The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[glennuk]

2 hours ago, darren1983 said:

 

 

Any player signed before you take over, and you can't cancel, is yours to use. It's no different from players already at the club when you take over.

Any plyer the club sign after you've taken over can't be used.

Thanks @darren1983, sorry I accidentally tagged @Darren1982 lol  

[Scraborn]

The 24/25 Season is done. And it was a good one. We managed to reach the Playoff-Semifinals in a season we started with the goal to reach a mid-table finish. According to the rules I started the challenge with a massive squad composed of 17 players only. We prayed all the season for our back four to not pick up any red cards or injuries and it worked out quite well with our 4-4-2. Sorry that my screenshots are on german but I think you all played the game long enough to see what happend

The best player was our very own Kane. But who surprised me most during the campaign was John Rooney getting more and more gametime as planned.

Now to the most interessting part - our first intake and the preview was realy bad with just three stars and the best rating a C. But it turned out different. Not great not terrible but we might feel some holes in the Squad.

And here we have some of the better ones

First up we have Pawel. The so called polish flash. At least he can run and seems to be the fastest man in the whole club already. He might end up using him as RW for our flat 4-4-2 or I use him as a Striker.

Jake Wilson could become our new GK but he needs lots of work to get passed our current number one GK - or he is out again with a broken hand what happens twice.

And finally our Striker of the caribbean. Not great not terrible but with some potential I hope to give the other strikers  helping hand soon.

This concludes Season 1. Time for a summer break

 

[BustaRaymes]

14 hours ago, Vakama2619 said:

I believe the country is still not allowed regardless, although I don't think theres any currently

I expected as much. I would say it's different when a league that already has relegation has one or more league below it being created, but in this case it would be changing a real-life scenario. It's not the same.

There's two in the workshop now, one of which seems to follow the right irl rules, and it opens a P/D match between last placed in D1 and champions in D2 starting in 2026. It's something the Dutch FA has been looking at but it probably won't be reality for the next 5-10 years. Mainly because the semi-pros in the 3rd level have no interest in going up and becoming pro clubs.

[Colossus]

Sociedad Deportiva Leioa

2028/2029 Season Review

 

Season Review

Competitions | League Table | Transfers | Schedule Part 1 | Schedule Part 2

What a season from the lads. We almost choked it at the end there, but we were just better than Majahonda for the vast majority of the season and that clinches us our promotion

 

Team Stats

Team at the Start of the Season | Team at the End of the Season

Team Stats

 Once again, our top players performed admirably.

 

Standout Performers:

1 - Ignacio Villanueva

No surprises here. 17 goals, 16 assists and one of the best performers in the league when it comes to average rating. He is by far our best player

 

2 - Gorka Alberdi

3rd consecutive season of 20+ goals, 3rd consecutive season of being one of the top goalscorers in the division

 

3 - Koldo Garai

He is here not so much for his performances on the field, but for the fact that he improved so much

 

Youth Intake

 

A CB, another striker and more midfield depth. We almost look like a complete team now.

Rest of the players:

GK - Oier Ruiz

CB / RB - Ibai Castelo

RB / RWB / CM - Iosu Diez

LB / LWB - Arkaitz Areso

LB / LM - Inigo Blasco

RM - Javier Uranga

LM / RM - Ander Garitano

RW / RM - Alejandro Bengoetxea

CM / CAM / LW - Fernando Urrutia

CAM - Alfonso Marin

LW / CAM / RW - Aitor Satrustegui

LW / RW - Imanol Garcia

ST / RW - Raul Zubillaga

 

Other Stuff

Yearly Progression

 

Manager Attribute Progression

 

Youth Player Stats

 

Gora Leioa!

[officiallydeej]

There is such a big difference between 2 games per week Dulwich Hamlet..

And one game per week Dulwich Hamlet. Mansfield are in League One and we absolutely blew them away. Ebbsfleet are mid table but Crawley and Boston are 1st and 2nd.

 

I know England brings the extra challenge of a gruelling schedule and lots of games but fatigue has a bigger impact than ever this year. Everything crossed for some strength in depth in this season's youth intake!

[MKAylesburyDon]

Hello

I have decided to give this a go, I must say I expect it to end in abject failure but already am finding it is making me play in a different way and using some of the features i wouldn't normally bother with.

Hopefully I managed to get the game set up sorted and I elected to manage in Brazil, what an eye opener there are a myriad of competitions but I felt that with it being the home of wonderkids it maybe the best place for me to try my luck.

Anyway I think I was fairly fortunate with the promoted clubs and was able to insert Edson Managiniho as the new manager of Ferroviario (CE)

I was initially pretty pleased with the squad but my inexperience in this type of game meant I made some mistakes early on, however what I did do was to get myself a HoYD, I really had to push the boat out with additional clauses but I think this an will be key to our future success...

I was especially pleased with his preferred formation as I have created a 4-4-2 narrow diamond tactic for the club.

Expectations seemed reasonable with a midtable finish expected in the league.

