The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35 Did We Finish Top-Half?

We played the last 4 games and we picked up 4 points. We did have Porto and Benfica in our last two games, so I didn't think we've get anything out of those games, even if we did take the lead against Porto and brought it back to 2-2 against Benfica after being 2-0 down.

In the end of the day we managed to finish in 10th place, and I would have taken this sort of finish at the beginning of the season. If we can keep ourselves away from the relegation zone each and every season for the next 5 seasons after this year that I can I will be happy and build up our finances.

In the last video, we showed our last 4 games of the season and even showed what might be a goal that we probably shouldn't have even been allowed to score.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 86

[filipefm20]

After winning 5 spainish leagues last year but not winning a single Europa League or Champions League, is time to go to Siberia 

FC Tyumen has a lot of money (3 million euros in the bank), a decent stadium but not that great facilities.

Due to the lack of left wingers, the pacy but limited Kirsanov will start in the left

Petrakov is the main prospect at the club and will get a lot of minutes from the bench during this season

Rusanov and Korotkov will be also part of the main team due to lack of options in defense

After scoring more than 400 goals for Toledo FC in FM21, Ruben Aguirre decided to become a manager in FM22. It's time to bring the uefa champions league to SIberia

[XaW]

 

I've decided to start again in Norway, in the 10th tier with the old team I played at when I where a kid, Svartskog IF. Playing at this majestic ground:

It's located far away from just about everything, but it still feels like home in a way for me.

The clubs has no honors, not much of a history, and no famous players. The name means Black Forest, and is located in a very forested area that is still quite sparsely populated. They've often not even managed to register a team to join the league. The best result the club ever had, were probably when a group of my friends managed to get into the semi final of the Norwegian version of the FA Youth cup back in 2001. I actually found the official document for it, and we are not even named, but are a ? in the records. How rude!

We lost 2-1 to Gjelleråsen in the semi final (goal by yours truly) and then 3-2 to Asker in the bronze final. 4th place in the Youth cup as a bunch of friends was great, but our names are apparently lost in history! (Note: All of this is true, and when I found out, I actually got annoyed!)

Well, it's time to redeem that! Let's try to make all the Svartskog fans (if there is anyone?) proud!

In the holiday season the club finished dead last, so I have my work cut out for me!

[libbyshuss]

Barracas Central

Argentina

Division 2

2023/24 (season 2)

Season Summary

I have no idea how any clubs survive in Argentina. Where does the money come from???

League - more of the same. At times we were good, at times we were bad. And over the course of the season it avaraged out to sightly above average. But these early easons are rarely about the league position anyway. At east, that's what I'm telling myself.

Finished 14th out of 34 which isn't too bad I guess

Cup - went out to top division Godoy Cruz in round 7. Won something like a wagon wheel in prize money.

 

Players

We have some good players! Valenzuela is the best and has Boca sniffing around him, but they can't be tempted with an over the odds+50% offer sadly. He has one year on his contract so I have to decide whether to seel him or give him a new contract with a massive pay rise. The way I'm losing money though it makes no difference either way really.

Interestingly Olijavetsky was sitting in the U20s with a 2 star potential. I had to play him as my two first team dfenders retired. He played the whole season and finished with a 3.5 star potential. Which is interesting...... it is!

 

Youth

The preview was hugley disappointing and had me questioning whether I could actually do anything with this club at all.

two A grades is ok but only two starts overall did not look promising. I was expecting the worst when the intake came in but......

Ok, ony one elite talent, but it was one more than I was expecting! I was more than happy with a couple of 3 stars as well, that's how desperate I was! and a 5 star godlen generation was nice to see as a message, even if it was a complete nonsense.

Personalities could be better, could be worse. I'm ok with unambitious, not so much the low determination and work rate.

 

Finances and Upgrades

I've kinda given up trying to dig my way out of this financial black hole. It's almost impossible. And the board keep chucking in 600k 'to hep with running costs'. They did it 4 times this season which meant we actually made money on the balance sheet.

I kept chancing my arm with requests for upgrades, not expecting a thing, when all of a sudden....

 

Career

 

 

 

 

[OlivierL]

Our first player included in the NxGn top 50 list:

[filipefm20]

First year intake and it seems that I am going to have a good DM and AM coming in. Sadly I play in a 4-4-2 but maybe I can adapt them to other positions. However I really need full backs an strikers

[filipefm20]

Not the best intake...

[Koetzer]

Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur – season 2044

The golden boy Jonsson gave us the first ever win on this stage, and we were really close to advance but PSG equalized with 10 minutes to play and scored the winning goal in extra time. KR reached the Conference League quarter-final this time.

This title run was the closest so far, after 19 games we and KR both had 18 wins and one loss to each other, but after defeating us and equaling on points (still being far behind on goal difference) they only won once in last three matches. We also set the new league records in points, goals and average attendance thanks to our expanded stadium.

Cups – same story as in previous seasons, we weren’t playing at our best during pre-season but got the main trophies instead.

Group stage – games against Alaves and Dynamo weren’t easy, but we qualified without any problems along with Borussia. The decisive game for finishing on top didn’t go well for us, 0-3 and red cards for two players who will now miss the first match against PSG (of course, who else we could get?)

Transfers – Oskarsson was the biggest departure, quite a useful backup central defender but he wanted to play in midfield for some reason and his attributes weren’t suitable for it at all.

Squad stats – Guðmundsson again had some injury issues so his stats weren’t as impressive as last year, but still enough to become our best goalscorer. Hjaltested, his usual partner at front, mostly plays from the deep but still had 15 goals and the highest average rating. Two defenders – Þorsteinsson and Atlason made their international debuts, and one our player was again mentioned in the top 50 wonderkids – V.G.Guðmundsson didn’t get much first-team football yet but surely will play more next season.

