The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[Neo_Geo]

3 minutes ago, thomas_e said:

This guy came through the academy last year (screenshot from intake) and he can certainly become a star. He is even called up for Wales at the World Cup this summer. 

I also have a decent GK out on loan, Mark Hebler, a 20 year old with 2nd Bundesliga attributes atm. He will not be a disaster, but no way im winning CL with him! 

Hopefully Baldock is ready in two years! 

 

Never say never, just look at @HenTheChicken and the mighty Mumbles!

Baldock looks solid for a fresh graduate 

[russ the womble]

21 minutes ago, Barnsley said:

I think I found the problem with my last 13 seasons, my goalkeeper was just that poor, i never had a problem scoring the goals but i conceded so many. 

Now in the vanarama national, we are flying. Same formation, same players apart from our keeper a 16 year Nigerian who actually has hands to keep the ball out  already fighting bids from him for 5k  

Tom King, our original keeper, first youth intake keeper - now 28 had a sterling career with us. 491 league games, 921 goals conceded haha.

Our new keeper has kept 7 clean sheets in 10 games and we have conceded 4 in 10. I think everyone was right when they said this could be the start of something!!

Flying is an understatement.

A good GK is easily worth a good 10+ goals a season, waiting for mine to sort his eye-hand coordination out!

[BigJack]

2 hours ago, gb2003 said:

Hey guys, what are you doing with your players that only have one year left and doesn't want to renew his contract? If I play regular, I sell them and got a new one but for the youth challenge?

 

Some advice? Do you sell them?

 

I have a center back who doesn't want to renew his contract but is still my best defender. The other prospects need one year to develope.

Ive been keeping them and then once last game of the season has been played offer them out for free but +50% of next transfer fee. A few clubs usually take the deal and at least you may get some money later down the line. 

[andydick]

HORNCHURCH
End of Season 1 (2023/24)

With a squad consisting of only 12 first team players, a 16 year old with a 1 star youth rating and a bunch of grays whose names seem to change throughout the game, we weren't hopeful.  But with 5 points from the opening 3 games things started well, but it wasn't long before the 'chins started dropping down the table and the next 7 months were spent mainly in and occasionally out of the bottom 4.

The youth intake did look very promising though, should we avoid relegation.

We went into the final game 4th bottom with Chelmsford one place and 3 points above.  We had to win, they had to lose .. and that's exactly what happened though we did leave it a tad late !

 

Youth intake did look promising but it didn't really materialise .. but at least we have some players we can hopefully develop and promote to the first team.  

 

So, on to season 2.

 

[WhiteCat33]

A.S. Luxembourgo Porto

Season 15 2037-38 BGL Ligue (Tier 1)

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Intro & Club | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 |Season 7 |Season 8 | Season 9 | Season 10 | Season 11 | Season 12 | Season 13 | Season 14 |

Matches | Squad | Transfers |Facilities | Finances | Supporters

Competitions:

Conference League

Well this was a dumpster fire. We got our draw and I was all excited with HB from the Faroe Islands. Nice easy team to beat up for money right?? Week before the match this happens:

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Few days later my other striker joined my 3 other star players in revolting and I almost lost it as I watched my team lose 2-4 with strikers missing the frame from within the 6 yard box multiple times. 

Because of this surprise early exit we lost out on at least 300k in prize money. Due to this I did something I rarely do and actually scaled back our Jr Coaching because 112k p/m for Youth Setup was too steep without that prize money. It reduced to a more 'manageable' 85k p/m.

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Cup

Back-to-Back Champions! This time though it was pretty easy as we had 4th place Titus Petange in the final and we easily smoked them 4-0. 

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League

CHAMPIONS!  Thankfully even though my players still asked to leave after a few league games their form returned and from Mid-September onwards we were undefeated with only 2 draws to see us to a 26-2-2 season with +70 GD and 80 points. Swift Hesperage had 79 points and were just 1 point behind us for the last couple months of the season. Like @russ the womble said my new GK gave me legit a +20 GD improvement YoY as the entire rest of the squad was unchanged. Amazing what improving from a 1* to a 3* GK can do.

The big caveat to this title is Swift were again in the Europa League so certainly dropped points. We had a particularly favorable calendar this year with regards to our head-to-heads. Our first match was on Oct 31 and was their 6th game of the month as well as just before having to head to Scotland to face Rangers. Our Home win here won us the title. It will be a real feat if we can retain the title next year.

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Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview

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Youth Intake

While 2037 was the year of the Goalkeeper 2038 was easily the year of the Center Attacking Midfielder as my HOYD gave me 3 2* CA players. While we didn't have the standout stars of last year overall it was a great intake.

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Best Prospects

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2038 is the year of Attacking Center Mids with 3 2* CA recruits. My favorite is Nelson Graca who I think will make a great CM(A) and is one of our few Fairly Professional personalities. Goncalo Barbosa I’ll be looking to train as an AP/DLP as well as getting him more comfortable as the LM for sub depth. Then Ricardo Silva will need some serious luck developing to make it, just missing too much mental & physical ability to really fit into my squad.

