The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[SuperRedditch]

This is perhaps the most monumentally stupid idea I've ever witnessed.

 

 

Oh GREAT idea. Let's spend money we don't have, on a new stadium we don't need which has a capacity 9500 LESS THAN OUR CURRENT ONE. What the $^%("£(^!? We wont be able to build a bigger one for 25 years. Seriously, this has killed my desire to carry on this save.

We're £500k in the red already. I haven't been able to get a single coaching badge because we cant afford it and the board are off spending millions on a stadium 20% the size of our existing one.

[Gonner]

il y a 7 minutes, SuperRedditch a dit :

This is perhaps the most monumentally stupid idea I've ever witnessed.

 

 

Oh GREAT idea. Let's spend money we don't have, on a new stadium we don't need which has a capacity 9500 LESS THAN OUR CURRENT ONE. What the $^%("£(^!? We wont be able to build a bigger one for 25 years. Seriously, this has killed my desire to carry on this save.

We're £500k in the red already. I haven't been able to get a single coaching badge because we cant afford it and the board are off spending millions on a stadium 20% the size of our existing one.

That's quite the amount of money for such a small stadium... I feel your pain.

[Gonner]

il y a 29 minutes, the_hdk a dit :

Transfer History

Well I already teased you guys. But we did it. Won the Asian Champions League. The Dutch Total Football has landed  in Mie. We also won our second championship. Only Urawa was in the run together with us. We did not manage to get a cup in the end besides the SuperCup. Took us 12 seasons in the end.

IMAZEKI was sold and replaced by the soon to be wonderkid KATAYAMA at age of 16. Dude grew up to 4 stars and had 22 goals in 36 games and took teh TopScorer title at age of 16. Japan will def enjoy him for a while. In our last season EL ARABI sneaked into the first team. The now 18 year is already a player of under-21 of Dutchies. And still alot to learn. NAKAMOTO was the our main goaly and only player to be a regular in Japanese national team. Has already 16 caps.

Fiorentina with a surprise title there.

Sale of IMAZEKI

 

Second Championship.

 

Cool new overview in FM24. Really love this kind of detail.

 

 

CL Final

We had an easy 3-0 win at hime.

Away was even easier. 4-0. We dominated them. ASHTON in the end with MoM. Was a very anti-climatic final. Also I forgot asia had a two-leggeg final :D. So I was celabrating and than thought I missed the ceremony just to see there was a game to go.

Celabrations!

 

Last Youth intake.

No Foreign intake. MARAOKA looks good. Will probbly have gotten into the first team eventually.

 

Thats it for Veertien Mie. I'm going to take an FM break for a few weeks. And maybe try to tackle this challange again in few months.

Congrats ! That was quick  

[SuperRedditch]

Congrats @the_hdk

[Colossus]

41 minutos atrás, SuperRedditch disse:

This is perhaps the most monumentally stupid idea I've ever witnessed.

 

 

Oh GREAT idea. Let's spend money we don't have, on a new stadium we don't need which has a capacity 9500 LESS THAN OUR CURRENT ONE. What the $^%("£(^!? We wont be able to build a bigger one for 25 years. Seriously, this has killed my desire to carry on this save.

We're £500k in the red already. I haven't been able to get a single coaching badge because we cant afford it and the board are off spending millions on a stadium 20% the size of our existing one.

Oh, trust me, this 100% tracks with football clubs in Portugal.

 

Also, hasn't the time to build a new stadium been changed to 10 years now?

[BustaRaymes]

1 hour ago, the_hdk said:

Transfer History

Well I already teased you guys. But we did it. Won the Asian Champions League. The Dutch Total Football has landed  in Mie. We also won our second championship. Only Urawa was in the run together with us. We did not manage to get a cup in the end besides the SuperCup. Took us 12 seasons in the end.

IMAZEKI was sold and replaced by the soon to be wonderkid KATAYAMA at age of 16. Dude grew up to 4 stars and had 22 goals in 36 games and took teh TopScorer title at age of 16. Japan will def enjoy him for a while. In our last season EL ARABI sneaked into the first team. The now 18 year is already a player of under-21 of Dutchies. And still alot to learn. NAKAMOTO was the our main goaly and only player to be a regular in Japanese national team. Has already 16 caps.

Fiorentina with a surprise title there.

Sale of IMAZEKI

 

Second Championship.

 

Cool new overview in FM24. Really love this kind of detail.

 

 

CL Final

We had an easy 3-0 win at hime.

Away was even easier. 4-0. We dominated them. ASHTON in the end with MoM. Was a very anti-climatic final. Also I forgot asia had a two-leggeg final :D. So I was celabrating and than thought I missed the ceremony just to see there was a game to go.

Celabrations!

 

Last Youth intake.

No Foreign intake. MARAOKA looks good. Will probbly have gotten into the first team eventually.

 

Thats it for Veertien Mie. I'm going to take an FM break for a few weeks. And maybe try to tackle this challange again in few months.

Congratulations man! What a run!

[SuperRedditch]

 

Leça FC
Season 3 - 2026/27
Liga 3 North First Stage - 1st
Promotion Stage - 5th

 

 

The Intake

 

 

 

They're all bad. Seriously not worth showing. Winger with Crossing 4 and Dribbling 5 levels of bad. Awful intake.

Next Season

With such a disappointing intake, the insane decision to move stadium, the complete lack of money, we're just treading water. At my lowest ebb now - I don't know how to dig out of this.

