The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[Sigguson]

I am gonna start a save with AFC Telford. A team I alway wanted to take up the leagues for a while.

[Sizeman21]

19 hours ago, OlivierL said:

  Intro

I couldn't find my rhythm in Iceland so time for a country I've never managed before... Luxembourg !

Since last year @WhiteCat33 got really far in Luxembourg with ASL Porto, I was interested in Luxembourg. I live relatively close to Luxembourg myself and that combined with a fast league structure, many nationalities and a kind of build a nation save, a lot of boxes are ticked.

 

Luxembourg ranked 100th in the FIFA world ranking. They have a population of +- 660k and the capital is Luxembourg City .

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 Luxembourg is a developed country with an advanced economy and one of the world's highest GDP (PPP) per capita as per IMF and World Bank estimates. The nation's levels of human development and LGBT equality are ranked among the highest in Europe. The city of Luxembourg was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 due to the exceptional preservation of its vast fortifications and historic quarters. Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union,OECD, the United Nations, NATO, and the Benelux. It served on the United Nations Security Council for the first time in 2013 and 2014.

FC Luxembourg City - Luxembourg- 2th tier - Promotion d'Honneur - Intro - 2024/2024

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

FC Luxembourg City is a Luxembourg football club from Hamm, a district of the capital Luxembourg. Matches are played at the Estádio do Cents.  I had to holiday one season and Luxembourg City got promoted from the third tier.

On 14 May 2020, the members of FC Blue Boys Muhlenbach and RM Hamm Benfica agreed to a fusion between the two clubs. The new club took the name FC RM Hamm Benfica and took Blue Boys Muhlenbach's place in the Nationaldivisioun in the 2020/21 season.

The name Benfica had been causing controversy for some time. The name and logo are based on that of Portuguese club SL Benfica. Partly because of a threatened claim for damages from the Portuguese, it was decided to change the name to FC Luxembourg City in 2022.  Since Hamm Benfica received a lot of Portuguese and Cape Verdean players through the intakes, I now expect the same at luxembourg City

Squad

17 potential senior players and already added 6 academy players from the first intake. Some of them could make the first eleven already.  First need to sort out a lot of players with an ending or no contract. There seem to be no homegrown rules in luxembourg in this DB.  We also have one pre arranged transfer, i could not cancel this one since i took over at 21/6.

Key Players

   

Youth Intake during holiday - Class 2024

A lot of nationalities !

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Hot Prospects

   

Above three could start in my first eleven already.

Luxembourg Facts 

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Club Facts

Bingo

Thanks @Perre8 for the great kits (they look exactly like how they play in real life , and even better) and @ToMexico!! who has a career save topic himself with Luxembourg city (he was the trigger to finally start this adventure)

Nice bingo card you got there OliverL

[michiganhugefan]

Romania

 

So I lost an amount of games in a row that led me to be straight up fired from this one, I kind of deleted my save files out of rage so I don't have pics or anything, but this is over. I spun the wheel again, off to Wales, hopefully being back in Britain sorts me out.

 

[karax268]

 

What exactly do they think I can do about it?

 

[WhiteCat33]

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2055 Season 33 – 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:

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Statistics Posts:

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

 League Performance:

 

Cup Performance:

I hate the Gold Cup. The game let me move the Cup final for the preliminary matches, but it didn't realize there were also the regular matches in the extended window and still had the cup final during the tournament + U21/20 Championships so my 23 best players were out on international duty. Resulted in me playing a full U18 defense with my retiring 36 year old 2nd backup GK and they were awful while our offense underscored. This means no NACL in 2057.

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North American Champions League:

Caribbean Zone:

Caribbean Playoff:

We were shooting bricks in Jamaica and couldn’t win the game outright so it went to the dreaded penalties where we fell short. First year in a long time we didn’t advance out of the Caribbean Group stage.

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NACL Tournament Tree:

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 Squad:

Excel Players:

With the early drop out of the NACL I sent my older squad players out on loan and did my best to give youth playing time to get some development out of severely mediocre talents. Maybe it helped? Positive note is we are slowly improving our starting XI so that more are getting over 100. We of course have no depth (and never will in Barbados), but if we are fit we are starting to have a good team.

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Excel Charts:

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Only change is for the two left charts I've added in the total players to the graph so you can see how the squad size changed. Percentage graphs will be in the next iteration. The recent drop in high Prof+Det players is due to me selling off a number of Resolute squad players who were 25+ and were taking game time from youth prospects. I also had too many CAM style players from my old 3-5-2 formation that don't fit into my 3-5-3 wide, so some cuts were made.

Here I've added in two small bar graphs to show Current season data. First, I thought it was helpful to get an expanded view of the final stacked bar chart in the "Team Players CA Ranges" so broke that out into its own chart. Then also for this current season I post personalities of the entire club. Remember I export all 3 teams as one so this includes youth players. Only exclusion is the current years intake, as I do my exports on intake day.

Transfers:

Summary:

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Nurse Saga:

Last year it was a Martinique Tycoon, and this year it was one in Trinidad & Tobago. Nurse was a legend and turned down the contract offer. The surprise came, when Real Salt Lake of the MLS activated his clause. And here @V50 is where having dynamic league reputations due to forgetting your NACL file saved me, as Nurse REJECTED going to the MLS to stay playing in Barbados! Though I think the Costa Rica database I added is overpowered because this is the state of North American League reputations:

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Best XI:

FM Screenshot:

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Excel Tables:

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Head Coach:

 I hit 1000! In England this would have taken 1/3 the amount of years.

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Club Improvements:

 We have State of the Art Facilities and a 20,000 Capacity Stadium! Of course, the board won't even take a meeting about improving our youth facilities from Great. One piece of good news is the board finally added the option of finding "Scouting Affiliates", yet 4 attempts this season and I failed to convince them to add one. Someday we will get foreign talents...

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HOYD:

No change here

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake:

Top 3 Players:

#1 A welcome DM prospect who will go into the first team immediately and is about as good as my rotation options there right now. #2 Yet another striker who has a bad personality unfortunately. Good thing I have a strong mentoring group. #3 Bad personality and probably low potential means this CAM will probably not feature for us

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Excel Tables:

This is still my legacy spreadsheet tracking nationalities as I haven't finished the new one yet.  You'll notice some of the chart data is already repeated in my new graphs/tables.

Good looking top 5 CA_WF, though really only the top 2 seem good enough to start getting minutes in the first team. With State of the Art facilities I am actually seeing good development of players in the youth squad, so there is hope for the other better players.

Excel Charts & Graphs:

I've got so many now it needs a Spoiler. I might be going overboard in Excel with this save..,

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These first 4 dot charts are the same as before I just removed all lines except for Professionalism as IMO that is the trend that matters. For the combination I choice Prof+DET as that combo is what I am idealy striving for.

The only change here is the 4th graph as I decided to list the 10 most common personalities in a bar chart instead of a table with the numbers. Guess its cleaner?