Real shame Americo Santos is unambitious because a 6’7” either-footed CB is like gold. Maybe I’ll get lucky and he’ll develop with gametime?

Throwing in the GK Pedro Correia for good measure. Rough go showing up just after 2 stud GKs, I see lots of loans in your future.

I wish Carlos Baptista was faster, but who knows first Sporting player I’ve gotten this save.

We broke 100 distinct Portugal locations!

Best XI

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Youth Products Highlights

This year we got our first Luxembourg Main Team Call-ups! Only downside is the LUX national team has tanked in ranking right now. I blame it on lots of retirements as we are switching over to almost all newgen players in the game right now. Cool thing seeing 3 of my players in the top 5 rep LUX players. Maybe that's why they are all angry and want to leave?

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There are a lot of young LUX strikers so my main goalscorer has hardly seen any national team play, but that didn't stop him from smashing domestic records with his 49 Goals in the League this season. Helps he had a 7 Goal Game! He did so well he got the European Golden Shoe as the highest goalscorer in all leagues even being in a "Third-Tier Nation". 

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Club Infrastructure

Downgrade to JR Coaching was the only thing. Hopefully with Europe money next year I can do Facility upgrades. Still haven't seen Youth Facility return since my upgrade to Basic....what a feature they've added.

Coaching Badges

I actually got one this year! Continental A Completed:

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Thoughts

I'm excited for Europe, maybe this time my players won't forget how to play when we leave Luxembourg. Get us some of that prize-money to really turn up the development of our players! I see full time Professional Status on the horizon. We only have 625k left on our Stadium Debt, so if we can get 3M in the bank I bet we could switch over. Then maybe I can recruit some non-garbage staff.

Edited December 5, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[glennuk]

17 hours ago, Barnsley said:

Yeah, he's right up there with my all time favourite players for sure. Incredible I actually got him on season 3 with awful recruitment and awful facilities. But he came through with 14-15 finishing and some pace so he was perfect for this level. He wouldn't be anywhere near these goals if I didn't spend 13 seasons down here  feel like Conference National will be his level and possibly not bad in league two. 

Bit concerned about the 5 year board plan - initially we spent 13 seasons and it was only the last few when we were hitting the playoffs that they wanted me to push mid table of the league. They already want me to hit playoffs this season first time, and in 5 years gain promotion from League Two! not sure how realistic that is.

It could be realistic  

I have found it hardest to get out of the Vanarama leagues in the past. I feel that once you take that step it is relatively smooth sailing until you have to win the Premier League. I think it took me more season to go from National South to League Two, than it did from League Two to Premier League.

[Daddy]

2023/24 Season Review:

As expected we finished in the Relegation Group. As I had suggested at the mid season break I thought I had defense under control, and it proved to be true as we did not concede too many goals and had a few clean sheets. The relegation group splits into two groups at this point:

This was disappointing as we won two of the first three matches, and going into the final match we were safe in 4th. However we lost to the team that leapfrogged us to 4th. Defense wasn't the problem, but goal scoring was. With the save on the line in a home/away playoff I made another minor tweak that would hopefully add scoring without sacrificing defense:

Two matches isn't necessarily enough to say that was definitely it, but the scoring started coming in these last two matches. 

We had a 550K transfer accepted by the owner, and while I didn't want to lose him I couldn't really blame him. I was able to get some upgrades from it.

The training facility is the big update. The three Youth related ones are already in a good state and I got some upgrades. With all the high potential players coming in we need some training facilities to meet that potential. 

Youth Intake:

The early intake always good, but this was outstanding. No out and out blow away players, but a few got some first team minutes and contributed. 

2024/25 Season Preview:

The white kits were almost never used last season. The Green kits were seemingly used as primary away kits. Weird.

I expect to build off last season. I think defensively we're much more sound than we started off last season. Based on that alone I think we'll be a little higher up the table come the split (moving from 14th to maybe around 10th). If I did figure out getting more goals without slashing defense then maybe we move to a bubble team for the champions group come the split.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2030 End of Season Review

No Chatham Cup for some reason but we were in the Stafford Choat Cup which is a cup for Northland based sides and we managed to make it to the semi finals, we also didn't get relegated so another great season!

Overall Best XI

2028 Best XI

Alex Groves

Sean Sutton - Michael Bull - David Clarke (YP1a) - Kenneth Gori

 

Ryan Taylor - Simon Sellar (YP1k)

Peter Barnett (YP5l)                                                             Ben Bidois

Caleb Wilson - Darren Roxburgh

The Junior Coaching upgrade immediately paying off!

 

[DazRTaylor]

You won a cup game 8-6.  What a boring team you are @Makoto Nakamura

[hubwub]

Club Comunicaciones - Primera Nacional - 2023

CLUB: PROFILE | FACILITIES | HONOURS | BOARD VISION | SUPPORTERS | FINANCES

MANAGER: PROFILE

Competitions

Primera Nacional

We have been promoted to Liga Profesional de Fútbol. We finished the season at the top of the table with our only loss against the team that was predicted to win the league outright. We managed to be undefeated at home with 15W-3D. We had a 99% average attendance with 15 sellouts out of 18 home matches. Our average attendance is 2,490 with a max capacity of 2,500.

