The FM22 Youth Academy Challenge

[WhiteCat33]

14 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

@WhiteCat33 sorry for the unsolicited 'advice', but I thought you might find this useful.

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I think this is what your HoYD looks like in FM22.  This is based on staff attributes for newgens, rather than player (they can differ slightly), and is updated for FM22.

 

Thanks, it's still in the same ballpark though  so I'm not too worried and with what I'm working with here in Slovenia he's golden. My head coach trains every position and is still better than any staff I can find by a mile. Might change when we finally go Profesional but so far the board won't be swayed. 

[DrJones]

Truro City 2023/2024

There is not so much to say about the season really, we were never in danger of relegation and never really competing for promotion. The big take away from this season is probably that we sorted out our defence. Mainly due to our new counter attacking 4-4-2.

Squad

Youth Intake

Our new goalkeeper. I don't know how much Eccentricity actually affect a GK in the game, I've always thought that it's bad but I have no idea really what it means, will he try to do that scorpion kick like Higuita? Time will tell...

Come on you white tigers!

[Makoto Nakamura]

With our reputation lowering I'm not holding out much hope.

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35

The Portuguese leagues are something that I am trying to understand, but at the same time I feel like I have figured something out as well. We can beat some big teams in the form of Braga, but then lose to some newly promoted teams in the form of Nacional by the same score-line. It is a source of frustration and something that I hope I can figure out sooner rather than later.

Having just lost to Sporting CP, I know that have lost to the defending champions who are hoping that they can win the league title for the 2nd straight season. It's exciting times for ourselves, for we are already 7 points clear of the relegation playoffs and it makes me believe that we can actually pull off a great season.

 

In other news, Vítor Ventura accepted this contract offer, and I am delighted simply because if a club in the Champions League activates the release clause and gives me £33.5M, that will 100% change the club's future and it's a wonderful time. Now I just need to hope that Ventura doesn't decide we're not good enough for his ambition at the age of 18 and leave me in an unwanted situation going forward.

If you want to see how our games have been going and the types of goals we've been scoring, feel free to watch the video linked down below. 

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 81

[libbyshuss]

11 hours ago, JAwtunes said:

Does anyone use a loan manager?

I read a post several months ago, for FM21 I think, about loan managers adding purchase clauses in loan deals - meaning there was a chance your loan manager would end up selling your players.  Is this still the case?  I ask because I cant seem to find anyone to take my players!

I never use a loan manager. Partly because I don't want to risk something like that happening, partly because I want to control where they go on loan (and also what position they'll play, play time they get and so on)

I'd be interested to hear people's experiences though cos like you I'm finding it a slog to get anyone to take them atm

[Makoto Nakamura]

2069/70 Youth Candidates

More defenders and two new birthplaces added, Paisley & Lakeland (FL).

[OlivierL]

Africanos Bragança - Youth intake preview - Season 12 - Class 2034

We need a good DMC .

[Makoto Nakamura]

2069/70 End of Season Review

Amazing. We finished 7th last season with 50 points and this season we finished 4th and made the playoffs with just 49.

  

   

Overall Best XI

2069/70 Best XI

Ross McHattie (YP36h)

Grant Martin (YP36c) - Joel Kinsella (YP33d) - Robbie Cairns (YP40c) - Robbie Rae (YP33f)

Kieran Ballard (YP40g)

Ian Brady (YP41h) - Kai Stuart (YP32e)

Jacob Garnham (YP40i)                                                                    Corey McGinley (YP38h)

Gino Carere (YP30d)

[Redknapp_13]

SC Toulon Season 39/40 Review

Table - Squad - U19Squad - Transfers - Finances

Our best season so far. We finished 4th, which means Europa League Football next season. Even tho it comes as a surprise, to be that good, I must say that we have a very decent squad now and most players locked up with long term contract. The result looks good, but we are nowhere near good enough to win the league. Either PSG or Monaco have nearly every year a dream season. 27 Points of first is alot and we lack consistency to have a season like this. Our biggest strength this year has been, that we kept beating the worse opponents with consistency.