Here I am taking the final steps in replacing part of my old spreadsheet by adding in a summary table of the top 10 CA Intake players of the save. Then I have the ugliest Pie chart of all time showing the percentage of all 40 personalities. The empty table will probably become a top 10 list of Positive personalities to show what the most frequent good rolls have been in my academy.

Barbados National Team:

Blasted Gold Cup took my players and then they didn't even end up doing well. Because of the poor performance my Captain and Star strike Nurse as well as one of DM Sargent retired from international play. This fall the nation is back into Nations League B and will face off against Guadeloupe, St Lucia and Antigua & Barbuda. I expect them to promote back up. 

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Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

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Barbados Youth:

Since Lloyd has England U21 CAPs now he is in the spreadsheet.

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Summary

Honestly a disappointing season performance in both the NACL & the Cup, but we are in the midst of a rebuild right now, so I'm not super surprised. I still hate the Gold Cup scheduling...

Edited November 21, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[XaW]

I just can't resist this team, and the lure of success in Wales is too big!

[Johnny Ace]

The good ol' Dracs @XaW

I wonder if Sion Jones is still working the till at Asda 

[XaW]

4 minutes ago, Johnny Ace said:

I wonder if Sion Jones is still working the till at Asda 

Classic!  

[xQrtx]

SG - Sacavenense - Year 3 2026/27

Liga 3 - 3rd Division South - 2nd
Championship Group - 4th


We had a very solid start to the season which laid the foundation for our unexpected promotion push.
We were able to control games against these top 3rd division sides which really surprised me as I didn't feel like our squad had gotten better from the previous year.
There were only about two games where we were clearly second best. Every match was fairly even if not completely controlled by us.
As a collective unit we played like a top 3. Liga side despite lacking the individual quality and having many players who are 4th or 5th division quality.

Nothing too crazy this year in the Taça de Portugal, we suffered a 3rd round exit against 1st division side Casa Pia after going down 2-0 very early on into the match.

Club

The club have allowed me to study for a National B License which should be completed shortly after the beginning of the 2027/28 season.
Unfortunately the club will not approve the creation of a u23 team since our balance is approaching -€1,000,000, which will result in our u19 team becoming overcrowded so we're going to have to look to the loan market to get some players the playing time they need to properly develop.

Squad 

Squad Stats

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Full Squad Stats

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Top Scorer - 9 (All Comps) - Iaquinta

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Most Assists - 7 (All Comps) - Fabio Dias 26-A & Daniel Pinto

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Highest Average Rating - 7.03 José Gomes 25-A

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Young Player of the Year, Newgen Top Scorer - 8 (All Comps) Belarmino Valido 25-A

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Newgen Most Assists - Fabio Dias 26-A picture shown previously

Many players from the first intake broke through and played a huge role this year.
Ansu Camara came in and out performed both our 1st choice and 2nd choice CB while also continuing his insane development, to quickly establish himself as our new 1st choice CB. 

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José Gomes came in and also out performed the players in his position where he also quickly established himself as another key player in our team as a BWM. picture shown previously

Flávio Ribeiro began the season as our starting RB and performed very solidly becoming a major factor in our very solid back line.

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There is heavy interest from many bigger clubs for our star player Belarmino Valido, luckily we've got him tied down until 2031 so as long as our board doesn't accept any offers we shouldn't have to worry about losing him for another few seasons.
 

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Jose Gomes wants to play with better players so I promised him I'd sell him if any club offered €525k, I wouldn't accept an offer that comes in for him though if the board doesn't intervene.
We have him contracted until 2030 and I hope we can keep up what we've done this season and get promoted before then so we can extend players like Jose and anyone who may want to play in a better division in the future.

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Transfers

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Best XI

Youth



The preview honestly looked disappointing, however I was holding out hope for a winger good enough to immediately replace our 3rd choice winger who would be leave the club on a free at the end of his contract.



The actual intake was much better than expected. Disappointed with the poor personalities again.
Mubenga is someone I'm excited about. I hope a year in the u19s with the occasional call up due to injury, will help him develop enough to be our 1st choice off the bench at CM.
Bruno Azevedo will join the 1st team as our 4th choice winger.

Best Intake Profiles

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Season History



Manager History


Took home the 3rd division Manager of the Year award, hopefully there will be many more MotY awards to come.

Edited November 21, 2023 by xQrtx

[fries]

Sky Bet League One

2029/30 (season 6)

Season Summary

Wow, the seasons are long here in England. 66 games...

The season started well. We managed to take the step up from League Two and were actually number 1 in the league after 21 games.

But then the game congestions started. I was maybe greedy as we competed well in the Carabao Cup. We managed to win against 3 Championship sides, Luton, Ipswich, and Fulham, before we lost over two games in the semi-final against the later winner Arsenal. 7-1 on aggregate.

In the FA Cup, I managed to get two replays, which contributed further to the game congestion. We managed to beat Fulham, again, over two games, but lost to the League One winners, Coventry in round 5.

All the games and too little depth in the team resulted in bad form around Christmas. In the end, we managed to win the 6th position, 10 points away from direct promotion. I am quite certain that we could have scraped 10 more points if we just had given up the cups early on. However, the cup runs contributed financially.

In the playoffs, we were up against Bristol Rovers. In the first game, we managed to get an early send-off and commit a penalty. We were down 1-3 after the home game. I had almost given up. However, it was quite close in the away leg, where we managed to win 3-2 but also missed a penalty. No back-to-back promotion to me.

Baba Asanta had another great season with 30 goals! A few other players like Frederick and Baxter did well too. But no one was outstanding.

We are playing an offensive 4-4-2 (or 4-2-4 or whatever you wanna call it). But I am wondering if I should try a 3-4-3 tactic with 3 strikers.

The youth intake preview was okay. 5 stars, but C was the highest rating.

The actual intake was also okay. The personalities are a bit meh. But I hope Jamerson and Godwin have what it takes to get to my first team.

No transfers of significance. I had a few loan-outs, where a few developed well and others not so well.

 

Finances and Upgrades

A takeover finally happened after a few years of rumors. The new owners lowered the dept a little.

Because of the cup runs, I managed to get an upgrade of the youth facilities and youth recruitment. Hopefully the new youth facilities will allow us to move up a youth level as the board promised.

 

Next season
Next season, I hope we can make the final push and be promoted to the Championship.

 

EDIT: Well, the new board would also like to add some debt.

Edited November 21, 2023 by fries

[Winski]

FK Fotbal Třinec

 

It's time for a new adventure! This time in Czech Republic. I have a very succesful save in Sweden with IFK Lidingo at the moment, but I wasn't enjoying it anymore. So it was time for someting new and fresh.
I decided to go for FK Trinec. I know nothing about the club, but I chose this club because of their nice logo and kits. I tried to make their kits as realistic as possible.
There is €1.9M in the bank, which is quite a lot. And the financial projection looks really nice as well. So hopefully it will help me to get some early upgrades!
And the board already got "develop players using the club's youth system" as their board culture. Perfect!

