The FM20 Youth Academy Challenge

[Fastbasher]

6 hours ago, andyus said:

Was playing as Brodd IL and got relegated, and continued playing in the 4th tier. But in my save there was a bug with finances.

Upgraded training and youth facilities and didn't lose any money but when i got promoted to 3th tier again the finances got lower when i upgraded stuff.

 

That sounds like what happens in the 4th tier in France as well. It is also not possible to save money from one season to another.

[Fastbasher]

7 minutes ago, XaW said:

Oh, and definitely the weather!

Have a laugh when you're playing on a snow covered field, a player commits a foul and the commentary says 'Player 'x' is on thin ice.'

[OrToDaRy282]

I'm taking over the team where I did my best last FM.
I'm really wanting to try it in England but lack of time to build a 30 season long career is not encouraging me to try it.
That's why I go back to Poland where the seasons go rather quickly.

Let's go, Widzew Lodz!

[schnauzer]

A surprisingly good first intake! We're low on numbers in the first team so some of these will get plenty of minutes this season. The personalities are a worry but I've brought in a HOYD with a determined personality and 20 for determination, which should see to that.

The 5 players shown below are clearly the best, and will probably all make it. If any of the others do also, then bonus!

Granstrom is definitely my favourite though, what a winger he is going to be!

 

     

 

[ATW]

Not sure if I will have the chance to go further with the guys but here is an update for the youth intake.  Nothing really to write home about.

Toledo 2020/21 Intake

Rodrigo Pena

Juan Jose

[thomas_e]

Well, its been 6 months into the season and the club is changed in a big way. I posted earlier about the sale of our top talent Tihomir Ajdukovic for £6,5 million to Liverpool. Now Liverpool have snapped up our other top prospect as well! Zdravko Tomaskovic was always way to good to be destined for a long career at NK Zadar and he, as Ajdukovic, unfortunately has a buy-out clause in his contract. January started with a bidding war for him, and all of a sudden we had PSG, Liverpool, Porto, Juventus, Milan etc. in for him. The £9,5 million buy out clause was no problem for these guys, and we lost our biggest talent! This has given us a remarkable £16,8 million in the bank, and we are basically set for many years to come. But are we going to end up as Liverpools farmer club?! Definitely mixed emotions with this one. Now we have to keep the rest of our talents and start promoting some of our other youngsters, because this has been a big set back on the pitch! 

 

        

 

[Fastbasher]

@thomas_e Those look like good sales to me.

 

Can you invest the funds in facilities to produce even better players?

[XaW]

XaW - Follo Fotballklubb - 2020

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

So here I am, back home, literally. I live about 5 minutes away from the stadium. And we are talking "stadium" in the broadest of terms. How broad?

This broad, and yes it's partly a football pitch, partially for running and long jump and the like. So I took over the club shortly after their previous manager had lead them from the depths of the 3. division, and now up to PostNord-ligaen avdeling 2. For reference, that is the 3rd tier of Norwegian football. The team itself were in pretty good shape, with the only issue a shortage of decent left defenders. So I went into this with an open mind tactically, and what do I know and like? 4-5-1 with wingers of course. So I did and tried to play to the strengths of the players. And it seemed to work great from the get go. Of the first 6 matches, we won 4 and drew 2. Some small hits here and there, but we kept going throughout the whole season. In the end we only lost 5 games in the league all season. Annoyingly, two of those were to Stabæk Fotball 2 who only won 5 games all season! With two games left we were a single point ahead of Sandnes Ulf, facing them away in the penultimate game. We played the worst match of the season and lost 4-1. Simply a horrible game and we deserved to lose, and it could have been more. So two points behind and the final game left. We were at home to Flekkerøy, while Sandnes Ulf faced Kjelsås away, so I didn't have much of a hope. We did our job, and when it suddenly rained confetti I were stunned and actually cheered loudly, having my girlfriend thinking I finally lost my last marble, she responded with a sigh and rolling eyes. No matter, we won it! Kjelsås did us a favour and beat Sandnes Ulf! This means we are going up and Sandnes Ulf have to do the playoffs. Amazing, but it's going to be hard in the 2nd tier.

In the Norgesmesterskap we beat Lørenskog IF before losing to Stabæk, who finished 4th in the top tier this season, in the 2nd round.

The leading players this season have been Ernest Hubert Rzepecki, Joachim Glosli and Nicolas Pena.

[ATW]

Toledo Season 2020/21

Well the 2020/21 season has come to a close, and the club survived relegation battle, winning the Relegation Playoff 6-2 on aggregate.  Rodrigo Pena has already made his debut, playing in the relegation playoff win.  

Anyway, season screenshots below.

Transfers - the player in was signed before I could cancel it.

Season Review

Despite signing a new one year contract my job may be on the line as Toledo are in the middle of a bidding war

 

 

[XaW]

Well, I need a left back, so that's good. But a lot of negatives for a "golden generation", I'd say.

