[FM19] Nordicland

[Jimbokav1971]

Not happy. Jul 2023. 

We are a Semi-Pro club with no money and we are competing against fully Pro clubs who do have money. If this was a Youth Only save or a one club save then I would just grin and bare it, but it isn't so my plan was to take over one of the clubs below us in the league. 

Degerfors IF are 8 points behind us in the league and looking for a new Manager after significantly under-performing. We on the other hand are significantly over-performing. Surely the job is in the bag. Right? 

They don't want me. They want my Ass Man. 

It can only be down to his licenses. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Sep 2023.

Swedish First Division North. Two wins without conceding at the start of the season suggested that we might do well this season, but then 6 losses in our next 9 games was a bit of an eye-opener. We're currently in good form, unbeaten in our last 9 and only 1 loss in our last 14, and this has seen us rise to 6th in the table and just 6 points off 2nd and a Playoff spot. Despite that, not everything is rosy. We are increasingly overdrawn at the bank and only surviving thanks to board investment. That in itself isn't a problem, but because of the time-restricted nature of this save, out Semi-Pro status is. Our finances, semi-pro status & facilities suggest that while I know we can get promoted from this league, that won't resolve some of our issues. 

Swedish Cup. We at least played this season after being over-looked last season for some reason. 

We have not 1 but 2 goal-scoring GK's this season. 

(11) Norman (F.Sport) has 3 goals, (all direct free-kicks), but has also missed a penalty. Eric Ekström has 1 goal from the spot, (from 1 attempt), after arriving on loan when (11) Norman (F.Sport) was injured. 

So why am I posting an update when there are still 6 games of the season remaining? 

Tindastóll are a club I haven't heard of before, (which is a surprise considering I played a long career there in a recent FM). 

They are currently 6th in the Icelandic First Division with just 1 game remaining.. 

I particularly like their home kit. 

Although their finances are insecure, importantly they have a professional set-up. 

Their facilities are unspectacular, so rather than developing our own youth, my strategy should probably be to bring in a large number of young players from elsewhere. 

[scott92507]

625 per week! You’re rich!

Good luck!

[Jimbokav1971]

Save Tracker. Sep 2023.

Trophy cabinet. 

Finnish First Division Manager of the Year 2018. 
Finnish Premier League Manager of the Year 2019.

Finnish Premier League 2020.
Finnish Premier League 2021.
Swedish Second Division East Götaland 2022.

Where have I been?.

Klubi-04 are actually the B-Team of HJK who are the biggest team in Finland and are based in Helsinki. I moved to IFK Mariehamn of Finland who are based on the Åland Islands which is between Finland and Sweden. 

From IFK Mariehamn in Finland I moved to Lunds BK in Sweden who are based just about as far to the South as it's possible to go in Sweden without getting your feet wet. 

From Lund in Sweden I have moved to in Iceland.

[Jimbokav1971]

Welcome to Tindastóll. Sep 2023.

We're £232k in the red and this means that we are labelled financially insecure. That isn't a problem in itself though because my plan is to just sell players to get us back into the black anyway. The only problem with that is that our highest valued player is only valued at £17,000. I would have sell 14 of my best player at his current valuation to get us back into credit. I only have 1 of him. 

One thing I have noticed straight away is that we don't have a Youth Team. 

I thought they had fixed this? I even checked it. I just didn't check all teams. 

It still looks as if they get a Youth Intake though and that's all that counts. 

In any case, we don't have the Facilities to rely on our Youth Intake yet. I will have to bring in young talent from outside. 

We just have 2 games of the season left. 

If the rubbish players at the club can finish in 6th, 10 points off the Champions, I hope to at least be competitive next season. 

[Hootieleece]

Should have tried HK. I know they have a youth team. They were one of my first saves with FM19!

[Jimbokav1971]

4 minutes ago, Hootieleece said:

Should have tried HK. I know they have a youth team. They were one of my first saves with FM19!

Yeah but I have done them to death in the past. They were the 1st team I checked so I know they have a Youth Team.