 

[thomas_e]

Energie Cottbus

Season Summary 2032 - 2033

League progress, two great cup runs and key player leaving

 

Our first season playing in Europe and we did really well with the increased workload. I decided early on to trust the whole squad and it really paid off! I subbed basically all 10 outfield players for all the Europa League games as well as the domestic cup. The reserves really stepped up and it got us all the way to the semi final of the Europa League! We met some surprisingly weak teams along the way, but it was still way better than expected. Chelsea obviously got too strong in the semi final, beating us 6-2 on aggregate. In the cup we won the whole thing, only using the primary startes in the final against a weak Mainz team. A great 4-0 win and our first trophy!! 

In the league we managed to do one better than last year, finishing in 5th place. Once again we hit a really poor run of form at the end of the season, and this probably cost us a Champions League spot. Honestly it doesnt matter that much, we are better suited for the Europa League! 

Unfortunately this was the season when we are saying goodbye to our by far best player, Michael Greif. He is leaving on a free and will leave a big gap. 14 goals and 9 assists from central midfield, crazy! I have a replacement, but we will be a much weaker side next year. 

 

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Key Players

          

 

Key Talents

          

 

[BustaRaymes]

Smethwick Rangers - 2024/25

Midland Football League Premier Division

Predicted 12th, a good run at the start of the season launched us into an unexpected championship battle. We were up there until a few games before the end and managed promotion through the playoffs.

 

Squad

The pick of the players is without a doubt James Rowland. We have an actual footballer in him, and he has the age to stay with us for years to come.

In goal we have a solid choice in Coughlin, who rarely makes mistakes and is generally very dependable.

Kirnon is our best defender, making up for his lack of footballing qualities with good physicals and a drive forward.

Sam Beddows is the odd one in here. His 2 grey star rating does not do him justice as he has all the right qualities we need from him. Solid player.

Up front, Lawson started the season on the bench but proved very prolific from the right wing.

 

Transfers

 

Youth intake

We'll have to make do. A goalkeeper and striker we both don't need, and low CA all around

Adewumi could be our goalkeeper in a few years when Coughlin retires

Andrew Boyd, one of our lesser talented players, has a lot of attributes for a CB and we need help there so he's going to be retrained.

 

Furthermore

This save is quickly becoming a bit of a cult save. Next to Smethwick looking exactly how it sounds and the insane game we played against later champions Darlaston, we now have a real Chad in the squad.

Chad Bennett II has no determination of course, as the entitled kid he is. His father Chad Bennett is the local landlord, known for the higher class of container homes he rents out. As I live in one of his cheaper options the rust at my place hasn't been painted over, but he does have a few of those exclusive homes in his portfolio. I probably have to play this kid as well, as I can't afford to lose my place   My neighbor Becky also told me the man is embroiled in some of the lesser legal stuff around town so I need to watch my step.

I am also pretty worried about the educational system in place here in Smethwick.

This is not an 'increase', Josh.

[DazRTaylor]

@darren1983Wales.  Season reset date is 24 June.  I managed to get different teams on 1 May.

[darren1983]

Season 2027/28 Review - Vanarama National league

 

League - First season after promotion is always a struggle and this was no different, a real rollercoaster where our players were either great or awful and no real reason as to what team would turn up. We had a run of 10 games without losing where we looked great but either side of that we were having spells where the first 2 or 3 shots on target would fly in. We were able to secure safety with a couple months to go which was good because our run was pretty much the entire top 7 and we also started to pick up bad injuries. It was also the time when FM wanted to annoy me by having players complain about squad depth and tank morale. We stumbled through the end though and a good 15th place was better than I hoped for.

FA Cup - Not great, lost to a team in the league below during one of our runs of poor form

FA Trophy - Our defence of this was poor as we got smashed by a team in the league below. 6 goals from 8 shots on target and they hit the bar 4 times so we were lucky to only lose 6-2. This was a strong side I put out as well which angered me even more

Transfers - Loaned out a player who needed football and moved a couple they wouldn't get a game for us

Youth Intake - forgot to take a pic of the preview but the intake was decent even though the personalities were not great

Sam Macready 28A - a defender who can tackle. We really need some CBs to start breaking through though
Stephen Fox 28B - nice looking CM for our Mezz role
Mark Clarke 28C - a left sided CB would be nice
Curtis Roberts 28D - we went heavy on CBs this intake clearly 
Connor Evans 28E -a nice option on the wing
Nathan Thomas 28F - A DM with excellent tackling but needs to work on those mentals

Career Overview

Season		League			Position	Junior Coaching		Youth Recruitment	Notes

2024/25		VNN			13th 		Adequate		Average			Got first coaching badge
2025/26		VNN			7th 		Adequate 		Average 		Lost playoff semi finals. 2nd coaching badge
2026/27		VNN			1st 		Good			Average 		Won the FA Trophy
2027/28		VNL			15th 		Good 			Above Average 		3rd coaching badge

 

[darren1983]

Putting my save on ice for a bit, will come back to it later, but not really enjoying it as much this year.

I'll still be in here reading what everyone is doing though so still tag me for things just in case I miss them. 

[Neo_Geo]

14 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

Putting my save on ice for a bit, will come back to it later, but not really enjoying it as much this year.

I'll still be in here reading what everyone is doing though so still tag me for things just in case I miss them. 

You’ll be back 

it’s always about finding the right save, the one that just hooks you…..if you don’t find it then it’s hard to be motivated for this challenge as it’s all about the club you choose and the league they play in.

For me I always struggle in the close season, no idea why as you just generally need to continue to progress 

[JLAB]

2 hours ago, Winski said:

FK Fotbal Třinec

 

It's time for a new adventure! This time in Czech Republic. I have a very succesful save in Sweden with IFK Lidingo at the moment, but I wasn't enjoying it anymore. So it was time for someting new and fresh.
I decided to go for FK Trinec. I know nothing about the club, but I chose this club because of their nice logo and kits. I tried to make their kits as realistic as possible.
There is €1.9M in the bank, which is quite a lot. And the financial projection looks really nice as well. So hopefully it will help me to get some early upgrades!
And the board already got "develop players using the club's youth system" as their board culture. Perfect!

 

Ironically, during my Youth Academy Challenge in Poland with Motor Lublin last year, they became the best team in Czechia when I had the league loaded as a result of loading up all of the teams that get recommended for doing a Polish League save. So I'd been considering doing a save with them as a result. Hope you have fun with them.

[JLAB]

I've got a league and team in mind for my next attempt, but I've also gotten distracted by other save ideas that I'm tempted to try. So, it might be a while before I make my next attempt.

[Winski]

13 minutes ago, JLAB said:

Ironically, during my Youth Academy Challenge in Poland with Motor Lublin last year, they became the best team in Czechia when I had the league loaded as a result of loading up all of the teams that get recommended for doing a Polish League save. So I'd been considering doing a save with them as a result. Hope you have fun with them.

Nice to hear! So there is a lot of potential in this club. Thanks for letting me know! And for setting the bar high....

[SuperRedditch]

This feature is B R O K E N this year.

 

We're mid-table first season in the top division, we have lost the last 2 games, but we won the 2 before that. Just flat out plain busted. I've managed to get 1 badge in 8 years, btw.

