'The Special One' Challenge

[Siepe1990]

After enjoying some of the challenges posted on this forum for quite some time – special shout out to The Ultimate Football Manager Challenge by @vikeologist – I started thinking about setting up a challenge myself. Inspired by @Mark_w‘s 5,000-1 Challenge and the Sir Alex Ferguson Challenge, I started thinking about who’s success I would like to try and emulate. I decided on none other than one of the most successful managers to date, the # 3 in the Hall of Fame at the start of the 2021/2022 season…

Introducing:

‘The Special One’ Challenge

Dates below are based on FM22 ; if you play an older version, simply subtract 1 or more years depending on your version.

You will start your career in Portugal on the 23^rd of January 2022. After ‘holidaying’ to that date, you take over the lowest positioned of the ‘big 3’ in Portugal: Sporting Club de Portugal, FC Porto or Benfica. After 2 ½ seasons, your career will take you to England where you’ll take over the #2 of the 2023/2024 season. After spending 4 season in charge, you’ll move to Italy, where you’ll take over the reigning Champions of the 2027/2028 season. Here you’ll only have 2 seasons to gather some trophies before moving to Spain, taking over the #2 of the 2029/2030 season.

After 3 seasons in Spain you’re starting to miss England, so you’ll move back to the club you’ve managed previously, joining them for another spell that will last 3 seasons. After those seasons you’ll move on to the #5 in England of the 2035-2036 season, where you’ll have 3 seasons to gather some trophies. For you final spell you’ll transfer to the #14 of the 2038-2039 season where you’ll spend your final 2 seasons before this challenge comes to an end.

You can ofcourse calculate the points yourself (points system is detailed below), but I’ve also created an Excel-file in which you can easily track your points. Simply fill in all the BLUE cells on the ‘Career’-sheet as you go along and your points will automatically be calculated on the ‘Points’-sheet. I’ve put all Mourinho’s stats on the ‘Career’-sheet as well to serve as an example, so you can see how it should be filled out.

Mourinho scored 12.500 points according to this system ; can you beat him?

 

Rules:

• -        Database: I suggest including at least England, Italy, Spain and Portugal, as these will be the nations you’re playing in. The rest is up to you.
• -        Your choice of manager age, nationality and language skills is free. You can emulate Mourinho or play as yourself.
• -        Badges: Continental Pro Licence (Mourinho has a degree in Sports Science when he starts at Porto and a wide range of experience under Robson)
• -        Playing Experience: Professional Footballer (National Level) – Mourinho played approx. 100 professional games in Portugal.
• -        Holiday until the 23^rd of January and take over the lowest of these three clubs: FC Porto, Sporting Club de Portugal or Benfica.
• -        When switching jobs, using the In-Game Editor is allowed. I would suggest leaving the club you’re currently with and then employing yourself at the new club.

 

Points System

Trophies:

Trophy	Points per Trophy	Jose Mourinho
League Title	500	4.000
National Cup	75	600
National Supercup	50	250
Europa League	250	500
Champions League	750	1.500
European Supercup	50	0

 

Bonus Objectives:

I.                 Win the European Supercup (1^st time only) – 500 points

The only prize Mourinho didn’t win

II.               Winning the Europe League with the 1^st team – 250 points

A special thing to win the Europa League with the first team

III.              Winning the Champions League with the 1^st team – 750 points

Another bizarre feat, winning the Champions League with a Portuguese team

IV.             Winning a ‘treble’ (including a continental cup) – 250 points per ‘treble’

Mourinho has won 4 trebles, quite the achievement being good on multiple stages in one season

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World Records:

Mourinho has 3 world records on his name, so I’ve decided to incorporate those in the challenge as well:

V.               Lowest goals conceded in one full Premier League Season – 15 goals

Obtained in the title winning 2004/2005 season at Chelsea

VI.             Most games unbeaten at home in one run in the Premier League – 77 games

Started on 15-08-2004 in charge of Chelsea and ending on 19-04-2014 whilst on his 2^nd spell at Chelsea

VII.            Longest unbeaten home run for a manager – 9 years, 1 month and 10 days

This is where it gets insane. This run started on 23-02-2002, in charge of Porto, and ended on 02-04-2011 whilst in charge of Real Madrid.

For these last three, I’ve put together this scoring chart:

Step	V – 500 pts x step	VI – 200 pts x step	VII – 400 pts x step
	Goals Conceded in one Premier League season	Unbeaten Home Run in Premier League	Unbeaten Home Run (in years & months)
0	21-99	0 – 16	0 – 2
1	16-20	17 – 31	2 – 4
2	15	32 – 46	4 – 6
3	10-14	47 – 61	6 – 8
4	5-9	62 – 76	8 – 9,11
5	0-4	77	9,11
6		78 – 92	9,11 – 11
7		93 – 107	11 – 13
8		108 – 122	13 – 15
9		123 – 137	15 – 17
10		138 – 199	17 – 19

 

 

The Special One.xlsx

Edited October 25, 2021 by Siepe1990