The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[Winski]

IFK Lidingö FK
Youth intake preview season 3 (2026)

 

 

Our third season, and so our third youth intake preview. We've got a new HoYD: Demba Traoré. It looks like another good intake. I really hope we will get a new good goalkeeper. We now got 2 GK's. One of them is not good enough, but the lad is constantly demanding first team football. So I want to get rid of him.

My performances with IFK Lidingö are also picked up in my home country The Netherlands. Three clubs invited me for a job interview on the same day.

And last but not least: our start in Tier 2, Superettan Obos, was a good one. We lost the first 4 matches, but then finally won our first match against IK Brage. And as you can see, we won our last 3 matches before the Summer Stop (World Cup 2026). So it's a very good start of the season, better then expected. There is still a lot of football to be played, but I'm happy with this start.

Edited November 2, 2023 by Winski

[OlivierL]

1 hour ago, Perre8 said:

For a youth only challenge this is an ideal addition in the league, bonusmoney for selecting enough domestic players! This is now for the second Bundesliga in Austria, i am curious if it is also in the first Bundesliga...

Are there other leagues wich have these kind of bonussytems?

Perfect addition for a youth only challenge !

[Gonner]

Il y a 2 heures, Perre8 a dit :

For a youth only challenge this is an ideal addition in the league, bonusmoney for selecting enough domestic players! This is now for the second Bundesliga in Austria, i am curious if it is also in the first Bundesliga...

Are there other leagues wich have these kind of bonussytems?

And the amount of money is quite significant, this basically keeps me afloat every year. I only have trouble understanding the rules, do they consider bi-national players as well ? 

[Winski]

Well, I just FM'ed GIF Sundsvall

I think is probably the first time I ever experienced such a match. They were way stronger, chance after chance. But we won the match, against the current nr. 1 of the league  

[Virtual Male]

Season 7 2030/31

Manager Profile - Competitions - Finances - Facilities

Competitions

• Vanarama National League South (Past Positions) - I was expecting it to be another tough season after last years relegation and it started abysmally, we were conceding almost twice as many goals as our xGA and couldn't put the ball in the net at the other end either. After a bad run of results and some tactical changes it started to come together and we ended up finishing in a respectable 9th place, something to build on next year. 
• The Emirates FA Cup - The FA Cup has become a massive competition for us and has been a real money spinner over the years. We got some favourable draws and a massive result against a League 2 Crewe to make it into the third round again and we got what could be almost the perfect draw with an away game against Manchester City. Obviously that ended in a heavy defeat but it brought almost £1m into the club which we'll be sure to make good use of.
• The Isuzu FA Trophy - Knocked out in the third round by another Welsh club, Newport County.

Squad - After last years end of season tantrum I released all the legacy players apart from one who'll be leaving in a month or two so that leaves the club entirely populated by youth products. maybe it's a little soon since our experienced guys are 21/22 years old but if not now when? Seems to have worked out this season and there has been loads of player development that I've just not seen in most players until this point.

• Ryan Astley (2025YP9) - Most goals, assists, Motm awards and highest average rating, there's nothing he can't do! He signed another long term contract early in the season so he'll be sticking around for a while to come.

Youth Intake (Preview) - I forgot to grab a screenshot of the preview but it was very average. The actual intake wasn't like they have been but I'm going to say that's because the squad has got better so the 5* potential bar has been raised.

• Llion Davies (2031YP1) - Immediately our best left back and he came into the team for the last half dozen games of the season playing well and averaging over a 7.0. 

Transfers & Finance - Nothing to see with the transfers again, just players leaving of frees when it becomes apparent they'll never play a part for the first team. Massive boost to the bank balance this year thanks the the FA Cup run, were sat on over £1m now and looking to invest it back into the facilities when the board allow it.

Other - Some other upgrades this season though, the Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment twice so they're now both at an 'exceptional' level, I think there's maybe one more until they're both maxed.

Bingo Card - Thanks to Ryan Astley reaching 100 league goals I got a 10th square marked off.

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

11 hours ago, Ikthop said:

What do you guys usually do in terms of friendlies? Do you play bigger sides to try and earn a little extra cash? Or go against tiny clubs to build up morale?

 

 

I had the same thing happen in my save. Ended up making a promise to 'develop youth players at centre-back'. Luckily it has not backfired. At least for now.

 

I usually end up stacking the schedule for money, but that only really works at the start of the save and in England. I also had my captain have the promise to "develop youth players at defensive mid." He threw a fit at the end of the season despite me starting 15 and 16 year olds there every game, so I guess they didn't have enough development for his liking. He got over being angry pretty quickley however.

[Virtual Male]

45 minutes ago, Gonner said:

And the amount of money is quite significant, this basically keeps me afloat every year. I only have trouble understanding the rules, do they consider bi-national players as well ? 

I'm fairly sure it goes from the 'nation trained at' part of the players profile, everyone coming through your club will count. The money isn't awarded in the A.Bundesliga though, or wasn't last year.

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2031/32

Bury

It was a better preview:

The intake wasn't great with just the one elite talent.

[the_hdk]

Transfer History

Second year in J1 went really well. We are midfield team most of the season. No real danger this year of relagation. And it was all thanks to our star striker TANAKA. The now 19 year old scored  34 goals in 38 games. He won his second TopScorer title and does nto want to renew his contract so we will have to say goodbye to him this season. I fear we will be much less good next year becuase of it. Alot of British clubs are interested and Porto. His price range is around EUR 10 MLN. Well with that money we will be secure for a while. We will see. ERNESTO PAULO grew to 4,5 stars. And new to the first 11 was KAGAMI who replaced sold SHIBATA. KAGAMI had a great rookie season too with 20 goals in 32 games. So I hope he will replace TANAKA next year.

In Europe RB Leipzig wit their first league win. And Portugal with World Cup. In Japan Vissel Kobe was in leagu of their own and have their 2nd championship.

We finally moved to the new stadium. Our average public is above 12k so that is great. We also had money to improve our training facilities a bit. We have now around 3,5mln in the bank.

Sale of SHIBATA

New Stadium

New Stadium in Kuwana from outside. Named just '14' in honor of Johan Cruijjf

And from inside....with orange seats.

YASUDA intake 2030

Well a bit disapointing, but better than last year. Alot of midfielders and central defenders. and....our second foreign intake player!!!

 

First the best of the bunch me thinks. MATSUNAGA is ambitious....and his passing is already at 14!. Great technique too. New Shinji Ono?

