The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[flyd]

Let's go in Poland:

[Tush]

FK Inter Bratislava - Season 1 (2022/2023)

League Table | Squad / U19 | Club info | Facilities | Finances | Transfers

Season summary:

Glad we managed to survive and I'm sure the next season and the ones that come after will be better and better! Now that I've had the first youth intake it brings depth to the squad as opposed to 11 players that were here when I took charge of the club. It allows me to actually rotate players and not having to field grey generated players when someone is suspended or injured  Regarding finances, it went as expected, a slow decline due to almost no money being invested into football in Slovakia so we will have to heavily rely on new sponsorships and normal+seasonal ticket sales. Down the way getting money from european competitions goes a long way here.

Youth intake notable players:

Ivan Vantruba - AMR | Martin Straka - DL | Marek Nemeth - ST | Mario Kiss - AML

Next season goals:

For now I have to be realistic, so I would very much like to survive again and not get relegated, should be doable. Optimally secure a mid-table finish, we'll see how it goes!

Season

Year

Division

Position

Cup

ECL

EURO

License

Training Fac.

Youth Fac.

Junior Coach

Youth Recr.

Avg attendance

1

2022/2023

Slovak D2

11th

First Round

-

-

-

Below avg

Basic

Average

Fairly basic

511

Edited January 3, 2022 by Tush

[TheWillsy]

South Shields season 3: 2024-25

Unfortunately, a real step backwards this season. Losing our goalkeeper really cost us as our youth keeper wasn't really ready for first team football and he had some poor performances in the first half of the season. We were in the bottom four for nearly the whole season, but pulled away a few weeks before the end with a couple of wins and we scraped over the line and just survived. 

 

Also, we are losing a lot of money due to our high junior coaching and youth recruitment, so unfortunately at the end of the season the board downgraded us back to semi-pro . Our facilities were also downgraded due to technology advancements .

On a positive note, the preview looked really good, 5 stars this time:

And wow, it was great! Our best yet, and much better personalities too. We will be needing these next season, with a couple more first-teamers leaving now we are semi-pro.

Next season could be a real tough one!

[ANGL]

AS ARAPIRAQUENSE - SEASON 4 (2025)

Manager Profile - Transfers - First team Squad 1, 2 - Finances - Club Facilities

 

SERIE B

PROMOTION!! Season started as previous one, getting good results and being in first positions. In mid season we had a bad run which saw us go down to 10th position. Fortunately, good results came again and we were able to win an unexpected promotion. Next year we will be enjoying Serie A, the top tier in Brazil, and even relegation looks sure, at least I will be earning some nice money.

 

CAMPEONATO DE ALAGOAS

Second win in a row, we are slowly becoming the dominant team of the championship.

CAMPEONATO NORDESTE

Made it to Quarter Finals, nice run in our first participation.

COPA DE BRASIL

Embarrasing elimination in the second round.

 

TOP GOALSCORER AND BEST RATED PLAYER - Darlisson (42 & 7.74)

 

YOUTH INTAKE

Really excited about Manoel Pinheiro 4A - a 2.5 star ability player! He will go straight to the first team.  Jean Lucas 4C also looks fine, he will be between first time and reserve team.

 

SAVE SUMMARY

ACADEMY PLAYERS

[OlivierL]

 

Africanos Bragança - Portugal - Youth Intake - Class 2029

Preview

A much better intake with really good personalities and determination. I needed a good DL and i got a good prospect. Also a very good DC and target forward !

 

Antunes 29A and Dos Santos 29D are our two best players from this intake. future DC with a resolute personality and a future Dl with '12' on determination. I think they both can make it. Silva 29B is the third best of this class and could be my future 'resolute' target forward .

Edited January 3, 2022 by OlivierL

[Perre8]

@OlivierL looks like a good intake with some good personalities! nice progress made

#'tketeltje

[XaW]

XaW - Avenir Beggen - Season 2028/29 - BGL Ligue

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We are the Champions! Of Luxembourg, granted, but it's a step on the ladder. This was just a very good and enjoyable season for us. The new defenders really showed up as we only conceded 17 goals in the league this time, and our attackers were are more on point than before. The start to the season was amazing as we won 5-0. 6-0, and 4-0 the first three games. Granted, we lost the next match to Jeunesse d'Esch, but it was a great start. Based on that we should have gotten far away early on, but Fola Esch and Etzella were on us for the most of the season and were relentless for a long time. It was only after Etzella had a a bad finish they dropped back, and we only secured the title with a game to spare. Champions League here we come!

The key player this season is clearly Mathéo Tressy 26a. His record of 10 goals and 21 assists in 30 league games with an average rating of 8.23 is just insane. He is way to good for this nation, but I have him on contract for 3 more seasons at least. A lot of those assists went to Paulo Alves 26f. He is our top scorer and also our only full international. Simão Nova 26k continued his great goalscoring and added 13 more goals to his tally.