[Edit]

I'm hoping that once we become and established First Division/Premier Division side we will be allowed a Youth side. Not a huge problem anyway, (just so long as we keep getting Youth Intakes).

Edited October 1, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Restructuring Tindastóll. Sep 2033.

We are overdrawn at the bank, we have no Reserve Team or Youth team, so why have we got 42 players at the club? 

I will be trying hard to slash both the number of players at the club and also the overall wage bill. Any players I do sign are going to have to be able to play immediately, because there is nowhere else for them to play while they develop. 

We have 6 GK's. That's ridiculous! 

First Division. We lost both our remaining games and finished 8th in the league. I let the Ass Man pick the squad for the 1st game, but I picked the team for the Fram game and in doing so gave debuts to 2 teenagers. A 1-0 loss to a promoted team is not a disaster, but there is no hiding that we weren't very good. 

[endtime]

In FM19 Iceland has youth teams that are shared between teams, and from reading the bugs forum they don't work quite as they should. Check under your affiliated clubs.

[Jimbokav1971]

8 hours ago, endtime said:

In FM19 Iceland has youth teams that are shared between teams, and from reading the bugs forum they don't work quite as they should. Check under your affiliated clubs.

They didn't work as they should "out of the box", but I thought it had been fixed and it looked like it had been fixed. (Was fine in FM19 by the way). 

I don't have anything under affiliations for a Youth Team. 

HK on the other hand, (the team that didn't work properly out of the box and the team that appeared as if everything was ok more recently), does have the correct affiliations. 

We are a team that is usually non-playable though, so I think what has happened is that we have come up and our Youth Team hasn't "triggered". I don't know how this is meant to work in real life so it's very hard for me to be critical of the game. 

There are 12 teams in the Icelandic Premier League and then there are 12 more in the Icelandic First Division, giving us 24 teams in the top 2 tiers. 

We have 26 teams in the Youth Set-up though and it operates in a tiered manner with relegation and promotion between the 3 leagues. I have to wait for my Youth Team to be "promoted" (based on reputation I think in the same way that normal non-playable promotion works). I wonder if we have had a Youth Team since the game started...... except there is no way to check because I don't have a youth schedule to click on. I could check Div 3 for the last few years. 

Nope. The 3-tiered Youth structure seems to be a closed system. Although there is promotion and relegation within the system, there is no promotion/relegation to/from the system. 

 

This could be reality though. 

Edited October 1, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Feb, Mar, Apr & May 2024.

Pre Season. Who cares.

League Cup. This looks pretty rough, but when you consider that Stjarnan, FH and Grindavik are all Premier League sides and we were competitive in all games, then it's possibly not as bad as it initially seems. 

First Division. I'm not sure what I'm expecting from this season? I don't expect to go up, but I want to be competitive at least. 2 away wins is a decent start from our opening 3 games. 

Icelandic Cup. 2 away wins is a decent start and the Ægir result is a new record for the competition surprisingly. 

[Jimbokav1971]

1st and 2nd goals of the Season. Jun 2024.

Hjörvar Daði scored this free-kick and then followed it up with a penalty for a brace against Ægir in the Cup. 

[Jimbokav1971]

3rd goal of the season. Jun 2024.

[Jimbokav1971]

Jun 2024.

First Division. We have been decent this month and the game in which we struggled was my favourite Icelandic side HK, who demolished us despite being in the relegation zone. 

Icelandic Cup. Our opponents Keflavik are currently 3rd in the First Division so while we might have been lucky in avoiding the Premier League sides, we were away against a decent team. 

[Jimbokav1971]

6th goal of the season. Jul 2024.

After a slow start to the season, (0 goals in his opening 9 games), 23 year old Hjörvar Daði has now scored 6 goals in his last 9 games, (3 penalties from 3 attempts and 3 direct free-kicks). 

[Jimbokav1971]

Jul 2024.

First Division. We've been on good/great form and thanks to our 5th and 6th 1-0 wins of the season we have now established a gap of 8 points at the top of the table. 

