FM22 Global (Less England) Small Club to Big Club Challenge

[Britrock]

Work and life has been manic recently so my Hyeres save has been on the backburner, but I finally played PSG for the first time and we more than held our own. In fact we outplayed them for large parts of the game and very nearly beat them, succumbing to a heartbreaking 92nd minute goal. PSG are currently top with 12 wins and 1 draw from the first 13 games. We're in 12th, 4 points above the relegation places. We can't score a goal to save our lives at the moment (only 3 in our last 5 games) but hopefully that will be fixed come January when Jo NIjs is joining us from Oostende

[aldojags]

@Britrockthat boy looks great hopefully you'll pick up a bit with the goals after he arrives!

 

 

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

KSC Lokeren-Temse - End of season 2025

Squad |  Belgian Pro League A | League Table | Belgian Cup | Transfers | Finances | Best XI

Solid season, finishing 10th out of 18 teams, a good 20 points above of the relegation zone. 

Our defense was again the strongsuit of the squad, with Lars Dendoncker averaging a 7.29 rating and new star signing Ricardo Rodriguez Ruiz averaging a 7.19. We raided the Spanish side San Felix in the summer, signing Rodriguez Ruiz, Brayan Diaz, and Hugo Rodriguez on frees. Jack Vale scored 13 goals before we sold him to Oldham in January for 250k and replaced him with free transfer Federico Vinas. Yonas Malede scored 12 on loan from AA Gent as well.

The big news was reparing much of our financial situation by selling Teo Denis to Manchester United in January for 3.4M, with a 50% of next sale clause. We have interest from some big clubs in Rodriguez Ruiz and Moumouni Diallo, signed on a free from Spain as well, so there's a solid chance we can sell them both on this summer and improve our financial situation. Good news is that upon gaining promotion to the top flight, the board allowed us to scout worldwide and boosted the payroll.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

KSC Lokeren-Temse - End of season 2026

Squad |  Belgian Pro League A | League Table | European Places Playoff | Belgian Cup | Transfers | Finances | Best XI

Finally caught up to where I am currently in the save. We made Europe in our second season in the top flight! The Belgian structure is odd as after playing every team twice (34 games), the top four teams split into a championship group and the next four split into a European playoff group. In both, teams play each other twice again while keeping half their points total from the original 34 game spread. After 34 games, we finished in 6th place, and made it into the playoff group with the 5th, 7th, and 8th placed sides. We started with a one point deficit to Cercle Brugge, but went 4-1-1 to their 4-2 record (beat them twice) and won the group on goal differential. With that result, we played a one game final with the lowest finished from the championship group, Anderlecht, which we won 4-2 against the run of play, with two late goals. So we will play in the early qualifying rounds of the Europa League next season.

As expected, both Ricardo Rodriguez Ruiz and Moumouni Diallo left over the summer, both back to Spain to play for Athletic Madrid. Combined, those two were sold for 16M, with 6M upfront and 50% next sale clauses on both. I also have the option to buy out Teo Denis' clause from Man U for ~4M, but we aren't dying for cash now so I'm keeping it for the time being. We are now in the black for the first time this save and it has allowed us to reinvest in some younger talent, such as Mathias Seim-Walla, plus a ton of young guys with potential on free transfers. We were also able to loan the two sales back for the year, and recently extended them, paying full wages, to the end of the 2027 season as well.

The key to our success this season was Federico Vinas, who led the league in scoring, with 38 in 42 in all competitions, and won the player of the season. Yonas Malede chipped in 17 more goals, and Koki Saito assisted 11 times despite not joining the club until late October. After bringing in Aurelian Paun on a free last season, and seeing him underperform in the first season, I decided to get him off the wage bill and let him leave on a free in the summer. Unfortunately, he played the best I've seen at the club from January on, and finished with a 7.02 rating.

The board expectation for next season is again mid-table, but I'd like to see how far this team can run in Europe.

[Muggert]

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 12th - Kubok Ukrayini: 2nd Preliminary round

Key players: GK Sitalo - DC Samar -  ST Pysarev

The first season was all about surviving. After a bumpy start we got players in winter transfer window to change our tactic to a 5-3-2 that worked wonders.

The addition of ST Pysarev turned our offense around and he ended with 7 goals in 6 games. A big contribution in only a few games, Besides Pysarev our topscorer had 4 goals.

[Britrock]

9 hours ago, aldojags said:

@Britrockthat boy looks great hopefully you'll pick up a bit with the goals after he arrives!

 

 

Yeah he has everything I want in a striker - fast, strong, good in the air and a great finisher. January can't come around soon enough!

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season  2024/25

VV IJsselmeervogels

 

Season Summary

A season of heartbreak as we blew two chances of automatic promotion and then bottled the promotion playoffs.

Season Details

League Table - We were four points clear with two games remaining and blew it, being forced to settle for the promotion playoffs.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - We had a tough spell around the new year, otherwise it was relatively comfortable for us.

Promotion Playoffs - A narrow victory over two legs over Go Ahead Eagles in the first round set up a second round clash with VVV-Venlo.  They proved too strong and so we are forced to stay in this division for at least another year.

TOTO KNVB Beker - We did well to get to the third round and played exceptionally well before losing a thriller, 5-4 after extra time, away to giants PSV Eindhoven.

Friendlies - It is safe to say it was a mixed pre season campaign with more defeats than I am comfortable with.

Squad - We rely heavily on loans and once we are established in the top flight, I will phase them out.  So it will be a while yet.