And our second foreign player is a Dutchie! (and with Aruban background!) VAN DEN BERGH seems bad, let's be honest. but he is Fairly Proffesional...so he should improve fast...if There is anything to improve to.

[XaW]

XaW - Follo FK - Season 2027 (Season 4) - OBOS-ligaen

Squad | Transfers | Finances

3rd time wasn't the charm for us, as we even missed out on the playoffs this season. However, looking behind the results, we got really unlucky this season. Looking at the xG table, we should be 3rd!

So I think we can firmly say this was an outlier, rather than anything else. And this also reflects what I saw in the matches, we just concede light goals, and miss sitters at times and when we do that over a whole season, we en mid-table. Not a bad result in isolation, but out play promised so much more. Hopefully, we can get a bit more luck next season and push into the playoff again.

More youth players became part of the main squad this season. Herman Bratseth 26a is now first choice striker for us and do well, but is still very inconsistent. Since our first choice goalkeeper left us in the off season, Kenneth Gjøsund 26c became the new first choice. And he had an excellent development from then on. Concedes a bit much, but is still getting a lot of experience from it. Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c is now being rotated into the defensive unit, and Omar Brødholt 24b does the same in midfield. Other than that there are mostly cameos from the youngsters.

Norgesmesterskapet: We beat Hønefoss, Pors Grenland, and Bærum before we lost to Kristansund in the 4th round.

Around the world

2nd team:

They only played friendlies this season.

U19s:

They got relegated from the OBOS Nasjonal G19 this season. Seems like they are too good for the regional divisions, but too poor for the national one currently.

NM G19: They lost to HamKam in the 1st round.

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

PostNord-ligaen Avdeling 2 - 1 (2024)

(U19s) - Oslo Kretsserie G19 - 2 (2024, 2026)

Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name				Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Apps
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Omar Brødholt 24b		Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	71
Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c	Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	69
Herman Bratseth 26a		Norway		<N/A>		2026-Present	55
Oscar Vainio 26b		Finland		Norway		2026-Present	39
Kenneth Gjøsund 26c		Norway		<N/A>		2026-Present	32

Most goals for the club

Name				Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Goals
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Herman Bratseth 26a		Norway		<N/A>		2026-Present	22
Omar Brødholt 24b		Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	9
Simen Borge 27c			Norway		<N/A>		2027-Present	3
Kristian Bernt Børve Larsen 27d	Norway		<N/A>		2027-Present	3
Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c	Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	2

Most assists for the club

Name				Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Assists
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Herman Bratseth 26a		Norway		<N/A>		2026-Present	8
Oscar Vainio 26b		Finland		Norway		2026-Present	6
Omar Brødholt 24b		Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	4
Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c	Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	3
Thor Hov 25a			Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	2

Supporters:

Summary:

 

[unfocused_alex]

I'm curious as to when people get further into their saves - and obviously with this challenge finances are really important - do you have any approach to wage structures? It's something I've suddenly realised is quite important in the lower leagues (any league really!)

Do you have any specific approaches to contracts? Just interested to hear different perspectives 

 

[Ron_Swanson]

4 hours ago, Perre8 said:

For a youth only challenge this is an ideal addition in the league, bonusmoney for selecting enough domestic players! This is now for the second Bundesliga in Austria, i am curious if it is also in the first Bundesliga...

Are there other leagues wich have these kind of bonussytems?

Polish league has something called Pro Junior System, it's different than Austrian, not that profitable but if done with right approach it can give a nice money boost at the end of season. Basicaly it's a ranking of teams who played most minutes with U21 players. You can see details in league overview --> squad rewards. Only few best teams get rewarded (except teams who end up in relegation zone) but in YAC it's fairly easy to reach the top of this ranking. Here's how it looks money-wise for Ekstraklasa (top tier) in FM23 (I don't have FM24 so someone needs to confirm if it's still that way)

and for 1 liga (2nd tier)

 

Edited November 2, 2023 by Ron_Swanson

[Perre8]

8 minutes ago, Ron_Swanson said:

You can see details in league overview --> squad rewards.

Thx! Maybe the rules for austrian league are there as wel. I will check it out!

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

18 minutes ago, unfocused_alex said:

I'm curious as to when people get further into their saves - and obviously with this challenge finances are really important - do you have any approach to wage structures? It's something I've suddenly realised is quite important in the lower leagues (any league really!)

Do you have any specific approaches to contracts? Just interested to hear different perspectives 

 

I think it's hard to have structured contract approaches. This challenge forces you to pay your best players as much as they want, since you can't afford to lose them without being able to buy replacements. The money you save not having transfer fees and generally having a low wage bill since your team is very young means you rarely have problems paying your players.

 

It can get a bit wild if your star player gets a big contract then everyone else wants new deals, but the key is to pay a higher base wage to get the longest term deal you can. That way if anyone complains, they still have 3+ years under contract and you can dismiss the complaint if you don't want to give a new deal

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2031/32

Bury

Season Summary

An excellent season where we secured promotion via the promotion playoffs for the second straight campaign and enjoyed good runs in two of the three cups.

Season Details

League Table - We narrowly held onto our playoff spot on the final day as we managed a seventh place finish.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - I really do hate November.  We were on course for yet another loss filled month before winning in the last game of the month.  We were either feast or famine, with long runs of good and bad form.

Promotion Playoffs - What a performance!  We came back from a home defeat in the semi final to make the final and we then played one of our best games of the season in beating Woking for a second successive promotion.

F. A. Cup - We were disappointing in losing at home to League One side Stockport County.

Carabao Cup - We were excellent in getting through to the trhird round before losing on penalties away to top flight Brentford.  We were the better side too.

Papa John's Trophy - We had a good run in this competition, finishing second in our group and making it all the way through to the Northern semi final before losing away to Blackburn Rovers.

Friendlies - A very mixed bag of results, though we did defeat Norwich City in our biggest friendly win to date.

Squad - Our squad developing nicely though it may take us a while to be in a position to challenge for a place in the Championship.

Squad Dynamics - I don't think this could be any better.

Transfers In - None.

Transfers Out 1, 2 & 3 - There was no major departures, just loans and fringe players departing.  We did net nearly £200,000 for our fourth choice striker.

Youth Candidates - The intake wasn't great, though there are a couple of rough diamonds, such as left back Rob Taylor YP32A82.

Finances - We lost a considerable amount of money this year as the costs of being a Football League club, together with our fabulous youth academy, took hold.

Key Players

Marcelencio Klaiber YP28D20 - The Dutch central midfielder raised his game and continues to perform well.

