The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[jepze]

       

Jepze - UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole - Season 2030/31

We have been in the National 3 - Paris Île-de-France in 8 seasons now, and we have been in top 6 in 5 of the 7 previous season, but havn't been close to get an promotion. This year was a different season. We was in the top the whole season. With 4 games to play, we we're second with 5 points up to AS Poissy, but they bottled it with a lose in 2 of the 3 next games. Before the last game, we was in the top of the league standing.

In the last game, we'll face 6thgh place in the league, and AS Poissy was playing 3rd place in the league. After 23 minutes, Shaiëk scored a beautiful first timer and after 40 minutes Brossard scored another beautiful longshot on the end of the box to get a lead on 2 goals. In the other game, there wasn't a goal in the first half.

     

We begun the second half and after 53 minutes, FCM Aubervilliers scored a goal, and the promotion wasn't secured yet. After 65 minutes, AS Poissy scored on a penalty what means, we need to get a win in this game. One minute later Guèye scored to 3-1! We're close to a promotion now!

    

After the match, i got this message <3 I'm an icon in the club now!

Squad | Transfer | Finances

This youth intake was very bad. Only one A and all other positions was D or below... This intake wouldn't get a lot of players through our system and into the first team...

Spoiler

We signed with all players with 4 potential or over, but none of them are going to the first team. Not now and maybe no one ever from this intake will play first team football here.

Manager statistics

 

After the update, i got some good news,

Edited January 24, 2022 by jepze

[Sn00gle]

Eh losing the most promissing prospect from intake 0 and with first call to u19 NT to top club in league as he didn't want to get new contract 

[The7Striker]

1 hora atrás, burnToest disse:

Quick Question: How can I set up a Google Sheet for the continents/nations that the Youth Academy Players come out of. Is there a template?

 

None that im aware of.  Maybe someone that uses can send you or try to do in Excel and then post a print.

[Winski]

While I am enjoying my Garbarnia Krakow-save, I couldn't stop thinking about completing the challenge in Germany, especially with a East-German team. I had some good saves with BFC Dynamo and Viktoria Berlin in FM21. This year, I'll try my luck with another East-German team: 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig.

I already played two seasons, just to make sure that I've made the right decision before posting here. This is my manager profile at the start of the save.

[XaW]

2 hours ago, burnToest said:

Quick Question: How can I set up a Google Sheet for the continents/nations that the Youth Academy Players come out of. Is there a template?

 

I think everyone of us has just made our own. It's not exactly professional design we do here!

The formulas are pretty basic.

[Winski]

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
2022/2023 (season 1)
3. Liga
League table | Finances | Facilities | Transfers | 

 

Our first season was a solid one. The first season is always a difficult one, especially in Germany with a team that hasn't got that much players. So I was happy with our 12th place. We were never in relegation danger, and that was the most important part of this season.
Best players were Djamal Ziane and Michael Schlicht. Ziane scored 21 goals, while Schlicht scored 13 goals and had 9 assists.
The youth intake was a good one. Our facilities are awful, so I won't expect any wonders in the next couple of seasons. We don't have money to upgrade our facilities. Our HoYD Peter Laudenklos gave us these players:


 

Spoiler

I promoted Flink 23G and Nattermann 23E to the first team.

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 12 – 2033/34 Youth Intake Preview

The run of form that we started having after our 4-1 win against Gil Vicente gave me a lot of hope going into the season. Picking up wins left in various games against the weaker sides of the division left me thinking that we could be looking rather strong for the end of the season. We did get knocked out of the Taça de Portugal in the 5th round by Vizela unfortunately, but that was annoyingly to be expected.

Giving ourselves a 9 point gap between both the relegation and relegation playoff zones made me truly believe that we could avoid being sucked into a relegation fight in our first season in the top flight under my leadership, which was a pleasant surprise to say the least.

We did get our latest youth intake preview and it was a very promising one indeed. I knew that if this was as truthful as I hoped it would be, that this could be our best intake yet and could provide strength in depth in areas that we needed strengthening in.

Unfortunately, we look set to lose Álvaro Leal for his release fee of £925K, much to my annoyance, even if it'll ensure that our finances are in the black at the end of the season. It would have been nice to be able to keep our best player at the club.

Losing our best player for under his value will be hard to accept.

In other news, we have managed to set up an affiliate link with Concordia Chiajna, and we managed to negotiate a rather nice deal I like to think.

Mostly because we can now be sent academy players by the club to train with our to gain experience, meaning that we could benefit from some of these players coming through our youth intakes in the future.

The facilities at Concordia Chiajna have left me being very excited about the potential youth intakes I could recieve from Romania as a result. With their good youth facilities, good academy coaching and exceptional youth recruitment, they are bound to find some very exciting young talent, and some of whom, they could send our way.

