The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[Makoto Nakamura]

2030/31 End of Season Review

After eight games we were six points clear of Stonehaven, after 17 games, we were eight points behind Stonehaven, after 20 games we were just three points behind Stonehaven with a game in hand and then after the 24th and final game we're five points behind Stonehaven. As is the life of a New Elgin manager, always disappointed and never promoted.

  

   

Overall Best XI

2030/31 Best XI

Jacob Keir (YP1i)

Dennis Lindberg (YP6c) - Steven MacDonald (YP4d) - Ian Mitchell (YP1c) - Kyle Combe

Lee Thomas

Ben Cook (YP2d) - Ryan Mykyta (YP2c)

Paul Stirling (YP1b)                                            Ewan Spence

Stephen Williamson (YP2b)

[Daddy]

 

Question, what is the Junior Coaching? Just the coaches hired? Just trying to figure how to max that. 

[Ross Ingersoll]

.looking for a challenge so going to try this again. Went to France, the lowest playable league is Championnat National. there is a league in game below it but you can only play in it if you have been relegated 

 

 

[andreidvb]

Season 12, 13 and 14 update

Season 12 2033-2034

9th place Scottish Second Division

 

Season Summary

Squad

Tactics

Transfers

Youth Intake

 

Season 13 2034-2035

10th place Scottish Second Division

Won Relegation Play off Final

 

Season Summary

Squad

Tactics

 

Transfers

 

Youth Intake

Season 14 2035-2036

6h place Scottish Second Division

 

Season Summary

Squad

Transfers

Youth Intake

[libbyshuss]

2046/47 (season 25)

Championship

Season Summary

League - We were frustrating at times. Beating the teams in first twice in a week only to then go on a run of one win in 7, all against teams in the bottom half of the league. But again the wins outnumbered the defeats and a run of 6 wins out of the last 8 games pushed us into the play-offs.

one of those wins was against Norwich, who we now played in the play off semi-final. This time though? They beat us 2-1 and 1-0 to knock us out.

FA Cup - away to premier league Newcastle, who we'd beaten in the League Cup earlier in the season, but this time they won 1-0

 

Players

This team are developing well but are at a stage where they really need to deliver

Dave Bennet 44A - Last seasons 11th best wonderkid! The board decided that 8.25m was too good an offer to turn down and accepted it during the summer. I threw my toys out the pram and luckily they backed down, and nothing else was heard of it. If I'd lost him for 8m I'd have been apoplectic! Anyway, still not really performing ike one of the worlds best wonderkids....

 

Slipped to 18th this season!

Peter Foley 45A - So Robert Price suffered up front again so I gave Foley his chance. He took it, averaging a goal a game for his first 20 or so appearances. He slowed down a little towards the end but has made the striker spot his own. Ony 18 and a potentia premier league striker apparently!

 

Youth

Best youth set-up in the country! Show me what you got!

Quite a nice preview, 5 stars is always nice to see!

Intake has potential. Top 3 prospects don't have great personalities and determination levels but they can be worked on. It's not obviously a golden generation but I signed the top 6 and they'll get their chances!

The U18s are definitely getting better anyway...

New Kits

 

Career

[RicoFoma]

vor 6 Stunden schrieb Daddy:

 

Question, what is the Junior Coaching? Just the coaches hired? Just trying to figure how to max that. 

Hi,

 

Junior Coaching refers to the coaching players receive before becoming regens, so at U15 level. Good junior coaching will make your players better when they enter your academy in terms of the ability they already have. This doesn't mean they have higher potential though. 

 

Maxing it can be done via board requests and under finance you can ask to improve it. 

Edited December 7, 2021 by RicoFoma

[XaW]

7 hours ago, Daddy said:

 

Question, what is the Junior Coaching? Just the coaches hired? Just trying to figure how to max that. 

@RicoFomaexplained it a bit above, but this is ALSO true for the youth facilities. Those are NOT used by you U18s or similar, the youth facilities are used by the players BEFORE they are visible in the game. All players in your squads and that you can click on use your training facilities. I think this is also mentioned in the first post in the thread.

