The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[WhiteCat33]

33 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

I'm trying in Croatia.  Only andorra or maybe faroer island ?

Malta and Cyprus as well if you fancy an island. 

[Neo_Geo]

Another season start and another sale, disappointed to lose him but I saw it coming....his training dropped A LOT and other teammates weren't happy with me turning down bids so I buckled.

What do you all think? Good deal or not?

[Neo_Geo]

SI need to sort this out, 3 team leaders come to me complaining that I shouldn't sell Didenko, I said selling him would weaken us so why would I do that.

Now those same 3 players are complaining that I sold him because it makes us weaker......that is just ridiculous!

[ludak]

ND Dravinja Slovenske Konjice Season VII

Squad I Transfers I Finances

Ok, so the Englishman left. It felt like I had to let him leave because I was running low on money, and he wanted to leave already. 

This is the most important moment of my save. Should I sell it and get the money now, or wait for them to sell him not knowing if they will, and how much money could I make that way.

Aluminij had a terrible streak, losing 17 in a row, and that is the only reason why I don't have to play the play off.  

I really don't care about the cup as long as we don't win it. 

I know I had some good intakes, and that this is already a trend that I'm becoming used to, but this was the ''real'' golden generation as you'll se underneath:

A lot of players with a good CA that are gonna make an immediate impact on our team(as soon as they turn 17).

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Petrović and Kolar are my favorite players to come out of this intake. Although everyone looks great and I can't wait for them to play. 

 

 

That should do it for this one, the goal is still the same, survive!

 

[AlwaysNalah]

Season one is in the bag (weekend off!). and boy have we messed up. It is way way too early for us to go up, but we just would not concede, probably helped by the fact our best players were our keeper and right back. We did not score a lot and conceded even less, started the season hoof ball, but soon realised we were better than I thought and changed. 

Got our first upgrades and badges 

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Intake means nothing, most of these guys wont make it, over half were really bad personalities. As soon as the season finished we lost our top keeper to a team staying in the division below and teams are circling our other good players. Staying in the second tier will be tough but if we can hang in for a year or 2 whilst our young core grows it will be ideal as there is a bit of prize money for avoiding going down. 

 

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by AlwaysNalah

[Daddy]

2025/26 Season Review:

I was confident of avoiding relegation, but I wasn't expecting things to go this well. Clearly a step below the top three, but held our own against them.

Started to clean out some legacy players as the youth players are overtaking them. More upgrades as well. 

Our first wonderkid! He developed lightning fast and claimed a striker spot.

Youth Intake:

Another really strong intake with some players getting some minutes early.

2026/27 Season Preview:

I've yet to see the third kit used, so until that happens I'm not changing it.

Expectations a little higher this season, but still not being asked to do much more than survive. I suspect European matches added to the schedule with require more rotation and probably will drop some points this year. 

[XaW]

9 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

Another season start and another sale, disappointed to lose him but I saw it coming....his training dropped A LOT and other teammates weren't happy with me turning down bids so I buckled.

What do you all think? Good deal or not?

I think it's a good sale, but then again I despise low jumping reach for DCs....

[grff]

I’m tempted to go with an Egyptian save as I might’ve taken my Belgian save as far as I can.

Would the timo61 file be acceptable to use? It is 3 tiers.

EDIT - found the below on the steam workshop. Seems a more comprehensive database thanks to the SI Egyptian researcher.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2885974303&searchtext=egypt

Edited January 29, 2023 by grff

[ludak]

ND Dravinja Slovenske Konjice Season VIII

Squad I Transfers I Finances

Ok, allow me to explain the finances. I sold the clause that we held for the sale of Chambers-Holmes for 4.68m which got us the money that was much needed. I don't really care if they sell him for 50m now. The money that we got from that was put to good use with us getting improvements on all of our facilities.

 

Somehow I lost the training facilities screenshot, but that's also getting improved. 

 

This is great news, as we were playing on a 400 seat stadium these 2 seasons.

We managed to stay up easier than last year, and it looks like it will be even easier next year, but we'll see. Vajda  played a great season for us, alongside Zajc, who played a little worse than last year. 

We reached the second round of the cup, and that still remains an unimportant competition for us.

 

 

Plesec  Žižek Mlinarič Pirc

With the influx of strikers and wingers in my team, and no good central midfielder in the team I was forced to switch from the 451DM tactic that won it for me with OFK Beograd to a 424 with 2 defensive midfielders. With that information I have to tell ya, Mlinarič will certainly make a switch to DM, and that's what I'll train him for. As for the other 12 players, they mostly have a bad personality, and I don't really like them that much. 

 

I guess that's all for this season, I hope that we can finish above 8th next season. I don't hope to go to a European competition but I don't wanna be 8th anymore.

Till the next one boys!

 

Edited January 29, 2023 by ludak

[Daddy]

2026/27 Midseason Review:

I was expecting with Europe play we'd struggle a bit more in league for fitness, but to my surprise we have done fairly well in both. I thought maybe we'd finish mid to upper, but now it looks like we should be back in Europe. 

Intake Preview:

With the last few intakes being so good it makes sense the all As would stop. Unfortunately the tactic I'm playing doesn't use the roles a lot of the top prospects are, so they'll have to be retrained. 

[LazyBandit]

FC Wacker Innsbruck Season 4 (2026/27)

League Table

We finally did it! Going in to the season we were predicted to finish 10th, but the boys were having none of that. I decided to go with a more offensive tactic this year, and it really payed off. From the start we were seemingly scoring for fun. It seemed a lot of the players started to see a real uptick in their development this season, and began to become more well-rounded players. I have a feeling our attacking tactic probably won't be as effective next year, but you never know. The highlight of the season included this high-scoring match against Austria Klangenfurt.