[thomas_e]

51 minutes ago, Fastbasher said:

@thomas_e Those look like good sales to me.

 

Can you invest the funds in facilities to produce even better players?

Yes, isolated they are good sales. But we are also talking about the best talent we have ever produced and I have to improve the team on the pitch as well. But when a release clause is met there is no arguing! 

We are improving facilities and we already have top junior coaching and recruitment so hopefully we can see some results from that in the next few years. 

[XaW]

Youth intake 2021

A very good intake with quite a few interesting players.

Sindre Lakkala 21f is a really interesting talent. Great mentals for a 16 year old an good at the technicals a defender needs. A bit low jumping, but that's pretty much it.

I also chose to highlight Finn Støback 21b here since I need left defenders. Great mentals and a professional personality should help him improve a lot.

[OlivierL]

IR Reykjavik - Season 2022 - review

Table- Squad - Finances - Transfers - Youth intake

I had an unsuspected superb first season in the first division !

Pepsideild:

Started with 3 points out of 15 . So i was ready for a relegation battle.

But then we started winning and in the 22th(last ) game we would qualify for the Europa League conference league with a 3th place. IBV (2) and Stjarnan played against each other.

I had to play away against KR , they survided the drop but were media predicted .. first !

 

in the 85th minute, this was the situation :

We held on and IBV didn' score anymore so i finished third because i scored more goals !!

Fixtures

 

Bikarkeppni Karla:

We reached the quarter final this season and had to play away at Breidablik. We lost after 20!! penalties

 

Deildabikar :

Again not great !

 

Best players : Pall Porsteinsson - Robert Omarsson - Mar Vidarsson

Next season :

It won't be easy to do better next season. I'll try to have a save season and get some money out of EL2.  My finances and the fact i'll probably lose my best MC ( Omarsson) makes me nervous .

 Tenth time I've begged for it..

 

 

 

 

Edited December 9, 2019 by OlivierL

[Braumiller]

Been away for the weekend and a lot of great updates to work through, nice going all  

[darren1983]

Have also had no time on FM this weekend which is probably a good thing as they've still not fixed the playoff bug but I have lots of free time coming up now so have actually restarted at Palermo

 

[Braumiller]

TABLE  //  TRANSFERS  //  SQUAD STATS

On The Pitch
This year felt like the first year of the challenge where we belonged and were not fighting for relevancy.
It certainly helped that we won our first three league games without conceding a goal, but that proved to be a run of good form and not our true standing in the league!
In fact it took 18 games to win another 3 games and we fell from 1st to 15th.  We never truly felt in danger of a relegation battle like the first two seasons and eventually we regained our form and battled to a 10th place finish.

Very happy with my main retraining projects this year.  Sidney Meefout (02B) is coming along nicely as a central defender and Jovi van der Maarel (01B) is coming along nicely as a right back

Off The Pitch
Lots going on here.
We were able to get a bunch of facility upgrades approved and teams started paying attention to our players, signifiying we are no longer their perceived whipping boys.  Important upgrades saw Academy Coaching up to 'Excellent' and Youth Recruitment up to 'Good'.
June - Managed to finally get 'sign players under 23' removed from Club Culture
June/July - 20+ offers for Eric Stegeman (02A) from various teams.  He only once complained about the rejected bids and his teammate talked him down from the ledge for us!  Truth be told, I didn't do him right this season as I chopped and changed formations.  Hoping to find something more suited to him (and others) soon.
October - Completed National A Licence
January - Youth Recruitment improved
January - Academy Coaching improved
March - Data Analyst Facility improved
March - Sidney van den Dikkenberg (01C) out for 6 months with serious viral infection
March - Joint Training & Youth Training facility upgrades agreed (1.4m)
June - Club culture now has 'Develop players using the clubs youth system'.  I did not prompt this.
June saw part 1 of the old timers clear out.  It probably affected up on the pitch on and off, when suspensions and injuries hit, but contracts were expiring and it was time to bite the bullet.  More will happen this up coming summer, with only first team squad players being kept.

Youth Intake
Our best intake yet, 8 players tagged.  Some look certain for action (RvR), others will probably never make the grade.  It is just nice to see the under 19s fill out with some potential.
Robbert van Rooijen (03A) - A brave, flair and pacey winger who is tiny.  Came on for the last 21 minutes of the last game of the season for his debut, scored a 90th minute goal (we lost 2-3) and it was voted goal of the season....  A decent intro!
Archie Stone (03B) - This is an odd one.  A very tall left winger, who is English.  The problem here is Brexit.  League rules state non-EU players have a minumum wage of 3.6k for u21s and 7.25k for 21 and older.  Our highest wage at the club is only 1.3k...  Archie is stuck on a youth contract...
Peter Manual (03C) - A decent looking option in central midfield.  I am going to retrain for DM as well to help out, especially as two of my existing youth MC prospects are doing well in their retraining roles (a DC and a DR....)
Mart Molenaar (03D) - High potential strikers are always exciting!  Shouldn't see any first team action for a while but hoping he plays well in the u19s and gives me a selection headache.
Toon Peters (03E) - Similar to Mart.  I may retrain Toon (attack minded MC?), but hoping he plays well and develops in the u19s 
Sander Boogers (03F) - Unambitious and below 6 foot, but we are not overly well stocked at DC so he may see emergency time.
Yassine van der Horst (03G) - This is a potential dark horse.  Our former star player was our very attacking DL, but he is now 34 and has dropped off significantly this past season and will be released (he is still wanting over a grand a week!). Yassine will be our back DL to begin with while he gets used to first team football.
Quincy Beck (03H) - A central defender.  Nothing fancy about him, but we definitely need him in the u19s