In terms of the afore mentioned squad management situation, I didn't realise how much having no reputation or badges would affect my players who to a man didn't take to me and whilst results went ok several players announced they would explore options at the end of the season which will lead me to having issues next year. I was counting on my 25 & 26 year old fullbacks being at the club for some years to come, now I will be left with youngsters. I wasn't surprise at my 41 year old AMC Ciel retiring however why on earth 32 year old back up AMC and utility player Deysinho has decided to retire I have no idea! Anyway I am near the end of season 1 and reached the point where I thought I would post so thought I better do an introduction. If there is anything else I need to let anyone know about please give me a nudge.

[thomas_e]

Well, this sucks, but a part of the challenge. I have always lost a couple of key players doing this challenge, but I have had very few 5 star players when in the top division. Greif will leave on a Bosman deal at the end of the season. 

We are losing our best player by far and I dont really have any replacements for him. A big setback indeed!! 

 

     

Edited November 19, 2023 by thomas_e

[BustaRaymes]

As expected, we weren't able to get results at all:

I've seen the England level 10 db in the workshop, might go for that next. Going to take a bit of time to think about the next try.

[MKAylesburyDon]

Well that's hilarious, there was an election at the end of season and I have been fired!

Despite getting promoted!

As for not giving young players a chance, was it really that bad....

Unsure what to do next but hope this has given some of you a chuckle!

[officiallydeej]

 

 

[WhiteCat33]

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2054 Season 32 – BFA Digicel Premier League

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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|Season 28 |Season 29 | Season 30 |Season 31 | Lloyd-31a | Lloyd 31b ; 31C |

Statistics Posts:

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

 

League Performance:

BDFSP are officially back with a nice solid squad again utilizing free/cheap players from America to supplement what Barbadian talent they can scrounge together. Wish they would spend money on their facilities, which are still just Basic, but at least they have built a new stadium that seats 7500, so they get some matchday revenue.

Cup Performance:

I was nervous about the final as our 21 best players were away for the World Cup, with then our bright English WB out injured we only had old stars like Carrillo and literal U18/reserve players to fill out the squad. Luckily Weymouth didn't show up and got themselves an early Red, so it was a straightforward victory.

 

North American Champions League:

2053

Caribbean Zone:

Another dominant performance, which is a big deal with Humble Lion in the group who have given us trouble in the past.

Caribbean Playoff:

 Highscoring tie where we almost threw away a 4 goal lead in Barbados but managed a 4-3 victory. Then in Jamaica it was a more measured 2-1 victory seeing us advance again to the 2nd Round

NACL 2nd Round

 I posted earlier about how frustrating it was to get Monterrey again. Unsurprisingly they put the pain on us:

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Monterrey are a bunch of bullies. They got 4 yellow cards in the first leg and then in the final 5 minutes of the game got 1 red card. They just beat my players into submission for a 2-0 win.

F’n bloodbath in Barbados against Monterrey. I was furious when 2 of our star starters got hurt during training the day before the match when we were just doing match tactics. One being our star DM who anchors the whole team who got an abdominal strain while watching videos on match tactics. Rage inducing. We got carved up in the first half with them scoring 4 for 4 shots on target, 3 of which were in the first 15 minutes. I kept scrambling to adjust but really they just could pass through our lines with way better players.

In the second half they got a red card in the 67’ and gave us a penalty (which we of course missed)  

NACL Tournament Tree:

 A familiar face in Santos Laguna pushed Monterrey aside and then went on to win the competition. You can see the dominance of Mexico in my save with all but 1 of the QF places being Liga MX sides. Notice the only Non-Mexico side Colorado only made it in because they played a Honduran team.

 

Squad:

Overview:

We have a strong GK, Midfield & Attack. Unfortunately we are still struggling to develop quality CDs. 

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Starting CDs

Couldridge is the best young CD at ~87 CA, who is just 11-12 in the key attributes, which isn't good enough to contain Liga Mx Strikers. Croney is tall and can jump and mark, but is awful at heading and tackling which is problematic. And then we have the older CD at 28 Applewhaite who has great Bravery/Aggression/Jumping Reach and then is just 10-11 in the core ground defense abilities. He's unhappy and will probably leave us in 1-2 seasons. My rotating 4th is an either footed giant Hoyte at 6'6", who is a good tackler, but again everything else is just barely above 10.

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Graphs:

I've been lowering the number of players in the squad, which is why the totals have dropped. I might consider rebuilding this with Percentages so its standardized. What we can see is the nice trend of our Top 5 Player CAs as our new youngsters replace the retiring old stars.

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Player Profile:

Carrillo: it is officially an end of an era as our Star #9 retires. I tried to get him to play one more season with us, but he decided it was time. Even without speed he was more than adequate domestically. With the World Cup squads he got to lead the line scoring a goal and captaining his final game in our colors raising the domestic Cup.

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Transfers:

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I let probably more players go this summer than i should have, particularly Croney at DM. We might have a crisis in 2 years as a lot of players are unhappy and probably will either force a FT or an early exit. Loans haven't really helped develop players and I probably will stop doing so especially to domestic Barbadian teams.

