The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[bg0123]

*FM21*

So after getting fired in my third season in Spain, I decided to give it a go in France and took control of Gazélec FC Ajaccio. The restart date is June 20th by the way...

One of a few semi-pro teams in the division, I wasn't expecting much. Especially after the board decided to accept a bid for my best winger before the season started. My aggressive pressing tactic seemed to really fit the team and we ended up getting promoted on the last day of the season finishing 2nd in the division. It will definitely be a difficult season in the Ligue 2 BKT but luckily the team is turning professional. I have a few good prospects but I will be really banking on my best players to stay. In France (just as in Germany), you can't play your youth right away because they are too young and the minimum age is 16. My 33 year old striker was the reason we had so much success with a 24 goal season and I'm hoping he sticks around and scores a few more.

P.S. My profile screenshot was taken a few months into the season because I forgot. So the increased attributes are a result of completing my first coaching course.

 

[XaW]

XaW - Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur - Season 2025 - Inkasso-deild karla

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

Well, it was a season of more of the same, even if I tried to mix things up. I tried a tactical change this season, but we ended just about on the same position and same points total as before, just with more goals scored and conceded. Going to give it another season, and if it stays the same, then perhaps another change is needed.

The horrible financial situation got a small reprieve as the board invested half a million. We are still deep in the red though!

Deildabikar: We finished 2nd in our group, behind Stjarnan, but ahead of Fram Reykjavík, Akraness, Vestmannaeyja, and Þróttur.
Bikarkeppni karla: We beat KR before we lost to Leiknír R. in the 3rd round.

Youth intake:

More variety this season, but we still have a clear lack of central midfielders that are holding us back.

Fits nicely into our tactic, both as a quick striker or an inside forward on the left.

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U19s:

They only played friendlies.

Trophy cabinet

None

[SpS_Zen]

Coming from FM 20, it feels like my youth players almost don't improve in the u19-u21 teams. My training center is 2 stars. The only way I found to help them improve is loans. How do you guys manage your youth players to help them progress ?

[Padders]

Need to show you my latest attempt, I would hazard a guess, my 20th attempt.

30th different tactic

I think I have cracked it

What a start

Unbeaten in 12 and sitting 2nd

Then draw 0-0 to 24th place Hendon

Then this happens

And look at the league position history

Have you ever seen anything like it!

One result causes the whole season to crash

We go again.........................................

 

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, SpS_Zen said:

Coming from FM 20, it feels like my youth players almost don't improve in the u19-u21 teams. My training center is 2 stars. The only way I found to help them improve is loans. How do you guys manage your youth players to help them progress ?

Coming from FM19 I'm noticing the same thing. To note though the only players that stay in the U-21 are the one's not good enough to rotate into the first team, so they were bound to stagnate anyways. I've never done this challenge before, which has you check the 'don't add key staff'. This probably makes loans in unloaded leagues not as good development-wise as they have no staff.  At least that was my experience last season in Slovakia. 

[lewis999]

On 31/10/2021 at 13:42, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

Ended up finishing in the top half after the first season in Spain, but most of my players retired after the year. After losing 3 preseason friendlies to non-league sides with greyed-out players, I decided to abandon the save instead of attempt to finish mid-table. Currently starting again in Greece, where I can confirm the reset date is June, 20th. However, you may need tosave earlier than that to get different promoted sides.

I want to start in Greece too but the teams seem to only have 4-5 players even though last year they had a full squad. At least the team I want and managed last year do.

[Mr U Rosler]

42 minutes ago, Padders said:

 

Have you ever seen anything like it!

One result causes the whole season to crash

We go again.........................................

 

Keep the updates coming, cheering me up as i slog season after season in National League North 

[corinthiano]

On 31/10/2021 at 15:25, Winski said:

I’ve almost finished my second season with Austria Salzburg, but I’m not enjoying the save. I just don’t really like the Austrian competition. I’m not feeling it. So I’m already thinking about starting a new save. I will finish the season first, but I think it will be my last. 

I am contemplating starting a save with Austria Salzburg (not Youth only as I am not good enough for that :D), was wondering what put you off Austria? And do you remember what the squad and matchday registration rules were?

[Constantine]

Any official word on this? If this is true, this might be a bummer for smaller nations...

[XaW]

Ah ****! That's my best player out for the season...

[karax268]

1 hour ago, Constantine said:

Any official word on this? If this is true, this might be a bummer for smaller nations...

from what I can gather youth rating change based on the performances in the International tournaments. So you'd need to be in charge of one to help it overachieve I geuss 

[Koetzer]

1 hour ago, Constantine said:

Any official word on this? If this is true, this might be a bummer for smaller nations...

I think it only can be checked with the official release and in-game editor (because there's no other way to see if the youth rating is really dynamic). Or SI should add the youth rating table, like we have one for league reputations (already suggested this, no answer so far).

[Makoto Nakamura]

9 hours ago, Libertine13 said:

@Makoto NakamuraHow confident are you of toppling TNS? On FM21 I started the Ultimate Challenge in Wales, spent a few seasons there and just couldn't catch them and that was with an established Welsh League club. 

I'm not confident of being able to get close to them for a long time. Maybe by 2055. 

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Season Summary 2022 - 2023

 

It's never taken me this long to complete my first season on a new FM version. Very busy at work, so great to sit down today and finally finalize our first year. I started off in Germany, a country that I have previously completed the challenge in, with Energie Cottbus on FM20. I really enjoyed that save and it's so far been fun to be back! 

