The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[libbyshuss]

4 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

Will those players get another face after every time I generate them ?

Not if you change the mode to 'preseve'. That makes sure all those players you already gave faces to keep the same faces. It's the worst thing remembering to change the mode every time, i'm so paranoid i'll forget one time.

Not done staff yet, not sure why not. I might start but weirdly i've never been that bothered about their faces!

Edited October 30, 2021 by libbyshuss

[WhiteCat33]

RAAL La Louviere - Belgian Pro League A (Season 6)

League Performance

So I definitely underestimated how dreadful the bottom 1/3 of Pro A is as we came in 10th with a 11-12-11 record which is not even close to the guaranteed regulation the media seems to think we deserve. The two players to step it up was Julle Kiala 26b my 6'5" CB who fully filled in for our lost star and pulled off 6 near-post corner goals with his height this season. The second surprise was Rene Jehl 25e who began the season just okay, but his development has been exponential with multiple months with full +1 attribute buffs. He also has 20 aggression but managed to only get 5 yellows so that was a pleasant surprise. He's much better defensively than my lost star, which was crucial for us. A little point of pride was our first season up we finished ahead of Antwerp who the board forced 2 sales to in earlier seasons. Francis Lebrun even came on against us off the bench. Another team that did well was RKC Waalwijk who secured promotion into Eredivisie so there is no cap on Makengo's next sale. He's also become a staple on the U-21 team, so I'm hoping for one of the big guys comes and spends for him as we'll get 50% of that fee.

 

     

Also I chuckled when I saw our Passing performance in the league. Tiki-Taka skew this so hard. Also I hate how the Data Hub resets when you advance a league. Annoying to re-add everything.

Reminds me I've never shown my tactic, this is what I've been running all save:

Youth Network Upgrades

Unsurprisingly the Board has rated me an A+ for my management this season. And with that confidence I got some much delayed improvements to the club. Now we have Excellent JR coaching (+2) and Average Recruitment (+1). We are still broke so no training upgrades. The biggest boon though for youth intake was the Board let me pick our affiliate club. And I found a gem affiliate in Slovakia: Senica. And by the end of the season that scouting & loan link was re-negotiated so so now I have a serious presence in Slovakia! Also this will be perfect for developing my 18-21 year olds just not first team capable as since the league isn't loaded the team only has 7 players so anyone I send there should get loads of matches and still have a full professional training regimen.

   

Youth Intake

We got a great preview this year, which had me excited on the possible center of the park improvements it promised. Note the Lots of strikers but no promise...

They lied. We got two strikers who will be swapping with each other for first team with Awesome Personalities. Honestly the rest are just going into the youth team for development especially all the bad personalities there. I really need to swap out my HYOD but he is so much cheaper than any that would be an improvement. I pay him 73k a year. For the talent he's pulling in that's money well spent. To get a good personality with his other stats looks to be 350k+ and we still need to pinch every penny till big sponsors start coming in.

Wang Siyuan 28b our second nationality Chinese striker has Perfectionist with 16 acceleration already with acceptable additional stats so he will be hands down faster than anyone else on my team. Then we have the taller Didier Gailard 28a who already has better finishing than my current striker with Mercenary. I forget exactly what that denotes but I thought its just low loyalty and then high range on the rest. Anyways this is perfect timing as my 30 year old legacy striker broke his foot at the end of the season so I'm expecting a steep decline when he returns.

 

 

Manager Thoughts

What I thought was going to be a stressful season was a true pleasure. We pulled off upsets against the top teams with wins and draws while still having the classic head scratching losses with lower teams. I don't see how we will ever get relegated with that at the bottom of the league. What's cool about Pro A is the ECL is actually a playoff round with teams 5-8. So next year the goal is to make it just that bit higher to try and win a European spot. These new strikers will be so helpful for achieving that. 

Edited October 30, 2021 by WhiteCat33

[Elsjorro]

Season 2026-2027:

Another season in the books. At this point im up to date again with the game, so let's see if i can keep up this time. 