Squad

Still lacking a bit of Quality upfront and the creative part in central midfield. But Pascal Giraud 38D could step slowly into the first team. In Defense it is Youssouf M'Dahoma 39A who will soon be a regular starter. But at the Moment it is still Haji 36A and Malpon 32A who are the first choice center backs. In central midfield it is Larabi 37C who is becoming better and better. Lambert 36B coming down the left flank becoming one of our best players and I hope still more to come. Some Depth the with N'Diaye 38G, who had a great loanspell and is becoming better and better rather unexpected. Senouvo34D is still our best striker but I would love an upgrade there. Most exited at the moment about Vazquez 37B, who I just love with his skillset, playing right wing back

Intake 40

It was prewied as an excellent intake even tho a C was the best. The intake itself did not look that bad, with some elite talents, but I dont have much hope for them. Ngoy40A, Roger40B and Hubert40C look like the best of them, but not really good personalities

 

I'm exited what European Football will bring. Hopefully a small reputation boost and since we dont really need the  money anymore, and facilities are maxed out, I will try to keep all the players here.

Other News

[Makoto Nakamura]

Should be a good intake but we need players to help us get to that next level.

[thomas_e]

SpVgg Unterhaching

Season Summary 2036 - 2037

Bundesliga and Champions League runner-up....

Well, there is no competing with Borussia Dortmund. I had my best season by far, yet we couldn't complete winning the league or the CL. In the Bundesliga we finished 2nd with 91 points, a record for a team not winning the league! Borussia Dortmund, who has probably the best team I have seen on FM, lost one single game, and that was the last game of the season against us. We finished 16 points in front of Bayern, which is something that should secure the title 99% of the time. I am dissapointed with not winning, but I cant be dissapointed with 91 points..........

In the Champions League we finally had our breakthrough season! In the group stage we finished 2nd behind Real Madrid, knocking out Chelsea and LASK. The first knock out stage had us facing PSG. A 3-0 win at home and 1-3 loss away saw us through to the quarter finals, facing Bayern. We won 3-1 on aggregate, and to be fair we were in control of the tie from the first minute. Man City was the next hurdle in the semi-finals and after a 1-0 loss away we smashed them 6-2 at home!! Of course we faced Borussia Dortmund in the final, they had of course not conceded more than two goals in the knock-out stage combined... When we faced them they had plenty of players, that on paper, had really bad fatigue and lacked match fitness. But what does that matter when it doesn't seem to impact game performance at all? They won 2-1, but were by far the better team. This was the ifirst time on the Youth Academy Challenge that I have lost a CL final. 

We have some really talented players in the first team at this point, especially on the attacking side of the pitch. Let's hope we can win either the Bundesliga or the Champions League next year, although I fear we spoiled a huge opportinuty in the CL this season. 

 

Season Summary

         

 

Key Players

      

 

Key Talents

      

 

[libbyshuss]

FC Muniz

Argentina

Primera C Metropolitina (Tier 4)

2027/28 (season 6)

Season Summary

We were really good again but just not quite good enough again. 12 wins and 6 defeats put us first going into the winter break and we came out the other side pretty well as well. But in the end El Porvenir were just a little more consistent and, despite us beating them on the fina day, they pipped us to the title.

The play offs started off well with a nice easy way through the quarter final. General Lamadrid were next and shouldn't have been too much bother for us. But despite us plying them off the park in the first leg they somehow sneaked a 1-0 win. The second leg was at home though so I wasn't too bothered. We battered them, couldn't score, drew 0-0 and went out.

 

Players

I got a nice settled team but I'm thinking of slightly altering the tactic and dropping the AMC to a DMC and try and tighten up the back. Also, i have 4 strikers but al of them are better in other positions which is a bit annoying. I could do with a specialist striker through the youth team really.

 

Youth

Dammit, another great preview followed by a mediocre intake. A new keeper is always welcome though so hopefully not completely wasted year

5 stars! goldne generation!!