I picked SpVgg Unterhaching, a pretty decent team, and we were tipped to finish 13th place. We managed to beat expectations and finish in 8th place. I'm very happy with that, but we could easily have finished higher up the table! We varied too much with our performances, but we were always closer to a promotion battle than we were a relegation battle. 

But there are problems on the horizon. We have a really, really old squad. Our right full back is 33 and his stats have dropped masively. Our 35 year old top quality CB just retired, and several other important players are getting old. I actually had three players retiring at the end of the season...

Our youth intake was good, but the 3rd tier of German football is no joke, so the young players are far behind the quality needed to get promoted! I fear we might have to prepare for a long stay in 3rd tier..

 

Season Summary

          

 

Key Players

          

 

Key Talents

          

 

 

 

[Constantine]

54 minutes ago, Koetzer said:

I think it only can be checked with the official release and in-game editor (because there's no other way to see if the youth rating is really dynamic). Or SI should add the youth rating table, like we have one for league reputations (already suggested this, no answer so far).

Something similar to Youth Rating in England, perhaps. If we can see that, I see no reason why same couldn't be shown for National Teams.

[Winski]

3 hours ago, corinthiano said:

I am contemplating starting a save with Austria Salzburg (not Youth only as I am not good enough for that :D), was wondering what put you off Austria? And do you remember what the squad and matchday registration rules were?

I can't put my finger on it really. I just couldn't 'click' with the league/country. Maybe because I was constantly thinking about doing an Iceland-save. The squad and matchday rules were nothing special: you can select a squad of 99 players, no foreign rules, 7 players on the bench. You earn money for selecting at least 12 Austrian players every matchday, that was the most interesting part. Austria Salzburg could be an very interesting save, and I'll probably try it again someday. Good luck with your save!

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well, now we need goalkeepers and I'm glad we're getting more strikers.

[corinthiano]

29 minutes ago, Winski said:

I can't put my finger on it really. I just couldn't 'click' with the league/country. Maybe because I was constantly thinking about doing an Iceland-save. The squad and matchday rules were nothing special: you can select a squad of 99 players, no foreign rules, 7 players on the bench. You earn money for selecting at least 12 Austrian players every matchday, that was the most interesting part. Austria Salzburg could be an very interesting save, and I'll probably try it again someday. Good luck with your save!

Thanks! The challenge to overtake Red Bull seems fun, but dont blame you on Iceland, it is a fun league and quick to get through! You made a great start, hope you have a good first season in the top tier!

[MoonMonster]

East Kilbride F.C. 2022-2023 Season Review

The first 15 games or so a win could take you to top and a loss would take you to 8th I wasn't sure where we would end up. But we up losing 11 of our last 14 games which is how we finished 8th.

We only had 11 real players all season and I think towards the end they were completely worn out. As soon as we got the youth intake I put them all in the first team and we closed out the season with a win and two draws with the youngsters.

I like that our regen keeper made it in the best IX with only 3 appearances

 

 

Benefits of only paying wages of 11 players is I was able to complete two and start my third coaching course!

 

Next season will be interesting since our top goalscorer and best player Jack Stainrod (great name) is most likely going to be leaving.

Also pretty much immediately after I posted this and hit continue both Steven Old (CB) and Lee Miller (ST) decided to retire, so the youth players will really have to step up next season.

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by MoonMonster

[Makoto Nakamura]

2037/38 Youth Candidates

No standouts but we've got a good array of players.

[Watson156]

I’ve been reading this from afar and started my attempt off at the start of the beta. Usually I find it hard to keep saves going and get distracted easily, so I didn’t want to post in here until I was happy with where I’m at. I’ve just finished season 4 so this will be a brief recap, and then I’ll start more regular updates. So here goes….

 

Season 1

Chertanovo Moscow | Russia National League | 2022/23

 

Manager Profile | Finances

I had heard about how tough of a challenge it is with this club, so when I saw that they were going to be eligible for this challenge then I knew this was going to be my team. As it turns out, it seems that the club policy has changed this year because you are able to buy players as long as they were developed at the club. This would be a positive in a normal save, however in this challenge its a massive hindrance initially. This is because you are unable to offer contract extensions to anybody not from the club, which made this first season very hard as we lost 2 first teamers who’s contracts had expired. One of these happened to be our main goal threat, so this season was all about staying up somehow.

It was a real bumpy road. My job was reportedly in trouble after 15 games or so, and had to attend 2 board meetings just to keep my job. Thankfully as soon as we had avoided relegation with 3 games to go, the board approved my season and even offered me a new contract!

We were indebted to young striker Boris Semakin who came through the youth team the very first season. There are some good midfielders in the team, however the defence wasn’t very good.

Squad | Transfer History | League Table

 

Now for the main part. Youth Intake. Thankfully at the club we have got good facilities, however the problem for us is that we play in Moscow, which has most of the top teams in the country in, so were always going to fighting against them for the best players.

This year however, we got a massive talent in Fred Ibara who will provide great competition to Boris Semakin. Carlo Soldani will be a great immediate asset to the midfield, while there is good potential also in midfield with Strelov & Kosarevskiy. We also got a good potential goalkeeper which will help ease the worry if we lose our current one.