 

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, SuperRedditch said:

This is perhaps the most monumentally stupid idea I've ever witnessed.

 

 

Oh GREAT idea. Let's spend money we don't have, on a new stadium we don't need which has a capacity 9500 LESS THAN OUR CURRENT ONE. What the $^%("£(^!? We wont be able to build a bigger one for 25 years. Seriously, this has killed my desire to carry on this save.

We're £500k in the red already. I haven't been able to get a single coaching badge because we cant afford it and the board are off spending millions on a stadium 20% the size of our existing one.

Brutal, there has to be something in the game's coding that pushes these clubs to want to abandon old real stadiums. 

[WhiteCat33]

congrats @the_hdk! Enjoyed your first story of youth glory

[Winski]

Well done, @the_hdk!! It was a great story!

[the_hdk]

Thanks guys.  Japan is also a great country for the challange, although once you are enstablished than winning the CL is quite easy (seems).

and veertien mie was a great fun. Next year when I visit Japan i'm going to try to buy a jersey

[WhiteCat33]

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2051 Season 29 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Spoiler

Youth Academy Challenge FM23 Thread:

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:

Season 19 |Season 20 |Season 21| 2043 Takeover |Season 22 |Carrillo Post |Season 23 |Season 24|Season 25 | Season 26 |Season 27|

Statistics Posts:

CA Calculator 1 | CA Calculator 2 |CA Calculator v5 Download |Mentoring Post |

 

League Performance: CHAMPION

 While we are still comfortably winning the league its nice to see that BDFSP are slowly coming back into a competetitive side. It helps that the Barbadian BFA is ranked 3rd in North America! 

Spoiler

Cup Performance: CHAMPION

The Barbadian FA was kind this time and let me postpone the cup final for almost a whole month to put it past the Gold Cup. I'm sure the opposition wasn't happy about it as we obliterated them with our rested first team.

North American Champions League:

2050

Caribbean Zone:

This was a tough group and we just barely won our games against Cibao and Humble Lion.

Caribbean Playoff:

 We blew Waterhourse out 5-0 in the first leg at home in Barbados, so I was able to take some punches in Jamaica and still exit the tie with a nice 5-2 Agg victory.

NACL 2nd Round

 In Mexico it was the opposition for once that had a 91' defensive lapse for us to absolutely steal a 1-0 victory. This was crucial as when they came to Barbados even though we got an early 2-0 lead their lethal offense clawed the game back to 2-2. Thankfully my ramshackle defense held on for dear life and we made it through!

Spoiler

Made it through the 2^nd Leg against Leon! Clutch was a 91’ goal in the away leg to win 1-0. We almost blew a 3-0 Agg lead in the 2^nd leg as my defenders got exhausted and their fresh strikers were just lighting us up. But we manage to hold on long enough to keep our 1 goal advantage. Carrillo was off for both games even missing a penalty kick, but his protégé Nurse made up for it.

NACL Quarter Final

 Absolute heartbreak for us here. In Mexico we were soundly defeated 3-1, but the 3rd goal was a careless defensive tackle in the box gifting them a penalty. With a 2 goal deficit to climb our fearless leader of the line Carrillo and his protege Nurse put 3 past their keeper, but of course they got 1 past ours for a deadlocked 4-4 with the same number of Away Goals. In the NACL there is no Extra Time so it went straight to a shootout where we lost 5-4 with our set piece taker flubbing his shot and our keeper failing to stop any of theirs.

Spoiler

Only downside is my Italian DM is out for the next game on a Yellow Card suspension, and its away in Mexico so this will be difficult. First leg we got absolutely wrecked in Mexico and were very lucky to find an away goal to just lose 3-1. It easily could have been 5-0. Second leg we took off running with 2 goals in 12 minutes with both our pressing forwards scoring so the tie was level and we were ahead on goal differential! Unfortunately, 23’ they get one back on us after we had a goal called off for offsides. Stern halftime talk sees us come out guns blazing with a Carrillo goal in the 48’. Now the game is exactly level. And though we put the pressure on them it held that to the end of regular time.

In the NACL it goes straight to penalties, and unsurprisingly they win it 5-4 as our first taker was stopped. Real shame as we looked so good in this second leg.

NACL Semi-Final

NACL Final

Yet again, the opposition that knocks us out makes it to the final.

Reserve & U18s:

Our Reserve side was invited back to Italy, and this time we edged out Juve youths to win our group on goal differential.

Unfortunately, our run ended immediately after falling to BRG, who even with unloaded leagues are still producing steller Portuguese youngsters.

Squad:

 We now have 3 strikers, 1 DM and 1 GK who are at the level of the Mexican clubs who we are battling it out against every year in the NACL. Only Carrillo is old, with the other 4 25 or under.

Transfers:

 Nothing significant.

Spoiler

Best XI: 

Excel Tables:

Head Coach:

 First International Job offer

Club Improvements:

Finished the stadium expansion & Training Facility Upgrades 

Spoiler

For all these stadium upgrades I've been relying on the Board taking out loans. Taking a look at them they are actually being competent for once getting financing! According to Interest Rate Calculator (financialmentor.com)   Our most recent 10 year loan for $2M is only at a 3.47% Interest Rate. 50k monthly payments is totally manageable when we are bringing in over 300k in Gate Receipts per match.

Facilities:

Spoiler

Youth Academy:

HOYD:

Youth Intake Preview: Pain incoming...

