The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[Mahzun_Savas]

3 hours ago, Virtual Male said:

Season 5 2028/29

 

Manager Profile - Competitions - Finances - Facilities

Competitions

• Vanarama National League (Past Positions) - A rough season, we never found any consistency and the defence and keeper let us down a lot throughout the season. Spent the majority of the season hovering 5/6 points above the relegation zone but a tough run in at the end of the season left me thinking we were going down. Luckily the teams under us were just awful and we avoided the drop by 1 point.
• The Emirates FA Cup - Made it into the FA Cup proper again but no heroics this year with a 1t round exit.
• The Isuzu FA Trophy - My first trophy!!! (winning the play-offs doesn't count right?).  Quite a fortunate run to be honest, the first team we faced that had anything about them was South Shields in the Semi-Final, a late winner saw us get the better of Julio Arca's team and would see us come up against Bath in the final, who had just lost the play-off Finals. The game ended up being rather dull, an early red for Bath saw them sit back and defend pretty much nullifying our attack with the only goal of the game  coming from a direct free kick and handing Merthyr Town their first silverware of my reign... Hopefully plenty more to come. 

Squad - The lack of quality at the back really let us down again this year, especially our keeper who conceded 12 more than the xG showed and we had a league low of 5 clean sheets in the season. I'll have to try to figure that out over the summer.

• Zack Maher - My spotlight player should probably be Ryan Astley since he won both the league Top Scorer and Player of the Season but I can't talk about him every season so I'm spreading the love. Zack Maher is one of the legacy players that's still getting a good amount of game time and he came up big this season with 11 goals and 9 assists in the league from DM, since he's only 26 too he should have plenty of time left in him which is good given the youth players don't really develop much with part-time training.

Youth Intake (Preview) - 5 A's in the preview left me rushing to March when I'd get the intake and it defiantly didn't disappoint. 11 5* players with one that'll walk straight into the first team and hopefully solve some of our defensive issues. 

• Sam Jones (2029YP1) - Just turned 16 and already they best keeper at the club. He'll be rotating with Cogman next season just to avoid over playing him at such a young age because I've got it in my head that's in some way damaging to youth development but I'd happily be corrected by one of you guys who knows more.

Transfers & Finances - One out this season, no-one important though. The finances aren't looking good with nearly a £500k loss over the season, I'm not sure there's much I can really do about that though so We'll just have to try to ride it out I suppose. 

Other - A couple of upgrades this year, the board decided to up the Youth Category of the club so were category 4 now, the yearly cost will be about £300k though and I'm not sure we can afford it really. I got my National A Licence too but I think that'll be it for a while now given the financial state of the club.  

Bingo Card - 9/100, when I started filling this in I was a little disappointed that the win the vanarama south box would be forever red but given how we played this season we might well end up back down there soon . 

 

Congratulations on winning the FA Trophy.

[jrobertgordon13]

SEASON 1 RECAP - BETHESDA SC (ATG)

Well, I finally completed a season in Antigua and Barbuda. Safe to say it was quite a ride. By the way I began this save in FM23, so that's why it technically the 23-24 season rather than 24-24 season. Anyway, let's get cracking!

 

Manager Profile:

Not much to say. You'll see why I made it to the Antigua and Barbudan HOF by the end...

 

Squad:

Pretty good, for the level, at least according to me.

 

Tactic: 4-3-3 DM WIde

I usually use the 4-3-3 DM Wide because I'm terrible at creating tactics lol

 

Season Predictions: 14th

 

End of Season Results: Finished first in Group A of 3rd Tier

We outperformed expectations by a mile and ended up getting promoted to the 2nd tier!!

 

Youth Intake:

Sadly the best player can't be used cause we don't play with Wingbacks, so overall not great class because we can't use by far the best player. We'll see if I can still get SOMETHING out of it.

 

Transfers:

Previous transfers were brought in before I was managing. I was hired in November.

 

[Virtual Male]

16 minutes ago, Mahzun_Savas said:

Congratulations on winning the FA Trophy.

Cheers! The following season isn't going well at all, relegation is very much on the cards I think.

[Mahzun_Savas]

ReinMeer Aomori FC

Youth Intake

A very poor intake which is to be expected given the youth recruitment and junior coaching is at very low levels. No elite or top talents. The pick of the bunch is probably attacking midfielder Tsuneyasu Matsuzaki while striker Musashi Nishioka might not be totally hopeless. Still all the players from this bunch will only play as a last resort

 

[fries]

7 hours ago, Virtual Male said:

He'll be rotating with Cogman next season just to avoid over playing him at such a young age because I've got it in my head that's in some way damaging to youth development but I'd happily be corrected by one of you guys who knows more.

I have had great success with playing my young talents at a young age. My theory is that when the training quality is so poor in the lower leagues it is better for their development to get game time. I see the best development from the players I use a lot. But this could of course be biased as I may tend to use my biggest talents most.

But be aware, I have no great insight and it is only based on my own experiences.

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2029/30

Bury

We were once again promised a good intake:

The group of players are good enough I always hope for a superstar which we didn't get.

[the_hdk]

1 hour ago, fries said:

I have had great success with playing my young talents at a young age. My theory is that when the training quality is so poor in the lower leagues it is better for their development to get game time. I see the best development from the players I use a lot. But this could of course be biased as I may tend to use my biggest talents most.

But be aware, I have no great insight and it is only based on my own experiences.

my exp In Japan is same. my facilities are meh, so players i'm using in games do develop better....but indeed I also use whose with highest potential and or personality.

generally under teh age of 18  youth teams should be better to develop, but I do not really see it that much in my game so far. compared to fm23

[HanziZoloman]

vor 13 Stunden schrieb fries:

Vanarama National League

2026/27 (season 3)

Season Summary

Before the season I was close to giving up. My morale was gone. The board had decided to build a new stadium which put the club into financial problems. We had to revert to a semi-pro status and we have no new upgrades in sight.

But then the season started! In the youth intake of 2026, we got three exciting attacking talents. Therefore, I left behind the defensive 5-4-1 formation and employed a very offensive 4-4-2/4-2-4. The new tactic worked wonders. We started to score a lot of goals immediately. However, we also conceded a lot of goals.

But in the end, massively 132 league goals were enough to secure a playoff spot.

In the play-off semi-final, we were up against Rochdale. We scored an early goal and tried, maybe for the first time in the season, to defend the lead. It was successful and we were off to Wembley.

The play-off final was against Swindon. We scored an early goal again. And then another. But Swindon made a great comeback and it was 3-3 with just a few minutes back. However, just before injury time, we managed to score after a corner. AND WE WON PROMOTION TO LEAGUE 2!!!

It was a typical game for this season. Lots of goals in both ends.

The most important players must be the striker duo, Frederick and Asante, with 39 and 37 goals respectively. Another very important player was Morris, who produced 27 assists and 13 goals. The young trio had a great season after they came through the intake just last season. The last guy of the front four is Baxter with 15 assists and 9 goals.

Binnom-Williams was again important with 17 assists from the left full-back position.

 

I will provide a screenshot of my 4 best players, Asante, Eze, Frederick, and Morris.

The youth intake preview looked good with 5 stars but only a single A.

The intake was great with Karakas and Vidovsek, who can provide some attacking depth to my team, which I currently lack. They look decent with ok personalities.