Squad Dynamics - After such a good season, this is as good as you would expect.

Transfers In 1, 2 & 3 - As is the norm, I completely overhauled the squad, primarily with loans though I did add a few free transfers into the mix.

Transfers Out - Just the two departures to other clubs, including a fee of of £200,000 being received for, Divaio Bobson, a backup winger or striker.

Youth Candidates - Striker Pieter Pijnenburg is supposed to be the pick of what I can only describe as a very poor intake.

Finances - We made a healthy profit this year and we are in the black with a seven figure bank balance.

Key Players

Sonny Stevens - Veteran goalkeeper signed on a free transfer to add some experience to the squad.  He played very well and cemented himself as our number one.

Ramone McCone - Teenage English central defender who had an exceptional season on loan from Stoke City.

William Bartoli - Italian left back who has agreed another season on loan at the club from Parma.

Blaise Hakizimana - Yet another teenage loanee, this French striker was sensational and I am delighted he has extended his loan from Olympique Lyonnais for another year.

Stamatis Alexandris - Yes, you guessed it, another teenage loanee, though the Greek right winger signed for the campaign from Belgian giants Anderlecht.  He was sublime making double figures for both goals and assists.

Next Season

Promotion.  Anything less will be regarded as a big failure.

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
2024/25    Minimal =     (1.00*) ↑  National B ↑↑       6 ↑   6 ↑   2 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   6 ↑   5 ↑   6 ↑   4 =   1 =   4 ↑   4 ↑   6 ↑   5 ↑   7 ↑   6 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At Start   Basic                Basic             Fairly Basic          Fairly Basic     Basic              Regional   (1.50*)
2024/25    Basic =              Basic =           Fairly Basic =        Average      ↑   Fairly Basic ↑     Regional = (2.00*) ↑

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2024/25      45        23       10       12          87              58                 +29              51.11%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2024/25          45        23       10       12          87              58                 +29              51.11%             328 days

Transfer Purchase Record

Date               Player                    Position                              Club Purchased From          Country                   Transfer Fee
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Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position                              Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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 1 January 2025    Divaio Bobson             Left Wing/Stiker                      MVV Maastricht               The Netherlands               £210,000

Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     TOTO KNVB Beker          Achievements
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2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Keuken Kampioen Divisie               3rd       Third Round              Lost in second round of promotion playoffs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[Mahzun_Savas]

I am having a very frustrating season with C.D. Pamplona. It started off brilliantly and we were right near the top of the table and we had an excellent defense. I had a pair of CBs average more than 7.4 we were scoring enough goals to win games. 

However it has changed, the team has lost form, defense is weak, none of CBs are playing well. We had lost 5 in a row and I do not know how to turn the team around.

Dynamics are very good, players are happy, but they are just playing badly despite this.

What can I do to get the players to play well again?

Edited April 10, 2022 by Mahzun_Savas

[Muggert]

 

It's going down to the wire. Unfortunately 1 point in the last 2 games(6 in the last 5) means it's out of our hands...

Edited April 10, 2022 by Muggert

[Muggert]

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 3rd - Kubok Ukrayini: 1st Rnd

Key players: DC Povaliy - ST Serdyuk -  ST Pysarev

So close... Our 5-3-2 was working very well besides against the very defensive teams. As the season progressed we met more and more of those teams. And it hurt us in the end.

16-year-old prodigy ST Serdyuk has been playing great. He'll be crucial for our promotion push next season. If we can keep the big clubs at bay.

Our finances are solid and we're still only using a third of our budget. We'll need to strengthen poor wing-backs and add a quality AMC for an offensive version of our tactic.

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2025/26

VV IJsselmeervogels

 

Season Summary

After the heartbreak of last season, it was great to dominate the league season from start to finish.

Season Details

League Table - Promotion was secured with eight games remaining and the title with six matches left.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - We were exceptional throughout the campaign and came within a whisker of going unbeaten.

TOTO KNVB Beker - A third round loss, away to top flight PEC Zwolle after extra time, eliminated the club at the third round stage.

Friendlies - It was a much better pre season campaign as we lost just the once.

Squad - Quite a few of our loanees have renewed for our debut season in the top flight so I am pleased with our depth.

Squad Dynamics - As you would expect after a season of utter dominance, this is rather good.

Transfers In 1 & 2 - Not as many transfers this year, though I did sign quite a few on permanent deals.

Transfers Out 1 & 2 - We broke our transfer record and allowed a lot of youngsters to leave on loan.

Youth Candidates - Unfortunately, it was another poor intake though goalkeeper Clayd Bes YP26B2 looks promising.

Finances - Thanks to raising around £2.5m in player sales, we made a handsome profit this season.

Key Players

Godfried Roemeratoe - Signed on a free transfer from FC Twente, the twenty six year old is extremely versatile, being equally comfortable at right back, defensive midfield or as a central midfielder.

Blaise Hakizimana - The French teenager from Lyon was sublime in front of goal.

Christopher Durand - With a combined goals and assists of over thirty, the second French teenager on loan from Lyon, who plays as a winger was our best player this year.

André Rodrigues - The twenty year old Portuguese central defender was one of the best players for most of the season.  It is a shame he will be returning to parent club Benfica.

Juanfran - The Spanish teenager, signed on loan from Valencia, was sensational in central midfield.

Next Season

I feel we are capable of a top six finish.  Ambitious, yes, though not out of the question.