Nurse Departure??

The only way to get Nurse to extend his contract earlier was to give him a 1.1M release clause. It was much tighter than I wanted, but it wasn't an issue until this absurdity happened:

Yes, that is a club in Martinque who have $35 Million Dollars to burn. They can't even qualify for the NACL, so you would think Nurse wouldn't want to go to a lower league where he can't get continental football:

Good Decision!

Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

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Excel Tables:

 Last table with Carrillo who managed 619 goals in 503 Appearances. Interesting to note how the above Best XI record is missing a lot of his games/goals. Maybe it isn't counting continental games? I expect him to hold these two records forever.

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Head Coach:

Nothing new 

Club Improvements:

With the World Cup payments combined with our Gate Receipts, Cup winnings (1.4M) and a gift of 800k from the board we are doing both a Training Facility & Stadium Upgrade. Still no Youth Facility Option

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Youth Academy:

HOYD:

C Mighty is up to full 2* Reputation now. His tactical style fluctuates between Gegenpress & Fluid Counter-Attack, which is fine by me. He's been HOYD for 6 intakes now, so is fully in control of our youth lottery.

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Youth Intake Preview: Guess we have a youth hangover after last year

Youth Intake:

Wasn't as bad as anticipated, but still not great especially with personalities.

Top 3 Players:

3 Top Talents makes it pretty straightforward. None are fantastic, but I can work with Harding and Brathwaite. While I need WB-R depth an unambitious Lloyd isn't very helpful. Still no decent Centerbacks!

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Excel Tables:

Barbados National Team:

World Cup

For the second time this save Barbados have made a WC Group Stage! 20 of the 26 players in the squad are from our current team, 1 is our play on loan at Weymouth, and 2 are players we transferred out and played their season at BDFSP. While the manager selected 3 English players for the primary squad, he only kept Lemar Highland of Brentford for the final team.

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Foreign Players in Prelim Squad: Hopefully we don't lose Forte as he still hasn't declared Barbados. Had I been manager I would have certainly brought him into the team during the qualifiers at the very least to Cap-lock him. Brathwaite is our ex-player, so isn't really foreign.

While I was hopeful with draws of Morocco and Norway it was a total bloodbath. Not a goal scored against either as we make a group stage exit. Moving forward with the rest of the year Barbados is promoted back to Division A of Nations League and drew a very reasonable group of Honduras and Panama, though the former has been fantastic in this universe.

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Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

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Barbados Youth:

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Lloyd England U20s:

Amazingly our WBL is the starting LB for the England U20s and has played 6 of 7 matches with more often than not a very good performance against very strong opponents. He had a slight injury this year, but has recovered completely, and is easily one of our best players at just 16.

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Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

 

MLS Academy Players:

 

Caribbean Academy Players:

 

Other Nations:

 

CONCACAF World Cup Performance:

Group Stage:

Only Canada and Mexico advanced. Barbados, Jamaica & USA all failed and finished 3rd in their groups.

2nd Round:

Canada beat Syria

Mexico lost on Pens to the Netherlands

3rd Round:

Canada lost to Denmark

Tree:

France win it all & Columbia beat Denmark in the 3rd Place Match.

Summary

About what I expected in the NACL once I saw the Monterrey draw. We need to get some CDs & DMs through our intake instead of our heavily attacking focused players to rebuild our backline. Until that happens there's not much hope of containing the Liga Mx top teams who boast very potent offenses.

Even with our best striker of the save retiring this year Carrillo has been fully replaced by Nurse and our switch to a 3-4-3 Wide is working really well with the emergence of our dominant WBs who combine very well with wide strikers who cut in and cross/score.

I expect more of the same for the next few years, which unfortunately means I don't see a completion on the near-term horizon with a number of my starters 28. Of course, this can change in an instant with the appearance of an unbelievable CD, which easily could happen, but I am not holding my breath. More I'm hoping for a board takeover that hopefully resets us with a more ambitious chairman who will permit the next Youth Facility Upgrade.

Edited November 19, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[Makoto Nakamura]

2024 End of Season Review

A perfect Serie D campaign sees us promoted to Serie C! Next season will be a lot more difficult as we lose quite a few players.

2024 Best XI

Thomazella

Bruno Leonardo - Marcão - Robson Júnior

Bruno Souza - Diogo Silva - Tauã - João Victor

 

 

Renan Gorne - Luccas Paraizo - Chrigor

[darren1983]

1 hour ago, officiallydeej said:

There is such a big difference between 2 games per week Dulwich Hamlet..

And one game per week Dulwich Hamlet. Mansfield are in League One and we absolutely blew them away. Ebbsfleet are mid table but Crawley and Boston are 1st and 2nd.

 

I know England brings the extra challenge of a gruelling schedule and lots of games but fatigue has a bigger impact than ever this year. Everything crossed for some strength in depth in this season's youth intake!