Icelandic Cup. Unfortunately though, sacrifices had to be made to keep our good form in the league going, and this involved fielding a rotated squad in the Cup which wasn't good enough to beat Premier League opposition. "Throwing" a Cup Quarter Final might seem silly, but I wanted to give ourselves the best possible chance of winning the league at the 1st attempt. We can't be hanging around in the lower reaches you know! 

[Hootieleece]

This isn't fun the Big Fat Goal Scoring Keeper gives you an unfair advantage over the AI. LOL   It doesn't know how to counter such tactics even though you have been exploiting it for awhile now.

[Jimbokav1971]

10 hours ago, Hootieleece said:

This isn't fun the Big Fat Goal Scoring Keeper gives you an unfair advantage over the AI. LOL   It doesn't know how to counter such tactics even though you have been exploiting it for awhile now.

It honestly does. 

Rather than post the goals scored by a GK, I should start posting the goals that we concede as a result of the GK playing so far upfield. 

I scored a great one recently where the GK took an indirect free-kick on the right hand side, (he's not meant to take from wide positions), the ball got cleared back to him and he was still waiting there to link up play. He didn't even just pump it back into the box. Instead he worked a a couple of triangle with some team-mates before one of them delivered into the far post to score. LOve it. 

I regularly concede from the half-way line though, (or even further out). 

[krakonico]

On 30/09/2019 at 18:18, Jimbokav1971 said:

From Lund in Sweden I have moved to in Iceland.

I would love to make that trip in car... 

Nice job, will sub and continuing reading it.

[Jimbokav1971]

8 hours ago, krakonico said:

I would love to make that trip in car... 

Nice job, will sub and continuing reading it.

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Youth Day. Aug 2024.

I'm not really expecting much here. Our facilities are not good in comparison to even an average Icelandic club. 

One of the most gifted to come through the ranks in recent years? Yeah, I don't doubt it, but it still doesn't mean that they are any good. 

I've offered the top 3 players Youth contracts. I might have been tempted to sign a few more, but without either a Reserve or a Youth side, I have to really limit the numbers at the club because some of them are just not going to play at all. 

"Kriss" (24a) Garðar (Bal) (2024) *.

He looks ok. Whether he will ever play for the Senior side I'm not sure. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Aug 2024.

First Division.  We've kept in good form, the loss to our promotion rivals Þróttur aside. It was good to turn over HK after the earlier reverse. We are guaranteed promotion now, but I really need to turn that promotion into a title. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Sep 2024.

It's always good to beat the pre-season odds. 

First Division. 

Our good form continued right up to the end of the season, and the only reason we lost to Þór, who are famous, (in my mind at least), for being the club that produced a certain Orri Freyr Oskarsson of FM fame), is because I couldn't resist blooding some of the recent Youth Intake. (Well all 3 of the ones I signed to be exact). We still won the league by a whopping 11 points,, (which is impressive in any league), but in a league season consisting of only 22 games it's monstrous. 

In other news I'm dismayed and astonished to see HK go down to unplayable. The reason I managed them previously in FM is because they have astonishing facilities and for them to go down based on the talent that their Youth Intake produce is.... mind-blowing. Had they stayed up and sacked their Manager, I must admit that I had considered moving there and going more Youth based for a couple of seasons. 

While I've really enjoyed myself at Tindastóll, (I just love Iceland in general), I think I might try and jump to another Premier league club. We don't have either the facilities, cash or players to challenge at this new level and this save is all about winning things and moving on and I think the most likely thing that Tindastóll are going to win is another First Division title after we get relegated next season and then come back up. 

[Hootieleece]

Good Job with the Title! Even if it was never in doubt...

Surprised as you are about HK...hope they will bounce back up.

[Jimbokav1971]

Gyazo problems. Feb 2025. 

The save tracker hasn't been posted since the end of the season and I have jumped clubs again so I also need to update you on that. 

We were promoted as Champions from Icelandic First Division and were going to struggle in the Icelandic Premier League with a team with poor facilities, in debt, and with a playing squad who had significantly over-performed in getting promoted. My usual style of play is that I would slowly develop the team until such time as either player sales, or more likely European competition improved our financial situation. In this case however I don't want to wait around and do things slowly, I want to win things and win things quickly before moving on to the next challenge. 