Intake

More high-potential players, which is always nice to see. My HOYD seems to love bringing in wingers, when we could really use some central players or just defenders in general.

We added Egypt in this year's intake.

Countries: 9/227 (3.96%)

Season Review

We're going up! After gaining promotion the board finally agreed to upgrade our junior coaching from Adequate to Good. I look forward to bringing even better players through potentially. Takeover rumors have begun popping up again, but I'll believe it when I see it. Our reputation also rose from 2 to 2.5 stars. All told, this was a fantastic season. I'm very proud of the team for getting promoted, but I know the next part of this challenge will be tough; taking down Red Bull Salzburg.

[Koetzer]

FK Viktoria Žižkov – season 2030/31

That’s our breakthrough season for sure! We were second at the winter break, dropped to fourth place with a harder spring schedule but defeated Plzen in the last game to overtake them. And our attack was simply amazing during this season, we scored 62 goals (Sparta had the closest number with 51). Now the battle for Europe starts, we need to avoid finishing bottom in the final six.

Started the final stage with three defeats, but winning two last games at home was enough to repeat the best finish in club’s history! Plzen got the Europa League spot by winning the cup anyway, but probably that’s even better – we may have more chances to progress in Conference and earn some money.

Cup

Our reserve squad set the new record for biggest win, but failed to progress in the next round.

Squad stats

M.Muxel *23a – the main reason why we were so strong. Sparta and several Asian clubs were interested in him during summer, but luckily no one made an offer, he signed a new contract in September (had to offer the biggest wage and bonuses the club could afford) and scored 34 goals! Of course, he became league’s best goalscorer and was selected as the best player.

J.Šmíd *28a – stats are not too impressive, but he took the deep-lying spot and let Muxel play closer to the goal.

V.Matejka *24a – the most productive season for our starting playmaker as well, he won the best midfielder award.

D.Klinka *26d – finally reached the 10 assists mark.

L.Petržílka *26g and B.Varga *26i – another solid season for our center-backs. Petržílka was selected into team of the year, while Varga won the best young player award.

J.Jambor *30a – the top prospect from last season’s intake already looks good as a rotation winger.

 

Transfers – sold two backup veterans and some reserve players who became unhappy or simply weren’t needed. 

Youth intake (preview)

Uhlíř *31a | Sedláček *31b | Holub *31c | Brabec *31d | Mozr *31e | Hladík *31f | Glaser *31g | Karafiát *31h

Probably we don’t need more strikers right now, but getting a promising goalkeeper is always good.

Our financial state was quite concerning during the season, but sponsorship deals increased so we even made some profit. Also we are affiliated with Newcastle now, their owners surely could be more generous in this deal  

[hubwub]

Is anybody running a game in Denmark?

[Ray46]

Update 11; Season 10; 2032/2033

 

Sant Andreu: A Dutch manager in Barcelona

“Go out and enjoy”

 

In this save we stick it to the Barca board and try to recreate a La Masia CL winning Cruyff dream team just ten km away from Nou Camp.

 

The president decided to cash, LOL.

Why do this when you have 80 million in the bank?

The club vision remained the same:

We sold a right back, he was near his full potential at 3 stars and I have a 5 star potential replacement ready. It made sense to move him on. Good luck at Chelsea, but I don’t think you’ll play much. But if they want to leave no point in keeping them.

 

Real Madrid wanted my Goalkeeper. He wanted to go there by all means. He is the best GK now, but two others have more potential.

30M if you have two potentially better players is hard to say no to.

 

I have spent the whole transfer window to keep every big club's hands of my wonderkids.

I love them when they say this:

 

This kind of messes up the pre-season, they won silver:

 

After the Euro’s this was my inbox:

Could not take any of the jobs unfortunately. Later Portugal and England also offered me jobs.

We played Arsenal in the European Super Cup and almost blew a 3-0 lead. Arsenal is the highest ranked club in Europe in the save, but they were not ready for this match.

This is nice as well. The goal is to overtake Van Gaal, who is leading. But every Dutch football fan knows it's impossible to pass Cruyff...

Miquel Angel, from the 29 intake is officially a wonderkid too, our sixth wonderkid. I labelled him A as I thought he was the best prospect, but Agboola (B) was a Wonderkid last season already.

Intake was promising again:

And it didn’t disappoint again, I love how the club culture is visible in our youth prosprects. Most of our coaches have a good personality and have more often for pressing style and Gegenpress or Control possesion as tactical style. Most players have high determination, aggression, natural fitness, workrate and teamwork attributes out of the academy. I'm 10 seasons in the save and it looks like my goal of getting a club DNA has worked out:

Anselm Sene is the best prospect, a full back who can run far and fast. Just a machine. Determined, Teamplayer, good tackler and good technique. Will bring quality and more depth to our defence. Lots of attributes already at La Liga level.

Hicham Harti is a midfielder who can pass, is smart, works hard and has good technique. A difficult personality though. Let’s see how he will develop.

Eric, also a midfielder with a little less ability on the eye test compared to Harti, has a good personality to develop. Is two footed, has a good pass, good technique, is hard working for the team. A kind of player you love to have as a teammate.

Emili Naya, again a midfielder with good ability and personality, but probably more defensive than the other two. Again great technique and can take a penalty.

Jan Sancho, a central defender. Very tall, brave and determined. Great tackler, good technique. Could be a great addition at centre back, where we lack depth.

We also got this message three days after we signed him; This is very encouraging for his development.