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Copa Argentina AXION Energy

Lost in the Seventh Round to Club Atlético Boca Juniors. It was a demolition job by them.

Squad

Sergio Sosa

Diego Casoppero - Emiliano Trovento - Jorge Ferrero

Facundo Barboza - Mauro Miraglia

Enzo Ybañez - Mariano Pieres - Ramiro Rios - Lucas Banegas

Julián Kadijevic

4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide

I ran the same tactic as I did with my Tampico Madero save which was a 4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide. I ran two versions during the season with different instructions.

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Youth Academy

Youth Intake Preview

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Youth Intake

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The HOYD I eventually settled on was Rodolfo de la Cruz who had a Resolute personality with a preferred formation of 4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide. He wasn't in any of the screenshots I posted on the thread when I first started the save.

The standout from the Youth Intake that broke into the first team is Emiliano Ojeda 22H.

Miscellaneous

We are getting a stadium expansion but it only increases our capacity by 639. Our current max is 2,500. This is worrying because board took out a bank loan to expand the stadium.

We managed to get our coaching badges upgraded to National C. We are currently studying for National B.

Staff wise, we are getting there. I will be replacing three staff members who I inherited upon taking over the club this upcoming off season.

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The main thing I need to figure out heading into Liga Profesional de Fútbol is make sure we can make money. It's going to be hard due to our stadium situation.

Edited December 5, 2022 by hubwub
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[russ the womble]

Season 8 (2030)

A more comfortable finish this season:

Our goalscoring record was appalling however. Our joint top scorers both got four goals and both are the team's CBs! Although admittedly one is on penalties..

I changed the FBs to support roles and we sold our main striker (again) so waiting for others to step up. Bit frustrating..

Youths:

Not going to put up all youths, but I notice that generally, my players seem to improve in physicals and mental stats, but technical stats are not improving to any great degree.

My coaching standards seem adequate aside from GK (these are taken in close season which may affect the description of workload)

Any way to boost technical development? Should I focus on it in pre season or do a custom training schedule? Difficult to train much when they are part time of course.

 

Edited December 5, 2022 by russ the womble

[Koetzer]

FK Viktoria Žižkov – season 2026/27

Struggle continued after the winter break. We almost caught Pardubice with a head-to-head win, but they had a better run in April so we need to win at least three of five last games and hope for other results going in our favor.

Well, that was madness. After winning four games in a row (three of them with late decisive goals) and setting the new club record with 5-0 thrashing of Slovan we only needed a draw against Pardubice… and failed completely. At this point I was sure that we are relegated, Slovan had the same amount of points, better goal difference but…

I was totally sure that goal difference was the first tiebreaker in previous seasons! Or did the latest patch also change league rules in older saves?

Playoffs against lower league teams aren’t a problem for us. Survived again, and hopefully this season becomes a turning point as our core is now young and developing (though there are some serious concerns about keeping them around now).

Cup

Our former leaders now couldn’t even defeat a second tier team.

Squad stats

D.Macek *25a – our best player right now, but it may be his last season here. He wants to leave with one year left under contract, so it's a tough choice - let him go now, earning some money for future development but weakening the midfield even more, or lose him for free in a season.  

M.Muxel *23a – saved us from relegation, scoring 7 of his 13 goals in May. Also he won the talent of the year award and played in the U19 Euros (Czech Republic lost all three games in the group).

Dawser Ben Yahmed – Tunisian striker got a first eleven spot after we had to change our formation to 4-4-2 (simply had not enough central midfielders anymore) and became our second goalscorer.

Jiří Ciupa – entered the god mode in some games, conceded almost every shot in others (Sparta beat us 8-0 with 9 shots on target )

P.Ellison *23b – agreed to a new contract, so we can be confident in our left-back position so far.

A.Križmanić *26a and D.Klinka *26d – two wingers from the last season’s intake have already become regular starters.

V.Matejka *24a – didn’t play as well as last season, but still remains one of our key players.

 

Transfers – more loans, mostly to Portuguese clubs with better facilities. 

Youth intake (preview)

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Sedláček *27a | Hubínek *27b | Rothe *27c | Hrdlička *27d | Klán *27e | Čepelák *27f

Sedláček is unambitious, but good enough to be a backup striker in the senior team right now! Getting a potentially good center-back and a pair of central midfielders will also help (can’t say the same about wingers though, we are getting too many of them). What’s even funnier is our HOYD having 4-4-2 narrow diamond as a preferred formation, though I’ve never seen any connection between this and youngsters’ positions actually  

Another small drop in attendance, can’t blame the fans though, a lot of games were really tough to watch. Also we got our first affiliate - Znojmo, a 3rd tier team with quite decent facilities.

