The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Waiting for the full release to start a save. Not sure if I'll go somewhere in Europe, or wait for some league packs and take another shot at the Carribean, maybe in somewhere more domestically competitive like Jamaica.

I've been looking at potential clubs in Europe and I was wondering if people know whether teams move between non-playable divisions. I seem to recall years ago it being possible for teams in step 8 in the English pyramid to get "promoted" under the hood to step 7, then making it into the playable leagues on reset day. And it was possible to get those teams into a playable league by holidaying multiple years into the future.

Is that still the case, or has it ever been? And does anyone know if that applies to more than 2 steps of non-playable divisions, like what the game would call "regional lower leagues"?

[SkiIIs]

Trying again in England with a team I havent seen (or heard of) before:

Took me a while to catch up on all the posts (9 pages in about 5 days is nuts!) but have already managed to complete the first season.

We started off with a full team which was nice and have 2 or 3 players that could easily play in the VNL. The squad players were a little meh which is holding the team back.

In the end it was a great season managing to finish so cost to a play off spot where the board and supporters were just happy to remain in the league.

As like many others are commenting, the real challenge is dealing with sub par finances which has meant that I havent even been able to get one coaching badge.  The other thing about Truro Utd is that we dont have any u18's either despite all season requesting the board to allow it!   This is going to cause a huge issue with our youth intake and their development!  The board however did approve a youth recruitment improvement due to being on a good run during the year.

Youth intake was pretty decent.  A couple of these went straight into the first team being Carl Kay (was playing a grey shade CA player).

The real achievement was not losing any players and manging to resign everyone even though my GK and Striker refused to talk to me for the first 7 months of the year with the contracts expiring in the summer.   Hopefully we can build on the solid foundations next season.

We were taken over mid year with our debts of 160k being wiped clean, however now i have a loan we need to pay back so it seems we have a tight@ss chairman!

 

[DazRTaylor]

7 hours ago, Braumiller said:

Does this file mean that in game the name "Surname 26A" shows up instead of the full nickname if just using the nickname ingame???

If so, (bug aside) is there a link you could provide to show how to accomplish this?  Never knew you could do this! (if you can)

Me neither!

[DazRTaylor]

Chaps, can you all calm down please.

I am currently away for a funeral and as I type this, it is early in the morning and I am in our hotel room.  I log on and see four pages of unread updates!

[SuperRedditch]

5 hours ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

I've been looking at potential clubs in Europe and I was wondering if people know whether teams move between non-playable divisions. I seem to recall years ago it being possible for teams in step 8 in the English pyramid to get "promoted" under the hood to step 7, then making it into the playable leagues on reset day. And it was possible to get those teams into a playable league by holidaying multiple years into the future.

Is that still the case, or has it ever been? And does anyone know if that applies to more than 2 steps of non-playable divisions, like what the game would call "regional lower leagues"?

 

Macclesfield FC are in my league now (National League North) and I'm pretty certain they don't start in the division below us. They first appeared in 2026/27, so it definitely seems possible.

[XaW]

10 hours ago, JAwtunes said:

I've noticed that on FM22 doing exactly the same as you.  I export the player data to create the names for the .inc and notice that the DOB in game is now different to that shown in the export.  The visible attributes, personality, position etc. all matched.

Didn't notice it happend in FM22 as well, but thought it very strange!

9 hours ago, Braumiller said:

Does this file mean that in game the name "Surname 26A" shows up instead of the full nickname if just using the nickname ingame???

If so, (bug aside) is there a link you could provide to show how to accomplish this?  Never knew you could do this! (if you can)

I was about to write up a big post, but noticed that @SuperRedditchhad given a great summary. If you have any questions though, ask either of us! And yes, that means the player is "Surname 26a" on the pitch instead of "Firstname Surname 26a" everywhere. Also in the intro screen:

[Makoto Nakamura]

2035/36 Youth Candidates

We have a new first choice DR!  I'm still somewhat disappointed with the personalities though, we've had five seasons of every member of staff being professional.

[the_hdk]

Kaf Sin Kaf

Season 26/27 (4) - Süper Lig

Transfers / Players

First season in Süper Lig went better than I expected. We do have alot of issues with morale after periods of no games won or points gained. Also some players are wanting to leave to bigger club...and thinking of not extending their contract (despite them still having a 2 year deal). That si getting kinda annoying. Fener continues dominance in Turkiye. 4th championship in the row. PSG with their second CL win. Good chance MBAPPE will win Ballon d'Or next year.