 

Transfers:

 

So first season after promotion is allways a hard one. But we managed just fine tbh. Never in any trouble and that mostly came because Gega scored at the right moments and Eroglu gave a decent amount of goals and assists to. I am worried im gonna lose them though, Eroglu only has 1 year left and he doesnt wants to sign a new contract. Ill just keep him and try my best, cause after getting like 8/9 millies prizemoney, the money aint the issue. We also improved our youth development and scouting.

 

 

Stats:

 

 

Preview time, as earlier mentioned, we had a banger of a preview. I reckon they dont get much better:

 

 

That intake comes:

 

 

It is a bit meh tbh. I dont see the VC talents tbh, Ostrowski aint that special. But Ross and Bogdan might make it in the team rather sooner then later. 

 

Ross:

 

Bogdan:

Forro, i think he wil get a spot to. My coaches dont see it, but i got a thing for him. 

 

Most apps Newgen: Eroglu (75)

 

Most goals Newgen: Gega ( 25)

[Nottingham Forest]

Have never known it to be this tough. Nothing works tactically and I’m unsure whether I have the ability to get through a season.

[Rizz0therat]

Season 2 - 2023/24

Transfers - Youth Intake

A real improvement this season, went much more attacking and my striker started scoring loads.  Annoyingly lost in the first playoff leg agains't East Fife after doing quite well agains't them all season and having much high xG in both games. Went all the way to the 5th Round of the cup and managed to draw Rangers, but unfortunately at home so missed out on a fortune. Our finances are surprisingly good still though. 

My goalkeepers managed to get another work permit so I didn't have to use a 15 year old which was nice. I had a really good youth intake too.

My favourite is Ryan King, who is basically Roy Keane but if he was a bit taller and couldn't tackle, an aggressive work horse with 19 determination. Overall great mentals for his age. Scored an absolute banger for me already too.

Archie Todd is a decent looking striker, great mentals and 15 determination too, unfortunately a bit of a midget so not ideal for my current setup with a lone striker but will try to get him involved.

Besart Ramadani is my second Kosovan, I'm not sure why because I have no Kosovans working at the club, maybe a previous HoTD influencing the system. Again 16 determination and finally a semi decent play who can play full back, which is handy because my current Winger turned rightback is very unhappy at the club and I've been getting bids for him.

Kenny Robertson is a two footed play I am going to play at AMC, 16 technique and 15 flair is a good base to build from, low determination though.

Year

League

Predicted

Finished

Betfred Cup

Scottish Cup

Tunnock's Cup

Top Goal Scorer

Most Assists

Fans POTS

Young POTS

Training Fac

Youth Fac

Junior Coach

Youth Rec

Badges

Av Attendance

Season Tickets

Finances

2022/23

Scottish League 2

9th

5th

4th Round

1st Round

Blair Henderson 10

Sam Newman 11

Daniel Baur

Daniel Baur

Adequate

Adequate

Good

Adequate

Nat C & B

338

86 (£94)

£85,960

2023/24

Scottish League 2

8th

3rd

Group stage

5th Round

2nd Round

Blair Henderson 36

Cammy Russell 14

Daniel Baur

Chris Inglis

Adequate

Adequate

Good

Adequate

Nat A & Cont C & B

574

89 (£94)

£136,388

 

 

 

Edited October 30, 2021 by Rizz0therat

[Pauldinho7]

Beira Mar youth intake 27/28 season might just have given me the striker that will provide the goals to get us to the big time and beyond and the centre back who will stop them (Sousa and Galinier):

[Makoto Nakamura]

We're finally getting a goalkeeper!!!

[Ronaldo Beckham]

FC United Season 3 Review

Another mid table finish this season. Not much in progression but more about consistency.

I would like to get into the play offs next season. 

Another solid season for Keaton Mulvey with 21 goals for the season.

Micheal Donahue was amazing for me with 10 goals and 18 assists. 