You may already do this but just in case you don't, or for anyone else that maybe doesn't. Little tip with 2 games a week is right after a game I rest my entire starting 11 and subs for 1 day. It does a decent job of preserving fitness at a OK level, it doesn't keep them at 100% but still keeps them in the green and able to play a couple days later. 

[korvalis]

Always fun when you're trying to sign the team up to full time contracts, and two of the best players don't want to sign. 

[BustaRaymes]

New try, England level 9:

Smethwick Rangers

Midland Football League Premier Division

 

As level 10 had no relegation, I loaded up the leagues down to level 9.

I don't know why I took Smethwick, other than that it sounds a bit filthy. And I like the colors.

[carlowsaint19]

Hi all,

 

A few questions on return transfers for this challenge:

1.  Can I re-sign players who have left my club since I started. For example, at my save in Turkey my board sold a player a few months into save who is now available on the cheap. Can I bring him back?
2. Longer term query, if I sell a regen from my youth intakes who joined since I started the save can I re-sign him? 

Thanks in advance!

 

[Johnny Ace]

4 minutes ago, carlowsaint19 said:

Hi all,

 

A few questions on return transfers for this challenge:

1.  Can I re-sign players who have left my club since I started. For example, at my save in Turkey my board sold a player a few months into save who is now available on the cheap. Can I bring him back?
2. Longer term query, if I sell a regen from my youth intakes who joined since I started the save can I re-sign him? 

Thanks in advance!

 

Nope, no signings at all 

[carlowsaint19]

21 minutes ago, Johnny Ace said:

Nope, no signings at all 

Ok thanks

[Shankly84]

Didn't do any updates on my Sweden save apart from a youth intake. Took me 20 years to get out of tier 4 (can't believe I kept going) and then when I finally get to tier 3 we finish on 12 points and are straight back down. The board expect 11 points from the next 15 and all my players want to leave. So despite not posting the updates on here, it's time to start again (with more frequent updates). Can't make my mind up where to go.

 

[Shankly84]

 

Thought this was quite harsh as well, after 21 years and 559 games in charge 

[Potat]

Saint Davids Warriors - Bermuda

Season 7 - 2029/30

Were just not quite good enough to be winning the league.

The League

We were much better than last year the last task now is to consistantly be beating the 2 teams better than us. With the best defence in the league and second best offence, we just came up short drawing too many games to be a threat.

Domestic Cup

We did pretty good then failed horribly at the final hurdle, after a pretty easy group we were rewarded by being drawn the best team in the country, after getting by on penalties the draw for the next round gave us.. the second best team in the country, and after we scraped a 1-0 win against them we made our first final of the save where we played the third best team in the country, theres only 3 teams as good / better than us and we had to play all of them just to lose to the worst one anyway.

Other Teams

There is very much clear divisions being formed in the league at this stage, top 4, 1 or 2 who just exist and the rest in a relegation battle yoyoing every season, and there is nothing scarier than managing in a tiny nation and seeing your rivals sign someone you recognise, when Robin Hood signed Jovane Cabral, formally of Sporting Lisbon and Lazio and unsuprisingly he was the best player in the league scoring a hat-trick against us in the final.

Finances and Transfers

We are still £150k in the red so kind of stabalising at this stage but for the first time this save we sold a player for actually money... it was £1000 but you have to start somewhere.

As for facilities I downgraded Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment by 1 each and we saved £170k over the course of the season???

Youth Squads / Intake

The U18s continued to dominate winning the league title for the 4th consecutive year, while our reserves also won the league making it 2 in 3 years for them.

As for the intake, we are past the days of getting 3-4 garunteed starters each intake but there are some ok players in here for the future however none will be challenging for first team spots next year.

Stats

[libbyshuss]

Japan - Honda FC/Haneda

J1 - 2035 (season 12)

Objective: Get back into the Champions League places!

Season Summary

League: A really pleasing season in the end. It was one of ups and downs but we managed to finish on an up, and 4 wins and a draw in our last 5 games saw us sneak into 4th place right at the death. Over the moon with that!

Cup: Usually in these saves I'm shocking in the domestic cups. Last season I lost to a team in J3! but this season we had a nice little run all the way to the semi final

 

Players

Still rocking that 4-1-2-3. I'm not getting any decent wingers through really and I'm quite enjoying three strikers. The DM gives me a nice bit of defensive solidness that i usually don't have at all

Really pleased with the improvement of Taiga Fajita 32A and Katsumi Wada 31D. Hopefully I can keep hold of them! luckily my club rep is now at a level where i can sign them up without having to insert a stupid release fee clause. The three midfielders all had to step in when better players got snapped up and have done me proud - i like having a bit of experience in the side somewhere!

Even better, at the end of the season Fajita made his national debut, becoming our first ever international (who is at the club!)

Youth

another nice looking preview!

and a nice intake! but I'm not currently using wingers or wingbacks so I might have a choice to make a bit down the road - new tactic or retrain them? 