[JAwtunes]

1 hour ago, RicoFoma said:

Hi,

 

Junior Coaching refers to the coaching players receive before becoming regens, so at U15 level. Good junior coaching will make your players better when they enter your academy in terms of the ability they already have. This doesn't mean they have higher potential though. 

 

Maxing it can be done via board requests and under finance you can ask to improve it. 

I believe youth coaching and recruitment both influence CA and PA.  It was once reported that recruitment influences PA and coaching CA, but while this seems intuitive there was a dev comment saying this isn't the case back in 2017.

We have also been told the youth coaching staff can have a some effect on the PA of the occasional top youngster in our intake.  Since reading this I have always looked for youth coaching staff with high WwY and judging PA.  This is from 2017, but as I haven't seen anything recently from the devs to the contrary, I go with it!

 

[Padders]

Seen this, major update out

[Makoto Nakamura]

We desperately need new defenders, hopefully this won't be a below average intake.

[Libertine13]

2033/34

I'm not even sure what happened this season. There was just a massive drop off in performances and results and I couldn't get anything working at all. I was hoping for a promotion push but we found ourselves at the wrong end of the table all season. 

The only positive to come out of this season was Yannick Bossl being awarded the German U17 player of the year award. He only featured in a few games for the first team but it's a promising start to his career!

This seasons preview was fairly average. Again I'm hoping I actually get a half decent keeper coming through as our number 1 has declined pretty badly this season, possibly one of the main reasons we've had a poor campaign.

 

Once again the actual intake doesn't have that standout goalkeeper I've been told we should be getting. Not sure what this is all about but I'm getting really desperate now!

 

I'm going to post another quick update as I'm actually a couple seasons ahead of this post and it's always more difficult to update the thread when I'm a few more years into the save.

 

Edited December 7, 2021 by Libertine13

[Libertine13]

2034/35

Another disappointing season. Once again found ourselves at the wrong end of the table come the end of the season. Our number 1 decided not to renew his contract with us so I was left with an erratic American in nets for the season, conceding 52 goals in 37 matches. Our main guy up top, Markmuller, had a torrid time as well. He was wasting good chances every game and only finished with 13 goals. I felt like we were playing better than last season but with little to no reward due to the issues we've got at either end of the pitch. The youngsters coming through aren't progressing quick enough for my liking either.

What made this season even more disastrous was this guy, by far our best player, becoming unhappy and having his head turned by bigger clubs. Unfortunately his agent had always insisted on a minimum fee release clause in his contract. We got to January 31st turning down offers that weren't remotely close to his clause so thought we'd hold on to him for the remainder of the season at least, until Paderborn came in with a last minute offer on deadline day!

I keep getting teased with a potentially decent keeper in the intake preview, we're crying out for one now. 

This was much more like it, quite a big intake of potential first team players and we finally got a goalkeeper who I might be able to make use out of!

[JAwtunes]

1 hour ago, Padders said:

Seen this, major update out

Nice, especially the older players declining thing... providing its a little slower rather than even faster!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2031/32 Youth Candidates

It's all a bit meh really.

[Daddy]

4 hours ago, RicoFoma said:

Hi,

 

Junior Coaching refers to the coaching players receive before becoming regens, so at U15 level. Good junior coaching will make your players better when they enter your academy in terms of the ability they already have. This doesn't mean they have higher potential though. 

 

Maxing it can be done via board requests and under finance you can ask to improve it. 

 

4 hours ago, XaW said:

@RicoFomaexplained it a bit above, but this is ALSO true for the youth facilities. Those are NOT used by you U18s or similar, the youth facilities are used by the players BEFORE they are visible in the game. All players in your squads and that you can click on use your training facilities. I think this is also mentioned in the first post in the thread.

 

3 hours ago, JAwtunes said:

I believe youth coaching and recruitment both influence CA and PA.  It was once reported that recruitment influences PA and coaching CA, but while this seems intuitive there was a dev comment saying this isn't the case back in 2017.