 

 

I had 4 players get 10 goals or more for the season with Curtis Main and Regan Linney joining Mulvey and Donahue with the goalscoring.

I got 2 players from the youth system that are already first team regulars with Tony Morton being a rock solid central defender and Yeray who only got 5 goals from 25 games but he has a bright future at the club.

I am hoping these 2 are in the team as I progress up the leagues.

I am slowly upgrading facilities, youth recruitment and junior coaching with my limited funds.

Transfers

[keeper#1]

Nantwich Town 2023-24 Season Review - Vanarama North

Fixtures 1, 2, 3, 4: A deep FA Cup run to help our bank balance.  That deep cup run caused a dip in league form.  We were able to rebound once February rolled around and we weren't playing two matches every week.  

League Table: Even with our December dip, there was no way we were catching Kidderminister and Fylde who both scored over 100 points.  3rd place was going to be the best we could finish.

Playoff: Fylde and Nantwich earned the two opening round byes.  Boston United helped us by upsetting Fylde in the semifinals while we took care of business against Spennymoor.  We had an epic against Boston United.  2-2 after regulation.  Boston United took a 3-2 lead in extra time.  We tied it at 119 minute mark.  Boston had a goal disallowed in stoppage time.  The first eight penalty kicks were all made.  Cameron Terry makes a clutch stop on the 5th Boston kick.  We make ours and we win the playoff, 5-4, on penalty kicks.

xG General Performance      xG Attacking     xG Defending     xG Table

Stats     Team Leaders

Transfers

Youth Intake 1     Youth Intake 2     Youth Intake DNA     Lewis Eldridge 24A     Alberto 24B     Tony Henderson 24C     Llyr Freeman 24D     Mathew Dysart 24E

U18 League Table

Almanac

Edited October 31, 2021 by keeper#1

[The Gold Guard]

OFK Beograd - Year 6 (2027/28)

Tables 1 | Tables 2 | Squad | Season XI | Overall XI

Karma. Bloody Karma. All those players poached from me, and they have all been sent to the second tier. Sorry for the pettiness but FK Vozdovac got relegated via playoff and it is much more sweet than bitter of a feeling.
If you have followed my journey so far, you would know that they have poached countless of my prospects, and they will now definitely have to leave me alone for quite a while.

I decided to let Nemanja Pjevic (22C) go at the end of the season as he did not want to entertain contract talks and I knew I had someone special in Zoran Apostolovic (25E) to take charge.
A great choice on my behalf because in my opinion - we are better off. Maybe not so much for Pjevic because he got relegated with his new club. We even banged 4 goals past him on his first return.

Beside that, all I can really say is the table reflected much better on how we play than last year.
We had a lot more youngsters step up and I think the loans last year definitely helped them blood-in to my squad

Transfers | Finances | Affiliate

Now that we are part of the Superliga furniture, the board aren’t so jolty when a transfer offer comes through. More trust is put into me, and I can splash the cash on contracts to keep my prized possessions.
Finances are looking good, investing well into the youth, and keeping my assets for as long as I can and squeeze cash out of them through loans. It pays off as it gives experience and sometimes profit.

Now that Serbia has joined the EU this season, there has been development now from the board that they have negotiated with Augsburg to be our senior affiliate.
The German second tier outfit are looking to tap-in to our talent. I am honestly not mad about it, as long as it means my domestic rivals won’t get a slice of the pie.

Preview | Intake

This intake is not as flashy as the ones previously, but I think I can be content that we have a centre back in Uros Rodic (28A) coming through that can at least be a solid plan-B.
Zoran Jovanovic (28B) and Jovan Radakovic (28C) finish up the cream of the crop, however not too invested into that thought.
We shall see what happens, I love being proven wrong and it happens a lot in this save.

Healthy Crops: 

Boban Pajovic (24D)

Future captain material. Trying to get his personality better.
Plies his trade behind the striker in a half-decent manner.