Knattspyrnufélag ÍA or just ÍA for short are reigning Iceland Premier League Champions, (they have actually won the title for 4 years in succession now). Their Manager has recently taken the Randers job in Denmark and I managed to do enough to persuade the ÍA board to give me a chance. (I must be developing a reputation as a serial "winner" now, but I think I am also gaining a reputation for only being at clubs for a short period of time because it was something that was mentioned at the interview stage. Rather than be honest, I opted to lie and tell them that I would be around for a considerable length of time, but actually I want ti win the Icelandic Premier League at the first time of asking before moving on again. I managed to secure philosophies for both developing youth and signing young players, and this suits most with my natural style. 

Surprisingly, ÍA have initially given me a 2 year contract, (the first contract I have signed in this save more than 1 season long), and I have agreed to not apply for jobs at other clubs, (for a while). part of the reason they gave me the job, (I think). is because I told them that I would be able to win the Premier League with both a slightly lower wage budget and transfer budget, and the transfer budget for example was reduced from approx. £1M to approx £800,000 as a result. 

Just checked and Gyazo is back. 

Finances. I've gone from having absolutely no money to having more money than I can reasonably spend, but my plan is to still spend on infrastructure if I can. 

The squad strength/depth looks decent, but only if I don't intend to play with wide players. I can only assume that they have previously been playing quite a narrow 433 formation. The previous manager is actually Joey Guðjónsson, but his profile says that he prefers 4411 or 4231 wide, so maybe he has been playing players out of position of have sold/released players. There is nothing visible there but maybe there has been a significant retirement or something.....

Facilities. It's strange that we own our current ground, (which holds 5,550), and we are currently looking for a site to build a new stadium with a capacity of 5,185. The only thing I can think of is that they need the minimum seats to be increased for European football, but expect that the capacity is still too small. 

Recent European campaigns. I think that this is significant progress by an AI managed team in a relatively short period. I hate to say it, but if the AI can do this then I must have a reasonable chance of getting to the Group Stages of something.

Edited October 5, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Save tracker. Feb 2025. 

Finnish First Division Manager of the Year 2018. 
Finnish Premier league Manager of the Year 2019.

Finnish Premier League 2020. 
Finnish Premier League 2021.
Swedish Second Division East Götaland 2022.
Icelandic First Division Champions 2024.

[Jimbokav1971]

Someone mentioned recently, (I think it was @Hootieleece), about the number of goals my GK's score and I mentioned that I also concede as a result, so I thought I would document each goal that we concede as a result of my GK being given attacking duties this season. 

I don't think I have saved my set-piece instructions properly because there should be someone standing with the taker, and there should also be additional sub-levels of defence to allow us to pressure the ball and stop this. I had it working in Brazil, but I don't think I have sorted it yet in this save for some reason. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Apr 2025. 

Pre Season. Who cares. 

League Cup. We romped through the early round and I'm afraid I didn't see the warnings signs as we squeezed through the Semi on penalties, and a tired side lost to an ÍBV side who were relegated from the Premier League last season. As we are likely to only get 1 chance at this tournament, (unless I stay on specifically to target it next season), it's pretty annoying that we have lost an opportunity for an early trophy. Usually I wouldn't care at all and I would just think, "well at least we got to the Final and we will win it next season", but this save is not at all like that and I'm annoyed. 

We set this record in the Quarter Finals, and then failed to score in either the Semi or the Final. 

Champions Cup. (Is the Icelandic equivalent of the Charity/Community Shield (depending on your age). 

It would seem that we have a bit of a stranglehold on this competition over recent seasons. 

[Jimbokav1971]

May 2025.

Icelandic Cup. Despite it being risky to rotate the squad in one-legged knockout competitions, it's still got to be done if you want to keep everyone fit and happy. 

Premier League. That we finished the 1st month unbeaten in the league isn't a surprise. That the only goals scored against us were from my old club Tindastóll certainly is.

[Jimbokav1971]

June 2025.