We have also been told the youth coaching staff can have a some effect on the PA of the occasional top youngster in our intake.  Since reading this I have always looked for youth coaching staff with high WwY and judging PA.  This is from 2017, but as I haven't seen anything recently from the devs to the contrary, I go with it!

 

 

Thank you all for the responses! I always thought that was the salaries for the U18 coaches for some reason. 

[XaW]

[DazRTaylor]

2 hours ago, Padders said:

Seen this, major update out

So there was an issue with youth development.

[Padders]

This guy is a idiot!

Started 7 games, been sent off in 4 of them!

He's a right pain......................

Edited December 7, 2021 by Padders

[The7Striker]

Ourense CF  2022/2023 ( First Season)

Season Prev  Facilities  Finances  Transfers  Squad   

 

Games I  Games II  Takeover  Past Positions

After a preview of 17th place, with only 12 players and finishing 5th with a promotion in the bag its just amazing. We had luck to avoid big injurys but everytime we had one or a suspension, well it was a draw or a last for safe.

Copa Del Rey was good and that Espanyol game at home was a big boost in the cash.

The takeover didnt bring any update in our finances but i hope they can invest something,

 

Youth Intake

Boris and Ero are okay-ish but at this level we can take everyone.

 

 

 

Lets see what the 3 tier brings 

[RicoFoma]

vor 6 Stunden schrieb Padders:

Seen this, major update out

So simple question, does this update also improve already existing saves?

 

Because while I like the slow down currently 1 out of 25 youth players is really developing for me, the rest stagnates or declines. It's very much the same for 19-22 year old players who mostly show no improvement or decline. I hate that. Also if it only impacts new saves the stories here will have completely different setups.

[turnip]

19 minutes ago, RicoFoma said:

So simple question, does this update also improve already existing saves?

 

Because while I like the slow down currently 1 out of 25 youth players is really developing for me, the rest stagnates or declines. It's very much the same for 19-22 year old players who mostly show no improvement or decline. I hate that. Also if it only impacts new saves the stories here will have completely different setups.

The patch notes say that it will work with existing save games. 

Sometimes, these things take a little while to be obvious, though. 

[Libertine13]

19 minutes ago, RicoFoma said:

So simple question, does this update also improve already existing saves?

 

Because while I like the slow down currently 1 out of 25 youth players is really developing for me, the rest stagnates or declines. It's very much the same for 19-22 year old players who mostly show no improvement or decline. I hate that. Also if it only impacts new saves the stories here will have completely different setups.

On steam it says in the notes that it should work for current saves. Hopefully this is the case. I'm also seeing a lot of players stagnate or decline around the 19-21 age, really making this challenge... challenging.

[RicoFoma]

vor 1 Minute schrieb Libertine13:

On steam it says in the notes that it should work for current saves. Hopefully this is the case. I'm also seeing a lot of players stagnate or decline around the 19-21 age, really making this challenge... challenging.

Challenging is a good word, yes 

 

I'm in February now and I will give it to the end of the season but I'll be honest, this is infuriating to me. I have no issue with players usually peaking far later into their career and all that but at the rate it is going for me except for 2 players this challenge just annoys me. It's not fun to see 15 year olds get worse in every aspect. What makes this worse is that it actually seems random, I have had this issue in another save as well but I focussed less on it and it wasn't as bad even though the facilities were actually worse.

[OlivierL]

Caledonian Braves - Youth intake preview - Season 3 - Class 2025

not bad !

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 5 – 2026/27 – Struggling For Goals?

 

For the beginning of the season, we've had a good start, winning a game in the Allianz Cup for the first time ever, before losing the next game against Cova da Peidade. Still, we started the league well and have managed to keep clean sheets more times than not and then progressing in the Taça de Portugal.

Despite having a good start to the season, we're only 4 points away from the relegation zone and the relegation playoff zone. We're closer to the relegation zone than the promotions and playoffs, but if we can consistently keep getting points, we should be fine. Even if our first-choice keeper wants to leave us...

Still, if you want to see the goals we scored and conceded and see me talk more details about how the season's going on, the link below will let you see what's been going on.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 28

[Makoto Nakamura]

2031/32 End of Season Review

Gutted. Awful season.

