brettney1980 Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 End of Season 1: June 2013; Second Division Final Table - Player Stats. So we did it, FC Britannia are coming home into the Top Tier of Gibraltarian Football. Final game of the season we played after Boca Juniors giving us the advantage knowing we needed just a draw to win the League ... We got a win and won the Clubs first Trophy since 1963. The Fixtures. The Rock Cup; The Reserves unfortunately lost in the semi's, which put us in a bit of bother as we had a few tired legs after we allowed our first teamers to play in the semi and we had 2 league games in a space of a week (3 in 8 days with the cup game), usually we play once a week (sometimes just twice a month). Our first team though made the final where we played Leo Parilla FC, who we had beaten in 2 previous league meetings. The Final. So thats a Double. The Squad. Board Confidence - Finances. How good is the Gib Premier Division compared to the rest of European competitions!? 2013/24 Euro Cup; After winning the Rock Cup we qualify for the Euro Cup, which starts just a few weeks after our season ends, so no rest for our guys this year. First Qualifying rd draw: FC Vaduz (Liechtenstein). If we make it past Vaduz we get Rapid Bucherest. Internationals; Away vs Moldova - WCQ Home vs Montenegro - Friendly Tolga Joseph is not only the 2nd Div's top scorer he scored on his International debut, had a great Season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deltablue Posted June 25, 2013 Share Posted June 25, 2013 Rule Britannia! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 In to Season 2: July - November 2013; Gibraltar International matches; August Away vs Latvia - Friendly September Home vs San Marino Away vs Ukraine October Away vs England Home vs Poland WCQ Final Group table. November Home vs Faroe Islands First Gibraltarian to score an International brace: Cengiz Morris Away vs Liechtenstein FC Britannia; Last Seasons Best XI - Gibraltarian Clubs Rankings up to 2nd after a great season. We had the Best Signing of last season: Dale Ayres and the Runner up: Stuart Haines. Euro Cup, 1st Q. rd Away vs FC Vaduz Home vs FC Vaduz A great experience for our first time in Europe, a sahem at the home loss after playing well keeping them down to 1-0 at their ground. Huge news: We turn Semi-Pro!!! Junior Budget Increased, finally after months of begging. The Squad for Season 2. The plan; The plan going forward is to keep players on Amateur contracts until another club comes in for them/shows an interest in them and then i will sign them up/offer them a Semi-Pro deal. This will hopefully keep our costs down and prevent us going into the red after the big changes at the club. I am also hoping this will mean some Staff will be interested in joining the club, it's getting a bit lonely just me a Physio, a Scout and my Assistant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 December 2013 - March 2014. FC Britannia; First up for our season was the Pepe Reyes cup, which sees the Premier League winner face us (The Rock Cup winners). Lions FC vs FC Britannia A first half hattrick from last seasons star striker Tolga Joseph inside the first 23 minutes sees us ruin out 3-0 winner and thats 3 Trophy's in just over a year in charge for me!!! I thought the Premiership would be a huge step up in class ... I'm not sure why really now, when clearly the team are all actually pretty close in status. We started the season with a 5-2 victory and never looked back, i could pretty much play whomever i wanted and we would get a result and we have already won the Title with 4 games to go. No signings in January but we did let someone go - Transfers. Premier League Table. How are the Youth players doing!? 14 goals in 9 games: Clint Wilson YP1j International News; First in the news was the draw for the 2016 Euro's Qualifying stage ... Group A. An interesting group with no standout "big" nations but all teams are teams who could/should beat us .. But we'll see. Predictions: Bottom 1 point. March; Away vs Malta *Coming Soon: New Youth, Champions League Draw and Armenia come to town!* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashton321 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Like to see new leagues being used. Shame about your issues you have had so far but hopefully things will be ok so far this time round. I think you will get a win in qualifying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 Like to see new leagues being used. Shame about your issues you have had so far but hopefully things will be ok so far this time round. I think you will get a win in qualifying Yes, it's a shame i had to take the Andorran leagues apart but at least it means everything is stable now. Thanks for the confidence i wish i had some of that .. Estonia may be our best shot, but i still think that will be a couple of tough games. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 April - July 2014: - Season 2 Ends well FC Britannia; With 4 games left in the league we have already been crowned Champions, so i decided to make everyone available for the Reserve team (so we also won the Reserve League) and play guys who hadn't yet played many times and the new YP's ... Speaking of which... Youth Candidates class of 2014; Alex Wordsworth YP2a Giannis Tsakiridis YP2b Tim Dale YP2c Pete Stern YP2d Shane Bright YP2e John Aktepe YP2f Emmanuel Wood YP2g Ross Dixon YP2h I think the Junior Coaching boost did some good, with an handful of the YP's already able to walk into the first team lineup. The Squad. Clubs Fixtures. Premier Division Final Table|Player Stats. The Premier Division drops below the Ukrainian Regional Leagues in the European Rankings. The Rock Cup: Knocked out in the Quarter Final on Pens, vs Boca Juniors. Board Confidence|Finances|Transfers I felt we were a little short in defense so i brought in this guy: Jamie Booth he is a regular at International level and should at the very least give us a little more cover. Gibraltarian Club Rankings: We are now the top club in Gib. 2013/14 Best XI - Player of the Season: Stanislav Couzens. European News; Our Clubs Co-efficients. Champions League 14/15; The draw see's us face TNS in the Champions Qual. Rd 1. If we get through that very tough game we get: GNK Dinamo 1st leg, Home vs TNS The first 20 plus minute is all them but we manage to get a great Counter and RB Johnson crosses in and Wilson gets between their CB's and prods home. 2nd Leg, Away vs TNS. Always going to be a tough game with the media predicting they would hammer us ... I tried to Contain them and keep their chances low in the first half but it just wasn't to be, they were much fitter this game (being now a couple of weeks into their Pre-Season) and they ran out 6-0 winners. International; Home vs Armenia We proved here that we are not yet above tiny, tiny minnow status ... It's going to be a long qualifying campaign!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUFCspeni Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 Any chance you could upload your edit for me mate? I'm enjoying the Gibraltar leagues Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 26, 2013 Author Share Posted June 26, 2013 The International Summer/Autumn; August Home vs St Lucia - Friendly 3-1 Loss, we played well just couldn't put the ball away. Beat them on possession and shots on target. September Away vs Morocco - Friendly 5-1 loss, not a good game for us on our trip over the Gibraltar strait. In good news Cengiz Morris scored his 3rd International goal. Away vs Austria - ECQ The big team of our group ... Smashed us 8-1!! YP1j's first goal though. October Home vs Estonia - ECQ Kept the score down but only 1 shot on target, 2-0 loss. Home vs Georgia - ECQ I decided to try and hit them at times in this game but we lost 6-2. They had 42 total shots!!! November Home vs Turkmenistan - Friendly Lost 3-0 in a game that wasn't too one sided, we again needed to make better use of our chances. FC Britannia; Summer Transfer window The First Foreigner to play in Gibraltar: Joe Scott trialled after the St Lucia game. After all the money from the Champions league games was counted we had enough to upgrade ... The Junior Coaching and the Training facilities. General Info|Facilities Well guys if you want to put some cash on us retaining the Title, here's the odds. We may have a challenge though, Gibraltar Phoenix have followed our lead and recently turned Semi-Pro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abirdc Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Interesting read. I would check it out regularly. But can you please upload your edited database file? Would like to give this a go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Is the ground close enough to boot the ball into Spain? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 Interesting read. I would check it out regularly. But can you please upload your edited database file? Would like to give this a go. Here you go .. Enjoy. Is the ground close enough to boot the ball into Spain? This will give you an idea of where the border is The runway view, on the right we have Victoria Stadium and Gibraltar .. On the Left the Air terminal and Spain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abirdc Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Thanks a lot brettney. Nice view. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 28, 2013 Author Share Posted June 28, 2013 December 2014 - March 15 FC Britannia; The Squad How are the YP's doing!? From batch 1 Clint Wilson continues to score goals. Batch 2 and Pete Stern lives up to his name when it comes to defending. .. And Alex Wordsworth provides great cover for our defense. We have only lost twice - Both times to Gibraltar Phoenix (the other Semi Pro team). To retain the Title we are going to need them to slip up against other teams and us to hang onto that 3 point advantage, i'll be happy to take a draw in our final game against them. League Table. Transfers - Brought in our original star player from when i took over the club, Jonno Watts. International matches; March Away vs FYR Macedonia - Friendly They dominated really, but we managed to get two goals from our 3 shots on target a good return. Away vs Slovakia - ECQ One of the best teams in our group, we were always going to get turned over. We have hardly move in the FIFA Rankings, just dropped to 209 ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 April - July 2015; FC Britannia Champions with a couple of games spare this time around, a 5-2 Victory over Gibraltar Phoenix really helped our cause. We also bagged the Reserve's league again and things are looking really good for the future with an handful more great Youth Prospects ... Youth Candidates, class of 15' Kyle Crowder YP3a Elliott Knight YP3b Shaun Barr YP3c Francis Rogers YP3d The Pepe Reyes Cup - The Season opener was a not quite as comfortable as i would of liked 4-2 victory. Premier Division League Table|Player Stats The Rock Cup - Up until the semi final where we scraped past Hound Dogs it was a fairly comfortable cup run. Even the final was pretty straight forward and we beat the Gibraltar U15's. So that means we win the Treble!! The Squad - Fixtures - Confidence - Transfers - Finances. New CF Signing: Iain Norris Fans player of the Season: Frankie Langford Season's Best XI Average Attendance is up Gibraltarian Clubs ranking - Still top! Europe; Euro Competitions Rankings - We drop again. Euro Coefficients. Into the Champions League draw 1st Qual. rd and who do we draw ... TNS again! If we can get through this tough game, we get Maribor. 1st Qual. rd, 1st leg. We hold them to a 1-1 draw this time, i like that we are going into our Stadium leg with an Away goal. Now can we hold them, or even snatch a goal!? 2nd leg - No then! International; World Cup 2018 Qualifying Groups are drawn .. Can we go to Russia!? Group 5 - Italy, Bosnia!? and Austia!? Ouch. Bring on Luxembourg! I predict 3 points, lets hope for a victory over Lux. June Home vs Austria Always going to be an hard game, but got to be fairly happy with the 3-0 loss, could of been more since we lost 8-1 at their place. Home vs Ireland 4-1 loss, could of been worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 August - November 2015 International; August Home vs Namibia - Friendly Went more attacking for the win as it was a Friendly, but we couldn't take the lead, and they beat our defence too easy once we didn't have 10 men behind the ball .. 4-2 loss. September Away vs Estonia - ECQ Not as close as it looked, 3-1 loss. We were lucky it was that low. Home vs Slovakia - ECQ We couldn't get a single shot on target. 4-0 loss, well deserved. October Away vs Georgia - ECQ It seemed like an absolute thrashing was coming .. I just never expected it to be this game. We actually had 2 decent chances, but we were destroyed and they seemed like every shot they had they would put away, our biggest ever defeat 11-0 loss. Away vs Ireland - ECQ Played a little better, helped that they couldn't get anything on target, 2-0 loss. November Away vs Lithuania - Friendly Would of liked to of gotten something a little better here, lost 6-1 Langford (FC Britannia) scored our goal. Away vs Belarus - Friendly We need to be playing smaller nations, we were lucky it was only 3-0, they should of and could of gotten 5/6 .. And we looked like we wouldn't of scored if we played for 90 hours. FIFA World Rankings: Rock Bottom!!! FC Britannia; Junior Budget Increased! Fancy a bet!? Transfers - We sent alot of players out on Loan again, but not quite enough we have a squad much too large for a 15 games season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby_McDonald Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Don't want to overshoot that runway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 2, 2013 Author Share Posted July 2, 2013 Don't want to overshoot that runway. 8th in the Worlds most dangerous Runways list apparently... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 2, 2013 Author Share Posted July 2, 2013 December 2015 - March 2016 International; No International matches ... But lets take a look at how safe my job is!? Still 210th in the FIFA Rankings. FC Britannia; We kicked off the season with two 2-1 wins over Lynx FC, 1 in the League and the 2nd in the Pepe Reyes cup - Third time in a row. We picked up another 2-1 win in our 2nd league match, before picking up our first loss of the season against Gibraltar Phoenix (who are turning into our bogy side ..). 