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation               Qualifications    Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   WWY   Ada   Det   PlK   YoK   LoD   MaM   Mot
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At start   Minimal       (0.25*)    None                1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     4     1     1     1     4     1     1     1
2024/25    Minimal =     (1.00*) ↑  National B    ↑↑    6 ↑   6 ↑   2 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   6 ↑   5 ↑   6 ↑   4 =   1 =   4 ↑   4 ↑   6 ↑   5 ↑   7 ↑   6 ↑
2025/26    Minimal =     (2.00*) ↑  Continental C ↑↑    9 ↑   9 ↑   4 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   9 ↑   9 ↑   9 ↑   4 =   1 =   7 ↑   7 ↑   8 ↑   7 ↑  10 ↑   9 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At Start   Basic                Basic             Fairly Basic          Fairly Basic     Basic              Regional   (1.50*)
2024/25    Basic =              Basic =           Fairly Basic =        Average      ↑   Fairly Basic ↑     Regional = (2.00*) ↑
2025/26    Basic =              Basic =           Fairly Basic =        Adequate     ↑   Adequate     ↑     National ↑ (2.00*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024/25      45        23       10       12          87              58                 +29              51.11%
2025/26      41        36        3        2         127              29                 +98              87.80% ↑

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2024/25          45        23       10       12          87              58                 +29              51.11%             328 days
2025/26          86        59       13       14         214              87                +127              68.60% ↑           664 days

Transfer Purchase Record

Date               Player                    Position                              Club Purchased From          Country                   Transfer Fee
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17 August 2025     Baba Diène                Striker                               Diambars FC de Saly          Senegal                        £75,000

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position                              Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 January 2025    Divaio Bobson             Left Wing/Stiker                      MVV Maastricht               The Netherlands               £210,000
 1 January 2026    Peer Koopmeiners          Defensive Midfield/Central Midfield   NAC Breda                    The Natherlands               £450,000
 3 January 2026    Claudio Gomes             Defensive Midfield/Central Midfield   FC Sochaux-Montbéliard       France                      £1,800,000

Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
--------------------------
2025/26    Keuken Kampioen Divisie

Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
-------------
1 x Keuken Kampioen Divisie (2025/26)

Cup Competition Victories
-------------------------

Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     TOTO KNVB Beker          Achievements
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Keuken Kampioen Divisie               3rd       Third Round              Lost in second round of promotion playoffs.
2025/26           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Keuken Kampioen Divisie               1st ↑     Third Round =            Promoted as champions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[aldojags]

On 10/04/2022 at 09:11, Mahzun_Savas said:

I am having a very frustrating season with C.D. Pamplona. It started off brilliantly and we were right near the top of the table and we had an excellent defense. I had a pair of CBs average more than 7.4 we were scoring enough goals to win games. 

However it has changed, the team has lost form, defense is weak, none of CBs are playing well. We had lost 5 in a row and I do not know how to turn the team around.

Dynamics are very good, players are happy, but they are just playing badly despite this.

What can I do to get the players to play well again?

get a friendly or 2 arranged against some dross and hammer them? usually works a treat for me!

On 10/04/2022 at 21:25, Muggert said:

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 3rd - Kubok Ukrayini: 1st Rnd

Key players: DC Povaliy - ST Serdyuk -  ST Pysarev

So close... Our 5-3-2 was working very well besides against the very defensive teams. As the season progressed we met more and more of those teams. And it hurt us in the end.

16-year-old prodigy ST Serdyuk has been playing great. He'll be crucial for our promotion push next season. If we can keep the big clubs at bay.

Our finances are solid and we're still only using a third of our budget. We'll need to strengthen poor wing-backs and add a quality AMC for an offensive version of our tactic.

Serdyuk - 6 potm from 11 starts...!? 

[jmarchand]

Le 10/04/2022 à 04:11, Mahzun_Savas a dit :

I am having a very frustrating season with C.D. Pamplona. It started off brilliantly and we were right near the top of the table and we had an excellent defense. I had a pair of CBs average more than 7.4 we were scoring enough goals to win games. 

However it has changed, the team has lost form, defense is weak, none of CBs are playing well. We had lost 5 in a row and I do not know how to turn the team around.

Dynamics are very good, players are happy, but they are just playing badly despite this.

What can I do to get the players to play well again?

Same as @aldojags, schedule a friendly match against really bottom drawer opposition and beat them 12-0. That should set the morale up enough to get things back on track…!

[Tecmo]

Spartans 2029-2030

Slacking a bit lately but through our first season in the Scottish Championship. Went pretty well actually as we were never threatened with relegation, finishing a very comfortable 8th. Definite gap in quality between the top 4, the middle 4 we were part of and the bottom 2.

League Table

We actually had a pretty terrific goal difference given our place in the table, only -1. We didn't lose a game all season by more than 2 and we put some hammerings on other teams.

Premier Sports Cup

Still no luck there, finishing 4th in our group. Won one game against League 2 side East Kilbridge, lost on penalties to League 1 side Queen of Sth. Also a pair of 0-1 losses to Falkirk and Livingston, both in our league. That was a pretty common result for us against the top 4 in our league as we only managed 2 draws and 1 win over them.

Scottish Cup

Ugh, embarrassing 1-2 loss at Dumbarton, a League 2 side.

SPFL Trust Trophy

Great result here as we took home our first trophy! Handled Dumbarton 2-1, then crushed the Dundee U21 6-1. Beat Airdrie 1-0 in the quarterfinal and whipped up on Arbroath 3-0 in the semifinal. The final saw us face Falkirk, a team we have never even managed a draw against previously, that included 4 losses to the previously this season. But we played one of our best games, jumped out to an early 2-0 and held on to win a well deserved 2-1.