As for how we've been playing and what style of play we have been using, feel free to watch my latest video. I like to think that things are going very well now.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 76

Edited January 24, 2022 by JLAB

[The7Striker]

Enniskillen Rovers FC 2022/2023 Season

Finances   Facilities  Transfers   Squad

I had a takeover in my Anji save and the new board decide to sack me. After reading and talk to @Makoto Nakamura about his Scotland save, he was kind to send me his Northern Ireland DB down to tier 7. So now im addicted to this 

Enniskillen Rovers finished last in the league as the print shows. Its a semi professional club but this means that we pay a small fee everytime that we play, so players can be poach at anytime. We also have a new stadium, build by AI, with a good capacity so i hope we dont need to expand anytime soon. 

The league is quit fast, only 16 games per season and they all have around 15 days  between each.  All the teams have a chairperson and sometimes, a manager. Its quit funny to see the bench empty.

Spoiler

 

F & W Division 3 (7th tier)

Season Prev  Games  Past Positions

 

Despite finish 9th in the 2021/2022 season, the club had some quality and comfortably we get the promotion.  To be fair, all lads played well but, Louis Gordon with his 11 goals and 4 assists, along side with Paul Hegarty and Marc Lamot ( my Lewandowski) really shows quality for a higher level. Mid season we got a Takeover. Back to the fans. Well, we had none at the championship party.

 

Youth Intake

With no staff at this level, stars are overrated. So i sign with all for now 

Edited January 24, 2022 by The7Striker

[XaW]

On 21/01/2022 at 20:09, XaW said:

Bah!

Damn, he was really good too...

[Makoto Nakamura]

Well we need a defensive midfielder and wingers so I'm disappointed in that respect but that the same time I can't fault 3 A's (I can fault the rest of the rubbish though.)

[Makoto Nakamura]

2064/65 Youth Candidates

A worse intake but that's to be expected with our lower reputation and being in a much lower reputation league, I would say this is still a win on the whole though with six players who could reach the first team.

We get our first Iceland born and first Orkney born player this year.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2064/65 End of Season Review

Not quite good enough for the playoffs but we met expectations and I'm still in a job!  

   

 

 

Overall Best XI

2064/65 Best XI

Ross McHattie (YP36h)

Grant Martin (YP36c) - Joel Kinsella (YP33d) - Robbie Rae (YP33f) - Ryan Whelan (YP27b)

William Garcia (YP32a)

Kai Stuart (YP32e) - Ciaran Jack (YP39f)

Grant Bain (YP34h)                                                                    Rab Hart (YP36j)

Gino Carere (YP30d)

[libbyshuss]

FC Muniz

Argentina

Primera C Metropolitana (Tier 4)

2025/26

Season Summary

A really weird season as it was almost a complete copy of last season! This season we managed to go the first 20 games unbeaten, although we drew 8 so were only second this time. After we lost the 21st game our form wobbled a little bit but even after 30 games we'd still only lost 2 (winning 14 and drawin 14). The final 6 saw us lose 4 times though!

It's not as weird as it sounds though - those first 20 games or so are all before the winter break where we only play once a week. I can keep all my first team fit and healthy and don't need to rotate. After the break though the games really pile up and it's at least two games a week - there's no way I can keep everyone fit for every game and I'm forced into rotation. And that's where the results suffer. 

Play-Offs - Mixed bg. We get a 25 day break before the play offs start so my fully fit first team go into them really well prepared. But the final is only 3 days after the last leg of the semi final and we are knackered. We suffered again as a resut

Cup - 3rd round this time and no money spinner as we went out to fellow 4th tier side Circula Deportivo

 

Players

A few youth players breaking into the first team this season. they all start with higher determination and work rate than the legacy players and are often a better fit for my tactics as a result

 

Youth

Not a bad intake but again lacking a little in depth

 

Nicolas Almada is clearly the pick of the bunch and good enough to go straight into the first team squad

 

Finances and Upgrades

Disappointing. My wage bill is tiny now but it's just impossible to make money at this level. I'm going to have to sell some of my young stars I think. Until I get rid of the debt I'm stuck as the board won't give me any upgrades or even a coaching course until I do. It's frutrating but in the first few seasons of these saves I find financial management is usually more important than team management sadly. 

 

Career

 

 

 

[Morpheus13]

SC Toulon Season 36/37 Review

Table - Squad - U19Squad - Transfers - Finances

Improvement

Pretty easy survival in our second season in League 1. We had a good start to the season, before coming back to earth in the second half. Nevertheless, it was a very successfull season, with staying in League 1. This season we did not rely that much on Bronner 33A, even tho he still was our topscorer but we had a few other players who scored more regularly.