Tommy Ashman YP28A17 - The striker once again scored close to forty goals this season.  What a player this guy is.  He is on nearly double the next highest earner though he is worth every penny.

Danny Holmes YP29B35 - Our second striker though he is usually deployed on the right wing.  He is very consistent.

Peter Scott YP28F22 - Our left back was once again a solid player in defence.  He struggled to hold onto his place towards the end of the season.

Joe Dymond - Playing on the left wing, he recaptured his good form from a few years ago.

Next Season

Survival.  Anything else is a bonus.

Personal Contract

Season     Contract Start Date     Contract Expiry Date     Pre Tax Wage     Post Tax Wage
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At start          25 June 2026             30 June 2027         £750 p/w          £600 p/w
2026/27         2 January 2027             30 June 2028         £775 p/w ↑        £600 p/w =
2027/28         4 October 2027             30 June 2029         £800 p/w ↑        £625 p/w ↑
2028/29           24 June 2028             30 June 2030         £850 p/w ↑        £650 p/w ↑
2029/30        16 January 2030             30 June 2032         £900 p/w ↑        £700 p/w ↑
2030/31        16 January 2030             30 June 2032         £900 p/w =        £700 p/w =
2031/32           21 July 2031             30 June 2034       £1,300 p/w ↑        £925 p/w ↑

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att  Def  Fit  GkD  GkH  GkS  Tac  Tec  Men  SeP  WWY  Ada  Det  PlK  YoK  LoD  PeM  Mot
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At start   Minimal   (0.50*)     None                 1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    5    1    1    1    5    1    1    1
2026/27    Minimal = (0.50*) =   None           =     4 ↑  4 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  4 ↑  4 ↑  4 ↑  1 =  5 =  1 =  4 ↑  4 ↑  6 ↑  5 ↑  4 ↑  4 ↑
2027/28    Minimal = (1.00*) ↑   National C     ↑     6 ↑  6 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  6 ↑  6 ↑  6 ↑  1 =  5 =  1 =  5 ↑  5 ↑  7 ↑  6 ↑  6 ↑  6 ↑
2028/29    Minimal = (1.50*) ↑   National B     ↑     8 ↑  7 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  8 ↑  8 ↑  7 ↑  2 ↑  5 =  1 =  7 ↑  7 ↑  8 ↑ 10 ↑  8 ↑  9 ↑
2029/30    Minimal = (2.00*) ↑   National B     =     8 ↑  8 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  8 =  8 =  8 ↑  2 =  6 ↑  1 =  7 =  7 =  8 ↑ 10 =  8 = 10 ↑
2030/31    Minimal = (2.50*) ↑   Continental C ↑↑    10 ↑ 10 ↑  3 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 = 10 ↑ 10 ↑ 10 ↑  3 ↑  6 =  1 = 10 ↑ 10 ↑ 10 ↑ 14 ↑ 11 ↑ 10 =
2031/32    Decent  ↑ (3.00*) ↑   Continental B  ↑    11 ↑ 11 ↑  3 =  1 =  1 =  1 = 11 ↑ 11 ↑ 12 ↑  3 =  6 =  1 = 10 = 10 = 11 ↑ 16 ↑ 12 ↑ 11 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Youth Level  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Great                Great                  2       Basic                 Adequate         Average            Local      (1.00*)
2026/27    Great =              Great =                2 =     Basic =               Excellent   ↑↑   Good        ↑↑     Local    = (1.00*) =
2027/28    Great =              Great =                2 =     Basic =               Exceptional  ↑   Exceptional ↑↑     Local    = (1.00*) =
2028/29    Great =              Great =                2 =     Basic =               Exceptional  =   Exceptional  =     Local    = (1.00*) =
2029/30    Great =              Great =                3 ↓     Basic =               Exceptional  =   Exceptional  =     Local    = (1.00*) =
2030/31    Great =              Great =                3 =     Basic =               Exceptional  =   Exceptional  =     Local    = (1.50*) ↑
2031/32    Great =              Great =                2 ↑     Basic =               Exceptional  =   Exceptional  =     Regional ↑ (1.50*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2026/27      50        23       10       17         110              91                 +19              46.00%
2027/28      51        35        7        9         155              76                 +79              68.63% ↑
2028/29      54        20       11       23         109             112                  -3              37.34% ↓
2029/30      49        22        6       21          97              95                  +2              44.90% ↑
2030/31      56        33        6       17         145              92                 +53              58.93% ↑
2031/32      60        32        8       20         124              91                 +33              53.33% ↓

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2026/27          50        23       10       17         110              91                 +19              46.00%             300 days
2027/28         101        58       17       26         265             167                 +98              57.43% ↑           659 days
2028/29         155        78       28       49         374             279                 +95              49.37% ↓         1,024 days
2029/30         204       100       34       70         471             374                 +97              49.02% ↓         1,394 days
2030/31         260       133       40       87         616             466                +150              51.15% ↑         1,773 days
2031/32         320       165       48      107         740             557                +183              51.56% ↑         2,152 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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11 July 2030        Andrew Morris YP28J26    Central Midfield       Swansea City                 England/Wales                 £500,000

Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
--------------------------
2027/28    Vanarama National League North

Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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1 x Vanarama National League North (2027/28)

Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     F.A. Cup                    League Cup        Achievements
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2026/27           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League North        7th       Third Qualifying Round          N/a           Lost in promotion playoffs first round.  F. A. Trophy second round.
2027/28           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League North        1st ↑     Second Round           ↑        N/a           Promoted as champions.  F. A. Trophy second round.
2028/29           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League             17th ↑     Second Round           =        N/a           Comfortably survived.  F. A. Trophy quarter final.
2029/30           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League             11th ↑     First Round            ↓        N/a           Top half finish.  F. A. Trophy third round.
2030/31           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League              7th ↑     Third Round            ↑        N/a           Promoted via promotion playoffs.  F. A. Trophy fifth round.
2031/32           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Sky Bet League Two                    7th ↑     First Round            ↓    Third Round ↑     Promoted via promotion playoffs.  Papa John's Trophy northern semi final.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2026/27    Sam Berry YP27I9                          6
2027/28    Sam Berry YP27I9                         53
2028/29    Sam Berry YP27I9                         97
2029/30    Sam Berry YP29I9                        140
2030/31    Sam Berry YP29I9                        186
2031/32    Sam Berry YP29I9                        234

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2026/27    No one                                        0
2027/28    Sam Berry YP27I9                             10
2028/29    Sam Berry YP27I9                             15
2029/30    Tommy Ashman YP28A17                         25
2030/31    Tommy Ashman YP28A17                         66
2031/32    Tommy Ashman YP28A17                        105

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
---------------------------------------------------------------------
2026/27    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                       1
2027/28    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                       8
2028/29    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                      15
2029/30    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                      20
           Andrew Morris YP28J26                      20
2030/31    Marcelencio Klaiber YP28D20                36
2031/32    Marcelencio Klaiber YP28D20                43

Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets
----------------------------------------------------------------------
2026/27    No one                                     0
2027/28    Stuart Kennedy YP27J10                     1
2028/29    Stuart Kennedy YP27J10                     2
2029/30    Bello Yekini YP29A34                      10
2030/31    Bello Yekini YP29A34                      24
2031/32    Bello Yekini YP29A34                      34

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 2, 2023 by DazRTaylor

[Perre8]

18 minutes ago, Perre8 said:

Thx! Maybe the rules for austrian league are there as wel. I will check it out!