Mitsuhiro Doi is a natural winger but with these stats he looks like he'd be a great pressing forward so he will probably get re-trained there. With that bravery, aggression and work rate he could be a right pain in the arse for defences

 

Finances and Upgrades

So one of my better youths Ryoma Utsaka 29A had a really low release clause so when Liverpool came sniffing I sold him on with a 50% sell on clause. 4 years later and he has played precisely one game for them so when we re-negotiated the sell-on clause i Jumped at it. 

Gave me a bank balance of £35m! but do the board give me the option of youth academy improvements at all? nope! not for years! really frustrating!!!

Career

can we push on after this good season?

 

 

 

[andershs]

Macclesfield FC (England)
Season 6 - 2029/30 - VNL

 

This was an eventful year. As noted in the previous post, we planned to go fully professional at the end of this season. This happened in april this season. In general we improved this season, and the final position of 9th overlooks the fact, that we were in the play-offs for most of the season.
We will lose Exaucé Binguila - 26B, who has just won his first senior cap for Congo, as his contract is up this summer. I upset him by rejecting an offer from a bigger club, promised to sell him for a certain fee, didn't and now he is bitter and won't sign a new contract. That is sad and a bit alarming because he is clearly our best defender, and our youth intakes have been quite top heavy when it comes to real talent.
The transition to regens in the starting eleven is now practically complete.

League (Results 1, Results 2, Cups, League Chart) - As noted we did improve. We started really strongly, but the missing squad depth and the fluctuating performance levels associated with having such a youthful squad showed over the winter and in the last part of the season.
In the hypothetical situation where our best 15 players are fully fit consistently, we will probably be promoted or record a top finish. The ability and certainly the potential is there in the squad. But we improved, and the young players got a year older so I cannot complain.
The cup run I wanted did not happen because we drew Huddersfield in the FA Cup 1st Round. We did manage to earn a replay which brought us a good amount in gate receipts, so I have to be satisfied.

Team (Details) - This is a stressful time for the squad (me ). The sheer number of players having come through the intakes makes it hard not to overlook several good players. Moreover, as I noted, the intakes have had a lot of extremely good strikers and wingers (not complaining) so fitting them all into the starting eleven and keeping them happy is a job. We will lose Exaucé Binguila - 26B. That is disappointing, but something that happens in this challenge. D'Arcy Raglan - 27A will have to take over. Due to the improved intake facilities, the best of the players are now at a level where they quickly draw interest from bigger clubs. This adds to the stress and upheaval. This is certainly true for our best players this year Astley Rawson - 28C (Report), Alan Corcoran - 25B, Gavin Kershaw - 28E (Report), Charlie Hopley - 28A and Charlie Roddan - 28B. Dieter Bickerdike in midfield had another decent season. The surprise of the season is our winger Connor Muir - 26C (History). He had been on loan for the past two seasons in Scotland and returned before the season as one of the best players with a potential to play in League One. With only another year left on his contract and several bigger clubs circling. He straight away got grumpy when I promised to sell him, but didn't. In a stroke of luck Falkirk offered to loan him for the season and I accepted. As soon as arriving in Scotland again, he forgot every grudge he might have had, and we could sign another long term contract.
The transformation away from original players os practically complete. Only survivor is club record appearance maker and captain Lewis Fensome, and that might not last long. The other players from the group Kane Drummond, Luke Duffy, Conor O'Keefe and Brandon Lee are all leaving at the end of this season.
If I can keep hold of the majority of my best players, we have a core group in the squad with a potential to play at least in League Two long term.

Facilities - We have turned professional and will be signing players on full time terms going forward. Excellent. Otherwise, no news.

Finances - It will be good to find out how the professional status affects the finances, but currently they are stable and very good at almost £3.000.000 in the balance.
Keeping an eye on Reece Ord - 26A at Bristol City, they extended his contract with another year. So the 50% of next sale clause is still not lost. Unfortunately, at 20, he doesn't look like a player on the verge of a breakthrough in the Championship. I hope I am wrong though.

Youth Intake (Dev. Centre, Preview) - Another good intake. Antoni Petrie, another striker, is the star this year. Ricky Byrne looks like a promising defender togehter with Andrzej Gawlik, and Jacob McGarry-Rowley could be a good winger. Kemoy Mason is another needed keeper in case Astley Rawson - 28C is sold at some point.

No Transfers in. 

Goal for next season: Survive. Hopefully, Binguila leaving will not have too much of a negative effect. Get fully up to speed with being professional without losing too much money. 

 

Edited November 19, 2023 by andershs

[Ronaldo Beckham]

1 hour ago, BustaRaymes said:

New try, England level 9:

Smethwick Rangers

Midland Football League Premier Division

 

As level 10 had no relegation, I loaded up the leagues down to level 9.

I don't know why I took Smethwick, other than that it sounds a bit filthy. And I like the colors.

I live near Smethwick and yes it is filthy 

[BustaRaymes]

12 minutes ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

I live near Smethwick and yes it is filthy 

Seems like the right place for me!