[Redknapp_13]

Hapoel Ra'anana Season Review

Season 32/33

Table - Champions League - Cups Won - Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

No league title this year and our lowest point total in 3 years. First half of the season went very well, but in the championship round we just gave up too many losses. It did not come as a big suprise as we lost our Keeper at the start of the season to Tottenham for 1.8 millions (release clause) and had to go back to Melika who is here since the beginning. Otherwise we lost our second star player from the 30 intake, Oren Cohen. The rest we could keep and it was again our star striker Lugasi 29B, who was our best player, scoring 40 goals this season. Otherwise we tried to include a few youngsters, but it was mainly the same players carrying the team. That 29 intake was a really nice one.

We still one three trophies. The Alu-Hafim (Cupwinner against League winner), The israel cup and the Toto Cup, which is some random tournement before the season starts.

In the Champions League we got comfortably into the league phase and got more points than last year, even could play a playoff game against Roma. But we had no chance there. Still a long long way of really competing

Lugasi 29B, Shukrani 29C, Dayan 29A, Ayash 29D our Key Players this season

    

Brami 30C, Banay31B, Salami -Vaddai 32A, Iluz31D are the ones who broke into the first team this year

   

Transfers

We lost our two best players due to release clauses for 1.8 millions and that hurt. Especially Itzhak 30B.

 

Intake 33

As we lost Itzhak it was nice to see an A GK

The intake itself looked better than the preview and I think Leidner is one of the best prospects we ever had at the club, which probably means we will loose him in three years due to a release clause

We got a GK and as I said Leidner, who looks really promising

 

Best news of the season is that I can finally upgrade the youth facilities!!

[Sn00gle]

I was triggered by some big transfers from Lechia Gdańsk at the start of the new season (for our Polish level). Investigation showed that in this year (in half of last season) they were taken by UAE boss. Well that will be for sure hard to beat.

[Connor]

Just out of interest guys, is it normal that after holidaying a season, in the Conference north/south leagues in England, for some teams to have swapped divisions (ie. last season Braintree were in the South, but now down as the North?)

[Vlach]

Season 1 - E.S. Paris - 2023-24

 

The first season in Paris was quite a success, we managed to win the league and got promoted. Which wasnt exactly because our team was so strong - its more like the others were all quite weak. And we probably had by far the highest cohesion of the teams, since the others signed free agents and let them go again all the time.

It was hard keeping many of the players, as other clubs tried to lure them away. And I was not able to keep them all, since their amateur contracts gave me no way to "secure" their service at all. At least I managed to keep 12 players during the season. I all then became much easier once the youth intake arrived - that was also the point where we were able to finally climb towards the top of the league.

 

 

 

 

Winning the league

Celebration

 

Competitions

 

Lineup

 

Finances

Accolades

Transfers

 

Table

 

[schnauzer]

Dorchester Town FC   -   Season 6 (2027 / 2028) Review   -   Vanarama National South

 

League Performance

A very delayed update as my last one was about 3 weeks ago... I wonder if there has been something on during that time that has distracted me? 

This season was another mediocre midtable campaign as we finished 13th in the Vanarama South. On the positive side we are slowly moving forwards as we had 3 more points than last season and 13 more points than the season before last.

I now have 3 brilliant players at my disposal in Miquel Hunte, Kieron Lambert and Aaron Dorrington but they can't carry the team to success on their own. There are too many weak positions in our starting XI to really kick on which is frustrating as I'm unsure of how much longer I can keep hold of this trio. Hunte and Lambert have been subject to offers from the Football League all season and Lambert in particular is the target of L1 sides. The progression of Brett Puddy, Alfie Peel, Toby Miller, Jesmond Micallef and Pantelis Oikonomou is all very encouraging, but I need at least a couple of them to reach the level of the aforementioned trio, and then for my academy - which has had the worst year yet - to start producing higher quality players more consistently. This has been a bit frustrating and slowed my game time down a lot but I think we can make a breakthrough sooner or later.

In the league we made a decent enough start and briefly dallied with a playoff spot before being remarkably consistent in 13th spot (not exactly the consistency you want). Shoutout to Newport County for bottling a promotion from this division for the 3rd year running (this time losing in the playoff final to Dover). Coming down to our level next year will be Dartford, Maidstone and Gloucester.

 

FA Cup - Just like last season, narrowly missing out on the 1st round. We made the 4th round qual. after beating Hythe Town and Whitehawk before losing to Southend in a replay after drawing the first game at home. The wait for a lucrative cup run continues!

FA Trophy - Knocked out by Chorley in the 4th round after previously beating Lewes (7-2!) and Truro.

 

Squad - Still fairly reliant on Alfie Stanley's goals - he had his best scoring season yet with 21 in the league - but with him only having 1 year left on his deal and refusing to extend it then it's encouraging that Micallef is starting to score more regularly. Hunte and Dorrington both regularly involved in goals and Peel starting to do so but could do with chipping in some more. Defensively we are weak, but Toby Miller has improved a lot to become our best centre back. Shayne Haines has also got back to his best form in a simplified 'anchor man' DM role covering the space behind our more attacking midfielders. There's a decent squad here I just need more quality coming through the youth side to push them to level needed to go up again.

 

Players of the Season

1. Miquel Hunte - Our starman in midfield got 12 goals and 11 assists in all comps.

2. Kieron Lambert - Probably improved more than any player I've had playing this challenge before! Came through as a thoroughly unremarkable LB but is now rated as a top National League LB with L1/L2 potential. I have started to use him at DM and had great results due to his brilliant defensive abilities.