Denis Savija (24L)

The new talisman at the back who is keeping the old guard on their toes.
If I can squeeze a bit more out of him before his time comes to leave the nest, I’ll be happy.

Mitko Stojanov (25B)

Finding it really hard trying to keep him around at the club now that he has been called up to the North Macedonia main set-up.
Good on him, but I think he needs one more year with me despite what he thinks.

Ahmed Zubanovic (25E)

Another one who flew under the radar but has picked it up a bit this season.
Can put him either right wing or down in defence and he does a solid job.
Hoping he can switch to Bosnia so he has better chances at NT selection.

Matteo Massiani (27B)

Our whole team is not-so-great on the goal scoring front but this guy should eventually kick it up a notch surely?
Rather inconsistent but hoping he will solidify his place.

Quit List: 

Class of '22

Dragomir Minic (22B) | Nemanja Pjevic (22C) | Ned Maksimovic (22D)

Class of '23

Dejan Gajic (23B) | Mladen Dunjic (23D) | Edin Juric (23F)

Class of '24

Stefan Nedic (24B) | Milisav Gospavic (24E) | Boban Janicevic (24F) | Marko Peric (24G)
 
Class of '25

Alen Opacic (25C)

Edited October 31, 2021 by The Gold Guard

[KaiokenDojo]

Oops, here I am editing my post to the start of my Youth Academy Challenge. This will be interesting.

 

Edited October 31, 2021 by KaiokenDojo
Added content.

[Constantine]

10 hours ago, Nottingham Forest said:

Have never known it to be this tough. Nothing works tactically and I’m unsure whether I have the ability to get through a season.

Gotta keep at it. For this challenge is one big exercise in futility. I'm already on my third restart, after being sacked twice with my hometown team...

[Nottingham Forest]

1 hour ago, Constantine said:

Gotta keep at it. For this challenge is one big exercise in futility. I'm already on my third restart, after being sacked twice with my hometown team...

Yeah, I’ve given up with kick and rush. Trying a different approach. 

[jmonfu]

Decided to end my Deportes Conception save.  After winning the 2nd division in my second season, I started the first season in the First division by winning against Colo Colo away 6-1.  I was surprised since Colo Colo are supposed to be the favourites to win the title.  After that, I went on a 25 game beaten run.  I could not do anything to stop it.  Changed some tactics, went defensive, changed players, even tried Instant Result to see if that will make a difference, nothing.  So I was dead last and in contention for relegation.  However the thing that annoyed me the most was that in 3 intakes, I only ever had 2 players that made the first team.  Now I had a youth save with Conception at the end of FM21, which I did not document here since I was sure I would not finish the challenge before FM 22, and the intakes were much better. In 5 seasons, I had won the 2nd division, won the Sudamericana, was always challenging for the title, but most of all had decent intakes which made the game enjoyable.  Also in Chile last year, I used to have good TV rights in the first division, however in this version, although mentioned in the beginning of the season, never had any "good" money from TV rights as last edition, with the result that I could not update anything.  And above all, I was not feeling the save.  So I have decided to try Brasil next

[jmonfu]

After a failed save in Chile, welcome to Brasil.  @darren1983 Brasil Save 1st Dec 2021 for different teams and 03 Jan for the Season Summary

[Makoto Nakamura]

2032/33 Youth Candidates

We got a goalkeeper!!!  And it's another amazing intake!

[Bartrcm]

Racing Mechelen - First Amateur Division - Season 2027-2028

Predicted: 15th

Final position :3th

Play-offs

We started the season with a win, but after that we could only win 1 game in the next 5. So after 7 games we were involved in a relegation battle. But suddenly our resulst improved. We didn't loose in the next 9 game, and also didn't conceed in those 9 games, an incredible run. This good run saw us rising in the standings and we were battling for the play-offs. The second part of the season we didn't collapse, and we ended the season in 3th position only 2 pints behind the leaders Lokeren-Temse. We entered the play-offs, but the team was exhausted. We were the worst team in the play-offs and ended 3th. An incredible achievement, but also a bit disappointed about the play-offs. But in the end it would have to early to get promoted, as this team is not ready for the second division.