Youth intake

Garðarsson *44a | Böðvarsson *44b | Sævarsson *44c | Mezoña *44d | Castillo *44e

The top rated striker looks really good, and we finally got youngsters from our far southern affiliates.

I guess we’ll need another stadium expansion soon 

[The7Striker]

Enniskillen Rovers FC 2026/2027 Season

Finances  Transfers  Squad

We're in the green when it comes to finances and nodoby left the club in this season. Im quit happy with the squad although some players don't have as much quality for this league.

 

Lough 41 Premier Intermediate League (3th tier)

Season Prev  Games  Past Positions

A safe 3rd place. Until the last game we fought for the playoffs but we lost to Knockbreda after we beat them twice, for the league and for the cup. Defense is the best offense, in our case couldn't be more right. With Alan O'Hanlon, Gary Harkin and Sean McKee doing top notch performances.

 

Sadler's Peaky Blinder Irish Cup

What a cup run!! We enter in the fourth round and with some luck in the draws, we reach to Quarter Final where we lost against a team of much higher quality.

 

Betmclean League Cup

Pretty much like the Irish Cup. The lads did an awesome job.

 

 McComb's Coach Travel Intermediate Cup

We use this cup to rotate the team and still we manage to reach the third round. We lost against Glentoran II in extra time.

 

Youth Intake

 

Spoiler

 

Looks like a good intake. For this leagues ofc. Despite the stars, i belive McCabe as your best gem.

[Morpheus13]

SC Toulon Season 40/41 Review

Table - Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

No surpirse. Once again it was PSG winning the league and we finished worse than last season, but still a good margin to the non EC place. It was a pretty tight race and for long we actually hovered around 2nd and 3rd place but a bit of choking in the end, with a few unnecessary losses. So we will have to play a qualifying round in next years Europa League. This year we actually made our first appearance in european football and we were handed a pretty makeable group

We went through with in second place after we lost twice to Sarajevo, but then winning our round of 16 match against Juventus but then went out in the quarters against SSC Neapel, who went on to win the competition. But a pretty successfull campaign nevertheless.

Squad

Not many new faces who broke into the first team this year. We have a few good young players, but they are not good enough for the first team yet and it actually becomes more challenging to develop them. Before I just played them in the first team, so they developed fast. Trying alot more with loans now. One player who was on loan last season and made great progress there was Florian Giraud 38E. He probably will become the new starter on the right wing next season. Loic Grau 39C also made nice progress, but we will loan him out another year.  Before the season I decided to make a change in goal. Junior Koutangouna 27B has left the club for Nizza and we replaced him with Fred Makouna 38A. Koutangouna had 390 Apps for Toulon and is a legend here.

NxtGen

This year we had 4 players in the NxtGen List. Number 2,3,7 and 24.

Intake 41

Okish intake, with Buisson especially exciting, because I really need a striker with finishing qualities

 

All in all I would say we are heading in the right direction, but it's still  difficult to make the next step. We have a good squad but I feeld some players are nearly playing to their full potential and we still need an upgrade in the squad, in order to compete for the title and for the champions league.

 

[TheWillsy]

South Shields season 14: 2035-36

After the relegation last season, I was expecting that it might take a few seasons to bounce back. However, we started the season really well, just like last time in the championship. We went through the same dip though halfway through the season, but this time around I switched up the tactic to 433 from the trusty 442 diamond and we bounced back and finished the season brilliantly, ending in 1st and winning promotion and the league! 

Tyler Hughes had a real standout scoring season with 36 goals in league and cups.

We also got an update on the stadium at the end of the season, we will have to wait 3 years for it but with 23,000 capacity it will be worth the wait and we can finally move across the country back to our home .

The preview was 5* but didn't look great:

And on first viewing I was pretty disappointed with this one. However, I then noticed the top player was not only a centre back (a position we desperately needed) but he is also a model citizen! 

He is also 6'7"! He is certainly going to be an important player for us in the coming years.

We switched up the tactics again about half way through the season so will be probably going into next season starting with the 433.

2 more upgrades due to the premier league money from last season so we have nearly maxed those out now. Next season I'm hoping we will be able to stay up this time and build from there.

[XaW]

XaW - Svartskog Idrettsforening - Season 2022 - 9. Divisjon Akershus

Squad | Transfers | Finances

A good season where we got promoted as champions. Excellent start to the new dynasty.

No cups this season.

Youth intake:

A very nice intake with one really outstanding player.

He has some really good attributes, and I like that he is either footed.

Trophy cabinet

9. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2022)

[Daddy]

2032 Season Review:

At one point we were only two points out of first, but the scoring dried up and we went on a winless streak. Lots of draws though to keep us in 3rd. The fourth place team got close near the end, but three big wins to close out and finish comfortable third.

The only real item of note here is Y26A going for 2.1 Million. He came and wanted to leave, I agreed for a fee (I think 1.7) that was less than the release clause. Colo Colo came in well under it, I kept countering with the release figuring they wouldn't accept or even come close to the promised amount. Instead to took it. They're not club rivals, but they're mine. Not the first good player of mine they've taken.

2032 Youth Intake:

Some real good talent in there. Glad the keeper wasn't my top player again.

2033 Season Preview:

Expectations continuing to get higher. In league I expect another top 5 finish. I'm hoping to reach the Copa Libertadores group stage. As long as I don't go out the first match in qualifiers I'm fine.

Class of 2022 10 Year Reunion:

8 Players Retired without any history save.

Retired without nickname:

Carlos Andrade - Played 44 matched between 22-26 before moving to a different First Division team for 2 seasons only making 4 appearances and retiring.