3. Brett Puddy - Continuing on from his breakout year last year with good development. His attributes look good for a DM but he's been great in the CM-A role for me getting forward and pressing the opposition defence high.

    

    

Rookie of the Season (1st full season)

Toby Miller - Only played 6 times in the league last season but played 30 times this one. Developed lots and doesn't have many weaknesses (bar aerial ability) for this level.

 

Youth Intake - Some may have decent potential ratings but their personalities and current abilities mean I don't think they have any chance of achieving it. I believe someone said on this challenge thread that it takes 8 years for the HOYD's own players to come through, so I guess we are still 2 years away from being able to properly judge.

  

 

Transfers - Nothing to update on here. Our captain, left back Callum Buckley will be leaving at the end of his contract to start a new challenge after 7 years at Dorchester, playing 207 league games in the time. Goalkeeper Harvey Wilkinson will likely also be leaving as Oikonomou is better and youth keeper Anders Cramer can deputise him.

 

Finances - Same as the previous years - very consistent but we will still need either to go into the Football League, an amazing cup run, or an amazing fee for a player sale to be able to take the next steps of improvements though! One slight concern is that our wage bill is starting to creep up a bit due to players reaching 20y/o and approaching their potential abilities.

 

Other Updates - Studying for the continental Pro licence! Attendances growing slowly still but still 147 less than the Vanarama National League season.

 

League Finish History

Y22/23 - VNS - 7th - 75pts,   Y23/24 - VNS - 1st - 92pts,   Y24/25 - VNL - 24th - 38pts,   Y25/26 - VNS - 18th - 49pts,   Y26/27 - VNS - 16th - 59pts,

Y27/28 - VNS - 13th - 62pts

Facilities

Training Facilities - Average,     Youth Facilities - Below Average,     Junior Coaching - Excellent,     Youth Recruitment - Excellent.

Average league home attendance & Number of Season Ticket Holders

Y22/23 - 468 (104),   Y23/24 - 507 (113),   Y24/25 - 666 (169),   Y25/26 - 435 (138),   Y26/27 - 509 (138),   Y27/28 - 519 (142)

Edited December 5, 2022 by schnauzer

[BigJack]

FC United 2034/35 - Season 12

Season Preview

Season Preview

Predicted Finish - 24th

Competitions

Overview

League One - 16th.  League Table    Past Positions

FA Cup - Knocked out in the 4th round by Southampton.

Carabao Cup - Knocked out in the 1st round by Hull.

PJ Trophy - Knocked out in group stages.

We started OK, with 2 wins and 3 draws and then the step up in class started to tell. We had a few 5 game winless runs but in between we would pick up 2 or 3 wins. The aim was always to avoid relegation and with 5 games to go we wasn't yet safe, but we was comfortable and ended up in 16th.

Playing Squad

Squad    Transfers    Best 11

We lost Crayston 31a over the summer in a deal the board accepted and wouldn't budge, I felt we could have got more but what can you do. This meant we went into the season with only 1 recognised LB and RB and I was worried we might really struggle if either got injured. 

Deadline Day was fun, as we knocked back numerous offers. We did decide to move one player on eventually though, but I waited until after deadline day to ensure he remained until the end of the season. Brook 30b is leaving for Burnley in a £5m deal. With Thompson 33e and Mead 34d coming through I thought it best to get a better deal before the board sell him for cheap. The £1m after 1 international game is almost a guarantee as he plays regularly for New Zealand. Notable mentions this season for the following who are all developing really well. Chaplow 31c may be the next to leave as he is moaning and numerous sides have been bidding for him.

Jewell 33d

Chaplow 31c

Liddle 33c

Petrie 33a

Jarman 32a

Wood 34a

Youth Development

 

 

Preview    Intake    Personalities

Not the best intake again but at least there is a RB and a LB who could play squad roles for us. Only 3 elite talents though so I may start looking to upgrade my HOYD soon. 

 

Murphy 35a

Diallo 35b

Askey 35c

Maxwell 35d

Tuck 35e

Finances and Facilities

Finances    Facilities

The board announced another Stadium Expansion just after the season ended. With half paid for by local grants and us paying the remaining £1.7m. The finances from the Brook deal will cover this but we had a downgrade to our training facilities so need to get this upgraded soon. 

Other/ Next Season.

Club Records    Overall Best 11

We just need to get comfortable at this level, maybe move a player or 2 more on and get some facilities upgraded as financially we are just getting by at the moment. 

[russ the womble]

Season 9 (2031)

Still struggling!

The thing is I was 1st after 6 games and in a 26 game season it was a bit of an appalling run of form after that. Never give your team unnecessary team meetings as it seems to pee them off!

Not going to put up boring youths until I go up

 

 

 

[WhiteCat33]

8 hours ago, russ the womble said:

Any way to boost technical development? Should I focus on it in pre season or do a custom training schedule? Difficult to train much when they are part time of course.