I also won manager of the season.

 

Games 1

Games 2

Cup: Again, I didn't care about the cup, but just as last season we reached the 6th, and we were drawn against 1th division team Union. The way much better and won 2-0

 

Youth intake: the preview was not as good as last year. But the actual intake wasn't to bad (screenshot from the actual intake and of the youngsters are from the end of the season as I forgot to take screenhot during the intake)

Mauro Michel (YP2a): GK

Issam Loune (YP2b): AML, and will be a starter next season as he is already the best AML in our squad

Nathan Thys (YP2c): DC/DR Will get some game time next season as 2 defenders of the team didn't want to sign a new contract and will leave at the end of the season.

Tim Vercammen (YP2d): DR will get some game time next season

Sander Leemans (YP2e): AMC At the moment I took the screenshot he had the most * of the youngsters, but to be true I can't see why.

 

Transfers: None

 

Finances: Still terrible. The board pumped in 400k during the season, but we are over 600k in red. The board also cut the wage budget (and at the start of the new season again lowered it to 9k, so we are almost 2k over our budget. I'm afraid that the board will interfear when other teams wants our youngsters. 

 

Goal for next season: I hope to get into the play-offs again

 

Tycoon watch: At the start of their first season in the first division Patro Eisden were predicted up to 5th position. In the end they "only" fnished 12th

[jmonfu]

14 hours ago, OlivierL said:

Just tested it myself , i'm a bit old school about giving a regen a fake (but a downloaded fake) face but this would save me a lot of time.  Do you replace only the faces after every intake from your own team ? or do you do a player search and do it for all the new players from every club after intake dates ?

I replace all the newgen faces in the game.  As the video says, I add the Holiday Manager so that i can get all the newgens, do the search with his filter, save the file and then preserve the ones I already generated.  When you get used to it, it takes maybe 5 minutes every intake.  Its a very good software in my opinion.

[OlivierL]

2 minutes ago, jmonfu said:

I replace all the newgen faces in the game.  As the video says, I add the Holiday Manager so that i can get all the newgens, do the search with his filter, save the file and then preserve the ones I already generated.  When you get used to it, it takes maybe 5 minutes every intake.  Its a very good software in my opinion.

Yes i tested it at my FM21 save(s) and it works great.

Will save me a lot of (copying ID number - notepad - looking for a good regen picture ) time..  

[jmonfu]

1 minute ago, OlivierL said:

Yes i tested it at my FM21 save(s) and it works great.

Will save me a lot of (copying ID number - notepad - looking for a good regen picture ) time..  

Since I started using it, I never used anything else. The only worry I have is that one time I will forget to choose the preserve and I will overwrite everything.  But so far so good

[darren1983]

16 minutes ago, jmonfu said:

I replace all the newgen faces in the game.  As the video says, I add the Holiday Manager so that i can get all the newgens, do the search with his filter, save the file and then preserve the ones I already generated.  When you get used to it, it takes maybe 5 minutes every intake.  Its a very good software in my opinion.

 

13 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

Yes i tested it at my FM21 save(s) and it works great.

Will save me a lot of (copying ID number - notepad - looking for a good regen picture ) time..  

I honestly love it, think it's the best programme ever for those of us that like long term saves as it helps with the immersion so much. Once you've done it a couple of times it's so quick to do. I used to do it on whatever day my youth intake came in, once a year, 2 or 3 minutes and the game looks so much better.

[craigcwwe]

First Youth Intake preview of the save. 

[XaW]

1 hour ago, darren1983 said:

I honestly love it, think it's the best programme ever for those of us that like long term saves as it helps with the immersion so much. Once you've done it a couple of times it's so quick to do. I used to do it on whatever day my youth intake came in, once a year, 2 or 3 minutes and the game looks so much better.