Unfortunately, the third most exciting-looking player, Zakaria, has a bad personality. And Nembhard lacks any kind of physical talent.

 

My former best player Wightwick left on a free transfer to Italy before the season. Otherwise, no transfers of significance.

Finances and Upgrades
Because of the financial trouble we did not get any upgrades this season.

However, I managed to get assigned to one new trainer course, and I am currently studying for the continental B license.

I hope the League 2 status and the new stadium, which should be ready for the new season, will help clear out the financial problems. Or that the board will just pay like they already did a few times in the season when the balance got too low.

The gate receipts from the play-off final on Wembley actually helped a lot with £300,000 and cleared most of the negative balance!

Strangely, my junior coaching is exceptional compared to excellent last season. But maybe it just takes time for an upgrade to have an effect?

Next season
Next season, I hope to be free of relegation. Hopefully, I can keep my best players and develop the team.

Great man you did it!!!! Congratulation for the comeback into professional football!! The young lads look fantastic, I never had players like them, they are truly special. 

Please talk about how you go financial in League Two. I am losing 150k per month and all saving are nearly gone (300k left in January), despite good cup runs ...

Maybe I shouldn't had accepted the U21 League invitation because my biggest expenses are "youth set up".

@DazRTaylor which league, still VN?

Edited October 30, 2023 by HanziZoloman

[DazRTaylor]

12 minutes ago, HanziZoloman said:

@DazRTaylor which league, still VN?

Yes, unfortunately.

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2029/30

Bury

Season Summary

A good, solid season witha  top half finish in the league, though we were dreadful in the cups.

Season Details

League Table - We were never in relegation trouble, nor we were threatening the playoffs.  A boring, if safe, mid table campaign.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - Our form was again in patches, a winless run followed by a winless one.  For the second straight November, we have lost every game in that month.  We did end the season in exceptional form though.

F. A. Cup - Disappointing as we went out at the first round stage, losing away to Dorking Wanderers, who play in the league below.

F. A. Trophy - We crashed out at the first hurdle, the third round, as Cheltenham Town turned us over on our own patch.

Friendlies - It was another mixed bag of results, though we did claim the scalps of Football League clubs Portsmouth & Bolton Wanderers.

Squad - We are getting better and some players have started to develop rapidly.

Squad Dynamics - I can't see this being much better to be honest.

Transfers In - None.

Transfers Out 1 & 2 - A few fringe players departed on free transfers and a lot of youngsters departed on loan.

Youth Candidates - It was a good intake with, just like last year, another goalkeeper, Charlie Hoey YP30C52, being highlighted as the best player amoung the group.

Finances - We returned to making a profit and as a result, our bank balance has grown still further.

Key Players

Marcelencio Klaiber YP28D20 - The development has been rapid for the Dutch midfielder.

Andrew Morris YP28J28 - I usually deploy him in central midfield and he has been immense.

Tommy Ashman YP28A17 - In his first season as our mains triker, he got better as the season went on.

Bello Yekini YP29A34 - The Nigerian goalkeeper became the clubs new number one at the start of the campaign and on the whole, he played well, with just the occasional lapse.

Sam Berry YP27I9 - The central defender is regarded as one of our best players but he flatters ton deceive at times.

Next Season

Another season of improvement would be good and I hope to once again finish higher than this season.

Personal Contract

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

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att  Def  Fit  GkD  GkH  GkS  Tac  Tec  Men  SeP  WWY  Ada  Det  PlK  YoK  LoD  PeM  Mot
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At start   Minimal   (0.50*)     None                 1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    1    5    1    1    1    5    1    1    1
2026/27    Minimal = (0.50*) =   None       =         4 ↑  4 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  4 ↑  4 ↑  4 ↑  1 =  5 =  1 =  4 ↑  4 ↑  6 ↑  5 ↑  4 ↑  4 ↑
2027/28    Minimal = (1.00*) ↑   National C ↑         6 ↑  6 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  6 ↑  6 ↑  6 ↑  1 =  5 =  1 =  5 ↑  5 ↑  7 ↑  6 ↑  6 ↑  6 ↑
2028/29    Minimal = (1.50*) ↑   National B ↑         8 ↑  7 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  8 ↑  8 ↑  7 ↑  2 ↑  5 =  1 =  7 ↑  7 ↑  8 ↑ 10 ↑  8 ↑  9 ↑
2029/30    Minimal = (2.00*) ↑   National B =         8 ↑  8 ↑  1 =  1 =  1 =  1 =  8 =  8 =  8 ↑  2 =  6 ↑  1 =  7 =  7 =  8 ↑ 10 =  8 = 10 ↑

Club Facilities

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

Season Record

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

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2026/27          50        23       10       17         110              91                 +19              46.00%             300 days
2027/28         101        58       17       26         265             167                 +98              57.43% ↑           659 days
2028/29         155        78       28       49         374             279                 +95              49.37% ↓         1,024 days
2029/30         204       100       34       70         471             374                 +97              49.02% ↓         1,394 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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2027/28    Vanarama National League North

Trophy Cabinet

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

Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     F.A. Cup                    League Cup        Achievements
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2026/27           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League North        7th       Third Qualifying Round          N/a           Lost in promotion playoffs first round.  F. A. Trophy second round.
2027/28           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League North        1st ↑     Second Round           ↑        N/a           Promoted as champions.  F. A. Trophy second round.
2028/29           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League             17th ↑     Second Round           =        N/a           Comfortably survived.  F. A. Trophy quarter final.
2029/30           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League             11th ↑     First Round            ↓        N/a           Top half finish.  F. A. Trophy third round.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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2026/27    Sam Berry YP27I9                          6
2027/28    Sam Berry YP27I9                         53
2028/29    Sam Berry YP27I9                         97
2029/30    Sam Berry YP29I9                        140

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
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2026/27    No one                                        0
2027/28    Sam Berry YP27I9                             10
2028/29    Sam Berry YP27I9                             15
2029/30    Tommy Ashman YP28A17                         25

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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2026/27    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                       1
2027/28    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                       8
2028/29    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                      15
2029/30    Jordan Baguley YP27B2                      20
           Andrew Morris YP28J26                      20

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by DazRTaylor

[Vipertitan]

Vendée Les Herbiers Championnat National-2024 2025

 

les Herbiers exeeded expectiona this season and were one of the feel good stories as  we impressed week after week . It was a season of unlikely yet jubilant success for us we found form due middle of the year and never looked back. 

 

Leauge table - we mad an impact ok we did not win this,

Past Positions- but as you can see we should of only to nancey win on the last day we could of won but pleased we managed to get an automatic promotion spot.

Cup DE France- Entente Feignies Aulnoye Football Club  beat us 4-1. 

squad-we have a small team here but players did well. 

under 18-youth candedates signed are theses players who only stood out, 

transfer hisrory- Sacha Semaoun  was the only  one player who let on a free transfer, 

finance summary-curentley spending 14,055pw and commited spending is 14,055pw with clun overall balance of 218.360

 

 

KEY PLAYER Profiles:

 

Maxime Carneiro- right winger had play in most of the games and was quality.

Michaël Nilor-was the top scorer this season. 

Valentin Rémy- was the highest rated player who coverd the distance over 90mins,

David Djigla-Had the highest average rating per game.