Oh no, it's a 2 star intake with a nice ooking keeper. Actually, if that's a 2 star intake then I can't wait to see a 5 star intake!

 

Finances and Upgrades

We are still in the red and still losing money. Losing early in the cup really didn't help. But the board were super happy with me for being first so I chanced my arm and.....

We've finally begun! 

I'm quite enjoying this Argentina challenge. Using these expanded databases definitely makes it more tricky as well as more interesting. I'm getting quite into lower league Argentinian football!

 

Career

 

edit: I must be doing something right. Two invitations to interview with two top tier clubs who I've heard of and everything!

Edited January 30, 2022 by libbyshuss

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35 Youth Intake Preview

So our recent run of form has seen up win 3 games on the bounce, something that I didn't think was possible a while ago, but we've also managed to have some pretty poor defeats. The defeats to Chaves in the Taça de Portugal and Portimonense in the league come to mind.

The league sees up in the top half of the table and 12 points clear of the relegation zone. Something that I would have taken at the beginning of the season, but really I'm looking at the league table and I'm not looking at the European spots, I'm more focused on making sure we don't get dragged into a relegation fight, despite our really good start. I can see us having a really bad run of form in the future.

The youth intake preview has been provided and we were told that we would be getting a good goalkeeper, a good central midfielder, a good attacking midfielder, a good winger and a good centre-back. All of the areas that we need strengthening in. The one thing that I was surprised about was the fact that I was not promised a single striker. I do feel that we need more good strikers to come through our future intakes, but other than that, this has promise to be a good intake. 

My latest video which shows our latest intake preview and how we did against Benfica can be viewed using the link below. It's been a promising start to the season, but I need to remind myself that we are only needing to avoid relegation this season.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 82

[libbyshuss]

So I got a little problem. Is it a gamebreaking/savebreaking issues you think?

 

So the new season started and my first game was against last seasons play off winners. shouldn't they be promoted? So I checked the season summary and..... the season hasn't been logged as finished.

Even weirder, it seems to have happened before. 

Check the previous winners of the SuperLiga:-

 

No winners listed in 2027 or 2029. In the season summaries those seasons just don't exitst.

I'm assuming it's because of the custom dB I'm using but has anyone seen anything similar before? Is my save broken? 

[vikeologist]

11 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

So I got a little problem. Is it a gamebreaking/savebreaking issues you think?

 

So the new season started and my first game was against last seasons play off winners. shouldn't they be promoted? So I checked the season summary and..... the season hasn't been logged as finished.

Even weirder, it seems to have happened before. 

Check the previous winners of the SuperLiga:-

 

No winners listed in 2027 or 2029. In the season summaries those seasons just don't exist.

I'm assuming it's because of the custom dB I'm using but has anyone seen anything similar before? Is my save broken? 

This kind of thing; competition stopping, has definitely been a problem before, and can't be fixed by updates, but the fact that it restarted once gives hope.

I'd suggest running the save forward by a year (and possibly more) to check that your new season registers.

Also you'd need to assess how it affects continental qualification; tough with River winning every year.

More to the point, what happened to the team that finished top of your current division in 26/27? And indeed, last year.

Edited January 30, 2022 by vikeologist

[libbyshuss]

5 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

I'd suggest running the save forward by a year (and possibly more) to check that your new season registers.

Good idea. Probably be prudent to try running it 3 or 4 seasons actually. But their might be something causing it that doesn't get triggered on a run through maybe? I dunno. Thing is, I don't want to invest too much time if it's going to happen a lot and prevent me getting promoted/participating in continental competion and so on

 

6 minutes ago, vikeologist said:

More to the point, what happened to the team that finished top of your current division in 26/27? And indeed, last year.

As far as I can tell no relegation/promotion happened at all. I noticed it in 26/27 but just assumed there was some rule preventing pormotion, like B teams, something like that. But turns out there was no promotion/relegation in any divison as the game didnt recognise they finished. But it did play that next season perfectly fine and there was promotion/relegation at the end of that.