Never got it to work. The config.xml file is generated (with the right amount of rows), but it seems like it just doesn't work in game for me for whatever reason. Tried again now, but still no cigar.

[Bartrcm]

And sacked. Terrible start of my 3th season with an early exit of the cup and losing the first 7 games of the season. Due to the terrible finances most of my older players wouldn't sign an new contract, and I had to play to many youngsters too early.

 

Will start a new country.

[XaW]

XaW - Merthyr Town - Season 2026/27 - Vanarama National League

Table | Squad | Transfers | Finances

So going up last season made this season a bit of an unknown. Initially, we started really poorly, and it looked like we could go back down again. As the season rolled on though, we started to find our feet, and pulling in some nice wins to climb out of the swamp at the bottom and into a safe mid table position. The end of the season was our strongest part and in the end we had clawed our way up to 12th. A very good season, and I'm more than satisfied with the season overall. The youths are now dominating the team, and we keep getting in strong players from the intakes, so I hope we can keep going next season.

This season I had a very important improvement accepted. The board accepted my request for an improved youth rating, and with that they started to work on our youth facilities. The improvements will be done soon, but I'm not sure if we get the new youth rank this season or the next.

FA Cup: We beat Welling United before we lost to League 1 side Colchester in the 1st round.
FA Trophy: We beat Dartford, Torquay United, and Spennymoor before losing to Ebbsfleet United in the quarter final.

Youth intake:

Really happy with this intake. Some strong talents, and a few not far off the first team already.

Nathan Goodridge 27d is a very well rounded midfielder that can fit in a few roles for us.

Spoiler

U23s:

They only play friendlies.

U19s:

Cymru Premier Development League (South): They won the league for the 3rd time in a row. Then in the playoff they beat Airbus UK Broughton to become champions again.
Welsh Youth Cup: They beat Caerau Ely, Gap Connah's Quay, Bala Town, Cefn Druids, and Penybont to claim the cup win again.
UEFA Youth League: They beat LIF of Sweden and Kauno Žalgirio of Lithuania before losing to Hertha of Germany in the 1st knockout round.

U18s:

National U18 League South West: They had a poor season and finished 16th this season.
FA Youth Cup: They lost to Maidstone in the 2nd qualifying round.

Trophy cabinet

Vanarama National North - 1 (2025/26)

U19s - Cymru Premier Development League - 3 (2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27)
U19s - Welsh Youth Cup - 2 (2025/26, 2026/27)
U18s - National U18 League South West - 2 (2024/25, 2025/26)

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

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.

[XaW]

2 hours ago, XaW said:

Never got it to work. The config.xml file is generated (with the right amount of rows), but it seems like it just doesn't work in game for me for whatever reason. Tried again now, but still no cigar.

And just as I wrote that, I managed to fix it... So expect real faces in my games going forward!

[darren1983]

7 minutes ago, XaW said:

And just as I wrote that, I managed to fix it... So expect real faces in my games going forward!

Just came to reply to you and thought I'd catch up on the thread first - talk about timing  

[DazRTaylor]

I have tried it and I just don't understand how to get it working.  The problem will be me, not the software.

[XaW]

4 minutes ago, DazRTaylor said:

I have tried it and I just don't understand how to get it working.  The problem will be me, not the software.

Pro tip, double and triple check you have unticked "use skin cache". I was certain I had removed it, but there it was...

[Braumiller]

Really enjoyed reading from first post to here, kutgw everyone! 

[Nottingham Forest]

Just when you think you’ve cracked it. Things going well. Then the game decides to screw you over. 

Before anyone says it’s my tactics. It probably is but it may as well be called Morale Manager 22. As once the bubble has burst you’re done for.

[Weed07]

After 2 seasons of fairly poor youth intakes i may be getting a better one in our third season as the preview shows a 5 star excellent intake. What makes it better is the A rating for the striker as one of my biggest problems at the moment is scoring goals so fingers crossed for one that can go straight into the side.