Active Players:

Y22A - 69 appearances with 30 goals between 22-26. 700K transfer fee and has bounced between five other teams, including one in Brazil. 153 career appearances with 44 goals including time at our club.

Y22B - Still with us. Emergency backup at this point, but has made 58 total appearances. 

Y22C - 105 appearances between 22-26. Left on a free and has been with the same lower division team since as a regular starter.

Y22F - Another Emergency backup player with only 25 appearances. Regular on the B team and has been loaned out a few times.

Y22H - Never made a first team appearance. Left in 2025 on a free. Has settled in as a starter on a lower division team.

Y22K - 2 First team appearances. Left on a free in 2026 and has also settled in as a starter on a lower division team.

Y22M - Never made a first team appearance. Left in 2025 on a free. Has settled in as a starter on a lower division team.

The team started with some good players that stuck around for a while, so the first few batches didn't have too much to offer.

 

[OlivierL]

 

INTRO | S1 | S2| S3 | S4 | S5 | S6 | S7 | S8 | S9 | S10 | S11

Africanos Bragança - Portugal - Season 12 (2033/2034) Review - 1st tier - Liga Portugal BWIN

Squad|  Youth Intake 34  | Transfers | Finances| Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2

Liga Portugal BWIN:  Very good third season in which we camped around the top six for a long time. In the end, we managed to secure it on the last matchday, but you don't get to the European stages if the cup winner doesn't finish in the top five... that cup final was played by Belenenses (number 10) against... us!

Taça de Portugal: We reached the semi finals against Sporting, after beating them with a lot of luck.. we had to play Belenenses in the final. If we won we would reach Europe (League) , if not we would have nothing.

We did it in the extra times !

Europe beware, eleven Africanos are on their way!

Taça De Liga - Allianz Cup: We lost in the second phase.

U23:  Finished last but no relegation.

 U19 : Our U19 finished 7th in the 1st tier and did not relegate .

Key Players

     

Lopes 30F and Antunes 29A are regular names in this part of the review and had again a good season at the back. Nascimento 33M joins them with 27 goals as a 16 year old striker. He is included in the NxGn top 50

Miscellaneous & Finances

I'm waiting for the first App. for Cape Verde senior team but we are getting some call ups and apps for the U20 now.

Our two, three best prospects aren't getting any call ups, very strange. or they want to play for Portugal and are rejecting any call ups in the background or ?

Finances didn't improve but after getting into the Europa League, this won't be an issue in the next season(s).

Macland is wanted .. by a nation called Scotland :)

Aim for next season

I am certainly looking forward to the money and experience of playing in the Europa League. I can again fit in four or five youngsters from the last intake and hope to take the next step (repeating top six would be fine)

Cape Verde Watch

National Team | U23 Squad | U20 Squad

Cape Verde didn't qualify for the Fifa World Cup.

MVP Cape Verdean International

Objectives update

Spoiler

 

Season Facts

 

 

Edited February 5, 2022 by OlivierL

[MelbVictory]

The trickiest part of this challenge, for me so far anyway, is that I am not getting Goalkeepers of any standard through youth.    My 35 year old GK retired, without notice, not that I could go to transfer market anyway.    But in te 4 youth intake so far, I have not had a talented keeper.

So the question - can you somehow influence the positions in your Youth intake, ie, somehow increase the chance of talent in goals?

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35 Season Review

So the season has officially finished and we ended up finding out that Marítimo got relegated as a result of losing the relegation playoff against Santa Clara at the end of the season.

Looking at the players at the club, we have the likes of Elton Ribeiro looking like he will be a monster for Cape Verde and for us in the future.

Tiago Trabulo is going to be our starting goalkeeper going forward as well, and with the likes of Pereira as our backup, we are solid in the goalkeeping department.

Even if Malaga are interested in signing Pereira long-term, not that it matters since Pereira isn't even interested in joining them.

Unfortunately, Ventura is looking like he wants to move to a bigger club, feeling like he has outgrown the club.

Unsurprisingly, we are considered the bigger overachievers, given we were predicted to finish bottom of the table. 

In other news, we managed to convince the board to improve our youth facilities, but somehow forgot to take a screenshot of the message. We did however, show it in my latest video as we reviewed the season as a whole, and got more sponsorship money coming in. It's a great time.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 87

[The Gold Guard]

OFK Beograd - Year 24 (2045/46)

League | Continental | Cup
Season XI | Overall XI 

A better season involving a beautiful bounce back to the top of the league, but more heartbreak. I have been cursed with the cup.
I keep losing in the final to the old enemy. I must fix this trophy cabinet and get more cup trophies in there.
I don’t want to be seen as a one-dimensional manager - we need to win in various scenarios or we have no chance of getting continental accolades.
Continental-wise we put up a good battle but once again it was a waste of time regardless.
Europa League 3rd place and getting knocked out to tough competition in the Conference League. 

Transfers | Finances

The rebuild worked well. I got some great kids coming through stepping up to the plate but the backfire is that they aren't conditioned enough to play this rigorous schedule. 
The future is looking great though and the more the players appear, their value stock increases, they improve and they get more conditioned.
Despite all of this...

Agents suck. As much as I want to bump up wages as soon as I see that red lock symbol on a minimum fee release clause I know I have a ticking time bomb in my squad.
Better to just take the cash and make another one in the future to try again. 

Youth Squad | Preview | Intake 

A pretty crap intake I am not going to lie. It’s been pretty long-term the past couple of years but I am learning to be more cut-throat hence the pessimism.
Ever since I fluked, obtaining the trophy of  the Youth Champions League, I feel like I need to just focus on the first team.
I wish this squad could be generated into the Serbian Youth League already (grrrr please fix SI pls).