Squad

Bronner 33A: Still the best player, with one year remaining on his contract and no interest in signing a new one. I unfortunately will have to sell him this offseason as I still want some cash for him

Ebro 35A: Striker alongside Bronner, netting 9 times. He will become a more important player if Bronner indeed leaves us

Dupont 33B: Mainly playing center back, as we are mostly playing 4-4-2

Malpon 32A: Alongside Dupont in Defense he helped alot in making it a successfull season

Thomas 34A: Another topplayer from an intake. Solved our hole on left back

Gauthier 35B: Starting to become a first team regular after the Lamoulie sell. But CM seems to be the biggest hole in the team, in not having a top player

Zekri 34C: Alongside Gauthier in CM, progressing well. Hard working midfielder with ok passing skills

NxtGen

This year we had 3 players on the NxtGen List with Tarik Haji 36A being on it, which is promising

Fabrice Bronner won the Golden Boy

Intake 37

Alot of elite talents even tho after the preview said it was a Golden Generation

 

 

Martin 37A, Vasquez 37B, Larabi 37C and Gillet 37D look promising

 

[Winski]

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig
2023/2024 (season 2)
3rd | 3. Liga
League table | Finances |Fixtures 1 | Fixtures 2 | Facilities | Transfers | Club Overview | Manager profile

 

What an amazing season!!! Our second season, and we manager to gain promotion to the 2. Bundesliga!!! We finished 3rd, after a very long fight with 1860 München and 1. FC Kaiserslautern about the 3rd place. St. Pauli and Karlsruhe were fighting for the championship together. With this 3rd place we qualified for the promotion playoffs. We had to play against Zwickau. And we did great, we were just fantastic.


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I still can't believe how good we were this season. Where to start with the best players? Ofcourse Djamal Ziane.  Our experienced striker scored 27 goals in total, fenomenal! But also goalkeeper Jan-Ole Sievers (who scored 3 goals from penalties this season), defender David Urban, midfielder Farid Abderrahmane and winger Bogdan Rangelov were fantastic. From our own youth intakes had Julius Nattermann 23e and Nico Flink 23g the most gametime this season.
We still can't upgrade our facilities because we don't have any money. The board won't even let me studying for a coaching license, so let's hope that this promotion will help me in that part.

Youth intake
This was a nice intake! I really like Nowak 24b, I will promote him to the first team as soon as I can.

Spoiler

[TheWillsy]

South Shields season 11: 2032-33

Really happy with our first season at championship level. There were a few hairy moments, but we were pretty comfortably away from trouble for most of the season, finishing 11 points away from the relegation zone. This was a lot better than I was expecting to be honest! We switched up the tactics a bit and used a mixture of 4231 and 442 diamond.

We had a really promising looking preview, and a decent intake. We are really in need of more defenders though at this stage, we have a lot of attacking midfielders coming through but a real lack of depth at full back and center back.

McGuffie displaced Pike as number 1 this season. Being in the championship, the wage demands of our players has gone up massively. We have tied down a number of them to new deals but there are a couple with 1 year remaining who might have to be sold as their demands won't fit within the budget.

We even got offered an interview with Man City at one stage! Crazy!

The funds have increased a lot due to the championship money and we have agreed some upgrades which will start at the beginning of the next season.

Edited January 25, 2022 by TheWillsy

[Sn00gle]

     

Ruch Chorzów - 2023/24

Squad - League - Finances - Transfers 

Decent season with 7th place in the league and a goal in the Cup. Unfortunately we lost Wojda 22b talent from recruitment 0 for Legia as he did not want to renew his contract. As we have some money we managed to improve in YF and JC which I believe will help us. We also have a good recruitment with many right wingers. Next season I will be aiming for around 8-12th place in the league and something from the Cup as the Polish Cup is weird.... In 3 seasons after creating the game once won by Puszcza Niepołomice who dropped from the 1st league and once by Stal Mielec who almost dropped from the Ekstraklasa, so why not.

Spoiler

 

Spoiler

[Morpheus13]

SC Toulon Season 37/38 Review

Table - Squad - U19Squad - Transfers - Finances

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A good season, again finishing 11th. As expected we had to sell Bronner 33A before the season, so Ebro 35A had to step up and he did. But in the end our current success is the nice balance in the squad. We dont really have big holes and even have some depth in most positions. We conceded more than last year and had some big losses and the wins were rather close. We continue improving our facilities and are nearly maxed out, so not much to do with the money we have.