Premier League. 4 wins out of 5 and 0 goals conceded finds us top of the table. Vikingur R have lost their last 2 games and we have opened up a gap of 2 points.

Icelandic Cup. After losing the League Cup Final we have also crashed out of the Icelandic Cup now. This is a as a result of me rotating the squad and prioritising the Premier league, but us not having the depth to do so. I can't afford to make the same mistake in Champions League qualifying. The goal is to get to the Group Stages of either the Champions League or the Europa League. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Jul 2025. 

Premier League. Well this wasn't what I had planned. I am determined to get to the Group Stage of "something" in Europe, and as a result I have rotated the squad for domestic league games. It obviously just hasn't worked just as it didn't work in the Cup games earlier this season, but I am a little slow on the uptake.  The problem is that I just can't play the same team in each game and I'm frustrated because I usually have much more depth than this, even if it's just youngsters. It might appear that I'm going easy on old club Tindastóll, but I can promise you nothing is further than than the truth. Despite our recent woes, we are still top and have 1 game in hand on our closest challengers. 

Champions League. No issues here with 4 wins from 4 and 4 clean sheets. The next round sees us go up against my old club IFK Mariehamn of Finland who we took to the Europa League Group stage in 2021.

[Jimbokav1971]

Youth Intake Day. Aug 2025.

I'm not really sure what to expect here in terms of an intake. A lot of our Senior players have come in from elsewhere in Scandinavia, we have 3 current Internationals from Guinea, Cameroon and Philippines and one of our centre-backs is in the Senior Iceland squad but not yet capped. As a result, the level at which are Youth Intake is being judged against is high.

"Stands out as one of the best" is not what I want to see, nut it's hardly a disaster either. 

Although we have no 5.0 players, and not even any 4.5 players, (25a), (25b) and (25c) look to have decent potential.

"Kriss" (25a) Leósson (2025).

This bloke looks decent, has the basis of a decent framework and looks to have reasonable potential. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Aug 2025.

Premier League. We're top of the table, but have 3 games in hand as a result of European exploits. It appears that the Premier League title in the bag at least. 

Champions League. We were able to dispatch our old club IFK both home and away, but Rosenborg are romping away with the Norwegian Premier League title and were just too strong for us, (especially as I was unable to rotate the squad as I would usually like to do). Still, one of my goals at the start of the season was to qualify for the Group stages of either Champions league or Europa League, and getting this far means that we have at least managed that. 

Europa League. Group J. If I'm honest, I don't expect many points to come from these 6 games. Any points at all would be a result. 

Finances. The whole point of getting to the Group Stage, (of something), was simply about money. I thought that we would be capable, (and we were), but I also thought we might make it to the Champions League Group stage. We weren't, but we didn't miss out by much and I think had I had more depth in the squad and been able to rotate the squad more it would have been even closer. 

Income. We've already made £2.6M in prize money this season, (compared to £1.2M for the whole of last season), but I must have missed the message despite keeping an eye out for it. I "think" there will also be a further payment of about £2.5M once we get knocked out of the Group Stage, but even what we have already received should set the club up nicely for future years. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Upgrades. Sep 2025.

This should make it easier for me to move clubs in the future. 

This should give the club a boost after I am long gone. 

I can't ask for anything else right now, but my plan is to ask for an upgrade to both the Training and Youth Facilities after we win the league while my stock is high. 

While I want to move on already, (even before the title is won), I think we are just about there and I'm looking around for potential new clubs. At the same time however, (and remember that this save is all about winning things), I might hang on until the start of next season to give myself another go at the Icelandic League Cup. I don't really want to stay for a full season, but I would stay just to have a pop at the League Cup. 

Our old club IFK Mariehamn are looking for a new manager, but I have already won the top league in FInland so there is no need to return there just for domestic Cups. 

I've managed in Sweden, but only won the 4th tier so have unfinished business there. Any fully professional club in Sweden's 3rd tier, (or above), would be of interest to me. 

I'm not looking to move to either Norway or Denmark just yet, but if an opportunity presents itself then you never know. 

