The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[Gersdude123]

8 minutes ago, XaW said:

Yes, as long as they are created to mirror real leagues. So no super leagues, or world leagues, or that kind. But if you want a England to level 10, or play the Azerbaijan league with real rules, then that's fine. Still, the same principle stands, holiday a year and take over a newly promoted team into the lowest playable league. For those countries that doesn't have relegation from the lowest tier, then take over the club who finished bottom during the holiday year. Albeit that is only fine if the nation has a minimum of two tiers. So no single tier league is permitted.

If you are in doubt, holiday a season and post some screenshots and someone will answer.

Thanks

[DazRTaylor]

1 hour ago, The7Striker said:

Good luck 

Yesterday i saw a Ajax documentary that kinda made me look to the league with other eyes, but i didnt know that was a custom DB that low.

You will face some nice challenges through the leagues. The league helps you or just the two main divisions have cash ?

Just the two main.  When I turn semi pro, I will rely on selling players.

[XaW]

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2022/23 - JD Cymru North

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Our first season in Wales went by rather quickly. I used something similar to what I did in Luxembourg, and it seems to work fine. Even though we finished in 11th place, I always had the feeling we got a bit hard done by at times. Looking at the xG table, we should have been 3rd! So I jot quite a few things down to lack of player quality, and we did often lose games due to what I would call individual errors. So I think I'll stick with this setup going forward as I hope for some better quality players that what I started with. The team was decent enough with a few good players and a few horrible players, but it's as expected in the lower leagues of Wales, I suppose. Onward and upwards we go!

Off the pitch, I managed to complete the National C and B licenses and also approve the National A that I'm currently working on. The club is losing a bit of money each month, so I expect us to start to struggle with this soon enough.

Welsh League Cup: We lost to Guilsfield in the 1st round on pens.
Welsh Cup: We beat Llay Welfare and Prestatyn Town before we lost to Llanrhaedr in the 3rd round.

Youth intake:

Each and any intake is welcome the first season, but this was quite something. Two excellent players and a lot of talented ones as well.

Mark York 23a went straight into the team as the main striker. Huge for a 16 year old and not horribly slow either.

No doubt about our right back either. Stuart Hayes 23b is best on the defensive side, but we are in lower league Wales, so I expect he is better than most.

Trophy cabinet

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[The7Striker]

1 hora atrás, XaW disse:

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2022/23 - JD Cymru North

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Our first season in Wales went by rather quickly. I used something similar to what I did in Luxembourg, and it seems to work fine. Even though we finished in 11th place, I always had the feeling we got a bit hard done by at times. Looking at the xG table, we should have been 3rd! So I jot quite a few things down to lack of player quality, and we did often lose games due to what I would call individual errors. So I think I'll stick with this setup going forward as I hope for some better quality players that what I started with. The team was decent enough with a few good players and a few horrible players, but it's as expected in the lower leagues of Wales, I suppose. Onward and upwards we go!

Off the pitch, I managed to complete the National C and B licenses and also approve the National A that I'm currently working on. The club is losing a bit of money each month, so I expect us to start to struggle with this soon enough.

Welsh League Cup: We lost to Guilsfield in the 1st round on pens.
Welsh Cup: We beat Llay Welfare and Prestatyn Town before we lost to Llanrhaedr in the 3rd round.

Youth intake:

Each and any intake is welcome the first season, but this was quite something. Two excellent players and a lot of talented ones as well.

Mark York 23a went straight into the team as the main striker. Huge for a 16 year old and not horribly slow either.

No doubt about our right back either. Stuart Hayes 23b is best on the defensive side, but we are in lower league Wales, so I expect he is better than most.

Trophy cabinet

None

That York trait is going to be fun to watch 

Solid season and some nice prospects

[XaW]

2 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

That York trait is going to be fun to watch 

Solid season and some nice prospects

Yeah, he hope he become a great big bastard up top!

Thanks, it was a good one, even if we could have been higher up the table with a bit more luck.