You hit the answer at the end, basically you need to go professional till that will begin to really improve. I'm having similar low technical development here in Luxembourg. I have noticed that the technicals will go down if the position focus doesn't directly improve them. Big here are finishing and Defending, so if you want your winger to shoot I'd train as an Inside Forward even if you don't play it. I use RM instead, so my guy has been training as a Winger his whole career and you can see his finishing dropping basically 1 point a year.  For CMs Box to Box is helping my CM as it covers the most attributes, but again notice how his finishing and crossing plumet, that's because he trained on CM(S) for the first couple years and is only now getting those back with BBM focus.

Here are screenshots of my star players who are all 20-21 and are the best players developing:

 

[WhiteCat33]

6 hours ago, Sn00gle said:

I was triggered by some big transfers from Lechia Gdańsk at the start of the new season (for our Polish level). Investigation showed that in this year (in half of last season) they were taken by UAE boss. Well that will be for sure hard to beat.

Will be great for boosting your Nation Coefficient for European positions and giving you a stronger domestic league, which should develop your players more. Just hope they prioritize players outside of the country instead of stealing your most talented youngsters with their infinitely deep pockets.

[russ the womble]

11 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

You hit the answer at the end, basically you need to go professional till that will begin to really improve. I'm having similar low technical development here in Luxembourg. I have noticed that the technicals will go down if the position focus doesn't directly improve them. Big here are finishing and Defending, so if you want your winger to shoot I'd train as an Inside Forward even if you don't play it. I use RM instead, so my guy has been training as a Winger his whole career and you can see his finishing dropping basically 1 point a year.  For CMs Box to Box is helping my CM as it covers the most attributes, but again notice how his finishing and crossing plumet, that's because he trained on CM(S) for the first couple years and is only now getting those back with BBM focus.

Here are screenshots of my star players who are all 20-21 and are the best players developing:

 

Thanks for the advice, I will have a look at the position training. I tend to use IF training for the wingers as its a nice focus. Have put more training in pre season on technical attributes as well but not checked if it has made much of a difference so far.

As an aside, I am top after 7 games, maybe this is the season... 

[WhiteCat33]

7 minutes ago, russ the womble said:

Thanks for the advice, I will have a look at the position training. I tend to use IF training for the wingers as its a nice focus. Have put more training in pre season on technical attributes as well but not checked if it has made much of a difference so far.

As an aside, I am top after 7 games, maybe this is the season... 

Next season for me 

[russ the womble]

11 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Next season for me 

Can't say I'm not jealous!

[WhiteCat33]

11 minutes ago, russ the womble said:

Can't say I'm not jealous!

I think I've earned it after 15 seasons lol. Comes at a perfect time in the development of my players with my first Golden Generation all 20-21 and my last 2 intakes starting a new GG.

[hubwub]

Something funky with this player in my game.

Federico Nicolaievsky

His favoured personnel is his father, Diego Nicolaievsky.

It can't be right. Federico is 22 and Diego is 30. What if they are brothers?

[Barnsley]

5 hours ago, Connor said:

Just out of interest guys, is it normal that after holidaying a season, in the Conference north/south leagues in England, for some teams to have swapped divisions (ie. last season Braintree were in the South, but now down as the North?)

Yes it's normal. It does happen in real life too depending on the location of relegated and promoted teams etc to balance out leagues, providing they finish in a safe spot.

[Vlach]

Youth Intake 2025

 

 

Will sign almost all of them, want to have some backup young players and dont trust the ratings of my assistant - still got no HOYD btw

 

 

[WhiteCat33]

Mbappe don't steal my player! He couldn't cut it at FC Nantes in France so he's moved on to Portugal.

[russ the womble]

Season 10 (2032)

A big improvement with a 3rd placed finish.

But also entirely frustrating as I was several points clear and then massively bad run towards the end messed up promotion :/

Have a few youths that have made a difference:

Jan Brekke

Spoiler

Joint top scorer with 11, still needs some improvement

Ole Anders Nesheim-Hauge

Spoiler

Also joint top scorer (and vice captain)

Edgaras Zutautas

Spoiler

Star player, his only issue is his aggression! But great traits for a DLP and performs well.

Erling Rangoy Holte

Spoiler

Another high scorer and good performer, has some interest so will see whether I can keep.

Ole Amund Hippe Fagereng

Spoiler

3 star youth player newly inducted, had a good first debut season and helped fill a hole in attack. Hoping he progresses as hasn't made much improvement so far.

A lot of good attacking talent. Our defence is fairly mediocre with no one seemingly coming through just yet. It's probably good we didn't go up as the defence would struggle big time.

At least attendances are up.

 

[Constantine]

Decided to have a go at this again. Failed a dozen of times already but this time I might persevere just a bit longer, as I'm playing along with two mates. All of us, playing our own youth saves, with this one team.

Possibly the best option for this challenge in Serbia (well, aside from Zemun, perhaps, IMO they are tiny bit better).

 

Here we go!

 

 

[Sn00gle]

12 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Will be great for boosting your Nation Coefficient for European positions and giving you a stronger domestic league, which should develop your players more. Just hope they prioritize players outside of the country instead of stealing your most talented youngsters with their infinitely deep pockets.