Nope, nowhere to be found in Austria

[the_hdk]

congrats on promotion @DazRTaylor

[Basschaapje.2]

So I cooled down and it started to itch again...

Since holland isn't possible and Belgium not viable I chose France.

But now I can't seem to add my manager to the French 4th tier. Does anyone else have this problem?

[Gonner]

Il y a 3 heures, Virtual Male a dit :

I'm fairly sure it goes from the 'nation trained at' part of the players profile, everyone coming through your club will count. The money isn't awarded in the A.Bundesliga though, or wasn't last year.

Just got the message again and I was only able to field a team with 12 Austrian players once, so my conclusion is that it takes into account only people that have Austrian citizenship. This is a bit dumb because I have Germans & Italians that qualify for the citizenship but do not see the point. Youngsters that are foreign tend to have both citizenships so I guess in a few seasons I will be able to get more money thanks to this.

[Virtual Male]

@DazRTaylor You're flying through the leagues! You look to have the firepower to be comfortable in League 1, good luck!

[Virtual Male]

38 minutes ago, Gonner said:

Just got the message again and I was only able to field a team with 12 Austrian players once, so my conclusion is that it takes into account only people that have Austrian citizenship. This is a bit dumb because I have Germans & Italians that qualify for the citizenship but do not see the point. Youngsters that are foreign tend to have both citizenships so I guess in a few seasons I will be able to get more money thanks to this.

Make the most of it before you get promoted, you don't get the money awarded in the top division (at least not in fm23), so I was bringing in significantly less income in the Bundesliga than I was in the 2.Bundesliga with Wiener Sport-Club last year.

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, Basschaapje.2 said:

So I cooled down and it started to itch again...

Since holland isn't possible and Belgium not viable I chose France.

But now I can't seem to add my manager to the French 4th tier. Does anyone else have this problem?

Not sure if FM24 is this way, but IRC in FM23 the 4th tier in France is viewable but not playable and you have to start in the 3rd Tier which is French National.

[XaW]

2 hours ago, unfocused_alex said:

I'm curious as to when people get further into their saves - and obviously with this challenge finances are really important - do you have any approach to wage structures? It's something I've suddenly realised is quite important in the lower leagues (any league really!)

Do you have any specific approaches to contracts? Just interested to hear different perspectives 

Well, I want to pay my players as little as possible, but still keep them happy. And I approach it differently based on where I am in the challenge. Initially, money can be quite tight, depending on what nation you play in of course, so I tend to be really frugal until my club is financially stable enough. I'll often let players leave if they want too much money, and I'll also release many players if I don't think they will develop. When I'm a bit richer and money isn't really an issue I will often try to keep my best player at any cost and I'll also keep youth players a bit longer to see if they develop a bit later on, especially if they have good personalities.

[coyle_jp]

holyyyyyyy shieeeet

 

Even if this guy has no more potential, what an INTAKE!

just heading into a really tough phase and we produce an absolute gem like this, hot damn, if we get relegated I will cry

[BigYams]

Man this is a different sort of challenge. You guys are special. This is the first time in 2-3000 hours of this game I've been sacked. Took over a newly promoted Aachen side in Germany and I don't think I could've planned a worse season. We started off with 3-4 wins early and I assumed we'd coast to a mid to high table finish.. Na. From that point on we won like 2 games for the rest of the season and we were relegated / I was fired.  Our striker, who was one of the better players on our team by all indications scored 3 goals all season.... 3. I wouldn't consider myself bad at this game either, I've won champions leagues all over, but I guess my strength has always been scouting / DoF work and bringing in the best value and talent out there. Throw that out the window. 

It seems like once you lose the locker room you're cooked. Hard to come back. I had guys I would promote to the first team who would play in one game then demand regular starter minutes. Never run into that before. By the end of the season 6 or so of the 11 starters were requesting transfers. 

I tip my hat to those of you that can make it far with this... guess I'll give it another go. 

[coyle_jp]

5 minutes ago, BigYams said:

Man this is a different sort of challenge. You guys are special. This is the first time in 2-3000 hours of this game I've been sacked. Took over a newly promoted Aachen side in Germany and I don't think I could've planned a worse season. We started off with 3-4 wins early and I assumed we'd coast to a mid to high table finish.. Na. From that point on we won like 2 games for the rest of the season and we were relegated / I was fired.  Our striker, who was one of the better players on our team by all indications scored 3 goals all season.... 3. I wouldn't consider myself bad at this game either, I've won champions leagues all over, but I guess my strength has always been scouting / DoF work and bringing in the best value and talent out there. Throw that out the window. 

It seems like once you lose the locker room you're cooked. Hard to come back. I had guys I would promote to the first team who would play in one game then demand regular starter minutes. Never run into that before. By the end of the season 6 or so of the 11 starters were requesting transfers. 

I tip my hat to those of you that can make it far with this... guess I'll give it another go. 

Im now running into this, my first intake striker Donal, is now opting to see his options - I am finding the key, is to have them in lower squads, U18's and Reserves, if you have injuries or give them minutes, adjust your squad filter, keep them in the lower teams, until they are bonafide starters if you are just giving them games, don't promote them from the first team, select them from the other sides.

[BigYams]

2 minutes ago, coyle_jp said:

Im now running into this, my first intake striker Donal, is now opting to see his options - I am finding the key, is to have them in lower squads, U18's and Reserves, if you have injuries or give them minutes, adjust your squad filter, keep them in the lower teams, until they are bonafide starters if you are just giving them games, don't promote them from the first team, select them from the other sides.