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 10 – 2031/32 Youth Intake

So after the defeat in our last game against Académico de Viseu, we had a crash down to reality once again after we were smashed by Estoril Praia 4-1, after Estrela held us to a 1-1 draw. We did pick up two comfortable victories against Fafe and Gondomar however, so we knew we could win, before another defeat, this time against Chaves, put another stop to our momentum. We did however, come from behind to beat Vitória de Setúbal after tinkering my tactic and formation, to allow us to get more points on the board.

As a result our our rather ropey run of form, we've dropped to 7 points behind Portimonense and Nacional. We're just 1 point clear of Académico de Viseu, and 4 points clerar of Feirense. We want to get a top 3 finish, having been in the fight for promotion throughout the entire season so far.

We also managed to get our latest youth intake, and while it's not as impressive as last season, I like to think it's still a reasonable one in terms of strength it could potentially give us.

The player who excites me the most is Octávio Estevão, a player that is probably better suited for the DM role, but is still a player that I could even use as a CB if I get desperate enough to need to rely on that sort of thing. With Lasca's 6'6" frame, we could 100% use him to cover up Estevão's weakness in lack of height. He's not scared to go for the ball though, which is useful too.

Bruno Ferreira is also another exciting young talent, and someone that I could see being played in the centre of the park. We will need to mentor some ambition in the boy, but his unflappable media handling style is still rather exciting.

José Fortes is another exciting young talent who I could see myself rely on in the future. He's a striker who is honestly better suited for the wings. So he could be a winger on the right, but an inverted winger on the left. Perhaps I could start using wingers again in the future soon.

We needed more left backs, and Valter Miller provides me with more strength in depth in that area. He needs work and he is inconsistent, but there's still a lot to like about him.

Ricardo Pires could be the backup I need in goal for the long term. Saraiva isn't going to be good enough for that role long-term, but if Pires develops, he could be. He just needs to not be unambitious.

The last person I want to talk about is Antonio Lucena. He's an exciting inverted winger on the left, giving me plenty of options to play with there, and another reason for me to potentially consider playing with wingers next season.

For a look at my other youth intakes, and to see how we adapted in our game against Vitória de Setúbal, feel free to watch my latest video down below. I assure you, some of the other players are also pretty good.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 61

[TheWillsy]

South Shields season 6: 2027-28

Another season, another play off first round defeat... Not much to say other than our best points total yet but once again we lost in the play off first round despite being the better team. In the FA cup though, we beat a L1 and L2 team to set up a third round tie away at Brighton which was fantastic for the finances. This allowed an upgrade in the training facilities and youth recruitment, however the youth facilities were downgraded at the end of the season which was dissapointing.

Jones was POTS once again, counting down the days until we lose him... Really want to get promoted soon to stand a chance of keeping him.

5 star preview for about the 4th year in a row!

However, no one who will immediately step into the first team.

We cemented our spot in the play offs with one game to go, so decided to pick an all-youth 11 for the first time in our final game, one of my favourite milestones of this challenge . Hunter, Tee, and Agnew are the only 3 real players who start semi-regularly so we are close to fielding an all-youth 11 for every game now. Conor Tee is still my captain though and a good player, so he will stick around for a few more seasons. Oh, and we won the game despite a first half sending off .

If we can get into the play offs again, we've got to try and get past the first round for once!

[ANGL]

Quick question - are loan backs allowed? I'm about to sell my first academy player to Europe and the buyer has offered a loan back - can I accept it?

[The7Striker]

10 minutos atrás, ANGL disse:

Quick question - are loan backs allowed? I'm about to sell my first academy player to Europe and the buyer has offered a loan back - can I accept it?

No. Once you sell the player he can not come back, even as a loan deal.

[XaW]

16 minutes ago, ANGL said:

Quick question - are loan backs allowed? I'm about to sell my first academy player to Europe and the buyer has offered a loan back - can I accept it?