Off the pitch, not much happened, but we are finally out of the red financially. And with European money coming in next season, I hope we can get some more improvements done.

Coupe de Luxembourg: We beat Rodange, Stengefort, Una Strassen, and Marisca Mersch to reach the final. Here we beat Jeunesse d'Esch on pens after a nervy 2-2 match to complete the domestic double!

Youth intake:

Still great intakes, but not as prolific as the previous ones.

Guilherme Henriques 29b is a promising left back, needs a bit of pace, but a solid talent.

Flávio Santos 29g could be a future goalkeeper here.

Carlos Kapoco 29h is the one I'm most excited for, some very nice attributes with excellent passing and creativity.

Trophy cabinet

BGL Ligue - 1 (2028/29)
Éierepromotioun - 1 (2024/25)

Coupe de Luxembourg - 2 (2026/27, 2028/29)

[XaW]

The superstar himself have taken Luxembourger citizenship! He might not be good enough for France, but I have no doubts he will rule the Luxembourg national team if he wants! I have a secret hope this means he will stay longer with us!

[GylfiAsCharged]

From Cornish minnows to former European finalists and national champions, I feel like my next starting point gives me a much better chance of success.

FC Carl Zeiss Jena are three-time East German league champions and won four national cups prior to German unification, one of which led them to a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final appearance, losing to Dinamo Tbilisi. 

Club Info - Facilities - Squad

These guys are giants compared to Truro, and I feel quite confident I can establish them in the playable leagues with their current squad, and the "good" youth facilities give me hope for some promising intakes early on. 

Among the existing players, I like the look of Felix Drinkuth up front, while Theodor Bergmann and Berkan Taz look like strong senior players too with some further potential to realise. 

[jepze]

Double post...

Edited January 4, 2022 by jepze

[jepze]

Jepze - Edinburgh College - Season 2026/27

Another season, and this was just a surviral season, where we just need to be in the league for the next season. The goal was claimed, and we got a 8th place, just in he middle of the pack. 35 points up for promotion and 30 down to the relegation. In the cups, we was there, but we didn't get anywhere in the cups, so it was a quite season for us. If we look at the finances, we got around 450K DKK at the start of May 2027. Our debt is 642.515 DKK, where the loan is down to 960K DKK. Halfway through the debt, so hopefully we can start to upgrade our youth things in a couple of years. A just looked at the salary for every club in our league. We're the only amatuer club with 0 DKK pr. year in salary. The second lowest got a salary on 210K DKK pr. year. Let us use some money, when we're not using them on salary!

Squad | Transfer | Finances

The HoyD said, "We are getting a golden generation", for the 5th time in a row. When i looked at the players, i can't find the gold in the generation. Or, this time, we got our best player on the paper, that i have ever got in this club, through the academy.

Ryan Hardie isn't the best player, but he will get a lot of playing time, so he can devolop much better, because i think he got more potential than all the other guys in the club.

Manager statistics

[libbyshuss]

2061/62

Premier League

Season Summary

League - A really strong campaign and it was a 3 horse race up until christmas when we had run of 4 draws in 5 games. We were unbeaten, but Man UTD won all there games and suddenly had a 10 point lead. It was just too much and we couldn't catch it. The draws were the problem, I can't believe how many 2-2 draws we had. We even had a 5-5 at one stage.

Europa League - I just played the reserve team pretty much, I wasn't too bothered about the Europa League.

So obviously we only went and won it!

I did play the first team in the final to be fair, but it was pretty much all second choice XI for the rest of it. Which bodes well, especially as there were around 4 17/18 year olds in that team.

FA Cup - Championship Fulham knocked us out in the 3rd round. D'oh.

 

Players

Branislav Mancic 54A - Absolute star! 52 goals this season in only 42 starts! oh, and....

He won every other indivdua award going as well. Number 1 in the top 50 players of the world list, the works. If I don't complete this challenge with him I don't deserve to!

Charles Khumalo 61A - He might have been only 16 but what the hell, straight into the first team he went. Not a huge surprise he's a wonderkid but I don't think I've ever seen a 16 year old wonderkid before. He did good this season, not brilliant, but he's got better years ahead!

Sekou Kamian 59A - I got fed up with Kovacik at left wing and threw Karmian in at only 18. He was brilliant!

 

Youth

Still a strong point for us!

 

We had another good preview but not quite as good an intake. But still pretty good!

A lot of very nice personalities there, very pleased with that.

 

Wonderkids

So it's been a little barren on the wonderkid front lately but then the top 50 wonderkid list came through and....

Four wonderkids is nice! Khumalo is already officially a wonderkid, Karmian probably will be after his amazing performances this year. The other two are suddenly on my radar after quietly getting on with thei rbusiness in the youth team. Not sure they're actual real wonderkids but they're gonna get more first team chances now anyway!