Edited November 21, 2023 by SuperRedditch

[Neo_Geo]

32 minutes ago, SuperRedditch said:

This feature is B R O K E N this year.

 

We're mid-table first season in the top division, we have lost the last 2 games, but we won the 2 before that. Just flat out plain busted. I've managed to get 1 badge in 8 years, btw.

I had a terrible time getting coaching courses in Denmark (didn’t get 1) but in Israel I’ve had every one I’ve requested in 2 seasons (3 in the first season and 2 in the second).

I do think there are massive flaws in the logic used, if your objectives were to avoid relegation and you are mid -table then the reason given is garbage.

Also I tested out some dynamics in another save and one of the things that made me laugh the most was the line about losing the manager to a better team, I gave the ultimatum a]that I couldn’t continue to work unless granted and they say “maybe you should resign then” 

[SuperRedditch]

Just now, Neo_Geo said:

I had a terrible time getting coaching courses in Denmark (didn’t get 1) but in Israel I’ve had every one I’ve requested in 2 seasons (3 in the first season and 2 in the second).

I do think there are massive flaws in the logic used, if your objectives were to avoid relegation and you are mid -table then the reason given is garbage.

Also I tested out some dynamics in another save and one of the things that made me laugh the most was the line about losing the manager to a better team, I gave the ultimatum a]that I couldn’t continue to work unless granted and they say “maybe you should resign then” 

The "losing me to a better team" has been the reason given all the way until I got to the top division. I have made a bug report on it, it's so massively overtuned. It'll be some random attribute of the chairperson that's the sole decider.

[karax268]

Çankaya FK 2024/2025 Season review

Fixtures part 1 | Fixtures part 2 | Transfers

On the field

Champions!!!

We are going up. We were great the entire season. Bursaspor at first and then Bucaspor kept pace with us for a good chunck of the season. Eventually they fell off and we didn't. We set several records on our way to our first piece of silverware

 

The cup

Nothing special. We had a big victory against lower league opposition and then went out with a big loss against super liga opposition.

Both somehow called Konyaspor.

The Squad

For most of the season I've been playing morale manager 24. and doing it badly. I managed to **** off half the squad with the first tweam meeting and the other half subsequently while trying to fix ****. Only after we had mathematically secured the playoffs (the boards objective) did they fall inline. 

Topscorer: Talha Aydemir

He led the team to the title with 22 goals. At no point was he the best player on the field. However without him the better players around him could not shine.

Best Player (highest avg): Metin Sevinç

15 goals and 11 assists for a total rating of 7.3. He had some injury issues eaarly on but when he found his groove he was amazing for us. Unfortunately he refuses to extend his contract. Next year will be difficult without him.

Young player of the season:.....

no one. 

No players under 20 had even a minor role during the season

 

Youth Intake

Well...that's less than ideal..

I supose I've gotten spoiled by the intakes in portugal. I've not taken any screeshots of the players attribute players. I don't think they'll be around long. 

Board

Our finances are hilariously bad but in an okay state because the board provided some cash injections. 

A whopping 374 average attendance in our 18K stadium is not great either. 

 

They improved both youth recruitment and junior coaching

 

 

As well as 2 coaching courses for me. I've completed the national C and am working on B

 

Next season

There seems to be some parity between this level and the next, so I'm hopefull we can do well. However, several of our best players want to leave. I will be be happy with just avoiding relegation and building on what we have

 

 

[Anners]

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On 20/11/2023 at 10:58, Anners said:

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2032/33 Season Report

Club: Tranent FC (Scotland)
League: Scottish League 2

League:

To say we're a mid table League 2 side is an understatement. Just to understand what it's been like since the relegation from League 1, here's the finishing positions I've had since starting the save:

Basically, we'll just get about 46 points every year apart from the odd season - it's actually quite boring on the field! It's also incredibly repetitive. Again, we've had the tale of 2 seasons. First 18 games, 30 points, top 3 in the league. Second 18 games, we pick up 15 points, bottom of the league. I'm clearly missing something on FM this year as this has happened in too many seasons for it to be a coincidence now.

We did manage a little bit of a cup run this year, getting to the 5th Round for the first time for the club, but lost to Championship side Falkirk 3-0 in a bit of a damp squib!

Youth Intake:

The exciting bit! We're at the point where we're getting a starting first team player every year, and this was no different. Apologies for the screenshot, I may have completely forgotten to take a screenshot of the actual intake..

Jacob Connell (GK) will go right in as my number 1. Professional personality as well, so he might be between the sticks for a while! We've also got another good striker in Mateo Großkreutz, so we're definitely not lacking there anymore.

Overall..... not a lot happened this year.

 

 

2032/33 Season Report

Club: Tranent FC (Scotland)
League: Scottish League 2

League:

You might think I'm excited not to get about 46 points this year, but we've thrown away a 10 point lead at the 18 game mark to finish 2nd and into the playoffs. I was almost tempted to screenshot and post going "wonder how we'll mess it up from here"... ugh!

How the playoffs went:

An absolute no show in the first leg meant we had a mountain to climb for the second. Sadly, we couldn't get the third goal despite being 2-0 in the 46th minute. Hugely, hugely frustrating season this one and we really needed to get up as we've got Premiership and Championship clubs putting in offers for the likes of Connell (GK), Shearer (DL) and Strachan (SC) who I can't imagine I'll keep hold of much longer, especially in League 2.

Youth Intake:

Now, this isn't something I've actually seen before. On the intake, it had Wilson down as a Model Citizen, but once signed changed to Fairly Determined. Clearly a good prospect with good mentals, but not as good as I first thought. Ferguson as a back up goalkeeper is badly needed especially if Connell leaves.

We have had to sell Mateo Großkreutz to Dundee United for nothing, but with a 50% sell on clause. Who then 6 months later sold him to Premiership side Motherwell for a whopping £1.8k. And is now worth in the region of £2.4m to £4.8m. I don't think I've had such a frustrating save for a long time.

[Colossus]

Sociedad Deportiva Leioa

2030/2031 Youth Intake Preview / Mid Season Review

Feels like we are on our way to have a pretty safe season

Could very much use a quality CDM!

[Brentmeister]

Season 3

Division 2 Champions!

A perfect storm of a season where everything came together to see us crowned champions.

Our demotion to semi-pro may have been a blessing in disguise. With less training, our injury record was great, and our running costs were much lower. No u18 competition also helped in this regard.

The title was never really in doubt and we were quite dominant all season.

Our professional status was immediately restored upon our title win.

I expect next season to be a struggle but we only need to finish 5th bottom to avoid the relegation group.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Youth Intake

An excellent intake was promised and delivered.

6 elite talents arrived and although the personalities weren't great, it should put us in a good place when the real players start to retire.

 

Young Ghanaian midfield Boateng was considered best in class.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Other Stuff

No transfers in.

I'm now a National B rated coach.

Our junior coaching and recruitment are both now excellent.

Ticket prices went up again. Our season ticket holders should double next season.