We had a horrible run in the cup and lost to amateurs in 3rd round. Good points is that we made really alot of money. Around 5mln! So 2 ware spent on improving Training facilities that just started and the rest I want to keep. Need to build up a nice reserve. Also Youth coaching got improved twice and is up to Excellent. Somehow the board does not want to improve Youth recruitment. Not yet atleast.

ÇUBUKCU eneterd first team halveway the season on the LEFT BACK and stayed there. ALPTEKIN and TURAN are really getting close in ability to my first team players in teh midfield so we might see some sales next year. And SARI got in on rotation in the attack and will probably be starting next season. Overall we need to replace the goaly longterm. We need a central defender really on a short term as PEKER is 34 and not getting any better. Same applies to our star striker GEMICI. Age is starting to show at 33. He lost a full point of ability this year.

Another excellent intake with many great potentials, but I do not like the personalities this year. Only one possitive.

ATA has great determination and work rate so he will get there. But he needs to improve a ton before he can make it into the team.

UMUT. Second candidate to fill in teh central defender role. Bad personality though. Still great determination and work rate so  who knows. Migt be something there.

[Winski]

Tyresö FF
Season review
Season 2| 2024
 

Promotion to Superettan wasn't meant to be this season. With 4 games to play we had still a chance, but we lost one game, drew two and won only one. That was not enough to finish 2nd. But I am not complaining at all, because this is way more then I expected.
It's a good thing that my tactic is working quite well. I'm still tweaking a bit with some of the roles, but I'm happy with how the team is performing.

 

 

Best players this season were goalkeeper Isak Holmberg(who scored 2 goals from a free kick this season), forward Niclas Thomasson, midfielder Oskar Kaufmann and winger Anton Fornstedt.

Youth intake
The preview was very promising:

The intake itself was again a very, verry good one! Some real good talents, and some of them will go directly to our first team.


 

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Edited November 4, 2022 by Winski

[janvanbulck]

16 hours ago, OlivierL said:

 

Season Preview | Competitions | Trophy Cabinet

Eerste Nationale - Fixtures 1 - 2 : We had a great season , we only lost our first two games at the end of the season. 

Croky Cup: We beated Geel and City Pirates. Zulte Waregem (first tier team) was too strong in the fifth round.

U21: They are playing in two competitions(bug). They Finished 6th in the Reserve League 1B and 5th in the first national reserve division.

U19: They won the U19 National 1 leauge.

First XI | Overall Best XI | Transfers | Youth Intake 2024

A very strong season from our two striker De Kuyffer and Beirlant scoring 27 and 23 goals. Two youngsters Sekkat 23i and Pârvulescu 23A from the intake during holiday season made their debuts at the end . I'll try to keep above squad for next season, nobody is leaving. 

De Kuyffer was our best player this season scoring a lot of goals.

Club Vision | Supporters Profile | Manager Overview

We had 2991 capacity with only 600 seats. not sure what they are going to do now. We don't have the money.

Belgium Watch

Next Season
No relegation and a takeover/money injection, that would satisfy me very much next season.

 

Great work @OlivierL

"de leeuwkes" must be proud, i guess  

Edited November 4, 2022 by janvanbulck

[Makoto Nakamura]

2035/36 End of Season Review

A poor end to the season but we did it, we've secured promotion back to the top tier! Now we just need to get more than 13 points. 

Our first players have reached 500 appearances!  

Overall Best XI

2035/36 Best XI

Nathan Browne (YP3l)

David McLoughlin (YP6j) - Andy Dunn (YP1k) - Jim Fletcher (YP7d) - Gareth Huxley (YP2e)

Daniel Casey (YP3h) - Peter Morrow (YP1l)

Macauley Joynes (YP1g)                                                         Gavin Huxley (YP5d)

 

Andrew Caulfield (YP1j) - Darren Metcalf (YP12f)

Top 10's

 

Trophy Count

[shaunvamos]

Well, in what was perhaps a blessing in disguise, I've been sacked in Slovenia. It's an absolute nightmare managing there, I wasn't able to fill an XI and then when the youth came in they weren't eligible to play, even the 16 year olds. SO it's off somewhere else, does anyone have any suggestions outside of the Big Five nations?

[JAwtunes]

22 minutes ago, shaunvamos said:

Well, in what was perhaps a blessing in disguise, I've been sacked in Slovenia. It's an absolute nightmare managing there, I wasn't able to fill an XI and then when the youth came in they weren't eligible to play, even the 16 year olds. SO it's off somewhere else, does anyone have any suggestions outside of the Big Five nations?