Career

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 9 – 2030/31 Season Review

The new tactic is working. For one reason or another, something is clicking and I couldn't be more delighted that's the case.

The final table sees us with our joint most points in the 2nd tier so far and finishing in the top half for just the 2nd time in 7 seasons in this division. Progress has well and truly been made.

We were named the overachievers of the season as a result of our 9th place finish.

I was forced to deny interest in both the Sporting CP and Real Sporting jobs.

I've decided that this will be the next variate of my 4-3-1-2 tactic, I feel like that this is getting me the results that I have been longing for.

A successful season where we made progress in the Allianz Cup and secured our best league finish in 5 seasons. For whatever reason, the new tactic once we switched to it just worked wonders.

For a more detailed look at a review of our season, feel free to watch my latest video for a deeper dive into how the season went.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 56

[Daddy]

2023 Youth Intake Preview:

A lot of last seasons intake came out as White Star current ability, so I'm mostly hoping for at least a few 2 star Current ability that will step into backup roles quickly as I have two players retiring and one that's not good enough to start but whining a lot about not starting.

2023 Season - Chile Cup Break:

Came storming out the gate and haven't let up. Really surprising me. We'll see how the form holds, but I'm certainly no longer worried about a relegation battle.

I'd love to push for upgrades to Training and Youth Facilities, but those are pricey and the team hovers in the six figure range balance wise. Average attendance is 7286, which is 2nd in league, but for a 30K stadium there's still room to grow. When that starts doubling then I can push for more.

[ANGL]

We are getting a new stadium: a strange decision, in my opinion, as we were having attendances about 4.300 in a 12.500 capacity stadium... I only hope it doesn't affect much on the finances.

Also, our trainig facilities have gone down to below average... Will wait for money from Serie A TV rights to come in to request some upgrades.

[The7Striker]

Everyone is welcome 

[LazyBandit]

FC Bern Season 3 2026/27

Squad

League Table

Swiss First League Group 2

As expected, our first season in the 4th tier proved to be a bit of a challenge. We stuck to our wing-play tactic this season, to mixed results. There was a definite increase in the talent of our opponents, but we managed to get a few wins against teams in the top half of the table. The fact that we weren't getting completely dominated every week gives me reason to be optimistic. If we can keep building on this we'll be in a good spot.

Intake Preview

This one looks to be our best intake yet which is nice. I'm really just looking for players who can already step into the first team.

Intake

Now we're getting somewhere! At least three players who could immediately join the starting XI, and a few who can come off the bench. We also finally got a left back in Marcel Jeannin, which I'm most excited about. I would've loved to have seen some better personalities, but overall I'm very happy with this intake. I believe the upgrade to our junior coaching is beginning to show off.

Florent Bunjaku - Marcel Jeannin - Diego Vandel - Jean-François Thibault

We added Croatia, France, and Nigeria in this intake.

Countries: 16/227 (7.05%) - Intake Map

Conclusion

I'd say this was a pretty good first season at this level. Thanks to our upgrades last season we we're able to increase the overall level of our squad. We still desperately need a striker, and our defense is starting to fall behind a little bit. The board also refuses to allow me to study for a new coaching license, despite letting every other coach do it. We're also starting to see our finances drop, but that can attributed to upgrading our junior coaching.

 

[fries]

Sky Bet Championship

2036/37 (season 15)

Season Summary

YESSSS!!!! What a season! We managed to gain promotion to Premier League!!!!!
With 1 game remaining the fight was close. We were placed 2nd and "just" needed as many points as Barnsley and Middlesbrough in the last game of the season.

And so we did:




Ferguson was again our best player and also the best player in the league with the highest average rating with 7.53. He also scored 11 goals. Ahmad was again topscorer, with 24 goals, while he also had most assists with 11. Acheampong had a great season in the goal too. However when he was away with the national team to play the African Nation Cup I withdrawed my second choice keeper from loan and he played 4 games with 4 clean sheets.

Milby (with his throw ins), Thomas, and Mooney (who I retrained from M(C) to D(C) in the beginning of the season) all three had a great season in the defence too.

A big reason for my success this year was the "new" depth in my team. In the last two seasons Foukas, Gough, Caton, Langley, Mooney and Dunbar have succecsfully returned from loans. For the first time I had some rotation options this season. While all my players have some kind of routine too, where no first team member are younger than 20.

An honorable mention is Calderwood who will leave after the season with 462 league games for the club. He is just not good enough anymore, wanted to leave and I have some better young prospects out on loan on his position.

As Acheampong, Ferguson and Ahmad are my three star players and maybe the only ones capable of playing on a Premier League team I will present them here:

Acheampong took over the goalkeeper position in League One when he was just 18. If I remeber correctly his CA was only 1.5 stars. However he has developed very well and had 18 clean sheets in this season.


Ahmad have been a starter since he came through the youth intake in the National League. He has now played 381 league games resulting in 183 goals. I use him primarily as a striker, but he also sometimes cover the right wing. 



Ferguson has also been a starter since he came through in the same season as Ahmed. He has now played 408 league games. He has been chosen as the Player of the Year for my team 6 times!



My preview was mixed with 5 stars, but only 1 A.

But my intake was just okay with some great talents. However only Prior have a not bad personality.

Before the season we sold Wilby to Everton for £8 mill. He was a only 18 but not really a starter. They paid the release clause fee which was not possible to remove from his contract. I made of course no incoming transfers but we had a lot of outgoing loans. 

Finances and Upgrades

After the sale of Wilby, the board agreed to upgrade the youth facilities and training facilities. My youth level was upgraded to level 1 before this season.
Still no plans about expanding Broadhurst Park but we are moving to Turf Moor in Burnley to play in the Premier League next season. Why couldn't they find a stadium in Manchester we could rent?

With the money coming from the Premier League I think we will soon max out the facilities. We should be one upgrade away from max youth facilities and a few for max training facilities

[Vespertine]

Ton Pentre - 2026/27

I lost to Swansea Uni 5-0 on game week 28. If we'd lost 4-0 we'd have got promoted on goals scored. I think this is the closest I've ever come to a promotion on any edition on FM and ended up not making it. It was a close race all season and we were either first or second every week the whole way. As gutting as it is this is a huge improvement from my first four seasons and Swansea Uni are far better than the team coming down, if we don't lose anyone we should hopefully make up it next time around.

A good run in the cup beating two Premier League sides before getting thumped 4-0 at Brickfield. I use the League Cup as more a of a fitness exercise as rounds 1 & 2 are pre season so no shame in losing to Haverfordwest who went on to qualify for Europe.

 

I was very lucky with injuries and suspensions meaning I could largely field the same 11 in a lot of games, with Foulston, Davidson & Pike ever present and Powell & Rose only missing one game each through suspension. I spent a lot of the season offering new amateur contracts to Foulston and Davidson to fight off interest from other clubs in our division, hopefully I'll be able to keep them at least one more year to boost our promotion push.

Youth Intake

It was so bad I didn't even screenshot it and no-one was signed from this intake.

Admin

 

Finances have been largely stable throughout the 5 years have we only have youth contracts and matchday fees to pay players.

 

Next season's update will no doubt be longer, I needed to get this one out quickly and carry on playing after missing out on promotion how I did.

[jepze]

Just considered to quit Scotland and try another nation, because the debt the chairman took for something on the stadium cost a loan. The finances is good, but they are not willing to use the money. I have tried to ask for junior coaching and youth recriument up to 20 times, and they say no every time... I tried a last time, before i'll try something else, but I got this message this time :-)

 

[aldojags]

10 hours ago, GylfiAsCharged said:

From Cornish minnows to former European finalists and national champions, I feel like my next starting point gives me a much better chance of success.

FC Carl Zeiss Jena are three-time East German league champions and won four national cups prior to German unification, one of which led them to a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final appearance, losing to Dinamo Tbilisi. 

Club Info - Facilities - Squad

These guys are giants compared to Truro, and I feel quite confident I can establish them in the playable leagues with their current squad, and the "good" youth facilities give me hope for some promising intakes early on. 

Among the existing players, I like the look of Felix Drinkuth up front, while Theodor Bergmann and Berkan Taz look like strong senior players too with some further potential to realise. 

Good luck, I am doing Jena just now in a road to glory save (only allowing myself to sign players!) Drinkuth and Bergman were great for me in my first season but I lost Bergman on a bosman so get him signed him! Will be following your progress!

 

 

3 hours ago, fries said:

Sky Bet Championship

2036/37 (season 15)

Season Summary

YESSSS!!!! What a season! We managed to gain promotion to Premier League!!!!!
With 1 game remaining the fight was close. We were placed 2nd and "just" needed as many points as Barnsley and Middlesbrough in the last game of the season.

And so we did:




Ferguson was again our best player and also the best player in the league with the highest average rating with 7.53. He also scored 11 goals. Ahmad was again topscorer, with 24 goals, while he also had most assists with 11. Acheampong had a great season in the goal too. However when he was away with the national team to play the African Nation Cup I withdrawed my second choice keeper from loan and he played 4 games with 4 clean sheets.

Milby (with his throw ins), Thomas, and Mooney (who I retrained from M(C) to D(C) in the beginning of the season) all three had a great season in the defence too.

A big reason for my success this year was the "new" depth in my team. In the last two seasons Foukas, Gough, Caton, Langley, Mooney and Dunbar have succecsfully returned from loans. For the first time I had some rotation options this season. While all my players have some kind of routine too, where no first team member are younger than 20.

An honorable mention is Calderwood who will leave after the season with 462 league games for the club. He is just not good enough anymore, wanted to leave and I have some better young prospects out on loan on his position.

As Acheampong, Ferguson and Ahmad are my three star players and maybe the only ones capable of playing on a Premier League team I will present them here:

Acheampong took over the goalkeeper position in League One when he was just 18. If I remeber correctly his CA was only 1.5 stars. However he has developed very well and had 18 clean sheets in this season.


Ahmad have been a starter since he came through the youth intake in the National League. He has now played 381 league games resulting in 183 goals. I use him primarily as a striker, but he also sometimes cover the right wing. 



Ferguson has also been a starter since he came through in the same season as Ahmed. He has now played 408 league games. He has been chosen as the Player of the Year for my team 6 times!



My preview was mixed with 5 stars, but only 1 A.

But my intake was just okay with some great talents. However only Prior have a not bad personality.

Before the season we sold Wilby to Everton for £8 mill. He was a only 18 but not really a starter. They paid the release clause fee which was not possible to remove from his contract. I made of course no incoming transfers but we had a lot of outgoing loans. 

Finances and Upgrades

After the sale of Wilby, the board agreed to upgrade the youth facilities and training facilities. My youth level was upgraded to level 1 before this season.
Still no plans about expanding Broadhurst Park but we are moving to Turf Moor in Burnley to play in the Premier League next season. Why couldn't they find a stadium in Manchester we could rent?

With the money coming from the Premier League I think we will soon max out the facilities. We should be one upgrade away from max youth facilities and a few for max training facilities

Great season - that goalkeeper is incredible!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2050/51 End of Season Review

A mixed end to the season but we came close to meeting expectations, we're still nowhere near as good as we were a couple of seasons ago.

  

  

Overall Best XI

2050/51 Best XI

Gavin Ballard (YP24n)

Lyall Gerrard (YP23i) - Jacob McIntyre (YP26k) - Chris Smith (YP24e) - Ryan Whelan (YP27b)

Wayne Sheran (YP27d)

David McNeil (YP23f) - Ryan McConnachie (YP27g)

Jack Denholm (YP26m)                                                                    Nicky Morrison (YP27f)

Georgi Petrov (YP23e)

[fries]

41 minutes ago, aldojags said:

Great season - that goalkeeper is incredible!

Thanks!

Just rejected an offer from Man Utd and had to triple his wage to keep him happy.

[OlivierL]

INTRO | S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | S5 | S6

Africanos Bragança - Portugal - Season 7 (2028/2029) Review - 2nd tier - Liga Portugal 2 SABSEG

 

Squad| Youth Intake 29 | Transfers | Finances| Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2

Liga Portugal 2 : Never really got into trouble and very satisfied with our final position in the league. Hopefully I can repeat this next year. 

Taça de Portugal: Lost again the third round against Sp.Braga

Taça De Liga - Allianz Cup: I have made it to the group stage and that is where you can make some money (prize money or playing at a bigger club with shared gate receipts. I received some good money after play at Sp.Braga (7627 att.) and at home against Sporting CP in the stadium of my rivals Bragança , for 2086 people.

U19 : Our U19 finished 11th in the 1st tier and had to play the relegation stage. They got relegated back to 2nd tier.

Key Players

 

And again Graça and Pereira as our two key players.

Academy graduate with most Appearances (This season)

Veiga 27G played the most games and is a really important defender for us. He is the first player that received a Cape Verde call-up but he could be next one that leaves for free.. i have him for one (+2 option) years but he wants to move to a bigger club.

Miscellaneous & Finances

New kits after our second promotion. MEO is a mobile and fixed telecommunications service and brand from Altice Portugal, managed by MEO - Serviços de Comunicações e Multimédia. The service was piloted in Lisbon in 2006 and was later extended to Porto and Castelo Branco. And now in Bragança .

No upgrades this season.

We got a new chairman but he promised not to do anything special.  Our finances remain a major problem. I am well below the wage budget but still in the red.  

Board seems happy with 1.2m in red..

Aim for next season

I am bringing in three promising players who should lift our level and i can keep everyone except our top striker Evora 25J. He wants to go to a bigger club for two seasons and I could not extend him any longer. he is leaving us on a free transfer.

Cape Verde Watch

National Team | U23 Squad | U20 Squad

Cape Verde lost in the second round of the Africa Cup of Nations 2029

MVP Cape Verdean International

Season Facts

Edited January 9, 2022 by OlivierL

[Vespertine]

11 Games left and it's even closer than it was last season... the thought of losing out on goal difference again doesn't bear thinking about.