Notable Prospects:

Marinko Komatina (46A) | Novica Vojvodic (46B) | Radovan Obrenovic (46C)

Healthy Crops: 

Dejan Cigankovic (34F)

There is no fault in my eyes. Hope the good times keep coming.
Surely going to be given legend status some time soon?

Ivan Gojkovic (43C)

That wanted icon keeps lurking every summer and winter break.
It will be interesting to see if he keeps seeing his football here or elsewhere. Definitely destined for greatness.

Dusan Kovac (37E)

Since the transfers outgoing have seen our defence been stripped a little, the Slovak has stepped up and plays his central role perfectly. 
One of the few foreigners that has succeeded through the cut-throat Serbian conditions.

Vasilije Jevremovic (42G)

Surprisingly I think the '42 class had a sneaky under-the-radar prospect in this boy.
I hope he can keep on building his presence in the centre of the park.

[WhiteCat33]

Nogometni Klub Pobrezje: 2040/41 – Slovenian 1^st Liga (Season 17)

Season Review: https://imgur.com/a/rn8tBsu

Performance

League: 8th of 10 Fixtures

We did it, we avoided relegation! It really was everything coming together for us. It was a combination of no major injuries to my good players & my 17 year olds developing spectacularly. I always forget the amazing difference when you switch to professional, and we needed it desperately. By the end of the season we have 10 players good enough for the division (no LB, so that board sale last year still aggravates me) and have no defensive subs that are good, but have serviceable 2nd strings for the midfield and offense.

The oldest starters are 21 and are my AMR Anej Oblak 35d and CAM Blaz Grosic 34b. These two were the heart of our offense this season; Oblak with 17 goals & Grosic with 19 assists. I was real worried at the start of the season when 2 of my 3 U-19 GKs got 3-6 month injuries, but the lone usable GK Nejc Staric 38g developed really well and was actually dependable between the posts. He was joned by a rookie striker Ziga Pusnik 38b who got 14 goals in his first season and Croatian AML Adrian Glaves 38j who with his speed helped open up the defense for the rest of the offense to strike. Both of these players developed amazingly and I can already see will be hard to hold on to even with...

Cup: CHAMPIONS! Fixtures

We got our first national level silverware! I'll be the first to admit we got the absolute easiest cup draw of all time. We played all 2nd division teams up until the final game against NS Mura. The match was a midweek match with 3 regular season games left to go and I think that was what gave us this opportunity. Since Mura was in a title hunt they rested some of their starters, while we threw the match before the cup so my 1st team was fully rested. It was 0-0 the whole match and then my Vice Captain & Set Piece player Blaz Grosic 34b gave us a 94' goal to see us steal the victory away from Mura! This means next year we will actually get a shot at some European matches!

Maribor: Start of a rivalry??

So I don't know if it will start up, but our final game of the season was at our cross-town competition Maribor. Due to the title race with Mura above Maribor had to Win or Draw against us to claim the league title. At a sell out crowd of 12,435 our 600 away fans cheered on a thrilling 5-5 Draw where they snatched the victory away from us in injury time with two of their goals coming from our academy graduate and Slovenian International, Denis Pozrl 32a who is one of 4 of our best graduates that are currently at the club.  Sadly I'm afraid an actual in-game rivalry won't develop because early on we got tons of bogus rivalries that spawned when we were in lower leagues and because we hardly played the teams they have all since disappeared. The media also considers Denis Pozrl 32a one of the top players for Slovenia, so we are already making our mark at the national stage.

 

Squad

Youth Academy

YI Preview

Youth Intake: pretty disappointed about this one

He’s probably the best of the bunch, but unfortunately, he has 4 marking so seems dangerous playing him as a BPD. We will see how he trains.

Atleast the “A” GK has a good personality but man this is still not an improvement. Thankfully my current young GK has done fine this year and we have him on a long contract.

I’m only taking 4 so a ST and LB round it out. Again not the LB we are looking for, but we desperately need some.

Club Upgrades

Football World 2040

As I don't have any other nation loaded its not really a simulation of the other leagues, but I always find it interesting what happens after 20 years, so in the spoiler are screenshots of some of the major leagues, European competitions Euros & World Cup.

Spoiler

Excel

[filipefm20]

I managed to stay up in the first season despite only winning 2 games since the winter break (13 games).

 

Danil Karpov had a great season scoring 20 goals and being one of the main reasons for us to stay up

Danil Krivoruchko started the season as the third center back but was also one of our best players.

Ilja Romanov will be the starting left back next season due to the lack of options.

Alexey Kolesnikov and Stanislav Ramazanov will also be options next season on the main team playing as CM and Striker

I also managed to get an improvement in youth facilities and two coaching badges

[libbyshuss]

Barracas Central

Argentina

Division 2

2024/25 (season 3)

Season Summary

Our best season yet! And we had to sell our best player halfwaythrough too!

League - We were amazing after the winter break. We lost the first game and then went on an amazing run of 13 unbeaten until the end of the season that snuck us into 5th overall and into the promotion playoffs. The team with most points from the two promotion groups is promoted, the other champion goes straight into the play off semis. The next best 7 go into a play off, which is where we found ourselves. By surprise it has to be said! We took our good form into the playoffs too, all the way to the final!

 

Colon are a really good side and proved a bridge too far but I was reallly pleased to get that far and put up such a good fight as well. It bodes really well for the future!

Cup - As does our cup run! We went all the way to semi-final where we were beaten 5-1 by Estudiantes, a proper team in the premier league and everything. But because of the vagaries of the Cup calendar we're already out of next seasons competition, beaten at the first hurdle by a third divsion side. whoops....