Yeah that is one side of medal but I hope that will be the case. 

[MaxeyN17]

Let's give this another go but in the more familiar surroundings of England!

[russ the womble]

Always nice to hear about people failing as often as I do  Thought I was one of a few on attempt #34342334

[fries]

After about two years of trying every week, I finally managed to renew the contract of my by far best player. He only had 7 months left and I had actually given up on him. I had to promise him a few different things, but I hope it is worth it and that I can keep my promises.

 

[helminho]

Table  -  League stats  -  Squad  -  Transfers

Most important establish players: Imbastro, Laurenzi, Caterisano, Franzoni and Giordani

The intake of Youth-candidates

Most promising youth-candidates: Maffei, Fantinato, Condorelli and Zych

The bus for our away games might need an upgrade?

[libbyshuss]

Season Summary

Still by far the favourites to be relegated we again defied the odds to stay up. Although we got a similar amount of points to last season it was a lot more comfortable as the bottom 3 were different level bad. We were never in any danger of going down but I would have liked a few more points. Not every season are going to have 3 sides so clearly weaker than the rest

Players

I'm playing 4-3-3 at the minute and it's our midfield that are keeping us up. All 3 are Serie A quality. defence and the wings are letting us down though. I really need some better intakes!

Youth

This would help! finally, a promise of an excellent golden generation intake!

But would the intake be excellent? yes! and yet only two elite talents....

Vicenzi looks the pick of the bunch

 

Wonderkids

he's still on the list! he's still refusing to sign a new contract cos he wants to play with better players!

 

Career

I'm still gonna be favourites to go down....

 

[Daddy]

2024/25 Season Review:

I went in with some optimism that we would figure out the scoring issues. Nope. Then we couldn't defend. Kept trying a few different things but nothing would click for the team. Off to the relegation group:

We actually weren't terrible other than one match. However we basically needed to win out and we certainly didn't.

What's funny here is after the relegation there was still 45ish days before I was actually fired. In fact they offered me a new contract. Pretty disappointing overall as I liked how fast the season went in Romania, and the team had good youth setup. Well it's back to the drawing board. Another England attempt next.

[Vlach]

Season 2024/25

 

 

In the new league we had at first a hard time to adapt. We needed until winter to finally record our first win, afterwards things went a bit better - after changing tactics and lineups many times. I had to recognise that most of my 15/16 year old youngsters are already better then the bunch i got from the start, despite all their inconsistencies - those which anymore still leave us for free transfer sometimes.

In the end we avoided the relegation - but i am sure that was mostly because of the weakness of those two teams which got relegated in the end.

 

Competitions

 

Lineup

Accolades

 

Transfers

 

Table

 

[grff]

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2033/34 Season Review

What the ****?! A season where I was hoping for a top 6 finish ended up with me winning the league on the last day of the Championship group. I'm not exactly sure what changed this year in order for us to stay consistent enough to compete but a good majority of established players posted good numbers.

 

 

We went one better than last year when it came to the Belgian Cup as we brushed Club Brugge aside to complete a domestic double.

Our new first choice striker performed well enough to earn the European Golden Boy. Our second player to achieve this award.

 

The new batch of youth intake was mostly about quality and not quantity as we only took five players on. However, one of them was this fella.

 

Transfers completed allowed us to get rid of some deadwood that were earning too much for our liking.

I'm hoping our first venture in the Champions League helps boost our bank balance as we currently stand £9m in debt. The first XI for the new campaign looks like this...

One last thing that I've never seen before is that the stadium completion has been delayed 3 months. Therefore we will move into the Eden Hazard Stadium () during September of the new season.

Season history...

[russ the womble]

Season 11 (2033)

Solid 5th placed finish. I wish Honefoss would just go up, keep hogging the 2nd place! I didn't win until game 8 this season which massively impacted my final position. Maybe a better start next season and we'll be up there.

 

 

[OlivierL]

48 minutes ago, grff said:

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2033/34 Season Review

What the ****?! A season where I was hoping for a top 6 finish ended up with me winning the league on the last day of the Championship group. I'm not exactly sure what changed this year in order for us to stay consistent enough to compete but a good majority of established players posted good numbers.

 

 

We went one better than last year when it came to the Belgian Cup as we brushed Club Brugge aside to complete a domestic double.

Our new first choice striker performed well enough to earn the European Golden Boy. Our second player to achieve this award.

 

The new batch of youth intake was mostly about quality and not quantity as we only took five players on. However, one of them was this fella.

 

Transfers completed allowed us to get rid of some deadwood that were earning too much for our liking.

I'm hoping our first venture in the Champions League helps boost our bank balance as we currently stand £9m in debt. The first XI for the new campaign looks like this...

One last thing that I've never seen before is that the stadium completion has been delayed 3 months. Therefore we will move into the Eden Hazard Stadium () during September of the new season.

Season history...

great job by winning the league; that Newgen Le Reste is the real deal!

 

[Barnsley]

5 hours ago, fries said:

After about two years of trying every week, I finally managed to renew the contract of my by far best player. He only had 7 months left and I had actually given up on him. I had to promise him a few different things, but I hope it is worth it and that I can keep my promises.