Youth Intake: Yet another GK...

Top 3 Players:

And the best is…Another GK. If he was any other position this level of ability would be fine, but for the 3rd year in a row we’ve generated a GK as well as our academy has a poached GK in England, so enough with the GKs already!

Followed by a pretty poor midfielder and a bad personality left back. The rest is truly awful. And this academy produced a 120 CA player last year?

Excel Tables:

Here is where the CA Calculator is helpful as even though this intake is rated trash, and the stars are all trash, the top player is actually at the level we should be expecting out of this academy. Just don't make it a GK next time please!!

I've been tinkering in excel and have built a new slew of graphs. The first two pairs are tracking the number of players in each intake who have a minimum level of Professionalism, Ambition and determination. As a reminder, while Determination is the actual number shown, for Professionalism and Ambition I'm taking the middle of the possible range their Personality + Media Handling sets.

Greater than 10 (Excluding)

This is basically showing how many players are at least partially competent mentally and have a realistic chance of being mentored into okay personalities (the "Fairlies") at this mature stage of the save.

15 or Greater (Including)

This is important because 15 is the value at which you can expect to get optimal development out of players. here we see the worrying trend of these lines falling with my new HOYD even though he is a Model Citizen. Granted, it's still way too early in his time at the club (3 Intakes) to draw any conclusions. 

I then Graphed the full intake Determination Averages again.

And finally have started to visualize the CA ranges that the intakes are producing.  The first graph plots each of the top 5 players in the intake and then has a line for the CA of these players averaged together. The second stacked bar graph then shows the changing distribution of the 15 CA ranges I (arbitrarily) set up. The first gives me insight into the progress of the top-talent production of the academy [which is what matters most in a small nation save like Barbados]. The second shows the depth of the talent production. 

Barbados National Team:

Barbados had the Gold Cup this year, how did it go? While they did very well to advance to the tournament proper, it was a poor showing that saw them tossed out at the group stage. In the Fall Nations League returns with what should be a easily winnable group considering they just beat Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Gold Cup.

Spoiler

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

 

Barbados Youth:

Summary

This really should have been our year and that penalty defeat hurt. Unfortunately, the machine that is Carrillo is starting to show his age and has begun declining in the latter half of this year. Next year he will still be more than quick enough to perform at his regular level, but he doesn't have many years left to see a NACL Final. Next year we will have our new young star GK fully ready for the big stage and hopefully he can make up for our woefully inadequate central defenders. Can we do it next year to send off Carrillo on a high?

Edited November 14, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[Neo_Geo]

2 hours ago, SuperRedditch said:

This is perhaps the most monumentally stupid idea I've ever witnessed.

 

 

Oh GREAT idea. Let's spend money we don't have, on a new stadium we don't need which has a capacity 9500 LESS THAN OUR CURRENT ONE. What the $^%("£(^!? We wont be able to build a bigger one for 25 years. Seriously, this has killed my desire to carry on this save.

We're £500k in the red already. I haven't been able to get a single coaching badge because we cant afford it and the board are off spending millions on a stadium 20% the size of our existing one.

Must be golden toilets installed for Directors only I guess 

That's just horrendous mismanagement, feels like a bug to be honest.

I'd be in the same position as you questioning whether to carry on as thats going to make it much harder financially.

[Neo_Geo]

2 hours ago, the_hdk said:

Transfer History

Well I already teased you guys. But we did it. Won the Asian Champions League. The Dutch Total Football has landed  in Mie. We also won our second championship. Only Urawa was in the run together with us. We did not manage to get a cup in the end besides the SuperCup. Took us 12 seasons in the end.

IMAZEKI was sold and replaced by the soon to be wonderkid KATAYAMA at age of 16. Dude grew up to 4 stars and had 22 goals in 36 games and took teh TopScorer title at age of 16. Japan will def enjoy him for a while. In our last season EL ARABI sneaked into the first team. The now 18 year is already a player of under-21 of Dutchies. And still alot to learn. NAKAMOTO was the our main goaly and only player to be a regular in Japanese national team. Has already 16 caps.

Fiorentina with a surprise title there.

Sale of IMAZEKI

 

Second Championship.

 

Cool new overview in FM24. Really love this kind of detail.

 

 

CL Final

We had an easy 3-0 win at hime.

Away was even easier. 4-0. We dominated them. ASHTON in the end with MoM. Was a very anti-climatic final. Also I forgot asia had a two-leggeg final :D. So I was celabrating and than thought I missed the ceremony just to see there was a game to go.

Celabrations!

 

Last Youth intake.

No Foreign intake. MARAOKA looks good. Will probbly have gotten into the first team eventually.

 

Thats it for Veertien Mie. I'm going to take an FM break for a few weeks. And maybe try to tackle this challange again in few months.

Get in @the_hdk 

Great backdrop to the save and truly well deserved.

Time for a break or for the next country? 

[the_hdk]

14 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

Get in @the_hdk 

Great backdrop to the save and truly well deserved.

Time for a break or for the next country? 

thanks!. def a break. want to play a bit with my hometown club (Widzew Lodz). and maybe in jan/feb I will start a new save

[JAwtunes]

Congrats @the_hdk 👏👏

[JAwtunes]

3 minutes ago, the_hdk said:

thanks!. def a break. want to play a bit with my hometown club (Widzew Lodz). and maybe in jan/feb I will start a new save

That's my team in Poland thanks to a YAC save a few yrs back. I still check in on them from time to time.  This picture was a Christmas present from a couple of yrs ago and sits just above my monitor.