 

Players

So here's the best team! Worryingly there's 4 over the age of 30 that will need replacing really soon and i=I'm not sure the young players coming through will be up to the job. We'll see

Olijavetsky keeps on improving in potential, from 2 to 4 star now. Which is kinda weird but awesome at the same time. Vasquez is really an attacking middie that I had to stick up front our of desperation. He is now a natural striker with 40 goals this season! Leguizamon 24B is the first youth pull to become a first team regular! woohoo!

 

Youth

A very exciting youth preview! Lots of A grades and an excellent intake promised!

The actual intake wasn't quite as exciting but still good enough I think. 

Only two elite talents but a goalkeeper is a huge relief. We ony have one at the club and he's 35! So I'm hoping Calleri will be good enough sooner rather than later. 

 

I could really do with one of those intakes that are elite talents as far as the eye can see. That would be lovely.

 

Finances and Upgrades

So the finances are still a binfire but the board seem quite happy with that for some reason and keep increasing our wage budget despite us losing money like crazy. 

We lost Valenzuela, our best player, at christmas. He would have signed a new contract in summer but wanted way too much so I thought I'd be clever and wait until nearer his contract expiry date to get him for a cheaper wage. So he announced he would consider his options at the end of the season. So I offered him out and got loads of 1m+ offers but none would offer a future transfer clause. So I didn't sell him. Then at christmas I panciked and sold him to Pumas for 550k rather than lose him for a free. I was trying to be all clever and it backfired spectacularly... d'oh!

And then, at the end of the season,possibly because of how well we did this happened....

So things are happening! We're making improvements! It's slow going but I can see some progress and that's all I need to keep plugging away. 

Hopefully good youth recruitment will make a huge difference to those intakes.....

 

Career

 

[XaW]

10 hours ago, MelbVictory said:

The trickiest part of this challenge, for me so far anyway, is that I am not getting Goalkeepers of any standard through youth.    My 35 year old GK retired, without notice, not that I could go to transfer market anyway.    But in te 4 youth intake so far, I have not had a talented keeper.

So the question - can you somehow influence the positions in your Youth intake, ie, somehow increase the chance of talent in goals?

For goalkeepers, you can't really influence it. For other positions, it will be impacted by the HoYD's favoured formations, but everyone has goalkeepers. There has been talk about their coaching ability influencing it, but I haven't read any confirmations regarding this anywhere.

[OlivierL]

Development update

 

Intake Class 2032

11 June 2034

 

Big attribute increase with 11.54 % .

 

 

Intake class 2032

 

11 June 2034

 

Big attribute increase with 11.57 % . and a very good personality change.

 

Intake class 2033

11 June 2034

 

Big attribute increase after only one season with 6.48% . and a very good personality change.

Edited February 5, 2022 by OlivierL

[The7Striker]

1 hora atrás, OlivierL disse:

Development update

 

Intake Class 2032

11 June 2034

 

Big attribute increase with 11.54 % .

 

 

Intake class 2032

 

11 June 2034

 

Big attribute increase with 11.57 % . and a very good personality change.

 

Intake class 2033

11 June 2034

 

Big attribute increase after only one season with 6.48% . and a very good personality change.

In a few years Africanos Bragança will be the new Cape Verde National team. Top players 

Edited February 5, 2022 by The7Striker

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 14 - A New Tactic

So I've decided that I was going to try out a new tactic for this season after having some problems at the back. Honestly, this likely isn't the way to go, but I was trying something similar in my Build A Nation save in the Czech Republic managing Vysočina Jihlava and it was working wonders, so I decided to try and implement something similar with Beira-Mar. 

I also uploaded my latest Beira-Mar video, where I actually looked at every single player that has come through the Beira-Mar academy since I started the save. A fair warning though, the video is about 57 minutes long.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar

[XaW]

XaW - Svartskog Idrettsforening - Season 2023 - 8. Divisjon Akershus

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Invincibles! And unsurprisingly, we won the league and are looking to compete at a higher level next season. The board surprised me this season and asked if I agreed to go semi-pro, and I agreed of course!

No cups this season.

Youth intake:

Excellent intake and the improvements provides.

Excellent defender, even if he is a bit short.

Loads of either-footed players, and I appreciate it.

Trophy cabinet

8. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2023)
9. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2022)

[DrJones]

Truro City 2024/2025

We managed to get promoted somehow, our counter attacking style were very effective and our strikers had a great season. I have no idea how we got a home game in the play off semi-final against Hampton & Richmond since they finished higher in the table but I am not complaining. Next season will be a real struggle in the national league but it would be great if we could stay there for a few years.

Squad

Youth Intake

Some great players in this intake, the best one is Goddard but unfortunately he is Unambitious...

Come on you white tigers!

 

[dkouv]

Sant Andreu – Season 2 (2023/24)

Primera RFEF Grupo I Another great season from the lads. I thought we’d struggle after our best and only right-back José Llamas unexpectedly retired in the summer, and our right winger who could also play right back refused to renew his contract, leaving me to retrain a youth AMC to play emergency right back )) To add injury to insult, my first-choice AMC then broke his leg and my best MC tore his ligaments, leaving us short of quality for the majority of the season.

But then, we had all these youngsters, and the quality of the teams didn’t seem that much higher than the division below, so after a slow start we were flying in the winter, winning 9 in a row and going up into the playoff spots. Our form nosedived in the last few months, but we still qualified for the playoffs in second. That was a step too far however, as we lost the playoff semi in a closely fought game against Castellón.

 

Players: The attackers that were at the club are still our best players but they were injured a lot, so the player of the season goes to last intake’s Aarón Hontoria 01a who developed amazingly and suddenly from having no good center backs we have two very good young ones, with Hontoria rated as one of the best players in the team at 16 years old. The other honourable mention goes to our AMC Jaime Vladegut 01b who hasn’t developed as much, but managed to both become natural at right back, and notch up 3 goals and 6 assists from that position (alongside some pretty terrible defending).