Key Players

ST Darren Munro was our new man to lead the attack. Signed on a free from Dundee Utd, he had played on loan in League 1 the previous season, scoring 13 goals there. Didn't get to that level with us 10 league goals and two cup goals, but he only turned 21 in November so I'm happy with his first season. 

DC Matthew Kellichan was our biggest signing so far, 28.5K from Kilmarnock after helping lead us to promotion the previous season. He responded great with a league rating of 6.99, not bad for a just turned 20 year old. Board really is unhappy with his transfer though for some reason, it's not like we didn't have the money available. Whatever.

DM Ackenie Holder was our biggest free signing. The now 24 year old Guyana international came in from Sheffield United and really helped stabilize the defense from the DM spot. Ideally I'll find a more playmaker type for DM this offseason and move him back to partner with Kellichan.

GK Peter King was our only player in on loan last season, from Motherwell after moving to them from Tottenham. 10 shutouts in the league, 3 more in cup games, the Northern Ireland 20 year old will be back with us on loan again next season.

Youth Intake

Got a decent looking poacher prospect from Edinburgh in Derek Pollock although he doesn't really fit my current style and his determination leaves a lot to desire. A couple other wingers with some potential.

Finances

Lost 109K on the season, just 50K in the positive now mostly due to a lot of bonuses going out to players. I suspect we'll drop into the red next season unless we can finally get a cup match at Rangers or Celtic.

Speaking of Celtic, they won the league again easily by 24 points over Rangers. And then got bounced from the Champions League group with a 4th place finish.

Hoping to make a push towards the playoff places this season, need to get some more firepower up front and a playmaker in the midfield would help tremendously as well.

[aldojags]

good season @Tecmo i always find the championship season the hardest in scottish road to glory, as you're usually still part time and most other teams in that league full time, definite step up. And rep still low that you can't get decent loanees usually. But yeh all you need is small improvement to get into top 4 then you're in with a shout, but you look like you'll never go down.

 

The yth prospect needs a bit of mentoring with that personality, but raw ingredients are there.

[Muggert]

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 4th - Kubok Ukrayini: 2nd Prel. Rnd

Key players: DC Povaliy - MC Ryabov - ST Serdyuk

Yet another season of almost... Sitting first after half the games and slowly crumbling in the final phase.

In the end our inability to break down defensive teams cost us.

Serdyuk has been a star and it'll be interesting to see if we can keep him.

Next season:

We've gotten a huge wage budget increase and we're hoping to aquire players to make the final push.

We're set at striker and a couple of midfield positions. Everything else is up for grabs. Also our 5-3-2 and 5-2-1-2 formation!

Edited April 14, 2022 by Muggert

[Muggert]

And just as I'm planning the outlook of our 2024/25 team:

[Mahzun_Savas]

@jmarchand @aldojags I did what you suggested and arranged a friendly which we won 6-1 and then we started to win again.

[Mahzun_Savas]

C.D. Pamplona season 3 2024-25

League Table | Manager Profile

The third season saw a slight improvement on the previous season with a 10th placed finish up from 12th. We started the season well and maintained a position in the play off positions before a midseason slump saw us fall down the table. A recovery saw us get as high as 6th but we did not really challenge for play off spots.

Key Players

Alberto Lopez - a good season where Lopez's 14 clean sheets was the most in the league

Carlos Mora - an excellent season from the left sided central midfeilder as he was the best performer in a very good defense

Jon San Jose - The young striker stood up to lead the attack with 15 goals for the season

Youth Intake

It was another very good youth intake with the stand out player being Jon Iriarte. He will be part of the first team squad next season

Next season

I am aiming to finish in the playoffs although the board expectation is only top half. Hopefully I can add some quality to the decent squad I already have.

[aldojags]

@Mahzun_Savasthat youth prospect, ooff!!

[Mahzun_Savas]

I have been sacked by C.D. Pamplona in the 4 season in charge.

I could never get the team, especially the attack, working consisently to meet expectations. My last game in charge sums up things perfectly, 20 shots to 0 and it was a 0-0 draw.

I think I will try in France next although I don't know the date for the reset for holidaying. Anyone know it?

[Mahzun_Savas]

I will be taking charge of Sporting Club Toulon in the French National League. This club is based in Toulon in the south of France, a major port on the Mediterranean.

The squad does not look too bad with a number of players rated as good National league players. 

 

 

[Britrock]

15 hours ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

I will be taking charge of Sporting Club Toulon in the French National League. This club is based in Toulon in the south of France, a major port on the Mediterranean.

The squad does not look too bad with a number of players rated as good National league players. 

 

 

Welcome to France. PSG are as dominant as you'd think - 12 years in to my save and they're the only team to win Ligue 1. They're currently unbeaten after 29 games of this season too (although I've out played them in both our games). Hopefully you get through the lower leagues quicker than I did!

[Ronaldo Beckham]

15 hours ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

I will be taking charge of Sporting Club Toulon in the French National League. This club is based in Toulon in the south of France, a major port on the Mediterranean.

The squad does not look too bad with a number of players rated as good National league players. 

 

 

Make sure you keep Baba Toure and I think his name was Issak Bamba. They were immense for me on my Youth Only save with Toulon. Good luck to you. I hope it goes well.

[Britrock]

I knew PSG were dominant, but I didn't quite realise how dominant they'd become. They haven't lost a league game in nearly 3 seasons (34 games in Ligue 1). It's the 19th April 2034 and they last lost a league game on the 15th August 2031!

