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2 minutes ago, ryanlion28 said:
Thanks for the heads up, there were much worse places to start..
Is that fine for the challenge then? The two cups would count as two towards the overall challenge? (They both involve top tier sides)
The previous census has been to only count one from each nation, although the initial maker of this challenge never mentioned anything like this. However you might choose which one you want to count (hence the one you win, in case you don't win both).
You can see how I calculated Ireland in my latest update
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I forgot in my update to mention some of my goals for this challenge:
- A player to play 500 matches under my management
- A player to score 250 goals under my management
- A player to win World Footballer of the Year, and European Golden Boot under my management, and preferably not at his "first club" under my management.
So far obviously far away from these goals, but I want to bring players with me from club to club. So far no player has played for me in more than one club.
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Welcome to the task @ryanlion28, good luck for the future
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The Earls quest for Ultimate Football Manager Challenge
Cork City FC 2021
The story:
First I want to say, this attempt is not to make the fastest finish ever, but to enjoy every club and country I manage in. This means I might stay a bit longer than necessary in each place.
The league:
This time we didn't play as many draws as last season. We soon build up a huge lead, and to be honest our team was far better than any other in the league. I actually forgot to take a screenshot of the table, but we racked up the title already at the end of September.
League Cup
In the league cup, we hardly faced premiership opponents all season. In the end it was an easy win, in a competition I had already marked off my checklist in 2020.
FA-Cup
To top off the season with a nice treble, we also won the FA-Cup this season.
Europa League
I really felt the game had some bugs this season, and thats why I will leave Cork City immediately. We won far too easily (and too much) in Europa League. We beat opponents we really shouldn't beat, and by a far margin. We stormed into the Group Stage, and there we won 5 out of 6 matches. Another "bug" in my mind, was the schedule of matches. We played 15 games in 34 days. J.Klopp just shut up :P lol
Internationals and going forward
I took over Angola in 100th position on the World Rankings, right at the end of the year. Just had time for 1 friendly, beating Madagascar by 7-0. Going forward I left Cork, and hope to move to Scotland or England. Maybe taking the job in Angola will be a hindrance, but I hope not. The reason for not playing Europa League until the finish, is that I scream "cheater" to my self. Really we did too well there.
I enjoyed my time at Cork, and hope I will do the same at the next club.
HISTORY AND STATS Season - Team - Nation - League pos. - FA Cup - League Cup - Other Cups - Notes 2018/19 - Glentoran - N/A - 5th - NA - NA - NA - Took over in 8th 2019/20 - Glentoran - N/A - 1st - Finalist - Semi Final - Won 2 minor Cups - Left the club as champion 2020 - Cork City FC - N/A - 7th - NA - Winner - NA - Took over in 8th 2021 - Cork City FC - N/A - 3rd - Semi finalist - 2nd round - Won Munster Senior Cup - 2022 - Cork City FC - Angola - 1st - Winner - Winner - Won Munster Senior Cup - Left club as treble champions. Took over Angola in 100th place on World Rankings League wins: 2/10 - Northern Ireland 2019/20 (with Glentoran), 2022 Ireland (with Cork City FC) Cup wins: 1/10 - EA Sports Cup 2020 (and 2022) (with Cork City FC) (Also won FAI Ford Cup 2022 with Cork City FC) Continental cup wins: 0/5 Club World Cup: 0/1 International wins: 0/7 All time stats: Games - Won - Draw - Lost - Goals For - Goals against 215 - 135 - 45 - 34 - 492 - 231 All time highest goalscorer: Liam Nash 45 goals (Cork City FC) All time most assists: Shane Griffin 38 assists (Cork City FC) All time most appearances: Fraser Fyvie 93 apps (Cork City FC) All time Best XI Goalkeeper: Tadgh Ryan - Cork City FC Right Back: Gary Boylan - Cork City FC Centre Back: Calum Birney - Glentoran Centre Back: Dan Casey - Cork City FC Left Back: Shane Griffin - Cork City FC Central Midfielder: Conor Pepper - Glentoran Central Midfielder: Fionn Murphy - Cork City FC Central Midfielder: Fraser Fyvie - Cork City FC Striker: Peter McMahon - Glentoran Striker: Liam Nash - Cork City FC Striker: Benny Ashley-Seal - Cork City FC0 -
The Earls quest for Ultimate Football Manager Challenge
Cork City FC 2021
This was really a season "in between". I used most of the season to build my team, and to develop some really great young players. This resulted in some inpatience from players and boards, but I kept my job. In the end we had a nice run, and climbed to 3rd. This gave us qualification to next years Europa League. The only win of the season came in the Munster Senior Cup, which doesn't count for anything in this challenge.
The history and stats are somewhat short this time, but I will pick it up again at a later stage.
HISTORY AND STATS Season - Team - Nation - League pos. - FA Cup - League Cup - Other Cups - Notes 2018/19 - Glentoran - N/A - 5th - NA - NA - NA - Took over in 8th 2019/20 - Glentoran - N/A - 1st - Finalist - Semi Final - Won 2 minor Cups - Left the club as champion 2020 - Cork City FC - N/A - 7th - Quarter finals- Winners - No wins - Took over in 8th 2021 - Cork City FC - N/A - 3rd - Semi finals - 2nd round - Won Munster Senior Cup League wins: 1/10 - Northern Ireland 2019/20 (with Glentoran) Cup wins: 1/10 - Ireland 2020 (League Cup with Cork City FC) Continental cup wins: 0/5 Club World Cup: 0/1 International wins: 0/71 -
1 hour ago, vikeologist said:
@TheEarl Can you edit your posts at the start of the forum?
Nope
Seems I can only edit posts that are less than a year old
Might have to ask a moderator to help you out, if even that is possible...
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On 31/12/2019 at 08:54, vikeologist said:
Can't add leagues.
Didn't know there were official SI uploads though.
We never discussed things like this a few years ago, because there was only unofficial add ons to the game.
Its not important for me and how I play, but adding SI-games leagues would for me be cool. This is something that anyone could do these days, and especially the Canadian league would add depth to a region with only 2 playable leagues....
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Racking them up @Skogmus, good luck for the time to come.
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12 hours ago, LeoFM said:
Magni - 2020 report
My second season in Iceland and I was not sure if I'd be here going into the season but I decided to stay after a lack of job offers. Our finances are now completely ruined even though we have the lowest salary in the league... Managed to get one coaching course done though, so I might have better luck in my next job applications. If I'd describe our season in one word, it would be unlucky. We were very close to going to the later stages of both cups and very close to obtaining a higher league finish than last year. I think that we would have finished higher if the season wasn't 22 games long. We created the most amount of chances in the league, but struggled to put them away. My striker had 172 shots but only scored 9 goals. That is probably the worst goal return I've ever seen.
I'm a bit disappointed with our performance, but we were predicted to finish 8th this season so I can't be too harsh. The board are pleased with me at least, giving me a B- at the end of the season. I do want to move clubs now just because I don't think we are going to improve much next year, we have already filled our wage budget and are in a very poor financial position.Also, we somehow got this guy on loan for the first 7 games of the season. He was carrying the team but transferred to Man Utd in the summer.
Sounds like a really unlucky season @LeoFM, better luck next season :)
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Nice start @Homicidal_Jesus :)
Cool to see someone starting in lower rep leagues.
Have you decided now whether to stay or go? The first moves in this challenge can be so crucial.
@XuluBak how do you find Portugal? One of my all time favorite leagues of this challenge. :)
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The Earls quest for Ultimate Football Manager Challenge FM 2019
Season 2020 Cork City FC Ireland Airtricity Premier League
I left Glentoran after the league win and took over Cork City FC in the Irish Premier League. The club was 8th when I took over, but I promised the board a top half finish.
The remainder of this season was somewhat unusual for me. We didn't perform in the league at all from my start. Drawing too many matches, and also loosing some. But we often dominated, and I was sure I could be doing better. Well it almost went very wrong. 8 matches from the end, we where 9th and facing relegation. I was facing the sack, thats when we finally begun to win.
FA-Cup was lost in the quarter final, but we won the League Cup. That probably saved my position as a manager. Together with a really good run in the Irn-Bru Cup. (As I write this, we are in the semi final to be played in 2021.)
So another title for my achievements, one I didn't count on so soon with this club.
Back to the league, we finally strung together some wins in a row. With one match to go, everything could happen. We could get relegated (although highly unlikely given our good goal difference), or we could get a place in Europe.
None of those happened, as we drew our final game of the season. However we where in Europe, with 1,5 minute to go of the season, thats when Bohemian equalized.
HISTORY AND STATS Season - Team - Nation - League pos. - FA Cup - League Cup - Other Cups - Notes 2018/19 - Glentoran - N/A - 5th - NA - NA - NA - Took over in 8th 2019/20 - Glentoran - N/A - 1st - Finalist - Semi Final - Won 2 minor Cups - Left the club as champion 2020 - Cork City FC - N/A - 7th - Quarter finals- Winners - No wins - Took over in 8th League wins: 1/10 - Northern Ireland 2019/20 (with Glentoran) Cup wins: 1/10 - Ireland 2020 (League Cup with Cork City FC) Continental cup wins: 0/5 Club World Cup: 0/1 International wins: 0/7 All time stats: Games - Won - Draw - Lost - Goals For - Goals against 104 - 64 - 22 - 18 - 209 - 115 All time highest goalscorer: Peter McMahon 34 goals (Glentoran) All time most assists: Nathan Kerr and Ross Redman 22 assists each (Glentoran) All time Best XI Goalkeeper: Tadgh Ryan - Cork City FC Right Back: Nathan Kerr - Glentoran Centre Back: Calum Birney - Glentoran Centre Back: Gavin Peers - Glentoran Left Back: Ross Redman - Glentoran Central Midfielder: Conor Pepper - Glentoran Central Midfielder: John McGuigan - Glentoran Central Midfielder: John Herron - Glentoran Striker: Peter McMahon - Glentoran Striker: Robbie McDaid - Glentoran Striker: Graham Cummins - Cork City FC1 -
The Earls quest for Ultimate Football Manager Challenge FM 2019
Season 2019/20 Glentoran Northern Ireland Danske Bank Premiership
We started the season in a decent way, and it became clear early that only Larne and Crusaders could follow us. For me league seems to be the easiest of the competitions in this game, keeping a steady performance through the entire season.
However the season opened with winning the Charity Shield competition.
Soon we won another title, the County Antrim Shield, so both Northern Irish competitions that doesn't count in this challenge was in the box.
However in the Irn-Bru cup we didn't stand a chance as soon as we faced too good opposition.
The two cups that does matter was a different story. We did pretty well in the league cup, but lost in the semis against Larne.
In the FA-Cup we went all the way to the final, but Cliftonville proved too strong on the day.
As I mentioned the league seems for me the easiest way on many occasions. So this did season. Larne proved difficult on internal matches, but they could not keep a steady performance, an intact they finished third in the end.
In the end a very successful season, with Manager of the month 3 times and Manager of the year awards.
I have a National A-Licensce now, and a reputation of 30%.
HISTORY AND STATS Season - Team - Nation - League pos. - FA Cup - League Cup - Other Cups - Notes 2018/19 - Glentoran - N/A - 5th - NA - NA - NA - Took over in 8th 2019/20 - Glentoran - N/A - 1st - Finalist - Semi Final - Won 2 minor Cups - Left the club as champion League wins: 1/10 - Northern Ireland 2019/20 (with Glentoran) Cup wins: 0/10 Continental cup wins: 0/5 Club World Cup: 0/1 International wins: 0/7 All time stats: Games - Won - Draw - Lost - Goals For - Goals against 80 - 52 - 15 - 13 - 165 - 85 All time highest goalscorer: Peter McMahon 34 goals (Glentoran) All time most assists: Nathan Kerr and Ross Redman 22 assists each (Glentoran) All time Best XI Goalkeeper: Brian Markey - Glentoran Right Back: Nathan Kerr - Glentoran Centre Back: Calum Birney - Glentoran Centre Back: Gavin Peers - Glentoran Left Back: Ross Redman - Glentoran Central Midfielder: Conor Pepper - Glentoran Central Midfielder: John McGuigan - Glentoran Central Midfielder: John Herron - Glentoran Striker: Peter McMahon - Glentoran Striker: Robbie McDaid - Glentoran Striker: Michael McCrudden - Glentoran0 -
5 minutes ago, vikeologist said:
You're not playing FM20?
nope FM19, never bought 20
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On 14/12/2019 at 09:39, vikeologist said:
@Steve Cobble Congratulations. I guess you'll probably be the only person to ever achieve this challenge on FM19. (Skogmus may still be going).
Bet you're relieved to have got it over and done with.
Hope you enjoy FM20. Are you going to do another challenge?
He might be the only one to achieve it, because I play very slow. So slow am not sure I can finish due to time, but I will at least give it a try :P lol
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The Earl's Ultimate challenge FM2019
So finally I have decided to come back to this challenge. Its been a long time. I don't know how fast I will play, but it will surely be slower than before.
I loaded up the game with these settings:
After holidaying for quite some time, I found myself as manager of Glentoran in Premier League of Northern Ireland. Sitting in 9th, but with quite a lot of matches to go in the first season.
To make the story of the first season short, we managed to finish 5th and loose the final of the FA-Cup. I also lost play-offs to Europa League (which really made me happy to have less games in the next season.) We got some talented players in the youth intake, that makes me optimistic for the new season. I also got started on the National C-Licensce badge right at the end of the season.
Lets see where season 2 brings us.
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7 hours ago, TheEarl said:
I might give it another go at this challenge, after long time away.
I play FM 2019. Its been so long time away, so I have to ask for some advice. Which leagues can I expect to give me a start? I know of Vanarama North/South in England, but I rather start in a different country (or maybe even different Confederation).
Can anyone who made a reasonable good start at FM 2019 give me some hints/tips?
I think I found a decent start, but I will come back to that later.
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I might give it another go at this challenge, after long time away.
I play FM 2019. Its been so long time away, so I have to ask for some advice. Which leagues can I expect to give me a start? I know of Vanarama North/South in England, but I rather start in a different country (or maybe even different Confederation).
Can anyone who made a reasonable good start at FM 2019 give me some hints/tips?
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This isn't very much a challenge yet, but a data editor file.
Can still be interesting, but for it to be a challenge, it should have a set of goals/requirements to reach...
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On 23/11/2019 at 20:28, vikeologist said:
So, I think it's settled.
Minus Confed Cup, nothing added.
Just reading here a few times.
What happened to the Confed Cup?
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On 17/11/2019 at 09:47, rodesire said:
I would like to bounce a new challenge idea of regulars in here and see if it makes sense.
In 2021 with the advent of Europa Challenge League (Euro Cup II in game) the smaller nations will be getting more lower tier European football. Except for one, Lichtenstein, with no domestic football only has a single European spot for Lichtenstein cup winner. This is currently a Europa League spot but will become Europa Challenge League spot starting 2021.
Withthis set-up I would like to challenge you all to make a Lichtenstein club win the Champions League. The only way to achieve this is to win Europa Challenge League, then Europa League the next season, then finally Champions League in third season. Failure at any point would throw you back to square one.
There is only one club, Vaduz, in second Swiss division that's eligible for the challenge out of the box. There are at least a team eligible in this challenge in each of the 4-8th Swiss tiers, I expect them to open up as the expanded leagues appear in the workshop.
Let me know what you think of this
What happens if Vaduz wins the Swiss Premier League?
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I will make one in a few weeks, hopefully :)
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If no one else makes one, I will try, just I don't have the same time as before. I also can't connect to this page at work, only from home.
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Hello there!
Would anyone with a great mind and some time on hand create a new fun and challenging task for FM2020?
I would like it to include:
- Multiple leagues to play, so you don't stick in one place forever
- Mostly or only focus on club football, but can include some sort of national management.
- A point scoring and/or set of achievements to reachAny contribution is mostly appreciated, as it will have a influence on whether to buy the game at all.
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The Ultimate Football Manager Challenge - Silver Age Archive
in Challenges, Sign-Ups & Experiments
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I think this would be as far away from the reality as you could possibly go.
In my save which is with FM19 (probably slightly easier than FM20), after 5 seasons I couldn't get an interview with Bournemouth. If you count all kinds of trophies, I have 9 to my belt, and 3 of those count for this challenge. So I would call it a pretty good start, but Dortmund no way.....