 

Challenge History

Season	League	Position	Highest Average	Top Goalscorer	Top Assists	Top POTMs
01	Eerste	18 / 20	Stef Brummel - 6.89	Ahmed El Azzouti - 9 Danny van den Meirsacker	Many - 3	Ahmed El Azzouti - 2
02	Eerste	12 / 20	Eef van Riel - 6.88	Jeroen Bosch (00C) - 8	Mike van der Laar - 4	Jeroen Bosch (00C) - 4
03	Eerste	10 / 20	Mike van de Lar - 7.03	Jeroen Bosch (00C) - 8	Jeroen Bosch (00C) - 6	5 players - 2

Facilities

	Training	Youth Training	Academy Coaching	Youth Recruitment
Start	Poor	Poor	Fairly Basic	Basic
End of Season 01	Poor	Poor	Average	Fairly Basic
End of Season 02	Basic	Basic	Good	Adequate
End of Season 03	Below Average	Below Average	Excellent	Good

[jstu9]

This just popped up.

Wow.

I haven't progressed yet so i don't know if he will get sold. But this was the guy I asked about a couple weeks ago - I asked if I should sell him or not. I did for peanuts. But I had a 50% clause in there. If this goes through, I'm rich. Like filthy rich.

Of course I'm struggling and the board hates me so I may get sacked. But I guess I can't have everything.

[Fastbasher]

2031/32 Annecy FC season review - French National division

The League

This was my most enjoyable season of this challenge by far. Almost all tinkering with the team improved our fortunes. I suspected this team would prove capable in the French National division and they did not let me down.

At one point in February we were 9 points clear at the top of the table. We were guaranteed promotion with two games in hand and actually won the league with a game in hand due to all other games being played before ours in the final round and the head to head tiebreak with Beziers being in our favour.

 

The Players

Alaa Saibi YP24c was once again our player of the season, young player of the season and top scorer with 25 goals. He was also runner up for French National player of the season award. One frustration was the amount of times he got called up to the Tunisian national team without playing. He missed five domestic games because of this and we relied on him heavily for goals. He went to the African Cup of Nations, but made just a single substitute appearance.

Abdelhadi Amara YP24b won the French National division goalkeeper of the season award.

Julien Aubert YP28c was also selected for the French National division team of the season.

 

Transfers

Our chairman once again tried to sabotage our team by accepting an offer for highly talented DM, Nicolas Renucci, for 2.2k. I asked him to renegotiate and he seemed pleased to get the deal up to 2.5k.

A board takeover could really improve our fortunes.

 

The announcement that we were turning professional came with two games left in the season, once promotion was confirmed. I'm now busy trying to tie down my first team players to full time contracts and keeping my reserves on part time contracts for 20-50 pounds a week.

The world has just opened up with greater possibilities for financial improvement, infrastructure improvements and increased player development.

 

 

[XaW]

5 hours ago, jstu9 said:

This just popped up.

Wow.

I haven't progressed yet so i don't know if he will get sold. But this was the guy I asked about a couple weeks ago - I asked if I should sell him or not. I did for peanuts. But I had a 50% clause in there. If this goes through, I'm rich. Like filthy rich.

Of course I'm struggling and the board hates me so I may get sacked. But I guess I can't have everything.

This right here is exactly why I always add the 50% of next fee into all sales. There are a lot of possible improvements to facilities for half of that money!  

[OneManSnipez]

Anyone noticing youth players getting their training reset every few months, cant tell if my 500 hours on this years game has turned me schizophrenic seeing things that arent there or if its actually happening

[XaW]

49 minutes ago, OneManSnipez said:

Anyone noticing youth players getting their training reset every few months, cant tell if my 500 hours on this years game has turned me schizophrenic seeing things that arent there or if its actually happening

Yes, I've seen it happen, but only to a few select players, so I've been unsure if I'm doing something strange. Only individual training, mind.

[XaW]

@darren1983: This post by Seb is a bit more than the one I posted earlier, including the youth poaching. Could you update the first post?