That's a shame. I had a fun save in Slovenia.

Maybe Inter Bratislava in Slovakia. Iceland is fun too. 

[Zeldster]

Belfast Celtic

 

Season 1

Squad | Transfers | Finances

League: Start of the season didn't start great, only had 1 striker in the whole team who left the same day I joined to top league side Portadown. May be a problem going forward where our team can be thrown into disarray due to our amateur contracts. Played all season with a left winger up top who I retrained into a striker. He was the best of a bad bunch with 5 finishing. With these conditions, I'm happy with a 3rd place finish from a projected top half finish.

 

Cups: No decent cup runs this time around, not much to say on any of them other than there's quite a lot of cups in Northern Ireland?

Youth Intake: 

Richard Dornan23a was the pick of the bunch sliding straight into the team. 

 

Summary

Good season all round considering we had no out and out striker for the season but he did manage to pick up 14 goals in the league. Board are wanting me to attempt to avoid relegation this season, which is vastly different from top half finish this season. May be in for a tough season next year. 

 

 

[Winski]

17 minutes ago, shaunvamos said:

Well, in what was perhaps a blessing in disguise, I've been sacked in Slovenia. It's an absolute nightmare managing there, I wasn't able to fill an XI and then when the youth came in they weren't eligible to play, even the 16 year olds. SO it's off somewhere else, does anyone have any suggestions outside of the Big Five nations?

Ever tried Czech Republic? I've never managed there, but it looks like a very interesting option. Hungary as well.

[russ the womble]

36 minutes ago, shaunvamos said:

Well, in what was perhaps a blessing in disguise, I've been sacked in Slovenia. It's an absolute nightmare managing there, I wasn't able to fill an XI and then when the youth came in they weren't eligible to play, even the 16 year olds. SO it's off somewhere else, does anyone have any suggestions outside of the Big Five nations?

I had the same issue, I think in Turkey, where you get youth through but they have to be a minimum age to play. 

Portugal and the scandinavian leagues have both been decent.

[The7Striker]

47 minutos atrás, shaunvamos disse:

Well, in what was perhaps a blessing in disguise, I've been sacked in Slovenia. It's an absolute nightmare managing there, I wasn't able to fill an XI and then when the youth came in they weren't eligible to play, even the 16 year olds. SO it's off somewhere else, does anyone have any suggestions outside of the Big Five nations?

Hungary looks a good shout or Romania if you like long seasons.

[Libertine13]

Just caught up with about 10 pages worth of content, some fantastic starts to the challenge. I've not had much time to play so far and this is giving me FOMO big time! 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2036/37 Youth Preview

Hopefully if we manage to stay here for a few more seasons the intakes will get better based on league reputation.

[Shambolic]

Gonna give this my yearly go and try and keep up with it before inevitably becoming too busy.

 

Wish me luck!

 

 

[Reiver]

FC Barreirense

2025 Youth Intake

 

 

Another decent intake, when it comes to potential, even if the guys are not as ready to join the first team as last year. Let's take a closer look at the best kids:

As long as he develops, João Sanches looks like our future midfield boss. As simple as that.

Wellington Paulo is our second "nearly there" chance at a right back. Unambitious means it's likely he won't get there.

John Swini has the chance to be our first international. Not cause he's great, but cause he's from Malawi - Low Self Belief might make it harder though.

Pacheco is some strength training away of being a back up choice for central defender. Fickle though... this isn't the best intake personality wise.

Ivanilson is probably our second best chance at getting a decent kid that will actually improve to his CA,

 

All in all, a solid if not very impressive intake. 3/5.

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by Reiver

[Shambolic]

It's not going too badly at the moment! Sitting pretty in mid-table in the league and claimed a big scalp in the 4th Qual Round of the FA Cup.

[russ the womble]

 

Eskilstuna City - Season 2

Season Performance was decent. We finished third and just outside the play off spot, whilst introducing a few youngsters into the starting XI.

In the cup we took Norrby IF into extra time before we succumbed 3-1.

Overall quite happy to a) not go up yet and b) continue to perform well whilst having some low star players gaining experience. I think next season we'll be expected to gain a top half finish which should be easily attainable, and if we can get some more coaches and improvements through we'll be in a good position to then look to progress up a level.

Spoiler

Formation wise, the team mostly lined up with the following formation later in the season, although tends to shuffle between 4-1-2-2-1 and 4-2-3-1 as appropriate.