 

Youth PLAYERS:

Adrien Boulet- looks like an avrege player but will see how he gets on 

Paulo Vasconcelos-a player who i have high hopes for,  these were the only ones who stood out really,

 

 

Carrer Overview:

 

Season         Leauge                            Position       Achievements
2024-2025      Championnat National              2                Promotion

 

 

 

NeXt season:

 

to hopefully avoid relegation and try pick few wins up here and there. 

 

 

 

 

[Mahzun_Savas]

ReinMeer Aomori FC

END OF SEASON REVIEW - SEASON 1 - 2024

I was not very confident going into the season but a strong start, stronger middle and end meant we rose to 1st place by half way during the season and did not fall from there. It was a season of high scoring games but we kept winning these games, quite few by scores of 5-4 and 5-3. Part of the reason for this is my positive 4-4-2 diamond tactics and part because our attacking players are simply better than our defenders. Six players scored 10 or more goals.

Star Player

I had many players who did brilliantly during the season but start player was advanced forward Hibiki Wada

Transfers

There was one transfer in which was organised before I got there and I could not cancel. I put him in the reserves and he played no games for me.

My Profile

I was able to start on a coaching course towards the end of the season

[unfocused_alex]

Hi everyone, long time lurker here over the past two years admiring youth challenges... Looking to give it a go this time round! Any disadvantages to starting the save on the early access? I'm guessing it would be about potential bugs in the game but relatively safe otherwise? 

[HanziZoloman]

vor 12 Minuten schrieb unfocused_alex:

Hi everyone, long time lurker here over the past two years admiring youth challenges... Looking to give it a go this time round! Any disadvantages to starting the save on the early access? I'm guessing it would be about potential bugs in the game but relatively safe otherwise? 

works fine here

[XaW]

 

XaW - Follo FK - Season 2025 (Season 2) - OBOS-ligaen

Squad | Transfers | Finances

So, we are up in the 2nd tier of Norway, a place this club hasn't been since 2015. With the clubs record high of 11th at this tier, it's clear we are heading into uncharted territories. And with the additional fact that this division is a mix of professional teams, and semi-pro ones, it's clear the difference in opponents would be stark. To complete the mess, there is more or less a fact that there are about 20-25 good teams in Norway (in Norwegian standards of course)- The best 16 are in the top tier, the upper half of the 2nd tier contains the rest, and all those teams are professionals. The rest of the 2nd tier and down are the semi-pro teams hoping for a big break to go up and become pro. The worse of the teams mentioned are hoping to avoid going down and having to cut back on full time staff. I can't think of many teams that have broken that in Norway the last few years, most who have managed to go up has often tumbled back down again, and even som of the bigger teams have slipped here and there.

On to this season where had a very good attempt, especially considering we have all the disadvantages I mentioned above. It started off decent, if unspectacular, as we had 2 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses in the first 5 league matches. Up until the short summer break, we continued like that and we were comfortably mid-table at that point. After the break, we went on a bit of a run, and slowly climbed up the table until we inside the playoff spots. There we stayed the rest of the season and eventually finished 3rd. The top spot was easily taken by Stabæk, and to be fair, they were way too good for being down here. The other teams around us were Jerv and Kristiansund, both teams who really are better than us, but we showed we could beat them on a good day. As 3rd finisher we got byes to the playoff final, where we eventually got Kristiansund as our opponent. We had a good day and dispatched them to win the playoffs. Of course, this being Norway, this does not mean we are promoted, but rather us being qualified for the final playoff against the 3rd bottom team of the top tier. There we lost to HamKam after an extra time goal by them. So we got about as close as we could to promotion, but no cigar. Actually, I think we are far from good enough for the top tier, so I think we would have been thumped back down.

Now, there are a few issues here, that I've already reported to SI, first of all the home teams in the playoffs are the wrong way around, as the lower placed team get a home match, when it should be the higher placed one. And additionally, the Eliteserien/OBOS-playoff should be two-legged, not a single leg at a neutral venue. A bit annoying, but it is what it is. Hopefully SI will fix it to release or a further update. The Norwegian FA have switched this around about a gazillion times the last years, so I blame them!

I've started to include a few youth players this year. One is Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c, who can fit into a few positions. Omar Brødholt 24b is another one who got some game time in midfield.

Norgesmesterskapet: We beat Tertnes, Fu/Vo, and surprisingly Rosenborg before we lost to Bodø/Glimt in the 4th round.

Around the world

2nd team:

They only played friendlies this season.

U19s:

They struggled in the OBOS Nasjonal G19 after getting promoted last year, and finished last to get relegated.

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

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

PostNord-ligaen Avdeling 2 - 1 (2024)

(U19s) - Norwegian U19 Oslo 1 - 1 (2024)

Player statistics:

Most apps for the clubs

Name				Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Apps
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Omar Brødholt 24b		Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	23
Thor Hov 25a			Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	8
Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c	Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	5
Jan Christian Bjørnland 25d	Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	5
Sondre Hogstad 24d		Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	4

Most goals for the club

Name				Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Goals
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Omar Brødholt 24b		Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	2
Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c	Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	2
Magnus Smelhus Fladby 25e	Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	1

Most assists for the club

Name				Nation		2nd Nation	Time at club	Assists
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Thor Hov 25a			Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	2
Glenn Sigurd Ruud Irgens 24c	Norway		<N/A>		2024-Present	1
Jan Christian Bjørnland 25d	Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	1
Magnus Smelhus Fladby 25e	Norway		<N/A>		2025-Present	1

Supporters:

Summary:

 

[WhiteCat33]

13 hours ago, jrobertgordon13 said:

Youth Intake:

Sadly the best player can't be used cause we don't play with Wingbacks, so overall not great class because we can't use by far the best player. We'll see if I can still get SOMETHING out of it.

Always happy to see another Caribbean adventure! I know its early in your save, but from my experience in the Caribbean you find a way to work every high potential player later in the save as you don't get nearly enough of them. Considering you use both FB-R & AM-R, he should be able to be useful for you as a wide cover for both position after retraining.

[jrobertgordon13]

1 hour ago, WhiteCat33 said:

Always happy to see another Caribbean adventure! I know its early in your save, but from my experience in the Caribbean you find a way to work every high potential player later in the save as you don't get nearly enough of them. Considering you use both FB-R & AM-R, he should be able to be useful for you as a wide cover for both position after retraining.

I'm training him at centerback because he has some skill there, although we'll see if it works out.

[jrobertgordon13]

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Edited October 30, 2023 by jrobertgordon13

[unfocused_alex]

Bradford (Park Avenue) - Update 1

We're on our way! 

 

Time to sort out some kits and badges before getting fully stuck in to sorting the staff out... 

Fun fact about Bradford (PA) - they used to be called just Bradford before Bradford City overtook them as the main club in the city, hence why they had to take on the "PA" section of their name after their old ground Park Avenue. So extra challenge to return them to their rightful place as biggest club in the city.

Let's get stuck in then!

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by unfocused_alex
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[WhiteCat33]

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2044 Season 22 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Youth Academy Challenge FM23 Thread:

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Youth Academy Challenge FM24 Thread:

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Season 19 |Season 20 |Season 21| 2043 Takeover |

 

League Performance: CHAMPION

 

Cup Performance: CHAMPION

North American Champions League:

We dominated our group with the win against Humble Lion as especially important as the lone Jamaican team in the group. 