[darren1983]

3 hours ago, the_hdk said:

Transfer History

Well I already teased you guys. But we did it. Won the Asian Champions League. The Dutch Total Football has landed  in Mie. We also won our second championship. Only Urawa was in the run together with us. We did not manage to get a cup in the end besides the SuperCup. Took us 12 seasons in the end.

IMAZEKI was sold and replaced by the soon to be wonderkid KATAYAMA at age of 16. Dude grew up to 4 stars and had 22 goals in 36 games and took teh TopScorer title at age of 16. Japan will def enjoy him for a while. In our last season EL ARABI sneaked into the first team. The now 18 year is already a player of under-21 of Dutchies. And still alot to learn. NAKAMOTO was the our main goaly and only player to be a regular in Japanese national team. Has already 16 caps.

Fiorentina with a surprise title there.

Sale of IMAZEKI

 

Second Championship.

 

Cool new overview in FM24. Really love this kind of detail.

 

 

CL Final

We had an easy 3-0 win at hime.

Away was even easier. 4-0. We dominated them. ASHTON in the end with MoM. Was a very anti-climatic final. Also I forgot asia had a two-leggeg final :D. So I was celabrating and than thought I missed the ceremony just to see there was a game to go.

Celabrations!

 

Last Youth intake.

No Foreign intake. MARAOKA looks good. Will probbly have gotten into the first team eventually.

 

Thats it for Veertien Mie. I'm going to take an FM break for a few weeks. And maybe try to tackle this challange again in few months.

Congrats on the first completion of FM 24 - 8 days after the game actually came out  

[the_hdk]

13 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

That's my team in Poland thanks to a YAC save a few yrs back. I still check in on them from time to time.  This picture was a Christmas present from a couple of yrs ago and sits just above my monitor.

ohh thats amazing I grew up close to the stadium before moving to the netherlands.

[andershs]

Macclesfield FC (England)
Season 3 - 2026/27 - VNL

 

I am really liking this save, and it means I am currently going through some matches. This was the year, when reality caught up with us somewhat. The retirement of our central midfield and the ageing of other key players meant, that the performance levels dropped considerably. 

League (Results 1, Results 2, Cups, League Chart) - We managed a midtable finish again. That is very acceptable. Even though we finished only one place lower than last year, this is not the full picture. We struggled far more, which can also be seen in the league chart.
The retiring players in midfield and other key players in decline, meant, that we had to embed youth prospects from our first intakes into the squad. It is probably a season or two too soon, and we haven't got any really obvious replacements in midfield. So far the major talents have been in defense and offense.
We started poorly. Had a decent late autumn and winter until december, had a bad spell in January and February and ended the season relatively fine. But we survived, and started the transition from original players to regens, which can be tough.

Team (Details) - Youth prospects have started to make their mark. Conor O'Keefe is still our best goalkeeper, but at 31 he is starting to decline. Without him though, we would be far worse off. Lewis Fensome, Alex Hurst and Kane Drummond are still key players for us. 
In midfield Dieter Bickerdike had a decent season after breaking through last year, but is average rating of 6.94 really says everything about our season. Tosin Kypriadis was also used in midfield, mostly out of necessity, but he has the potential. Three players are really standing out:
Exaucé Binguila in defense. He came through last years intake and has developed rapidly. It still does not show in his average ratings, but I put that down to his young age. The same can be said about our first-choice right back Alan Corcoran. They are improving quickly and are just very good.
One where both development and performances go hand in hand is Reece Ord. Topscorer and with most assists, he is just very good and without his goals, we would be in even more trouble.

Facilities - I managed to get Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment improved again. They are now Excellent and Good, respectively. Very nice, indeed. Furthermore, due to our excellent and growing balance, I asked for training facility improvements. They should we finished by the end of october next season.
Hopefully, that will help the youngsters develop even more.

Finances - With the improved training facilities and youth upgrades, we are still making a profit each month. That is lovely. This is down to us being second in the league wrt. average attendance (5.045) and a capacity crowd of 6.031 actually turned up for our final match of the season against Hartlepool.
That is our main source of income, and still enough to more than cancel out the growing expenses for youth facilities and player wages.

Youth Intake (Dev. Centre) - Given the many youth intake upgrades, I was expecting a bit more. A decent intake without being as good as last years. And even though the players are at first not look that exciting, they tend to become really good, due to the youth intake upgrades. Steve Loveland looks like 
our future striker. D'Arcy Raglan looks like a solid prospect in central defense and David Kinsey, Jonathan Morgan and Daniel Chandler all look promising.

No Transfers in.

Goal for next season: Survive again. Hopefully, the youngsters that has come into the team this season can continue to improve, and we can raise the performance levels a bit.

