to renew most of our loan deals. Hopefully we can finish in the top 4 once more! Our best player, Mohamed Ouni, has two years left on his contract and he doesn't want to renew. A contract reneval for him would be great, but I think we need to get more involved in the title race for that to happen! 

 

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[WhiteCat33]

Nogometni Klub Pobrezje: 2030/31 – Slovenian 3^rd League: East (Season 7)

Season Review: https://imgur.com/a/ZqwmrS1

Performance: 7th

If you pay attention to the league position you can see this was no where near the 'comfortable midtable' that we've had the past two seasons. It was really because until the end of the season we were dry on new attacking talent. Midway through i got a new starting AML up to 17 and in the final stretch a new CAM and both are miles better, which saved our season. Relegation was truly in the cards without them.

Squad

Transfers

None

 

Youth Academy

Youth Intake Preview: Our first 4* intake, maybe it means our quality is finally up so its not just maxed out potentials?

Youth Intake

I decided to take 7. Here were a few notable ones.

A model citizen?? He’s not good, but my strikers aren’t yet anyways so I’ll keep him and hopefully he can become a mentor when he’s older. Only downside is paying a youth contract for one year then he can sit on a non-contract

Retrain this guy at RB probably due to his height and lack of mentals, but actually having some movement will be huge as our RB/LBs are all like 5 or less pace/agility/accel Right now, so like molasses slow.

A wild GK: Spirited with almost max eccentricity. I’ll take him but I’m liking how my current 6’5” fairly professional GK is doing

 

Club Upgrades

Excel

Manager Thoughts:

While this season wasn't nearly as strong I expected it. We have talent in the pipe and it will take a couple years to clear out all the initial players and utilize our massive increase in JR Coaching and Recruitment to step up our talent. We've got a lot of prospects turning 17 over the summer so we will see how they fair next season. I love how quick these seasons are to play in comparison to my Belgian save. 

[WhiteCat33]

Congrats @libbyshuss! 

[Vespertine]

FC Ruggell - 2. Liga Interregional Gruppe 6

After much pondering and reviewing available teams in the out of the box leagues I opted to download a Swiss level 5 database expansion with the intention of trying to pick up one of four teams from tier 6, and after 5 reloads I managed to pull FC Ruggell. We will be playing in the 5th tier of Swiss regional football, with the interesting caveat that the club is actually based and produces youth players from Liechtenstein. This makes the challenge more interesting as Liechtensteiner clubs cannot qualify for the Champions League (or Europa League for that matter) via the Swiss top tier. The winners of the Liechtenstein Cup are given a place in the first qualifying round of the Europa Conference League, meaning in theory I'd have to win the Conference League, Europa League and then Champions League in consecutive seasons to complete the challenge. Nothing like making a hard task harder right?!

 The odds aren't favourable however it does appear there's a worse team than us! We only have a very small squad with a number of teams already interesting in some of our players, as always the first season will be the hardest. Looking at the league rules it appears the Wil Second Team can be promoted to the next tier so taking these odds into account they look like they'll take some stopping.

Edited January 16, 2022 by Vespertine

[ANGL]

Congratulations!!! @libbyshuss

[Elsjorro]

I am gonna take you guys on a tour trough Iceland. I skip the first few seasons and ill go right to the first season we actually won a prize: 2029.

So, as required: No incoming transfers. Outgoing transfers are nothing to mention. 

So for the 3th time in a row, we get a pretty decent preview. We managed to up the scouting budget 2 times and also our youth setup. If im right, we have excellent setup and scouting. Lets see what that brings us:

 

 

The intake itself: 

 

 

Mental again. We have 3 players that go straight in the starting 11. Olafsson, Reinhardsson en Heimisson are players that can easily serve. But Heimisson will need to wait his chance, ill show u why later.

Heimisson, Speed, Acceleration and Finishing: What is there not to like?
 

Olafsson, i might make him a MC because i got a very talented AMC allready.

Reinhardsson, a much needed RB.

 

So, onto our best players:

Good old Tumi, one of the last legend players. The rock in our defense:

 

Tomasson, was the first good talent that came trough. Was also a AMC, but made him a MC.

Magnusson, came in 2 years ago after i first upgraded the system. Very nice winger with speed and, some technics. I like it. 

Vidarsson, came in last year. Went straight in and didnt dissapoint me. 

The ultimate talent: HAUKUR BJARNASON. Jesus. What a player. Sad to knowhe allready wants to leave, but he is so good for this level. Also made his Iceland debut, so thats the first Iceland debut this game. 

Lindomar, also came in last season. Mental stats are mental (Pun intended). 

So at this point, we got 9 players playing for icelandic youth squads. Its going really well. 

 

So, on the dutch forums were i mostly did my updates voor FM 2021 ( Completing the challenge with FC United and V.V. Weerdinge, hidden brag) i allways pointed out one thing: It is good to have a good defense, or a good midfield. But when u want to win prizes or complete this challenge, there is really 1 thing you need more then anything: A world class striker. Your team can be the best team in the world, if your striker is ****, its a problem. But if u have a not so good team, but a world class striker he can win you games. So as soon as Bjarnason came into the picture, we became Champions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[andreidvb]

LOCHORE WELFARE FC

SEASON9 2030-2031

8th PLACE - EAST OF SCOTLAND FIRST DIVISION CONFERENCE A (SCOTTISH 7TH TIER)

 

SUMMARY

Squad

Transfers

Youth Intake

 

SEASON10 2031-2032

11th place - EAST OF SCOTLAND FIRST DIVISION CONFERENCE A (SCOTTISH 7TH TIER)

 

SUMMARY

SQUAD

TRANSFERS

YOUTH INTAKE

SEASON11 2032-2033

10th place - EAST OF SCOTLAND FIRST DIVISION CONFERENCE A (SCOTTISH 7TH TIER)

 

SUMMARY

SQUAD

TRANSFERS

YOUTH INTAKE

[andreidvb]

Congrats for finishing the challenge @Pauldinho7 @libbyshuss Nice job guys!

[HighwayCathedral]

On 14/01/2022 at 23:35, JLAB said:

They will be twins no longer. I decided to get rid of the NewGan facepack as some of them were not working as well as I hoped it would be.

There's a site called ArtBreeder. If you create an account and use the Potrait mode, that can be a good way to use A.I. to generate genuinely unique faces for your youngsters. That's what I've been doing lately.

If you like you could post me 3-5 of your newgen faces and I'll generate a few as an example (to see if you'd like the rest of them done that way)

Actually, come to think of it, let me post a few examples. These were for a Turkmenistani side that I was playing as:
 

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