Alfred Cornelia, a centre back, but probably a full back with his height. Might play him as a defensive option in midfield. He is versatile, determined, good tackling and technique.

Stadium expansion done:

Asked for a new expansion right away. I hope they will finally put stands in the corners, I hate those open corners in stadiums.

We have 34000 fans on the waiting list!!!

First Spanish International. No surprise that it’s Arumi. After Nx Gen 50 and the Golden boy he is capped now.

Represented 3 times in the wonderkids list:

The U19’s were all conquering, they won the treble losing 3 games all season:

How did the first team do this season?

No transfers in, Clotet did not play 26 games for PSG, but for a junior team. Unfortunate I had to sell him, great potential with bad personality. Won't devellop enough:

We were 2nd in the league, more goals scored, but more conceded as well. We control the games against weaker opponents more and more, but the top four or five teams are still too strong. It’s just poor squad management from AI managers that lets us get a CL finish. Real is still in a league of its own, but Ancelotti is retiring and the core of the team is 30+. So maybe in a few years…We sold our best GK at the start of the season and we have some high potential defenders not ready for the first team yet. Our other GK are now at the same level the sold GK was. My last legacy player and captain Mejias will go out of the rotation and his CB partner Antoni (a wonderkid) will play CM defensive to protect the two new guys who will hopefully be a pair for the next few years. They are more of a threat at set pieces, with more defensive technical quality. They just need to mature their physical and mental attributes. I hope Mejias will accept the sub rol and be a mentor for the young guys, because he has great leadership skills.

We salute the goat, 12 league titles in a row with Real.

Contrary to the league we did not do well in cup competitions.

In the CL we just made it into the knockout play off round as no 24, where we played two good games against Porto. Then we drew Man City who were too strong.

In the Copa del Rey we were surprised by Real Oviedo in the 3rd round, which is the first round we entered:

In the Supercopa de Espana Real gave us another beating:

Commercially a good year, with CL prize money coming in, the club has a continental rep now:

The main team performed well, the back ups aren’t up to the level that is required yet. Arumi was the star of the show again. His attributes are posted earlier in this post.

In the end I was voted manager of the year.

Six of our players were on the bench for the team of the year. The team was dominated by Real’s players again:

We gained a lot of social media following and the season ticket waiting list is up to 39622 supporters. Let’s keep expanding the stadium so they can all enjoy the matches.

We are now one of the 45 best clubs in Europe:

And more accolades for Arumi. young player of the year in the CL. 11 goals in 9 games is elite:

We can’t take the job, but nice to be wanted. They gave the job to Tuchel.

The progress sheet:

[XaW]

Just didn't feel the Austrian adventure as well as I had hoped, so I'm trying anew in Germany. Not sure if this will stick either, but I think I might play this a bit slower...

Anyway:

Auf geht's!

[Weed07]

Crewe United - Season Three 25/26

Premiership

Season Summary

After back to back promotions I expected our first season in the top flight to be hard and while it was much harder it wasn't the struggle I thought it would be.

The pre-season preview had us predicted to finish bottom as expected with odds of 1000/1. The only positive going into the season was our youth keeper was 12/1 6th best to win best young player and was also called up to the England u19 squad which shows how good a prospect we have and I doubt we will keep hold of him for long.

Our form was all over the place never really having a good or bad run in the first half of the season, we had a good January unbeaten winning 5 and drawing 3 which was our best period but that followed our worst with 7 defeats and a draw throughout February and March but we managed to get into the top half for the league split where we lost 3 then won the last 2 giving us a good 5th placed finish and then we went and won the European playoffs to gain a place in next seasons Europa Conference league, we were around mid table all season never looking in danger of relegation but it could have gone either way for a top or bottom half finish.

We did nothing in the cups as we got no further than the quarter finals in any cup competition.

Overall a very good season, the top 3 were far ahead of the rest but there wasn't much in the rest of the league and we only had 4 points more than 9th when the league split. I think we had our 5 star ability youth keeper that came through last season to thank for a lot of our points as he kept 14 clean sheets and kept us in lots of games, without him I think we would have struggled as our strikers didn't score many.

The league table:

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I kept the same tactic as the last two seasons playing a direct counter attacking style and it worked ok in this league too, quite a few of our points we won came in games where we weren't the best side but soaked up pressure and countered and we seemed to play better away from home using that style than we did at home.

We managed to incorporate more youth players into the first team and the side that played most had 8 of them in the best 11. I tried giving the striker that got us the goals the last two years a chance but he proved not good enough at this level so a youth player ended up taking his place. We had 3 players from the first intake, 4 from the second and then the keeper from the third.

Our starting line up:

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Our youth preview was another good one, however there yet again we had no defensive midfielders predicted, considering we play with two and our head of youth favours them in his formation I expected we would have got some but maybe we need to wait a few years for our new HOY to bring his players though. We did get a new one at the end of last season, he was a former player who I talked to and said he would make a good hoy and he agreed then retired, his stats looked good for us so I signed him as he had 20 working with youth, 17 determination and a style of player and formation that suited us, hopefully with a few qualifications he can improve his JA and JP which were only 5 and 6.

Our intake preview:

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Our actual intake was also good, no 5 star ability players like last season but a good mix with a left back rated better than any we currently have and a central/attacking midfielder who looks good enough to convert to a defensive mid in the segundo volante role I play. There's a few others that may break into the first team but no stand outs, some have good personalities and potential but I'm starting to see previous youth intake players that I thought might come good aren't improving and with each subsequent intake the older ones potential gets rated lower and I may start looking to release or sell some I had high hopes for and I'm now disappointed with.

