Mackenie Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Season 18 Second first season in the Prem goes much better, sneaking a spot in europe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K13eke Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Updated Leader Board: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobdenniss Posted March 17 Share Posted March 17 Please can you send me the kits and badges! None of the downloads in this thread are working. Greatly appreciate it 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW24 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Season 12 complete! Finally out of the National League, so close to 100 points, onto the Football League! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 (edited) FINALLY! SUCCESS! Season 6 completed and finally success! After the punch to the stomach on losing the title on the final day of the season to Winsford & then the kick to the never regions in losing in the playoffs for the third year straight the previous season we finally gain promotion. I wasn’t sure of our chances in season 6 although I had signed some good young players I felt they weren’t quite ready (how wrong I was going to be) but the board, despite our poor financial position, increased the wage budget and I was able to add to a good squad. But the caveat to the wage increase was to gain promotion and get to the quarter finals of both the FA Vase & 1st Div Cup. Things didn’t get off to a good start by losing 9-8 on penalties in the 1st Qualifying Round of the FA Vase. But things were about to get better as we went on a tremendous run in the league! It was almost an unbeaten season as we finally lost our 1st game of the league campaign in Game-day 33! Two games from the end of the season from being invincible in the league! So, at the fourth attempt we finally win the NWCL Div 1 South! And to top it all off we seal a league & cup double by winning the 1st Div Cup! Edited March 20 by antonyjguyan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Continued from last post of an incredible double winning season! Season 6 complete! Onwards now in the NWCL Prem!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 My first season where I leave empty handed. I knew from my early FA cup exit I hadn't got a golden team like before. Started the season winning 7 from 7 and then the wheels fell off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) On 17/03/2024 at 18:45, K13eke said: Updated Leader Board: @kieran_stutes are you going to go for that coveted Champions League trophy? You can't leave it as the runner up surely haha. Edited March 21 by ramboacdc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Mid Table Finish. Actually won the Europa League, with Dortmund being the toughest opposition. Spurs, united and newcastle i struggle with atm. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K13eke Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 On 17/03/2024 at 19:03, jacobdenniss said: Please can you send me the kits and badges! None of the downloads in this thread are working. Greatly appreciate it Hi all, Has anyone got a new link that could be used here? I'm not actually the kit creator but there are some extremely talented people in here! Any help would be appreciated Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K13eke Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 Updated Leader Board: @jetscott23 - Thats a fine achievement right there with the Europa League! I feel like you're on the cusp of completing this! @ramboacdc - I can confirm that Kieran is making an attempt at the Champions League. He may be the first to win the Premier League but there's still an opening to become the first Champions League winner! @jacobdenniss - I've upvoted and responded to your post. I'm not a kit maker myself and I'm not sure why that file is no longer available. Hopefully somebody can provide us with some new kits soon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldiyaz Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 We're getting the short end of the stick when we got the Arsenal draw. At least we scored 2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kieran_stutes Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 On 21/03/2024 at 22:30, ramboacdc said: @kieran_stutes are you going to go for that coveted Champions League trophy? You can't leave it as the runner up surely haha. Haha! That has now been won since my last update was put in! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Getting Closer, no joys in cups blooming Spurs, always draw them in cups ..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K13eke Posted March 31 Author Share Posted March 31 AFC Crewe - Season 2 Review I finally managed to find some time to finish Season 2 & we make it back to back league wins! It was a real struggle with Foley Meir for the majority of the season & I couldn't quite seem to get the top spot until the team went on an unreal winning run to close out the season. Transfers: Players in: 15 (Including 2 loans) Players Out: 11 Loans & Free transfers were utilized throughout the course of the season. These 2 players were the stand out picks of the bunch who were brought in: Will De Wilde: Courtney Lashley: Facility Upgrades: Not too much to report again from this side of things for the season just gone. I was accepted right at the end of the season to study for my National B Licence and the board accepted my request for improved junior recruitment mid-way through the season. Youth: Unfortunately this years intake wasn't too good, however 3 of the previous years intake made their debuts at some point this season and are ticking along nicely. With that being said, our U18 team just missed out on a league title, losing the last game of their season. My youth team is now extremely large with 35 players so finding some loan moves next season will be a priority for those who have some decent potential: Finance Balance: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 On 26/03/2024 at 19:09, kieran_stutes said: Haha! That has now been won since my last update was put in! Nicely done! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 (edited) Season 7 First season the NWCL Premier Division and the board are expecting me to win the thing. Well, its was looking good and with 10 games to go we were sitting in top spot with a healthy 12 point gap. Unfortunately and this always seems to happen to me on FM we went on a horrendous run of form, winning only one of the last 10 games and ending up in 3rd place. Did not help that my on loan keeper got injured for 2/3 months, my first choice striker picking up a two month injury and my star defender, who weighed in with his fair share of goals from corners picked up a horror injury and will be out for 8 months, along with crucial suspensions. We managed to squeeze into the play off final against Bury where yet another shocking performance in a play off final ended our promotion hopes. Bury set up that horrendous tactic of seven at the back after taking the lead and we just couldn't do a thing. The game just petered out with only one highlight in the second half. Why is it when you go on very attacking absolutely nothing happens? Anyway we had an excellent FA Cup run and got to the Fourth Qualifying Round. FA Vase was again a wash out bowing out yet again at the first hurdle. The Macron Cup bought mixed results and a shocking showing against relegation threatened Skelmersdale saw us go out on penalties after a 0-0 draw. Hopefully the board will stand by me after not achieving automatic promotion but next season, if I'm still here, looks tough as we are horribly in debt and I can't offer new contracts to my best players whose contracts are up. Edited April 1 by antonyjguyan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilani10 Posted March 31 Share Posted March 31 Do we have the logo and/or kit for the club? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Still way behind Man u but won fa cup again. Missed out just on the champions league Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.goodman91 Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 Back to Back Promotions with 3 games to go, long time coming been on and off this and so much happened can't believe some people got to the prem by March Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Nelson Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 I finally, FINALLY, finished season 4 - and very nearly blew it! Had that barren run for a few games, but Glossop in second lost four in a row at the same time, pretty much saved my season. They then failed to win the playoffs Now £100k in the red, but I have a good team going in to season 5. Must have turned down 20 job offers from league clubs too. It's quite the ride! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 (edited) Season 8 NWCL Premier CHAMPIONS!!!! Didn’t see this coming at all! I knew we’d be within a chance of a play-off place but I just didn’t have any faith in some of the players having the minerals when it came to the big games as they have proven in previous seasons gone by! Well, they proved me wrong and only 3 defeats against top 5 opposition, 2 against FC Isle of Man! The other 5 defeats coming against opposition we really should had beaten. We were always there abouts throughout the season with the gap to the leaders only ever getting to six points and we only went top after 43 games! It was the complete opposite to the previous season where in the last 10 games we completely fell apart and recorded only one win! The last ten games this time round saw us only lose two but 8 victories, six on the bounce in the last six games, saw us clinch the title with a game to spare! For some reason I didn’t get the trophy presentation cut scene, maybe the new skin I’m using but hey that’s the only dampener on winning the league!! FA Vase, FA Cup & Macron Cup A disappointing season in the knockout cups with only the FA Cup bringing something to cheer about by making it to the Second Qualifying Round. We went out early in the other cups and I do believe it’ll be goodbye to the FA Vase as it’s only open to teams below the 8th Tier! Also cheerio to the Macron Cup. Shame I didn’t add them to my trophy haul! Edited April 8 by antonyjguyan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K13eke Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 Updated Leader Board: 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Another season, scraped into Europe. Nothing else much happened. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Nelson Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Removing the lower leagues once you're promoted MASSIVELY speeds up the game. I've gone from taking three nights per one in-game month, to sometimes two months in one night. I recommend you all do the same! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
K13eke Posted April 15 Author Share Posted April 15 BREAKING NEWS AFC Crewe have been confirmed as The Staffordshire County Senior League Division 1 Champions (in real life) following their 5-1 victory at the weekend. If anybody who has taken any interest in the club following this challenge would like to attend our final home league game of the season the details are as follows: Venue: Wood Park Stadium, Alsager Entry: Optional Donation Date: 27/04/2024 2pm Match: AFC Crewe vs Newcastle Town Reserves There will be ground tours, potential merchandise on sale and the all important trophy lift! Hope to see some of you there. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Had some spare time so did a season. Got promoted in the play offs after squeaking in last game. Focussed on the cups to try and get some revenue in, which you can see went....well.... Under 18s have won the league twice on the spin, so hoping that means I am going to get some good ones coming up, or at least some money from player sales. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Season 9 The board were expecting a mid table finish and the media were slightly more optimistic of our chances and predicted us to finish 6th. Things started off well with 6 wins & 3 draws in our opening 9 games saw us sitting in the top 3 places. But, then everything turned sour and we only recorded another 4 wins in the next 13 games with 9 defeats! Turns out that was it for defeats in the league for the remainder of the season. The bad form put paid to our title hopes but we were still with a chance to get into the playoffs. Which we did. We got to the final and it was to be a derby against town rivals Alsager Town! Sadly it was a bridge to far and we lost 4-3! We did have 2 goals disallowed for offside which looked very dubious at best. The fact no replay was shown made me think even more how bad a decision the ref/linesman made on both occasions. Cup competitions were nothing to write home about, going out early in all three competitions we were in! we had three takeover bids fail as well which was frustrating as our finances are far from healthy and we could had done with a takeover to alleviate those problems! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Nelson Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 On 18/04/2024 at 22:06, antonyjguyan said: we had three takeover bids fail as well which was frustrating as our finances are far from healthy and we could had done with a takeover to alleviate those problems! Story of my life - I'm in season 5 now and I've seen 10-12 takeovers fail. I suspect it's the debt that puts them off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 On 21/04/2024 at 23:20, Horatio Nelson said: Story of my life - I'm in season 5 now and I've seen 10-12 takeovers fail. I suspect it's the debt that puts them off. The fourth attempt succeeded and they cleared the debt as well! Also had a very good run in the FA Cup & FA Trophy which improved the bank balance even further so looking good on that front for the next couple of seasons! This probably means I can now add to an already improving team next season and challenge for the title! Although we had two great cup runs it had an adverse affect on our league campaign with a huge fixture pile up and we were playing games every 3 days and with a small squad my players were just knackered & having to rotate all the time it also affected team cohesion! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulskln Posted April 23 Share Posted April 23 (edited) I started a save as AFC Crewe, i made some face pictures for some of the players... Hope they will be useful to others. If anyone has players pics that i have not included please post for me to create ...Thanks . AFC Crewe faces.rar Edited April 23 by paulskln 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 A season to forget where I trusted my scouts too much, trusted my tried and tested tactic from the previous leagues and I was found out in many ways. Stayed up with 1 game to spare. Now spending the next 12 months in the last year of my contract whilst studying for continental A and rebuilding. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Won Europa League for second time. Cannot seem to find a way to win the league Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Season 10 A season to forget in the league which promised so much. We were always floating about the play off places but never threatened the top two places occupied by Milton & Stalybridge. They simply disappeared over the hills and fought out the title between themselves with Stalybridge clinching it on the last day. But as always my better players were cherry picked and there was a massive drop off when three of my best players up and left for pastures new! It couldn’t have happened at a worst time as the season was drawing to a close and we were sitting pretty in the play off spots. As I said the wheels just came off in the last 7 games winning only one and drawing another. This run of bad form saw us drop to 8th and no chance of a play off spot. After three failed takeover attempts we finally got taken over on the fourth attempt and wiping out our huge debt (albeit with a large bank loan taking its place). Then like London buses we had a second successful takeover in a matter of months of the first! After a few seasons of poor cup runs we had our best season concerning cup runs. Reaching the 3rd Qualifying Round of the FA Cup, 4th Round of the FA Tropy & reaching the final of the Integro League Cup where we lost on penalties to Bromsgrove Sporting despite being the better team and out XG-ing them! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlMichael28 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 I'm going the match today. Travelling from Sheffield to watch it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.goodman91 Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 Another promotion done 3 on the bonce now and a first cup double. So glad to be signing part time contracts players Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 Fought against relegation and established myself. I will be honest, I am nowhere near as good as others here, so I am enjoying the challenge but know that reaching the Premier League will take 10-15 actual years. Tried to focus on cup competitions, as you can see that went awfully. Finances now at 0. Got to really push for a good 3rd season in this league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 A board takeover attempt went south, now finances are worse. I am now deep in FM Scout's YT channel learning and learning. I will escape this division! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted May 2 Share Posted May 2 Season 11 After a mid table finish last season I was quietly confident that I had the building blocks in place for a play off challenge if not maybe a whiff of a title challenge this season. I had a good nucleus to my squad and a few additions to it was all it needed for us to finally get out of this division. Although we did our best to make it as difficult as possible. Never truly making a break for it as every time we got our noses in front we just seemed to throw the opportunity away, no thanks to our keepers trying their best to have as many howlers as possible. They must had cost us four wins, at least. We just kept trading blows with West Didsbury. One week they’d be top, the other us. It was going down to the last ten games as our most important run of games as we had six teams to face who were trying to get a play off place and two crucial games where we’d be facing both West Didbury & Bury for what were basically title deciders. Our worst performances were actually against three teams in the bottom six with the other 7 games against the aforementioned play off & title potentials going rather well. Despite the poor performances against those three bottom six teams we drew all three 2-2 & picked up 7 wins against our fellow top 6/7! We went into the last game three points clear but had a +20 goal difference so we were basically champions and it was nice to go into that game knowing we didn’t need to win! but we sealed a win and with West Didsbury losing we finished six points clear and finally champions! I was also offered the Peterborough, Cardiff & Barnsley job! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Season 12 So close to getting into the play-offs but a defeat on the final day of the season to Newcastle Blue Star, the only team who could catch us, meant another season in the Northern Premier. Can't be too disappointed as it was completely unexpected as I didn't or more like couldn't add much in the terms of better players to the squad. It was a mixture of either just not having the wage budget to sign anyone on a free or the players signing for better teams higher in the pyramid. Knockout competitions were nothing to write home about and it was early knockouts across all three competitions. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldiyaz Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 WE ARE TREBLE WINNERS! 50 points from Division 8 champions + 5 points from Integro Cup + 20 points from FA Trophy, leaving us with 195 points in total for this challenge! Onwards to Division 7! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 Finally won the Premier League!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlMichael28 Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 17th Season & finally got to the Prem. How are other people winning this league? We're getting beat every game? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted May 16 Share Posted May 16 Season 13 and it’s a Double winning season! Champions of the Northern Premier Division & promotion to Tier 6 plus adding the Integro League Cup! We didn’t make things easy for ourselves after a great run of games giving us a 10 point lead! The typical FM mid season wobble struck seeing our advantage being pulled back to four points. We managed to get back on track and again got a comfortable lead back up to about 9 points but despite going the final 10 games unbeaten we drew five of them which saw our lead again down to only 2 points! Blyth were just restless and with a trickier final few games it looked liked they could pinch first place off us! A switch to a 4-4-2 Diamond, mainly due to injuries & untimely suspensions, saw us batter Warrington Rylands 6-1 in the penultimate game and Blyth losing to Chorley handed us the title! Stuck with this formation in the Final against Milton & we won 5-1 after going down 1-0 as well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted Tuesday at 19:46 Share Posted Tuesday at 19:46 Is there any point updating how we are doing on this challenge? There seems to be no updates on how we are all doing! Has it ended cos it’s the end of the season or is the challenge ongoing until FM25 comes out? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetscott23 Posted Tuesday at 20:45 Share Posted Tuesday at 20:45 Finally won Champs League.... Man city got relegated haha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramboacdc Posted Wednesday at 08:16 Share Posted Wednesday at 08:16 Just tasted my first relegation and now the club is majorly in debt. I foolishly did some mutual terminations than standard terminations, so that hasn't helped matters. A few years in the wilderness for me! I just found out my wife is expecting so I suspect sleep is not on my agenda for a few years. I may reach the Premier League by the time they are at uni... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonyjguyan Posted Friday at 21:12 Share Posted Friday at 21:12 (edited) Season 14 was always going to be a tough one as I believe the vast majority of the players were going to hit that glass ceiling of how talented they are. The bookies also saw a tough time ahead and made us one of the favourites to get relegated. And so it proved to be, except the relegation part as we secured a 16th place finish. But it was tough and by far the least enjoyment season I've experienced obviously because of the many, many defeats. Despite my best efforts I just couldn't bring in any players who could get us into the top half of the table and maybe set us up nicely for the following season. our first 23 games went ok and we were sitting mid table and not that far away from the play offs. But in FM fashion, as I believe the AI doesn't really take you that serious at first and it's a good time to get in a few surprise results in. But then as soon as the season ticks over into the second half of the campaign the AI suddenly considers you a threat. And so it proved and we only recorded two wins in the final 17 games. Thankfully we had collected enough points to be not really in any trouble of the drop, picking up valuable draws to keep us at arms length away from that dreaded drop zone. Can't say I'm sad the season is over and I've got a big summer ahead as I'm going to take a huge risk in releasing so many players who are really not good enough for this level. I'm only keeping on 6 players out of a squad of 19 players, that's not including the numerous loans I had in if you're thinking that's a small squad. But we need to put our Big Boy Pants on now along with the board who, in my opinion, were stupid not to turn the club professional and also not in finding a senior affiliate club. Which I found dumbfounding considering the clubs location in the country. Stoke, Birmingham and Villa not exactly a million miles away! I'm hoping they'll change their mind considering our professional status as this was a major stumbling block when trying to sign players as they wanted a full time contract. Edited Friday at 21:19 by antonyjguyan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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