In the playoffs we got Arnett Gardens, who aren't usually dominant in Jamaica but had a great 2043 winning the Caribbean Cup & runners up in Jamaica, so were very difficult opposition. The 1-1 draw in Jamaica is about all I could hope for, but then we turned up on home soil to get a deserved 2nd leg victory to advance to the 2nd Round of the NACL!

Again we get a difficult draw. I don't expect much here, but who knows!

Squad:

Overview:

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Young Talent:

The big development in the team is we have fully transitioned to "The Next Generation" with at least 6 starters who are 18/19 and 2 rotation players of the same age. This includes all 3 Starting CDs moving the older players to the bench; 3/5 CMs with only the BWM not having a young talent & 2/3 Strikers. The older starters are 24-26, so have plenty of runway left in their careers.

The positions where we are light on young high potential players is at Wingback. We have one WB-L who is 18 and defensively good, but lacking going forward. For WB-R we have the reverse problem with multiple AM-Rs who have been retrained there, but none are good enough defensively to be trusted. 

Standard Lineup:

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Player Profiles:

Defenders: Overall shorter than I prefer with a Back-3 setup, but having 2 who can become BPDs is useful for our central possession play.

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Midfielders: Here we have 2 BBM and an AP, which fit 2 of our 3 spots in the central midfield. I like playing a CML-D to keep space open for Carrillo to drop-deep for give/go's and such as well as provide a ball winner in the midfield. Sadly none of these 3 can play that role. If I generate a big-man CD in the next couple of years this 3rd slot will be filled by moving one of the BPDs up into midfield.

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Strikers: Here we have 1 fast and 1 more skilled striker. Both started as Fickle and while one has improved to "Fairly Ambitious" the other didn't keep his ambition and is just "Fairly Determined". 

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Transfers:

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Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

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Excel Tables:

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Club Legends:

Carrillo has officially become a Club Legend at the age of 25!

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Carrillo heard me complaining that he wasn’t scoring enough goals to make the 1000 club by retirement. He scored just in the league this year as many goals as he scored all last season for the Club. This is in a 22 Game season:

Here is his Cup Performance: This is normal, and interestingly our old Poacher who I sold to BDFSP (to help them get better & free up minutes for my group of young strikers) did really well until he got a hip injury to miss out on the end of the season. Notice above it was his old season record that Carrillo broke.

Carrillo is going to become not just a Road View legend but a Barbados Legend. In the Nations league, Barbados played 6 games and scored 14 goals total. He scored 12 of the 14, absolutely insane numbers. [This is from before the WCQ campaign, so he's even more amazing at 27 goals in 25 games].

Head Coach:

 Still here, still a Legend

Club Improvements:

 We are getting more money from Sponsorships & Cup Winnings. Thankfully, the new board has ambitions and has continued to agree to invest it into whatever I ask for! Last year we did the Big Youth Facility Upgrade. This year the board agreed to do our first Stadium Expansion as we are over 90% Avg Attendance as well as a Training Facility Upgrade. Our Youth Facilities will still be 1 notch higher when this is finished.

Some Season Review Screenshots:

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Youth Academy:

HOYD:

Same

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake: : Best part about this intake is the large number of Fairly Professional players

Top 3 Players:

Best 3 CA Players are all pretty bad.

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Best looking to me is another Poacher, who is Fairly Professional. Won’t challenge Carrillo, but will develop in our youth side and probably make another Barbados team happy. 

Excel Tables:

 

 

Barbados National Team:

Barbados advance to the World Cup Qualifying Group Stage!!! I attended the game and was rewarded with a bonkers 2nd half of ET Hat trick by Carrillo with all 3 assists COMING FROM MY GOALKEEPER! He really should have won the game for Barbados in regular time as the VAR offsides was by the narrowest of margins. 

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In extra time a defensive error let their skilled CAM dribble the team and slot a ball far corner, and it was looking dire for Barbados going into the ET halftime. The manager switched up the tactics for 2nd ET going for a true route-one English longball. Luckily, Carrillo is the perfect type of big strong and reasonably agile Pressing Forward to excel in that role. Dude cemented his legendary status getting 3 solo goals in 5 minutes from long GK kicks over the top. Guatemala are ~80th ranked in the world while we are 140 so this is a huge upset getting Barbados into WCQ for the first time ever!

World Cup Qualifying Section: 

Drawn with Mexico is a real bummer, but Panama and Haiti are oppositions where I can see Barbados having some success.

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

Italy Callup for my Foreign CD!

Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

In other news our Poachee is a full-fledged England International! Not a bad defender who funded our going professional.

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Summary

This save is a blast to play right now. We've all been there when "that striker" appears. Carrillo is that man absolutely destroying teams both for club and country. He put 6 away against Granada in a competitive match, and you saw his ET hat-trick above:

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2044 Season Summary:

International Performances:

We also have a good batch of 18-19 year old players who are now starters and putting in great performances while improving as players. The league is increasing in reputation and slowly generating more prize money. We haven't had the explosin in TV revenue I hoped for (still under 100k a year), but we are still making plenty of money to upgrade facilities and pay players what they want.

I'd say the team has hit the 'final phase' of the save where we are going to begin becoming competitive against the MLS & Liga MX teams. Sure there is a huge gulf still, but players have potential and are young enough to reach it still as we push up facilities. I estimate we have 10 more years of Carrillo to make our mark in the history books.

Edited October 30, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[DrJones]

Oriental Dragon 2025/26

A good second season for the us, we were a stable mid-table team for the whole season. The big problem at the moment is our terrible centre backs. If they were somewhat decent we would challenge for a play off spot.

Squad

Our big star Nico won´t renew his contract which makes me a little scared, other than that I feel that we are in a comfortable spot.

Chinese watch

The best chinese player by far in the team. With Nico leaving Mr. Yong will have to carry our offense by himself.

Youth Intake

Ok, this guy is decent for our level...

Other news

The board decided to completely kill our economy for the near future by planning to build a new stadium. There are no one who want to watch us play at the moment so it´s hard to understand why...

History

 

 

 

[DrJones]

On 29/10/2023 at 20:43, Ralph96 said:

How long did it take for you to get them available, seems like been simming all day but couldn´t

A few hours, seems that I was pretty lucky I guess...

[Basschaapje.2]

This is likely gonna be my last game...

I'm facing last in the league and did a team talk. Told the lads to do their best to try and stay up. 14 out of 16 were furious???

Watch me get beating and straight into the last place where I have not been all season :(.

[thomas_e]

Energie Cottbus

Season Summary 2026 - 2027

Another solid 2nd Bundesliga season

 

Our second season in the 2nd Bundesliga. We didn't repeat last years 8th place, but I wasnt expecting to either. We finished in 11th place and relegation was never an issue. In fact we started the season absolutely brilliant and after 8 games we were sitting top of the table! Things quickly settled down and we found our place in the middle of the table. 

In the last few games I promoted a couple of our biggest prospects to the first team. In doing so I made the decision to also overhaul our tactic, going from a flat 4-4-2 to a 4-3-3 with a DM. I did this to gain more flexibility with the players available, including our biggest talents. This was an absolute disaster and now I am a little bit worried on how to attack next season..