[Mahzun_Savas]

18 hours ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

Make sure you keep Baba Toure and I think his name was Issak Bamba. They were immense for me on my Youth Only save with Toulon. Good luck to you. I hope it goes well.

Baba Toure has been poor for me apart from scoring some set piece goals however Bamba has been quite good scoring 9 goals in 16 games.

[Muggert]

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 2nd - Kubok Ukrayini: 1st Rnd

Key players: DC Savin - AMR Serdyuk - ST Koz

Finally. After a couple of misses we finally take home promotion. This time we were great in the second half of the season. 10-5-0.

The return of AMR Serdyuk was important as he missed most of last season to injury.

A couple of good additions defensively made the world of difference. We only conceded 7 goals the last 15 games.

Next season:

It's time to survive. Not much else. Strengthen our squad piece by piece and battle bravely for survival.

We'll look to improve our training facilities as soon as possible.

Bring it on!

Edited April 19, 2022 by Muggert

[Ronaldo Beckham]

48 minutes ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

Baba Toure has been poor for me apart from scoring some set piece goals however Bamba has been quite good scoring 9 goals in 16 games.

Play Toure as a ball playing defender or a wide centre back and he will do better. I had him in a 3-4-3 formation though so maybe he played better cos of that reason.

[Britrock]

Originally this was planned to only be a 15,000 seater stadium so it's nice to see the board reacting to my current success (end of season review coming soon) and expanding it to be 25,000+. Just a shame I'll have to wait another two seasons for it to be built.

[Mahzun_Savas]

Sporting Club Toulon 

Season 1 2022-23

League Table | Manager Profile

It was a pleasing first season with a top half finish in 7th. The season stated slowly but some tactical changes and a decision to use our reserve goalkeeper meant we moved clear of the relegation zone and relegation was never threatened, 

Our best player for the season was poacher Issiaka Bamba who finished with 18 goals from 31 appearances. He also had the highest rating in the team at 7.24. Two other solid performers were central meidfielder Pascal Seka who scored 10 goals with his runs into the box and left inside foward Gabriel Etinof who had 14 assists and 6 goals. Most of the rest of the squad were too inconsisent putting in bad performances to often.

The youth intake was not very good, only two players who show any promise and even they do not look great.

My aim for next season is to improve on the 7th placed finish. To do this I need a new goalkeeper and to improve the defence. A back up striker to Bamba is also needed.

[Mahzun_Savas]

12 hours ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

Play Toure as a ball playing defender or a wide centre back and he will do better. I had him in a 3-4-3 formation though so maybe he played better cos of that reason.

Toure played better as the season went on but was certainly not a star in the team.

[aldojags]

15 hours ago, Muggert said:

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 7th - Kubok Ukrayini: 1st Rnd

Key players: DC Larin - MC Ryabov - ST Koz

This was the year we'd go up. At least we thought so.

A poor start and then the injuries happened. Big time.

By the time we got people ready for the seoncd half of the season it was too late. Even though we we're second in the league in points.

Next season:

Our 4-1-2-1-2 Assymetric formation is great offensively. I'll need a version that is a little more defensive version.

We've gotten a couple og really good players in and we'll continue to build our squad.

Hopefully next season @muggert. Your finances are decent for Urkanian 2nd tier? £90k transfer budget seems a bit tight of your board for next season when you've £1.3m in the bank!

14 hours ago, Britrock said:

Originally this was planned to only be a 15,000 seater stadium so it's nice to see the board reacting to my current success (end of season review coming soon) and expanding it to be 25,000+. Just a shame I'll have to wait another two seasons for it to be built.

that's great, keen to see the season review which prompted this! Hopefully some good support from the tycoon too and some big transfers!?

2 hours ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

Sporting Club Toulon 

Season 1 2022-23

League Table | Manager Profile

It was a pleasing first season with a top half finish in 7th. The season stated slowly but some tactical changes and a decision to use our reserve goalkeeper meant we moved clear of the relegation zone and relegation was never threatened, 

Our best player for the season was poacher Issiaka Bamba who finished with 18 goals from 31 appearances. He also had the highest rating in the team at 7.24. Two other solid performers were central meidfielder Pascal Seka who scored 10 goals with his runs into the box and left inside foward Gabriel Etinof who had 14 assists and 6 goals. Most of the rest of the squad were too inconsisent putting in bad performances to often.

The youth intake was not very good, only two players who show any promise and even they do not look great.

My aim for next season is to improve on the 7th placed finish. To do this I need a new goalkeeper and to improve the defence. A back up striker to Bamba is also needed.

solid first season - i did this in challenge in France once with Es Viry Chatillon it was good league to run through, but PSG were not as dominant then this was on fm12 i think!

[Britrock]

Hyeres 83 FC - 2033/34 season review

This season took forever to play, mostly because the first half of the season turned into a huge slog, but the second half was fantastic fun. We started the season fairly well, in fact we were top after the first game, but then October hit and we forgot how to score. Over the next 9 games we would score only 5 goals. Our defence kept us in all of those games (only conceding 10 goals) but we didn't win any of them and only picked up 4 points. Then in January we signed Jo Nijs for a club record £5m and Youssef Benali to play left wing back for £1.1m and started to fly. From January to the end of the season we only lost twice in the league, to Marseille and PSG. Among others we beat Lyon, Nice, Rennes (5-2), Lens (5-0) and Monaco. We played some sensational football at times and my commitment to 352 finally paid off. We ended the season in 8th, only 6 points off Europe. Somehow we ended the season with two 1-1 draws against the bottom two teams, which could have put us up to 7th if we'd won both of them.