 

[syemo]

@schnauzer finnsnes was a team I tried to get promoted but was taking a while. Good luck will be keeping a eye on how you get on 😊

[darren1983]

42 minutes ago, XaW said:

@darren1983: This post by Seb is a bit more than the one I posted earlier, including the youth poaching. Could you update the first post?

 

Have done so 

[Scab]

St. Ives 2032/33 Season Review

League Table    Playoffs    Youth Intake    Squad    Transfers

Ah, playoff disappointment. Hello again, old friend.

Actually, I refuse to complain about 2nd. We're improving really nicely, both individually and as a team. Atkins was simply phenomenal, earning himself both Top Goalscorer and Player of the Season. While our tactic has changed in a few other ways as well, I think it's safe to say he works better with a striking partner. You could sure do worse than Aspin for that, considering he's basically a hard-working PF(D) that does nothing but open channels for you.

Much is happening off the field as well, what with a new owner stepping in. I was concerned he'd demand big changes or even have me replaced, but right off the bat he approved funding for better youth recruitment and improved youth level, in addition to injecting an extra £50K. Maybe we can be friends after all!

Decent youth intake. The preview got my hopes up a bit high, but Driver doesn't look too bad and Hughes and Eaton-Collins could grow into decent PFs. As usual, it's really down to how they develop from here.

Season    League              Finish   Notes
2032/33   Vanarama National   2nd      
2031/32   Vanarama National   4th      Lost in Playoff 1st Rnd, FA Trophy runners-up
2030/31   Vanarama National   7th      Lost in Playoff 1st Rnd
2029/30   Vanarama National   15th     -
2028/29   Vanarama National   10th     FA Trophy runners-up
2027/28   Vanarama North      1st      League winners
2026/27   Vanarama North      2nd      Lost in Playoff 2nd Rnd
2025/26   Vanarama North      2nd      Lost in Playoff 2nd Rnd
2024/25   Vanarama North      2nd      Lost in Playoff 2nd Rnd
2023/24   Vanarama North      5th      Lost in Playoff 2nd Rnd
2022/23   Vanarama North      4th      Lost in Playoff 1st Rnd
2021/22   Vanarama North      9th      -
2020/21   Vanarama North      15th     -

 

[SpS_Zen]

Il y a 9 heures, OneManSnipez a dit :

Anyone noticing youth players getting their training reset every few months, cant tell if my 500 hours on this years game has turned me schizophrenic seeing things that arent there or if its actually happening

When i train a player to a new position, every time he improves his position knowledge, the training is reset...I have to check every month if the individual training has been reset. This is quite annoying.

[jstu9]

Koninklijke Voetbal Klub Tienen-Hageland - Belgian First Amateur Division - 2029/30 Season

10 Seasons!

I just finished off Season #10, which was one of the worst seasons I have had while also having one of the best moments of the entire save. As posted above Atletico Madrid bid $47M for one of my top youth pulls Timmy De Backer (27a) that I had sold with a 50% clause in it. The transfer went through and I am now sitting on a balance of $14,533,359. I'll show my budget for next season, note my payroll budget for this past season was ~$8k p/w.

That's just insane, going from 8k to 77k. I haven't resigned my players for next season but I wonder if they are going to ask for loads of money. And we have turned professional again (we turned pro back in the season we had promoted but went semi-pro when we got relegated). I have upgraded the training and youth facilities (to be completed in October) and the youth recruitment. And I will keep trying to upgrade those.

We started the year by losing our top youth pull of 2028 Bart De Pauw on a free to Virton (scum). I guess any team can poach any of my youth players for $39.5k. They had bid multiple times and I rejected them all, assuming I'd just keep him. Then he left on a free and I had no say.

It was a rocky season. For the very first time we went out of the Cup in the 4th round, losing to VW Hamme, an occasional opponent in this division but currently in the division below. And I guess when the board says something is "Required", it's more of a suggestion (as they required a 6th Rd finish). I was feeling the heat halfway through the season as we started off fine and moving around 3rd to 5th or so. Then my starting CM Thomas De Schrijver got hurt and it seemed our team fell apart in November, winless in 6 games, falling to the low of 11th. (of course the difference between 4th and 13th was about 3 points but I digress). We finished the season, winning more than we lost but not exactly looking great. Finished 8th, out of the playoffs. Oddly, the team that finished 4th in the league got promoted. Without looking I think the team that was in 1st has promoted every other year I've played.

I have the squad shown above, I rotate players around, sometimes they play alot one year, not so much the next. But for the most part I have my core 13-14 players I have stuck with over the past few seasons. It's definitely harder to crack the starting 11 than he has in the past. I think there are a couple who might, Dries Van Campenhout being the best possibility.

I actually got better youth pulls this year than I have had the past few seasons, and oddly enough my top youngster is named Timothy De Backer (30a), almost the exact same name as the best pull from '27 (27a) Timmy De Backer who just made us filthy rich.

I was thinking of making a long post even longer by posting all of my starting 11, but instead I will post my top 3.