Good call, I'll try that next time. I'm still reeling from this 4 hour or so play sessions that resulted in my firing and post. 

[coyle_jp]

1 minute ago, BigYams said:

Good call, I'll try that next time. I'm still reeling from this 4 hour or so play sessions that resulted in my firing and post. 

I don't know if this will backfire on me as well, but im keeping all my players on Yth contracts even if they are playing 30 games a season, seems as though as soon as i've offered some of them 80-100 p/w they get unhappy with wages whereas on youth contracts they have no qualms about anything. In most of my other saves there is like a compensation fee for a buying team, so unless you produce a god, I am finding youth contracts give them 3-4 seasons of playing time before needing to actually sign them.

I've never done one of these either but its so rewarding.

[coyle_jp]

Well

an A just kept us in Danske, the CB had very little impact, the squad morale was shTt, everything was shTt, but survived baby, just gonna do 11 more days and start writing up the season, but as we now at a season a time I will post my write up and then provide the link as always to previous seasons, hot damn.

 

I mean look at this too

Edited November 2, 2023 by coyle_jp

[BigYams]

Alright, here we go. Take 2. First time starting one publicly. I've decided to take my talents west to Spain. 

With there being 5 different groups of teams there were plenty of options but I couldn't get past the view from Marbella's stadium. 

[coyle_jp]

32 minutes ago, BigYams said:

Alright, here we go. Take 2. First time starting one publicly. I've decided to take my talents west to Spain. 

With there being 5 different groups of teams there were plenty of options but I couldn't get past the view from Marbella's stadium. 

Lets go bro, this ain't easy, but its worth everything you put into it if you go proper

[coyle_jp]

Hey guys

I am now posting what is part of my write up as im working for the weekend so you won't get an update from me for at least 1/2 weeks.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WzdxnIKCEr6Nx6ODf1ax9jj7RUukOsJ5sDP503mpuKY/edit?usp=sharing

I wanna post this spiel to show this is how I have written the whole seasons and the same going forward.

2029/2030 Season Six - Danske Bank Premiership

Season Summary - League

I mean what can I say, we are so ahead of schedule, we are in the top division after 6 seasons, lets earn some money and go down? I will not be defeatist but we have been riding so many highs, so many highs, I'm still living off the treble we won in season 3. Providing the board will keep me if the ShTT hits the fan I will produce, I'm sure. That is not how football works. We didn’t get an amazing Youth Intake last year because I saw no talents, but I hoped we could do the same as last year and beat newly promoted teams and edge ourselves into safety again.

 

League Season Results: https://i.imgur.com/sRxzzGr.jpg

 

We got doubled deeked down all season, fans criticised me for my tactics, we set new records of winless I was not the messiah according to the game, do they not realise what I have done for this club? Anyway super hard went into relegation spots above the playoffs and ended in the playoffs - won against Carrick Rangers to survive, I hope I’ve got enough skin to graft off my ass for what happened this year because it's gonna happen again until we can at least turn pro and sell players.

 

Season Summary - Cups

I am sorry if you guys want more summary on this, I just wanna build a bank in the top league, survive, we don’t care about the cups, call us Tottenham Hotspurs.

 

Cup Season Results: https://i.imgur.com/DYwKLfh.jpg

 

Newry are in the league below but I don’t care, i'm trying to survive so youth team went in and got destroyed run ended: https://i.imgur.com/jdepgG4.jpg

 

Finances

I mean if you look at our finances season on season, I expected us to propel into pro status (1 Milli) but we still made profit, although, how many seasons do I need to suffer in Danske surviving relegation to actually make this team something? Regardless we are making profit and it looks like we need another 2-3 seasons for professional status. But taking a KitKat professional could also destroy me and the team see this: https://i.imgur.com/oZMgIFZ.jpg

 

Transfers

We got our axe out too all these Mo, Funky potentials, I did say I was doing a clear out so please look at the long long list of ex’s : https://i.imgur.com/sckIsRp.jpg

 

25 players are done.

 

Squad Overview

Ok so, we are getting stronger. But it's a double edged sword as always and it cannot be avoided. I want to make progress every season, basically call the squad plants that are dying for 90% of the squad. I’m gonna show you the overview but there has been only one player, our specialist, who I only played 3 seasons ago because he could do free kicks and corners. With constant game time he's now one of our best midfielders. I CANNOT AFFORD TO play youth players anymore like I could in the seasons below. Nothing we have is good, but I just need to keep our status. I am in disarray : https://i.imgur.com/PrcBLh1.jpg

 

I mean the squad is kinda improving, but kinda not. We’ve actually had some mad lucky regens but they might come through at the top of potential, then you have guys who have shTt personality that might be good and at the end of it all, we are a part time club we have no coaches, we aren’t professional and it's REALLY starting to show 2 years in the top.

 

Youth Intake Preview

Our first A ranking since season 2 or 3 I cannot remember but HELL YEAH baby, not sure if many will know the reference but im praying.

 

Youth Intake Arrival

If any of you are following this save like I am, crack out the top shelf spirits. Look at the state of this!

 

Northern Irish THOR: https://i.imgur.com/LUirUs5.jpg

Northern Irish Left Back: https://i.imgur.com/idzMObX.jpg

 

Thor though, better than nearly 3 seasons of Cody Blair, our best CB since HE came into the team at 15, now we got THOR.

 

Positive & Negative Review

I won’t lie to any of you, there are no positives this season.

I mean you can say Jim, you survived again, I would agree, but there is nothing to single out.

 

There are so many negatives this season I could write a book. I don’t want to do that to the viewers so I know that we got no green form from anyone. SO its shut down. Let's hope next year with THOR, gets us safety.

 

Facilities

Absolutely no changes to our facilities this year.

 

Stadium	Corporate	Training	Youth	Academy	Recruitment
4200 ALL SEAT	Basic	Basic	Basic	Fairly Basic	Fairly Basic

 

Manager

Just an overview of the manager history after the season: https://i.imgur.com/ytBFW3A.jpg

And statistics:https://i.imgur.com/2X3R3lf.jpg

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Ag	Win %
306	132	41	133	549	568	43

Edited November 3, 2023 by coyle_jp

[Winski]

IFK Lidingö FK
Season 3 | 2026
Tier 2 | Superettan Obos
Finances | Transfers | Club Overview | Facilities | Manager Profile | Tactic

 

What a good season it was! Our first season at this level. It started dramatically, with 4 losses in a row. That was the moment I decided to go back to my old tactic, although I tweaked it a bit. And that worked! We played some really good matches, won quite a lot(14 out of 30) and finished with a 7th place in the league. A fantastic start in this league! In the Cup we lost in the Second Round against Falkenbergs FF.
And something nice is that we won both matches against GIF Sundsvall, the champion of the league. Our biggest loss this season was 0-6 at home against IFK Värnamo.
Our best player from the last two seasons, striker Victor Söderström, didn't play very much this season. He started in the first team at the beginning of the season, but wasn't scoring. So I decided to give a young talent some playing time, and he did very well. Söderström's time at our club will come to an end soon, as I put him on the transfer list. I've got now more then enough youngsters who are better then him.