Our youth intake was very good. Not as good as the outstanding intake last year, but still very good. Unfortunately the personalities weren't that great, so it will be exciting to see how they get on. 

 

Season Summary

          

 

Key Players

          

 

Key Talents

          

 

[Basschaapje.2]

11 minutes ago, Basschaapje.2 said:

This is likely gonna be my last game...

I'm facing last in the league and did a team talk. Told the lads to do their best to try and stay up. 14 out of 16 were furious???

Watch me get beating and straight into the last place where I have not been all season :(.

Hate this ****ing game sometimes. U can just smell it. 

[Basschaapje.2]

15 minutes ago, Basschaapje.2 said:

Hate this ****ing game sometimes. U can just smell it. 

We were expected to finish deadlast but with a flying start my hopes where sky-high. All came crashing down in the end though. 

Now will need to cool off and see where the next save takes me. Hope they fix holland.

[DomD]

@the_hdk congrats on getting promoted to J1.

Are you using this AI face pack for your new gens? https://www.fmscout.com/a-ultra-realistic-newgen-faces.html

Is it easy to setup?

[Neo_Geo]

Lewes FC Season 2 (25/26) Vanarama National South

League

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It was a season to remember as Lewes found that extra gear from the previous year to win the Vanarama South!

With 3 games to go an away tie at Dulwich Hamlet only a draw was required to seal the title, in that game a 93rd minute winner for Dulwich could have knocked the stuffing out of Lewes however they found their groove with a 3-1 home win over Oxford City to clinch the title with a game to spare. In the last game of the season which at one stage looked like a title decider away to Southend (who were sitting 2nd for a long time) ended 3-2 to Lewes as the season was rounded off in style.

The big difference this year was actually having options up top, the keeper didn't help out that much as defensively we were very shaky conceding 64 goals in the 46 games. Moore didn't score as many as the previous season but a total of 5 players hit 10 goals or more this season which helped spread the responsibility for goals.

Over the course of the season Lewes were deserved winners only losing the top spot for 5 games in total.

Here's how the team looked for the season

As you'll see the front line is what won the title this year as the defence and keeper were particularly poor.

 

Cups

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The cups went much better this year by reaching the FA Cup proper and beating Vanarama National side Altrincham 2-1  before Lewes lost 2-0 at home to League 1 Shrewsbury Town in the second round.

The FA Trophy saw a third round exit at home to Torquay 4-2 on penalties following an epic 3-3 draw. The game did come at the time where Olivares YP25-A (changed the naming of the players to Youth Player <Year> - Grade (A = Elite, B = Top, C = Good, D = Decent) was away on international duty with the Spanish U18s side.

The cups are always a bonus for me in this save so to get a little more extra income was good but it seems finances are pretty solid at this level in England....at least for now

 

Youth

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The intake was really good this year except I still have the issue where the intake can't be seen correctly in the Dev Centre and the review shows 0 players in all positions and states its a poor intake when it was actually really good.

Preview

Intake

I'm loving the varied nationalities coming through and this year saw the emergence of our new number 1 keeper in Michael Morgan. The star graduate was Zak O'Neill who already has solid crossing, dribbling and technique as well as fairly determined personality. Working on quickness is the priority to make him a more potent threat on the wing but its great to finally have some competition/cover for Ogunwamide.

 

Club

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Another season where the board backed me in my requests (after some gentle persuasion) to continue the improvements to Junior coaching and youth recruitment.....twice (again).

I assume the junior coaching didn't improve enough to change the description twice therefore the rating only changed from 3 to 3.5 stars.

Same again with the coaching badges as I am now studying for the Continental C license.

As a result of the promotion the stadium needs to increase to 4000 capacity and the board have taken that action now:

Have absolutely zero complaints with the way the club is running right now and we are currently £3,500 a week under the wage budget leading to a very healthy balance at the end of the season.

 

Bingo

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3 daubs on the card!

Winning the League meant promotion so that's a 2-for-1 and a 9-1 away win against Three Bridges in the FA Cup marks off the "Win a competitive game by 5 clear goals" objective.

I think the card is a work in progress as it may become apparent that its too difficult to get enough early game objectives but we'll see how it goes for now

 

[Neo_Geo]

Anyone suggest a reason why Olivares YP25-A wouldn't get any impact from the group for mentoring?

Is this a bug, new feature or something that has been around for a while that I just never noticed?

I tried adding Olivares to a group of only secondary social group and he still had zero influence on the group or effect from the group

[Perre8]

Season 1 - 2025/26

FC Wacker Innsbruck

 

Intake preview

Actual intake

thanks to @OlivierL i can calculate my intakes like this and make a good decision in signing them or not

 

These are the better players from the intake. I had to manually add friendlies to my u18 squad because they don't play any competition.

First improvements are a fact!

Meet my HOYD

 

First season table: a calm and steady season

[Neo_Geo]

@Perre8 that’s a really good HoYD for season 1and a solid finish only 9 points off the promotion place.

Edited October 30, 2023 by Neo_Geo

[heutheo]

FC Drava Ptuj - Slovenia

Season 1 - 2024/25

 

History

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Start

 

 

League

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The season was a wild up and down, we started pretty decent and managed to never get into relegation zone. At home we were quite good but away from home we had some problems (15th in the away table). For me it was a challenge to find the right tactics, ended up trying 10 different ones and now sticking to a solid 4141 short passing system. Dren was the other team that got promoted with us, they never had any chance to stay in the league. 

 

Our best eleven is basically the whole squad, we had to start with 2 grey players because of U21 rules and none of the real players is that young. Pretty solid all around, the keeper has good atrributes but lacks height, but without him we would be relegated imo.

 

Awards nothing special, Erhatič as you can see below, is a decent player he was the motor of the whole squad.

 

 

Stadium

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With one of the biggest stadiums in the league we have the problem of very empty home games...

...but we managed to consistently get nearly 200 fans to watch our matches,...

...having a rival with Aluminij in the league really pushed our avg attendance, hopefully this rivalry can reach higher spheres in the future.

 

Intake

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Decent first intake aswell. 2 Defenders are important, as our current ones are 30+ years old and slow af. 2 Keepers, meh, but I take it maybe we can now sell our star keeper. Biggest problem is that I have to wait till August to give the first prospect some minutes in the first teams due to U17 rules in Slovenia, the good ones then follow in December with their birthdays.

 

Marko is the first player I'm looking forward to use him in the first team. He lacks tempo, of course, but apart from this solid defender for second division football.

 

Boris is the gem of the intkae, his mentals are juicy, he needs like 17 years to move and when he moves he instantly falls thanks to his physicals but I can form him to a good player (at least that's waht I hope). But he turns 17 in 2026, so no updates on him next season I guess.

 

Some good personalities already with balanced HOYD. Everyone was born in Ptuj so the Power BI map visual is useless. But anyway:

 

Summary

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Edited October 30, 2023 by heutheo

[Perre8]

12 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

@Perre8 that’s a really good HoYD for season 1and a solid finish only 9 points off the promotion place.

Yes a very good one, especially his personality! I hope we can confirm now in the league

[coyle_jp]

Jimmy Coyle Belfast Celtic FM23 Youth Only Challenge

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

 

Hey guys not sure if making a google doc was allowed or not but I had 3 seasons to write up. I wanted to get things moving and introduce you all to my save game.