First is Felicien Brasseur, who has taken a hold of my striker position, listed at 4.5 stars. Player of the Year in the League, top goalscorer. In fact he now holds the League record of 23 goals scored in a season. I have just extended his contract by a season so I wonder how long he'll stay. But it should be at least one more season.

Next is Kim Paquet, my steady RW who seems to score 8 or 9 a year and get about 10 assists a season.

Then of course my steady CM Thomas De Schrijver. I think I posted his profile seasons ago, maybe I'll go and check that out to see how much he has improved. I feel like he is the glue that keeps that team together. He has been a mainstay in this team for years and I hope for many more.

Though this next bit may be more of interest to me but here are the Top 7 in appearances (competitive), goals and assists for the club since I took over.

jj

[streety]

 

Nybro IF Season 2022

So this season i decided to go for it no messing about title challange, to be fair i didnt believe that we could do it but the team surprised me. The title went down to the wire and the final game where our form dipped and FC Gute who had a few games earlier drawn 0-0 so it was 1 point diffrence we drew and Gute won

League Table

 

to place us in a playoff group, The group games were a breeze

Playoffs

PlayOff Finals

 

Transfers... 

Finances

The finances took a battering in my quest 

Facilities - No change

Not much in the way of youth really but one who really caught my eye was Carl Malm, who could be a natural successor to Rasmus Artebrant with clubs starting to sniff round him. If clubs do start bidding for my players then i cannot do anything and will replace with youth if need be. In other news the Elections are around the corner for as new Chairman with the current chairman not going for relection...although he did change his mind but now decicides not to run again...secretly hoping for a sugar daddy 

 

Next season..I Want that title!

Edited December 10, 2019 by streety
Wrong picture on link

[Kazushi80]

S.S.D. Latina Calcio 1932

Season 6

Squad // League Table (4th) // Transfers

 

On The Pitch

Wow, what a season. Made some tweaks to the tactic (but keeping the 4-4-2 formation) and we had some great performances. So much better in offense (btw most of it before the 20.2 patch was released) and finished 4th – the best ever league position by far. And the playoffs were a completely new story.

Got directly in the 2nd round, made it through with a draw because we were the better team after regular season. Great performances in the 3rd round and the quarter final (over two legs each). After that a real nailbiter in the semi finale:

First leg, away game: 2:0 lead after 32 minutes, we played great, were the better team, than our opponent scored twice in one minute in the second half. 2:2 in the end, I was still confident.

Second leg, home game 1:0 lead after 30 minutes, equalizer after 80 minutes, but we immediately got the lead again. I was already celebrating the finale but after 90+5 minutes we conceded the 2:2.

penalties: we scored the first, missed the second and the third and I thought it's over, but my keeper saved their third and fourth and sixth penalty. FINAL!

Final, only one game against Potenza Calcio, finished above them, won against them during the season, so I was optimistic. Nothing happened. 0:0, penalties again. And again each team missed 2 of the 5, both teams scored the sixth, they missed the seventh. PROMOTED!

Never thought that would happen this season. Delighted!

 

 

Key Players

Fabio Fiori: He was a machine. Shattered all club records. Most goals, most assists, most player of the match awards, highest average rating

Alessandro Colella (02A): Was again a weapon on the left side

Carmine Pozzi (03F): Surprise of the season. Played his first senior games at the end of the 5^th season during an injury crisis and impressed me. After a promotion to the first team during pre-season, he was so good that he became a regular in the center of midfield. Was not that high rated at his intake, has some weak areas, but was solid in every game.

Francesco Indelicato (03B): I changed my goalkeeper, Ciulla was decent, but didn't develop. Indelicato hat weaker attributes at the beginning of the season, but a high potential. Improved a lot, could be our main keeper for some years.

 

Off The Pitch

The promotion shattered my finances because of 450k bonus-payout to the players. Without that I would be out of the red again. Unfortunately I made a big mistake. Never thought that I would get promoted so I didn't renew some contracts early enough. During the playoffs I was so drawn in the games that I totally forgot. Now these players want a lot more money, which I can' afford. I hope I can keep them on a month-to-month-contract with their old salaries as long as possible.

With Enrico Pace I sold my first player for real money. 145K is a good transfer fee and in addition we'll get 25% of his next transfer fee.

 

The Youth Intake

Not everything can be good. Bad intake, not one player will make it here. Kept only one and just for the sake of it.

 

Next Season

Survival is the goal, going down again would be a blow, especially if we are forced to renew contracts. But I am optimistic.

After loosing Enrico Pace last winter and our main left back at the end of this season, we are short on full-backs. Because I have still a lot of strikers at my club, I think i'll change the formation from 4-4-2 to a 3-4-3, but need to try that in pre-season.

Still the hope to find some money to improve the facilities, but don't know yet how the finances are in this league (with attendance we can't earn that much more, because our stadium was close to full most games in Serie C already; seems like prize money is only for the Top-3).