Squad

Before the season we sold Bronner to Ajax. 15 Mil wasnt alot but still better than loose him for nothing next year and we got the sell on clause included

Besides that it has been the same players carrying the team. Ebro 35A stepping up and became our topscorer. Besides that it was Gauthier 35B and and Larabi 37C who seem to progress really well

Intake 38

Really nice preview and a fantastic intake following that. Alot of players who can become relevant for the first team. Makouna 38A, Perez 38B, Mathieu 38 C and Giraud 38D, F.Giraud 38E all are looking good.

 

For next season I expect us again to finish midtable even tho Ebro 35A is the next one with a contract running out and not wanting to extend him, so he might be gone. Otherwise I will try to integrate some of the young players and develop them (like every seaon)

 

[burnToest]

Going to try this challenge! I'll be going to Austria and taking over Sportclub Wiener Viktoria. Here is my manger at the start of the reset date for Austria. (BTW. I believe the reset date for Austria is June 14th? I'm not 100% but)

[Daddy]

2029 Season Review Chilean First Division:

Top of the table all season, so that's definitely a marked improvement. Sat in 2nd late in the season and faced the 3rd place team who won to claim 2nd. The final match was vs. the 4th place team who beat me to claim the 3rd spot. So I went from Copa Libertadores Group Stage to having to qualify for Copa Sudamericana groups. Harsh collapse. 

Y25D had his clause met so he was gone. Y25F was a year out and refusing to sign. I had some depth at his spot and was able to maximize what I could get for him.

First time I've had that happen. Shame he's not very good as I hear marketing boosts are gained from players that come out.

2029 Youth Intake:

Nothing super special here. More striker and MC depth. No standouts at a position of need.

2030 Season Preview:

I'm expecting a similar season as last, where I push for Copa Libertadores qualification, but comfortably qualify for Copa Sudamericana. My Copa Sudamericana qualifying draw was a comfortable one that I have a good record against so I'm optimistic to make the group stage and maybe advance from there.

my never ending quest to pick interesting kit designs continues. Keeping the same sponsors as I never have to worry how they look.

[The7Striker]

 

Haaland who ? 

Edited January 25, 2022 by The7Striker

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Season Summary 2035 - 2036

Bundesliga heartbreak and finally some CL progress

Last season we finished 2nd in the Bundesliga. We were part of the title race until March, but Dortmund ran away with it. This season brought another runner up finish, but this time it went all the way down to the last game. We finished just two points shy of Dortmund, who like us, won their last game. Interestingly, I got only two points more than last season, but this time around we were far closer to the title (2 points away rather than 15). It's fair that Dortmund won, but we could easily have snatched title with a little bit more luck and skill. A 2-2 draw at home to a fatigued Dortmund close to the end of the season was a missed opportunity for sure!! 

In the Champions League we finally made it through from the group stage, the first time in three opportunities. Finishing 2nd I was surprised to face Everton in the first knock-out stage, a team sitting in 9th place in the Premier League. So I was really dissapointed when they knocked us out 4-1 on aggregate!! 

We have some true gems in our U19 and Janz-Bolz will be part of the starting 11 next season. Jasper Berg will probably be promoted to the first team as well and we will see if he can fight his way into the team! 

Mohamed Ouni finally stood out as the world class player he is this season, hopefully his release clause wont be activated by any bigger clubs this summer. 

 

Season Summary

         

 

Key Players

      

 

Key Talents

      

 

[Makoto Nakamura]

A good defensive midfielder?!?

[Makoto Nakamura]

2065/66 Youth Candidates

So much for a good DM but at least we got wingers!

[OlivierL]

Africanos Bragança - Youth intake preview - Season 11 - Class 2033

Again a very good preview. I could use a very good Winger and Striker in my first team !

[jepze]

        

Jepze - UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole - Season 2031/32

Our first season in tier 4, and we just survived. It was a hard season for us, where we need to fight for points every game. But we did it. on the second last game of the season, we won the game and survived on a 12 places with 34 points. We can call the league for the leagues og second teams who can't promoted. Rennes 2 have won the league in the last 9 seasons and minimum 1 of the other top 3 teams was another second team. That means, that we need to get top 4 to promote, but we need to get some better players, if we will survive tier 3 in french. We got to the 8th round of the cup this time.

Squad | Transfer | Finances

Last season, we invested in the junior coaching, but again, it was an terrible preview. 1 A, 1 C, 1 D and all other positions was E and under. Some of the players was a bit useful, and there was some potential, but only one is good enough to get to the first team right now.

Spoiler

The first player and the best was Yaya Dramé, who is an attacker and a winger. We'll lose our DM this season, so maybe he will play some games in the next season. If we change our tactics to 4-2-3-1 or 4-2-2-2, he wil be one of the rotating strikers in the team.