Spoiler

On the transfer front it was more evolution than revolution. The squad I'd built to win Ligue 2 was actually rated mid-table quality in the season preview so I didn't need to go crazy overhauling everything. As a result the only guys to come in were Pablo Paz, an aerially dominant DC from Argentina and Emil Hartvig, a central midfield addition. Paz was an absolute stud from day one, while Hartvig took a while to warm up but by the end of the year was playing some great stuff. As mentioned earlier, in January we signed a couple more reinforcements in Nijs and Benali and Diarrassouba is one for the future.

Spoiler

The best performing players across the season were Nijs, who banged in 14 goals in his 17 league appearances; Mubarak, who chipped in with 12 goals and 11 assists; Lennart Rogild, who took a while to get going but by the end of the season had 6 goals and 10 assists; and Paz, with 3 goals but dominant defensively. Shout out to Castellano in goal who kept 10 clean sheets and only conceded 37 goals all year and is club captain.

Spoiler

Obviously the aim for next season is to get in to some form of European competition. With a better start to the season I see no reason why we can't make up those few points. Also, as soon as I posted PSG's unbeaten run, they promptly went and lost 2-1 to Lyon! Still, they won the league by 16 points so I think they're a longer term project to overcome. The board are still allowing us to upgrade our facilities and, as noted above, building a nice big stadium for the future. Finances were a bit sketchy at times, as we got down to -£8.5m at one point, but the board kept pumping in money to keep us afloat.

[Muggert]

@aldojags Yeah.. Finances are good. I'm yet to use 50% of my wage budget a year.

The problem is the lack of interested players. I hope things are looking brighter soon!

[aldojags]

1 hour ago, Muggert said:

@aldojags Yeah.. Finances are good. I'm yet to use 50% of my wage budget a year.

The problem is the lack of interested players. I hope things are looking brighter soon!

was the same in my bulgarian save last year, couldn't get anyone interested for a long time, hang in there mate you'll eventually grow the club reputation big enough to get some quality in and spend the cash!

[jmarchand]

  

Season 13 | 2034-2035 | Unbeaten (somewhat)

Last year's highlight was our performance in the Champions Cup, we were hoping to continue the improvement, knowing full well that it would not be an easy task... At the same time, we needed to consolidate the progress that we were making in the league, and ensure that we were not regressing on that front... 

 

Transfers

By the standards of the last few years, this was a pretty calm year... In the summer, Real Madrid came after Alp Yildiz one of our regulars in the central defence, whom I had signed from FC Bayern II for 7.75M€ in the winter of 2032/2033. He was pretty good, but more importantly he had the Turkish second nationality, but I couldn't turn down an offer of 53M€...  He's been in good for for Madrid before breaking his lower leg, keeping out for 5-7 months. 

Another notable OUT is Gaston Galati, whose 17M€ release clause was activated by Atletico Madrid at the end of the winter transfer window. While he was pretty good, he was signed on a star player contract and refused to budge and his performances over the past 5 years have not been to that level and was unwilling to renew his contract. He's now on 225k€ per week and seem to be settling much better in Madrid. Win-win, probably. 

In the way in, we've brought in Kazim Dinçer, who was too good to be playing in Trabzonspor and not for us. So 27M€ later, he was a Fethiyespor player, playing mostly in the D(C) spot left open by Ylidiz, but also making an appearance at left Wing Back and Defensive midfielder. 

Then, I splashed out the cash for Welcome Lingwati. The fact that I was able to bait him out of PSG talks to the progress that we've been making at the club. For 53M€, he's now the club's largest signing, as well as the highest-ever transfer for a South African player. In 24(4) games for us, he's stepped in and scored 15 and assisted a further 10. 

Révélation

 

European Champions Cup

We were handed a tough draw this year in the Champions League. Despite being seeded first, we were drawn against Manchester City, with AZ and Celtic completing the portrait. We were able to snatch a draw away in Manchester, and lost 0-1 to an own goal on the return leg in Fethiye, which left us good enough for a second place. 

Then, in the First Knockout Round, we were drawn against Atletico Madrid, who had cruised through their group and also won La Liga this year. It was tough, with a 1-1 draw at home, which was a bit disappointing as we were the better team. On the return leg, we fell behind 3-0 early in the first half, despite Madrid picking up a red card in the 14th minute. It was one of these days where nothing was going right. We brought it up to 3-2 just before the half, giving us a glimpse of hope, but tried to push a bit too hard and got hit when we were left exposed at the back. Overall, a bad game in our system, but it's a shame that it happened in a tough draw like this one... 

 

Révélation

 

Turkish SuperLeague

We cruised through most of the SuperLeague this year, with 27 wins and 7 draws. AND 0 defeats. There were quite a few times where we snatched a draw from the claws of defeat, with a late come back or a bit of encouragement after I was a bit too eager with squad rotation. With 94 goals for and only 21 against, it actually relegated an impressive Galatasaray side to second place, with the most ever points without winning the league

 

Révélation

 

Interestingly, our league coefficient has progressed enough and we now have a total of 4 Champions League Group Stage places, going to Galatasaray, Besiktas and Trabzonspor this year. It will be interesting to see how well they do in Europe, Besiktas has been progressing from the groups over the past 2-3 years. 