[Tush]

Guys are you able to field 15 year olds in your leagues? In my slovakian save I have to wait until they turn 16 for them to be viable for a league match, so I was wondering what the rules are elsewhere

[Tush]

Probably the best training performance I've ever seen, I don't even use custom training but let my staff set it (although I really should finally take the time to learn more about setting up training myself to be more efficient and develop players better, especially in this challenge) 

 

Also much better start of the season, honestly surprised we are doing this well, I can only hope the form and high morale keeps this run going! Maybe we will have a chance at getting promoted early on through playoffs

Edited January 5, 2022 by Tush

[jepze]

Jepze - Edinburgh College - Season 2027/28

Another year, another survavial and another youth intake. This year, we're in the middle of the pack again. It was also the year, where we finally got better junior coaching and youth recriutment. We're nearly on positiv in the finances, if you substract our loan from our balance. 1 more year, and we can pay all of our bank loan, if we want to. It doesn't be the year, where we got semi prof, so i'll still giving new contracts to a lot of players in the transfer windows. I think my best players signs around 3-4 contracts with us every transfer window, so i hope i can start to give some real contracts with a contract length, so i don't need to use the transfer windows on offering new contracts every day to our players. Last day of the season, our youth facilities got downgraded...

Squad | Transfer | Finances

The HoyD said, "We are getting a golden generation", this time there was some quality to go into the starting XI rigth now, so i'll think, this is the best intake i've got in alle the years.

Chirg Hammond is the best one. He looks like a good CM on a DLP, and he already got some starting spots. He is as good as our second best CM, Next season, he will get a lot more game time, and hopefully secure his spot on the CM for a couple of years. If we only looks at stars, he is our 5th best player in the club.

Alan Tait is the second one, i'll going to show. He looks like a fine AML. We're weak at the ML right now, and he's as good as our best ML, so we will be circulating around playing a ML and a AML tactic. We got 2 good MR, where one of them can play ML, so he will not get as much game time as Hammond in the first "real" season for us.

Manager statistics

[XaW]

9 hours ago, Tush said:

Guys are you able to field 15 year olds in your leagues? In my slovakian save I have to wait until they turn 16 for them to be viable for a league match, so I was wondering what the rules are elsewhere

I can use whatever in Luxembourg, but in France I also had to wait until 16.

[Makoto Nakamura]

Looks like we're only getting strikers this year.

[Vespertine]

Ton Pentre  - 2027/28

We weren't quite a match for the top teams this year and ended up finishing 5th, though we were right in it up until losing to eventual champions Port Talbot in game week 29. The gap between the better sides and the rest of the league is growing with us consistently beating the bottom teams now, however two defeats each to Port Talbot and Ammanford ultimately cost us in the end. I'm a little concerned we've plateaued as without the money for improvements the players coming through are no better than what we have, but that's two seasons in a row now we've been close so if I can squeeze a little more out of this team before the non-academy projects get too old I'm hoping we can get over the line soon.

 

 

Our best run in the League Cup ended with a close 1-0 defeat in the Semis to Premier League Llandudno. I foolishly rested a few for what I thought would be an easy 3rd round game against Penparcau and paid the price with a 1-0 loss after our centre half decided to lunge straight through the back of their striker in the third minute and consequently see red. My assistant doesn't overly rate Dean Pike but his numbers speak for him, coming out as top scorer in all three competitions for the second season running.

A very similar look to last year as we were again lucky with injuries meaning five ever presents this season including both of our prolific front two who bagged 40 goals between them. A couple of this years intake look better than what we had last campaign so will probably join up with the squad last season, but promotion is currently the main aim so I won't be looking at too much rotation for the time being if I can avoid it.

 

Youth Intake

Better than recent years with Trueman the one most likely to trouble the first team in the near future. The reports still suggest that despite the 5* potential these lads aren't going to be any better than the youngsters I already have in the first team, though that would make sense as we haven't managed any upgrades so far. I did have three players poached this season including one who had 1 gold star potential on the poached screen (around 100 PA I believe?) so will be interesting to see what they look like when they do come through at their new teams.

Admin

Lost a little more than I would have liked this season but nothing terminal, though I will be looking at our bloated u19s squad over the summer and trimming some of those who aren't going to make it. Harrison Cook left us on a free for league winners Port Talbot, he was actually one of the better players we've had come through just nowhere near the level of our first team keeper Foulston.

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by Vespertine

[XaW]

My young 17 year old centre back just got his debut for Luxembourg in a 3-3 match against Gibraltar and he scored!

[craigcwwe]

13 hours ago, Tush said:

Guys are you able to field 15 year olds in your leagues? In my slovakian save I have to wait until they turn 16 for them to be viable for a league match, so I was wondering what the rules are elsewhere

I'm playing in Portugal and can field 15yo players in competitive games. 

[XaW]

XaW - Avenir Beggen - Season 2029/30 - BGL Ligue

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Well, we couldn't retain the title, but I just have to applaud Etzella with their season, it's just an amazing season from them. We had a rough start as we struggled with fitness during the European qualifiers, so we drew 6 of our first 9 matches. From then on, we had a good season and after a while we caught up with Etzella, but in the end they edged it when we drew a few matches towards the end. Still a very good season by us though, and we are going into Europe again next season.