It's a completely new thing to me!

[vikeologist]

6 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

Good idea. Probably be prudent to try running it 3 or 4 seasons actually. But their might be something causing it that doesn't get triggered on a run through maybe? I dunno. Thing is, I don't want to invest too much time if it's going to happen a lot and prevent me getting promoted/participating in continental competion and so on

 

As far as I can tell no relegation/promotion happened at all. I noticed it in 26/27 but just assumed there was some rule preventing pormotion, like B teams, something like that. But turns out there was no promotion/relegation in any divison as the game didnt recognise they finished. But it did play that next season perfectly fine and there was promotion/relegation at the end of that.

It's a completely new thing to me!

i'd agree it is prob the db. not a known issue otherwise afaik

[XaW]

XaW - Brickfield Rangers - Season 2035/36 - JD Cymru Premier

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We retained the title and did so with a nice margin down to TNS. The league was wrapped up quite fast, and I could give more time to the new kids this time around. A few teams have started to sniff around some of the better players, so I've yet to have anyone really complain, so I hope I can keep them going forward.

Stuart Jennings 33a once again had an excellent season, while Ilias Mavridis 31e continues to be our main goalscorer. Young Lloyd Walker 35b is fast becoming our main defenders, and at the very back, Jay Beck 30k continues to deliver, this time adding 12 more goals to his total of 37 goals.

Welsh League Cup: We beat Llandudno and Bala Town before we lost to TNS in the quarter final.
Welsh Cup: We lost to TNS in the 3rd round.

Champions League: We beat KF Shkëndija of North Macedonia and Glentoran of Northern Ireland before we lost to Shakhtar of Ukraine in the 3rd qualifying round.
Europa League: We beat Dinamo Tblisi in the playoff to go into the group stage. There we faced AZ of the Netherlands, Benfica of Portugal, and Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia. We somehow managed to finish 2nd and go into the knockout rounds. There we lost to Stade Rennais of France in the 1st knockout round.

Youth intake:

Not as good as the previous ones, but still a good intake.

Billy Barker 36a is a decent winger.

Don Sayer 36b is a promising left back, at least I need players there, so I hope he can improve.

Trophy cabinet

JD Cymru Premier - 3 (2032/33, 2034/35, 2035/36)
JD Cymru North - 1 (2025/26)

Welsh Cup - 1 (2034/35)
Welsh League Cup - 1 (2034/35)

[Daddy]

2031 Midseason:

Chilean First Division:

Loss to Colo Colo and to a lower ranked team, but otherwise playing really well even with rotating players.

Copa Libertadores:

Copa Sudamericana:

A win in the Second Qualifying round ensured staying alive in continental play, but ran into a Colombian team that just ran us over. The group stage was a little tighter than it looks by the final standings. Knockouts begin with a matchup against the Peruvian First Division Champions coming off being knocked out of Copa Libertadores Group.

2031 Youth Intake Preview:

Doesn't look like much depth to the intake, but always looking for more Keepers and Fullbacks to break out.

[Winski]

 

OMG! We just qualified for the Group Stage of the Champions League!!!

We first met Partizan Beograd. And I thought they were way too good for us, but it turned out to be the opposite. We just owned them. In the next round we faced Valur, a familiar name from my Icelandic saves with IR. We won both matches against the Icelandic champion. Then we faced FC Kobenhavn in the Third Qualifying Round. Kobenhavn got some really, really good players. In the first match, at home, we should have won the match. We had 18 shots(9 on goal), they 5 shots(1 on goal) and they scored the equalizer in the 90+1 minute. The away match was way more difficult and with some luck the match also ended 1-1, also after extra time. So penalties had to decide a winner. And after a real penalty thriller we won!

So we suddenly qualified for the CL Playoffs! We faced FK Qarabağ from Kazachstan. Quite an easy draw if you tell me. The first match went great, with supersub Bartlomiej Purcha scoring 2 goals:

The second match, at home, wasn't very spectaculair, although we had a lot of chances to score. But my players were really, really tired because we played a lot of matches in a very short time(CL and league matches). But WE DID IT!!!! We qualified for the Group Stage of the Champions League!!