We received a nice amount of money at the end of the season, although it was not enough to get us out of the red.

U19
Our U19 had a good season, finishing 4th. Maybe it's possible to promote next season to the highest youth level of Sweden.


Youth Development
Some of our youngsters are developing really well. And most of them are wanted by bigger Swedish clubs. We are now playing with 7 Academy players in our starting XI!
I'll show the development of them.

GK Erick Rodríguez 25a

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DC Ebrima Bah 25f

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DC Erik Sinani 24e

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SC David Röse 25h

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SC Tobias Kembel 25b

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Youth intake
As posted before; the preview was a promising one. The actual intake gave us lots of Elite Talents! And I'm most happy with the talented goalkeeper. Now we have two talented GK's! I'll show the most promising talents from this intake.

Spoiler

[KVJ92]

Kind of playing this as a: Let me see how it is. But not playing the matches. I'm the football director. 

And in this save i see this: 

Is that you @XaW ?

 

Edited November 2, 2023 by KVJ92

[XaW]

4 minutes ago, KVJ92 said:

Kind of playing this as a: Let me see how it is. But not playing the matches. I'm the football director. 

And in this save i see this: 

Is that you @XaW ?

 

Could be!  

[OlivierL]

1 hour ago, BigYams said:

Alright, here we go. Take 2. First time starting one publicly. I've decided to take my talents west to Spain. 

With there being 5 different groups of teams there were plenty of options but I couldn't get past the view from Marbella's stadium. 

Great choice but aren't they playable from the start?

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

The board works in mysterious ways. After repeatedly rejecting my requests for more junior coaching and youth recruitment, they go ahead and approve my request to move up a youth level without even making me beg. About to become the only VNS side with a level 3 academy.

[JLAB]

Going through Spain testing things. The season ticks over on 9th July. You can reload the save and get different teams promoted from 23rd June because of the playoffs in the 2nd and 3rd tiers of Spanish football.

This was attempt 1

This was attempt 2. There are a lot of teams that got promoted again, but there are some differences.

Hope this was useful to be able to be added to the front page. @darren1983 

Edited November 2, 2023 by JLAB

[BigYams]

1 hour ago, OlivierL said:

Great choice but aren't they playable from the start?

Yea, I think I should have clarified, I’m still on FM23 and they were showing newly promoted when I simmed ahead. 

[WhiteCat33]

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2045 Season 23 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Youth Academy Challenge FM23 Thread:

Spoiler

Start Post | 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 | Season 15 | Season 16 |Season 17 | Season 18 |

Youth Academy Challenge FM24 Thread:

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Season 19 |Season 20 |Season 21| 2043 Takeover |Season 22 |Carrillo Post |

Statistics Posts:

Spoiler

CA Calculator 1 | CA Calculator 2 |

 League Performance: Champion

A perfect season

 

Cup Performance: Runner Up

Furious to lose the Cup on penalties after we couldn’t score in regular time after absolutely dominating the game. We missed a penalty during the match and had a goal called back by VAR. 

North American Champions League:

2044 - 2nd Round

We pulled out a surprise draw in Mexico! It was our WB-R who got the goal, which was a rare sight. Carrillo is still mad we didn’t sell him, so unsurprisingly he wasn’t his usual self.

Unfortunately, they punished us at home when our young defenders made errors they capitalized and our strikers under-scored. Damn transfer-window upset our star. We were competitive, which is the objective for the next couple years as we develop our youngsters.

2045

A great performance sees us advance out of the Group Stage to the Carribean Playoff. Helps that we were without any Jamaican oppositions.

Will save the Playoff match for the next season update against the strong Humble Lion squad we've faced multiple years now.

Reserve & U18s:

Winner Winner 

Squad:

 

Transfers:

For the first time we have noteworthily veterans leaving the club this summer.

Barry Hoyte:

Spoiler

I’m letting him go on a free this summer but Barry Hoyte has been great for us as a CM and WBR. More importantly he’s broken 100 CAPs for Barbados as a key part of their midfield. He was good enough to keep in the team, but I’d rather play the high potential U18 players than continue a 30 year old squad player.

Rondelle Harte

Spoiler

Other long-serving player departing this summer is Rondelle Harte who is a good WB for this level. But again, I opt for playing the younger options when I have the choice so he’s ready to move on at 30 we’ve gotten a lot of good seasons out of him.

Ramar Vaughn

Spoiler

The final and most important of the old guard departing this summer is our original anchoring CB Ramar Vaughn who was our Vice Captain for many years. At 33 he’s begun his decline 

Transfers

Spoiler

Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

 

Excel Tables:

Spoiler

Head Coach:

 

Club Improvements:

Unfortunately, the council didn't like our stadium expansion plans so that was scrapped.

St Lucia Tycoon

Spoiler

Been looking around seeing if there are any big takeovers and Big Players FC in St Lucia got a Tycoon takeover. Unfortunately for them they can’t do anything with it as the current system doesn’t let them qualify for NACL/CCC without V50s modfile. So they are sitting on tons of money. Biggest surprise to me is they are 7 years on from the takeover and are still flush with cash. 

Hopefully I can make this an affiliate club and send all my players on loan here as they have spent well to upgrade facilities to as good/better than ours and they have a tiny reputation (so should easily accept an affiliate agreement). Just need to get my board to be cool with foreign affiliates. Even with 2.5* Rep any attempt outside of Barbados fails. One day…

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

Aint broke don't fix it.

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake:

Top 3 Players:

We got 3 Very promising Players all of whom are either footed with right dominant which is interesting.
Best of the three is another Striker, but unlike my other players this guy is either footed and a Giant at 6’6”! He's also Fairly Ambitious so I see him increasing that potential and maybe even the height.

Spoiler

I was talking about needing a CM-D and I got a great mental set up on this DM. He will go into the first team rotation for that CML-D. 

Spoiler

Third is another CM who isn’t quite good at anything yet with poor natural fitness. Probably won’t make it into our team with so many other young CMs progressing well.