 

cannot get over Jack Smith. dream of a player! 

[XaW]

     

XaW - Marine A.F.C. - Season 2030/31 (Season 8) - Sky Bet Championship

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Wow, what a season, and we are finally up in the Premier League! The 7th place last season was a good one, but this time we went one further! We just play good football, and I've finally managed to improve the tactics to be a bit more defensively solid than we have been. After a long and strong season we were in contention for the 2nd place behind a very strong Sunderland side who were the runaway leaders. Nottingham Forest had a very poor end, but we also ended our season with 3 draws to crush our hope of a direct promotion. So off to the playoffs we went. First to West Brom, and while we lost 1-2 away, we hit back and won the home leg 2-0 to reach the final. There we faced an Everton side that has been bouncing up and down between the Premier League and the Championship for the last 7 years. We got 2 early goals, and then just pulled back and defended for the rest of the match. Even though they got a goal, we held on and secured promotion in the end! Looking forward to the financial boost we will get and I hope we can stay up next season!

Since we are still building our stadium and it should be done after next season we will be renting a new stadium for the next season.

Also, we got some more improvements done, and also finally an upgraded youth category!

FA Cup: We beat Sunderland and Blackpool before we lost away to Aston Villa in the 5th round.
League Cup: We beat Burnley and Leicester before we held Tottenham to a 0-0 draw, but lost on pens in the 3rd round.

U21 Team:

They finished 5th in the U21 Division 3 this season.

U18 Team:

They finished 3rd in the U18 Youth Alliance League North West this season.

FA Youth Cup: They lost to Southampton in the 3rd round.
U18 Youth Alliance Cup:  They got a group with Bolton, Chesterfield, Mansfield, and Stockport County and finished 3rd to get knocked out. 

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

League One - 1 (2028/29)
Vanarama National League - 1 (2026/27)

EFL Trophy - 1 (2028/29)
FA Trophy - 1 (2025/26)

U18s - National U18 League South East - 2 (2025/26, 2026/27)

Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Apps
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eden Mboyo 24g		England		DR Congo	306
Maine Croasdale 24f	England		Ireland		284
Louis Stott 26j		Australia	England		283
Cyril Madu 25h		England		Nigeria		281
Howard Meek 25c		England		<N/A>		264

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Goals
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cyril Madu 25h		England		Nigeria		116
Ousmane Bangoura 26c	Scotland	Guina		94
Martin Rigo 27d		Slovakia	England		63
Louis Stott 26j		Australia	England		48
Andy Hamilton 25i	Scotland	<N/A>		37

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Assists
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ousmane Bangoura 26c	Scotland	Guina		69
Mason Darlow 27e	England		Ireland		44
Gary Mensah 25e		England		<N/A>		41
Cyril Madu 25h		England		Nigeria		37
Rhys Thorley 28e	England		<N/A>		31

Supporters:

Summary:

[WhiteCat33]

2 hours ago, grff said:

One last thing that I've never seen before is that the stadium completion has been delayed 3 months. Therefore we will move into the Eden Hazard Stadium () during September of the new season.

This happened to me in Luxembourg as well, was a first for me. Mad props topping Belgium and you've gotten one of those absurd Belgian intake players I see. Future looks bright!

[jrobertgordon13]

Does anyone know how to get the image link over the text? Basically when it looks like this

[XaW]

Also

[Daddy]

 

Back to England for yet another attempt!

[Neo_Geo]

Congrats on the EPL promotion @XaW

8 seasons from VNN to EPL 

[jrobertgordon13]

KAPOSVAR - SEASON 1 RECAP - 2023/24

 

 

Manager Profile (Named Robert Carlsson btw) - League Table - Transfers (They were all basically Youth Intake Players)

 

HIGHLIGHTS:

We had some incredible luck this season. I mean, it has to be luck! We got promoted in our first season! Is this probably gonna bite me back? Probably. Do I care? Not really. This season we ended up winning the Hungarian Division II with the help of a great defense. Even when we only scored one goal, we would end up winning just because of out defense. Now I will show you the players that performed the best:

Gabor Puskas (Best Average rating & defender)

Akos Borbely (Best Striker)

David Zvara (Best Midfielder)

 

LOWLIGHTS:

Our Youth Intake was really the one lowlight of the season, the best player only had three star potential. We were promised a great Youth Intake btw, forgot to take a screenshot of it though. Here are some of the "Highlights" from that terrible intake

Roland Gergely

Noel Kiss

Peter Erdei

 

HISTORY SO FAR:

2023/24 - 1st Place, Promoted to Hungarian Division I, L Cup Third Round against Senyo

 

NOTES:

Im Using FM23 Touch, so things might not seem right. Any rule I break is going to be because of the limitations of FM23 Touch.

Also, the reason why there are transfers is because I offered all the Youth Intake player's contracts while they were on trial, and the game released them before they could sign.

Lastly, I forgot to post the manager profile screen because I had already started the save and didn't know about that rule until it was too late.

Edited December 7, 2022 by jrobertgordon13