The next player i'll show is Ethan Benard. If we don't change formation, he will maybe be our new DM. Otherwise, he could be a good CD for the first team as well. We need a new CD, so maybe i'll train him to play there.

Last player is Thabang Zaveroni, who looks like an okay fullback and will be our backup on DR, becuase our DM, who was the backup on DR, is leaving the club, because we're not good enough for him.

Manager statistics

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 12 – 2033/34 Goodbye Álvaro Leal

In a world where we were constantly worrying about Álvaro Leal's departure, we were looking to the other games we had in the league, and knowing that we needed to pick up more points to ensure our campaign for the Liga Portugal Bwin didn't end in just one season. Picking up 9 points in 7 games old me that we should be fine, as long as we don't collapse towards the end of the season.

After we took on Porto we found ourselves sitting in 9th place, enjoying a very comfortable season to say the least. Sitting 14 points clear of any threat of relegation gave us reason to believe that we should be fine this season. We just can't afford to do anything stupid.

The fact that we can say that despite Álvaro Leal left us for Liverpool after multiple sides activated his minimum release clause told me that we have built up enough points throughout the season that we should good, but I'd rather not claim that now and then come the end of the season find we've actually be relegated.

As to how we have coped with Leal's departure and who has taken his spot, and to see how well we did against Porto, feel free to watch the video linked below. It's been a good season otherwise.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 77

[XaW]

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2033/34 - JD Cymru Premier

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We couldn't retain the title this season, and TNS swooped in and took it back. It was mostly down to a gruesome start to the season where we had loads of injuries, tiredness, players away on international youth matches, and just a perfect storm where I rarely could play anything close to the strongest 11. This will hopefully be better going forwards, since we are finally going professional this summer! So I'll have a big job convincing the best players over to full time deals (and hopefully extensions!) this season. At least we are still heading into Europe next season, we need that going forward due to the lack of money in the domestic league.

I had to rotate a lot this season, but we still had a few standout players. Ilias Mavridis 31e continues to be our top scorer, and his scoring ratio is through the roof. Siôn Wyn Peagram 30j continues his great development and continues to provide loads of assists. 

Welsh League Cup: We beat Bangor City before we lost to Llandudno in the 3rd round.
Welsh Cup: We beat Afan Lido, Barry Town, and Bangor City before we lost to TNS in the semi final.

Champions League: We played in the Champions League for the first time and we managed to beat Apollon Limassol of Cyprus and Malmö FF of Sweden before we got beat by Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia.
Europa League: That put us into the Europa Leauge and here we beat Ferencváros of Hungary to find ourselves in the group stage! Far better than I had expected! We got Wolfsburg of Germany, Young Boys of Switzerland, and Standard Liège of Belgium. We managed to draw 0-0 away to Wolfsburg in the first match, but that was the highlight as we lost the rest of the matches and failed to score a goal. Unsurprisingly, we finished dead last and got knocked out. Still a great European adventure for us, and quite profitable.

Youth intake:

A pretty good intake, with a couple of very exciting prospects.

Matt Mackie 34a is a promising defender. A bit short, but decent jumping reach for his size. I do hope he grows a bit.

Ahmed Hassan 34b is a very talented fullback, and will go straight into the first team. The drawback is his determination, but I hope to mentor that up a fair bit.

While we have some good strikers, this season it became clear we had _few_ decent ones. So a deadly finisher like Craig Owen 34c is most welcome.

Trophy cabinet

JD Cymru Premier - 1 (2032/33)
JD Cymru North - 1 (2025/26)

[Winski]

NOOOOO.........

I expected a tough season, but this...... I wasn't able to turn it around.

[The7Striker]

9 minutos atrás, Winski disse:

NOOOOO.........

I expected a tough season, but this...... I wasn't able to turn it around.

Thats harsh 

Sad they didnt gave you another chance in tier 3

Edited January 26, 2022 by The7Striker

[Sn00gle]

@XaWI dont think any of my strikers in any version of this challenge got together 17 finishing  

[Koetzer]

Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur – season 2042

That was the closest run in Champions League playoffs so far, Atletico dominated both games but we kept the overall draw until 82nd minute in Madrid. Sigþórsson eventually became second best goalkeeper of the tournament.

KR now has a really strong squad full of foreigners (better than our players on some positions) so it wasn’t a surprise that the title battle continued until the last matchday. And actually it was decided by our 1-0 win at home back in May!

Cups – KR won two pre-season cups, but we took the main one after defeating them in semi-final.

Champions League qualifiers – needed to pass the only round and decided everything in the first leg.

Group stage – a home draw against Borussia was entertaining but not enough to qualify.

Youth League – won the group on head-to-head difference with Porto.

Transfers – reserves cleanup, as usual.