 

 

Through The Seasons

Season

Division

League Pos.

Playoffs

Coppa Italia

Coppa Italia di Serie C

Europe

Squad

Key Player

Best Goalscorer

Intake

Best New Prospect

Team Of The Season

Miscellaneous

2020/2021

Serie C Girone C

16th

-

-

Group Stage, 2nd

-

Squad

Salvatore Ciulla

Federico Cardella - 6

Intake

Carlo Di Mambro (01A)

4-3-2-1

National C Licence

2021/2022

Serie C Girone C

9th

1st Round

1st Qual. Round

2nd Round

-

Squad

Luigi Fontana

Luigi Fontana - 13

Intake

Alessandro Colella (02A)

4-4-2

National B Licence, National A Licence, Youth and training facilities upgraded, Youth recruitment upgraded

2022/2023

Serie C Girone C

12th

-

-

Qtr Final

-

Squad

Fabio Fiori

Luigi Fontana - 15

Intake

Emanuele Esposito (03A)

4-4-2

Continental C Licence, Continental B Licence

2023/2024

Serie C Girone B

15th

-

2nd Qual. Round

2nd Round

-

Squad

Fabio Fiori

Fabio Fiori - 16

Intake

Angelo Polverini (04A)

4-4-2

Continental A Licence

2024/2025

Serie C Girone C

11th

1st Round

4th Qual. Round

1st Round

-

Squad

Emanuele Esposito (03A)

Fabio Fiori - 16

Intake

Mario Mone (05A)

4-4-2

Continental Pro Licence, Training facilities downgraded

2025/2026

Serie C Girone C

4th

Winner

-

Group Stage, 2nd

-

Squad

Fabio Fiori

Fabio Fiori - 24

Intake

-

4-4-2

Promotion to Serie B

 

The Facilites
Year	Training	Data Analysis	Youth	Junior	Youth R.
Start	Below Average	Poor	Basic	Fairly Basic	Average
2021	Below Average	Poor	Basic	Fairly Basic	Average
2022	Adequate	Poor	Below Average	Fairly Basic	Adequate
2023	Adequate	Poor	Below Average	Fairly Basic	Adequate
2024	Adequate	Poor	Below Average	Fairly Basic	Adequate
2025	Below Average	Poor	Below Average	Fairly Basic	Adequate
2026	Below Average	Poor	Below Average	Fairly Basic	Adequate

[streety]

We have a new Chairman..after 3 yrs of the old one doing nothing its time for a change...give me 3 more years of anything but nothing

New Chairman

 

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

So I got sacked in France and after a couple of hours reloading to get a low rep team from the Azores but Operario (Rep: 4250) kept appearing so after at least 80 reloads I've ended up with managing the lowest rep team that came up, GD Cerva (Rep: 2250) winner of the AF Vila Real District and reaching the 3rd tier of Portugal for the 1st time.

It's going to be a long old season and this guy is head & shoulders above the rest:

[darren1983]

Palermo Season 2020/21 Review

 

League - was a season of 2 halves. A slow start saw us only win 2 of our opening 5 games but then we would only lose 4 of our next 22 as we settled in a very comfortable 5th place. Then we fell off a cliff losing 7 of our final 11 games and dropping down to 9th place as that lethal combination of goals drying up and a keeper and defence not being able to catch a cold let alone a football struck us. We stumbled into the playoffs though I wasn't confident. In the first round we drew Juve Stabia who finished just above us but a side we hadn't beaten in this season. The run continued as we lost 1-0 and never looked liked scoring. Season was over.

Serie C Cup - we had a buy to the 2nd round and were promptly eliminated at the 2nd round

Coppa Italia - Entered at the 1st qualifying round which we won before losing on penalties to my new enemies at Juve Stabia

Transfers - we lost a couple key players to free transfers but otherwise none out

Squad - it's a strange squad really, only a couple of players here in their early to mid 20's with everyone else either 30+ on 20 and younger as a result we have players that have not developed or are past their best, we also lost our top scorer from this season as he retired (he got 11 this year) so a lot of work to be done in this close season as I try and work out where the goals will come from

Finances - not bad, lose a fair amount each season but that's expected

Youth Intake - a pretty good looking one really, some potential here but some bad personalities 

Leandro Totaro YP01A - small left winger (only 5'3") but with some okay looking physicals to build on
Nicolo Toma YP01B - CB with nice mental's to start with. Will likely be needed in a season or so as our main CB will likely be out of contract 
Angelo De Vivo YP01C - always nice to get a high potential GK, he's our 2nd best keeper already, got him mentoring group while letting him play in the U18's. Also gave him his debut in the last league game
Filippo Foti YP01D - another potential CB, can never have too many I find
Alberto Lanza YP01E - another winger, he'll never likely be more than a squad player but like his personality so will be kept around for a bit

Career Progress

Year		League		Position	Youth Coaching		Youth Recruitment 	Notes
2020/21		Serie C		9th 		Adequate		Adequate		

 

[darren1983]

It seems the hot fix released the other day has fixed the playoff bug as I was able play mine (sadly) 

[Diego D10S]

Congrats @Kazushi80. Winning Serie C playoff is really hard...great job !