Mathéo Tressy 26a is still our main player, and still is the main creative outlet for the team. He usually tees up Paulo Alves 26f to score goals, and their partnership was really good this season too. Further back Tomislav Jakupovic 28h is the king of our defense.

We made some money this season and we got improvements done on both our facilities, so things are moving in the right direction.

Coupe de Luxembourg: We beat Dudelange and Victoria Rosport before we lost to Fola Esch in the quarter final.

Champions League: Our first go in the CL was a short one as we got a hard draw against Maccabi Haifa of Israel and unsurprisingly lost and got knocked out in the 1st qualifying round.

Europa Conference League: It did put us into the Europa Conference League and we managed to beat Flora Tallin of Estonia, FK Sarajevo of Bosnia Herzegovina, and Sutjeska Nikšić of Montenegro to suddenly be in the group stage! Here we drew English gargantuans Tottenham, CSKA-Sofia of Bulgaria, and Luzern of Switzerland. The money was the best part as we lost all matches and finished rock bottom!

Youth intake:

We got in one insane player, and a few others with some potential.

Ricardo Batista 30a is a pretty good winger.

Pradeep Ali 30d might be the best Indian player of all times! Going to tie him down for as long as possible and hold on for deal life!

Trophy cabinet

BGL Ligue - 1 (2028/29)
Éierepromotioun - 1 (2024/25)

Coupe de Luxembourg - 2 (2026/27, 2028/29)

[Tilling]

Spoiler

Spoliers ahead!

The wonderful GBrexiton sent this to me in relation to FM21 back in May - it likely wont be up to date for FM22 but in case you're thinking of a club to start with, this might be helpful as a good indicator for clubs with relatively decent facilities!

Edited January 5, 2022 by XaW
Added spoiler tag

[XaW]

@Tilling - I put that into a spoiler-tag, so people who don't want to know the underlying numbers don't have to see it.  

[The7Striker]

15 horas atrás, Tush disse:

Guys are you able to field 15 year olds in your leagues? In my slovakian save I have to wait until they turn 16 for them to be viable for a league match, so I was wondering what the rules are elsewhere

In Bulgaria i can use 15 yo.

But if i remember from last year save in Croatia, there you have to wait until they turn 17 to play them.

[DrJones]

Recreativo de Huelva 2029/2030 review

The champions of Spain is Recreativo de Huelva! What a season we had, we started of poorly by losing to Real Madrid in the first fixture but after that we were a andalusian machine. The whole spring I expected us to slip up somewhere but we managed to keep it together game after game. The last match was a real nail biter and I wonder if anyone with a Huelva heart had any fingers left after the first half when we were 0-1 down to already relegated Zaragoza. Luckily we have Abderrahmane Bachiri 26D who equalised early in the second half and then Pablo Bejarano 27F scored the winning goal on a penalty in the 80th minute. To be honest Real Madrid got a better squad than us but the other teams are not very impressing.

Champions League/ Europa League

Due to the amazing run in the league and our chances to win the whole thing I decided early on to play the reserves and youngsters in champions league and Europa league. Especially in Europa league where I actually just wanted to lose so the team could focus on the La Liga title.

Squad

Key Players

What a season this guy had, 23 clean sheets in the league and some amazing games where he kept us in the title race.

The only left back in our squad so he gets a lot of minutes every week, due to the full attack system I have implemented he is one of the few players that actually got a defending role even though I am pretty sure he would be better if we let him run like mad man aswell.

The absolute star of this team. 4 goals and 15 assists as a right back, I am lost for words.

Without a good striker you do not stand a chance of winning the league. Pablo showed what he is capable of this season but I think the best is yet to come.

Youth Intake

The worst intake we had since I joined but who cares?

Vamos Recre!

 

[fries]

My favorite player, Armstrong, has now scored a goal and assisted a goal on every profesional level in England. Has something like this ever happened in the real world?

[The7Striker]

Chernomorets 1919 Burgas 2022/2023 Season

Finances  Facilities  Transfers  Squad

 

Welcome the fourth biggest city in Bulgaria, welcome to Burgas, located on the shores of the Black Sea, the city is the home of Chernomorets 1919 Burgas former known as PSFC Chernomorets Burgas.

The club is in a good shape due to some nice sponsorship. Facilities are good for this level, but i dont think they can improve much more, not with this balance.

Oh boy, 10 player. This going to be fun 

 

Vtora Liga

Season Prev  Games I  Games II  Past Positions

Despite our prediction to finish 14th, we got a quiet 12th place. There was no rest for anyone 

Everytime we had an injury or a suspended player we struggle a bit to grab at least a draw

 

Kupa Na Bulgariya

We fulfilled what the board intended but it was not an easy draw against Arda.