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Certainly not that great in quality at present, but the star men seem to carry the team a little.

Youth intake was mostly poor although has given me a keeper I can potentially work with.

Spoiler

Managed to negotiate another improvement to Youth Recruitment for the future, so hopefully will improve next season.

Selected Player Profiles

Filip Edvardsson - made good progress over the season, and scored a few goals from the shadow striker role. I think he will continue to develop and be a key man in the future.

Spoiler

Mans Saebbo - Improved slightly, but at 24 is likely not going to develop into a top player. He scored 17 in 21 league games so does the job up front, but I think I'll need a replacement at some point.

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David Bergstrand was mostly deployed on the right and had a decent debut season, but a lot of improvement still to go

Spoiler

Kristoffer Krebs is currently second choice striker but is becoming a challenger to Saebbo as he develops and is probably my biggest hope for a replacement striker at present. 6 goals this season (mostly sub appearances)

Spoiler

Training wise, I've managed to recruit some more coaches, but they are still neding to cover 2 or so areas. I think for this level, the standard of training is good but really need a trainnig ground improvement and a few more coaches to come in and take some of the load!

 

Spoiler

Board Requests - a lot of requests granted this year, sending coaches on training courses and improving youth recruitment. 

Spoiler

 

[JAwtunes]

'a real golden generation' apparently

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

6 hours ago, SuperRedditch said:

 

Macclesfield FC are in my league now (National League North) and I'm pretty certain they don't start in the division below us. They first appeared in 2026/27, so it definitely seems possible.

So I holidayed overnight until 2075 on my test save in Portugal. The way the structure works there is that steps 1-4 are playable in the game. Step 5 is organized into a number of regional districts called anywhere from "Porto Elite" to "Setubal First Division" to "Castelo Branco Division of Honor." Then step 6 remains in the regional districts and they are commonly called "Second Division" or "Division of Honor" (not to be confused with some of the step 5 leagues with similar names). Step 7 and lower seem to be called "Lower Regional Divisions."

I noted all the teams in the Porto Elite and Porto Honor Divisions (step 5 and 6) at the start of the save and compared them to the end. It was possible (and occured once or twice) for a team to reach the playable leagues (step 4) after starting in step 6. But it didn't seem like there was any change between step 6 and step 7 on an annual basis. My thought is that "Lower Regional Divisions" or terms like it are catch-alls that FM uses to represent leagues that aren't simulated at all in the game (even under the hood like some non-playable leagues are). So it would seem like any teams that start the game in those divisions have no chance at ever becoming playable naturally.

[Shambolic]

The FA Cup train keeps rolling! Now we've kicked Crewe Alexandra to the side, Portsmouth next up!

[russ the womble]

Pleasing first away game of the season!

[SuperRedditch]

Season 7 - 2029/30

National League North - 1st

*Champions*

MacFarlane WHO?

 

 

About as comprehensive as domination gets. Best attack. Best defence. Unbeaten since November. I took things a little slower this season - I did all the press conferences, I managed my players better, and I came up with a simpler tactic and everything just worked. Last season was frustration, this season was pure joy. Sometimes it takes me too long to really decide where a player is best, I get there eventually but I wish I'd made these decisions 12 months ago.

Off the pitch, we've reinvested the MacFarlane money into Youth and Training facilities and still have around £700k left. Going to sit on that for a while as I'm pretty happy with the infrastructure as it stands and don't want to over-extend.

 

 

The title-winning team

GK - Saul Asplin-Rowley - Brought through to try and look to the future. Kept club record 20 clean sheets.

DR - Leighton Allard - Moved from DM to IWB as part of new look line-up. Solid.
DCR - Uwe Knoll - Great DC for this level. Former DR.
DCL - Alieu Jawara - Moving him from DL to DC has revolutionised my defence. Unbeatable in the air. Gambian international.
DL - Franck Kitoko - Was a bit harsh on him last intake. Sometimes you just need a solid lump of mass on the pitch and he's capable.

DM - Gareth Lynch - Really just filling in a space. A weak-link.
MCR - Lamar Mackey - Good DLP who is leaving on a free.
MCL - Alex Dyson - Star, all-action CM(At) who is also leaving on a free and is a devastating loss. 15 goals/12 assists.

AMR - Lamine Camara - Getting better every season at IF(At). 16 goals/22 assists.
AML - Aday Sanz - Another weak-link just filling a spot.
ST - Bekir Twigg - MacFarlane WHO!? 51 goals. FIFTY ONE GOALS. 51.

 

Youth Intake

 

Blah blah bunch of A's blah blah golden generation.

 

 

It's actually ok. Top two are good pick ups, and then about 5-6 more who will just bulk out my squad.

 

 

 

Next Season

We've got some really good players, the better ones would be fine for League Two, but losing our two starting CMs is going to hurt us bad. Just being in a new division is going to be fun.

 

[darren1983]

How do you set up a scout to watch the next opposition on this version? For the life of me I can't seem to do it

[Makoto Nakamura]

2036/37 Youth Candidates

I am not happy with that intake.  

[SuperRedditch]

1 minute ago, darren1983 said:

How do you set up a scout to watch the next opposition on this version? For the life of me I can't seem to do it

 

Try something like this. I don't actually have any scouts so can't see if it works.

[darren1983]

1 minute ago, SuperRedditch said:

 

Try something like this. I don't actually have any scouts so can't see if it works.

Yeah that's the one cheers. Not sure how I missed it. Seems it can also be done from the responsibilities page as well 

[hubwub]

Just now, SuperRedditch said:

 

Try something like this. I don't actually have any scouts so can't see if it works.

That's how to do it.

[hubwub]

Just now, darren1983 said:

Yeah that's the one cheers. Not sure how I missed it. Seems it can also be done from the responsibilities page as well 

I don't think that sends the scout out though. It's just the person who provides the scout's work to the manager.

[darren1983]

Just now, hubwub said:

I don't think that sends the scout out though. It's just the person who provides the scout's work to the manager.

Ah OK. I've only got the one scout anyway for now but that's worth remembering 

[Shambolic]

The dream ends at Fratton Park. A lovely little windfall from the gate receipts though!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2036/37 End of Season Review

No great kick to finish the season but we survived in a difficult league, we just need to keep our head above water.

Overall Best XI

2036/37 Best XI

Nathan Browne (YP3l)

Paul Dunn (YP13e) - Andy Dunn (YP1k) - Jim Fletcher (YP7d) - Gareth Huxley (YP2e)

Daniel Casey (YP3h) - Peter Morrow (YP1l)

Macauley Joynes (YP1g)                                                         Gavin Huxley (YP5d)

 

Andrew Caulfield (YP1j) - Darren Metcalf (YP12f)

Top 10's

 

Trophy Count

[hubwub]

Looking for some opinions as to what my jersey design for my 2025/2026 season should be:

Design #1

Design #2

For Design #2 for the one that is blue and white stripes, black cuffs and collar or blue cuffs and collar?

Also found out that OXXO is owned by a Mexican conglomerate (FEMSA) that had more companies so used them for jersey and additional sponsors on the jersey. Fun fact in real life, they own C.F. Monterrey.

[WhiteCat33]

Guiseley AFC
Season 6 2028-2029 - VNL:N
Matches | Squad | Transfers | Finances | Supporters | Facilities

Cups: Playing my B-Team again this year turned out actually decent results with our refreshed back-line and steadily improving GK. We made it to the FA Cup proper, however lost disappointingly to a VNL:S Maidstone United so no money there. In the Trophy we only made it to the 2nd round before being knocked out by eventual VNL:N Champions St. Albans City.

League: Our rebuilding year paid off as we achieved a well-deserved 3rd place in the league! We scored less this year, but more importantly had the 3rd best defense. What is wild is our xG performance. -21 on Goals and +26 on Goals Against. I've never seen anything this skewed. I can say a big issue for our scoring was how Davies 05i was offside all the time. He'll be training Attacking movement for the foreseeable future.

Anyways, 3rd place puts us into the prime position for playoffs. We got a great draw of Hitchin Town in the semi-final bout, its only their 2nd year up from EL7 and we easily dispatched them 3-1. Unsurprisingly, 2nd place Spennymoor demolished Kettering to set up OUR FIRST TRIP TO WEMBLEY!

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Bookmakers are against us. We drew them 1-1 at home and lost 2-1 during the regular season, so it's understandable. And we both are in great form. Going to be a great match!

VNL:N Playoff Final 2029 @ Wembley: As I like to do, commentary on our first big match in the spoiler

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I’ve pulled down the speed and put it on comprehensive highlights to actually fully manage this match and enjoy our first taste of the big stage. 

Game starts fine, they don’t put up any big chances but are having the better ratings as they are dominating possession and our long balls over the top aren’t working as they are playing a trap catching Aaron Davies 04i offside 3 times in the first 15 min. So I took the ‘pass to space’ off, to see if we can build up better. 

27’ they foul our midfielder at the top of the D and our cm Macaulay Brownhill 02a steps up to take it. He’s been pissed at me all season for a failed training facility promise he locked into his last contract. But with his 11 Long Shot, 14 Vision & 8 FK he’s the best on the pitch. And he did what he’s only done a couple times all season and actually scored the direct FK using his left foot to bend it around the wall into the near post!

And here the game changes as we put up multiple chances on them keeping the pressure on their box. And after 5 or so penetrating posessions into their box our Midfielder gets tripped in the box, PENALTY!!

Our captain RB steps up to take the kick. He’s been off recently missing his past 2, but still is the best at it for us. And he extends his streak missing the most important penalty of the season…he’s been dropped from the list for the rest of the match if we get another gifted chance. I'll be re-thinking my penalty order for next season

Our LM almost chips the keeper on a run but their CB saves it off the line. Glad to see us keeping the pressure on as our Striker almost beat the keeper around the post forcing a corner to be conceded. And that same LM Luke Farell 01g serves in a great corner to the far post where our big polish beast is so smart that his 1 heading doesn’t stop him from a back-post corner header GOALLL!!! 

39’ and I’m up 2-0, and it should be 3-0. Things are looking good now to fight complacency. Halftime and its been all us, now to keep it that way after the break

No changes at half-time for either side. They make a very early sub in the 52’ for an AMR which is probably to combat the absolute dominance my LM is having on their side, he’s had even more chances to start the second half. So far though we are still fully in charge of the match with the entire momentum. Now not to choke this match

They change a CM who is tired for a less lethal passer in the 60’. I haven’t made a change yet as everyone’s doing pretty well. My striker can’t stay onside so I’m going to give my new youth player a shot (my 3rd striker tore his hamstring and is out) he scored 2 goals on his debut, so maybe he’ll have more of that beginners luck. I also bring on last years Danish CB for my slower CB as when he gets tired there is a tendency for him to get beat over the top.

82’ I don’t want to slow up the pace as we are behind on momentum now and I don’t want to sit back and let them take control of the match, and they get the goal as their AML beats my whole defense and blasts it home, 2-1.

This is going to get nervy at the end. 90+1 and they injure my RM and continue their attack down the left flank, we defend well and clear it. Thankfully I’ve held a sub for just this issue, and our Captain is off and we are all adjusted. Now to time-waste. And that’s all she wrote!! After that injury we just barely regained control of the match, but it wasn’t looking good that second half. WE ARE GOING UP!!!

Youth Academy

YI Preview

Spoiler

Youth Intake: Honestly, underwhelmed personality-wise but we do have two decently skilled additions to the squad who will move into the sub-spots of the first team.

Spoiler

Most exciting of all is the striker Steve Woodhouse as he will give us a 4th real striker who will become our best shot with Flair!

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Nuno our Portuguese player would be interesting if he wasn’t Unambitious with only 4 determination, maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll develop?

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When signing players Anderson 06e looks useful if he develops okay (and he is the most likely of the bunch to do so). Helps he can play anywhere in the center of the pitch.

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Also, can anyone tell me anything about Llandough Wales? I have gotten Welsh players from other towns, but to get 4 from what seems a tiny random place is odd considering Bradford right next door I've only found 3 players from.

Lost Sell-Ons

I'm still salty about my players being passed off for free. One has already occurred with Sean Howes 01b, who spent only 6 months at AFC Telford in VN before Ispwich scooped him up for their U-21s where he's a sub. Currently wanted by Championship Rotherham valued somewhere between 160k - 1.6M it's going to hurt when I get pennies of that.

The other I guess could still pan out as Ali Edmondson 01a still has a year on his contract and has finally gotten playing time for Crawley in League 1. Strangely after a season in League 2 where he never played and they won promotion, causing him to get upset they've started to actually use him. I can dream that will result in some kind of transfer, but realistically I'll get stiffed.

No one else of quality has left the club (which is great!) and with our promotion hopefully I can keep it that way.

Club Infrastructure

We started the summer with a dreaded double youth downgrade of both Facilities & Youth Level. I spent 400k of our savings to bring back our facilities, but no chance to up back to the 3 Youth Level. To be fair, that was very high for a promoted squad, and our quality shown where our U18 demolished their league. 

Best XI

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Thoughts

Survive, survive, survive! Only our Polish big-man and our RB are rated at Van National level. The rest of the team is a mix between VN:N & EL7 level. We were predicted 21/24 this season, but had 20-1 odds, so it wasn't as crazy of an upset as one would expect. Especially with Golebiowski in the Media Dream 11. The GK gamble I made last year paid off as Curtis England 03a is improving hand-over-fist right now and at only 19 he's already better than the legacy GK I shuffled off. Hopefully, he and my defense have developed and matured enough to weather the onslaught of the national league. I'll be happy if they can at least match their xGA.

 

[the_hdk]

59 minutes ago, hubwub said:

Looking for some opinions as to what my jersey design for my 2025/2026 season should be:

Design #1

Design #2

For Design #2 for the one that is blue and white stripes, black cuffs and collar or blue cuffs and collar?

Also found out that OXXO is owned by a Mexican conglomerate (FEMSA) that had more companies so used them for jersey and additional sponsors on the jersey. Fun fact in real life, they own C.F. Monterrey.

both are great but design #2 fits more with the sponsors IMHO. great work on them!

[Daddy]

Owner sold another player for dirt cheap the team collapsed against winnable competition and I'm blaming their loser energy on the Phillis losing the last two games too

First time I've had the owner ask not to resign though. I'll figure another save out later.

[russ the womble]

 

Eskilstuna City - Season 3

Champions!

Season went perfectly in the second half of the season winning the title with two games to spare. Should have put a fiver on at those odds..

Final Table 

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Squad performance was an improvement with several with an average over 7. A few of the midfielders almost got to double figures for goals.

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Notable Player Profiles

Mans Saebbo was top scorer again with 19 goals in 25 games. Always a danger, and still improving a little, but may find it a lot tougher one level up.

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Filip Edvardsson had a great debut season, scoring 8 times in midfield/shadow striker roles and already considered a star player. He's been consistently the best in training and stats are improving consistently. Will be interesting how he develops next season.

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David Bergstrand has looked dangerous in games (probably his pace) and took 5 assists in 25. Another whose stats seem to be increasing at a steady rate. 

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Anton Lantz had a decent time in goal for a 1.5 star goalkeeper, somehow averaging over 7 for the season. Not improved massively, but was comfortable in the air and generally solid enough. I doubt he is ready for a step up but needs must

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Board requests have not gone great this season with only one upgrade for Youth recruitment, although we now have good Youth Recruitment. Most requests were turned down because finances are now in the red.

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Interesting that the teams coming down have not set the league alight, so maybe there's a decent bit of overlap and maybe we can hold my own.

Hoping for an attendance boost next season and maybe it will sort out the finances. With the club in debt there's little chance of improving facilities any further, and players are essentially worthless so not a chance of selling anyone to raise sufficient funds for improvements.

p.s.Youth team are full of good potential players but need to get some out on loan or they may be wasted. Been trying to get a loan manager, butr no dice so far.

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[SuperRedditch]

 

Well.......that's errr.....that's a lot of money. Generational talent, or something. Really interested to see how good he actually is.

I guess we're developing our facilities after all.

[libbyshuss]

2 hours ago, hubwub said:

Looking for some opinions as to what my jersey design for my 2025/2026 season should be:

i vote for Design #1 but they're both great!

[JAwtunes]

1 hour ago, the_hdk said:

both are great but design #2 fits more with the sponsors IMHO. great work on them!

Yeah id say the second one too, but they both very good.  What did you use to create them?

[hubwub]

2 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

Yeah id say the second one too, but they both very good.  What did you use to create them?

I downloaded templates from sortitoutsi.net for SS kits. Then I used Photopea (GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO PHOTOSHOP) to edit the PSD because I swap between a Linux and Windows machine. I googled for HQ versions of the sponsor logos.

I'm leaning towards using design #2.

[JAwtunes]

Cardiff Corinthians - Season 2036/37 Review (s15)

I've joined the infographic party!

Season 15 was a very successful one for us.  We managed to qualify for the group stage of the Champions League for the first time and even managed to beat Anderlecht twice in the group to secure a 3rd place finish.  This meant we went through to the first knockout round of the Europa League where we met Fiorentina.  Unfortunately Fiorentina were just far too strong and we lost on aggregate.  As you'd expect, we made loads of money thanks to qualifying for the CL group and the couple of wins we managed, so our finances are really healthy.

....... and we also welcomed our first Andorran academy graduate this season (i.e. matching the manager).  I have a feeling he will become the next Ildefons Lima of the Andorra national team.