8 games unbeaten after that and the title looks like it will be ours again. With 3 games left we are 7 points clear (we managed to get some measure of revenge over Gibraltar Phoenix with a 3-1 victory on Boxing day). Transfers - None in, a few more Loans out. I have taken up a tactic of accepting any Loan offers for any of our players just to hand them games. Pepe Reyes cup Premier League Table - The Squad - Finances *Coming Soon: Can we win the League!? Will the YP's continue to be good!? Can we grab an International win!?* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Season End: 2015/16; Another season, another treble. We already had the Pepe Reyes Trophy in the bag, we tied the Premier league title up before the end of May and won the Rock Cup a few weeks later. One of our few coaches retire. Final League Table - Player Stats - The Rock Cup Final Youth Candidates; Karl Hardman YP4a Warren King YP4b Aaron Simpson YP4c Kevin Anderson YP4d Jimmy Guest YP4e - Youngest ever Britannia Player. Tyler Wills YP4f Honorable mention: Brian Grant - Youngest Scorer. With our squad getting bigger and bigger, i decide a Feeder club is the way to go: Sporting Club FC (who we played in the Rock Cup Final). Add the Reserve League to our Trophy's again. The Squad Lineup; GK: Stan Joyce YP1k RB: Francis Rogers YP3d CB: Shaun Barr YP3c CB: Pete Stern YP2d - Player of the Year! LB: Sean Johnson DM: Alex Wordsworth YP2a CM: Kyle Crowder YP3a RW: Jamie Stone LM: Elliott Knight YP3b AM: Frankie Langford CF: Joe Scott Premier League Attendance Record broken - Average Attendance record for FC Britannia broken. The Gibraltarian Premier League goes up in the European League Rankings. Gibraltarian Clubs rankings - We stay top. Best XI of the Season - Overall Best XI European Club Co-Efficients Champions League Draw: FC Levadia Tallinn - Possibly our toughest game in Europe yet and if we get through that match, we have Sparta Prague! Champions League Qual. rd 1, Leg 1; Away vs Levadia The idea was press them, use our fitness advantage, since they are just coming back from pre-season and try to tire them out. Would you believe it worked!? We snatched a 2-1 victory. Our first ever win in europe. Home vs Levadia We went same again, knowing they needed to score 2, we went all out defend backs against the wall and just keep on pressing them ... They were barely able to get shots on target, our defence deserve medals and we got a 0-0 draw. Through to the next round ... Bring on Sparta! Away vs Sparta A lacking match fitness Levadia side, compared to a gaining fitness, quality Sparta side .. No comparison, we got hammered!! 10-0! Home vs Sparta We went 3 down in the first half and i decided to throw caution to the wind and go for it in the second, win that 1/4 as it were. 3-2 loss. 2-0 win final 1/4 ... International Match; Home vs Ethiopia They were easily the better side, we tried to counter attack them but couldn't get off enough shots. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
b101 Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 Impressed at how you're sticking with it - looks like a great challenge! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Impressed at how you're sticking with it - looks like a great challenge! Thanks, getting thrashed on the International stage, but close to dominating the Club football is making for a different sort of game ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abirdc Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Congratulations on winning the Champions League Qualification Round 1. Hope you get a win vs a nation other than the minnows soon. I started playing with Gibraltar too. International football is so frustrating. Just lost by 9-0 to Ukraine! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 August - November 2016. Internationals; August Home vs Liechtenstein - Friendly Going for easier friendlies now for a while, but we just couldn't take advantage of the game. We had more possession but lost 3-1 anyway. September Away vs Bosnia - WCQ We managed to score 2 goals ... And lost 10-2, crazy. Home vs Luxembourg - WCQ So, so close to stealing a draw, they had more of the possession, much more chances but we managed enough shots .. But just came short at 3-2. October Away vs N. Ireland - WCQ The score was about right, we were never on the cards to get anything from this game, 5-0m loss. Home vs Italy - WCQ See above. We did okay, to keep the score low. 4-0 loss. November Home vs Faroe Islands - Friendly We did it! We got our second ever International victory, 1-0 win well deserved! Up 2 places now in the FIFA Rankings. FC Britannia; Transfers - We sent so many players out on loan we needed a second page! Bring on Season 5! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Congratulations on winning the Champions League Qualification Round 1. Hope you get a win vs a nation other than the minnows soon. I started playing with Gibraltar too. International football is so frustrating. Just lost by 9-0 to Ukraine! Was that Home or Away? I lost 11-0 Away lol. I'm hoping once a few more clubs turn Semi-Pro we'll get more Training for the players and better improvements, which needs more money - Which will come with playing in Europe. I'm losing about $9k a month at Semi-Pro but even losing in the first round of European competition gives me enough to pay that for the year. Yeah i was so happy with the win over Levedia i honestly thought they would beat us bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironmaster Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 I'm impressed with your Gibraltar career. Great reading. Can you show us 2nd division tables? When you won Rock Cup beating Gibraltar U-15 in final, Did Gibraltar U-15 played in Europa League? Let's hope in 5 years you will qualify into Europa League Group Stage:) You must beat 3 teams... What about Gibraltar U-21 and U-19. Did they play in UEFA Qualifications? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 I'm impressed with your Gibraltar career. Great reading. Can you show us 2nd division tables?When you won Rock Cup beating Gibraltar U-15 in final, Did Gibraltar U-15 played in Europa League? Let's hope in 5 years you will qualify into Europa League Group Stage:) You must beat 3 teams... What about Gibraltar U-21 and U-19. Did they play in UEFA Qualifications? Thankyou, i'll start putting the 2nd Division tables up as well, not sure why i haven't thought of that before. Also i think i should start putting up the progress of the other Gibraltarian clubs in Europe. Gibraltar U-15's can't mqualify for Europe, their spot when to the club finishing 3rd in the Premier. Thats going to be tough if the hammering Sparta gave us is anything to go by. The International U21's and U19's are only playing International friendlies, i don't know if it's a rankings thing or there isn't room for them in the data to be honest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironmaster Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Yeah, it would be great if you show us previous results of Gibraltar clubs in UEFA Cups. Also if you can show us tables of 2nd divisions from previous seasons and 1st division from 1st season when you played in 2nd div. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Yeah, it would be great if you show us previous results of Gibraltar clubs in UEFA Cups.Also if you can show us tables of 2nd divisions from previous seasons and 1st division from 1st season when you played in 2nd div. Year by Year. 12/13; Premier Division Champions League 1st Qual. rd Europa Cup 1st Qual rd 13/14; Second Division Champions League 1st Qual. rd Europa League 1st Qual. rd 14/15 Second Division Champions League 1st Qual. rd Europa League 1st Qual. rd 15/16 Second Division Champions League 1st Qual. rd Europa League 1st Qual. rd 16/17; Champions League 1st Qual. rd Europa League 1st Qual. rd Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 7, 2013 Author Share Posted July 7, 2013 December 16 - March 17. FC Britannia; Unbeaten in the League and it looks highly likely that we will wrap the Title up within the next few games. With 5 games to go we can have the tile with 2 more wins. I have reached the big landmark of 100 games in charge. Premier Division Table. We also bring home the Pepe Reyes Cup for the 4th time in a row. Pepe Reyes Cup We are out of the Rock Cup somehow, in the first round no less. Current Squad (excluding players Loaned out). Finances|Transfers. Internationals; January Away vs Andorra - Friendly March Home vs Bosnia - WCQ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TottenhamFan101 Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 Great story so far! Keep it up! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animosama Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 looking good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 looking good Great story so far! Keep it up! Thankyou guys, the progress has been a little better than expected. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