No, but you can try to change the transfer date to the end of the season. If you sell him, he cannot be loaned back.

[ANGL]

Thanks to both @The7Striker @XaW

 

So there I am, on the other side of Brazilian Wonderkids:

98 first team games, 43 goals and 14 assists, and the first academy graduate who became a first team regular. Fingers crossed on that 50% next sale clause

Edited January 9, 2022 by ANGL

[Makoto Nakamura]

Beautiful!!! The biggest game we could hope to get, and it's away from home!

[Makoto Nakamura]

An AMC is not quite what I want.

[Gersdude123]

Here it is My 1st go at this Challenge and the team that got Promoted was Kingstonian let's hope we can have a 1st decent season in the Nation League South. 

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

We lost to Celtic but the £300,000 in gate receipts gave us this:

[Gersdude123]

Thinking this for my tactic for Kingstonian  don't know if it's allowed here it's my 1st year using my own tactics could do with a small bit of advice 

[Makoto Nakamura]

2054/55 Youth Candidates

I am very happy with this intake!  

[Makoto Nakamura]

2054/55 End of Season Review

Two big wins to end the season against two of the top three sees us finish one point better off than last season!

  

    

Overall Best XI

2054/55 Best XI

Gavin Ballard (YP24n)

Ross Elphinstone (YP28d) - Jacob McIntyre (YP26k) - Chris Smith (YP24e) - Ryan Whelan (YP27b)

Max Gunn (YP26d)

David McNeil (YP23f) - Georgi Petrov (YP23e)

Lewis O'Donnell (YP27e)                                                                    Ronan Gilbert (YP28f)

Wayne Shearer (YP29c)

[The7Striker]

Shame he didnt want to continue....what a beast for this level 

Edited January 10, 2022 by The7Striker

[libbyshuss]

2063/64 (season too many to count now)

Premier League

Season Summary

Really frustrating season in the end and the first that feels like step back for a while

League - We started well enough. Unbeaten for the first 12 games and against some tricky opposition as well. We were 6 points behind leader Man City and game 13 was away at the Etihad. We lost, then went to Newcastle and lost. So, 14 games in and we were 12 points behind already. We actually got really close to closing that gap but a fixture pile up at the end of the season meant we were running on fumes and lost a couple of games against sides in the bottom 5 to slip away from contention. In the end we missed out on Champions League football, which is a little upsetting.

Champions League - so I screwed up here. Smug complacency made me think my reserve team would get me through the group stage. They didn't. we finished 3rd in a group that had Roma, Nice and Vitoria de Guimaires. We should have walked it really

Europa League - So into the Europa League we went. We beat Porto, Nime and Ternana on our way to the semi-final, where we lost to Arsenal

FA Cup - Finally, a decent run! All the way to the Final! Where we lost 5-0 to Manchester City after our world class midfielder got himself sent off after 10 minutes! goddammit......

 

Players

So this team has 7 ex-wonderkids or wonderkids in it. It's a good team and should be capable of winning stuff. But it keeps falling short and will be weaker next season as Daniel Bennet is retiring (the first wonderkid I managed to keep!) at 36. He played 782 games for us! I have no replacement.

Sekou Kamian 59A is an official wonderkid now, so there's two of them in this side running around. Khumalo 61A is the other one; he is bonkers good.

Youth

Even the youth intake was a disappointment this season! 

Preview looked good, 5 stars excellent intake predicted

But the intake was only good, and not that good either....

Wonderkids

Four in this years list, which was a nice surprise! The latter two clearly won't be wonderkids though but its still encouraging to see them there. 

Career

I need a good season to keep my interest in this save I think. I'm starting to wilt....

This made me laugh though:-

I am wily and old, here me roar!

[Daddy]

2 hours ago, Gersdude123 said:

Thinking this for my tactic for Kingstonian  don't know if it's allowed here it's my 1st year using my own tactics could do with a small bit of advice 

I'm not a tactics master but what are you looking for? Are you trying to build some type or template or is this more tailored for your team?