EDIT:
The draw of our CL group:

 

Edited January 30, 2022 by Winski

[JLAB]

 

So... turns out my latest intake might have produced another monster. There's potentially 3 monsters in 5 seasons now. I have no idea what's in the water in our area.

[WhiteCat33]

Nogometni Klub Pobrezje: 2038/39 – Slovenian 2^nd Liga (Season 15)

Season Review: https://imgur.com/a/60gvBHV

Performance: 4th: Table

I knew we had a chance this year, with us actually having 2 players in the Season Previews "Media Dream Eleven" and predicted to finish 8th. We started off with an insane 12 game unbeaten streak (over 1/3 of the season) which saw us tied at the top of the table. Yet the good times never last and we had the most abysmal fall with us going 1-1-5 where we went the entire month of November winless. It was the dual edge sword of semi-pro burnout plus all my stars get called up for international duty and missed 2 of the 4 games that month (of course against the best teams in the league). Frustrating to say the least. We had absolutely no problems the back 1/3rd of the season like usual going 8-2-0 pulling us up to 4th. Its the classic story of no depth and losing steam during the peak of the congested half of the season.

Going back to the season preview while my CAM/CM  Peter Kocuvan 34d had a fine season, it was truly Franc Gulic 34e who delivered an incredible season. This season he tied the league record Goals & Player of the Match awards with 28 and 10 respectively in 25 appearances, which was . Naturally both are also now team records for a single season. He's now won the 2nd League Player of the season 2 years in a row as well as been the Striker for the Team of the Year  (Screenshots). He's truly too good for this level.

I've got him for 1 last season before I'll be cashing in as he's one of my 4 golden generation stars who are too good for us. Others are Kocuvan 34d, our GK Janez Medved 34a, and our RB  Mario Kuzmic 35b. Because of that, next year will be our last chance for a generation to gain promotion. Happily both Koper and Primorje are moving up this year. They and Gorica are much stronger than the team that was promoted last year (Rudar Velenje) and the other team coming down, Domzale, is a semi-regular yo-yo so may be manageable.  We also finally have some CBs aging up into the squad and while they aren't star players by any means, they are at least serviceable for our level, which we seriously need. The question will be if we can survive the attrition of the fall as we have the quality now to win the league iff everything goes perfectly. 

Transfers

Youth Academy

YI Preview

Youth Intake

Not the greatest intake. Maybe my new HOYD wasn’t the best idea?

Even though he has low potential, this striker is the one I like the best

The Croatian could be decent on the left if he develops well; my normal wingers aren’t good so it’s a low bar. Right now I play my star CAM/CM as AML sometimes and rotate 2 others. None of which really stand-out as high performers.

Ended up taking a good number, will be looking to do some house cleaning this summer

Club/Manager Upgrades

Final Coaching Badge

Decided to bump up our youth setup which will stress the finances, but they are fundraising a lot and we are increasing our attendance so hopefully it will come up to match. Plus we will have player sales soon...

First Affiliate is a 3^rd League team NK Apace not super useful, but can shoot a few loans there. 

Excel

 

[Flashman\'s School Days]

Tacuarembó Fútbol Club - Season 2030 Review

Manager Characteristics - Manager Attributes - Transfers - Fixtures 1, 2, 3

Campeonato Uruguayo - 5th

A much better season finishing 3 places higher than last season and thankfully not being in any danger of not qualifying for continental football although we were still a way off 4th place to get Copa Libertadores.  We began the season with a change in formation, my second attempt at using our abundance of defensive and central midfielders.  This took a couple of games to kick into gear as we drew and lost despite being the better side in both games, we then won three before three draws.  This was a bit disheartening as we seemed to be the better side in almost every game yet having little to show for it.  From there on we managed some good wins in the opening stage but dropping another two losses, this took us into the Intermedio stage in a good position but we got drawn in a group with Nacional and Penarol.  This was made even worse because it being a World Cup year the league and continental comps cram all the games in before that starts so we struggled with rotation and fitness.