The intake and good players:

Spoiler

Steve Adair - Will go into the first team as our best left back

Craig Mallon - He can partially play def mid but its not his natural positions, however i think he can be trained into the SV role we need him to play

 

The board were also generous again this season, I got my continental C badge and then the continental B, we had the ground expanded by 500 capacity and we got our junior coaching upgraded to Excellent and Youth Recruitment to Average.

My manager stats/profile:

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Club info:

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I think in my last couple of updates I forgot to put in the transfers so I'll show them all here showing no one signed, we have started loaning players out and got an affiliate, although the affiliate isn't in a league so I may cancel it if we can get a team in one of the lower leagues so they play league games:

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23/24

24/25

25/26

 

Some spreadsheet data:

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Club Info:

Season Stats:

Manager info:

 

Here's the supporters profile:

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Overall a better than expected season, next year I will be happy with the same, a top half finish and European qualification which I think depends on keeping our best players especially our keeper whom without I think we would have been fighting for relegation.

[Fikru]

Season 6
Division 1 North


After 15 games we where around 7-8 place, but after that we did a big crash. Loosing 10 out of 15 games. But we managed to stay up without playoff, so its a step forward but still lookin dark on the horizon
 

Transfer


This was hard to see, our top scorer since we came here

Intake
 

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And for each season the board is slower and slower to give me a new contract, feeling the boot is close.

 

Edited January 30, 2023 by Fikru

[The7Striker]

8 horas atrás, hubwub disse:

Is anybody running a game in Denmark?

I belive a few pages back, I saw someone with a save there but not 100% sure.

[Neo_Geo]

2 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

I belive a few pages back, I saw someone with a save there but not 100% sure.

Would be nice to have a map of the world with countries currently being played but that’s a maintenance nightmare 

[The7Striker]

Agora, Neo_Geo disse:

Would be nice to have a map of the world with countries currently being played but that’s a maintenance nightmare 

You would have @Winski knocking on your door asking for satisfaction 

[the_hdk]

On 29/01/2023 at 15:23, grff said:

I’m tempted to go with an Egyptian save as I might’ve taken my Belgian save as far as I can.

Would the timo61 file be acceptable to use? It is 3 tiers.

EDIT - found the below on the steam workshop. Seems a more comprehensive database thanks to the SI Egyptian researcher.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2885974303&searchtext=egypt

yeah i'm waiting to start a save in egypt too. asked a few pages back about different mods but IIRC the consesus was to wait for Dave to come with an realistic data.

[Fikru]

Season 7
Division 1 North




we are staying up after a win and a lose, but we where they better team and shouldve won them both.

Intake 1 Intake 2 Transfer

Feel like the club is developing the wrong way, the salary cap is going down for each season, Dont know it if i have the grind in me to make this team work?
My "star player" is mad so he will be leaving after the coming seasons aswell.

So dont know if im going to go for another season and see what happens, im quite new to FM as whole. And feel like i want to have a bit of development with the club then just standing around.

Any one got a good suggestions otherwise with a good country for a newbie? Feels like sweden is really hard since its so low money

Edited January 30, 2023 by Fikru

[DumbGeraffe]

11 hours ago, hubwub said:

Is anybody running a game in Denmark?

I started one last week. Not very far yet, I'm just under a year in

[V50]

On 12/01/2023 at 14:09, Neo_Geo said:

Aaaaaaand thats a wrap in Puerto Rico.

I was only able to add a player to my NACL registration, I wasn't able to submit the brand new registration for this season meaning the only way I can add new players is if I sell players already in the team and even then I'll be limited to how many I can add.

The league registration has been fine but the NACL remained with the same squad I picked last season and I had one space for my star graduate but I couldn't remove anyone.

Oh well,  I'll keep the save there for now just in case I've missed the point and someone more informed than I cares to comment on it.

I think its time to have a proper crack at England now.

For those who are interested here was the table and scores for the NACL group this season:

Disappointing as things were going quite well.

 

That sucks, there are a lot of people who make lots of leagues without testing. My Caribbean Megapack has all accurate and tested leagues - Puerto Rico funnily enough only has one level in reality so they didn't get that right either... 

If you want a hard, long slog then pick Trinidad or Jamaica. If you want a medium slog, then pick one of the French nations (Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Haiti) or Suriname (competitive leagues, reasonably enough to go a distance in the Caribbean Cup). Otherwise you'll find it's easy to dominate domestically but hard to break the NACL (e.g. Guyana with the insane number of regional leagues below the first division, Barbados, Antigua, Curacao, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent all have 3 leagues to sink your teeth into). 

Some of those leagues have interesting rules. Saint Kitts only has two levels, but draconian discipline rules.

[Winski]

I'm back in Hungary! This time I'll give it a try with Kaposvári Rákóczi FC.

 

I tried to replicate their real-life kits, and I quite like them.
There's some nice money in the bank, so hopefully it's possible to upgrade some facilities this season already. I was able to start my first coaching course right away.

There are 5 incoming transfers, and one outgoing. I'll try to sell these incoming players as soon as possible.

 

[hubwub]

5 hours ago, The7Striker said:

I belive a few pages back, I saw someone with a save there but not 100% sure.

I'll look again. I wonder if I overlooked it.

1 hour ago, DumbGeraffe said:

I started one last week. Not very far yet, I'm just under a year in

What team did you start with?

[grff]

Put my Belgian save on hold for the time being. I've packed my case, next stop... Egypt.

Best team name ever!

[DumbGeraffe]

Started a save with Slagelse in the fourth division of the Danish football league!