Youth Intake

Fred Ibara | Carlo Soldani | Dmitry Strelov | Vasily Kosarevskiy

 

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Season 2

Chertanovo Moscow | Russia National League | 2023/24

 

Facilities

What a mental season. We were predicted to finish this season in 16th which ultimately would have been ok for me, but I was hoping for at least mid table and avoiding a relegation battle. What I wasn’t prepared for was a promotion battle! A simple change of formation seemed to work wonders as at the mid season break we were sitting 5th. I wasn’t really sure why we were so much better than last season as it was pretty much the same team, with the inclusion of a few of last seasons youth intake.

The 2nd half of the season went even better for us as we kept winning and went on a 15 game unbeaten streak at home. This propelled us into 3rd place with a slight chance of getting automatic promotion, however after confirming our place in the playoffs the players decided to take the last 3 games off and we didn’t win any of them. While this was slightly concerning I was obviously amazed to even be in that spot.

We would play Ural in the playoffs, which was a good draw for us. We had managed to beat them once last season and in my mind that obviously meant we were going to beat them again this season. Thankfully my logic worked as we beat Ural 3-1 over both legs and somehow we were promoted into the first division.

I still don’t understand how we managed to have such a good season, especially given how bad we were the previous season. It also didn’t help to lose one of our best players straight after the first game. While the money was good and needed at the time, I thought that it made our squad worse. In the end it turned out to be a blessing in disguise as his replacement had a great season and contributed with 11 assists!

The youngsters showed up this year. We had already used Soldani & Ibara in major roles this season, which they both contributed in. Ibara top scored for us with 12, while Soldani started 31 games for us at 16. Towards the end of the season we also included Strelov & Kosarevskiy into the first team and shown glimpses of quality, especially Strelov in just 9 games.

Squad | Transfer History | League Table

 

Intake wise we had another fantastic group. We got a potential starting left back, right back and centre back which was greatly needed. 4 wide midfielders, a striker and a goalkeeper made this years intake a really special group. We also kept 4 more players who had decent potential or good personalities.

Youth Intake

Evgeny Vaniev | Vladislav Dmitriev | Genki Moriyasu | Yury Kulikov | Maxim Saidov | Victor Gordeev | Alexy Danilin | Alexey Konovalov | Roman Gorbunov

 

* * *

Season 3

Chertanovo Moscow | Russia Premier Liga | 2024/25

 

I literally had no idea how we were going to do this season. Obviously predicted to come last, and my main aim was just to get double figure points. As we got going in the season it became quite clear that we could compete against the mid table teams and have an ok chance against the bottom teams. We had no chance against the top teams.

At the mid season break we were in the relegation playoff places. We had completed my only aim and had reached double figure points. We were in a decent position but had pretty big problems. Discipline was really bad. We couldn’t really control any game and were also having problems scoring! Apart from that everything was great!

We went into the 2nd half just trying to stay somewhat competitive and hope to escape the relegation playoffs, but kind of realise that was probably going to be our only hope of staying in this division. In reality we were very lucky that the bottom 2 teams were very bad, and we had managed to get 3 of our 8 wins against them. As the season went on we were neck and neck with Rostov & Rubin, and it all came down to the last game of the season. Rubin would beat CSKA Moscow, Rostov would draw against Dinamo Moscow, but thankfully we would come from behind and beat Sochi to avoid relegation completely.

Squad | Transfer History | League Table

 

We had a golden generation youth intake. 10 5* potential players. Our Head of Youth was doing an incredible job for us.

Thankfully the best player was a CB which was massivly needed as our current best one decided to join Rubin on a free transfer. It’s hard to describe the rest of the players. They’ve all got great potential and this intake could set this team up for the next 5 years.

Youth Intake

Alexandr Mishukov | Alexey Trofimov | Dmitry Yefimov | Igor Alborov | Ilka Kozlov | Ilja Safronov | Nikolay Rubstov | Pavel Golubev | Vyacheslav Karavaev | Vyacheslav Svitlik | Yury Lomakin

 

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Season 4

Chertanovo Moscow | Russia Premier Liga | 2025/26

 

I’m getting quite tired writing these reviews so this will be short!

We had our first major sale of the save. Carlos Soldani wanted to leave and while I was disappointed I knew that this could potentially help this team in the long run. After some initial low ball offers we finally got Spartak Moscow to agree to our terms. £2.5m now with potentials to increase that total to £4m. The most important part was getting 50% of Next Sale agreed. I think this kid is going to be a star and good Russian Players move around a lot for good/big money, so I’m hopeful that this will massively pay off.

Carlo Soldani Transfer Offer | Carlo Soldani

I changed the tactic again and went back to our first season original tactic, and initially it seemed to work a lot better. At the mid season break we were sitting in 8^th place and were looking at securing another season in the league and even potentially a European place?

In reality the 2^nd half of the season proved a little too much for us, and we suffered some disappointing losses and would only just finish 3 points outside of the relegation playoff places. In reality it never felt like we were that close to going down, and looking at the final table you can see how tight the mid table teams are. 3 points off playoff places & 2 points off 7^th!! Overall another good season.

I do think that I might have put the club in a bad spot however. After selling Soldani I decided to spend some of that money of improvements to the Training Facilities, Youth Facilities and completed the Junior Coaching & Youth Recruitment. While this is all good, we are currently losing about £500k per month and a lot of that is on the youth teams.

Oh we also moved into our new stadium this season. So far we have had a different stadium for every season I’ve been here. Hopefully there is some expansion potential in our new stadium.

Squad | Transfer History | League Table

 

Another mental intake with another 8 5* potential players. The best player is obviously Mikhail Starikov who after signing his contract has come straight into the 1^st team. Konev & Yefremov will probably be in the 1^st team next season, and in just one intake we could have our midfield 3 for the next 10-15 years.

Youth Intake

Mikhail Starikov | Rustem Konev | Dmitry Yefremov | Artem Sorokin | Eduard Alexeev | Konstantin Yegorov | Mikhail Gladyshev | Vladimir Denisov | Vyacheslav Zyryanov

 

 

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So now were up to date and I can continue playing! I’ll report back at the half way stage where hopefully were comfortably mid table and haven’t had to sell anyone to manage the books!

Edited November 4, 2021 by Watson156

[Libertine13]

2023/24

It was a strange second season for us. We went through spells of getting positive results and looking unbeatable at times and then just not being able to even buy a goal. It was looking like we'd end up with a comfortable top half finish until we went on a fantastic run towards the end of the season, giving us hope of maybe reaching the play offs. We beat the eventual champions and play off hopeful rivals in two of our last three games to put us in pole position for a play off place going into the final game of the season. But a terrible performance resigned us to another season of third tier football. Can't grumble at a 5th place finish though.

We're in desperate need of a consistent forward, Pronichev was patchier than a 16 year old's first beard and ended up on 12 goals scored all season, which was the exact same number of goals as Matthias Rahn, our veteran centre half! Two players from last seasons Youth Intake made their debuts for us, Ali Akbulut (who scored on his debut after coming on as a sub) and Jeff Leogrande (who has been capped at U21 level by Luxembourg 6 times now). Unfortunately we had to let go of one of our prospects, Lukas Kollmann to Ingolstadt, as he became extremely unsettled after they'd made it clear they wanted to sign him. We only got a pitiful £35k, but I did manage to get a good % of any future sale. 

It was a positive season off the pitch as the board were willing to upgrade both the Youth Facilities and Youth Recruitment.

However, our predicted youth intake wasn't anything to shout about. 

When we got this seasons batch of Youth candidates to evaluate it seemed slightly more positive than what we were expecting. After signing most of the candidates to the youth team it appeared that Marco Froschauer might well have something about him to earn a place in the first team squad in a couple of years time. We weren't expecting to get a keeper that had any chance of making it as a first team player so I was delighted to see the Aussie Seb Brown in there!

Hopefully next season I'll be in a position to give some decent game time to a few of the more promising youngsters we've gotten. The squad is looking pretty thin now and two of my best senior players are the wrong side of 30. I realise I haven't posted any pictures of any of my youth players as of yet, I'll try to remember to do so in future posts.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2037/38 End of Season Review

We end the season well! 54 points and the 3rd best goal difference whilst also making another final, which of course TNS won. Next season will be a struggle with Steve Dunn, George Veale & Jordan Hall all deciding to leave after outgrowing the club (there words, not mine).

  

   

 

 

Overall Best XI

2037/38 Best XI

Kallum Parry (YP15j)

Marko Milnar (YP13j) - Danny Ellis (YP9a) - Steve Dunn (YP12l) - Issufo Muwanei (YP10h)

Ethan Roberts (YP13g)

George Veale (YP10a) - Jordan Hall (YP10m)

Lewys Giles (YP12b)                                                       Morgan Preece (YP13b)

Callum Loveless (YP10g)

[Ronaldo Beckham]

After having a terrible season with FC United where we ended up with just 17 points and was relegated I have decided to leave this challenge for now and try again with a different team sometime in the future.

I did really enjoy my time with FC United but I just fancy doing a fun save with a French league team now.

I will be back and good luck to everyone on here.

[Daddy]

 

Final Table: 

Much stronger year than I was expecting. Made it to the promotion playoffs. Won first match but lost to the eventual winner.

Competition Overview:

Met expectations in Cup and Trophy. Vision was fight against relegation, and media prediction was 21st

Youth Intake: 

Much better than the preview indicated it would be. No one ready to jump into first team. I'm a fan of players that can play multiple positions for Attacking and Defense. Very big help for depth off the bench. 

Upcoming season Vision and Prediction:

I don't expect a leap forward, but I do expected to do way better than predicted. Hoping for midtable. 

Preseason Finances:

With the finances not looking great I can't imagine to get any improvements to improve Youth facilities/recruiting.

[Nottingham Forest]

So managed to get to intake day last night. I’ll post if we stay up. Although the intake was rubbish. With 5 games remaining we’re 6 off the side in 20th. Our form is shocking and there’s definitely something that has been tweaked as once you’ve gone, you’ve gone. 
 

I don’t want to change tactically every time something goes wrong either. 

[DazRTaylor]

I am having break from this challenge as just cannot get anything going.  I have lost numerous jobs and haven't posted on here as wanted to see if I could be a success.  I am going to do the dafuge challenge first, get to grips with the game and come back here soon.

[BustaRaymes]

Chesham United 2023/2024 - season 4

League Table

We started with 4 straight wins, but couldn't hold on. 11 games without a win brought us into relegation struggles, but from January onwards we became more stable and ended in midtable nicely.

Squad

I was a bit unsure whether Glendon and Bell would be a good enough centre back duo, but it worked out nicely. Bell had a decent season and Glendon continued developing. Bromage put in another fine performance.