 

Turkish Cup

Not a lot of importance, but we progressed to the final easily after a somewhat easy draw. We then completely collapsed in extra-time in the final, ultimately losing 4-1. Water bottles were thrown and angry eyes were shown to the squad. The board appears to be still pleased, I am not. 

 

Révélation

 

 

The Squad - Individual performances

This year, I've played around with the tactics a bit, to try to accomodate the coming of Welcome Lingwati, sometimes playing with a AMR. I think that down the line, I will transition to a 4-2-3-1, but I'm not totally sure how this would play out yet with the club. This year, there are times where I've went with a 4-2-4, but we were able to pull it off in the league only because we were much better than anyone else, I think. 

 

 

Patrice Irié Bi - AMR - 26(5) apps, 10 goals, 12 assists, 7.62 avg. rating

He went a bit under the radar in the past few years, but he has grown tremendously as a footballer this year. A creative force on the right wing who made a splash with Ivory Coast, helping them to win the African Cup of Nations in 2035. That got him out of the team for a month, though, but he is now seen as a world-class player, a first for Fethiyespor I think. 

 

Luis Antonio - 35(3) apps, 30 goals, 14 assists, 7.92 avg. rating

Another strong season for the Brazilian monster, one in which he got his first cap. More league goals, but much more quiet in Europe this year... He is entering the penultimate year of his contract, I hope I'll be able to keep him around. 

 

Ender Ak (YP28) - 34(5) apps, 4 goals, 7.45 avg. rating.

Not as spectacular as the others, but I'd love to highlight him, as he's one of the youth academy prospects who became a regular in the first team, at the tender age of 22. Sound defender, solid in the air and works hard, I've depended on him quite heavily in the league and he held its own at the European level with a 7.03 rating there. Will I win the CL with guys like him, probably not, but I still like having him around. 

 

 

Youth Watch

A very good intake this year, with Tufan Eryuva already being evaluated as SuperLeague level. It's shame that he's 5 feet 1 and looks like a midget on the pitch, but he apparently got some potential. 

 

 

Révélation

 

 

Ibrahim Önal (YP33), from two years ago, got in 3rd in the 1.League top goalscorers and will likely be featured as a rotation option for us next year. 

 

Révélation

 

Finally, Osman Berber, also on loan in the 1.League, showed his creative assets at Erzerumspor and got 9 goals and 7 assists in the league. I think he'll also be a good rotation option next year for us. 

Révélation

 

 

Other News

• European Winners
  • Champions League: Real Madrid (1-0 over Chelsea)
  • EURO Cup: Milan
  • EURO Cup II:  Tottenham
• Turkish Form in Europe
  • Besitkas: CL First Knockout Round (against Atletico Bilbao)
  • Galatasaray: EURO Cup Second Knockout Round (Against Valencia)
  • Fenerbahçe: 3rd in EURO Cup Group Stage
  • Trabzonspor: EURO Cup II Second Knockotu Round (Against VfB Stuttgart)
  • Göztepe: EURO Cup II 4th Qualifying Round (Against Atalanta)
• Board refuses to increase the youth facilities beyond Great and academy and youth recruitement beyond exceptional. They're also not allowing me on a coaching course because they're afraid of losing me...
• We moved in a 17000 all-seater stadium, which we were able to immediately expand, which is being expanded again to 25k seats at the beginning of 2034. 

 

Summary Table

Year

Season

League

Position

Points

Goal Diff

Cup

Europe

Europe Ranking

Avg. Attendance

Top Scorer

Top Assist

Training

Youth

Junior

Youth Rec

1

2022/2023

2L

11

51

-4

3rd Round

NA

NA

-

4013

Serhat Mutlu (10)

Sezer Yildim (9)

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

2

2023/2024

2L

1

75

32

4th Round

NA

NA

-

4257

Onur Demir (12)

Yunus Kefeli (10)

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

3

2024/2025

1L

7

57

17

5th Round

NA

NA

-

5765

Damion Probodziak (17)

Yunus Kefeli (10)

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

4

2025/2026

1L

2

69

39

5th Round

NA

NA

-

5973

Eren Aydin (19)

Mohammed Sabah (9)

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

5

2026/2027

SL

13

36

-5

6th Round

NA

NA

-

7642

Zain Al-Din Salman (16)

Yunus Kefeli (7)

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Basic

6

2027/2028

SL

7

53

-4

Qtr Final

NA

NA

-

7533

Zain Al-Din Salman (20)

Antoine Semenyo, Yunus Kefeli (9)

Adequate

Basic

Adequate

Fairly Basic

7

2028/2029

SL

5

63

16

6th Round

NA

NA

--

8148

Zain Al-Din Salman (14)

Ismail Olgun (8)

Average

Below Average

Good

Average

8

2029/2030

SL

4

66

18

Semi-Final

EC2

2nd KO Round

158

9633

Jeredy Hilterman (22)

Burak Ince (15)

Great

Adequate

Exceptional

Excellent

9

2030/2031

SL

5

64

30

Qtr Final

EC2

WINNERS!