Slagelse is a former first division club that went bankrupt in the mid-2010s and was relegated to the fifth division. They're an amateur club so the season consisted of renewing contracts with my players any time anybody else took a look at them.

23/24 SEASON REVIEW (3. DIVISION)

I'm not too familiar with the quality of fourth tier Danish football but the players were pretty good compared to the rest of the league. Martin Ahlgren and Jakob Jensen were without a doubt our most valuable players, and were instrumental in getting us promoted. For newgen output, the quality so far has been pretty good, with prospects including a phenom with a fickle personality (just like ever other save I've ever had on fm) and a young center back who will likely find himself in the senior squad soon due to the poor quality and depth in that position.

The big goal for season 2 is to go professional and make a push for the promotion stage in the third division. I don't anticipate having to deal with a relegation struggle at this point.

 

Edited January 31, 2023 by DumbGeraffe

[the_hdk]

Polonia Warszawa - The Black Shirts

Season 35/36

Players / Transfers

Arguably our best season, but somehow it did not feel like it. We struggeled at times and played quite poorly. 6 league losses is alot. Most in 6 seasons. We managed to get to QF of CL losing to Real Madrid in the end. We beat Lens and Atletico in knock out rounds. Our second treble and still...feels like we could have done more.

Not alot of changes this year. DURICA left to Italy as he was deeply uphappy about me not paying him tons of cash. PIOTROWKSI and KAMINSKI replaced him on rotation, KAMINSKI looks like he will be the starter next season. SOLOMON became the second Nigerian born player to play for Poland! Awesome!. MAHE passed the 200 goals in the league mark this season and became club legend.

Newcastle and van NISTELROOY with their seond CL win. CAMAVINGA with second Ballon d'Or. No real big surprises.

 

MERIEUX class of '36. Four elites and finally again some foreign intake. We got a Bosnian and a Romanian both form our affiliates.

RAK (Crayfish) has decent determination and seems to be the biggest talent of this intake. Already worth millions. Bad Finishing though.

And the Bosnian goaly IVKOVIC. Handling is already great. Fairly Proffesional gives me hope as his determinationa and work rate are meh.

 

 

[Neo_Geo]

 

 

Youth Intake Preview

Youth Intake Top 5

 

Season Review
A solid season following last year's scare and given I sold Didenko (Elite3) in the summer to Man City then Ali Erta (Elite3) to Porto in the January window we did surprisingly well. Goals conceded rose to 40 which is understandable but we still have issues with our goalscoring, we sold Cincala (Elite3) to Chelsea as again he wasn't happy, his contract was up at the end of the season so I cashed in. I also sold his sell on clause for an additional £4.39m bringing his total fee to £7.89m with a further £2.5m if he makes a single international appearance. I have England as view only and he hadn't played a single match, not even in the cup so I can see him running his contract down there and I was surprised to see the fee that high so I grabbed it at the end of the season and requested training facilities upgrade and improved youth recruitment, the board agreed to both. Kostl (Elite4) looks to be a very promising striker and with our intake giving 3 additional Elite strikers we have the numbers for the future, its not a case of getting them good loans or game time to see who will make the grade. I don't think Kolodziej is going to be good enough in the long run but for now he's chipping in 10+ goals a season and he trains really well. Marek and Kostl both appeared in the NXGN this year but luckily not top 10 as that would probably get more interest in Marek especially.

I was pretty relieved in a way we didn't make the European qualification spot because it was far easier this season dealing with the rotation than it was last year and the sales have given us the finances to keep us comfortable for a few seasons. Marek (Elite4) wants out and wasn't even prepared to wait for a club to bid, he wanted to be listed and make the move happen. So far Sparta Prague (surprise surprise) are the only team that appear interested. I have a couple of good looking prospects in Brown (Elite6) and Prozchaka (Elite6) but they are some way off (though I did get Brown playing a few times towards the end). I also have Hlavica (Elite3) from the same intake as Didenko and Ertas but he is my spineless warrior so I can't see him ever making it properly (though he is playing fairly well).

The goal for next season will be to develop the better quality youth that are close to first team and get loans for as many of the rest as I can and look to finish in the Championship group again.

[Daddy]

2026/27 Season Review:

In league we started strong, but faded a bit at the end. We still did well enough to qualify for conference league qualifications again though. In the Conference League we made it through qualifying much easier than I expected, but in the league phase dropped a lot of points and wound up knocked out. A very successful first run though.

With so much talent coming in through the intakes the roster is getting bloated and the clear-out has begun. I probably should have kept Awawdi as he was still a useful striker backup. Maxed out most facilities and got an elusive Youth Facility upgrade. We have a ton of money and nothing to spend it on now.

Youth Intake:

Another good batch of players. No one jumping right in, but lots of potential.

2027/28 Season Preview:

The goal is to hopefully see some progress. In league I'd like to see the gap close between us and the top three. In the Conference League I want to make League Phase again and improve our standings. 

[Libertine13]

2025/26 (Third Season)

(Decided to leave the infographics behind for now, thought I'd be inclined to post more info each update this way)

First season in the Bluefin Sport Championship was one to forget, early form wasn't too bad and we had a decent chance of survival but only because we were scoring plenty of goals, but the goals dried up and we actually lost our last ten games before the split. By then we had no hopes at all of staying up, despite winning 3 of our final 5 games. It's clear to see we weren't the best defensively!

Our talisman Brendan Glackin actually ended the season as the leagues top goalscorer.