Not the best writer in the world but I hope some of you enjoy looking at it!

 

I just won a treble in the 3rd season - although im now preparing for a world of hurt in season 4.

 

If I need to provide any more screenshots or if people want me to change anything on it please let me know as I have never done one of these before.

 

-Jimmy

[Virtual Male]

Season 6 2029/30

Manager Profile - Competitions - Finances

Competitions

• Vanarama National League - The less said the better, dead last and by some way too. We're just too soft, can't convert chances and may as well just be playing without a keeper. We conceded 35 more goals than the xG said we should and scored 22 less than we 'should' have too, I genuinely don't know what I'm meant to do about that. Anyway, back to the Vanarama South.

Squad - Just very poor all round.. Got to a point that I knew the drop was inevitable so I dropped the legacy players in favour of youth to try and encourage some development, we still lost and I'm not sure anyone got better tbh.

Youth Intake (Preview) - The only saving grace really, another good one but if no-one seems to develop there's not much to be done with them.

• Mike Cox-Davies (2030YP4) - Could probably do a job in some capacity, a good personality but massive holes in his attributes too. 

Transfers & Finance - We're profitable now, so I guess that's something. I'm releasing all the legacy players who's contracts are up over the summer, could be a terrible move but they're not setting the world on fire so I doubt they'll be missed and at least then the game time can go to someone who might actually make us better.

Other - No upgrades and I'm frankly shocked I've still got a job after that stinker of a season. Going into next I'm hopeful we can just play some football and stabilize for a couple of seasons.... The media think we'll be the leagues run away losers though and are pricing us at 500-1 so we'll see what happens. An incredibly demotivating season.

 

[jrobertgordon13]

Video Edition on my YT Channel: 

 

 

SEASON 2 RECAP - BETHESDA SC (ATG)

A mostly up season, however did have a few downs along the way.

 

Squad:

Pretty good team, although this is after the Youth Intake (which i'll get to later )

 

Transfers:

Henry was a very good player, however I think that it's fine that he moved on.

Tactics:

Same as last year

 

Predictions:

We were prejected to be relegated back down.

 

End of Season Results: 3rd in Antiguan 2nd Tier (Promoted through Relegation Playoff)

Very good season, although they're were some moments I though we wouldn't get promoted.

 

FA Cup:

An absolutely great performance in our first FA Cup run, where we end up making it to the Final. We could've tied it if one of the players (I forgot who) made a penalty.

 

Bethesda Cup:

I'm going to be doing a "Bethesda Cup" every year, because the heck why not? Anyway, we ended up losing in the final to Parham FC in the first season. Which isn't to embarassing unless you considering that the tournament is quite litteraly named after us!

Youth Intake:

While the personalities are not good, the ability is certainly there for this to be a fantastic intake!

 

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by jrobertgordon13

[MaxeyN17]

I've always enjoyed managing in Scandinavia but I've never attempted the YA challenge here, so let's go!

[HanziZoloman]

vor 13 Stunden schrieb WhiteCat33:

Young Talent:

The big development in the team is we have fully transitioned to "The Next Generation" with at least 6 starters who are 18/19 and 2 rotation players of the same age. This includes all 3 Starting CDs moving the older players to the bench; 3/5 CMs with only the BWM not having a young talent & 2/3 Strikers. The older starters are 24-26, so have plenty of runway left in their careers.

The positions where we are light on young high potential players is at Wingback. We have one WB-L who is 18 and defensively good, but lacking going forward. For WB-R we have the reverse problem with multiple AM-Rs who have been retrained there, but none are good enough defensively to be trusted. 

Congrats to your achievements and of course the work you put into that save. 

One question: How do you calculate CA of your players?

Thanks

[MaxeyN17]

So the team I have chosen have zero goalkeepers on the books. What's the ruling with grey players, can we offer them contracts or is it a case of just having to make do?

Edit: Ignore me, I've seen it in the OP now.

Edited October 31, 2023 by MaxeyN17

[KingKCrush]

Halfway through the second season and then this pops up. I cant load any backups too. 

I was in contact to the support and this is a known issue that comes up if you add or remove leagues.

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Unfortunately at the moment we will be unable to offer you any solution but this is a known issue to us and we are currently working on a fix for that issue. What we know is that exactly adding any nations/leagues or removing any leagues causes the "The save game could not be loaded" issue to appear. 
 
For now we can only suggest to start a new save, but don't add view-only nations/leagues OR remove any league.
 
If there's anything else you want to point out or have any feedback, let us know.

So do not add view-only nations/leagues OR remove any league.

Sadly the last playable save file is from the end of the last season.. I had some crazy games that I cant recover, so I am currently lacking motivation to continue the save and do that all again. I will probably continue as soon as the full game released. :/

[Winski]

1 minute ago, MaxeyN17 said:

So the team I have chosen have zero goalkeepers on the books. What's the ruling with grey players, can we offer them contracts or is it a case of just having to make do?

I had the same problem (as I also play with Lidingö ). You cannot offer a contract to a grey player. So you will have to play with a grey player on goal, until you'll get a GK with your next youth intake.

[V50]

16 hours ago, WhiteCat33 said:

FM23 Barbados YAC: Road View FC

2044 Season 22 – BFA Digicel Premier League

Youth Academy Challenge FM23 Thread:

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Start Post | Season 1 |Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 |Season 7 | Season 8 | Season 9 | Season 10 |Season 11 |Season 12 | Season 13 |Season 14 | Season 15 | Season 16 |Season 17 | Season 18 |

Youth Academy Challenge FM24 Thread:

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Season 19 |Season 20 |Season 21| 2043 Takeover |

 

League Performance: CHAMPION

 

Cup Performance: CHAMPION

North American Champions League:

We dominated our group with the win against Humble Lion as especially important as the lone Jamaican team in the group. 

In the playoffs we got Arnett Gardens, who aren't usually dominant in Jamaica but had a great 2043 winning the Caribbean Cup & runners up in Jamaica, so were very difficult opposition. The 1-1 draw in Jamaica is about all I could hope for, but then we turned up on home soil to get a deserved 2nd leg victory to advance to the 2nd Round of the NACL!

Again we get a difficult draw. I don't expect much here, but who knows!

Squad:

Overview:

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Young Talent:

The big development in the team is we have fully transitioned to "The Next Generation" with at least 6 starters who are 18/19 and 2 rotation players of the same age. This includes all 3 Starting CDs moving the older players to the bench; 3/5 CMs with only the BWM not having a young talent & 2/3 Strikers. The older starters are 24-26, so have plenty of runway left in their careers.

The positions where we are light on young high potential players is at Wingback. We have one WB-L who is 18 and defensively good, but lacking going forward. For WB-R we have the reverse problem with multiple AM-Rs who have been retrained there, but none are good enough defensively to be trusted. 

Standard Lineup:

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Player Profiles:

Defenders: Overall shorter than I prefer with a Back-3 setup, but having 2 who can become BPDs is useful for our central possession play.

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Midfielders: Here we have 2 BBM and an AP, which fit 2 of our 3 spots in the central midfield. I like playing a CML-D to keep space open for Carrillo to drop-deep for give/go's and such as well as provide a ball winner in the midfield. Sadly none of these 3 can play that role. If I generate a big-man CD in the next couple of years this 3rd slot will be filled by moving one of the BPDs up into midfield.