 

Edited November 14, 2023 by andershs

[Virtual Male]

Season 11 2034/35

Manager Profile - Competitions - Facilities - Finances

Competitions

• Sky Bet League One (Past Positions) - I was hoping for a largely forgettable season and for the first half of the season that was looking likely as we bounced around between 10th-18th, A serious injury to my only competent right winger in early December meant some tactical changes and we started playing a wonky 4-2-2-2 that I really didn't like the look of but it seemed to work as we climbed up the table and into the play-off spots. In what could possibly be the most entertaining play-off games in history we managed to beat Luton 9-4 over two legs before heading to Wembley to face Preston, that game was a goal fest too ending 5-3 in our favour! So it's the Championship next season, I don't think that the team has the quality to survive but I've thought that the last few seasons too and look how that's gone.
• 
• The Emirates FA Cup - A lucky run in the FA Cup saw us getting drawn against lower league opponents all the way to the 5th round where we faced eventual Premier League champions Tottenham Hotspur who made light work of us.
• Carabao Cup - Out early against Wolves
• EFL Trophy - Really disappointed with this, we should have been able to get out of the group at least but in the end didn't pick up a single point. 

Squad

• 
• The team is looking okay, I guess. A little light in places but most positions have someone coming through that has a fair amount of potential, could have really done with another season in League 1 but I can't really complain about getting promoted can I.

 

• 
• Alun Duckett was one of the main reasons that we did as well as we did this year, he ended the season as the leagues top scorer and I'm hoping that he'll be able to score enough to keep us up next season. We scored a lot of goals as a team this season and broke the leagues scoring record by a distance this year and we needed to since we conceded the 2nd most goals too.

 

• 
• Ryan Astley League One Player of the Season! I know I talk about him every season and even though he doesn't actually look that good he just keep preforming well, 36G/A in 39 league games leaves him within touching distance of hitting 400 league appearances and 200 league goals for the club, further cementing himself as a club legend. 

 

Youth Intake (Preview) - what looked to be a decent preview ended up being a somewhat underwhelming intake, maybe I've just been spoilt in the last few years though. I think a number of these guys could go on to become squad depth players but it doesn't look like anyone has the potential to play a huge part in taking the club forwards.

• 

 

• 
• Jordan Evans looks to be the pick of the bunch, not a great personality but fairly well rounded so hopefully he'll be able to develop well with a little mentoring.

Transfers & Finances  - Sam Jones (2029YP1) became the clubs biggest sale when the chairman made a decision for me, it ended up being a good deal for us though and all of the optional fees were quicky met meaning the full £10.5m was received. The other out was David Gregory (2033YP2) who left for Brighton for £2m and 50% of future profits, this was a sale I'd have really rather didn't happen but when 16 Premier League teams are bidding on a player from League 1 there's not much you can do apart from take the money. I'm hoping that since he's gone to a lower mid-table team he'll be moving on again sooner rather than later and with a current value of £32-£40m we're in for quite a payday. 

The finances are looking fairly healthy now, I don't expect that to remain like that though since facility upgrades are starting to get more expensive now and the wage bill is inflating as we go through the leagues.

Other - We put the transfer income to good use and upgraded both the youth(1, 2) and training (1, 2) facilities twice! The board also agreed to send me off for my next coaching badge, only 1 more to go!

Bingo Card - I think I got another 5 marked off this season, mainly due to the sale of Sam Jones topping £10m. 23/100.

• 

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Congratd @the_hdk, the Dutch touch was really cool to follow along with!

[The Chairman Plays]

Bjelovar is.....over

 

So I think this save was one and half season long. I was hyped after first season but when we did turn back to semi-pro all the problems started. Players started to moan about training and morale was dropping like water on stormy night! November was last straw to me. We didn't win a single game scoring only two and conceeding ton! 

 

I was hoping the takeover because there was rumours and we had second embargo but nothing happened

 

 

Also finances were lot on red so that's the other thing why i'm starting this over somewhere else!

[The7Striker]

4 horas atrás, SuperRedditch disse:

This is perhaps the most monumentally stupid idea I've ever witnessed.

 

 

Oh GREAT idea. Let's spend money we don't have, on a new stadium we don't need which has a capacity 9500 LESS THAN OUR CURRENT ONE. What the $^%("£(^!? We wont be able to build a bigger one for 25 years. Seriously, this has killed my desire to carry on this save.

We're £500k in the red already. I haven't been able to get a single coaching badge because we cant afford it and the board are off spending millions on a stadium 20% the size of our existing one.

Ouch

It reminded me of my save at Arosa in FM23, where the board spent 5M in the third division. 

[OlivierL]

4 hours ago, the_hdk said:

 

Great job and i loved your banner(s) and poem !

[HanziZoloman]

Congratulations @the_hdk

[XaW]

Congrats @the_hdk! Great job! 

@SuperRedditch - There is no hard 25 year limit anymore, it was removed years ago. Even back in FM19 when I completed this with Kettering, my board built two stadiums in 7 years. So even if it's a dumb idea by the board, you aren't screwed out of a new stadium anyway.

[Colossus]

I am thinking of just reseting and getting another basque based team. With us spending just 10k a month on wages. my prediction for us to climb out of the red is 4 years, and all of that comes down to the sponsorship money.

 

I still can't believe that we were spending 120k a month when I arrived on the team, it was just not sustainable

Edited November 14, 2023 by Colossus

[libbyshuss]

Congratualtions @the_hdk! i think i'll be quite a way behind you!

 

Japan - Honda FC/Haneda/Machida Corriente

Division J1 - 2033 (season 10)

So I decided to install the real name fix as the changed names were starting to annoy me. it had the weird knock on effect of renaming us Haneda for some reason. So we're now Haneda!

Objective: put up a good title defence, get back into the champions league!