[Gersdude123]

4 minutes ago, Daddy said:

I'm not a tactics master but what are you looking for? Are you trying to build some type or template or is this more tailored for your team?

kind of making it tailored for my team

[craigcwwe]

2 hours ago, Gersdude123 said:

Thinking this for my tactic for Kingstonian  don't know if it's allowed here it's my 1st year using my own tactics could do with a small bit of advice 

You've got a striker dropping off before attacking the box late but have two wingers on attack dropping crosses in and no real penetration from the central midfield. 

What sort of football are you intending to play?

[Gersdude123]

4 minutes ago, craigcwwe said:

You've got a striker dropping off before attacking the box late but have two wingers on attack dropping crosses in and no real penetration from the central midfield. 

What sort of football are you intending to play?

Have switched the Striker to AF now and my MEZ to BBM and my DLP to BWM  want to play controlled possession which can be deadly on the counter 

[Makoto Nakamura]

A potentially all new backline!

[craigcwwe]

1 hour ago, Gersdude123 said:

Have switched the Striker to AF now and my MEZ to BBM and my DLP to BWM  want to play controlled possession which can be deadly on the counter 

If it gets results don't change it!  

[jepze]

  

Jepze - Edinburgh College - Season 2031/32

We're going into this season, with only 1 player in the first team squad, who isn't through the youth academy after I took over. He only got 3 starts, but he came on the pitch a lot of times this season. To the start, we upgraded over coaching and youth recriutment to excellent. It's 2 steps up from last season, and hopefully, we'll get some better youth intakes. We're still amatuers, so we can't get a lot from the training. The finances are still good, but we're got some more expenditure beacause of it. We still got some black numbers on the board still, and we're only got 51K DKK to pay on the loan, so 3 months more and we're done with that!

In the league, we was exceptionel good! We got the highest number of points ever in the league, most wins ever and most goals by a team ever in the league. If you can notice, we win the league and secure a spot in the playoff group. It's was a tough group, but we got 2 2-1 wins and got promoted to tier 5! We're ready to fight again next year and hopefully stay up in the Lowland League!

Squad | Transfer | Finances

Another excellent yout intake, this time it was only a 4 ½ star intake. I hoped our investments could make a 5 star again, but their some nice players, who go directly into the starting XI.

Spoiler

First player i'll show is Chris Adamson. He is a AML and is 192 cm! He can be good at corners, but just to get some mens around him. He will be the new man on the AML, but we allready got Allan Harper here. Chris is the best player in the club, and will therefore be the first man on the sheet to the games. We have a lot of good offensive players now, so we will go after scoring goals instead of defending a lot.

The next player is Makey Griffihs. Last year we got our first DM, and now we got Mikey. He's a very good DM for our team, and going directly in the starting line-up. We'll be working on the defensiv stats for him, becuase it's the most important stats we need for him, when our defence is so weak.

Another goalkeeper. The goalkeepers is nearly top 3 every time i got a youth intake. Again he is going between the posts as our new nr. 1. He's not the best, but better than Eric Turnbull from last year, who was the best player. Mark played the playoff games an made a good figure for us.

Manager statistics

[jepze]

Just began to lose some players and couldn't understand, why my club wouldn't go semi pro... Looked them up in editor and find this.

"Altid amatør" means always amatuer.. So i think i'll just find a new save in maybe a minor league... I bit disappointed after 10 years. Maybe i'll play a little bit on it later, but lost some motivation, when the blub can't give any contracts an lose the players, when the other can give them some wage... Next time, i don't go for a school team ;-)

[Makoto Nakamura]

2055/56 Youth Candidates

Another intake that I'm very happy with!  

[The7Striker]

9 minutos atrás, jepze disse:

Just began to lose some players and couldn't understand, why my club wouldn't go semi pro... Looked them up in editor and find this.