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Strikers: Here we have 1 fast and 1 more skilled striker. Both started as Fickle and while one has improved to "Fairly Ambitious" the other didn't keep his ambition and is just "Fairly Determined". 

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Transfers:

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Best XI:

FM Screenshots:

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Excel Tables:

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Club Legends:

Carrillo has officially become a Club Legend at the age of 25!

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Carrillo heard me complaining that he wasn’t scoring enough goals to make the 1000 club by retirement. He scored just in the league this year as many goals as he scored all last season for the Club. This is in a 22 Game season:

Here is his Cup Performance: This is normal, and interestingly our old Poacher who I sold to BDFSP (to help them get better & free up minutes for my group of young strikers) did really well until he got a hip injury to miss out on the end of the season. Notice above it was his old season record that Carrillo broke.

Carrillo is going to become not just a Road View legend but a Barbados Legend. In the Nations league, Barbados played 6 games and scored 14 goals total. He scored 12 of the 14, absolutely insane numbers. [This is from before the WCQ campaign, so he's even more amazing at 27 goals in 25 games].

Head Coach:

 Still here, still a Legend

Club Improvements:

 We are getting more money from Sponsorships & Cup Winnings. Thankfully, the new board has ambitions and has continued to agree to invest it into whatever I ask for! Last year we did the Big Youth Facility Upgrade. This year the board agreed to do our first Stadium Expansion as we are over 90% Avg Attendance as well as a Training Facility Upgrade. Our Youth Facilities will still be 1 notch higher when this is finished.

Some Season Review Screenshots:

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Youth Academy:

HOYD:

Same

Youth Intake Preview:

Youth Intake: : Best part about this intake is the large number of Fairly Professional players

Top 3 Players:

Best 3 CA Players are all pretty bad.

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Best looking to me is another Poacher, who is Fairly Professional. Won’t challenge Carrillo, but will develop in our youth side and probably make another Barbados team happy. 

Excel Tables:

 

 

Barbados National Team:

Barbados advance to the World Cup Qualifying Group Stage!!! I attended the game and was rewarded with a bonkers 2nd half of ET Hat trick by Carrillo with all 3 assists COMING FROM MY GOALKEEPER! He really should have won the game for Barbados in regular time as the VAR offsides was by the narrowest of margins. 

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In extra time a defensive error let their skilled CAM dribble the team and slot a ball far corner, and it was looking dire for Barbados going into the ET halftime. The manager switched up the tactics for 2nd ET going for a true route-one English longball. Luckily, Carrillo is the perfect type of big strong and reasonably agile Pressing Forward to excel in that role. Dude cemented his legendary status getting 3 solo goals in 5 minutes from long GK kicks over the top. Guatemala are ~80th ranked in the world while we are 140 so this is a huge upset getting Barbados into WCQ for the first time ever!

World Cup Qualifying Section: 

Drawn with Mexico is a real bummer, but Panama and Haiti are oppositions where I can see Barbados having some success.

Road View Internationals:

Barbados Main:

Barbados Youth:

Italy Callup for my Foreign CD!

Barbadian’s Around the World:

English Academy Players:

In other news our Poachee is a full-fledged England International! Not a bad defender who funded our going professional.

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Summary

This save is a blast to play right now. We've all been there when "that striker" appears. Carrillo is that man absolutely destroying teams both for club and country. He put 6 away against Granada in a competitive match, and you saw his ET hat-trick above:

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2044 Season Summary:

International Performances:

We also have a good batch of 18-19 year old players who are now starters and putting in great performances while improving as players. The league is increasing in reputation and slowly generating more prize money. We haven't had the explosin in TV revenue I hoped for (still under 100k a year), but we are still making plenty of money to upgrade facilities and pay players what they want.

I'd say the team has hit the 'final phase' of the save where we are going to begin becoming competitive against the MLS & Liga MX teams. Sure there is a huge gulf still, but players have potential and are young enough to reach it still as we push up facilities. I estimate we have 10 more years of Carrillo to make our mark in the history books.

Crazy good stuff. I was wondering how you held on to Carillo, then I saw his WAGE lol. That's the sort of cash you have to lay down to keep him I guess? I'm genuinely shocked an American or Canadian team hasn't nicked him yet. He must be at his potential or nearly there. 

[Winski]

IFK Lidingö FK
Season 2 | 2025
Finances | Transfers | Club Overview | Facilities | Manager Profile | Tactic

 

What a season, again! Back to back promotion!!! After a fantastic battle with Täby FK, we managed to finish 1st in the League. A couple of games before the end of the season, we lost 1-2 at home against Täby. They were 3 points ahead at that moment, so I thought it was over. But it wasn't! One match before the end of the season we won away at Sandvikens IF with 1-2, while Täby lost 4-0 against Dalkurd FF. So we both had 60 points, with just one game to play. We had a way better goal difference (+34 for us, and +18 for Täby), so we were 1st. We only had to win our last match, at home against nr. 7 FC Stockholm. And that's what we did! We won 3-2, while Täby FK even lost their last match with 3-2 against Motala AIF. So we won the league with 3 points clear!!

And maybe the best news is: we are turning Professional!!  

Best player this season was, again, Victor Söderström. He scored 31 goals in 30 matches, which is also a new League Record. But also Teo Brenner Toris, Hugo Lemne and Linus Kågström were in great form. 

Youth preview and intake
The Youth Intake Preview was, again, a very promising one. The same as last season. And the actual intake was also a very, very good one! We've got 12 Elite Talents, and some of them are really talented. The GK will go directly to my first team. He is way better then our current GK(from last season's intake).
I don't know where these good intakes come from, as our current HoYD Bror Liw is not a good one. But I also couldn't find a better one. Hopefully now we turned Professional I can find a better HoYD.

Spoiler

Upgrades
I decided to ask for Training Facilities upgrade, not knowing it would cost us €1M. But I'm happy with the upgrade. Because of this we were not able to upgrade any other facilities.

Next season will be very, very tough. The Superettan(Tier 2) is way stronger then this league, with lots of great clubs in it. The first season will be very difficult. In FM23 I had a great run with Tyreso FF, bit of the same as now with Lidingo FK, with 2 straight promotions. But the Superettan was just too strong, as we finished last and the board decided to fire me.
So I really hope that this won't happen again. Next season will be all about surviving. So I'll probably make a brand new tactic, as my current tactic with 3 strikers is a bit too much.

 

[WhiteCat33]

18 minutes ago, V50 said:

Crazy good stuff. I was wondering how you held on to Carillo, then I saw his WAGE lol. That's the sort of cash you have to lay down to keep him I guess? I'm genuinely shocked an American or Canadian team hasn't nicked him yet. He must be at his potential or nearly there. 

Haha yeah his base wage is 25% of our wage bill, but for the absurd number of goals he's scoring as well as captaining the team & mentoring all our strikers its totally worth it. What shocked me was I have never had an issue with him wanting a release-clause as that is what gets you in the Caribbean. 

The MLS trying to poach him as been interesting. He has to have max loyalty because every transfer window at least 3-5 MLS teams put in bids for him but he has no interest in signing for a MLS Team! I find this crazy because he was a pure American Foreign intake player, so you would think would have a preference to return to the USA. In my game universe It also helps that without your NACL mod-file the reputations of the leagues have shifted and this is the current state of North America:

Even though Barbados doesn't have much money in the league (yet), you don't get that big of a negative reputation effect for star players wanting to leave to other North American Leagues. I have both Costa Rica and Honduras loaded in my game and it seems they are out-gaining the MLS in reputation (probably a balance issue?). It has been just MLS & Liga Mx teams trying to buy him off us thus far...

This changed this summer after Carrillo's performance in Club matches as well as the North American World Cup Qualifying he was runner up for NA POY and was the starting striker in the Best XI.

 

Now that he's got onto the world stage, we immediately we got interest from European Clubs primarily from 2nd and 3rd level nations. Yes he got upset about it, but it wasn't that hard to manage. Only big downside was his performance dipped for our early season Continental Match, which was frustrating. Bids were half decent though:

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Then since he was unhappy he was open to MLS moves, but again I easily waited him out. What's more amazing is how much Real Salt Lake were willing to pay us for him. I do remember in my St Vincent save my star CM did get some larger offers to move to the MLS, but I don't think that big.

Spoiler

I still have him for another 3 years on the current contract, but I'll probably be having him sign a new one shortly, so we will see what he asks for next.

I've been meaning to ask you, have you started on the 2024 version of your database? If you are, are you editing NACL/CCC the same way? I ask because that file locks in the league reputations in the Caribbean due to how the continental competition is changed. Because this save I forgot to add it I'm seeing these interesting changes in ranks, though I do miss your CCC tournament - that was fun!

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2030/31

Bury

The preview, whilst still very good, was below what I am used to:

I should be pleased with who came through, but I am used to a lot better!

[WhiteCat33]

3 hours ago, HanziZoloman said:

Congrats to your achievements and of course the work you put into that save. 

One question: How do you calculate CA of your players?

Thanks

I use the attached spreadsheet with the view for squad screen I've attached. I export as html and then you can have excel open html files and just add the sheets in every year. This weekend I can put together a clean/blank version if you don't want to wade through 20 years of teams & intakes and the mess of old versions & unfinished secondary projects in this current file.

Sheet works by just editing the yellow cells in the top left of "Summary". You just have to use the same naming convention I did: "YA-YEAR" for Intakes & "Team-YEAR" for the squad for the drop-down lists to work.

This generates the big table. The hidden Columns M-W have by-position ratings, but that doesn't currently have all the positions added (no WM or CM). I stopped using that really, so haven't updated it

Then you'll see all my year summaries show up to the right of the table, which is what I copy and paste to my Save tracking document to build my graphs.

With then the Top 10 lists to the right of that and the International players below it. If you want to see where I do the calculations for CA its in "CalcSheet". There is a lot happening there, and I can explain it if you have questions. 

Road-View CA Calculations v4b.xlsx WhiteCatStats - CA Calculator.fmf

Edited October 31, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[libbyshuss]

Japan - Honda FC/Machida Corriente

Division J2 - 2028 (Season 5)

Objectives: after promotion last season, I'd be happy with staying up and consolidating

Season review

Well, so much for that objective. We blew it out of the water by gaining a another promotion! We started well and carried on that way,  and although we had a hiccup halfway through the season where we won only one out of 6 we finished strongly too. It was still a surprise to finish in the top two and get promotion though, I'm a bit scare we're nowhere near ready!

I had a feeling we might be able to do something when we got this mad result:-

 

Players

It was also the first season we were able to put out a full XI of youth players! Very exciting stuff!

The only potential problem is our best two players, Mutsuki Sagara 27A and Naoki Kojima 24B, only have one year left on their contracts and are both absolutely refusing to sign new ones. I don't need the money from sales so I'm tempted to hold on to them and risk them leaving on a free. if they can keep up in J1 for a season it might be worth it. Frustratingly we are still weak in defence - the HoYD keeps throwing attacking midfielders at me (who i turn into either CMs or strikers!)

 

Youth

I really, really needed a keeper and defenders!

so, 5 star but only C grades. But at least one is a keeper!

 

So only three elites in the intake, and 2 are ST and M, but look at the top one. A Keeper!!!!

At 15 he's already the best in the club by quite a distance! not the most agile, and he looks almost permanently dizzy, but I had a low base to work from. Oh, he also struggle to lift his hands up if he wears goalie gloves but other than that he's perfect!

 

Career

This season was crazy. next season is going to be all about survival. our team is now pretty much all youth graduates with barely any legacy players left, so we're looking at the eldest player being 20/21. It should be a fun ride!

[Neo_Geo]

That sucks @KingKCrush if I lose progress in a save by more than a month it’s usually curtains for that save.

Appreciate the heads up as I only have England selected right now but if/when I get higher up I usually load in the other big 5 leagues, though I won’t fe there anytime soon and I’m sure they’ll prioritise a fix for this upon full release or shortly after.

[jrobertgordon13]

44 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

I use the attached spreadsheet with the view for squad screen I've attached. I export as html and then you can have excel open html files and just add the sheets in every year. This weekend I can put together a clean/blank version if you don't want to wade through 20 years of teams & intakes and the mess of old versions & unfinished secondary projects in this current file.

Sheet works by just editing the yellow cells in the top left of "Summary". You just have to use the same naming convention I did: "YA-YEAR" for Intakes & "Team-YEAR" for the squad for the drop-down lists to work.

This generates the big table. The hidden Columns M-W have by-position ratings, but that doesn't currently have all the positions added (no WM or CM). I stopped using that really, so haven't updated it

Then you'll see all my year summaries show up to the right of the table, which is what I copy and paste to my Save tracking document to build my graphs.

With then the Top 10 lists to the right of that and the International players below it. If you want to see where I do the calculations for CA its in "CalcSheet". There is a lot happening there, and I can explain it if you have questions. 

Road-View CA Calculations v4b.xlsx 1.01 MB · 1 download WhiteCatStats - CA Calculator.fmf 15.81 kB · 0 downloads

Yeah you should probably explain the CalcSheet cause that’s the part im the most confused about.

[HanziZoloman]

vor 46 Minuten schrieb WhiteCat33:

I use the attached spreadsheet with the view for squad screen I've attached. I export as html and then you can have excel open html files and just add the sheets in every year. This weekend I can put together a clean/blank version if you don't want to wade through 20 years of teams & intakes and the mess of old versions & unfinished secondary projects in this current file.

Sheet works by just editing the yellow cells in the top left of "Summary". You just have to use the same naming convention I did: "YA-YEAR" for Intakes & "Team-YEAR" for the squad for the drop-down lists to work.

This generates the big table. The hidden Columns M-W have by-position ratings, but that doesn't currently have all the positions added (no WM or CM). I stopped using that really, so haven't updated it

Then you'll see all my year summaries show up to the right of the table, which is what I copy and paste to my Save tracking document to build my graphs.

With then the Top 10 lists to the right of that and the International players below it. If you want to see where I do the calculations for CA its in "CalcSheet". There is a lot happening there, and I can explain it if you have questions. 

Road-View CA Calculations v4b.xlsx 1.01 MB · 1 download WhiteCatStats - CA Calculator.fmf 15.81 kB · 0 downloads

So helpful,thx!