51

10523

Jair Grisales (29)

Burak Ince (13), Mimeirhel Benita (13)

Excellent

Average

Exceptional

Exceptional

10

2031/2032

SL

1

78

53

Semi-Final

EC

2nd KO Round

40

11240

Ismail Olgun (22)

Harun Açil YP30 (11)

State of the Art

Good

Exceptional

Exceptional

11

2032/2033

SL

2

81

64

WINNERS

CL

1st KO Round

24

12010

Ismail Olgun (24)

Luis Antonio (17)

State of the Art

Great

Exceptional

Exceptional

12

2033/2034

SL

1

84

68

WINNERS

CL

Semi Final

14

12227

Luis Antonio (37)

Luis Antonio (22)

State of the Art

Great

Exceptional

Exceptional

13

2034/2035

SL

1

88

73

Final

CL

1st KO Round

13

16606

Benjamin Medrano (32)

Luis Antonio (14)

State of the Art

Great

Exceptional

Exceptional

Edited April 19, 2022 by jmarchand

[Britrock]

Well this was unexpected, but they actually offered me (an Englishman!) the job, so it seemed rude to turn them down. Looks like I'm the first ever non-Frenchman to manage the French national team! They went out to England in the semis of the previous world cup so they still have a good team. I checked the rules in the first post which said international management was allowed so hope this is ok.

[jmarchand]

Is he 85M€ good? 

 

 

[aldojags]

@jmarchand ooft 85m is hard to turn down! He does look incredible right enough! Your youth prospect cb- i do think you could win the CL with him, he’s young and has good foundation atrivutes and is a physical beast, i dont think u need to worry about him man.

Welcome Lingwati- stunner man, that brazilian striker too. The new young winger too he looks a future star, great squad man, CL win within a few years i am predicting 👍

 

be interesting t see how the league develops now with the 4 cl spots, i remember last year in Bulgaria i built it up and got 3 CL spots i think, i didnt see much of a change but the national team definitely improved as a result. Its main benefit was i loaned a lot of players to my rivals and i knew the players were getting CL experience. 1 year we had an all bulgarian europa conference league final but otherwise they always all got knocked out.

 

 

[jmarchand]

Seems like the 4 CL Group spots was a bit of a fluke, as we've dropped two places now and are back to 2 automatic places in the groups. Hoping that my fellow turkish teams will be able to make the most out of this opportunity. 

[Muggert]

 

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga 25/26

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Persha Liga: 2nd - Kubok Ukrayini: 1st Rnd

Key players: DC Savin - AMR Serdyuk - ST Koz

My original review got lost. So the key screenshots and yes... We got promoted!

[Muggert]

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga 26/27

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Favbet Liga: 13th - Kubok Ukrayini: SF

Key players: DC Savin - AMC Dron - ST Pylypchuk

A wonderful season in the topflight. After struggling to get going we found ourselves with a new 4-4-2 narrow tactic and it was a success.

Next season:

We have strong young core in especially Dron and Pylypchuk. We'll continue building a competetive team and try to take advantage of the influx in cash. We've expanded the training facilities and will continue building the club.

Let's see if we have what it takes to stay another season!

[jmarchand]

Yeah, it's been a pretty good run, I think it's my longest undefeated run in FM. 

[Muggert]

On 22/04/2022 at 04:32, jmarchand said:

Yeah, it's been a pretty good run, I think it's my longest undefeated run in FM. 

 

 ... Nice feat!

[Muggert]

Looks like an interesting spring season in Ukraine!

[Mahzun_Savas]

SC Toulon

Season 2 - 2023-24

League Table | Manager Profile

A disappointing season saw us go backwards as we finished 9th in the league. While we conceded a lot less goals we also scored a large number of goals less. Bamba our top striker was injured for the first half of the season and when he returned he could not score. He eventually scored two goals at the end of the season.

I made 5 signings for the team and they all were bad. As well an on loan striker managed to score 0 goals despite looking very good.

Youth intake had no elite talents and no players worth keeping

Finances are reasonably good with us having a reasonable amount of money in the bank

For next season I am trying to refresh the squad by getting rid of some aging players. However I am having lots of trouble recruiting players as they do want to relocate to the south of France. I have made some signings but I am not sure they are all good enough. I am not optimistic that we will improve next season.

 

[Muggert]

Karpaty Lviv - Ukranian Persha Liga 27/28

Squad - Competitions - Finances - Transfers

Favbet Liga: 9th - Kubok Ukrayini: 2nd Rnd

Key players: DC Tatar - AMC Dron - ST Pylypchuk

We're slowly building the club and finished at 9th. ST Pylypchuk and AMC Dron had excellent seasons for the team. While we scored the 4th most goals in the laegu we also conceded a bunch, 2.06 a game to be excact.

Next season:

I'm confident we'll survive another year. We'll try to build a talented squad and a more solid tactic.

Pylypchuk is monitored by Porto and could be gone with a release clause of only 4,2 million.

If he goes and we don't manage to get a replacement. It'll be a long season.

[Mahzun_Savas]

Pylypchuk looks excellent, hopefully you can keep him

[Thebaker]

Lost my last save so i have decided to restart in spain. Wanted to take on one of the pamplona clubs but realised they are both just feeder clubs to A Bilbao and cant get into La Liga.

As a result i ended up going for Sant Andreu in Barcelona, they are a club who had reached the heights of the spanish second division but that was back in the 70's.

[Muggert]

20 hours ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

Pylypchuk looks excellent, hopefully you can keep him

I hope so to. But Porto are targeting both Dron and Pylypchuk

36 minutes ago, Thebaker said:

Lost my last save so i have decided to restart in spain. Wanted to take on one of the pamplona clubs but realised they are both just feeder clubs to A Bilbao and cant get into La Liga.

As a result i ended up going for Sant Andreu in Barcelona, they are a club who had reached the heights of the spanish second division but that was back in the 70's.

Good luck! Won the challenge with El Ejido last year. Spain is always fun!