Our board decided to expand the stadium at a cost of 4.4m. I'm not sure where the money is coming from though because it isn't showing in the overall balance or debts and loans.?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sneak Preview of Season 4

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

Edited November 21, 2023 by Brentmeister

[Scraborn]

It seems that i cant sign my best youthplayer because he demands more than my club wants to pay... is there a way to avoid losing him on a free?

[Brentmeister]

4 minutes ago, Scraborn said:

It seems that i cant sign my best youthplayer because he demands more than my club wants to pay... is there a way to avoid losing him on a free?

Can you top it up with bonuses and clauses?

[Scraborn]

vor 24 Minuten schrieb Brentmeister:

Can you top it up with bonuses and clauses?

I might try - he is still on a youth contract for one year but i want to give him a pro contract to keep him here - the highest payment i can offer is 10k p.a but he starts with 21k wich is horrible in VNN

[The7Striker]

If it weren't for the club, BFC Dynamo, I would have already given up on this save. 

[carlowsaint19]

Season 3 review (first in top Turkish league)

Turkish Super League - Expected finish 18th (out of 18). Actual finish of 13th, 11 points out of drop zone. Continuously strong results against the other bad teams in the division and some home draws against better teams meant we finished comfortably out of the drop zone in the end. Did take some heavy beatings, including a 5-0 and 7-0 but to be expected against the really big teams I think.

Surprisingly (to me at least) there are some really crap teams at the bottom end of this division, and even with my team that has more than 50% of the starting 11 belonging in the third tier we are not significantly worse than the other bottom half teams. For example, there are three other teams in the division for the new season which have the same/similar wage budget to ours, meanwhile Galatasaray have 16 players who earn more than my whole squad as individuals with Zaniolo earning 4 times my whole squad and staff weekly wage alone!

 

Cup (expected to be competitive) - went out in the same round we entered, played the back up kids losing 1-0 

 

New season expectations (attempt to avoid relegation) - I expect to be able to finish mid table, with our head to heads vs the other lesser teams being key. Already played 4 league games, winning three against afore mentioned bottom half teams and losing one badly to Fener so off to a great start. 

Finances - Currently Minus 3M, expected to increase to Minus 5.5M by the end of the season. We make 5.4m a year between TV, prize money and tickets, with youth costs (4m) & ground maint of (1.4m) offsetting this, before wages and other costs come into play. I expect I'll have to sell one of my better youth players with my best DM attracting interest from the top Turkish teams.

Facilities - not expecting any improvements due to the financial situation unless I sell players or get a cash injection from somewhere. 

Challenges ahead - starting GK will miss next 8 or so league games with an injury, with my backup GK being absolutely useless and getting worse by the day as can be seen below. Still facing mutinies over the lack of depth at certain positions and I fear I might lose some of the 4 non regen players in starting 11 due to release clauses in contracts, especially my main GK.

 

League table

 

Spoiler

 

Starting team

 

Spoiler

Transfers

Spoiler

 

Youth intake - 9 total 5 star PA players (a damning indictment of my squad's quality!), with the AML going straight into my starting 11. Was very excited to see the GK appear, but he has a "low self belief" personality with Outspoken, and also low determination. Expect both CD's to get some action if any injuries occur.

Spoiler

 

Our 16 year old right back, with 42 career appearances already and highest value player by a mile.

 

Spoiler

 

Our DM who is attracting big interest for transfer

 

Spoiler

 

[Anners]

3 hours ago, Anners said:

Previous Post:

 

 

2033/34 Season Report

Club: Tranent FC (Scotland)
League: Scottish League 2

League:

You might think I'm excited not to get about 46 points this year, but we've thrown away a 10 point lead at the 18 game mark to finish 2nd and into the playoffs. I was almost tempted to screenshot and post going "wonder how we'll mess it up from here"... ugh!

How the playoffs went:

An absolute no show in the first leg meant we had a mountain to climb for the second. Sadly, we couldn't get the third goal despite being 2-0 in the 46th minute. Hugely, hugely frustrating season this one and we really needed to get up as we've got Premiership and Championship clubs putting in offers for the likes of Connell (GK), Shearer (DL) and Strachan (SC) who I can't imagine I'll keep hold of much longer, especially in League 2.

Youth Intake:

Now, this isn't something I've actually seen before. On the intake, it had Wilson down as a Model Citizen, but once signed changed to Fairly Determined. Clearly a good prospect with good mentals, but not as good as I first thought. Ferguson as a back up goalkeeper is badly needed especially if Connell leaves.

We have had to sell Mateo Großkreutz to Dundee United for nothing, but with a 50% sell on clause. Who then 6 months later sold him to Premiership side Motherwell for a whopping £1.8k. And is now worth in the region of £2.4m to £4.8m. I don't think I've had such a frustrating save for a long time.

Previous Post:

2034/35 Season Report

Club: Tranent FC (Scotland)
League: Scottish League 2

League:

We've done it!! We're finally back into League One! We don't half make it difficult for ourselves...

This actually came down to the last game, where we played Forfar at home in what was essentially a playoff to see who would get promoted. A lovely 4-1 win means we don't have to mess around with the playoffs this year as we return to League One after 7 years away.

We are sadly losing a couple of players, but we have managed to keep Jacob Connell in the GK position. The 2 we're losing this summer are Mark Shearer, who if he had any physical attributes would probably be an extremely sought after player by European clubs, and Josh Strachan, who I think will likely be getting regular starts in the Premiership for Kilmarnock soon. 

Some slight interest in the ViaPlay cup this year, as we managed to progress to the 2nd round and have Hibs make the short trip to Tranent. It took them a 75th minute winner to get past us and considering that they seem to have replaced Rangers as the 2nd biggest team in Scotland (and have won a couple titles in 29/30 and 30/31), I'll be quite content with that exit.

Youth Intake:

For the first time for a few years, this was actually quite disappointing! John Sinclair (DC) will likely get a shot in the first team as we're lacking a little bit of depth at centre back, but other than that it was fairly average.

The Youth Setup we're running is starting to take it's toll a little bit, but I am hoping with the promotion we'll be able to start making a bit of money again. It's not a huge loss, but it's a noticeable one for the first time this save. I will share Gerry WInton's stats here - I'm not entirely sure why he popped off so much this year but I'm certainly not complaining. He's got a bit of pace about him, but isn't close to being one of my better players.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Anners

[WhiteCat33]

CA Calculator Spreadsheet

If anyone wants to play around with a newer version of my CA Calculator spreadsheet I've attached it with the FM23 view. I do not know if FM23 views will work in FM24. If they don't, I'll need a kind soul to go through the tedium of recreating it as I haven't gotten FM24 yet.

Completed General Features:

1. Calculate Current Ability of players in: 1) Team, 2) Youth Intake & 3) Opposition Squads
2. Display a rough average of the Hidden Attributes for Players.
3. Automatically generate tables of player general stats for Season, Career & International
4. With a very simple export create Charts for Team and Youth Player personalities & CA

 

Incomplete Feature: Nation Tracking

Since I started playing the YAC I've been using the format @XaW's Nation tracking spreadsheet. Since in this data there is all the nation data for youth players it is possible to automatically generate this sheet. 