[Ronaldo Beckham]

Just now, BustaRaymes said:

Seems like the right place for me!

[andershs]

1 hour ago, BustaRaymes said:

New try, England level 9:

Smethwick Rangers

Midland Football League Premier Division

 

As level 10 had no relegation, I loaded up the leagues down to level 9.

I don't know why I took Smethwick, other than that it sounds a bit filthy. And I like the colors.

First thing that pops into mind is a Smithwicks with a Guinness head... 

[XaW]

1 hour ago, carlowsaint19 said:

Ok thanks

This also means no loans in, even loan back clauses when you sell players are not allowed. No players should ever be in the "In" part of the transfer history at all. *

* - A few exceptions like if there were pre-set transfers when you took over that is impossible to use, those players are free game. And if the board buy players without your input, but those players cannot be used for anything, and should be put int he reserves sold asap. And no mentoring or the like.

[carlowsaint19]

18 minutes ago, XaW said:

This also means no loans in, even loan back clauses when you sell players are not allowed. No players should ever be in the "In" part of the transfer history at all. *

* - A few exceptions like if there were pre-set transfers when you took over that is impossible to use, those players are free game. And if the board buy players without your input, but those players cannot be used for anything, and should be put int he reserves sold asap. And no mentoring or the like.

Yes thanks for the clarification, all makes sense

[The7Striker]

BFC Dynamo 2024/2025 Season

Finances  Facilities  Transfers  Squad

 

3.Liga

It was a season straight out of a movie.
The season started reasonably well, considering our team, with solutions for all positions, we were gaining points especially in home games.
We were always in the top 10, until in the final months, things started to change, we climbed the rankings and entered the fight for promotion. 
The last game was frantic, in the 89th minute Wurzbuger drew 3-3 and we were far from our dream, but then in the 90+1th minute, the winning goal and Wurzbuger were out of the race. What a crazy game.
Financially, this club is a leaky boat! We pay our players too much and I can't get offers for some players either.
The club had elections, but it was the old management that allowed me to get my National C licence.

 

DFB Pokal - We didn't enter the cup this year.´

Under 19 - Despite not having a large squad or the desired quality, we came 4th in the Regionalliga Nordost.

 

Youth Intake

Since the club doesn't have the necessary infrastructure, I can't ask for much in terms of youngsters. It wasn't a bad intake, with 3 youngsters who could make the first team.

 

As good FM news always has a catch, here's my......

...23M on a new stadium in the first season of the 2.Bundesliga.

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2025 Youth Candidates

There's quite a bit of potential here but there's also going to be some re-training needed!

[aldojags]

23 hours ago, carlowsaint19 said:

Wondering how you are all dealing with these squad depth issues, my squad are very unhappy at the moment, but dont think there is anything I can do (they are pissed that I have no defenders)

 

keeps happening to me too dude

 

Only thing thats worked has been telling them I'm going to use the young players and develop them, but then u actually need to make sure u do it!

[Neo_Geo]

So there is a glimmer of hope regarding promises.....

I have 2 youth players that play regularly in the DM position and 1 has retrained and is really showing massive improvement, so it can be done

[SuperRedditch]

 

 

[Neo_Geo]

1 minute ago, aldojags said:

keeps happening to me too dude

 

Only thing thats worked has been telling them I'm going to use the young players and develop them, but then u actually need to make sure u do it!

Wow I literally posted my message when you did yours 

I was lucky I had 2 people that had good personalities and I was able to play them for long enough to develop

[OlivierL]

7 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

BFC Dynamo 2024/2025 Season

Finances  Facilities  Transfers  Squad

 

3.Liga

It was a season straight out of a movie.
The season started reasonably well, considering our team, with solutions for all positions, we were gaining points especially in home games.
We were always in the top 10, until in the final months, things started to change, we climbed the rankings and entered the fight for promotion. 
The last game was frantic, in the 89th minute Wurzbuger drew 3-3 and we were far from our dream, but then in the 90+1th minute, the winning goal and Wurzbuger were out of the race. What a crazy game.
Financially, this club is a leaky boat! We pay our players too much and I can't get offers for some players either.
The club had elections, but it was the old management that allowed me to get my National C licence.

 

DFB Pokal - We didn't enter the cup this year.´

Under 19 - Despite not having a large squad or the desired quality, we came 4th in the Regionalliga Nordost.

 

Youth Intake

Since the club doesn't have the necessary infrastructure, I can't ask for much in terms of youngsters. It wasn't a bad intake, with 3 youngsters who could make the first team.

 

As good FM news always has a catch, here's my......

...23M on a new stadium in the first season of the 2.Bundesliga.

 

A lot of money :o 

[Neo_Geo]

8 minutes ago, SuperRedditch said:

 

 

Surely not 

[The7Striker]

11 minutos atrás, OlivierL disse:

A lot of money :o 

Yes, especially for a newly promoted club.
I understand that the capacity is 15,000, but I think you could rent a stadium nearby and not mortgage the club.