  

    

Overall Best XI

2031/32 Best XI

Jacob Keir (YP1i)

Dennis Lindberg (YP6c) - Steven MacDonald (YP4d) - Ian Mitchell (YP1c) - Andy Ramsay (YP7d)

Lee Thomas

Ben Cook (YP2d) - Ryan Mykyta (YP2c)

Paul Stirling (YP1b)                                            Ewan Spence

Stephen Williamson (YP2b)

[andreidvb]

Season 15,16 and 17

 

Season 15 2036-2037

5th place Scottish Second Division

 

Summary

Squad

Tactics

Transfers

Youth Intake

 

Season 16 2037-2038

2nd place Scottish Second Division

Promoted to Second First Division via Play offs

 

Season Summary

 

Squad

Transfers

 

Youth Intake

 

Season 17 2038-2039

9th place Scottish First Division

Lost in The Relegation play off final

 

Season Summary

Squad

Transfers

Youth Intake

[The Gold Guard]

OFK Beograd - Year 19 (2040/41)

League | Continental
Squad | Season XI | Overall XI

We are in that awkward phase where we are too good for our domestic scope but subpar in the continental scope.
Yeah, it was nice upsetting Real Madrid but we were extremely lucky and it would take a miracle to get through the group stage. 

Whilst it feels nice to dominate the league, it sure would be nice to get a cup win as well to complement it. We look like it at times but then we go through weird phases where we can’t score for the life of my wife.
I hope with more age and experience naturally approaching my team I can exponentially grow. We have a tight cohort being built and I am trying hard to maintain that. 

Transfers | Finances

Losing our star keeper to a minimum release fee clause sucks. What doesn’t suck though is having a plethora of replacements in the pecking order.
We have a great thing going on here and that is evidently observed by the finances and the tight-knit wage budget. My secret is to bump up the weekly income and get rid of all extras. It works like a charm. 

Youth Squad | Preview | Intake

Not the greatest of cohorts but it isn’t terrible. If I can squeeze out two consistent first teamers every year that will be a great output.
I have a lot out on loan which does me a great job in squeezing cash out of clubs and offloading deadwood for some kind of bizarre profit.
Our reputation increases yearly which allows for more demand for my youth products. I have to let some players go because despite being solid, there is so much talent ahead of them. 

Notable Prospects:

Filip Petrovic (41A) | Slobodan Vilotic (41B) | Milenko Veselinovic (41C)

Healthy Crops: 

Ljubisa Stojanovic (35C)

Exact same output as last season. I got myself a club legend in the making.
Going to do my utmost to keep him around but every time he wants a new contract, it’s a ridiculous lowball release clause.
I’d rather sell him for a profit in his final year for the club to be quite honest. 

Martin Sivsic (39A) & Vlada Joksimovic (40A)

The AA batteries in the attacking front of the pitch. Absolute spark plugs that are giving my strikers life support.
I am blessed to have two back-to-back hot prospects that truly give meaning to the Golden Generation terminology. 

[Makoto Nakamura]

Can you get a poor intake in the 8th tier of Scotland? Aren't they all poor?

[BustaRaymes]

*FM20*

Molodechno-DYuSSh-4

2027 - season 8

Belarussian Highest League

What a season! We were up there among the best for most of the season, but a dip in form saw us lose our European spot. I wasn't even sure if we could stay up for another year.

Top result against (a midtable!) BATE shows how competitive we can be.

Squad

There are some clear star players we can't do without if we want to keep this up. They all want a clause for foreign clubs though as they know they're outgrowing us. Seeing as foreign clubs only get Belarussian players from the biggest clubs, it doesn't worry me that much yet.

Belyavskiy is developing very well and will probably want to leave before too soon.

Although Szumski never improved beyond the level he was at during intake, he's really starting to pull the strings in midfield. May give him more responsibilities in our buildup play.

Maschenko does well as a striker, but maybe we could get more out of him in another role. I don't want to mess with the tactic too much though.

Pavlovets may be one to watch in the coming years.

Transfers

Offloaded some dead wood / loaned some players out.