Webb keeps a low profile on the pitch but has good stats. He retains the ball, has a nice passing percentage and can grow a lot more. Russell again played a lot, also because Harrop is not developing as hoped.

I'm unsure whether to keep playing Philpott and Onyemah as much as they do, seeing as Adams and Clark are not far behind them and can develop some more. Flynn has announced himself at left back as well. Adam Martin put in a good season at 35 and might play a lot again next season, as I still don't have a good RM coming through. Billy Adcock has nice attributes but has never really put in the performances to go along with them, so I'm looking to drop him.

If they want to, Bunting and Clayton can probably stay until they can't run anymore.

 

Youth Intake

Not unhappy with this, although the best positions have been filled. McConville is welcome as I don't have any good goalkeepers besides Bromage. Stevens, Newman and Mustoe share their best position however, all the while Russell is doing good in the first team and I actually don't really play with an AML. Even 'worse': Neil Batchelor has a CA that can put him directly in the starting eleven. I might switch around with tactics a bit more. Same goes for Baggs; he's right on time to replace Adcock. They might not be future top players, but have enough qualities to be of use for now.

 

Finances

Leaking money turned into haemorrhaging money.

 

Edited November 5, 2021 by BustaRaymes

[Morpheus13]

Sporting Club Toulon Season 23/24 Review

Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

We finished third and got to the Playoff for Relegation. We by far exceeded expectations and then had no chance against the Ligue 2 side. Nevertheless, a really promising season. 

We played a Pressing Tactic, which worked pretty well, but since I cannot rotate alot, it was also very tiring. So sometimes we also played a very defensive structure against good teams.

Youth Intake

The Preview wasnt great and the intake itself was not good either. Only the GK looks pretty decent, and my best player in the first team is my 27 year old GK. But I guess thats to be expected with our poor facilities. My board doesnt want to improve any facilities and with the semi-professional status, we might need luck one season to go up. Otherwise I see this save coming to an end, as soon as the first team players start retiring.

Finances are looking decent and since we are not spending much on wages we make a pretty decent profit every year. So once we have banked some money, the board might accept some improvements.

 

[The Gold Guard]

 

OFK Beograd - Year 9 (2030/31)

Tables | Squad | Season XI | Overall XI | League History

This season was a throwback as it was like the start all over again. Rocky start, facing the lower half of the table, inconsistent results.
I was proven wrong after the winter break with a run of W’s allowing me to scrape in the top half.

This season was the last containing my final old guard in Filip Maksic who managed to save me the problem of letting him out in the wilderness by getting a final payout for his career up north at MSK Zilina.
A round of applause for his efforts helping the boys become men. I have a plethora of young talent begging to pick up where he left off.

We had a very young resurgence of stars break into the first team, mostly because I could not manage to get any loans for them to be quite honest.
Was later impressed to the point where they may as well stick around and keep up the momentum. Hopefully next season I can keep the rebuild going.

Transfers | Finances

With no U19s league entry or competitive youth sides I am left with no choice but to send out a cacophony of youth players amongst the lower divisions.
Hoping one of them can come back to the side next season and provide something.
No bites for any of my current first-teamers but our reputation is increasing so I expect foreign clubs to begin lurking in the future...

Preview | Intake 1 | Intake 2

I don’t understand this new preview system. I love the idea and layout but honestly I beg to differ with the feedback. This intake was the most satisfying one I have had in ages.
I think all positions seem to have at least one coverage that seems reliable long-term or at least can milk some profit off.
Notable products who slide straight into the first team are: 

Bojan Jakovljevic (31A) | Nemanja Milovanovic (31B)

 

Healthy Crops: 

Vladan Vujic (25G)

Has developed into a reliable keeper that despite not being the strongest of shot-stoppers in the past here.
I can see him being here for quite a while because whatever good keeper I have in the waiting list below, sure is not ready at the moment.

Nikola Milicevic (24I)

Most likely my best player at the moment. Has dominated the left side for me and has been a game changer this season.
Wants to leave the club, I am not fussed. There are kids in the pipeline every intake ready to come through who look promising enough that I am not stressed.

Boban Pajovic (24D)

Next year's captain. Will take over the last of the old guard and lead from the front.
I actually was really annoyed with him at the start of the season, I gave him an earful. It worked.

Sasa Vukovic (30C)

Sometime's he's a poodle, sometimes he's a pitbull. At the end of the day, he's still a puppy.
I am proud of him stepping up but I don't think he is the right piece to the puzzle in the long term.
Might have to enjoy being a bench dweller in the future with the class of '31 showing striking promise.

[The Gold Guard]

Ugh gross.
I despise this. 

[Winski]

My GK just scored this winning goal against Breiðablik

[XaW]

 

XaW - Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur - Season 2026 - Inkasso-deild karla

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

Finally we are going up! This season things just seemed to click and we had a great season. Winning the league and getting promoted are a big step up for us. And seeing as we have faced a few of the top tier teams in the cup and not gotten destroyed, I hope we can stay next season.

We stay deep in the red, but hopefully getting promoted will help out.

Deildabikar: We won our group ahead of HK, Stjarnan, Fram Reykjavík, Vestmannaeyja, and Tindastóll. Then we beat Fjölnir and eventually Breiðablik to win the trophy!
Bikarkeppni karla: We beat Víkingur R. before we lost to HK in the 3rd round.