Squad stats – Guðmundsson missed almost whole league season with a broken ankle, and that was a chance to impress for a backup striker Viðarsson. He didn’t play too much but managed to become a top goalscorer (shared with Eliasson) and had the highest average rating. Gunnarsson also had a great season, leading the team in assists and scoring his first international goal.

Youth intake

Guðmundsson *42a | Arinbjörnsson *42b | Eysteinsson *42c | Guðbrandsson *42d | Vincent *42e

We got two players from our foreign affiliates (Sochaux and Shandong) but they aren’t better than local youngsters (who don’t look like future superstars either).

It’s great to see that we aren’t the only Icelandic team which is competitive in Europe, KR reached the Conference League semi-final this year and that surely helped our rankings to grow. And our stadium will be finally expanded after the next season, while we are temporary relocating to the national arena.

[OlivierL]

13 minutes ago, Koetzer said:

Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur – season 2042

That was the closest run in Champions League playoffs so far, Atletico dominated both games but we kept the overall draw until 82nd minute in Madrid. Sigþórsson eventually became second best goalkeeper of the tournament.

KR now has a really strong squad full of foreigners (better than our players on some positions) so it wasn’t a surprise that the title battle continued until the last matchday. And actually it was decided by our 1-0 win at home back in May!

Cups – KR won two pre-season cups, but we took the main one after defeating them in semi-final.

Champions League qualifiers – needed to pass the only round and decided everything in the first leg.

Group stage – a home draw against Borussia was entertaining but not enough to qualify.

Youth League – won the group on head-to-head difference with Porto.

Transfers – reserves cleanup, as usual.

Squad stats – Guðmundsson missed almost whole league season with a broken ankle, and that was a chance to impress for a backup striker Viðarsson. He didn’t play too much but managed to become a top goalscorer (shared with Eliasson) and had the highest average rating. Gunnarsson also had a great season, leading the team in assists and scoring his first international goal.

Youth intake

Guðmundsson *42a | Arinbjörnsson *42b | Eysteinsson *42c | Guðbrandsson *42d | Vincent *42e

We got two players from our foreign affiliates (Sochaux and Shandong) but they aren’t better than local youngsters (who don’t look like future superstars either).

It’s great to see that we aren’t the only Icelandic team which is competitive in Europe, KR reached the Conference League semi-final this year and that surely helped our rankings to grow. And our stadium will be finally expanded after the next season, while we are temporary relocating to the national arena.

Love the Chinese and French nationality in Iceland.

[The7Striker]

Enniskillen Rovers FC 2023/2024 Season

Finances  Transfers  Squad  Manager

Money is not abundant but for now we are holding the boat and to help out, players leave for a free. The news this year is that we have a full squad, so this means, rotation.

 

F & W Division 2 ( 6th tier)

Season Prev  Games  Past Positions

Another great season where the odds weren't bad. And once again we got promoted. I cant stop praise Marc Lamont, 21 goals in 16 games, 21!!! Martin Craig and John Byrne also made some solid seasons and help us out massively. In terms of quality, this tier was very similiar to the last one that why we didn't have many difficulties.

 

Youth Intake 

With no staff is hard to see who is worth and who is not, so I decided to sign those that on paper have better quality. In the future I will have to reduce the numer of players in the club because everyone earns around €20-€30 per game and without cash i cant afford a big squad.

[OlivierL]

First International SENIOR call-up - 20/12/32

Lopes 30F is one of our best players but he never capped for U20 or U23 . Now he joined the AFCON squad !

Downside : He is gone for one month and he will miss -+ 7 games. 

Edited January 26, 2022 by OlivierL

[Makoto Nakamura]

2065/66 End of Season Review

Well, we were a bit rubbish there...still a good season on the whole but we need a stronger defence, big time.

 

 

  

  

Overall Best XI

2065/66 Best XI

Ross McHattie (YP36h)

Grant Martin (YP36c) - Joel Kinsella (YP33d) - Robbie Johnson (YP41c) - Robbie Rae (YP33f)

Kieran Ballard (YP40g)

Kai Stuart (YP32e) - Ciaran Jack (YP39f)

Grant Bain (YP34h)                                                                    Rab Hart (YP36j)

Gino Carere (YP30d)

[Makoto Nakamura]

We need a new AML and GK really.

[OlivierL]

 

Africanos Bragança - Portugal - Youth Intake - Class 2033

Preview

The preview was again a good indicator . We received an intake with very high PA and 5 or 6 players with high CA. The personalities and determination wasn't that great.

 

  

Neves 33A is the player with highest PA . A very good midfielder with sadly a bad personality. Silva 33P has the highest CA with 46.31 , he is our best player ever that joined us from the academy.