In the closing stage we were very strange, managing three 5-1 wins including one against Nacional but we also drew against teams we shouldn't have done and also went on a four game winless run and maybe if we can turn some of those draws in our favour next season a return to the Copa Libertadores may be on the cards.

Copa Sudamericana - 2nd Round

For the second year running we had to beat Danubio to get to the group stage where we also drew Flamengo for the second year running and also former group stage adversaries Aldosivi.  It was our first perfect group stage which included a couple of thrashings to Sol de America and one to Aldosivi, although the latter still ended up as runners up in the group and only survived relegation in the Argentinian top flight by goal difference.

The draw for the second round was just utterly frustrating because I fancied our chances against any side in the competition except for Nacional who had dropped down from the Libertadores.  They won 2-1 in the away leg and then in the home leg we just couldn't muster a goal against a well organised defence which could have sent us through on away goals.  They then went on to reach their second final in three years but this time didn't manage to lift the trophy.

Squad

Some pretty important changed to the side by the end of this season with three big players for us leaving, first of all Matías Tabárez 27a left in the January as Middlesbrough activated his minimum fee release clause of £1.3M, then in the middle of the season two more minimum fee release clauses were met.  Alfonso Coedo 27f went to Marseille for £1.1M after a fairly solid but unspectacular first half season, then our most important player Nahuel Olavarría 24c who had 14 goals in 21 appearances went to Perugia for his incredibly meagre clause of £525k.

Leandro Prado 27i had an improved season in goal with a lot more games but even though he does need to improve in games I'm happy with his development.

Mateo Charamoni continued to show how important he is to the team getting 11 goals from 30 games, as he is getting older he seems to be getting more injuries so spent a good portion of this season out so it was handy that for the first time in years I had other able centre backs in Pedro Borches 27h and César Rodríguez 29c who really excite me as being a good partnership going forward as Charamoni will be gone in a few years.  Bruno Bica was as always his brilliant self at right back and now we've got Ignacio Teixeira 28d as a potential replacement if he keeps on with his good development.  Fernando Céspedes 22b has now almost played 300 games for the club and can't imagine him being replaced or leaving any time soon.

Because we are now playing with a DM and two CMs I actually have probably too many options especially considering we lost the best of the lot mid way through the season.  Nicolás Müller 26b and Andrés Faría 27c were the two main DMs, I had to fend of a miserly bid from Torino for Müller in July and I am also frustrated with the development of Faría.  Pablo Ferreira 27d, Enrique Polo 28b, Santiago Noy 28e and to a lesser extent Marcel Alfaro 25b were the main options at centre mid.  Noy and Polo in particular look good enough to not be here too much longer.

Agustín Cedrés had the season of his life despite not even being the first name on the teamsheet and at one point I even had to talk him down from wanting to leave to seek a new challenge, I think I just want to keep him until he retires.  The same goes with Armando Benítez who again played really well although he did have a few injures hampering him this season.  After Coedo left the two players that became the rotation options were Alejandro Alcoba 27k and Daniele Cavagna 29a although again Alcoba is another I'm disappointed in, development wise.

The main man up front this season was Federico Rivero 22e who, whilst not scoring a massive amount did link the team up really well and played the majority of the season, his only real back up was Santiago Duarte 25a who complained about not being good enough to ever be a regular so I have said he can leave if someone bids enough for him.

The player I wanted to highlight this season though is Adolfo Castro 29b who was only able to play in the league for the last month of the season.  He followed up on his runners up to the Copa Sudamericana best player award last season by actually winning it this season as well as finishing joint top scorer.  He is an excellent player and I do worry how long I'll be able to hold onto him for.

Youth Intake

Another decent intake with a few exciting players although the quality does seem to tail off pretty quick after the top prospects.  Walter Lara 30c, Agustín Terra 30b and Guillermo Charamoni 30a all look promising but the player that I like the look of the most is Marcos Bica 30d.