Youth intake

Our rising level and no youth improvements mean less star players each year. However, I do see one here:

Petrov is the right right-footed player in the right time. Chichkan is still decent enough but I reaaallly don't like two left-footed central defenders. Besides, I can see Belyavskiy leave next season so this guy is needed as well.

Although I like my AMC's to be creative sparks, Gurenko has a decent starting set and will probably get some game time next season.

Another player with attributes other than what I like for his position. Loshankov seems talented though, and with his personality I'm curious how he will develop.

Next season:

I don't know what to expect. Europe? Relegation battles? It will all depend on how eager my board is to sell my star players.

Financially we're in trouble, and have been for a while now. Can't do upgrades or even coaching badges. If this stays for much longer we'll inevitably hit our glass ceiling within the next couple of years. Hoping for a takeover or a European campaign is all I have for now.

[lewis999]

AMSTERDAMSCHE FC

As we know in Holland you have to start in the 2024/25 season because of COVID so that's where this story begins.

The Kits

 

The Best Players

We have no staff whatsoever so its a clean slate and I can bring my own people in! 

LETS GET STARTED!

Edited December 8, 2021 by lewis999

[Libertine13]

2035/36

It was inevitable. Worst season of the save so far. We were once again hovering around the relegation zone for the entire season and succumbed to the drop without a fight. The squad is looking pretty poor now with many of the promising looking players regressing in ability and the ones who do look pretty decent just aren't performing. Maybe relegation will give us a chance to reset, freshen up the squad with more youth and go again. I really need some of a better players to step up, Scott Fischer (31c) for instance went 36 games without a goal and he's meant to be a DLF. BUT I don't have alternatives right now.

We're basically 13 years in and only have some improvements to the facilities and a big bank balance to show for it. The new chairman (I've had like 4 internal takeovers) is a helmet and really plays hardball with requests so facilities haven't been improved on in a couple of years as well, we've got like £25m sat in the bank doing nothing!

Despite all this there is one lad coming through who looks like they have the ability to become an amazing player for the club, I'll be making sure he gets plenty of game time next season as that seems to be the only way to get youngsters to improve. 

On to the intake preview. Nothing too exciting to look forward to. Our defence is in desperate need of improvement and we could really do with a clinical striker. 

Seyfettin Aydogdu is the best of a relatively average bunch, he could well get some game time next season since we're back down a tier. Will have to wait until he's 16 though as per the rules of German football.

This wound me up big time. We're struggling for actual quality and this guy was poached.

[XaW]

 

XaW - Africanos Bragança - Season 2034/35 - Liga NOS

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

Another strong season, and this time we even qualified for Europe! Conference League here we come! The league season itself was quite uneventful (cups is another matter), and the first outing in Europe will be an amazing addition to the club next season. Hopefully, we can continue like this in the coming season and eventually fight even closer to the top spots.

The new stadium will be done in about a season, if there are no delays, so that's something we are looking forward to. We are paying down on the loan already though at almost £200k p/m! So no wonder we have started to lose a bit of money now. Hopefully, we'll regain a lot of it with the new capacity and have fans flocking in then. Also, the youth facility upgrade was done at the start of the season.

Taça de Portugal: We beat Padroense, Braga, Famalicão, and Belenenses SAD before we lost to Benfica in the semi final.
Allianz Cup: We beat Sporting Covilhã, then Braga and Belenenses in the group stage before we beat Famalicão in the semi final. In the final we crushed Benfica to claim our first ever cup win!

Player of the season: Eriksson Carlos 32d - An amazing season on the left back, but he showed his passing skills as he provided an amazing 15 assists!

Youth intake:

Worse than the last season, specifically in personalities, but we got in a very talented striker.

Paulo Cruz 35b looks like a beast in the making! He has everything I want in a striker (perhaps except a bit poor jumping)!

Spoiler

Cape Verde watch:

They failed to qualify for the African Nations this time, and their reputation has taken a dump down because of it.