Youth intake:

Some good talents, but central midfielders are still lacking!

Another great inside forward, but needs some work on his finishing.

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U19s:

They only played friendlies.

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Deildabikar - 1 (2026)
Inkasso-deild karla - 1 (2026)

[Elsjorro]

Cottbus 2033-2034:

 

So, again no transfers out. And that is pretty nice tbh. Because i dont know if its just me, but this year alot of people seem to want set fees in there contract. And they are ffing low. So i hope to get them out sooner than later, but mostly they are not negiotable:

 

 

So the preview came, and im quite happy. Again its a pretty decent preview. I would love the midfielders because Martins is falling a bit behind. He was lit when he came in, but outside his physics, he didnt really develop. So lets see wat it brings us. 

 

 

I mean, i can't complain about a intake with 10 elite talents. The only problem i have with this is they dont seem to develop in the youth. If i put them into the first squad, it goes allright. But in the youth and 2nd team, the development of most talents seem nearly impossible. And thats even when i maxed out all the faciliities. So im a bit bummed out by that tbh. Though Buchler and Leopold seem like 2 very good players.

 

 

 

 

 

So onto the league table: We improved a bit again. Some players that went straight into the first squad really developed. Osei is the rock at the center and with Hortnagl, Kallnik, Pressalot we have very talented players who stepped it up a notch:

 

 

As you can see, our talents are winning prizes and mostly we have like 10/11 internationals for the youth so it all goes good:

 

 

Season stats seem to tell the same thing, though it is very weird they put Kitenge up front instead of Hortnagl. 

 

[Pauldinho7]

A massive progression this season for SC Beira-Mar, notably because we managed to keep all of our best players together. The big worry is that the vultures are circling for half a dozen players and the minimum fee release clauses are set so low by their agents with no negotiation so I could lose them all for far less than I value them at and with Europa Conference league football next year we need all the help we can get. That added to the fact that the youth intake was probably the poorest yet has left me concerned about the future of the club.

[Pauldinho7]

As an example of my problem, I have these two...

Feliciano has a minimum fee release of £3.3mil and Miguel of £7.7mil - the £7.7mil isn't too bad, but £3.3mil for my best player is awful and he won't negotiate a new contract as he wants to leave 

[Winski]

Wow, my recent intake was fantastic! A lot of potential first team players!

Spoiler

 

[Bartrcm]

Beira-Mar - Third Division - Season 2023-2024

Prediction: 18th

Final position: 1th and promotion play-offs

Promotion play-offs: 1th and promotion

 

The difference between the 4th and the 3th seems to be very small. We  qualified with ease for the promotion play-offs, and so did 2 of the 3 other promoted teams from last season. We secured promotion with 2 games to go in our promotion group. In the final we played, just like last years title game in the 4th division, against Caldas. Last year we played our best game of the season in the final, but this year we played one of our worst games in the final. At half time we were 1-0 up, and in the last seconds of the first half Caldas got a red card. You would think that the second half would be very easy, but the opposit was true. We were second best, and with 4 minutes to go, Caldas totally deserved there equaliser. So, extra times and perhaps penalties would decide who were crowned as champions. Out of the blue we scored twice, but again Caldas could score a goal, 3-2 was the score at half time. Luckily for us nothing happened in the second half of the extra time, so we were crowned as champions. Back-to-back promotions!

 

Games 1

Games 2

Games promotion play-offs + final

Cup: we had an incredible run, and reached the Quarter Final. We played SLB, and we pushed them until extra time. Most of our players were exhausted after 90 minutes, and SLB could score 3 goals in the extra time. The final score was 4-1. The best thing was that this was an away game, and this earned us 400k.

 

Youth intake: The preview, and the actual intake weren't too bad

Mateus Sona (YP2a): DC who will get a lot of playing time next year.

Kaio Fernando (YP2b): AMC

Ibrahima Jaló (YP2c): GK, but I don't think he will make it. Just hoping that my HOYD is correct with his stars and he will improve a lot

Nilton (YP2d): DR

 

Transfers: None

 

Finances: Still terrible and luckily for us we had the cup game against SLB. So no upgrades possible at the moment

[WhiteCat33]

 

RAAL La Louviere - Belgian Pro A 2029/30 (Season 8)

Performance

We came out and did what exactly the objective actually repeating our record from 2 seasons back landing in 10th. Solidifying ourselves as a mid-table outfit.

We did okay performance-wise scoring this year its just defensively that we dropped points which makes sense considering...

Youth Development
The big reason we dropped points was the forced blooding in an 18 year old keeper as our main had 3 back to back injuries totaling 16 weeks out of commission. On the plus side though it has paid off as the development of the keeper has been exceptional. He'll match my legacy keeper sometime during next season. This was his 12 month development by the end of the season. He's also 6'4"! Suffice to say I have high hopes here.

The other defensive addition was a new CB A. Alexandre as we cashed in on Kiala last year. While he is just okay defensively he was a big offensive production with 11 goals and a 7.68 average rating. Because of this he won Belgian Young Player of the Year & was 3rd in the Belgian Golden Boot at just 18. We'll see how long we can keep him. We have a high quality problem at developing CD too well and none sticking around into maturity.

 

The big relief is we finally have a productive striker.17 year old D Gaillard 28a scored 12 goals in 22 appearances in his first full season. This will also be the final season for 3 of our 6 remaining legacy players, with next year being the finale for the other 3 and then it'll be a full academy squad. 