 

Key Players

Its safe to say this two were our best players. Dinev is a prospect from the 2021/2022 season and Dimitrov was the beast with this:

 

Youth Intake 

At this point i dont trust the stars but at least we have some options for the next season. Grey players will still be in the team 

Nikolov and Tonozilev look like the most promissing ones but i guess everyone will have game time to develop. Not the best personalities but I hope to solve that 

 

And thats all folks! 

Edited January 5, 2022 by The7Striker

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 10 – 2031/32 Season Preview

Much to my surprise (or perhaps not surprising) our pre-season odds look much better than I can remember it ever being. Perhaps it's due to Álvaro Leal being at the club, but the fact we're predicted to finish in mid-table this season is rather nice.

Much to my surprise we offered an interview by AZ at the beginning of the season, which I obviously turned down to stay at Beira-Mar.

Still, we went over the squad a little bit and played our first game of the season in my latest video against Gil Vicente. Did we beat them though? 

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 57

[Daddy]

somehow the pants got out of sync with the kits so they're off slightly. Naturally I catch this on the game I win the league.

2023 Season Review:

Absolutely stomped the league. Completely unexpected. I thought maybe there was a shot at sneaking in to playoffs, but it was clear early we were winning the league.

Records and Awards:

I think we ended on a 25 game undefeated streak as well.

Transfers:

No sales, but two players retired at end of season.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯:

Thanks Missy.

2022 Youth Intake:

No one jumping into the first team, and the bottom half I didn't even sign.

2023 Season Preview:

Not terribly fancied to do well, but I'm more optimistic. I've played a few first division teams in the Chile Cup and have defeated some teams and held my own against others. I believe will avoid relegation.

Goal is 14th or better.

Hopefully I did the pants right this time!

[Sanno11]

Denbigh Town F.C - Season Summary 2032-2033

Squad | Finance | Transfers | Facilities

JD Cymru Premier

I think I am confident now that we are in a league of our own when it comes to second place. This was another year where we comfortably held on to 2nd place. TNS appear to be getting stronger. we managed to inflict their only defeats this season, they didn't even draw a game. It is a little silly and is getting demoralising. I know what I signed up in going to Wales, but it feels like we are years and years away from an actual title challenge. We saw good performances from some of the new lads. Dion Goodridge (32a) had a good debut season, scoring 17 goals in all competitions, he is only 16, so I need to be realistic in how much expect from him. Lee Hughes (31a) had a brilliant season, scoring 26 and 10 assists, he is the star man of the team.

 

Euro Cup II

We actually managed to get top the group stage, on our 10th attempt. we made it. The money from just getting there is incredible. We are miles away from being competitive against teams like that, but a 2-1 home win against AZ in the opener got my hopes up. I don't expect us to make every year, but once every few would be enough for now.

 

Welsh Cup

This season saw us reach the final of the Welsh Cup and the Nathaniel MG memorial cup, TNS were the other finalist in both competitions and their fans will be pleased they managed the treble again. That makes it three runner up medals for the season.

 

Youth Intake

I have to be pleased with the current ability of several of these players, their personalities are disappointing though. Levi Halliwell (33c) is my favourite of this bunch and he will be in the first team next season.

Jake Pearce (33a)

Giles Marks (33b)

Levi Halliwell (33c)

 

Club Overview

Even with more money than ever before, our board still dislike improving our junior coaching. They did however give into me when I insisted on upgrading our youth facilities and youth recruitment. We continue to get a little better each year and I can't complain about that.

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by Sanno11

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Youth Intake 2032

A very poor intake and the first for my new HOYD. I signed a really good HOYD from Hamburg after the intake preview, so I will give him a pass on that. The only clear positive is Lorenzo de Man, who is a talented full back that can use both legs. He is Dutch, so our connection with ADO Den Haag in the Netherlands is paying off! 

 

Edit: First week after signing contracts, two of our best intake players got injured for three months. This intake just gets better and better! 

         

Edited January 10, 2022 by thomas_e

[Makoto Nakamura]

3 hours ago, fries said:

My favorite player, Armstrong, has now scored a goal and assisted a goal on every profesional level in England. Has something like this ever happened in the real world?

Gary Hooper!  

[Tilling]

5 hours ago, XaW said:

@Tilling - I put that into a spoiler-tag, so people who don't want to know the underlying numbers don't have to see it.  

Good thinking - my bad!

[XaW]

18 minutes ago, Tilling said:

Good thinking - my bad!

No worries.  

[Makoto Nakamura]

2051/52 Youth Candidates

I like this intake, both Baylee and Wayne are as good as starting striker Georgi Petrov from day one!

[libbyshuss]

1 hour ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

Gary Hooper!  

good call!

Closes I could think of was Jamie Vardy but I think he missed out on League 2 or something 

[Makoto Nakamura]

6 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

good call!

Closes I could think of was Jamie Vardy but I think he missed out on League 2 or something 

Vardy missed out on both League One and League Two, going from Fleetwood Town in the Conference to Leicester in the Championship.