[syemo]

Half way stage. Couple of losses have seen us drop back into the drop zone from 15th. Close league so hoping the second half is about the same and we should hopefully stay up if we hit our target of 50 points.

[whizzkid]

South Shields 2020/21 Season Review

League Table      Youth Intake    Squad    Transfers

First season started off quite well was top 4-6 for first few months , then hit a losing run of 7 matches in a row (this did co-inciide with the patch being updated but not sure if this was the cause) then ended the season with a 7 match unbeaten run and finished a respectable 10th position when the pre-season prediction was 24th. 

Finances seemed to struggle this season , with only a 3,500 capacity stadium not much gate receipts

Youth Intake - seems pretty average

Squad - been having to play youth goalkeepers  (poor ones aswell) which has hurt the performances , unfortunately nothing we can do until a good prospect comes through the ranks

Quote

Season    League                                     Finish   Notes
2020/21   Vanarama National North   10th   

 

Edited December 11, 2019 by whizzkid
remove txt file as wanted to show as image

[Dibond]

 

Folgore Caratese - Season One - 20/21

TABLE / TRANSFERS / SQUAD

 

Season Summary

The first season started off well enough, grabbing key wins against other bottom teams. However, the end of the first season was rough, with us only winning 1 game in the final 16. Thankfully, we had just enough to keep us up this year! Next year will be equally rough with a very similar team to this years. No single player over 7 avg rating for the whole season! Yikes! I honestly can't point to a single individual that performed well on a remotely consistent basis. We did manage to start upgrading our Youth Facilities, so that's one positive from this season.

 

Youth Intake

Our defense was in shambles this season, with very little depth and a terrible #2 CB. So it's very welcoming to see some regens that will hopefully help out with that.

Gianbattista Fattarelli (21A) - Desperately needed a CB as I only have one that is first team quality. This guy's stats look like he will fit in to the first team immediately.

Antonio Coccia (21B) - Have next to no depth at either fullback positions, so this is a welcome addition.

Oscar Vecchio (21C) - Again, more fullback depth.

Not the greatest intake, as some of the higher PA rated ones seem to have fairly dreadful personalities and/or stats, but maybe they will surprise me.

 

History

Year		League		Position	Junior Coaching		Youth Recruitment 	Youth Facilities      Notes
2020/21		Serie C		16th 		Average		        Average		        Poor                  Youth Facilities Upgrade started!

Edited December 11, 2019 by Dibond

[Kazushi80]

vor 3 Stunden schrieb Diego D10S:

Congrats @Kazushi80. Winning Serie C playoff is really hard...great job !

Thanks, came totally unexpected and I don't know how my players did it. It was just one of this runs where everything came together

[Diego D10S]

23 minutes ago, Kazushi80 said:

Thanks, came totally unexpected and I don't know how my players did it. It was just one of this runs where everything came together

As far as I know you are the only one that have won that playoff. Its a nightmare  

[Diego D10S]

                                                             

                                                                                                               Season 2023 - 2024

                                                                                                                    PROMOTION

                                                                           League Table       Club Vision      Squad         Transfer History

 

Season 2023 / 24 - 3rd Serie B -      Won Promotion Playoff                                    

Season 2022 / 23 - 1st Serie C / C - Promotion to Serie B. 

Season 2021 / 22 - 5th Serie C / C - Knocked out 3rd round Promotion Playoff

Season 2020 / 21 - 10th Serie C/C - Knocked out 1st round Promotion Playoff

 

After a slow start I had a really good run between September - December, leaving me at the top of the table fighting Torino and Lecce for the two promotion spots.

I fell short and had to take my chances in the playoff. Despite getting 3 red cards over 4 matches I managed to win it

Won comfortably against Spezia in the semifinal. Played Chievo in the final, both matches ended 2-1 (3-3) , but I got promoted due to being better placed in the leauge.

I'm abit conflicted about this promotion. On one side I dont feel I have good enough team for the Serie A, but on the other side I feel just as good as the best team in Serie B.

But I will be filthy rich so when I think about it I'm not so conflicted  

 

Youth intake was pretty good but not the positions I needed. I need a midfielder and desperatly a Goalkeeper.

Anyway highlighting  Giacomo Di Pasquale, Gianfranco Boschini and Davide Mastropietro

 

GL ALL !!  

                                                                                  

[thomas_e]

 

NK Zadar 

Season Update 2026-2027

Our first season in Europe and our first season making a profit. The sales of Ajdukovic and Tomaskovic gave us a total of £16 million in income. We also did way better than expected in Euro Cup II which gave us great income. 