Luckily I have everyone on at least 2 year deals so no one will have to be sold over this summer transfer window, but I might just do that to continue enhancing facilities. I might not have to if these takeover rumors pan out. I've gotten maybe 5 or so notifications over the year that its in the background. Who knows what will come of it. For now though, I've been able to get my Training facilities back to Good at the start of the season with the leftover transfer money and getting my first % profit on future transfer fees. 

  

  

Hilariously Antwerp just killed their offence by selling him and they went on to finish bottom this season with just one win and a guaranteed regulation. Serves them right for poaching my talent. He has had a good career in the Pro League though, so can't fault him for it.

Here are my spreadsheets of my transferred stars. I only track sales of $100k+.

Youth Intake

Had high hopes:

We got a few who will challenge into the first team in a couple seasons, but still a weaker intake. 

Dubois does actually have potential as a striker with that 15 finishing. We'll see with that slow speed and no natural fitness.

Edrissi is the best of the 3 Moroccan players and only with it as primary nationality.

Charles 30a is another GK prospect who looks stellar even if he's on the shorter side. 

Manager Thoughts

I could hold onto my players for a strong next year, but with a -4M finances I may sell a player or two to boost it back towards positive territory. We only lost -230k over the course of the season and that is with the 1.3M investment into new training facilities, its just we were so bad financially before we fell back there. Right now the priority is to boost up training facilities while remaining mid-table. So hopefully next season I can work out another upgrade while developing more 17 & 18 year olds.

 

[Elsjorro]

Cottbus 2034-2035

 

So at the start of the season we lose our legacy CB Haupstein. I mean, those fees are actually killing me. Luckily i had a somewhat decent replacement, but 1.3 mil was cheap as F

 

 

So we had a pretty decent preview. Im actually quite happy with the goalkeeper. Stahl, our legacy keeper, is putting his gloves to rest after this season. So the timing would be fenomenal:

 

Also it is allways nice to have a striker. Hortnagl has a fee and is fairly interested in moving.

 

 

Pretty sick imo. Pena is instantly going on the goal, Manga is going into the first squad as well. I cant show screens of the players because i forgot to take them. And if i take them now, i would spoil the fun because im 2 seasons further. So ill post them later on.

 

League table:

 

Absolutly stunning performance. We missed out on 2 points, but im feeling we are very close. The team is comming along very well. Its a great mix of experience vs youngsters. This year Kallnik, Hortnagl and Pressalot were the realy eyecatchers:

 

[karax268]

Season 2 - Gresik United - 2023

 

On the Field

 

After last season the big question was if we'd be able to come close to replicating it. With one win in the first four games it seemed that the answer was no. However after that we took off and ran away comfortably with the lead in the first phase table. Our form didn't follow us in the second phase howeveer. two draws and a loss saw us out off promotion contention. 

 

The cup wasn't much better. we went out in the second round against lower league opposition.

 

Off the field

 

My manager has just finished the Continental C Badge.

During the season the board agreed to improve boath youth recruitment and junior coaching. There isn't much money for anything else.

 

Spoiler

 

 

Player Highlights

 

Yusuf 01D continued to be prolific as a ST but had some company this year in Santosa 01L who had a break out year. The right winger had the same amount of goals as Yusuf. 

A supriadi was quite a surprise. part of my first Youth intake and not demed good enough to warrant a tag. now he not only made his way into the first team, he also has the highest average rating of the league.

 

 

 

[iacovone]

Högaborgs BK Season 2026 Review

Table (8th) | Admin | Finances | How It Unfolded | Squad Stats

Well this was a bit of a backwards step but pleased we were never in any relegation danger. Our problem at the moment is the lack of a regular goalscorer - you're not going to get anywhere when your top scorer has 7 goals across 26 matches and as such we slipped to a very middle of the road 8th place finish. 

There were still some standout performers. Johan Mirza, our leading appearance holder, was consistent across the season, whilst academy graduate Tom Pettersson (YP3b) made a name for himself with 7 goals and 3 red cards as our target man. Beyond that it felt like a few regular first teamers lost their way somewhat and we need to have a rethink this summer with playing times.

Intake 1 | Intake 2

The standout from the intake is Niclas Blomqvist (YP4l), who is a fit, hard-working, *checks notes*...pressing forward. To me he's a central midfielder and that's how I'll look to shape him. He's probably good enough to go straight into the first team.

Tom Ardoris (YP4m) is an interesting one too. He's not first-team ready but I like his combination of flair and technique, that's something we badly lack through the squad so he might end up being a useful sub option next season.

Finally we have Abderrahmane Maouche (YP4b) who's another technician with great mental stats for this level and at his age. 

Record Breakers

So, not a noteworthy season but I'm liking the progress I'm seeing from some of the graduates and whilst the first-teamers are still in their 20s I think we'll be more than okay to avoid relegation for now. Hopefully some of the graduates can kick on and we find that regular goalscorer to make a push towards promotion one day.

Best XI | Overall Best XI

Edited November 8, 2021 by iacovone

[Nottingham Forest]

Sacked. Again! Genuinely lost for words with how hard this is. It’s never been this bad before. Attacking is too much. Balanced is too defensive. Positive causes too many issues. Morale is a mess and too overpowered.

[Makoto Nakamura]

In terms of grading, I think this could be the best intake yet, and we'll get a new goalkeeper!