Trophy cabinet

Terceira Liga - 1 (2030/31)
Campeonato Nacional Prio - 1 (2027/28)

Allianz Cup - 1 (2034/35)

[lewis999]

1st Season Review (2024/2025)

League Table

A very respectable first season despite being easily the worst team in the league. We started the season poorly with no win in the first 11 games but as the season went on we got better and better.

 

We managed to get an upgrade to our training and youth facilities very early which was massively needed.

The youth intake preview looked very good but caution is always needed at the start of this challenge due to the lack of any real quality in the first team.

Youth Intake wasn't much to shout about with some bad personalities amongst the most promising players. We did manage an upgrade to both junior coaching and youth recruitment so fingers crossed next year is much better.

 

 

[XaW]

@FloppNotEvenTop10 - Those are discussions you can have in private. This is not that kind of place.

[FloppNotEvenTop10]

vor 11 Minuten schrieb XaW:

@FloppNotEvenTop10 - Those are discussions you can have in private. This is not that kind of place.

what are you on about? i am warning people that this guy is a known savescummer and they should look at him before just liking and passing his "achievements" as real. and you delete it. wow.

[XaW]

12 minutes ago, FloppNotEvenTop10 said:

what are you on about? i am warning people that this guy is a known savescummer and they should look at him before just liking and passing his "achievements" as real. and you delete it. wow.

Why does it matter? This is a single player game and if people want to cheat, then there's nothing the rest of us can do. We set the guidelines and hope others will follow them. No one in here knows for a fact if I cheat or savescum, in the same way I don't know if anyone else cheats or savescums. But at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. I'm certain loads of people who have entered this or other challenges have cheated at one point, but there is no reward in knowing you cheated. Sure, glory, but this is a list of a very specific niche of a niche game on a forum where the average age is far above the normal age for gamers, so why does it matter to you if a user in here has cheated or not?

If you want to call him out, do it somewhere else. This is a challenge where we support and help each other, not create paper tigers to tear them down and boast about it. This is the final post in this argument, if you don't like it, please go somewhere else, and leave us to our enjoyment.

[vikeologist]

2 minutes ago, XaW said:

Why does it matter? This is a single player game and if people want to cheat, then there's nothing the rest of us can do. We set the guidelines and hope others will follow them. No one in here knows for a fact if I cheat or savescum, in the same way I don't know if anyone else cheats or savescums. But at the end of the day it doesn't really matter. I'm certain loads of people who have entered this or other challenges have cheated at one point, but there is no reward in knowing you cheated. Sure, glory, but this is a list of a very specific niche of a niche game on a forum where the average age is far above the normal age for gamers, so why does it matter to you if a user in here has cheated or not?

If you want to call him out, do it somewhere else. This is a challenge where we support and help each other, not create paper tigers to tear them down and boast about it. This is the final post in this argument, if you don't like it, please go somewhere else, and leave us to our enjoyment.

In fact sometimes it's fun to go out of your way to congratulate people who have cheated. Try to make them feel bad.

I am now curious who was being called out, but you're right. You can't worry about other people. 

There's truthfully only one person who's ever got under my skin with their blatant cheating, and even that I should just let go.

These challenges take a lot of time and effort, and the important thing is that people enjoy themselves. Seriously, everybody's mental health and enjoyment is a hundred times more important than sticking to other people's rules.

Really that is just an excuse for me to repeat the now very old story of the person who boasted of having completed the Dafuge challenge shortly after bemoaning on Twitter that he'd actually lost the Champions League Final. (Unfortunately, he's still active, so can't say the name here). It was more than 10 years ago, but the North remembers.

I do ask people in my challenge not to save scum, but I'd rather somebody broke other people's rules, but contributed to a thread.

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 5 – 2026/27 Youth Intake Preview

In a season where the league feels more competitive than ever before, we needed to make sure we were picking up points whenever possible. So when we went on a 7 game winless run, I was starting to panic more than I want to admit. Thankfully, wins against Felgueiras 1932 and Leixões gave us some breathing room.

The two wins were more important than I could have imagined, especially when looking at the relegation zone and the relegation playoffs zones. We have a habit of drawing a lot of games though, so it's better to be drawing a lot, than losing a lot of games.

We also had our youth intake preview. It looks promising and I am hopeful that we can get more players in the positions that have been promised here. The better strength in depth we have here, the better we can build the team up.

My latest video on the series has gone live, but it was recorded before the latest patch which tinkered with the set pieces and youth development came in, so don't be surprised if some of the stuff that happens in this video seems like the patch hasn't come in yet, because it hasn't.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 29

[The7Striker]

Ourense CF 2023/2024 ( Second Season)

Season Prev  Finances  Transfers  Squad

 

 

 

Games I  Games II  Past Positions

Horrible season as expected but GD -52 really shows how bad our team is. The Youth its still very green for this level and we pay the price.

Financially speaking, the club is a sinking boat with amost 2M in red. There is no money to update or invest in things.

After two season this is how my save ends 

 

Edited December 8, 2021 by The7Striker

[Habituz]

Youth Intake Preview + Early Season

2023/2024

South Shields F.C.

 

Not had a much time to play, so only just got to preview

Early Season Update

First few games I struggled with teams starting to just shut up shop, so ended up having to slightly alter my tactic

Ended up speeding tempo, up a bit, and increasing passing range, lowered defensive line a bit to stop the over top goals I was losing to. With Finlay Proctor YP23a from last up date best position being DLP I switched to that from Half Back, tried to overload the right so switch the cm at to mez at and the fb to wb and changed a few team instructions. As you can tell from above its worked pretty good.

 

Finlay Proctor YP23a just got a several month injure but Ross is covering well.

[lewis999]

2nd Season Review 2025/26

League Table

A much better season in terms of more wins, better goal difference and just better performances all round. 4 points off the playoffs which is a big step forward. (6 play off spots and 2nd teams aren't allowed)

 

Another 2 upgrades for the junior coaching which is welcome!

 

The intake preview was promising albeit it was mostly midfielders which is probably our strongest area. We need defenders in truth.

 

 

 

WOW, WHAT AN INTAKE!

Escalona is the standout despite Zwaan being .5* better. This could really push the team on in the next 2-3 seasons. The top 4 are going straight into our first team. Screenshots below!

Zwaan | Escalona | La Rocca | Meefout | Moha

 

 

[RicoFoma]

Season 2 (23/24)

 

So I'm not happy which might confuse some of you if you see the season we just had but... I'm not happy. Because I fear I might get fired next season and my challenge will be over.

 

So yeah, we got promoted on goal difference only and honestly we didn't deserve it. Even in the last game we had a worse xG than our opponent even if only slightly so. Last season I actually would have deserved more points but this season? No idea how this happened, there were so many games we somehow won without being the better team.

 

So now it's going to be  2. Bundesliga and I fear we will be destroyed. Like completely and utterly destroyed and I might be sacked. The reality is, we barely have any good potential players, those we do have hardly ever develop at all, you will see why my youth intake was a complete gutpunsh and my older players are... well getting old and starting to decline. So there is no real hope other than my expertise in creating OP tactics but I'm not even sure this will help me.

 

So let's look at the "Top" Players:

 

 

So Kesim scored 28 goals. I have no idea how, it's probably because he has a tiny bit of pace about him and that's enough to get him into space (which was my strategy) and so he can score. But do you want to see what he can actually do?

 

 

So yeah, that guy who obviously has remained the exact same for 2 years apart from better Off the Ball scored 28. I'll be lucky if he scores 10 in the 2. Bundesliga. He is awful and yet the best striker I have.

Also my chief of defence Langensberg got injured for 4 months and declined heavily so that's also great, now my defence is also bad. There is one positive though:

 

 

Kourouma, who wasn't a factor in season 1, just kept developing against all odds and is now a really useful defender. So maybe there's some hope left yet. However, he is also only 1,82m. And Heber, another CB, is 1,83m. And I have another CB talent who is 1,77m. I'm not even kidding and this shows, high crosses and Target Forwards are absolutely deadly to me, so are set pieces. It's an absolute miracle how I got promoted, never have I felt this overaccomplished.