Finances

Despite having less money than this time last year it's mainly down to me getting a training facility and youth facility upgrade, which in turn is now costing us more per month to operate.  So although the almost £3M raised in transfer fees this season was annoying at the time because it means I lost the players and don't have sell on clauses it does mean that we can improve the club for the future.  The new stadium plans have been put on hold because apparently we don't have the funding but on the facilities screen it does say that its in the Funding Required stage and that we need £475k more to build a 9841 all seater stadium which could really help us out on a month to month basis considering we are the fifth best reputation club in Uruguay so surely have more fans that want to come through the doors.

[libbyshuss]

14 hours ago, vikeologist said:

i'd agree it is prob the db. not a known issue otherwise afaik

I found the issue.

The lower league play-off finals are scheduled so late in the season that occasionally they cross over past the cut off date for the next season 

Looks beyond my pay grade to fix it so I think that's it for my custom dB Argentina save....

[XaW]

For anyone questioning the descriptions for Average and Adequate, I've reported a bug around it. Just a small thing, but could explain it if you have noticed something strange there.

[The7Striker]

Enniskillen Rovers FC 2025/2026 Season

Finances  Released  Transfers  Squad

Finances look good this year, due to the promotion money prize, around 50k.Clean alot of players that didnt fit the first team to save some cash. Squad looks good. We have some potencial for this level.

 

NI Intermediate League (4th Tier)

Season Prev  Games  Past Positions

Invincibles!! What a season.

If we play good at the back, all points to Alan O'Hanlon, what a season from this lad. Up front, Andy McCullough and Kevin Murray did a good job to score some nice goals. 
We score some goals 90+, that prevent us from draw or even lose a game.
Over the last game, we got some luck in the penalty shootout but trophy comes to Enniskillen.

 

Sadler's Peaky Blinder Irish Cup

The most important cup in NI and we reach the second round, at first time of asking. Not a bad way to start.

 

McComb's Coach Travel Intermediate Cup

Another great cup run. Distillery was to much for us.

 

Toals Steel & Sons Cup

Not going to lie. We underestimate Boureview and we played the price.

 

Youth Intake

Spoiler

I signed with the ones that looked best on paper, only time will tell us if i was right. Mitchell looks the best one.

 

Upgrade

With better finances the board allow me to do some upgrades. Hope it pays off.

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35

It is not often that I find myself wondering what I am doing wrong with my tactics, but this run of form in January has been the most difficult that I can truly remember experiencing so far in charge of Beira-Mar. The only time I had a run of form this bad was when I bottled a chance to get into the playoffs in the Italian 3rd tier in my 2nd season at Siena. Getting the two draws against Nacional and stealing a late point at Boavista gave me hope. The thing that we were missing in the entire month of January? Our first-choice goalkeeper. Goalkeepers are very much a must-have in FM 22 this season, as shown by this run of form.

At least we had picked up so many points before January so it didn't affect us as much, but it still hurt to have experienced this sort of time in the league. Still, I'm considering our hunt for a European spot this season to be over.

It does also say a lot that Pereira was named in the African XI of the Year, which also highlights how important he is to me.

As for how badly we have done, my latest video shows everyone just how much we were struggling.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 83

[Koetzer]

Ungmennafélag Njarðvíkur – season 2043

Disappointed to stop so close from the trophy again, but the final game was equal and that’s really encouraging. We can play on the big teams’ level and beat them with some more luck! KR also lost to Spurs in quarter-final, and having two teams on this stage is a massive achievement for Iceland.

Our unbeaten run ended exactly on 100 games mark. Also it’s strange that we actually played the league games on our stadium with 3/4 stands under maintenance but somehow still had the full attendances 

Cups – summer was free from European games so our key players could play in the decisive cup stages as well.

Group stage – we got a really hard group despite having 2nd seeding for the first time ever. And the start was quite bad but then three late winning goals let us qualify to knockout rounds even before the last matchday and with negative goal difference Then we got revenge over Bayern, which didn’t change anything – second place and PSG in next round.