 

Youth intake (preview): Quite a few 5* prospects again, but personalities are poor and no-one is first team ready yet, so it’s not really what I was hoping for. I hope some of the fullbacks develop as we’re really lacking in those positions. I am also thinking about cheekily retraining Alex 02b to play left back...

  

Facilities / finances: £900k in the red but they agreed to upgrade youth coaching and recruitment, gotta love this board! Rumours of a takeover are circling but I hope they aren’t true.

 

Transfers: this is no Newcastle Utd, we were content with loaning out 1 player ))

Season    |  League               | Pos. |     Europe     |   Best player                   |  Notes
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2022/23   | Segunda RFEF Gr. III  |  1  |     n/a         |  German Fassani (ST)            | Promoted
2023/24   | Primera RFEF Gr. I    |  2  |     n/a         |  Aaron Hotoria 01a (DC)         | Lost in playoff semi


Facilities
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Season    |  Coaching     |  Recruitment      | Training Fac.  | Youth Fac.      |  Stadium
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2022/23   |  Average      |  Average          | Average        |  Average        |  6,557
2023/24   |  Adequate     |  Good             | Average        |  Average        |  6,557

 

[OrToDaRy282]

Coaches and training schedules advise?
Do you take highest stars or take staff with good personalities only?

And how do you guys set up training schedules?

[V50]

57 minutes ago, OrToDaRy282 said:

Coaches and training schedules advise?
Do you take highest stars or take staff with good personalities only?

And how do you guys set up training schedules?

I personally find little difference with stars and coaches, but a big difference between professional and non professional player progress, so I go for the personality first 

[libbyshuss]

5 hours ago, OrToDaRy282 said:

Coaches and training schedules advise?
Do you take highest stars or take staff with good personalities only?

And how do you guys set up training schedules?

yeah, i go for personality first. 

And to be honest, i always leave training schedules to my assman. I only get involved if i  need to rest players for a big game or something.

[XaW]

XaW - Svartskog Idrettsforening - Season 2024 - 7. Divisjon Akershus

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Just about the perfect season! 18 wins in 18 matches are just excellent. The majority of the players are from the latest intake, and the improvements we've done are clearly returning on the investments.

No cups this season.

Youth intake:

Lovely intake, with loads of talented players.

Insane mental attributes for a 15 year old, and not bad overall.

Loads of pace and good technique as well.

Trophy cabinet

7. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2024)
8. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2023)
9. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2022)

[libbyshuss]

33 minutes ago, XaW said:

The majority of the players are from the latest intake, and the improvements we've done are clearly returning on the investments.

I love the way you're attracting players from the likes of Afghanistan and Lithuania to what is essentially a field in the middle of nowhere!

[The7Striker]

38 minutos atrás, XaW disse:

XaW - Svartskog Idrettsforening - Season 2024 - 7. Divisjon Akershus

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Just about the perfect season! 18 wins in 18 matches are just excellent. The majority of the players are from the latest intake, and the improvements we've done are clearly returning on the investments.

No cups this season.

Youth intake:

Lovely intake, with loads of talented players.

Insane mental attributes for a 15 year old, and not bad overall.

Loads of pace and good technique as well.

Trophy cabinet

7. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2024)
8. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2023)
9. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2022)

Really hope that your board doesnt rent a 7h drive Stadium 

[XaW]

6 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

I love the way you're attracting players from the likes of Afghanistan and Lithuania to what is essentially a field in the middle of nowhere!

Haha, well, it's not far off from Oslo, so I can imagine some families from those countries living nearby!  

[The7Striker]

So:

 

Edited February 6, 2022 by The7Striker

[JAwtunes]

This guy is one of my star players. His contract is up in 6 months and he has refused to even speak to me about a contract for ~2.5 years (his agent is a d**k!).    Thought id give it one more go and was able to get this done.  so chuffed.

[libbyshuss]

Barracas Central

Argentina

Division 2

2025/26 (season 4)

Season Summary

Our best season yet and a really nice surprise!

League - we started wel with 8 wind from the first 9 but then heading into the winter break we struggled and lost as any as we won. After the winter break we were ok, not great, but we managed to stay in the top 4. Then we won the last 4 of the season and to my surprise finished top! Second overall once the two groups were put together but still, we qualified for the Champions play off game!

   

Play offs - So, if you win your league group you get to play a play off against the other champion to see who gets promoted. If you lsoe, you drop into the other playoffs at the semi fina stage so you get two chances of promotion.

We played really well in the champions play off but a 90th minute winner saw Urquiza promoted with a 3-2 win. 

So into the play off semis we went, playing  Agropecuria. First leg we absolutely battered them. 21 shots to 7, xG of 0.45 to 1.86, and yet we somehow managed to lose 2-0. Second leg was at home though so we had a chance of turning it around. But again we somehow managed to lose against the odds, 4-3.

So, two chances of promotion and we blew them both!

 

Players

Worrying as the 4 most important players are the wrong side of 30 now. I reckon I have one or more two chances at promotion with this team and then it's back to rebuilding and surviving

 

Youth

A really nice preview! I was quite excited by this...

 

Youth previews are meaningless really aren't they?

 

look how low those top prospects determination is. Very poor.

 

Finances and Upgrades

So they won't allow me to get our training grade up to standard but....

 

Career

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 14 – 2035/36 Season Preview

Going into the new season, I found myself not being the worst team in the league and I have no idea how that's the case outside of the fact that Chaves and Académico de Viseu couldn't get back the loan players they had last season. It's either that or our players have been getting better throughout pre-season.