"Altid amatør" means always amatuer.. So i think i'll just find a new save in maybe a minor league... I bit disappointed after 10 years. Maybe i'll play a little bit on it later, but lost some motivation, when the blub can't give any contracts an lose the players, when the other can give them some wage... Next time, i don't go for a school team ;-)

Thats harsh 

[WhiteCat33]

10 hours ago, SuperRedditch said:

Redditch was a total disaster. I actually stopped a couple of days ago but was so angry about it I took a couple of days off to cool down. I tried so hard but ended in abject failure. I don't even want to talk about it.

Anyway, onto my second choice (before heart ruled over head) in Belgium.

Profile

Lokeren-Temse have good facilities, are Professional and seem like they'll have an easier early-game. I got a soft spot for fallen 'giants' and once I looked into the history of this club (or clubs rather - they merged) I was sold.
 

GL in Belgium! 

[Gundo]

Hey, all. I’ve been following this thread for a while. I have a question: I started managing a club that is semi professional but I still can’t off part-time contracts, only amateur ones. Is this down to the stature of the club? 

KUTGW everyone.

[XaW]

6 minutes ago, Gundo said:

Hey, all. I’ve been following this thread for a while. I have a question: I started managing a club that is semi professional but I still can’t off part-time contracts, only amateur ones. Is this down to the stature of the club? 

KUTGW everyone.

Hey and welcome! Yeah, in some divisions it's set to always be non-contracts, even if the club is semi-pro. I have the same thing in the Welsh 2nd tier currently.

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2022/23

KVV Quick '20

The preview was pretty good, which you would expect:

The intake itself was pretty good, without any really outstanding individual.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2055/56 End of Season Review

Two terrible matches but we finish in a new low of 7th but with just five points separating 4th and 8th showing it was a very close season!

  

  

Overall Best XI

2055/56 Best XI

Gavin Ballard (YP24n)

Daniel Muir (YP29d) - Jacob McIntyre (YP26k) - Max Gunn (YP26d) - Ryan Whelan (YP27b)

Reece Bollan (YP29i)

David McNeil (YP23f) - Georgi Petrov (YP23e)

Paul McGregor (YP31g)                                                                    Ronan Gilbert (YP28f)

Wayne Shearer (YP29c)

[Morpheus13]

SC Toulon Season 33/34 Review

Table - Squad - U19 Squad - Transfers - Finances

Again a very good season, finishing 10th in the League. We were never in danger of getting relegated, actually closer to the promotion play-offs. In the end we had a few injuries and we are not able to compensate, since the squad is not really deep. But our first eleven is pretty nice and has good League 2 level, with especially the last few intakes being very good ones.

Squad

Loris Lamoulie (32B) is becoming our best player. Physically he is bad but technically gifted he is our heart. Anthony Malpon (32A) is becoming better and better and also Youssouf (31A) is getting better. I might have to change the formation to next season, even tho our 4-3-3 is working very good, but Bronner (33A) has to start playing first team football. Also Dupont (33B) has becoming a regular starter for us and is progressing nicely. Very promising is also, that I managed to extend the contracts of all our key players.

Intake 34

Another intake that deliverd, even tho there are no players who are immediately ready for the first team. I hope that Thomas develops well, because we are in need of a left-back.

Most promising ones: Matisse Thomas (34A), Jean -Luc Guerin (34B) and Bilal Zekri (34C)

 

Other Notes

First times we got money from a sell on clause

And we managed to upgrade the youth facilities again

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by Morpheus13

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2022/23

KVV Quick '20

 

Season Summary

An undefeated season is more than I could of wished for.  Promotion to the sixth tier is our reward.

Season Details

League Table - We dominated from start to finish.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - We were never in trouble and the three games we drew, we really should of won.

Pre Season Friendlies - A mixed bag though it was all good preperation.

Squad - A good squad that I feel can challenge again.

Squad Dynamics - As good as 

Transfers In - None.

Transfers Out - We lost a few players on free transfers as they wanted to play higher up the pyramid and I could do nothing about it.