*** Something else that I should mention, (although I think I have already done so), is that I still have unfinished business back in my Brazil save because I left without winning the Copa Libertadores. I am probably going to get to the end of this season, maybe have another pop at the League Cup during next pre-season and then put this save on hold at the time I am actually moving clubs. Then I would crank up the old save, try to set a new records for GK goals in a season, and win the Copa Libertadores to boot. (That's the plan anyway). Then i would come back here and continue until FM20 drops. 

 

[Jimbokav1971]

Sep 2025. 

Premier Division. We eased comfortably to the title in the end with a margin of 9 points between ourselves and Breiðablik in 2nd place. Unsurprisingly,  our old club Tindastóll were relegated back to the First Division with just 3 wins all season, (1 of them against us). 

Europa League.  A 3-0 thumping was a bit of a rude introduction to the Europa League Group Stages. We were just in the Group Stages for the money though, so who cares if we lose 3-0 in all the games. 

[Jimbokav1971]

Dec 2025.

Europa League. Group J. We have performed significantly better than expected. Unbeaten at home with 2 wins from 3 games is a really decent introduction to the Group Stage, and we were perhaps a little unlucky to be drawn in such a tough group. 

Facilities downgraded.

Facilities upgraded.

Finances. This is the situation after shelling out almost £3M in facility upgrades, so that's not too shabby at all. 

Facilities. Things are looking decent here now, although this is still a work in progress.

[Jimbokav1971]

Save tracker. Dec 2025.

Awards. 

Finnish First Division Manager of the Year 2018.
Finnish Premier League manager of the Year 2019.

Trophy cabinet.

Finnish Premier League 2020.
Finnish Premier League 2021.
Swedish Second Division East Götaland Champions 2022.
Icelandic First Division Champions 2024.
Icelandic Champions Cup Champions 2025. (Frustratingly, there isn't a big trophy picture for this award). 
Icelandic Premier Division Champions 2025. 
 

[Jimbokav1971]

The future. Dec 2025. 

I haven't won the Icelandic League Cup yet and as that's right at the start of the new season I am going to have a go at it before moving on. 

We were Runners Up last season, and in 2021, but we haven't won this competition since 2003. I'm just going to give myself 1 more go at it. 

Available jobs. 

The England job is available now and the Sweden job might be available shortly, but I'm not keen on either. 

I've won the 4th tier in Sweden so am ideally looking for a professional club in the 3rd tire, (Swedish First Division North/South), but that's easier said than done when the team who finished 3rd in Swedish First Division North this season are Semi-Pro, and the team that won the Swedish First Division South are also Semi-Pro. 

I don't really want to spend time messing about in a rubbish league now, so I might be tempted to miss out the 3rd tier in Sweden and head straight for a Pro club in the 2nd tier.

[XaW]

I haven't read the whole thread (yet) so someone might have posted this already, but as the resident Norwegian for this forum, it is my sacred duty to inform you that nether Finland nor Iceland are part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia is only Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Iceland and Finland are only included if you talk about the Nordic countries.

There, I said it. Now I can go back and enjoy the thread.

[Jimbokav1971]

3 hours ago, XaW said:

I haven't read the whole thread (yet) so someone might have posted this already, but as the resident Norwegian for this forum, it is my sacred duty to inform you that nether Finland nor Iceland are part of Scandinavia. Scandinavia is only Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Iceland and Finland are only included if you talk about the Nordic countries.

There, I said it. Now I can go back and enjoy the thread.

Honestly, thank you for that. 

I didn't know that but now I think of it didn't know what "Nordic" encompassed either. 

Am very happy to be corrected. 

If I can remember now I'm going to change the name to something more accurate. 

[Sysiphus]

On 01/10/2019 at 23:51, Jimbokav1971 said:

They didn't work as they should "out of the box", but I thought it had been fixed and it looked like it had been fixed. (Was fine in FM19 by the way). 

I don't have anything under affiliations for a Youth Team. 

HK on the other hand, (the team that didn't work properly out of the box and the team that appeared as if everything was ok more recently), does have the correct affiliations. 