Our intake was very good yet again, obviously we're lacking quality in more departments so there's a good chance one or two youth players go straight into the starting line up. I wasn't expecting such quality as Newberry and Maher though, Maher even managed 6 goals in his first 5 appearances at the end of this season.

Spoiler

Michael Maher - Will challenge both Glackin and Murray for a starting spot, especially the latter as he is approaching the end of his career. 

Stephen Newburry - I'll have to retrain him as a full back I think, I don't fancy changing to a back 5 with wing backs to accomodate. He brings much needed quality in defence!

Our best XI for this season;

[Riebow]

Season Review (2025/2026)

League: What a season! We lost two of our 5 CA players on a free before the season with another one leaving in January. We were predicted to finish last again, yet we were battling for the last direct promotion spot the entire season. We would have finished 3rd with a draw, but unfortunately the last game of the season was again Ludogorets II, who won the league on my pitch. So up to the play-offs it was...

And we did it! Beating Sporting Svoge 2-0, with not even allowing a shot on target! We're up to the First Division!

 

Cup: We lost in the preliminary round.

Intake: Another 'Golden' generation, which isn't too hard as most as my players are rated as Third Division level, but this was by far the best intake yet. Finally some offensive firepower, as we're really needing depth there.

Petar Toshev: Already the best player of the squad! Has barely played due to injuries though, but his potential and personality means he will be a star for a long time to come!

 

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Alp Salihoglu: Finally a decent striker coming through the youth academies. My leading scorer is 33 and will need replacement soon. He looks like a nice little target forward. 

 

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Plamen Tsankov: A much needed backup option for the left wing back position

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Georgi Hristov:

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Most improved player: Daniel Mihaylov (2024 intake)

Other: Arjen Robben has decided to join my U19 coaching staff on a 55 euro p/w wage!

[libbyshuss]

Season Summary

No third title in a row, but not totally unexpected as I put all my focus on the Champions League. 

Did it work out? no.... we got battered by Bayern in the quarter final. Still a way to go!

Players

So the big news this year? Moscardelli 51A signed a new contract! and it is ridiculous!!!!

His opening gambit was to ask for 625k basic a week, which is way out of our league. So I maxxed out all bonuses and hoped for the best....

Honestly, it's mental. 425k basic, 215k appearance fee, 200k goal bonus! He's gonna bankrupt us! thing is, he's totally worth it...

If he wins me the Champions League it'll be money well spent!

 

Youth

We got a lovely looking youth pull this year

He looks like he could be another wonderkid - fingers crossed! he's already not far off a first team spot at 15! I might even give him a few games next season, who knows?

Career

We're close to a Champions League win! and with Moscardelli 51A we have every chance as well.

[WhiteCat33]

59 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

Season Summary

No third title in a row, but not totally unexpected as I put all my focus on the Champions League. 

Did it work out? no.... we got battered by Bayern in the quarter final. Still a way to go!

Players

So the big news this year? Moscardelli 51A signed a new contract! and it is ridiculous!!!!

His opening gambit was to ask for 625k basic a week, which is way out of our league. So I maxxed out all bonuses and hoped for the best....

Honestly, it's mental. 425k basic, 215k appearance fee, 200k goal bonus! He's gonna bankrupt us! thing is, he's totally worth it...

If he wins me the Champions League it'll be money well spent!

 

Youth

We got a lovely looking youth pull this year

He looks like he could be another wonderkid - fingers crossed! he's already not far off a first team spot at 15! I might even give him a few games next season, who knows?

Career

We're close to a Champions League win! and with Moscardelli 51A we have every chance as well.

Wow congrats on getting him to stick around! At least you have a 170M cushion in the bank to afford him. Does the game tell you what percentage of your total wage bill he is with those bonuses? 

[libbyshuss]

1 hour ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Does the game tell you what percentage of your total wage bill he is with those bonuses? 

17.9% of total wage bill but i don't think that includes bonuses. That goal bonus is the one that's going to ruin us!

[XaW]

      

XaW - Energie Cottbus - Season 2023/24 (Season 1) - 3. Liga

Squad | Transfers | Finances

So, a great first season in Germany! I decided to take it slower this season, and actually pay more attention and do all press conferences and the whole stuff, and as it turns out, I do a whole lot better when I actually try hard enough! I think this is one of the most dominant seasons I've played in FM23, even with hundreds of hours of playtime already. As I took over the team it was pretty well stocked with talents, and it was almost as if it was built for my favoured 4-3-3 DM Wide. So I set it up and it worked amazing. In fact, up until the winter break, we won 17 of 21 matches! So we had quite the lead from early on, and the gap down just increased. After the title was secured came our 3rd loss and a couple of the draws, but at that point we were pretty much looking forward to next season. I really doubt it will be as easy next season, but at least we will get more experience and more youngsters.

I also manage to get two improvements accepted.

Also, the board are looking to build a new stadium some time in the future, but all is unknown so far.

DFB Pokal: We didn't participate this season.

U19s

In the U19 Division 1 North/Northeast they finished 7th.

Youth Cup: They beat Union Berlin and Düsseldorf before they lost to Mainz in the quarter final.

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

3. Liga - 1 (2023/24)

Player statistics:

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[grff]

Tutankhamun: 2023/24 Season Review

A fantastic opening season as we strolled to the Third Division (Group 6) title. The standard of player in the 3rd tier is pretty poor and we found that good defending is rare as we bagged 102 goals in 26 games. It will be interesting to know how the step up in division will look in terms of quality.

Player stats were really good and it might be that some of the average ratings won't be beaten for some time. I was reliant on a number of grey players due to having only 13 registered players.