Understandably, we are going to be relying on Vítor Ventura on the wings to be really good for us, even if he is now refusing to sign a new contract. So I know for certain that this will be his last season at the club for us, provided nobody hits his release clause in January.

Tiago Trabulo is our other star man, and he's already been getting better since we first met him 4/5 months ago. It's actually mental how much he is improving already.

In my latest video, we played against Belenenses in the Allianz Cup as we looked to our formation and tried to make sure that we managed to get to the 2nd Phase of the cup for the first time since we got promoted to the top flight.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 89

[Sn00gle]

  
Ruch Chorzów - 2025/26

Squad - League - Finances - Transfers 

A good season but a little disappointing. After the first part of the season I thought European cups were within reach after we lost in the 1st round of the Polish Cup to Zagłębie Sosnowiec who had a very good season. After coming back from winter break we play against 2 teams from the bottom of the table in which we get 2 red cards and eventually lose. Despite the poor forecast Bender brought 3 quite interesting players to the club. Admittedly, they have a hopeless character like all the new youngsters, which probably influenced the assessment, but ultimately they are quite good players. My experiment with mentoring didn't bring any results after over a year of mentoring, unfortunately the hopeless character of my side defenders didn't change. In the meantime my training facilities deteriorated but over the break I managed to repair them to the same level. Next season we lose our top assistant Szkatuła. Old age, deteriorating attributes and the cosmic contract he is expecting force me to make a change. Wyroba my only DM is being tempted for the second window by champions Lech Poznan so I assume we won't be able to keep him for next season. Maybe season 5 will turn out to be lucky

Spoiler

 

 

 

Spoiler

[XaW]

XaW - Svartskog Idrettsforening - Season 2025 - 6. Divisjon Akershus

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We continue our climb, but this was harder than it looks. Holter had a horrible start, but they were the better team in the last half. If they had started stronger they could potentially have beaten us this season.

No cups this season.

Youth intake:

Another strong intake, with one outstanding talent.

Stian Økland 25a is my new first choice striker. Excellent player for this level.

Trophy cabinet

6. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2025)
7. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2024)
8. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2023)
9. Divisjon Akershus - 1 (2022)

[Winski]

Garbarnia Kraków
2026/2027 (season 5)
Ekstraklasa; 2nd
League table | Competition overview | Finances | Facilities | Transfers | Club overview | Manager profile

This was a wonderful season! In the league we finished 2nd, behind Lechia. Lechia was just outstanding this season. They only lost 3 games (one against us) and grabbed 83 points, which is almost a record for this league(88 points). So I'm not complaining at all. I'm very, very happy about this season. And we qualified for European football again! This time the Europa Conference League.

Best players were, again, defender Bartłomiej Niedzielski and our striker Michał Feliks. Also right inverted winger Wojciech Słomka had a very good season. From our own academy, there are three players who I want to mention.
the first one is left wingback Paweł Błasiak 24e, who is really important on our left flank. Then our future captain Szymon Dudek 23a, who is very important on our midfield. And last but not least: Maksymilian Kondak 26d. I put him in the first team when our left inverted winger Kamil Kuczak got injured for 3 months. He played fantastic, scoring 9 goals in total, and 5 assists. And he's only 17. Very nice talent!
We invested a lot of this CL money into our facilities. We upgraded a lot of them, so we got very decent facilities nowadays!

In the Cup we lost in the Qtr Final against finalist Pogoń Szczecin, who relegated this season. At the beginning of the season we played in the SuperCup (Superpuchar Polski), but we lost after penalties against Legia.
This season we also made our debut in the Champions League Group Stage. As posted before; we lost almost every match, but we won against Sporting CP and finished 3rd. These are the results in the CL:

In the 1st Knockout Round of the Europa Leage we met Olympique de Marseille. At home we played 1-1, but in the away game we lost 4-0. Which is not a shame, comparing both teams.

Youth intake
I totally forgot to take a screenshot of the youth intake preview
But this was the intake. It looks like a very decent intake.

Spoiler

We now got quite a few foreign affiliates: Bohemians(Ireland), Excelsior(Holland), Carl Zeiss Jena(Germany) and Landskrona BoIS(Sweden). So hopefully we'll get some foreign youngsters soon!

[DazRTaylor]

I have no idea if this will stick but here I go in Iceland again, starting in the fifth tier at Ungmennafélagið Samherjar, who finished bottom of their group.

Club Introduction

Ungmennafélagið Samherjar

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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At Start   Below Average        Below Average     Basic                 Average          Basic              Regional   (0.50*)

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Overall Career Record

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

Date               Player                    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     Mjólkurbikarinn          Lengjubikarinn A                    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 February 7, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[Sn00gle]

Season just started and 2 players poched ><

[JLAB]

Congrats. Hopefully they're rubbish. @Sn00gle

[Sn00gle]

28 minutes ago, JLAB said:

Congrats. Hopefully they're rubbish. @Sn00gle

Hope so  And Thank you!

[Koetzer]

Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur – season 2045

That was our best European campaign so far! I had almost no hope to beat PSG as whole our defensive line was out with injuries and suspensions for the first leg, but somehow we managed not to concede in both games. Then Liverpool, the team we’ve already beaten last season in the group and did it again in extra time. Man City won the trophy twice in a row and it seemed that they would easily advance to another final with 4-1 lead on aggregate and 45 minutes to go. However, late in the game we got a man advantage, Gunnarsson immediately scored from a free kick… but we had no more chances to take the game to extra time. Quite disappointing, as Ajax made it to the final from another pair and it could be a real chance to complete the challenge.

Though our youth team did what the seniors still couldn’t, winning the Youth League final against Milan!