benitez10 Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Really enjoying the thread, be good to see the progression in the European competitions. Is there a chance i can have the database you created ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 Really enjoying the thread, be good to see the progression in the European competitions. Is there a chance i can have the database you created ? Sure, here it is. I didn't create it by the way i just edited zeus77's original file as it wasn't working for what i wanted (The Europe problem and Chelsea FC being missing from Division2). IF zeus77 isn't happy with me giving out his original file i'll remove it immediately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cel1234 Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Did you add real players to the teams ?? This looks brilliant Gib player to add already in database Adam Priestley http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/farsley-striker-plays-for-gibraltar-23699/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 Did you add real players to the teams ?? This looks brilliant Gib player to add already in database Adam Priestley http://nonleague.pitchero.com/news/farsley-striker-plays-for-gibraltar-23699/ I didn't, i just don't have the time to make a full database these days (used to and really wish i did now ..). It's also a little late in the game for FM13 databases i think. I wasn't even planning any data editing at all but when the qualifying for Europe problem arose i was too invested in the idea to quit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter_Morgan Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Glad that the DB is stable at last, must have been frustrating as you seemed really keen to do this save. Hopefully as the division rises you can get a few better draws in Europe, thankfully your finances are at a decent level for a club that size but getting through to a group stage of a comp will do wonders in terms of being able to afford upgrades Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 End of 2016/17 Season - April - July. FC Britannia; We won the Title just 1 game after the last update with Lynx FC losing and us winning our next game. Youth Candidates, Class of 2017' Tommy Tonge YP5a Jon Dawes YP5b Tommy Adkins YP5c Chris Randall YP5d Jason Wallace YP5e With the Title won before the intake even came i decided to play them from the moment they arrived in the squad. Which meant we broke our Youngest Player record again. Youngest scorer. Tommy Kinder. We also managed to set Premier League records for amount of points, amount of goals and an attendance record. We broke our Average attendance record for the season also. Premier League Table|Player Stats The Rock Cup Final Second Division Table Reserve League Table The Squad|Confidence|Finances Fans Player of the Season: Shaun Barr YP3c We have 1 New Signing coming in at the end of the Season: International Jake Peacock Europe; Co-Effiecients - Qualification places Champions League 1st Qual. rd draw: NSI (Faroes) If we can beat them we get Zeljeznicar (Bsonia). 1st rd, 1st leg. Home vs NSI We got the good start at Home that we needed and we can take a 2-1 lead to the Faroe Islands. 2nd leg. Away vs NSI So we get a 1-0 win, a great couple of games in Europe this year. 2n rd, 1st leg. Home vs Zeljeznicar Not as good as the first round, but a decent result against a huge step up in competition, 3-1 loss. 2nd leg. http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo302/brettney1980/FM2013/ZeljeznicarvFCBritannia_OverviewOverview_zpsb4932063.png So we lose again and Europe is done for another year. But we had a great couple of games against NSI and we are seeing huge improvement. Fitness played an issue against the Bosnian side who were Prefessional. Other Gibraltarian Clubs in Europe; Lynx FC vs Shkendija (Macedonia) Lions FC vs Vejle-Kolding (Denmark) International; Home vs Austria - WCQ Home vs Yemen - Friendly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 8, 2013 Author Share Posted July 8, 2013 Glad that the DB is stable at last, must have been frustrating as you seemed really keen to do this save. Hopefully as the division rises you can get a few better draws in Europe, thankfully your finances are at a decent level for a club that size but getting through to a group stage of a comp will do wonders in terms of being able to afford upgrades Thanks. Yes i was, i'm a big of a keen follower of Non-FIFA football and have picked up information on Gibraltarian Football over the years so was very excited when they got the 54th UEFA spot. Our finances are great thanks to playing in Europe, we lose quite alot over a season (around 10K+ a month) but pull it all back with the European fixtures. Not playing i Europe would be a disaster for us, so the other clubs who are switching to Semi-Pro i'm keeping a very close eye on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cel1234 Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Ok there isn't many websites for players but i will add the Gibraltar players from wiki maybe tonight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter_Morgan Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Thanks. Yes i was, i'm a big of a keen follower of Non-FIFA football and have picked up information on Gibraltarian Football over the years so was very excited when they got the 54th UEFA spot. Our finances are great thanks to playing in Europe, we lose quite alot over a season (around 10K+ a month) but pull it all back with the European fixtures. Not playing i Europe would be a disaster for us, so the other clubs who are switching to Semi-Pro i'm keeping a very close eye on. Your enthusiasm for this save really shows in your posts and now you have said about following of non FIFA clubs it makes sense to see why you chose to do this instead of some other random country. You are clearly making some kind of progress, but obviously it's going to take time. You only have to look at the Welsh career threads on here to see just how hard lower nations can be to get at a level of being able to compete with the big boys so this is going to be an even harder task and one i'm looking forward to seeing how it develops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abirdc Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Was that Home or Away? I lost 11-0 Away lol. I'm hoping once a few more clubs turn Semi-Pro we'll get more Training for the players and better improvements, which needs more money - Which will come with playing in Europe. I'm losing about $9k a month at Semi-Pro but even losing in the first round of European competition gives me enough to pay that for the year. Yeah i was so happy with the win over Levedia i honestly thought they would beat us bad. That horrible loss was an away game. I am playing with Glacis United. Just finished the 1st season. I became runners-up in the league although won the Rocks Cup. The only time i earned a point in the international stage is when somehow I managed a draw against San Marino. My players were even worse than San Marino's. Now Anthony Hernandez, one of the best players of Gibraltar retired because he couldn't get a club. More trouble for me! Apart from Gibraltar Phoenix, is there any other club who became semi-pro? And another question, is it not possible to do match prep training with amateur clubs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 9, 2013 Author Share Posted July 9, 2013 Your enthusiasm for this save really shows in your posts and now you have said about following of non FIFA clubs it makes sense to see why you chose to do this instead of some other random country. You are clearly making some kind of progress, but obviously it's going to take time. You only have to look at the Welsh career threads on here to see just how hard lower nations can be to get at a level of being able to compete with the big boys so this is going to be an even harder task and one i'm looking forward to seeing how it develops Oh it's going to take time just making it into the Champions League Group stages (if i ever) and on the International front we'll be lucky not finishing bottom of groups - I'll consider that a huge achievement. That horrible loss was an away game. I am playing with Glacis United. Just finished the 1st season. I became runners-up in the league although won the Rocks Cup. The only time i earned a point in the international stage is when somehow I managed a draw against San Marino. My players were even worse than San Marino's. Now Anthony Hernandez, one of the best players of Gibraltar retired because he couldn't get a club. More trouble for me! Apart from Gibraltar Phoenix, is there any other club who became semi-pro? And another question, is it not possible to do match prep training with amateur clubs? Yeah Hernandez always retires, it's a shame. Probably be better sticking him in one of the Gib clubs (since he will be playing back in Gibraltar this season, not sure who for though). All Top tier clubs (bar Lynx who have still managed to finish in the top 3 every season bar 1) are Semi-Pro, no teams in Division 2 have made the jump yet. I'm pretty sure you cant do prep training, i know training is limited at Amateur .. Could be wrong though i have been Semi-Pro for 4 years now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 10, 2013 Author Share Posted July 10, 2013 August - November 2017. International matches; August Away vs Wales - Friendly Not too bad a result, kept the score to 2. September Away vs Luxembourg - WCQ Luxembourg are pretty high in the FIFA Rankings right now so i never expected much here .. We grab a 1-1 draw! Home vs N. Ireland - WCQ A crazy game, we were never likely to win but we did manage to score 2 goals ... In a 7-2 loss in my 50th International game. The Luxembourg draw must of helped us here - FIFA Rankings October Away vs Italy - WCQ Lost 6-0 in a pretty standard defeat. Away vs Austria - WCQ Kept it to 3-0, not too bad