With Nascimento 33M and Monteiro 33N we have our two future fast wingers ! Fernandes 33H had a good personality and gives us an extra option up front with his 15 finishing and good heading attribute. Dias 33E has everything to become another DC option. 

 

[The Gold Guard]

OFK Beograd - Year 22 (2043/44)

League | Squad | Season XI | Overall XI 

An awesome rebound from last season’s sub-par performance. It was just an absolute stormer all the way to winter with my squad.
Then January came looming again and players wanted to move on. We just don’t have the reputation yet at club or league level that we can retain a silverware-bound squad.
After we got raided in the window we were once again back playing fairly average but thankfully to a good start we could keep the top spot.

This is a massive wound for me as we attempt for another season of Champions League climbing with a weakened squad with barely any star players retained.
Thankfully my defence this time is the strongest it has ever been and I hope we can just at least win some games playing some poophousery. 

Transfers | Finances

I really don’t need the profit anymore. I am grateful that we can get some outgoing transfers with 50% percentage fees but it really doesn’t mean anything when you can’t use the money to invest any more… 
Starting to hit that ceiling that we can only smash if we start smashing our expectations on the continental front. Hopefully when that stadium is complete in a bit we can push for the next level.

Youth Squad | Preview | Intake

I need new attacking personnel to lead this club in the future and I really hope that the top percentile of this intake can deliver that to me in the future.
Unfortunately no one is capable of just waltzing into the first team this time around but I am open to ideas now that the first team has been raided yet again by the top leagues.

Notable Prospects:

Veljko Jelicic (44A) | Vladimir Pantelic (44B) | Vladimir Prodanovic (44C)

Healthy Crops: 

Dejan Cigankovic (34F)

My full back who can play on either flank has been given his first international opportunities this season and rightfully so. I also managed to keep him despite all the transfer interest.
As someone who has been around since the year 2034, I think it is fair to say I will do my utmost to work the defence around him.

Goran Zivkovic (38C)

I cannot say the same for this defender though. His efforts this season earned him the land of Russian riches - thankfully at the end of the campaign.
I like having the leverage now of at the very least keeping my stars majority of the time until the end of season. 

Feda Krsmanovic (40B)

My class of ‘40 was torn apart in January. I tried my best to keep them around but they all wanted to move on or had their release clauses activated.
Thankfully my star GK stayed on but with a 4 mil release fee clause that his agent just won’t shake off…
I think this summer window will require divine intervention for him to stay around. There’s nothing I can do and he is aware of that.

[Daddy]

2030 Midseason Review:

Bit of a sluggish start and a fair bit of rotation as I wanted to make more of a push for the Copa Sudamericana this season. Would have to really catch fire to get a top 4 spot, but 5-8 I'm still confident in.

Last season the team that won my group won the whole competition. I drew one match and lost the other 1-0. Once I saw that I decided to rotate my stronger squad to this competition instead of trying a more even split. Some injuries hit and both competitions suffered a bit, but I got through the group and will be facing a team sitting in 6th in Argentina. 

2030 Intake Preview: 

Well this looks very promising!

[Makoto Nakamura]

2066/67 Youth Candidates

Honestly? Really disappointed, not one member of staff has less than a professional personality and yet we get a lot of poor personalities and a lot of poor players on the whole.

[Makoto Nakamura]

2066/67 End of Season Review

We reached expectation, just. And probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere near if Gino hadn't of scored almost double his xG this season.

  

  

 

Ciaran Jack won't renew his contract so he'll need to leave in the summer window.  

Overall Best XI

2066/67 Best XI

Ross McHattie (YP36h)

Grant Martin (YP36c) - Joel Kinsella (YP33d) - Robbie Johnson (YP41c) - Ryan Whelan (YP27b)

Kieran Ballard (YP40g)

Ian Brady (YP41h) - Ciaran Jack (YP39f)

Jacob Garnham (YP40i)                                                                    Rab Hart (YP36j)

Gino Carere (YP30d)

Next season we'll hit 2,000 games!

[Sn00gle]

Strikers you say 
Str

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2024/25

FC Isle of Man

Once again, it wasn't the best preview:

Though again,the intake was excellent.

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 12 – 2033/34 Youth Intake

From the end of February and March, we struggled to pick up points. Looking at our opponents, you can see why we didn't beat Benfica and Braga, though we did come from behind to take another point off Benfica, and Braga are the league champions. Portimonense we should have done better against, Gil Vicente we conceded a late equaliser, while Famalicão are a good team. Feirense became a must-win and we beat them 3-1.

That win ensures that we are 16 points clear of Feirense with 6 games to go and 15 points clear of Belenenses SAD, so we are practically clear of the relegation zone now, which is delightful.