This was even a closer run than last year, and three teams had title chances until September. But to be honest, it’s mostly our fault – we dropped too many points in games which should have been won with a big margin, just look at these stats – 0-1 defeat with 0,01 xG for opposition 

Cups – surprisingly won all the trophies despite playing the pre-season finals with full backup squad.

Group stage – it was clear that we’ll be competing for the top spot with Chelsea, and both games were really remarkable. In London we equalized from 0-3 only to concede on 90th minute, and before the home game we lost both goalkeepers – Sigþórsson was out with flu, and Sveinsson suddenly retired at the age of only 32 and without any serious injuries. So, it was the debut for 18 year-old Guðnason who played really well, and the outfield players were great in front of goal, not creating too much but scoring from the first three shots and giving us a head-to-head advantage! Milan will be our first playoff opponents, hopefully not the last. 

Transfers – this 4M fee for a 30 year-old backup midfielder was our transfer record. Not a big surprise as we didn’t sell any key player for 8 years and the reputation and transfer values increased a lot since then.

Squad stats – K.H.Guðmundsson had another productive season, only few goals short from the record one. Two next goalscorers usually played in midfield – our main set piece taker Gunnarsson and V.G.Guðmundsson who was again named in top 50 wonderkids and made his debut for the national team along with striker Bjornsson, left-back Ulfarsson and center-back Guðfinnsson. Speaking of national team, we had 15 players there at one point (though they weren’t nearly as successful as the club, failing to qualify for the second major tournament in a row).

Youth intake

Þórisson *45a | Bjartmarsson *45b

Got a decent pair of strikers, and actually no one else to mention.

[libbyshuss]

Barracas Central

Argentina

Division 2

2026/27 (season 5)

Season Summary

An amazing Season!

So covid had completely screwed up the Argentinian leagues as they cancelled relegations but not promotions,  meaning the premier league had 28 teams instead of 20. So the past 4 years have seen 4 relegation and only 2 promotions, decided by play offs. This season was the first season back to normal, where the top 2 teams get automatically promoted and there are no paly-offs

Things weren't looking good for us after we lost 2 of our opening 3 games and then suffered a few too many injuries. But we scraped a few results and kept ourselves in with a shout. And then, after the winter break, we were amazing. We ended up going on an record breaking 18 match unbeaten run. We then lost 2 games against teams around us but held our nerve to win the last two games and finish in second place. Promotion!!!!

 

Players

An aging side got us up. I'm not sure how it's gonna keep us up to be honest. The younger players aren't quite ready I don't think

Amazingly, Olijavestsky is now 4.5* potential! not bad for a 2* potential I threw in at 17 because I had literally nobody else! Delgado 23C and Calleri 25A broke through to the first team this term as well. A few other youth pulls played here adn there but they were almost all completey crap, which is a bit upsetting. But I've learned to be way more patient with my youths in this challenge so they will get plenty more chances

 

Youth

Not a great preview. 3 A grades but only a good intake promised

 

So I wasn't too disappointed with the intake as I wasn't expecting much. Even more worrying was the assertion this was an excellent intake!!

 

Finances and Upgrades

Still no money and still no way of getting any in sight. Argentina isn't England sadly. But the board were so super happy with promotion that:-

 

So things are moving slowly upwards. Exceptional youth recruitment already is a nice surprise but the board won't even think about upgrading anything else.

 

Career

So survival is the only goal next season. It's gonna be tough though as 4 get relegated from a 20 team league

 

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 14 – 2035/36 Opening Games

So our season has been rather hit and miss. We seem to only either win or lose, which is a little concerning. I would like it if we actually turned some of those defeats into draws.

So despite having our rather questionable form, we are currently in 8th place, 7 points clear of the relegation drop. Mostly because we're winning. Turns out winning games is good for your league position. Who knew?

I also decided that the 4-2-3-1 formation was giving up too many goals, so I decided to go back to an old friend in the form of the 4-3-3 formation, mostly because I had conceded 10 league goals in the first 4 league games. I had to make sure we were better defensively.

So my latest video where we showed all of the goals has gone live. I'd love to one day get a draw, and I also want to get more clean sheets this season, because we need those now. At least we can score, right?

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 90

Edited February 7, 2022 by JLAB

[theBlackPrince]

 

Jyväskylän Jalkapalloklubi (JJK for short) is a Finnish club from Jyväskylä, playing their home games at the 5,000 seater Harjun stadion. After gaining promotion back to Ykkönen, the Finnish 2nd Division, for the 2022 season. They have found themselves in the Finnish 3rd division for most of their history but did have one glorious season in 2011 when they would gain a 3rd place finish in Veikkausliiga (Top Division) and found themselves in Europe for the first and only time. They would find themselves in the Finnish 4th Division for the 2019 season and have become a yo-yo team which now hope their days below the top 2 leagues are over!

Why Finland?

Finland is a country that I have never managed before and also a country that has never qualified for the World Cup. They are also not on the hall of fame for the Youth Academy Challenge (probably for a good reason) so seemed rip for taking over and seeing if it was possible to make a success here. With only two playable leagues, there won't be the grind like they is in England but there is less room for error when gaining promotion if the youth prospects are not good enough to stay up! And I just loved that logo if we are honest!!

The Manager

Youngster Jasper Jussila has surprisingly been chosen to lead the team to glory. With no prior management experience it will be trial by fire and ice as he takes the helm. 

The Squad

With just 2 players on contract, the rest need to be offered immediately to sign them before they leave and we are not left without enough players for the season. Short across the back it may be a case of score more than the other team until safe this season. Not much else to say right now until can get players signed and see what tactics we can put together for this season!

 

[The7Striker]

C.E. Jenlai is my latest club. Lets see how it goes in Andorra