Youth Candidates - A decent intake, with right winger Muhammed Özer YP23A1 looking like a fine prospect.

Finances - We have a small balance but at least we are in the black.

Key Players

Frank Eulderink - Playing on the right wing, he was an automatic starter for us.

Jelle Damhuis - Our left back scored a remarkable 14 goals in 24 appearances.

Milan Bikhan - Central midfield maestro who had a great campaign.

Issy Wevers - A goal machine from central midfield.

Jip Kemna - Our main striker who scored close to a goal a game.

Next Season

Another promotion?

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation               Qualifications    Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   WWY   Ada   Det   PlK   YoK   LoD   MaM   Mot
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At start   Minimal       (0.25*)    None                1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     1     4     1     1     1     4     1     1     1
2022/23    Minimal =     (0.75*) ↑  National B ↑↑       6 ↑   5 ↑   2 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   6 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   4 =   1 =   5 ↑   5 ↑   6 ↑  11 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
At Start   Basic                Below Average     Fairly Basic          Average          Fairly Basic       Local   (0.50*)
2022/23    Basic =              Below Average =   Fairly Basic =        Adequate ↑↑      Average ↑↑         Local = (0.50*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2022/23      26        23        3        0          86              22                 +64              88.46%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2022/23          26        23        3        0          86              22                 +64              88.46%             280 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

Season     Competition Won
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2022/23    Tweede Klasse Zaterdag H

Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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1 x Tweede Klasse Zaterdag H (2022/23)

Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     TOTO KNVB Beker                    Achievements
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2022/23           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Tweede Klasse Zaterdag H              1st             N/a                          Promoted as champions.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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2022/23    Giovanni Overman YP23D4                   1

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
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2022/23    No one                                       0

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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2022/23    No one                                      0

Record Number of Clean Sheets (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets
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2022/23    No one                                     0

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[jepze]

After the scottish disappointment, i've uses this morning before my lectures, to find a new club. I was jumping between Malta and lower leagues in France yesterday night, but this morning, i considered, that i should go for France, a team in Paris, to try to be the best team in the France capital. I used this DB, to get to the regional leagues in France. https://manageronline.fr/r1mo/.

 

Then i should choose my team. Paris got 2 regional leagues, but there was only 1 of the promoted teams, which wasn't a B team, so the choice was easy. I'm going to take charge of UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole. It's a club founded in 1926, got PSG as rivals and are ready for the youth challenge, if you ask me :P This time i have checked, that the club can go semi pro and pro.

 

 

[Gundo]

2 hours ago, XaW said:

Hey and welcome! Yeah, in some divisions it's set to always be non-contracts, even if the club is semi-pro. I have the same thing in the Welsh 2nd tier currently.

Tusen takk. 

Has it resulted in you losing players freely? Can you offer any tips for keeping players on such deals?

[XaW]

33 minutes ago, Gundo said:

Tusen takk. 

Has it resulted in you losing players freely? Can you offer any tips for keeping players on such deals?

Ikke noe problem!

Well, yes, when other teams try to steal my players I offer them a contract with a start date at the end of the season. If they accept, they cannot be stolen before the new contract comes into effect. So at least I can keep the player for the season, before someone offers for him again. And then I do the same. Of course, if they accept to go somewhere else instead of accepting, then you are out of luck, but often they will accept it.

[Gundo]

31 minutes ago, XaW said:

Ikke noe problem!

Well, yes, when other teams try to steal my players I offer them a contract with a start date at the end of the season. If they accept, they cannot be stolen before the new contract comes into effect. So at least I can keep the player for the season, before someone offers for him again. And then I do the same. Of course, if they accept to go somewhere else instead of accepting, then you are out of luck, but often they will accept it.

Great, thanks for the tip. It definitely adds another layer of difficulty to an already tough challenge. 

[XaW]

8 minutes ago, Gundo said:

Great, thanks for the tip. It definitely adds another layer of difficulty to an already tough challenge. 