However, SI decided to not use the full proper ISO Alpha-3 abbreviations, and instead create some of their own codes as well as split out some nations differently. In my quick searches at night I haven't found an easy to copy list of Codes - Nation Name to build a lookup table. If someone has this table I can quickly finish this.

It's not in my view, but adding in City of Birth wouldn't be too complicated and then producing a Graph/table with the sums.

 

Warnings That I Haven't Fixed:

The external link warning is due to Wiki-Links for each country in the nation section. I know bad practice leaving them in, I noticed after I posted and will fix when I'm back on the computer.

Circular Reference Warning is due to how I'm pulling the "Current Season" data for the Team. I'll fix this in the next version as it means moving around some calculations. It's annoying I know...

Data Limits:

Due to needing to use the volatile INDIRECT fn I had to put some player & year limits to keep the spreadsheet snappy.

Player Max per Export = 80. This means that if your Main+Reserve+Youth Squad has more than that number of players the bottom of your list will not get calculated. I always pre-sort my export by the AssMan's Star Rating. if you do that, the dropped players will be the worst and thus least important.

Last Year Available = 2075. This gives you 50 years of data. For most of us this should be more than sufficient.

Max Opposition Squads=20. this can be changed easily, as its just a Data Verification limitation. If you want 100 go for it.

 

How to Use:

Part 1: Adding View, Exporting Team & Importing into Excel

Spoiler

0) Copy view into FM View Folder:

1) Import View into FM. [Let me know if you can't do this because it was made in FM23 instead of FM24] I am up to v3 of the view in the zip file.

2) Select the view in game.

3) For the team you want to select. Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+P to print the screen. Print as Web Page.

4) Save webpage following one of the 3 naming conventions:

A) "Team-YEAR" (Ex: Team-2029)

B) "YA-YEAR" (Ex: YA-2029)

C) "Opp-#" (Ex: Opp-1) [Valid numbers are 1-20]

5) Open the webpage with excel:

6) Drag & Drop [Or use the Move option] of the Sheet into the CA Calculator.xls

7) Sheet should now appear in the Calculator Workbook. Now go to the Top Left of the "Summary" sheet and select the 2-part combination for what you brought in. Since I brought over Team-2046 that is what I've selected in the example:

7b) For Opposition Squads: You don't need the year, just select "Opp" from C2 and then select the Opposition number in C4. Max for Oppositions is currently 20.

8) Everything should auto populate in the Summary screen. 

Note on Opposition Squads:

If you want to have Opposition squads in the spreadsheet I'd highly recommended the trick of using "Add a Manager" to see any teams players fully. I really don't use this part often, just wanted it available as its useful once in a while to have a reference to your competition.

 

Export Data for Team & Youth

While the "Summary" screen is fully automatic, to build the charts I use for Team & Youth tracking you have to manually copy and paste data. You could easily build a macro for this but I wanted this spreadsheet to be macro-free & all Excel compatible.

Spoiler

1) Switch to the "ExportData" Tab

2) The instructions are in the top row of the spreadsheet. But just to make sure: Select the entire Row 4 and Copy:

3) Go to the corresponding tab for whichever data you have loaded. For this example I am doing the Team-2055 data, so will be going to "TeamOutput". Scroll down to the year being exported (2055) and Paste Values Only

4) The Graphs are currently set to extend to 2056 from 2023. Unfortunately, I suck at graph formatting so you have to go in and manually change the years these are selected for to chart everything.

That's all to get everything going. I've tried to make it fairly painless.

Summary Screen Overview:

This is the original screen that I built the CA Calculator for it contains 3 Major tables:

1. Current & Role Ability Table + Hidden Personalities [Starts C6]
2. International Players Main [Starts AJ18] and Youth [Starts AJ67]
3. Career & Season Top 10/5 Tables [Starts BE6]

I get this is a mess, and eventually I'll clean it up when I'm done adding features, but for now you'll have to hunt and zoom around.

Team Output:

I have 7 graphs here that are primarily focused on Personality & Current Ability:

1. Four Professionalism, Ambition & Determination Graphs at the >10 & 15> thresholds.
2. One Determination Averages Graph
3. 3 Graphs of Current Ability
4. One Graph of Most Recent Season Personality Distribution

Youth Output:

I have 7 graphs and 2 tables that cover everything that the Team Output does, with a couple additional summaries:

1. Four Professionalism, Ambition & Determination Graphs at the >10 & 15> thresholds.
2. One Determination Averages Graph
3. Two Current Ability Graphs - 1) Tracking Top 5 Players in each intake ; 2) Total players produced within 15 CA Ranges.
4. One graph of the top 10 Personalities generated by the Academy.
5. Two Tables: 1) List of Top 10 Players by CA ; 2) Top 10 Positive Personalities List.
6.  An Abomination of a Pie Chart - The labels will be all screwed up here, and you'll have to "best fit" them or manually adjust as your data changes.

 

So yeah, that's my CA Calculator. For more detailed shots of my tables you can see them in action in my season reviews above. Hope this is helpful for those who enjoy maximal data about their club #SpreadsheetManager

CA Calculations v6 - BLANK.zip

Edited November 21, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[SkyjumperTalon]

On 11/11/2023 at 00:21, SkyjumperTalon said:

Starting this new challenge with Lokomotiv Leipzig in Germany!

 

 

First Youth Intake preview... Nothing crazy. Not thrilled

 

https://imgbox.com/BzWMxfwM

[Scraborn]

Are we alloed to use affiliate clubs? to get money or send players out on loan?

[OlivierL]

5 hours ago, Brentmeister said:

Season 3

Division 2 Champions!

A perfect storm of a season where everything came together to see us crowned champions.

Our demotion to semi-pro may have been a blessing in disguise. With less training, our injury record was great, and our running costs were much lower. No u18 competition also helped in this regard.

The title was never really in doubt and we were quite dominant all season.

Our professional status was immediately restored upon our title win.

I expect next season to be a struggle but we only need to finish 5th bottom to avoid the relegation group.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Youth Intake

An excellent intake was promised and delivered.

6 elite talents arrived and although the personalities weren't great, it should put us in a good place when the real players start to retire.

 

Young Ghanaian midfield Boateng was considered best in class.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Other Stuff

No transfers in.

I'm now a National B rated coach.

Our junior coaching and recruitment are both now excellent.

Ticket prices went up again. Our season ticket holders should double next season.

Our board decided to expand the stadium at a cost of 4.4m. I'm not sure where the money is coming from though because it isn't showing in the overall balance or debts and loans.?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Sneak Preview of Season 4

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

You are doing a great job.  In real life there are a lot of troubles with the Turkish owners. The complete youth department resigned last week after lack of respect and issues with the facilities for the youth players, money problems etc. First team is doing good with ex Belgium and everton player Kevin Mirallas as their DoF.

[Brentmeister]

1 hour ago, Scraborn said:

Are we alloed to use affiliate clubs? to get money or send players out on loan?

Yes. You just can't use them to loan players in obviously!

[Brentmeister]

14 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

You are doing a great job.  In real life there are a lot of troubles with the Turkish owners. The complete youth department resigned last week after lack of respect and issues with the facilities for the youth players, money problems etc. First team is doing good with ex Belgium and everton player Kevin Mirallas as their DoF.

It's a sad story a lot of lower-league clubs around the world are finding themselves in. Mis-management, lack of funds...

I still have one Turkish board member despite a takeover, and Mirallas has just left after I didn't renew his contract. (no need for a dof)

As for me in the Jupiler Pro this season, relegation is looking sadly imminent

I won't lose my job though so hopefully I can keep building.

Edited November 21, 2023 by Brentmeister

[Coxbox]

Thought I would share this goal, not sure what the Goalkeeper is doing or the Defender 

 

Spoiler

 

[Potat]

Saint Davids Warriors - Bermuda

2030/32 - Season 8/9

These updates every 2 seasons seem to bring me very good luck.

Season 8

Not a lot happened, we were terrible, we lost our best player on a free transfer, got the worst possible cup draw again, you know the usual kinda stuff in this game.

Just finished 3rd, had 0 goal difference, and a small gap of 15 points to the top two which has been growing year on year since we won the league, things really starting to look not great.

Then it got a bit worse, our best player refused to sign a new deal due to the strength of squad and then joined the best team in the league, I never thought I'd be able to hate a team called Dandy Town but I do now.

Plus he is literally valued higher than our entire club and as far as I know I won't get any future fee now as he was on a non-contract for us.

This kid came through the academy and well as you can see did pretty good the season after. So silver linings?

Season 9

We are back and better than ever, Champions for a second time, sealed with a 5-0 win in the final game of the second against the team of my nightmares, despite only keeping 3 clean sheets all season we also somehow had the best defense in the league, now we just have to avoid the pattern which suggests next season will be terrible.

Domestic Cup

At this point, I'm convinced this thing is rigged, 7 seasons in the top flight and I've been drawn against one of the top 2 teams in the Quarter Finals in every season bar one. The day I don't draw Dandy Town or North Village immediately I'll throw a party.

Youth Intake / Youth Teams

Intake was pretty decent I guess, I've lowered my expectations compared to previous years and there's a few decent players on the verge of the first team this time. Also worth noting now each player with good technicals is worth his weight in gold as our training facilities are so bad our current player's technical attributes are just getting worse each year.

Kalijah Clemons | Rob Bradley-Sinclair | Scott Chamberlain

As for the U18s and Reserve teams, both went unbeaten and both only dropped points once all season so clearly we are very well set up there at least.

Internationals / Other Teams

As far as Bermuda national teams go we basically run them at this point, last call-up saw 11 players in the senior squad (3 hadn't even made their debut for me) and a further 13 in the U20s team.

As far as other teams go I have to show the freak that Dandy Town kidnapped from Togo, 42GA in 26 games, how can I make him leave my island and go play actual football? He's been here for 3.5 years and is already a club legend for them.

Overview

Won't add player stats as this is already long enough. Hopefully we can keep the momentum going into next year and actually turn up the Caribbean Cup this time.

Edited November 22, 2023 by Potat

[XaW]

8 hours ago, Scraborn said:

Are we alloed to use affiliate clubs? to get money or send players out on loan?

Yes, you are allowed, just no players IN. You can loan your player OUT to other clubs or affiliates. And you can have a senior affiliate to get money, just not loan IN any players.

[Anners]

@WhiteCat33 Thanks for putting that here - I've been playing around with it this morning! Is it possible to add an "ideal 11" or something like that? 

Taking a bit of a proper look, I'm curious if the effect of being a part time club means priority is given to mental attributes over physical. I've got a couple of players with extremely good mentals, but very poor physicals.

Edited November 22, 2023 by Anners

[XaW]

XaW - Cardiff Draconians - Season 2024/25 (Season 1) - JD Cymru South

Squad | Transfers | Finances

A really good season for us, even if we had a small squad and at times struggled to even field a team. The youth intake came with a single game left, so the kids had little impact on the season as a whole. Having an actual bench for next season, might even push us further up. The season as a whole went well, and for most matches we were quite competitive. We got a couple of thumpings when we had injuries and only greys to fill in the spots on the pitch, but overall we showed we were there to fight. I think we might go up in a few seasons we can build on what wae did this season.

JD Welsh Cup: We lost to Briton Ferry in the 1st round.
League Cup: We beat Swansea Uni, Llanidloes, and Cardiff Corries before we lost to Penybont in the Quarter final.
Tier 2 League Cup: We beat Caerau Ely before we lost to Cardiff Corries in the 2nd round.

We also got some improvements accepted this season.

Around the world

U19s:

They didn't compete in any league system this season.

Welsh Youth Cup: They beat Tredegar, Llanhaeadr, Cwmbran Celtic, Airbus UK Broughton, Newtown, and Colwyn Bay before losing the final to TNS.

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

None

Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Apps
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Steve Tudor 25a		Wales		<N/A>		2025-Present	1
Lewis Brown 25b		England		<N/A>		2025-Present	1
Ross Jones 25c		Wales		<N/A>		2025-Present	1
Thomas Aboagye 25d	France		Ghana		2025-Present	1
Joe Sadler 25e		Wales		<N/A>		2025-Present	1

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Goals
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lewis Brown 25b		England		<N/A>		2025-Present	1

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Assists
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Aboagye 25d	France		Ghana		2025-Present	1

Supporters:

Summary:

[SuperRedditch]

 

Leça FC
Season Eight - 2031/32
Liga Portugal Bwin - 13th

 

Survival assured. This was a big year, however. We've finally broken even - with all our monthly expenditure on loan repayments etc, the £2.5m TV money we receive each year in this league just about means we stay in the black. Now, my sponsorship payment (should) just give us pure profit and I can start to invest that into facilties.

I managed to negotiate further upgrades to the Junior Coaching and the Youth Recruitment, so we're ticking along there and will hopefully see some higher PA youngsters start coming through. Just one I can sell to a big club would financially make us. I also did end up getting a second coaching course, after winning a couple of games and telling the board "after everything I've done for this club, this is the least you could do for me".

Tactically, I've flip-flopped a bit this season. My striker hasn't been my top scorer for 3 seasons and I'm unsure if its the tactic or just because of the player's limitations I'm somehow overcoming.

The Intake



The best preview yet. Can it deliver?

 

 

Semedo is pretty close to breaking into the first team. I'll give him sub appearances next season. The rest need mentoring and probably a year or two of youth football. Was really hoping for a couple that would just be instantly better than my existing squad, we really aren't very good.

 

edit

AHHHHH WHAT. Two days after I post this, my sponsorship comes in. It's increased sixfold. We're loaded: champagne's on me, lads.
 

 

 

Edited November 22, 2023 by SuperRedditch

[Shankly84]

Where is everyone getting their database add-ons from when using leagues outside of the original game? I'm tempted by Luxembourg or maybe somewhere like Kazakhstan. I just don't want to get into a save and then discover the format is incorrect or there are bugs. Cheers,

[unfocused_alex]

Bradford (PA) - 26/27 Season - The Run In

Well, it seems our third season has turned into somewhat of a disaster... 