Youth intake was previewed as being excellent as it always tends to be in the first year of the challenge. Annoyingly the intake for Egypt is in April so comes outside of the registration window meaning the youth intake can't play any first team football until the following season.

Transfers

Season history

Aim for next season

• To be competitive and cope with any jump in quality
• Look to limit the amount of debt we are in
• Keep hold of any decent players by securing long term contracts

[officiallydeej]

Cheronomorets 1919 Burgas - 2027/28 Season

 

A small step back from last season but on the whole still a decent effort considering I've started the shift over towards the academy graduates. We started well as always but really struggled for form after the winter break going 11 without a win at one point. We managed to pick ourselves up for the second phase, lifting ourselves up to 9th place overall. We need to try and make the breakthrough into European football soon as our money situation has taken a turn for the worse. I feel we are closer than it looks if we can avoid the huge second half season drop offs in form.

We had a bit of a cup run, beating Arda Khazhali (1-0) and second tier Hebar (3-1) before losing to the Ludogorets steamroller 2-1 in the Quarter Finals.

 

 

Pretty happy with this intake which has produced another three 5* potential players. Dimitrov is most welcome as central midfield is one of our weaker areas and if he can improve his physicals he'll be heading for the first team fairly quickly.  Slaev needs a bit of work but a top potential striker is always welcome. I need to actively start trimming the size of the U19s as we have almost 40 players in there now and I'm keen not to block the pathway of some of the top prospects.

 

Our finances are starting to slip a little bit now as our wage bill increases, ending the season almost £400k in the red. We need to try and break into the European places next season before the board start thinking of doing anything silly like selling players or cutting the wage bill. A couple of our reserves moved onto pastures new but I really need to be more proactive in trimming the bloated age group teams.

Our U19s retained the Elite Group title however only on goal difference this season as Botev also had a very strong season. They also won the U19s to complete the domestic double beating Ludogorets U19s 2-1 in the final.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cultured Left Foot]

 

SEASON 12 REVIEW - PROMOTION TO LEAGUE ONE !

The season was an overriding success as we gained promotion to League One, which was incredible. We are on the march and making super progress with a very underwhelming squad.

 

The season was really a tale of three parts. We started very fast, hitting top spot after 4 games, but then completely dipped off crashing down to 18th in the league. But the final part of the season saw us go on an amazing run, climbing to 2nd and maintaining that position to gain promotion. 

 

We needed a 10 goal swing in our favour to win the league, so it was always unlikely, but it did go down to the final day (were we mustered a 1-1 draw away at Morecambe as we knew we were already promoted).

 

The season was good for the crowd too, which saw our average attendance broken again - for some much needed gate receipts. 

 

Because..... our financials are looking pretty dire (even with some cash injection as part of the Premier League payments....)

 

 

There were also some players sales as we try to regain some cash into our bank accounts with Brooklyn Christy, Giorgos and Liam Browne all moving on.

 

And there was even more success for our U18s as they won another league and cup double - winning both the U18s Youth Alliance League North East and the Youth Cup North.

 

 

However, they fell short in the North vs South final. Losing to Plymouth 2-1 with a late winner from Plymouth striker John Cadman.

 

We move on up to League One with success in our minds. It'll be a tough season ahead of us, but the squad dynamics and team cohesion has been wonderful to get us this far, so I'm hoping it continues.

Onto Season 13 we go!

WISH US LUCK !

Edited February 8, 2023 by Cultured Left Foot
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[Neo_Geo]

Start of Season 7 went well for me, Marek (Elite4) asking to leave, not happy to wait for an offer, players complaining to me for not letting him go.

I offer at £10m + 25% profit and a few bids come in, but the board accepted an offer from Betis because its too good (was worth around 7m overall but it did have a percentage sell on). For some reason I couldn't protest it here but then Bayer Leverkusen come in with £7m, it gets accepted and this time I CAN protest, so I do and I say to re-negotiate to get a sell on, they agree, and I'm told it has been re-negotiated to include a sell on.

A few days later he agrees to move:

There is no sell on, so did they try to negotiate and fail but I was incorrectly told that it was included?

Anyone else had something similar?

Pretty gutted as I didn't really need cash now and I think he'll be a massive success as he already has 4 caps for Czech Republic at 17

[JLAB]

Motor Lublin - Season 11 - Transfer Window

In the summer transfer window, I sold Michał Jaros for £20M because he kept on getting upset and I finally had enough of his terrible attitude.

While he has a huge transfer value of £40M-£46M after his move, I feel like I've ripped Hamburg off. He's got a temperamental personality and he is incredibly inconsistent. 

Not only did we receive a record transfer fee, we also received a national record transfer fee, beating the sale of Chai Cox from Śląsk Wrocław to Everton by almost £5M. It shows you that we can make a lot of money and that we should be able to keep our best players over time.

Speaking of our previous record sale, Hoffenheim signed Marek Sawicki for £8M, meaning that Dortmund made a loss of £3.75M on him. Which is rather funny.

Still, we should talk about what matches we have had before the transfer deadline day, and one could say that we've had a successful start to the season. While we lost the Superpuchar Polski final for the 2nd time, we have been very successful elsewhere. Even if we did suffer a shock Europa League elimination at the hands of Neuchâtel Xamax, we won the rest of our games in all competitions.

What this does mean is that we're currently top of the table with 6 wins out of 6, which is our best ever start to a league campaign. How long do I think it will last? I'm hoping it will last for a while, but with the Europa Conference League and the defence of our Puchar Polski crown, we might run into some trouble as we attempt to win our 3rd Ekstraklasa title.