Competitions - Domestic

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Records

JD Cymru Cup

League Cup

Competitions - Europe

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Qualification and CL Group

Europa League KO Round

 

 

Players

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How We Lined Up

 

Youth Intake

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Preview - 4 star

Intake - 5 star

HoYD

SUMMARY

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Wales National Team

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[XaW]

                    

XaW - Holbæk Bold- & Idrætsforening - Season 2026/27 (Season 4) - 2. Division

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We keep consolidating our position here in the 3rd tier, and even though we ended in the Relegation stage, we were never really in any danger of going down. We still struggle quite a bit with too many goal allowed, but we usually score quite frequently, so I'm not overly concerned. I'm just hoping we get in some better defenders soon, since the current ones seems to struggle to improve much. And the two central ones are the issue still, even if we got in two slightly better ones last year, they are still the weakest spot.

DBU Pokalen: We beat Brabrand and BK Union before we lost to Silkeborg in the 3rd round.

B Team:

They only played friendlies.

U19 Team:

They only played friendlies.

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

None

Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Apps
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Martin Holm 24f		Denmark		N/A		105
Dominik Adamski 24c	Denmark		Poland		104
Christian Dylong 24k	Denmark		N/A		93
Stephan Kronberg 24j	Denmark		N/A		90
Bjarne Jørgensen 24e	Denmark		N/A		83

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Goals
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Mathias Pedersen 24i	Denmark		N/A		59
Christian Dylong 24k	Denmark		N/A		17
Bjarne Jørgensen 24e	Denmark		N/A		15
Stephan Kronberg 24j	Denmark		N/A		12
Martin Holm 24f		Denmark		N/A		10

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Assists
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Bjarne Jørgensen 24e	Denmark		N/A		16
Mathias Pedersen 24i	Denmark		N/A		9
Stephan Kronberg 24j	Denmark		N/A		9
Kristoffer Gytkjær 26f	Denmark		N/A		6
Mijo Sabic 25b		Denmark		Bosnia Herzegovina 5

Supporters:

Summary:

[fries]

Vanarama National League

2026/27 (season 4)

Season Summary

My expectations this season were to fight for promotion and keep developing my players.

Before the season I sold one of my four young offensive star players. I wondered how I could get the most out of the remaining three and therefore changed my tactic to a 4-3-3 with three strikers.

The three strikers scored lots of goals, but we were also open in the defense. In the end, we scored massively 113 goals which were enough to win the title and promotion. The defense got better in the second part of the season as my defenders got better.

My 3 young offensive stars Ergan, Byran, and Walters, played very well. Byran scored massively 48 league goals in 45 league games. While the two other strikers Egan and Walters had the highest average rating with 7.51. They scored and assisted a combined 30 and 29 respectively.

Marcinkowski and Jordao developed very well this season.

After this magnificent season, I thought it was a good idea to display my three strikers.

First Byran. He played as an advanced forward in the center of the three strikers. He can finish, dribble, and run and his mentals are crazy. Fortunately, I have had no problems with him being unhappy. I think he will be appointed as my captain for the next season.


Egan plays as a false 9 on the left. According to the season preview tab, in the end of the season, he was regarded as the best player in the league. However, he wants to move to a bigger club. With two years back on his contract, I can hopefully keep him for another year.


Walters plays as a target man on the right. He also wants to move to a bigger club. With two years back on his contract, I can hopefully also keep him for another year.

Not only my first team had success with my new tactic. My youth team also won their league and scored most goals.

The youth intake preview looked great. Lots of A's and 5 stars.


I was very happy with the intake. The personalities are okay. Both N'Guessan and Douglas will be rotational players next season.





Douglas was the best player in my intake. He got a few games at the end of the season and played well.



Oliver was as earlier mentioned sold for around £500K and a 50 pct. sell-on-clause before the season. I later sold the sell-on-clause for around £1.5M. However, no important players left the club this season.
Unfortunately, my talented reserve keeper is leaving the club for free after this season. I tried to loan him out, but the only club that answered wanted him as a backup. I declined the offer and he was unhappy for the rest of the season, why it was impossible to renew his contract.

Finances and Upgrades
I managed to upgrade the facilities. 
I upgraded my training facilities once and youth recruitment twice.
Personally, I managed to get the Continental Pro Licence

Next season
Next season I hope to keep my young players through the summer. The strikers should be good enough to play at the top of the league again. I have my doubts about the rest of the team. But in the end, it would be great if we can fight for the play offs.

[hubwub]

@JAwtunesI might have to join the infographic gang soon!