Spoiler

 

Excel Tables:

 

Barbados National Team:

World Cup Here We Come!!!

Ignore that -10 GD 😊 Carrillo is the top scorer in the NAM WCQ with 11 goals. Pretty sure that also includes the 4 pre-qualifier games to get into the WCQs.

So I think it's a fair statement that Mexico is better than Barbados considering they outscored us 20-1 in just 3 matches. Those matches aside, Barbados put up some awesome performances against Central American teams to advance out of the Gold Cup Group stage and even more miraculously advance ahead of Haiti and Panama in the WCQ!

This is a beautiful sight. Can't wait to travel to China to see Barbados on the World Stage!

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Spoiler

Barbados Youth:

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Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

There are a two new Barbadian faces at top English clubs.

Renaldo Grant & Asquith Croney: I have very little faith that Croney will switch over unless he truly fails to develop and not reach that potential. Grant on the other hand won't be nearly as dominant of a player even with English development so I could see him accepting Barbados callups. Could surprise, but doubt he'll make a big impact on the national team.

Spoiler

For the 17 - 22 range there are mostly low-level players in the Vanarama or lower leagues. First exception is F Manning at Crystal Palace. Unfortunately, he's a pretty poor GK.

Spoiler

The other exception is L Highland who is our first English playing player to opt-in to playing for Barbados! He will be a star Winger for the nation even if he doesn't develop more with that speed. With already 2 competitive games if he agrees to come to the World Cup and plays he should get nation-locked next year.

Spoiler

MLS Academy Players:

No new youngsters I could find

Caribbean Academy Players:

2 in St Lucia & numerous players in the lower Jamaican leagues. Total there are 219 Barbadians playing outside Barbados in the Carribbean

Spoiler

Other Nations:

Canda has 2 young Barbadians

Spoiler

Summary

The loss in the cup will hurt us in 2 years when we don't get any continental games, so I'll need to save money for that. Otherwise, things are going great for the club and country. next year update will be a big one to cover not just our performance but what the World Cup is like for Barbados. I am shocked in a very positive way they have qualified, and hope they get a reasonable group draw (but know it probably will be murder). I did pre-emptively sign new long contract extensions this year before my whole team plays in a world cup as their salary demands are almost certainly to go up.

Edited November 3, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[Ikthop]

8 hours ago, coyle_jp said:

I don't know if this will backfire on me as well, but im keeping all my players on Yth contracts even if they are playing 30 games a season, seems as though as soon as i've offered some of them 80-100 p/w they get unhappy with wages whereas on youth contracts they have no qualms about anything. In most of my other saves there is like a compensation fee for a buying team, so unless you produce a god, I am finding youth contracts give them 3-4 seasons of playing time before needing to actually sign them.

I've never done one of these either but its so rewarding.

I'm interested in knowing what is everyone's course of action when it comes to a youth player first contract.

What I have been doing as a semi-pro club in England is offering the players a part-time contract as soon as they show up in the youth intake day. I'm not sure if this is the optimal choice seeing how I'm only able to offer a 1 year contract. (I add a +1 year optional extension clause though, so essentially it's 2 years).

---

Decided to take a closer at what's going on in my save, and just learned something new: It appears that the younger players in the youth intake are given 1 "extra" year. Let me show some examples so it's easier to understand:

In the first intake in April/2025, the players born in 2009 ended up with their contracts expiring in June/2027, even though in-game it says "1 year" (11 months in this case, but it varies based on their birthday):

This probably happens because they are too young and need to wait until their (17th?) birthday to sign the contract.

The older players, born in 2008, ended up looking like this:

 

Again, this is in England, so I'm not sure if any of this applies to the other leagues in the game. But it looks like you can get 3 year contracts (2+1) straight away on the younger players of the intake, and 2 (1+1) for the older ones.

Edited November 3, 2023 by Ikthop

[baller94]

Anyone know the reset dates for South Africa?

[V50]

6 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2045 Season 23 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Youth Academy Challenge FM23 Thread:

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Start Post | 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 | Season 15 | Season 16 |Season 17 | Season 18 |

Youth Academy Challenge FM24 Thread:

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Season 19 |Season 20 |Season 21| 2043 Takeover |Season 22 |Carrillo Post |

Statistics Posts:

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CA Calculator 1 | CA Calculator 2 |

 League Performance: Champion

A perfect season

 

Cup Performance: Runner Up

Furious to lose the Cup on penalties after we couldn’t score in regular time after absolutely dominating the game. We missed a penalty during the match and had a goal called back by VAR. 

North American Champions League:

2044 - 2nd Round

We pulled out a surprise draw in Mexico! It was our WB-R who got the goal, which was a rare sight. Carrillo is still mad we didn’t sell him, so unsurprisingly he wasn’t his usual self.

Unfortunately, they punished us at home when our young defenders made errors they capitalized and our strikers under-scored. Damn transfer-window upset our star. We were competitive, which is the objective for the next couple years as we develop our youngsters.

2045

A great performance sees us advance out of the Group Stage to the Carribean Playoff. Helps that we were without any Jamaican oppositions.

Will save the Playoff match for the next season update against the strong Humble Lion squad we've faced multiple years now.

Reserve & U18s:

Winner Winner 

Squad:

 

Transfers:

For the first time we have noteworthily veterans leaving the club this summer.

Barry Hoyte:

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I’m letting him go on a free this summer but Barry Hoyte has been great for us as a CM and WBR. More importantly he’s broken 100 CAPs for Barbados as a key part of their midfield. He was good enough to keep in the team, but I’d rather play the high potential U18 players than continue a 30 year old squad player.

Rondelle Harte

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Other long-serving player departing this summer is Rondelle Harte who is a good WB for this level. But again, I opt for playing the younger options when I have the choice so he’s ready to move on at 30 we’ve gotten a lot of good seasons out of him.

Ramar Vaughn

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The final and most important of the old guard departing this summer is our original anchoring CB Ramar Vaughn who was our Vice Captain for many years. At 33 he’s begun his decline 

Transfers

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Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

 

Excel Tables:

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Head Coach:

 

Club Improvements:

Unfortunately, the council didn't like our stadium expansion plans so that was scrapped.

St Lucia Tycoon

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Been looking around seeing if there are any big takeovers and Big Players FC in St Lucia got a Tycoon takeover. Unfortunately for them they can’t do anything with it as the current system doesn’t let them qualify for NACL/CCC without V50s modfile. So they are sitting on tons of money. Biggest surprise to me is they are 7 years on from the takeover and are still flush with cash. 