[Morpheus13]

Sporting Club Toulon Season 24/25 Review

Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

Again a very good season. Pretty long in the hunt for promotion but in the end we finished 5th. But still we are overachieving and havent tweaked the tactic that match. Actually implemented a more direct passing style to switch it up a bit.

Youth Intake

The preview definitely looked alot more promising than last year

The Intake itself wasnt bad, especially when I consider our poor youth facilities and the basic youth recrutement

Aristide Sangare (25A) and Mohamed Teka (25B) are looking like the most promising ones. Also Rachid Magola (25C) could play in the first team if he progresses nicely.

Finances are looking good and after we got this message:

I asked again for improvements and the board finally agreed

 

 

So we are taking step by step and hope that we might get lucky one season and can promote to get professional status.

[SpS_Zen]

Season 5

I was able to keep my best players to start the season. A slow start, some tactical changes, and I secured my spot in the league for a second season. 

My best player Mtsweni 24a will leave for free as I never could offer him a contract. Just before that, he got his first caps for the senior national team !
YI average. Hot prospect looks good.

A funny event happened at the end of January mercato. A team from the second division offered 350k+600k bonus for the player above. Idk what they are smokin lol
Finances look good, money is flowing, thanks to TV rights and grants. I was able to improve my facilities. 

 

Season 6

 

A strong start fighting for a continental spot until January. My president sold my striker and best player for 775k in the last hours of the mercato. The money helped me to improve the facilities, but won't replace the lack of a striker in the short term.

 

My ex-striker.
The new YI is very promising !

 

[WhiteCat33]

Just was looking at scouting and noticed for some reason my club is giving me Guinea, Nigeria and Congo knowledge which would explain all my DR Congo dual nationalities. There is also half Ukraine knowledge below the screenshot. Is this common for clubs in FM22? I'm assuming you can't influence this and is a secret attribute set behind the scenes? Didn't realize signing my U-21 sport scientist from morocco would make us experts there and bring in multiple youth prospects. 

[OlivierL]

28 minutes ago, Morpheus13 said:

Sporting Club Toulon Season 24/25 Review

Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

Again a very good season. Pretty long in the hunt for promotion but in the end we finished 5th. But still we are overachieving and havent tweaked the tactic that match. Actually implemented a more direct passing style to switch it up a bit.

Youth Intake

The preview definitely looked alot more promising than last year

The Intake itself wasnt bad, especially when I consider our poor youth facilities and the basic youth recrutement

Aristide Sangare (25A) and Mohamed Teka (25B) are looking like the most promising ones. Also Rachid Magola (25C) could play in the first team if he progresses nicely.

Finances are looking good and after we got this message:

I asked again for improvements and the board finally agreed

 

 

So we are taking step by step and hope that we might get lucky one season and can promote to get professional status.

@Perre8 will love this, he finished the challenge with Toulon on FM21 .

[Elsjorro]

Cottbus season 2035-2036

 

So, this year we didnt lose any players due transfer fees. But it concerns me the more. It seems like everyone above 18 who wants to resign a contract, wants a fee claus in there contract. And the fees keep being not negiotable and allways beneath 1 mil. So im very afraid what will happen in the future. Somewhere i hope that i can promote and get rid of those fees.

 

 

The preview wasnt as good as earlier years, but still we could expect a good central midfielder and good attacking midfielders. So far so good, though i am getting a bit full of midfielders atm. A good new CB i wouldnt mind.

 

 

Intake itself was quite oke actually:

 

With Brecht and Dauble we got decent midfielders and Dogan want right into the first squad on the bench. Allready played a decent amount of games.

 

 

So the league itself. I was very certain we were not far off the top spots in the 2. Bundesliga. We grew a year older again and the guys that did it for us last year really improved. So in the end, it came down to the final match. We were left with 3 squads playing for the title, and we went in as the nr2. We could still fall into the PO spot, but we could also take the title home:

 

 

So with a pretty EZ winner we bag in the title. FC Heidenheim makes us champions, cause they win 0-1 at Sankt Pauli. CHAMPIONES!!!!! And we are going to the 1. Bundesliga. Will expect a hard season there, but thats fine. This should be that easy.

 

So lets take a look at the players that stand out the most:

 

So, Pena came right at the moment Stahl went into retirement. He went right into the starting eleven and never left. Though at this moment he wont resign a contract and wants to leave, he certainly is gonna be the nr.1 for us in the next 2 seasons. 

So i put Martins here, because i got some unfortunate information on Pressolat. So we will talk about that next update. But Martins did fine. He didnt develop the way i would loved to have, but he does the job i guess,.

 

Gunaydin. He developed reeeaaaaallly fast. Though, he also doesnt wants to resign and has ofcourse got a transfer fee of 4 mil in his contract. So i wont be surprised if he leaves us soon.

 

 

So the youth also wins some prizes:

 

 

So, tbh i think the challenge seems way harder then last year. The transfer fees thingy is something i didnt came across alot the last year. And if it was, they werent so little in comparison to the skills they have. Also i still got some problems with developing, but that just might be the PA of the talents not begin as good as it looks trough intake.

 

We have our first decent Full-international to btw: Forro was capped for Hungary. Also Schober, if you can recall him, played about 42 caps for Austria allready. He plays somewhere in france i think. 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2038/39 Youth Candidates

With how poor this season has been, this intake was definitely needed!