If you want even more, I can point you to the lower league Norwegian file I made that goes all the way down to the 10th tier! Since I know you like Norwegian football, I mean!  

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 10 – 2031/32 Did We Do It?

We needed to pick up points in order to keep our promotion hopes alive. We never lost a game, but we drew 4 of the last 6 matches, which wasn't ideal. We did pick up 10 points however, and 3 against some of the best teams in the division. We are desperately hoping that we can pull off at least a top 3 finish for a chance to get promoted to the top flight.

And get a top 3 finish we did. We pulled it off thanks to our superior goal difference, and for the first time in our 8 seasons in this division, we have managed to secure a top 3 finish, and a chance to get promoted to the top flight of Portugal.

Our opponents in the playoffs? Varzim, a side that we have managed to draw against in all 4 encounters against in the past. So we have something to work towards as we aim to try and get promoted to the Liga Portugal Bwin for the first time ever.

We played the last two matches in the latest video and we started the round of fixtures a point behind Académico de Viseu. If you want to watch how we overcame that, then the video will be linked below. Thanks again.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 62

[Elsjorro]

So i really can't be asked to go ahead with my Cottbus game at this moment, so im doing something i never did before: Starting this challenge in Iceland:

 

[XaW]

1 minute ago, Elsjorro said:

So i really can't be asked to go ahead with my Cottbus game at this moment, so im doing something i never did before: Starting this challenge in Iceland:

 

Just a friendly warning, make sure you don't have a shared U19 team. If you do, you have to have all your youth players in the main squad and you can only loan them out to your shared U19 team. Really annoying.

[Elsjorro]

13 minutes ago, XaW said:

Just a friendly warning, make sure you don't have a shared U19 team. If you do, you have to have all your youth players in the main squad and you can only loan them out to your shared U19 team. Really annoying.

How does that happen? a shared u19 team? 

[XaW]

1 minute ago, Elsjorro said:

How does that happen? a shared u19 team? 

It's how Iceland is in real life. Several teams share youth teams and it royally screws up youth intakes in FM. I've reported it a few times, but it's apparently the closest reflection possible of real life. So I suggest only using teams with it's own youth team for this challenge.

[The7Striker]

First Vienna Football Club 1894

 

The motivation for this challenge was failing and after a few attempts, I think I found what I was looking for. Thats right, First Vienna Football Club 1894.

Is the oldest Austrian football club, 6 times champions.

After reading their story, came the motivation for this adventure, let's see how it goes.

The Manager:

Spoiler

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by The7Striker

[XaW]

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2023/24 - JD Cymru North

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We improved a lot this season, and this time we were closer to what the xG says. The xG table says we should have been in 2nd, but 5th is an improvement from last season. Only 7 points off the top is very encouraging, and I think we might get promoted within a few years if we keep this up.

Out of the talented youngsters, the superstar this season clearly is Mark York 23a. Loads of goals, and just the arrowhead of our attack. Excellent season! In midfield, Arwel Torgersen 23k had a good season, and developed well. And finally, Osian Harvey-Davies 23i is becoming a good defender for us.

I kept going with the licenses, and competed all the way to Continental C and I'm working on Continental B.

Welsh League Cup: We lost to Flint Town in the 1st round.
Welsh Cup: We beat Blaenavon Blues and Llangefni before we lost to Gap Connah's Quay in the 3rd round.

Youth intake:

Not a fantastic intake, but loads of potential.

Josh Williams 24o is a promising fullback that is quite good going forward.

Tim Gibbon-Barker 24h is a promising goalkeeper, and finally we have a 2nd one!

Trophy cabinet

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[Elsjorro]

2 hours ago, XaW said:

It's how Iceland is in real life. Several teams share youth teams and it royally screws up youth intakes in FM. I've reported it a few times, but it's apparently the closest reflection possible of real life. So I suggest only using teams with it's own youth team for this challenge.

I do seem to have a 2nd team, so thats good right?