Hopefully I can make this an affiliate club and send all my players on loan here as they have spent well to upgrade facilities to as good/better than ours and they have a tiny reputation (so should easily accept an affiliate agreement). Just need to get my board to be cool with foreign affiliates. Even with 2.5* Rep any attempt outside of Barbados fails. One day…

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

Aint broke don't fix it.

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake:

Top 3 Players:

We got 3 Very promising Players all of whom are either footed with right dominant which is interesting.
Best of the three is another Striker, but unlike my other players this guy is either footed and a Giant at 6’6”! He's also Fairly Ambitious so I see him increasing that potential and maybe even the height.

  Reveal hidden contents

I was talking about needing a CM-D and I got a great mental set up on this DM. He will go into the first team rotation for that CML-D. 

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Third is another CM who isn’t quite good at anything yet with poor natural fitness. Probably won’t make it into our team with so many other young CMs progressing well.

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Excel Tables:

 

 

Barbados National Team:

World Cup Here We Come!!!

Ignore that -10 GD 😊 Carrillo is the top scorer in the NAM WCQ with 11 goals. Pretty sure that also includes the 4 pre-qualifier games to get into the WCQs.

So I think it's a fair statement that Mexico is better than Barbados considering they outscored us 20-1 in just 3 matches. Those matches aside, Barbados put up some awesome performances against Central American teams to advance out of the Gold Cup Group stage and even more miraculously advance ahead of Haiti and Panama in the WCQ!

This is a beautiful sight. Can't wait to travel to China to see Barbados on the World Stage!

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

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Barbados Youth:

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Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

With the success recently the teams ranking has gone up substantially and we have gotten our first English playing player to opt-in to playing for Barbados! He will be a star Winger for the nation.

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-- I'll finish the rest in an edit later tonight/tomorrow ---

 

MLS Academy Players:

 

Caribbean Academy Players:

 

Other Nations:

 

Caribbean International Performance:

s

Statistics Manager:

 

Summary

I had a Saint Lucian team get a rich backer in my game too (Platinum FC, appropriately. Their backer just withdrew support though, so their team of mostly expensive Jamaicans might be in trouble!). When you loaded your FM23 game did the Caribbean qualification not come over too? Mine did;

 

Edited November 3, 2023 by V50

[HanziZoloman]

Am 2.11.2023 um 00:14 schrieb The_Gato_In_Goal:

               

Haringey Borough - Review Season 2

We managed to stay up again, so can't complain even if we took a slight step back. In the beginning of the season, we were challenging for the playoff places. Once the goals dried up and we began our 21 game winless streak, things looked more dire. Luckily we we're able to bounce back against the relegation teams and secure our safety. Oddly enough, we managed to win away to league champions Southend, one of only 3 losses on the year for them. The youth from last year didn't really take steps forward, making me think it was just a lousy intake.

In other news, a rough time for Worthing as they fail to go up despite putting up 107 points. I've never seen such a top heavy league with 5 teams over 100 points.

Crashed out of the cups this year unfortunately. I'd say it gave us time to focus on the league, but we got to focus on the winless streak instead.

Temi contiues to carry us, winning the league scoring title this year.

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Class of 2025 Update

Callum Graham 01a played in 20(12) games this season and had 7 assists. He hasn't developed much and is still too short to really make an impact.

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I gave Rayon Messam 01j 16(10) matches despite his clear technical shortcomings. I figured a tall winger with pace can play regardless of the rest of the attributes and he repaid my faith with 3 goals and 5 assists and even a Player of the Match award.

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Kenneth John 01d was the primary cover in midfield and left back, and he didn't really perform well. Got 15(9) appearances and improved a little.

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The star of the bunch was actually the Class of 2024 youth who came through the intake in the holiday year. Brian Inglis made 38 appearances, mostly starts, and averaged a 6.83 rating while developing nicely and just turning 18.

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A better intake this time around, signed the tagged players and a few of them have the potential to break into the first team in a couple years.

Managed to secure 2 more coaching courses, but no other upgrades. Finances look secure as our payroll is still relatively low and will only decrease next season.

Nothing in, but star keeper Dillon Barnes left before the season ticked over to join Dag & Red, where he earned 16 shutouts in the VNL.

Great 2nd season. Please share how you’re playing, if you don’t mind, I am always interested in the football part. 
funny the winger with TEC 1 I am almost missing the days.

[MaxeyN17]

What's the ruling on loan-backs, I assume not allowed?

Edited November 3, 2023 by MaxeyN17

[Mahzun_Savas]

Unfortunately FM crashed on me and I lost a lot of progress since the last update so I am going to start again in England.

[thomas_e]

I am sure this has been discussed, but are there any good facepack for regens out there? 

[Vakama2619]

55 minutes ago, MaxeyN17 said:

What's the ruling on loan-backs, I assume not allowed?

Not allowed

[coyle_jp]

10 hours ago, Ikthop said:

I'm interested in knowing what is everyone's course of action when it comes to a youth player first contract.

What I have been doing as a semi-pro club in England is offering the players a part-time contract as soon as they show up in the youth intake day. I'm not sure if this is the optimal choice seeing how I'm only able to offer a 1 year contract. (I add a +1 year optional extension clause though, so essentially it's 2 years).

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Decided to take a closer at what's going on in my save, and just learned something new: It appears that the younger players in the youth intake are given 1 "extra" year. Let me show some examples so it's easier to understand:

In the first intake in April/2025, the players born in 2009 ended up with their contracts expiring in June/2027, even though in-game it says "1 year" (11 months in this case, but it varies based on their birthday):

This probably happens because they are too young and need to wait until their (17th?) birthday to sign the contract.

The older players, born in 2008, ended up looking like this:

 

Again, this is in England, so I'm not sure if any of this applies to the other leagues in the game. But it looks like you can get 3 year contracts (2+1) straight away on the younger players of the intake, and 2 (1+1) for the older ones.

If you just wait until they play the candidate game and sign them, you get them on a youth contract that lasts until they are like 19, that was my new CB from this intake.

Until I was promoted to the top divisions I was playing all my youth players on 1 p/w.

He's on 10 p/w for 3 years and as they are under contract it appears I am able to decline offers on them.

So I only offer a contract after this youth contract if they are worth signing.

[Winski]

59 minutes ago, thomas_e said:

I am sure this has been discussed, but are there any good facepack for regens out there? 

I'm using the facepacks from "View From The Touchline".

Edited November 3, 2023 by Winski