[jmonfu]

33 minutes ago, Nottingham Forest said:

Just when you think you’ve cracked it. Things going well. Then the game decides to screw you over. 

Before anyone says it’s my tactics. It probably is but it may as well be called Morale Manager 22. As once the bubble has burst you’re done for.

I am starting to think this year's edition is more tough than last year,

[Nottingham Forest]

It’s definitely a lot harder. It doesn’t help that you’ve got to deal with a proper mismatch of personalities early doors.

[Daddy]

 

2023-2024 Final Table:

Expectations were a top finish and they were met. Non Youth players aged in dog years though and fell off a little at the end. Made it to playoff to get promoted, but lost. Took a late 1-0 lead and at the last minute of extra time yielded a penalty. Lost in penalties to stay down.

 

Youth Intake:

Decent haul though nothing spectacular. Really need some to step up and develop as the best remaining player is leaving as he won't sign and the others are all in early 30s. 

Next Season Expectations and Preview:

Low expectations which I think I can meet and keep the save going.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2032/33 End of Season Review

We held off Bala and finished in another new high of 2nd, with a GD of just +7  

 

    

 

Overall Best XI

2032/33 Best XI

Charlie Warman (YP8p)

Mikey Berry (YP8a) - Danny Ellis (YP9a) - Mason Jones (YP3l) - Issufo Muwanei (YP10h)

Kevin Jones (YP2i)

George Veale (YP10a) - Steve Antell (YP8e)

Steve Bradley (YP8b)                                                       Brad Ingram (YP9b)

Shaun Ring (YP5b)

[Pauldinho7]

So after two 9th placed finishes and then a 7th place season, Beira Mar found form after January for a change, including a 10 match consecutive winning streak, managing to finish second to secure automatic promotion to Liga NOS. Bring on the big guns!!!

[karax268]

Season 1 Report -- Gresik United - 2022

On the Field

Spoiler

 

We had a dream season that came very close to a promotion. 

After a long pre season we went into the 2nd league blind. we were predicted to struggle but were we really stood I could not say. Turned out we were never in trouble. Went top of the league early and whilwe that didn't last long we never really lost sight of the 2nd stage positions. A great run near season end saw us back in the nr 1 spot. Not that is worth anything, unfortunately.

the 2nd stage was a breeze. we won our first 2 games and were able to rest players in the third. We were in the Semi finals. the 2nd League has three promotion spot. 2 for the finalists, one for the winner of the 3th place playoff. basically we had to win one of the next two ties to secure promotion.

 

we didn't.

we fought hard but were outclassed in both ties.

 

the cup run was nice but uneventfull. we went out against oppostion of a league higher. 

 

Off The Field

Transfers and finances:

Spoiler

The board has agreed to let me get my badges. I'm currently on national C, working on B. But spending on facilities they will not. Understandable too, we made a small loss on the season, and that is with the prize money of a deep playoff run. we can't rely on that.

 

We had one transfer in (pre-aranged by the board before I took over) that I immedeately got rid off. One other player left, marking a record sale for the club at 1.2K 

 

Player Highlights

 

Spoiler

 

We had to fill up a few holes in the selection with the Youth intake. Nugroho 1A filled in for our starter GK when he got a season ending injury half way through the campaign.

Yusuf 1D however was part of the selection from day one. he even got the first goal of the season. He started as understudy at ST but as the season went on he was more and more our number one. he ended up with 14 goals and the highest average rating of the team

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

We're getting a striker!!

[libbyshuss]

National League North

2028/29 (season 7)

Season Summary

It's groundhog season!

League - really weird. we went 9 games with only 1 defeat, playing really well, then suffered 3 close defeats in a row and were suddenly 18th! I couldn't believe it! But we rallied, had some really good runs, and managed to quite easily qualify for the play-offs again.

Which 3 days later we went out of after losing 6-2 at home to South Shields. Three years in a row now!