As for the Europa Conference League, we've been handed a rather kind draw with only Lyon and Rapid Wien being games I'm expecting us to struggle in. In my mind we should be challenging for a top 8 finish in the league phase of the Europa Conference League.

JLAB's YAC with Motor Lublin Part 35

[Neo_Geo]

Czech Republic run over....

I guess losing 3 first choice centrebacks in a calendar year isn't going to do many favours for my defence. We had horrendous luck with injuries early on in the season and our the morale plummeted with the results, then players asking to leave and not being happy about it caused the rest of the squad to lose faith. Injuries then continued and the mid-season break did no favours this time round and it was just too much to continue.

Lots of promising talent but they were a couple of years away from being ready to play alongside each other at this level.

Now I'll be looking where to go next  (Back to Enfield or another country?)

Anyone know if the u19s issue in Scotland is fixed yet?

Edited February 1, 2023 by Neo_Geo

[DumbGeraffe]

24/25 Season Review (2. Division)

An ideal season in which no other team was completely dominant and my 4-2-4 averaged 2.5 goals per game. The team started off the season dominant and didn't let off the gas until there was about 5 games left. Overall, the quality of the third division was the same as the fourth division. MVP of the season goes to Tobias Hansen who was a monster at the near post on corners and went on to score 11 goals as a CB in his second straight season

Financially the club didn't generate the additional revenue one would normally hope for after promoting, which probably explains why the level of competition in the league was so weak.

In terms of newgens I had another good intake with a few youngsters that will likely make the senior squad once they're old enough to be promoted. The best is another high CA fickle 15 year old, he'll probably be my first team striker by the end of the season, but who knows how he'll end up progressing with his personality.

The teams in the second division certainly look better in the last two, but I'm still unsure where to predict we will end up this season. We're predicted for a last place finish (200-1 with the next worse team at 33-1) but with the quality of competition I've been seeing so far I wouldn't be surprised if we somehow ended up in the promotion stage towards the end of the year.

[officiallydeej]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try (14 times) again!

 

[aldojags]

11 minutes ago, officiallydeej said:

If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try (14 times) again!

 

My main save 2 years ago was a Bulgarian road to glory with Spartak Pleven, and I had a similar battle with Ludogorets, for few years I just felt like I'd never beat them, but when you finally do it's so satisfying.

[officiallydeej]

Chernomorets 1919 Burgas - 2028/29 Season

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This is the breakthrough season we were waiting for! We raced out of the blocks winning 8 of our first 10 and eventually went into the winter break top of the table. We didn't quite keep that pace up but managed to avoid the drop off we had previously experienced to finish the regular season in 3rd place, just behind the mighty Ludogorets. We lost our first two games in the Championship group but followed that up with 3 huge wins over Levski, Ludogorets and CSKA to book out place in the Europa League qualifiers for the first time. The progress felt rapid in this season and for the first time we were dispatching the lower teams with ease both home and away whilst going toe to toe with the top sides, beating all the other top 6 teams at least once.

We had a good run in the cup too, with 7-0, 4-1 and 4-0 wins on our way to a 2 legged semi final against Ludogorets. Levski beat them in the final to secure a domestic double, and the first time the title has gone to anyone other than Ludogorets since 2011. (18 seasons ago!)

 

 

A real golden generation here with no less than six 5* potential youngsters coming through. The two above look the pick of the bunch on current ability but this is just what we need to consolidate our first team's successful season. The only disappointment is probably the personalities of the top prospects but I've found with enough game time most players seem to develop fairly well regardless.

 

 

We continued to slide further into the red this season but hopefully that will improve now we have managed to break into the European places. I haven't actually managed to get any facility upgrades agreed since the start of the save so if we can get far enough into the black I'll be making that a priority next season. I moved on quite a few of our youngsters from previous intakes who didn't look like they were going to make it in an attempt to trim the U19s squad and clear a pathway for our most promising players. There were one or two decent players in this bunch, particularly Terziyski 24c but I don't expect I've let any world beaters slip away.

 

Another domestic double for our U19s who steamrolled their way to a 4th consecutive top tier title. 

This has that Bayern Munich 'When threatened, buy everything that makes your rival good' feel about it!

Edited February 1, 2023 by officiallydeej

[Daddy]

2027/28 Midseason Review:

Little sluggish start, but things have rounded out nicely. I still think we're just a bit behind the top teams, but once the split happens we'll see if we can stay in a title battle.

Intake Preview:

Fullback is a good thing to have an A rating in. Not too much really needed otherwise right now other than depth and any player that can challenge for spots.

[Academia_FM]

Debut in the forum and in the challenge. An African adventure with Heliopolis in Cairo from the Egyptian third division.

The club has a forced transfer that cannot be canceled.

 

[ludak]

ND Dravinja Slovenske Konjice Season IX

Squad I Transfers I Finances

OK, so there obviously is a bug, because a team from the second league signed two of my youth players and payed a nice fee to us for them.

 

We almost had second place, but we lost the last game of the season which saw Olimpija rise up and overtake us. Vodopivec and Vajda had great seasons, and I have them to thank for European football next season.

We won 4 times against Gorica in the league, but lost the cup game against them.

 

So, Marijan Pušnik decided to retire, and that's ok. He is the reason for all of the great intakes, and I have to say, his best is his last one.

15  elite talents, I know that 80 percent of them will be *****, but still pretty amazing

Spoiler

 

 

 

We finally got our European debut upcoming! I just hope to make some money out of it. I wouldn't really care if we finished 8th in the league again, only that we reach the group phase and get ourselves some much needed cash to improve the facilities some more.

Till the next one lads!