It seems we certainly have not been good enough and not quite as prepared for the gruelling season as I had thought. After a pretty okay-ish start it was evident that it would be a struggle this year. Multiple big losses as well as high calibre squad loses proceeded to damage us further. Brad Dockerty (an experienced head from the original squad) refused to accept he was no longer the star player he once was and left in the summer when his contract expired and Jaromir Kucera (our gem of a Czech right winger) left on a free transfer after not accepting a part time contract with us due to our squad being "too weak". To lose our brightest prospect was hard enough, losing him for nothing is what really hurts. 

Transfers

Spoiler

Heartbreaking!

It seemed as soon as Jaromir left in January, our squad checked out... What followed was an 18 game winless run which brings us up to today. We have 3 games to save our season. We are 7 points from safety and on the back of 3 draws on the bounce, where we have looked really good. Is it too little too late? We have a favourable run in so I'm actually quite hopeful we can pull of the greatest of escapes. Also we've literally just got our youth intake so maybe it's the perfect storm! We need plenty of results to go our way and the odds are heavily stacked against us but, you know what, I believe. 

Intake

Spoiler

The positives of this season so far? Simon Owen has developed pretty nicely and put in some good performances. Other than that there's not really been too much to shout about. No upgrades to facilities and the board still reject every request for me to get a coaching badge. We switched to a strikerless formation this year and that could explain our bluntness up front but we actually lack a real good attacking player anyway so I'll blame that. 

So on to the business. The business being whether we keep our job (and save) going. 

Game one - Darlington (A)

Spoiler

They sit 12th and nothing to play for. Could we put an end to 18 games without a win and get a victory toward safety. Like I've mentioned we have played well in the last 3 games, so morale is good.

WIN. GET IN! Kristian Neill steps up and bags a brace playing as a shadow striker. The journalists have coined our route one football as "revolutionary"! 

Here's how the table looks going into game two 

Game two - Tamworth (H) 

Spoiler

Now this could be the trickiest of the run in. They are 4th in thje league, but looking a bit out of form for a play off team. Maybe we've caught them at the right time... Let's see how this revolutionary route one football goes.

Well it's 2-2 going into added time and I think our time might just be up... I've stuck it on Very Attacking as one goal is all we need to stay alive.

Ball into the box and Lancaster is bundled over! PENALTY BRADFORD! 
Jamie Spencer has the opportunity to keep the great escape alive...

BURIES IT! WE'RE NOT DONE YET. 92ND MINUTE!

The game ends 3-2 and after a quick glance at the results from the days play we are well in this. Leamington lost and we are now just a point behind going into the last day of the season. Here's the table ahead of the final day

Game Three - Stourbridge (A) 

Spoiler

Now, this perfect storm I mentioned earlier? Well this could be the eye of it. 
Stourbridge sit rock bottom of the league with just 20 points and long relegated. Our relegation rivals Leamington face top of the league Scarborough, could this really be the greatest escape ever orchestrated? 
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here...

So the permutations are - 
- We draw and Leamington lose, we are still down on goal difference (unless there is a 12 goal swing) 
- We win and Leamington lose / draw, we survive.

Essentially, we have to win.  

Going into the game, a quick look through their squad and a name pops out to me... None other than our former "star" - Brad Dockerty. Surely Mr Dockerty can't stand us now? 

We're underway here... 

And just like that, it's half time. At half time, Leamington are level with Scarborough. So we need a goal here. 

Short corner and Simon Owen is not being closed down here. OWEEEENNNNN!!! 1-0 BRADFORD!!! 

70 minutes gone here and we're safe as it stands. Bradford win the ball back in the centre circle and Longbottom plays a long ball over the top for Luke Tyler. He is in here! AND HE FIRES HOME!!! 2-0!!! I don't believe it!!! 

I don't believe it even more... Leamington lead against Scarborough... We're down as it stands

87 minutes on the clock... 

SCARBOROUGH HAVE EQUALISED!!! WE ARE STAYING UP!!!!!

IT'S FULL TIME!! THE GREAT ESCAPE HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED!!! 

I genuinely cannot believe it. How have we done that?

End of Season Awards - 

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Thought it would be fun to include a little End of Season Award section to give some recognition to the lads in what has been a tough year. 

Manager's Player of the Year
Simon Owen - Simple, he's developed really nicely and looks like he can really lead us into the future.

Most Improved Player of the Year
Kristian Neill 

Who am I expecting to come through next year? 
Kyle Lamey - Although his development hints at decline. I'll look to getting him to realise his potential next season. I'm looking to push him into Centre back rather than full back. 

Nat Noble-Lazarus - I'll look to see Nat pushing through next year and getting plenty of minutes. 

Manager and Club Stats / Info

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I'm hoping next year we can start to push on! I don't know, maybe even get a coaching badge! You never know

 

Edited November 22, 2023 by unfocused_alex

[CJ'43]

Kavala Football Club / Αθλητικός Όμιλος Καβάλα

Season 0 - 2023/24

Info / General / Facilities / Squad

 

I'm going to give Greece a try. Meet Georgios Angelopoulos, a 50-year-old Greek stepping into football for the first time as a manager of the newly promoted second tier side Kavala FC.

Edited November 22, 2023 by CJ'43

[WhiteCat33]

14 hours ago, Potat said:

Plus he is literally valued higher than our entire club and as far as I know I won't get any future fee now as he was on a non-contract for us

Bummer to lose him, that's the rub playing in the Caribbean in these early years. Are either of the other dominant clubs professional? I don't remember if they start professional.

If he gets transfered outside of Barmuda you will get a small percentage of the transfer as the development club,  like 2-5%. A pittance I know, especially with how valuable each dollar is in the Caribbean. 

[WhiteCat33]

6 hours ago, Anners said:

@WhiteCat33 Thanks for putting that here - I've been playing around with it this morning! Is it possible to add an "ideal 11" or something like that? 

Taking a bit of a proper look, I'm curious if the effect of being a part time club means priority is given to mental attributes over physical. I've got a couple of players with extremely good mentals, but very poor physicals.

You're welcome, happy to share it! I'm away from the computer for the next few days (thanksgiving holiday here in the US), so what follows is from memory. 

I started something like that with the idea of building a starting XI in your chosen formation by best player who has played above a minimum number of minutes and is able to play the position. It just wasn't something I needed in Barbados and I wanted more longitudinal tracking, so I paused on it and removed it from this posted version.

Parts of its calculations are still in the sheet, specifically rank ordering CA players by position. That's what the minutes Selector is for on the "Summary" page. You change that and it will alter the threshold. I'm pretty sure in the playing stats and international performance calculating page the listing of starters vs reserves is still in the sheet and working. It lists UID and CA in order per position splitting players into the two groups above and below the threshold.

 

With regards to part time: From my experience the way to get any physical development from part time is to choose training roles that highlight the max number of atteibutes. This is why I train all my strikers as pressing forwards and midfilders as box2box/segundo volante when we are part time. 

Once you are full time then you can specialize into more technical players.

Edited November 22, 2023 by WhiteCat33