The final of Euro Cup II (which im obviously not participating in) is yet to be played, so I think there will be some more money coming in, but right now we have £14,6 million in bank balance, compared to minus £4 million 12 months ago! 

We had a pretty decent season considering we had to combine playing in Europe as well as domestic league, and losing two of our best players! We finished 6th place in the league, dissapointing compared with our bronze medal last season, but still good for a team tipped for relegation. 

We managed, by some miracle, to knock out Maccabi Haifa, AC Omonia and Legia Warszawa on our way to the group stage in Euro Cup II. We then drew Red Bull Salzburg, Videoton FC and Besiktas in the group stage. We somehow managed to get through the group stage, beating Besiktas away in the first group game! We also beat Videoton at home and got draws against Salzburg at home and Besiktas away, giving us 8 points, just enough! 

We were up against FC Nordsjælland in the first knock out phase and were deservedly knocked out 2-1. We should have done better against them, but progressing from the group stage, even getting to the group stage, was beyond expectation! 

In the league we performed okay, but never really got going with a solid winning streak. We win some games by luck and we tend to beat the bottom two-three teams comfortably, but we are far from a top team. We are struggling to dominate posession and we are terrible if we go behind early. We will just have to keep working and hope that we get some talented defenders the next few years...

 

Season Summary

                    

Best Performers

          

Top talents

          

 

Season	|   League                            |  Position |  League Cup   |        Europe         |   Notes
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2020/21	|   Druga Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  1st      |  Semi-final   |         N/A	          |   Promotion to top division first year
2021/22	|   MaxTV Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  7th      |  2nd round    |         N/A	          |   Stayed in the league. Good first half of the season
2022/23	|   MaxTV Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  7th      |  Semi-final   |         N/A	          |   No improvement on last year, only worse finances
2023/24	|   MaxTV Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  7th      |  Qtr-final    |         N/A	          |   Another 7th place finish
2024/25	|   MaxTV Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  5th      |  Qtr-final    |         N/A	          |   Decent progress, finished just outside a European spot
2025/26	|   MaxTV Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  3rd      |  Qtr-final    |         N/A	          |   Great season, bronze medal and European spot
2026/27	|   MaxTV Hrvatska Nogotemna Liga     |  6th      |  3rd round    |1 KO-stage Euro Cup II |   Good European season, average league performance

 

[thomas_e]

Absolutely laughable! The board is very dissapointed that we haven't built the best youth academy in the country. We have gone from a failed lower league club to selling players to Liverpool for £16 million in a year and qualifying from a European group with home grown players.... 

They have spent two years to upgrade youth facilities... 

[Kazushi80]

@Diego D10S Wow, Congrats. Really fast-tracked to Serie A. You'll swim in money. I already envy your facilites, your finances and your amount of fans.

[Fastbasher]

2032/33 Annecy FC season review - French Ligue 2

The League

We started off on fire. 10th place at the halfway stage and 14th with 8 games remaining. Then things went downhill fast. We managed only a single point in our final 8 games and narrowly avoided relegation.

The board agreed to both youth and training facility upgrades, then cancelled to youth upgrade due to lack of money.

 

The Players

Alaa Saibi YP24c was once again our top scorer and player of the season.

The youth intake was the best so far. Gregoire Robert YP33a is the star in the group. Unfortunately him and the other promising players are attracting too much attention from bigger clubs. We may lose some of them.

 

Transfers

Jean-Marc Riviere was sold for compensation. At least it was pretty good compensation.

 

[OrToDaRy282]

I got fired after defeat in the playoffs to first division in Poland. I lost the dressing room due to my low reputation compared to my players and they the board decided to sack me for it.
Has anyone else seen this? 

[Winski]

End of season 2023/2024

What a season it was! The first half of the season we almost won every game. After 20 matches this was the table:

But then suddenly I almost couldn't win anymore. Look at te results from January:

I didn't changed tactics, I really don't know what happened. We had a couple of injuries, but to loose almost every single match...I tried everything I could and I was a bit fortunate that our competitors also lost a lot of points.
At the end of the season it was enough for us to became champions of the League One !! So we are going up to the Championship; one level away of the Premiership!

The Youth Intake was a good one, with a couple of great talents.

The most notable talents are Boyd 24a and Neil 24b:

 

 

[Fastbasher]

I've played 645hrs of FM20 and haven't signed a single player.

[OlivierL]

Good job @Winski playing strikerless ?

[streety]

So a formation change had been thought about at the start of last season having narrolwly missed out on promotion i have implemented the change

Formation change

Apart from, 1 loss which was against higher opposition the friendlies have gone well

Friendlies

the bookies have us again for going down pricing us at 3-1. I think its now or never for promotion if not i fear this save is dead in the water...Poor finances no improvement in infrstructure. On a brighter note i got my first coaching badge..

[Lashley]

Can you do this in FM Touch too, or only normal FM?