 

 

So, youth intake:

 

 

Okay so a) it's not great but b) it's far worse than you'd imagine. You see, I have no idea why, I looked at all my staff and nobody was like this but still the personalities ended up being this:

 

 

UNAMBITIOUS MUCH? 

 

So if these players can ever help me, no idea. I will try to mentor them but it's not like I have all these senior players with amazing personalities lying around.

 

So in conclusion, this is scary, very scary even. I hope that I will survive these struggles somehow and when things finally fall into place it will feel so much better but... I doubt it right now. Things just aren't going my way. Well there's one piece of good news, my top prospect from the last intake is the one youth player who is actually improving. He could help in the future, it's in the cards, but there's still some time until he is ready.

 

So, the battle for survival will be on and I can't even make setpieces work for me because my team is small... at least it doesn't get dull!

 

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There is one thing I really want to share. It's this:

 

 

Assefa from Sobradillo is considered the greatest wonderkid in the world. There are other notable things but Sobradillo is 4th division in Spain. While I have made the La Liga playable, that means he was generated in an unplayable league at a super low level club. Just to top things of he is from Ethiopia. I mean how rare and amazing is that? If you want I will follow his career as long as the challenge is still going. I was completely baffled by this.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2032/33 Youth Candidates

No idea, hopefully some will push their way into the first team.

[Reifi]

3 hours ago, The7Striker said:

Ourense CF 2023/2024 ( Second Season)

Season Prev  Finances  Transfers  Squad

 

 

 

Games I  Games II  Past Positions

Horrible season as expected but GD -52 really shows how bad our team is. The Youth its still very green for this level and we pay the price.

Financially speaking, the club is a sinking boat with amost 2M in red. There is no money to update or invest in things.

After two season this is how my save ends 

 

You reckon you'll go again?

[JAwtunes]

My first golden generation of FM22, and the symmetry in positions is a nice bonus for my OCD

[Makoto Nakamura]

2032/33 End of Season Review

It's over, it is finally over. We have been promoted to the 7th tier at the 11th attempt! I guess the player role changes paid off! 

  

    

Overall Best XI

2032/33 Best XI

Jacob Keir (YP1i)

Dennis Lindberg (YP6c) - Steven MacDonald (YP4d) - Ian Mitchell (YP1c) - Andy Ramsay (YP7d)

Lee Thomas

Ben Cook (YP2d) - Ryan Mykyta (YP2c)

Paul Stirling (YP1b)                                            Ewan Spence

Stephen Williamson (YP2b)

[Makoto Nakamura]

This won't save us but hopefully we get some decent players.

[OlivierL]

 

Caledonian Braves - Scotland - Youth Intake - Class 2025

Preview

An intake with 16 elite talents and one with 3 CA stars.. should be a good intake right? It is only a little bit better as the class 2024. a Fairly poor guy but again a lot of negatieve personalities.

Average intake of 37,18 and Determination 8.56 .

 
Grimaldi 25D is our 3 star CA player and Alexandre 25A is our player with highest PA. 

 

Edited December 9, 2021 by OlivierL

[Morpheus13]

 

SC Toulon Season Review 30/31

Table - Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

What a season and I dont really know how we did it, but we gained promotion. We had a huge streak without a loss but still nearly gave it away in the end. Luckily we played the worst team in the league on  the last day and were able to win. But its a huge success even tho I think its too soon and our Squad is nowwhere near ready to compete in League 2. But hopefully Im there long enough, so I dont get fired even if we dont win much. Straight after the season we gained professional status, which should be a huge boost, not only in player developing but also in finances.

The most important players of this season, are without a doubt Junior Koutangouna (27), Jean-Luc Denis (29A) and Pierre Duval (30A). Despite their young age, they really carried the team. Especially having a top keeper helped us alot I think

Intake 31

The preview was ok, even tho with not much depth

The intake itself was nice. Most excited about Youssouf (31A) and Adouane (31B). Arribage (31C) unfortunately has an unambitous personality and I really struggle with them

Again we got a player poached

Next Season

I will fight to stay up, but relegation is by far the most realistic outcome I think.