Then, we got our youth intake. It is quite frankly the best youth intake in terms of the quantity of talent that we received in a single intake, and their personalities are pretty good too. We pick up 7 players with 5 star potential ability and an additional player with 4.5 stars potential ability. It was a great intake.

Rodrigos Queirós is a winger who needs work to reach the potential that we have been promised. He has speed and nothing much to his game really.

Now Amadu Indjai looks really exciting for me. A left-back who could compete with Rafael Sona for the first-team. Another really talented Guinea-Bissau talent makes me realise that we're potentially boasting their national team with Indjai and Pereira, especially given that the national team has reached two straight AFCON finals in a row and have qualified to the World Cup.

José Patrocínio is a centre-back who is a bit on the shorter side, but some of his mental and physical attributes are really exciting, so hopefully if we can develop him to be a major player in the backline.

Alex Boateng has been a player that we have been gifted by our affiliate Charity Stars of all places, but I am not complaining. Boateng can play as a striker, and on both wings to a good level. I will be trying to give him first-team football through the next couple of years, so we can make sure that he gets better and better and can compete with the likes of Quinaneiro and Pope up front in the future.

Eduardo Moreira is a very exciting young talent who might be the best player that has come through our latest intake. He can play as an attacking midfielder, he can play as a central-midfielder and I can also see him also playing as a striker as well. Am I crazy for seeing him up front as a deep lying forward or in the midfield as a mezzala? He needs to work on his strength, but I am excited either way.

Claudio Teixeira feels like a playmaker. He doesn't have the physical attributes to be a winger and he comes deep to get the ball. He's someone who can spray the ball around to any target that we need him to find. 

Max Torres is half-Portuguese and half-American player who can play on the wings and can play in the middle of the park. He's a free-kick specialist who I really desperately want to try and make an inverted winger on the left side on the pitch. If we can work on his determination and improve him overall, he can be a very exciting young talent.

Yanis Louis is another exciting left-back that has come through our latest intake. Between himself and Amadu Indjai, we have some much needed competition for player development in the left-back role, and it's very exciting.

As for the other players in our youth intake? We covered them in our latest video as well as watched our game against Feirense as we attempted to improve our position in the league. I like to think it was worth a watch.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 78

[TheWillsy]

Can anyone explain how this preview is “Excellent” and 4 and a half stars?! That goalkeeper must be incredible 

Edited January 27, 2022 by TheWillsy

[XaW]

That's the highest potential I've seen in a poached player... Stop it, Liverpool!

[libbyshuss]

FC Muniz

Argentina

Primera C Metropolitana (Tier 4)

2026/27 (season 5)

Season Summary

This is getting to be a habit with me. I lost loads of play off finals with Whitby Town and I managed to lose my thrid in a row with Munoz!

League - we were poor at first, with only two victories in the first ten games and keeping morale up was starting to become a struggle. But then we managed a win, and another, and as morale and confidence grew so did the wins. We managed ninin a row in the end! We were also much stronger after the winter break, which was nice to see. Some of those first few youths are really blooming and becoming really good players giving the squad a strangth in depth we've lacked the last couple of seasons

To be fair. with a league of 19 teams where the top team get promoted and the next 8 get into the pay offs it's not really that much of an achievement making those play offs.

 

The play offs were again a similar pattern. We beat Barracas and Claypole to get through to the final where we just ran out of steam, losing 2-0 to Liniers. Fourth time lucky?

 

Players

Really pleased to see a good few youth intake players really make their mark in the first team. 

Really need to sort those personalities out though. Way too many balanced peeps for my liking!

 

Youth

Second disappointing intake in a row. Shame, as the preview was pretty good!

 

From a 5 star excellent preview to a 2 star below average intake! I didn't sign any of them I was so upset!

 

Finances and Upgrades

No big cup run so no bit cash intake. But we've manged to get the debt under control and hopefully will start making money soon. Then maybe I can get some upgrades! or even a coaching badge!

 

Career

[The7Striker]

1 hora atrás, XaW disse:

That's the highest potential I've seen in a poached player... Stop it, Liverpool!

Liverpool Scouts are awesome 

[Pauldinho7]

Back for a new challenge here thanks to all of you!!! Reading this thread has kept my appetite for this challenge up and with the Level 10 database in England I have decided to play this save alongside my main Southampton save.

I chose to load up to Level 8 where the Southern League Division One is my chosen starting league at that level. It means I could pick a team promoted from my local Wessex Premier Division for my save game once they were promoted in 2022.

So without further ado, I am the new manager at Bashley FC - a ground that I've played at a few times over the last couple of years as well!

 

Great start allowing me to get my first coaching badge too: