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There were tons of ideas on this thread:

I've been using this one with no problems - I'm in season 4. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2776261068&searchtext=italy For the San Marino League, I used classen's one and just validated it for 22.4 in the pre-game editor.

I've done it with 2 "managers" managing 4 teams. Manager 1 with Victor and the National Team; Manager 2 with San Giovanni and the National Team Under 21's. It takes a little getting used to, but look for the club's badge in the top left corner of the screen or on the bar in the top right where it will give you the manager's name or initials - then you know where you are. Some custom skins make it easier as they change background or menu colour so you know which manager you are far easier. Hope this helps and good luck!

Yes, you can sign players.

I've re-started - found this one online, I'm in season 3 with no problems: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2776261068&searchtext=italy It works with 22.4, so there are a few data changes. Emiliano Pedrazzini no longer qualifies to play for San Marino in the second season of the save. Striker Voinea is no longer with the club and we are lacking a decent AF/Poacher. The youth facilities are also way down on the original database. Anyway, given dynamic youth ratings aren't dynamic, I bought the Editor and I'll make them dynamic - nothing crazy, indeed I won't lift it until we are established with a world ranking above 150. Not doing updates or achievements on here, just playing for fun - and not racing to Serie A - going to keep the club at the level of its intakes, so if that means 5+ years in Serie C, so be it. My first FM22 save was too much like my FM19 one - so enjoying being able to attack it a different way.

Yeah, for sure an issue there. I started out at Level 5 in Italy in a 500 capacity "stadium". When we got promoted to Level 3/Serie C that stadium didn't meet the requirements, so we moved to San Marino Stadium (where the National Team play). When we got promoted to Serie A, San Marino Stadium didn't meet Serie A requirements - and the game moved us back to our original 500 capacity stadium!! Took a couple of seasons for a new stadium to be built, still not moved in but haven't played much FM in the last 4+ months.

The current database is I think 22.4 - his database won't work as he wrote it for the original database 22.1. You need to go into advanced setup of the game, and change the database back to 22.1 (should be in the top right hand corner of your screen from memory - but sure if you Google it, you'll find how to do it). If you want to use 22.4, then you'll have to validate the file in the pre-game Editor. I don't know if this will work as Eccellenza is regional, large and complicated and you'll probably get errors. I doubt too many people are good enough with the editor to resolve that. So, I think your best best is to go 22.1.

It's on page 13 of this thread - my post dated Feb 24. It's the original database though, so you'll need to make sure you change to that one when you start the save. If you want to the current database, you'll have to run it through the pre-game editor and it may or may not validate.

Definitely not for me. I've played FM22 very little the last 2-3 months - just not enjoying it and in the end thought to myself "why am I bothering?". I was keeping going to try to get the San Marino Challenge completed, but it's a game and should be fun - but wasn't. I think perhaps having played the game (allbeit FM19) a ton in lockdown, perhaps I'm bored with it. I also am disappointed with the 2 reasons I ended up buying FM22 - Dynamic Youth Ratings and that gegenpressing being OP was billed as a thing of the past. Dynamic Youth Ratings is a feature that doesn't work as many people hoped/expected - I'm with Rashidi who said on a stream basically let's just have some fun - being as dynamic as an asthmatic ant isn't fun. Plus a little fed up with new features not working well enough - been a lot of examples in recent FM's and time to vote with my wallet. The fatigue with gegenpressing is different - but those tactics being OP is not - being far less forgiving than with non-gegenpress tactics is still the same issue. I should have known SI wouldn't annoy the vast majority of its players by making those downloadable exploits way less successful, so that's more on me than SI in some ways. Other major factors for not enjoying FM22/not buying FM23 are players being unhappy every 2 seconds is just not what I want after a day at work listening to people complain every 2 seconds - and no matter what save I try, it all feels the same. Serie A is basically the same as the 2nd Division in Ivory Coast. For me, the bugs in recent additions need cleaning up. Any new features for FM23 need to be tested far more comprehensively - and then these new features need to be communicated with us so we know how SI are expecting them to work. No more DYR shambles. I think also the game needs to focus a little less on realism and more on fun - it's a fine line and for me the game is the wrong side of it. It is a game after all...

Thanks @6499red for your time in getting the thread and a ton of challenges up and running. Hope you're doing well. The thread has been really busy at times, but is a lot quieter now. It's a long challenge and people do naturally fall away, but the DYR has been a big own goal for SI. I haven't played much in the last couple of months, I think as it feels too samey to my long FM19 save, in that it's been get to Serie A ASAP, when I wanted to grow the club in line with DYR a bit more. Having said that, although DYR is about as dynamic as Edmund Blackadder's asthmatic ant from Blackacker Goes Forth, the quality of youth intakes is already better than in FM19. My intakes are Italian heavy (particularly my most recent one), but I've got quite a few potential Serie A level Sammarinese players ranging from 15-17 years of age. Now I've upgraded training facilities and employed more (and better) coaches, I'm hoping to see some good development (which has been an issue - might be a touch bugged, although not as bad a DYR). The issue is going to be at 18 or 19 whether to loan them out or keep them, I might try a little of both and see which is better. I've loaned out 3 players to Serie C clubs I signed from San Marino Academy a while back who are now 18, so we'll see how they go. They're all playing regularly so far at least! Annoyingly, the "sign Sammarinese players" is back in the club vision - so I end up signing rubbish from San Marino Academy. I could spend money and boost the San Marino League, but I've always felt it was a bit artificial - so we'll see... So perhaps the start of the save getting more interesting, but hard to find the time to put good hours into the game! I did play more when I had a week off a couple of weeks ago. Having been loan heavy for 2 years with Victor, I made a non-typical signing for me - a player in his 30's in Shoya Nakajima. That seemed to open the flood gates and suddenly some top players signed for us. As a result, we managed to win Serie A comfortably. That allowed us to focus on the latter stages of the Conference League and we won that as well, beating Wolves in the final. With Cosmos, we haven't lost a game domestically for 2 years!! Very easy - so just Europe of interest and we got to the second knockout round of the Europa League, beating RB Salzburg, but then losing to Leicester, who had already beaten us twice in the group stage. I've already played the European qualifiers for the next season and for the second time we're in the Champions League group stage, but we've got a horrible group and will lose all 6 games I suspect!