[carlowsaint19]

Season 2 Batman Review

 

Turkish 1. League (Media prediction 20th) - Finished 1st. I really had no idea what the standard change would be, and it really appears as if there isn't that much gap at all between 2. League and 1. League in game. 

Despite the media prediction, we were comfortable playing front foot 433 and having heavy involvement from our youth players.

Cup - Out in first round I entered in, losing in extra time with a heavily rotated team

Youth intake - Polar opposite of Year 1 with players who look like they have big futures in our team, with a RB that will be starting next season at just 15 years old

Finances - No prize money it seems in Turkish 1.League leaving me well in red at €1.14m, with "Youth setup" costing €934k and ground maint. costing €853k being the biggest drains. We get 3-4k attendance with tickets only €2 so see little revenue incoming. 

Next season expectations - Attempt to avoid relegation. Will be a huge challenge but am going to try and play attacking football and get results against teams who will leave themselves too open. Our weekly wage will be 25k vs the other league lowest of 65k , which doesn't feel like that big of a gap all things considered. At least I am hoping it helps our financial state being in the top league.

 

Transfers and facilities:

 

 

Youth candidates and my new Right back

Edited November 19, 2023 by carlowsaint19

[Brentmeister]

I googled Smethwick because I had no idea where it was, and this was the first picture Google showed me

[OlivierL]

3 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

Yes, especially for a newly promoted club.
I understand that the capacity is 15,000, but I think you could rent a stadium nearby and not mortgage the club.

Not logical at all. Should we consider this as a bug?

[heutheo]

FC Drava Ptuj - Slovenia
Season 5 - 2028/29
bye bye

 

History

Spoiler

Start Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4

League

Spoiler

Season started pretty good with 21 points in 14 games and 6th place with like 13 points more than the last placed team, as you can see the remaining 22 games went not as good and we confirmed the 1001.00 odds to win the league. 

Stadium

Spoiler

Also last place in average attendance because of "our" small stadium.

 

At least we're first place looking at the capacity %...

...and in the sell out table.

 

The good start really fcked me, in the winter the board raised their expectations to "avoid relegation" and I wasn't able to do that. 5 matches before the end, I thought, they won't sack me, because they would've done it by now, hence prepared for next season and gave the youth prospects some time. Results then got better (we scored at least while conceding 3+ per game). And after the last match and a quick talk, I got sacked.

 

Summary

Now I take a break, after that maybe I go to Germany to manage my home team or go back to Slovenia, but before that I have to learn the game lol.

[The7Striker]

Agora, OlivierL disse:

Not logical at all. Should we consider this as a bug?

I remember that @Winski also had something similar on FM 22 when they got promoted.

It makes the save more difficult, but that's just the way it is, the board just want new stadiums in FM 24.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2025 End of Season Review

A great season sees us win back-to-back promotions but we miss out on the Serie C Championship after falling apart in the home leg. Next season? 16th is the big aim.

Overall Best XI

2025 Best XI

Thomazella

Bruno Leonardo - Patrick - Robson Júnior

Gabriel Miragaia (ResF) - Diogo Silva - Tauã - João Victor

 

 

Nycollas Queiroz - Yavir Kadir (ResB) - Chrigor

[Ronaldo Beckham]

56 minutes ago, Brentmeister said:

I googled Smethwick because I had no idea where it was, and this was the first picture Google showed me

Yeah the houses all look really old and depressing. 

 

[Colossus]

Sociedad Deportiva Leioa

2029/2030 Youth Intake Preview / Mid Season Update

The goal is 45 points, and we look pretty set to achieve that

 

Only 2 As, but with the improvements in Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching, I have to assume that that GK and Full Back would be a top player on our team

[Neo_Geo]

Hapoel Ra'anana
Season 2 (2025/26)
Israeli Premier League

Survival......with style!
Anyone that has been following the save will know I had been playing a 3-2-5 formation with the 4 attacking players crowding the final third behind one striker and my big decision was whether to stick with this going into the top league or to be a bit more conservative. I started the save wanting to show no fear and attack so I stuck to my guns and continued to play the attacking formation (still with attacking mentality as well).....Live by the sword, Die by the sword!

Well as you can see from the league standings we didn't get embarrassed, if anything we embarrassed a few of the established sides as we not only didn't get relegated, not only did we finish in the championship group in the split but we finish a close 4th to qualify for the Europa Conference League for Season 3!

Maccabi Tel-Aviv are a cut above the rest, I was surprised at the dropped points right at the end as one point they were 10 clear with a 30 game unbeaten run (we didn't end it by the way) and we scored the second most number of goals behind Tel-Aviv however you can see our defence is undoubtedly costing us points.

In the cups we did fairly well in the Premier Cup, narrowly finishing second to Beitar Jerusalem so we qualified for the Premier League Cup Classification Group Playoff 2 (no idea what this is for!) and beat Maccabi Netanya 3-0 in that. In the State Cup we made the semi final once again and once again were put out by Maccabi Tel-Aviv, this time 6-4 on aggregate (1-1 at home then 5-3 away). The semi final probably cost us finishing 3rd as the team were tired with some injuries building up as well and we just didn't have enough depth to continue the rich vein of form that saw us sit 2nd in the league for 18 game weeks!