really. November Home vs Lithuania - Friendly We should of maybe kept the score lower, beaten pretty easily. Away vs Malta - Friendly Only lost 2-0 but were never in danger to Malta really. FC Britannia; Transfers - Alot of Loans out again. The idea is fill the first team, then the Reserves and Loan everyone else out. Always thinking any Loan offer over. The Link between us and Sporting Club is terminated as we are now in the same division after their promotion. Bad injury before the season even starts. Fancy a flutter!? Season tickets are up ... Junior Budget Increased and Youth Upgrade planned. *Coming Soon: The Season begins, Euro 2020 draw and the January Transfer window* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
benitez10 Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Whenever i load the file i can't control the NT despite loading all players from Gibraltar :confused: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 10, 2013 Author Share Posted July 10, 2013 December 2017 - March 2018. FC Britannia; Facilities - Forgot to post this last time. The first Trophy of the Season is in the bag - Pepe Reyes Cup Final. January Transfer window - Just a few more Loans out. Title won already - Premier Division Table. International; Home vs Turkmenistan - Friendly Wow, that is a massive massive result. They had more possession but we made the most of the possession we got and won 2-0, great result, hugely pleased with the clean sheet. - Just take a look at who we beat! New FIFA Rankings. Euro Qualifying draw - Group B. I'm going to be brave and predict we will finish above San Marino. Since Gibraltar has been playing International football now officially for over 5 years, lets take a look at who has been capped the most. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironmaster Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Let's hope next season you'll qualify into 3rd round! PS. College Cosmos reserve team is missing from Reserve League. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 11, 2013 Author Share Posted July 11, 2013 Let's hope next season you'll qualify into 3rd round!PS. College Cosmos reserve team is missing from Reserve League. Thanks, we'll see .. The second round is loaded with tough teams, i'm just happy with the money at this point in time and continuing to make it into the second is acceptable. I didn't make the original data, but i am shocked i hadn't noticed that there was a reserve team missing (i have the Gibraltarian FA's website bookmarked as well). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettney1980 Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 April - July 2018. FC Britannia; So with the Title already won i could put my full focus on The Rock Cup, there is no way we are slipping up with it this year. Boca Juniors (3-0), Hound Dogs (8-1) and Gibraltar U15's (1-0) all fall to us on our way to the final. We face Gibraltar Phoenix in the final - 10 days after we beat them 6-3 in the League's final game. The Rock Cup Final. Final Premier Division Table|Player Stats Second Division Reserve League Youth Candidates, Class of 2018' Brian Dean YP6a Wes Wright YP6b Saul Francis YP6c Dan Lazenby YP6d After the National U19's played Malta's U19's we offered a couple of the unattached Malta players contracts ... 2 accepted. Ian Busuttil Playing History Brandon Spiteri Playing History The Squad - Finances - Confidence The Youth Facilities Upgrade begins... Putting us in debt, but i'm hoping getting into the second round of the Champions League Qualifying will give us enough money to let us see out the Season in the black. Fans Player of the Season: Joe Scott Seasons Best XI I now take my place in the Hall of Fame! Gibraltarian Clubs Reputation Rankings League Reputation - We go above the Croatian County leagues and Dutch Regional Leagues. Europe; Club Co-Efficients - Nations Co-Efficients Qualifications Places 1st Qual. rd draw: Tarxien Rainbows FC (our 2 Maltese players get to go home for a match, great draw). If we get by TArxien we face an extremely tough game against CFR Cluj 1st leg, Home vs Tarxien Great win, i think i can afford to play a weaker team second leg. 2nd leg, Away vs Tarxien .. And even with a weaker team playing we scrape through with a 4-3 victory. 8-4 on agg - Awesome! - Bring on Cluj! 2nd rd, 1st leg. Away vs Cluj The score was kept low, but in truth we could easily of been hammered. 2-0 loss. Can we steal anything in the 2nd leg!? 2nd leg, Home vs Cluj They hit 12 on target and we barely manage to create a chance, very tough game. Lost 3-0. Internationals; Away vs Albania A tough game but we keep the score at a fairly respectable 3-0 loss. Latest FIFA Rankings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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