We are a team that is usually non-playable though, so I think what has happened is that we have come up and our Youth Team hasn't "triggered". I don't know how this is meant to work in real life so it's very hard for me to be critical of the game. 

There are 12 teams in the Icelandic Premier League and then there are 12 more in the Icelandic First Division, giving us 24 teams in the top 2 tiers. 

We have 26 teams in the Youth Set-up though and it operates in a tiered manner with relegation and promotion between the 3 leagues. I have to wait for my Youth Team to be "promoted" (based on reputation I think in the same way that normal non-playable promotion works). I wonder if we have had a Youth Team since the game started...... except there is no way to check because I don't have a youth schedule to click on. I could check Div 3 for the last few years. 

Nope. The 3-tiered Youth structure seems to be a closed system. Although there is promotion and relegation within the system, there is no promotion/relegation to/from the system. 

 

This could be reality though. 

A late answer as I've just seen this.

This is reality. Tindastóll don't have u19 team. The youth league system isn't closed per se, but there are no teams outside of it, if new teams enter that'll be newly formed youth teams or former collaborated youth teams that have split up. It can also vary between year classes if small teams in the countryside (such as Tindastóll) have a youth team each year. I'm guessing FM is basing their youth setup in Iceland on how it was the summer of 2018.

However, irl Tindastóll have u16s team, the worst one in the country this year. So in FM2021 they might have a registered u19s team, when this u17s team has taken the step up to u19s level next summer.

Hope it makes sense.

Good luck at ÍA, who have arguably the second best youth system in Iceland second to Breiðablik. They've won the u19s league two years in row now and produced Iceland's current brightest prospect, Arnor Sigurdsson.

[XaW]

16 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

Honestly, thank you for that. 

I didn't know that but now I think of it didn't know what "Nordic" encompassed either. 

Am very happy to be corrected. 

If I can remember now I'm going to change the name to something more accurate. 

No worries, it's a fact that is little known outside the region and even fewer who cares about it.

Quote

"Scandinavia" refers to Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Some sources argue for the inclusion of the Faroe Islands, Finland and Iceland, though that broader region is usually known by the countries concerned as Norden, or the Nordic countries.

That is how it's viewed up here at least.

I am enjoying reading through the thread. Though I am nowhere through it. Looking forward to seeing you manage in Norway. 

[Crispypaul]

Great read as usual, love a Nordic save.  I tried to do one a couple of years ago but it petered out a bit.

Have decided it will be one of my saves in FM20 though.

[Jimbokav1971]

11 hours ago, Crispypaul said:

Great read as usual, love a Nordic save.  I tried to do one a couple of years ago but it petered out a bit.

Have decided it will be one of my saves in FM20 though.

Thanks. I have wanted to play here for years. There used to be a challenge called the @GundoChallenge which was basically a European version of the @dafugechallenge and one of the big attractions to me was something called the Royal Cup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_League

I'm gutted that it's no longer in existence but it was just 1 of many many attractions to managing in this part of the World. 

[Jimbokav1971]

GK Hat-trick. Feb 2026.

I've been really busy at work this week so not had a chance to play much. 

When I finally get through the close-season to begin my tilt at the League Cup title, (before leaving), this happens in the very 1st game. 

A hat-trick on debut for on-loan 21 year old GK Kuczera (POL). I was going to stick with the best GK I had, 21 year old Kristinn Freyr who looks to have decent potential, but when the DoF bought the Polish keeper in I just thought what the hell. I'm not here for long anyway. 

Yeah I know 1 goal is a penalty and another looks to be a poor GK error, but the 3rd is a #TopBins belter. 

For those who want to know what the GK looks like.....

Importantly..... I promise you that the top 2 attributes here have absolutely no impact, (that's zero impact), on the result of any taken penalty or free-kick. 

[Jimbokav1971]

League Cup Champions? Apr 2026. 

This post was meant to be me announcing that we had won the Icelandic League Cup and that I was now looking for a new club and showing you the available options. Unfortunately, FM isn't always that simple. 