FA Cup - One reason we struggled comparatively in the league was our cup form. We were pretty, pretty good!. We beat Atherton Collieries, Merthyr and then Nationa LEague Scunthorpe to reach the first round proper. We then beat league 1 Forest Green and then league 1 Burton to make it to the third round proper for the first time! It was very exciting, and I was hoping and hoping to get a premiership team and a massive windfall and I kinda got my wish. 

Another home game so not quite the windfall I was hoping for but still quite exciting. There was no giant-killing though as they beat us 5-1. the extra 100k was welcome though.

 

Players

So I have a bit of a problem. Legacy players I'm still relying on are getting really old, and young players are just not good enough to replce them. But in the next couple of seasons replace them they must. Add to that McCleery's contract expires in a month and the bugger is refusing to sign a new one. I could be looking at heading into the new season with a much weaker squad. It might be time to give youth a chance...

Michael Gallagher 24A - scored 5 in a FA Cup game and then went 21 league games without a goal. I need a new striker, but there's no sign of one in the youth squad

Justin Stevens 28A - Fantastic youth player, he had a great season for us, switching between AML and AMC. He gives me hope!

Gareth Savage 27A - honestly, i'ma little annoyed with him. I wanted to get his determination and work rate up but he refuses to get below a 6.6 in any match!

 

Youth

you know, potential ability is no good to me. i need current ability intakes! will i get one? will i hell!

But the preview was nice again:-

But the intake, while full of 4 star potentia, was very light on CA. at this level, PA doesn't really mean very much sadly.

I signed most of them up. I'll be needing them in the next season or two as I move to full newgen squad. None of these stand out as being fantastic prospects. We'll see.

 

Finances and Upgrades

I was hoping the board would reward us for our cup run by upgrading our youth intake. they didn't. So i asked for them to increase our junior coaching budget instead adn they said yes!

It's slow going but we're making progress at least

 

Career

I'm not giving up! the struggle will just make the successes all the sweeter, if and when they come!

 

 

 

 

 

[craigcwwe]

So yeah, pre season went well, hopefully this will translate equally as well when the proper business begins...

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

8 hours ago, 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.

Have ran into the unforseen (but reported) bug of the Greek second tier requiring 10 homegrown at club players in the matchday squad. Basically it means all the teams have to use a full bench of greyed-out players and/or include them in the starting XI. Will have to restart this challenge when the main game is released, but for now am enjoying the madness.

[Ronaldo Beckham]

FC United's Greatest Match In Their History So Far

A lovely 2-0 win in the FA Cup 4th Qualifying Round Vs Northampton. Also the icing on the cake was the goals coming from Yeray who was a Youth Academy graduate.

Yeray has been doing well this season and I think he will be my main man up front while I go up the leagues hopefully.

Also a nice boost to the club's finances.

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2033/34 Youth Candidates

I feel like the top class striker was an over-sale, We got Martin Smothers, who may be alright but he's not the key player on the intake featuring down in 7th. 

[Winski]

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. 

[OlivierL]

18 minutes ago, 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. 

Are u going to start now or wait till the full release  ?

[Winski]

7 hours ago, OlivierL said:

Are u going to start now or wait till the full release  ?

I’ll wait for the full release  

[charlo116]

Keen to give this a go in Denmark but all the teams are amateur. Is there any point starting with an amateur side or is too hard to retain players?

[Makoto Nakamura]

2033/34 End of Season Review

What a bore that was, we broke the record for most draws in the league set by Afan Lido in the 90's of 16 draws.

   

 

Overall Best XI

2033/34 Best XI

Bobby Turner (YP11n)

Mikey Berry (YP8a) - Danny Ellis (YP9a) - Mason Jones (YP3l) - Issufo Muwanei (YP10h)

Kevin Jones (YP2i)

George Veale (YP10a) - Steve Antell (YP8e)

Rhys Wallis (YP9o)                                                       Brad Ingram (YP9b)

Shaun Ring (YP5b)