Season Summary

Well, if i wasn't sure if last seasons title win was a fluke 6 games in I was. we'd lost 4 of them! We recovered quite well from that bad start and got back up to 5th before a terrible finish saw us win only 2 of the last 9. In the end we finished 8th, out of the champions league places

 

Champions League

Group stage only in this season! and we qualified, but got our butts kicked by Suwon Bluewings of Korea, which shows just how far we have to go. and guess who we got in the second round? Bluewings!

 

Youth

A nice looking preview which makes up for the disappointing intakes last couple of seasons

and the intake? pretty, pretty good

Another good looking striker means I'll probably be keeping my 4-1-2-3 formation for a little while longer. He looks good too, apart from the pace...

 

Career

I need to get back into the CL places but I'm worried that title win was a Japanese Leicester City. We'll see!

[The7Striker]

11 minutos atrás, Colossus disse:

I am thinking of just reseting and getting another basque based team. With us spending just 10k a month on wages. my prediction for us to climb out of the red is 4 years, and all of that comes down to the sponsorship money.

 

I still can't believe that we were spending 120k a month when I arrived on the team, it was just not sustainable

To be fair, until you reach LaLiga2 you will be in the red most times. TV money is around 50k per season and players wont value that much.

You might get some luck if you have some good basque and Athletic bid for him.

[Colossus]

Agora, The7Striker disse:

To be fair, until you reach LaLiga2 you will be in the red most times. TV money is around 50k per season and players wont value that much.

You might get some luck if you have some good basque and Athletic bid for him.

Oh yeah, I know, but the fact that we lost more than 1M in the 1st season and had to go from Professional to Semi-Pro really put a dent on my willingness to do the save. (we are 900k on the red at the moment, for example, with me just slashing every single legacy player that we had and cutting the wage bill to a tenth of what it was) But I will try to at least put the team slightly better financially

[HanziZoloman]

"I'm still here ..." Earl of Grey

The year 2053 - Age Earl of Grey 71

Guess they found no replacement. It's a flashback from the first 20 years, a horrible season with a lot of defeats, with penalties against us in every single game. The board put some extra challenges like improving the dressing room atmosphere and the Earl just focused on that. Losing or winning didn't matter anymore. He talked to his players every single game. He praised for goals, he criticized for playing badly, he praised conduct, hold team meetings and the team met every week for breakfast and stuff (team bonding). It worked as he won a new contract. The Earl will go down to EFL2 and build new. A lot of players have to leave us, due to lacking quality like Millie Potter (good bye ol' chap) or James Beckett our spirited captain. Some because of relegation release clauses, some due to greed. The club is now big red, the adventure has cost some money but also full of eager youngsters. The U18s won the double. 

Player of the year: Chris Griffith "If everything around you is dark, look again, you may be the light." He scored some winners and equalizers, he was always positive and reliable. The 25 yo even managed to grind out some points in attributes. He is now the successor of Mr Ricay of guys like Rhys Platt, Inih Sole, Tyrone Roberts and our lazy jumper the icon John Flannery. Earl of Grey on the other hand became a club legend and rightly so.

"The King is dead. Long live the king!"

Spoiler

 

[OlivierL]

After a week full of doubts and because belgium remains unplayable, I looked for external help to choose a country.. Country Picker Wheel

Above three European countries came out of the hat , two of them I wanted to play effectively (France but of course also my favourite country Iceland!)

No way back ! Iceland here we go !

Edited November 14, 2023 by OlivierL

[Perre8]

goodluck @OlivierL

unfinished business up there!

[Neo_Geo]

@OlivierL yessssssss!

Looking forward to this one 

[XaW]

8 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

I know it's a meme, but it's much easier when you know how the Scandi languages break down words. Eyja-fjalla-jökull. A bit easier when it's broken up. It means Island-mountain-glacier, just combined into a single word!  

Also: Good luck! 

[Winski]

Good luck, @OlivierL!! Looking forward to your story!

[SuperRedditch]

Based on what a few of you have said (thank you btw), I'm continuing my save. I'm enjoying Portugal, I think I've just gotta get through this first wall.

Had a bit of a brainwave, too.

 

 

Free money and will actually get us into the black for the first time this save.

[HanziZoloman]

vor 10 Minuten schrieb XaW:

I know it's a meme, but it's much easier when you know how the Scandi languages break down words. Eyja-fjalla-jökull. A bit easier when it's broken up. It means Island-mountain-glacier, just combined into a single word!  

Also: Good luck! 

Good to know but the meme‘s more fun 

@SuperRedditch niiiiice!! 
Btw I am always interested in tactics 

Edited November 14, 2023 by HanziZoloman

[Colossus]

Sociedad Deportiva Leioa

Mid Season Update / Youth Intake Preview

 

Gorka Alberdi has been truly immense, but he dislocated his shoulder and we just saw our form drop.

 

A quality starting GK would be huge, let's see what we can get in April

[Potat]

Saint David's Cricket Club Warriors

Bermuda

Heavily inspired by @WhiteCat33 in Barbados, I thought I'd reinstall FM23, download a Caribbean/Central American database, and see how far and wide I can spread the players of a small island nation after importing the save to the current game.

After searching through the Caribbean looking for a suitable nation I settled in Bermuda, an island of 62k population, 2 football leagues, 20 teams, and using a format that didn't hurt my brain trying to understand.

The aim... win the North American Champions League and see how successful Bermudian players can become worldwide.