League Cup. Not a good campaign at all despite a very good start. I went out and bought 11 new players, (well 10 bought and 1 loaned), and I think this disrupted our cohesion. In hindsight that was a mistake. We lost in the Group Stage to Fylkir, sneaked through in the quarters with a GK penalty and then lost on penalties in the Semi's against KR. 

New record for goals scored. Despite the fact that didn't even play in the Final. 

Our young Polish GK scored 5 goals in the campaign, (3 pens from 3 attempts and 2 direct free-kicks), from 7 games played. He is the outright leading scorer in the competition at the moment and of the players on 4 goals, only Anton Breki Þorvarðarson still has a game to play in the competition. There is a VERY good chance that Kuczera (POL) could finish with the golden boot from only 6 shots on target.

I'm not staying for another season just to try and win this competition. Instead I am looking for either a good 3rd Tier Swedish side, or more likely an average 2nd Tier Swedish side. 

[Edit]

21 year old GK Kuczera (POL) did indeed finish as top goal-scorer in the competition. 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

Groundhog Day. Apr 2026. 

Champions Cup. We have a "fierce" competitive rivalry with KR and this is called the Krian Derby. For the 2nd game running we have drawn 2-2 with them and then gone on to lose on penalties. We were 2-0 up in this game and still came away defeated. They saw us off in the League Cup, and have now done the same in the Champions Cup. 

[Edit] Only we can lose without losing, (twice in a row). 

I feel like rage-quitting immediately, but instead I'm going to stick in the job until I get a new one. I want to move to Sweden, but at the moment I just need to leave. I've left them in a great position in terms of facilities and players, but the last 2 losses have left a bad taste in my mouth and it's time for a new challenge and a tilt at a new trophy. 

Job options. The Swedish Premier Division is the top tier, (as you would expect), and I'm not sure I'm going to get a job at that level, (or want it for that matter). IF Brommapojkarna in the Swedish First Division Elite is more what I am aiming for. I don't really care that the finances are insecure. They are the club I am looking for at the moment and they are bottom with 1 point from 4 games at the moment. 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Jimbokav1971

[Jimbokav1971]

May 2026.

I went to watch the next IF Brommapojkarna game that I was free for despite dominating away from home, they lost 1-0 and saw the opposition GK make no less than 13 saves to keep a clean sheet and earn his team 3 points.

My 1st impressions are that there is nothing wrong with this side that I couldn't fix immediately, (although the waist-line of one of their centre-mids was as concerning as it was large).

[Sysiphus]

1 hour ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

Groundhog Day. Apr 2026. 

Champions Cup. We have a "fierce" competitive rivalry with KR and this is called the Krian Derby. For the 2nd game running we have drawn 2-2 with them and then gone on to lose on penalties. We were 2-0 up in this game and still came away defeated. They saw us off in the League Cup, and have now done the same in the Champions Cup. 

[Edit] Only we can lose without losing, (twice in a row). 

I feel like rage-quitting immediately, but instead I'm going to stick in the job until I get a new one. I want to move to Sweden, but at the moment I just need to leave. I've left them in a great position in terms of facilities and players, but the last 2 losses have left a bad taste in my mouth and it's time for a new challenge and a tilt at a new trophy. 

Job options. The Swedish Premier Division is the top tier, (as you would expect), and I'm not sure I'm going to get a job at that level, (or want it for that matter). IF Brommapojkarna in the Swedish First Division Elite is more what I am aiming for. I don't really care that the finances are insecure. They are the club I am looking for at the moment and they are bottom with 1 point from 4 games at the moment. 

Unlucky in the derby. Brommapojkarna would be a nice next step imo.

Trivia point: The name of the derby (Krían), is derived from the team names, KR+ÍA, (the "n" is a determiner in Icelandic, similar to "the").

[Jimbokav1971]

25 minutes ago, Sysiphus said:

Trivia point: The name of the derby (Krían), is derived from the team names, KR+ÍA, (the "n" is a determiner in Icelandic, similar to "the").

You know I tried to look it up and couldn't find anything. Thanks. 

Edited October 12, 2019 by Jimbokav1971