The future is really positive here, we have money, I have maxed youth recruitment and junior coaching and there are good players coming through with a seemingly working formation (I have now decided I have to completed the challenge with this as my main tactic!)

Absolutely loving the league and the crazy scorelines, will see how the tactic translates into European competition next season.

Youth Intake

Spoiler

I changed the HoYD at the end of the first season as his contract was up and seemed a good opportunity to get an upgrade. The new HoYD was 18 WWY, 14 JCA and 13 JPA but only has a balanced personality. I'm pretty content with this for 2 seasons in as I can only expect to get better if the club reputation increases.

The preview was music to my ears with 2 promising central defenders that were due to come through
4

The intake did not disappoint:

Cohen YP26-A
Having another keeper isn't really some thing I needed as I finally managed to offer Melika a contract (though he's now back up to Or Rubin - who himself now wants to move to a bigger club so maybe I will need another keeper)

Fibach YP26-A
Fibach was what I really wanted from this intake, as soon as he is eligible I intend on rotating him into the squad.  Brave, determined, good positioning, tackling and athletic though he is only 5'10" so there is a downside. I did manage to get Sirkis to talk and agree to a new deal so I no longer have a defensive shortage for next season.

Pitusi YP26-A
Good personality, good ball control and crossing however he is SLOOOOOOOW for a winger. I'll most likely look to retrain him on the right as thats my tactic, inside forwards supporting a shadow striker and advanced playmaker.

Azulay YP26-A
Another decent addition to the squad to be trained in the DM position probably in the anchor role. He's brave, aggressive and has a good workrate so I think either that role or ball winning midfielder will suit him well.

Ben-Baruch YP26-A
I think he is the other promising central defender the intake was referring to, they could have mentioned we had a GIANT coming through the intake . Now I've got to wonder how some who is 6'7" has 6 heading but joking aside if I can get his heading improved then 15 jumping reach and his height will be a HUGE weapon both offensively and defensively. His other stats aren't that great but fairly ambitious personality should hopefully aid his development.
 

Key Players

Spoiler

   

   

Ben-Chaim YP25-A is the reason why the promise of developing young defensive midfielders was fulfilled. Originally a left back I opted to retrain as the anchor (although his crossing has improved over the season so if I ever go to a FB/WB formation again he will be able to do that role fine as well).

Two of these players (Rubin and Rahmian) want to leave to play with better players at a bigger club, both have been told the same line of won't actively try to sell them, Rahmian was fine with that Rubin was not.

Admin

Spoiler

Another superb year from the board (there was a takeover early on in the season), albeit I did had to persuade them for most of the improvements, as we have now maxed the Junior coaching and youth recruitment at the end of season 2! It looks like the grant is an annual thing as once again I have received on and this time its over £5m

   

      

Only a couple of loans out:

Bingo Card

Spoiler

Another off the checklist, I suppose in theory the avoid relegation one is met however I may get relegated next year, so I will leave it unchecked unless the challenge is completed.

I also had to change a couple of others, the National League Cup I have put National/Premier League Cup and I've also removed the manager of the month awards as there are no manager of the month awards, replaced with 5 times winner of Manager of the Year.

Next Season Aim

Spoiler

• Look to finish in the top half again
• Get more prospects loaned out
• Make Europa Conference League group stage

 

Edited November 19, 2023 by Neo_Geo

[Coxbox]

 We have Finally won some Silverware in India, The Durand Cup with 7 of the 11 players all from the academy and below the age of 18 The only Goal coming from my new 16-year-old Inside Foward.

Edited November 20, 2023 by Coxbox

[glennuk]

Season 1 - Rein Meer AKA ReinBerg - Japan - J3 League - The Start
History by Wikipedia
 

Founded in 1995, ReinMeer Aomori was managed by Aomori City Football Association, which picked players from existing clubs. The name was originated by the mix of two German word, "rein" (clean) and "Meer" (sea). The name was picked to symbolize the nature of Aomori. The logo is the main protagonist of the Aomori Nebuta Matsuri festival.

In 2016, the club played for the first time in the Japan Football League and hopes to reach the J1 League by 2030 -Let's see if I can meet this goal!!

After my first attempt with FC Honda, I am back in Japan and happier than ever to be at ReinBerg (I will use the in-game name for ease and to match screenshots).
I love the club badge and the fact we have a 20,809 seater stadium.

When I first joined the club I was VERY excited and confused as to why we had two players who were rated as J1 League Players!!!!

Of course their contracts were expiring and they would not renew. So I managed to sell them both for nothing (1k in total) but with 50% next sale clauses in both their contracts.
Goodbye Marcos & Giovanni Clunie

 

[v1n1akabozo]

@WhiteCat33 at which point you consider that a player is good with booth feet? Fairly strong and above?