I've just finished season 3 and delayed posting anything as I wasn't sure A) If it would be eligible B) If it was even working as intended C) If it would remain interesting short/long term. (if it's not eligible I'll just hold off on the updates)

Picking the Team

Manager Profile | Club Profile

As there is no relegation from the second division in Bermuda I holidayed forward a season and took over the team that finished bottom of that season, in this case, St Davids Warriors (my local team... kinda). I took over an amateur team of greyed-out players, 3 actual players, and 5 academy players from that season's intake.

Update

After 2 promotions, 1 relegation, 4 takeovers, and a total of 5 clean sheets across 3 years we are back in the top flight.

Season 1 Results | Season 2 Results | Season 3 Results

Youth Intakes

Season 1 Intake | Season 2 Intake | Season 3 Intake

Considering the level of players at the club I'm not all too surprised with the amount of 4 and 5-star ability players we've got through, especially as they all drop as soon as the next intake comes in.

Best Prospects

Daz Butterfield-Steede  | Kole Smith | John Castle

The best of the players to come through so far, 5-star ability and are so clear of everyone else that the rest of the squad is 2.5 stars or lower.

Finance and Facilities

Current Facilities | Finances

The board here is very generous and over the first 3 seasons have allowed me to fully upgrade the youth recruitment and get a good upgrade to the junior coaching too, leaving us with the best youth system in Bermuda (that's not saying much though)

Transfers

Literally nothing, unsurprisingly no one wants Bermudian teenagers, as the good ones have part-time contracts and the bad ones are so bad I can't even give them away, I keep everyone to fill the reserves and U18 team anyway.

Academy Player Stats

Club Stats

Overview

 

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2023 by Potat

[Ron_Swanson]

[FM23] Reymersholms IK - season 5 - 2027

Not so great preview but actual intake looks decent. There are new starting DL and ST, shame they're both unambitious

Very close situation in table. We were trying to at least reach playoffs but july hit us in the face. Abdoulie Jabang scored 23 goals - that was a really nice way to say goodbye. Bad news is we are going to lose another 3 good players for the same reason - they will be free agents in a year - James Dahlberg, Hugo Anderberg and Neo Lind. It's time for my HoYD to work some magic and find replacements. We also debuted in Swedish Cup, lost in 2nd round but earned some cash thanks to that.

Right at the begining of the season I asked for upgrades. I think this is where I'll stop until we get promoted to 2nd tier. We're losing money due to higher youth setup costs and we can't afford more now. I hope that quality of youngsters will be good enough to slowly build a team.

[Colossus]

 

It's almost as if FM knew that I was thinking of restarting

[Vakama2619]

8 hours ago, the_hdk said:

Transfer History

Well I already teased you guys. But we did it. Won the Asian Champions League. The Dutch Total Football has landed  in Mie. We also won our second championship. Only Urawa was in the run together with us. We did not manage to get a cup in the end besides the SuperCup. Took us 12 seasons in the end.

IMAZEKI was sold and replaced by the soon to be wonderkid KATAYAMA at age of 16. Dude grew up to 4 stars and had 22 goals in 36 games and took teh TopScorer title at age of 16. Japan will def enjoy him for a while. In our last season EL ARABI sneaked into the first team. The now 18 year is already a player of under-21 of Dutchies. And still alot to learn. NAKAMOTO was the our main goaly and only player to be a regular in Japanese national team. Has already 16 caps.

Fiorentina with a surprise title there.

Sale of IMAZEKI

 

Second Championship.

 

Cool new overview in FM24. Really love this kind of detail.

 

 

CL Final

We had an easy 3-0 win at hime.

Away was even easier. 4-0. We dominated them. ASHTON in the end with MoM. Was a very anti-climatic final. Also I forgot asia had a two-leggeg final :D. So I was celabrating and than thought I missed the ceremony just to see there was a game to go.

Celabrations!

 

Last Youth intake.

No Foreign intake. MARAOKA looks good. Will probbly have gotten into the first team eventually.

 

Thats it for Veertien Mie. I'm going to take an FM break for a few weeks. And maybe try to tackle this challange again in few months.

Congrats! @the_hdk

[andershs]

Macclesfield FC (England)
Season 4 - 2027/28 - VNL

 

I haven't caught up with my sudden burst of FM-inspiration. With this update, I am up to speed with the in game date and events.

We are a midtable National League team. And a pretty steady and stable one in fact. We got a point more than last year, but finished 15th. Somehow, the defeats were better distributed, such that it seemed, that we never got into a really tough period.
Moreover, contrary to other youth challenge saves I have done, I sold my most talented striker once the bigger clubs started circling without much of a fight. I have previously been locked in continuous battle with my star players when holding them against their will, and I wanted to avoid the negative effect on the morale, and I had another talent that could take over.

League (Results 1, Results 2, Cups, League Chart) - Another midtable finish. This time in a slighty poorer position 15th. We won a point more than last year though, and with the talent we are incorporating in the squad, and the the talent coming through the youth intakes, I am hopeful
that this is just the low point before we start improving once the young players develop further. I might be wrong though. No cup run to speak of.

Team (Details) - We still have a group of original players in the team. But they are getting older and challenged more and more by our increasingly talented youth players. Conor O'Keefe is still just our best goalkeeper. He is 32 now, and his ability dropped to two stars after the season.
I am tempted to begin to play my new goalkeeper from this years intake Astley Rawson as he is almost as good already. But he is only 16, so I will probably wait a season unless O'Keefe cannot keep up during the season. Alex Hurst, Brandon Lee and Lewis Fensome are also part of this group, as 
are Kane Drummond who had a good season. But the young players are stealing the spotlight. Dieter Bickerdike had a player of the year season in midfield with 14 goals and 6 assists. Nicky Payne and Tosin Kypriadis continued their development while Exaucé Binguila, Alan Corcoran and Steve Loveland are 
easily my best players in the squad. So the bottomline is, that the talented youngster are gradually forcing their way into the team. That is really satisfying.
In January, just before the transfer deadline, I sold my best striker Reece Ord (season 2, 2025/26 intake) the first time bigger clubs started bidding. To Bristol City in the Premier League. He was my best striker, no doubt and contributed with 13 goals this season, but I get 50% of the next sales amount, and I was always fighting a loosing
battle keeping hold of him. Furthermore, Loveland is capable of taking over. Reece Ord was judged by my coaches to have the ability to play as a standard League One striker, so I am tempted to cash in on the £900.000 buyout fee of the clause, since the prospects of him being sold for big money is limited. But you never know.

Facilities - Due to our good economy, I managed to get Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment improved once more. They are now both Exceptional. With the quality of regens coming through now, I cannot wait to see how it will be when this comes fully into effect in a season or two.

Finances - Even with the youth intake facilities fully upgraded, the gate receipts and season ticket sales are turning in a monthly profit. This is really good. The fee from Reece Ord only contributed approx. £38.000.

Youth Intake (Dev. Centre, Preview) - What a crazy youth intake. I got caught up in the excitement and nicknamed all the way from A to J. Charlie Roddan looks like the missing link in midfield. He look really, really good. Charlie Hopley is almost as good as Reece Ord and will be a leading striker or winger for this team.
Astley Rawson, shown above, is as good as my current goalkeeper, and Gavin Kershaw has the look of a wicked striker in the making. I can supply screenshots of the others. There are many.

No Transfers in. As mentioned, sold Reece Ord to Bristol City.

Goal for next season: Survive again. I would like to see an improvement in performances with the talent pool the club has at its disposal for this level.

 

Edited November 14, 2023 by andershs

[OlivierL]

 Intro

I'm back for a new Youth Only Challenge and no better place to start than in a country where I have unfinished business.

After previous short attempts with Haukar, last year Njarðvík and some FMs ago with Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur.  I'm back for another attempt in this country with fast leagues and wonderful clubs and places ! I'm back for a long save with Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur. After holidaying a season they are one of the promoted teams from tier 3 to tier 2.

 

Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur - Iceland - 2th tier - Lengju Deildin - Intro - 2023

Database | Manager |  Wikipedia | Club vision | Supporter Profile | Finances | Facilities

Íþróttafélag Reykjavíkur or ÍR (English: Reykjavik Athletic Club) is an Icelandic multi-sport club, based in the suburb of Breiðholt in Reykjavík. It has teams in football, handball, basketball, athletics, tenpin bowling, skiing, karate, taekwondo and judo.

ÍR played one season at the highest level in 1998.

Squad

23 potential senior players but need to sort out 7 players with an ending or no contract.

Key Players

  

Intake holiday - Class 2023

 

Spoiler

Hot Prospects

 

Iceland Watch

Club Facts

Bingo

Edited November 14, 2023 by OlivierL

[aldojags]

11 hours ago, Neo_Geo said:

So I wanted to be attacking.....

Positionally we don't look bad for the goals that were conceded, so I think with better defenders the tactic could work at keeping goals conceded lower however as long as my front line are racking up the goals we are getting points on the board.

I'm also seeing a lot of worldies getting scored (both teams), is anyone else seeing a high frequency of insanely good strikes?

Looking at the rest of the league it's not just my matches that have really heavy scoring, take a look at this match week:

My managerial record in Israel is as follows:

P 25
W 17
D 4
L 4
GF 81
GA 41

My matches are averaging out at 3.24 - 1.64

 

 Can I have a season ticket!

[Neo_Geo]

4 minutes ago, aldojags said:

 Can I have a season ticket!

This league is a hoot I'm having loads of fun here!

[Neo_Geo]

@OlivierL I'm going to bet that Sigurdsson will be huge for you in the first two seasons, as I've said many times before having a striker that can get the goals usually makes the difference between success and failure in this challenge (or in my case 5 attackers!)

Eriksen 23A shows a huge amount of potential for a 16 year old, intelligent, hardworking, athletic and good in front of goal.

[Neo_Geo]

Going into the split (a further 7 games to play) and this is how the league looks (excuse the colours I trim the blank space down and it seems the skin has a gradient background so it looks a bit janky):

2 points ahead but level on goal difference (although I've scored TWENTY more)

I've had my intake and unfortunately the league won't let me register the new players (a few would have helped with depth).

In the head to heads against other teams I have the following head to head in all competitions

Hapoel Jerusalem P3 W1 D1 L1 GF 3 GA 3
Bnei Yehuda P3 W2 D0 L1 GF 6 GA 3
Hapoel Rishon LeZion P2 W1 D1 L0 GF 2 GA 0
Ironi Tiberias P3 W0 D3 L0 GF 10 GA 10
Hapoel Ramat-Gan P2 W0 D1 L1 GF 4 GA 5
Hapoel Kfar-Saba P2 W2 D0 L0 GF 5 GA 3
Hapoel Petach-Tikva P2 W2 D0 L0 GF 3 GA 1

It's going to be a tough ask, top 3 is almost a certainty but not top 2