Transfers – sold the first promising foreigners from our academy who unfortunately couldn’t develop to the first team level.

Squad stats – Guðmundsson broke Þorsteinsson’s record with 40 goals scored during this season. And for the first time in many years we had a player in the top 50 wonderkids – central midfielder Jonsson progressed well and made his debut for Iceland.

Youth intake

Þórðarson *43a

The intake was rated with 1 star, and you can see why. The only player worth noticing is this left-back, and mostly because we lack quality on his position in the first team.

Our UEFA rankings are rising, and currently (with KA and KR both advanced from Conference groups) Iceland is going to overtake Netherlands and get really close to Portugal on 6th place, which means two direct Champions League places and guaranteed first seeding for the champions.

[libbyshuss]

Argentina

Club Atletico Barraccas Central

Second Division 

 

So my Muniz save has a game breaking bug in it but I didn't want to quit Argentina so I've gone for the Vanilla version. It seems a but ike cheating as I have to join in tier 2 rather than tier 5!

I loaded the feeder leagues but when I holidayed a year there was no promotion/relegation so I went for the team that finished bottom of the whole of the second division (35th, it's split into two groups!)

So here I am!

 

Look at my ground. Holds 4400!!

 

Starting over a million in the red though, which will be fun! time for a clear out early doors I think.

Edited January 31, 2022 by libbyshuss

[XaW]

My board just sold three of my best players for a pittance, and I'm just about to rage quit. 

Might calm down and continue, but really threw me off things...

[dkouv]

U.E. Sant Andreu - Season 1 pre-season

Giving this a go in FM22. Like last year, I'll continue in Spain, but this time with the Barcelona-based U.E. Sant Andreu, which is technically my local team (and I do feel a bit bad for never having seen them play). The side is full-time, and the facilities are decent, so long-term I think the prospects are pretty good.

The problem will be surviving in the short term, as I have a squad of 11 players, with 1 proper center back, two more defensive players aged 37 and 39, and a bunch of decent attackers who won't renew their contracts. So the first two seasons will most likely be a bit of nightmare, and I'll need a good first intake to keep our heads above water. Fingers crossed...

And then of course, this happened...

Edited January 31, 2022 by dkouv

[Soelsheep]

Im started today as well. I play FM since 2007 and now I wanted to try a youth save. I have chosen Almennia Aachen in de 3. Liga, if I'm at then end of the season, I will give an update. If you guys have any tips from youth training or staff, im open to learn new stuff! So let me know :D love to read all those saves, that you guys playing!! Keep the good work going. 

[The Gold Guard]

 

OFK Beograd - Year 23 (2044/45)

League | Continental | Cup
Squad | Season XI | Overall XI 

Defensively great. Offensively poor. Only way to sum up the season. I am happy that a fresh club has won the league title but it is still disappointing that we couldn’t even make it look close.
This reflected on the continental and domestic cup fronts as well.

We have only won the domestic cup once this entire career and to lose it in the final... I’m really gutted to be honest.

Transfers | Finances

I think a cleanout is long overdue. Too many pretenders and not enough contenders.
I am getting to the point where we are starting to go backwards and need to change things if I want to win this challenge.
Rebuild inbound.

Youth Squad | Preview | Intake

I am hoping that this intake will be a core to my future rebuild and I don’t think I am going to waste my time on loaning out hoping that they bump their attributes.
I think I will start to put them amongst the first team and get blooded in. Anyone who is a silver star or over the age of 19 is getting the flick and clearly not cutting the grade. I am not holding back.

Notable Prospects:

Stevan Subert (45A) | Belmin Botic (45B) | Vojin Milosevic (45C) | Darko Memisevic (45D)

Healthy Crops: 

Dejan Cigankovic (34F)

I am worried that he will just want to pull the plug and get out of here as soon as he can but he must be extremely loyal.
A tremendous asset and legend in the making.

Ivan Gojkovic (43C)

I wish I could have a whole midfield of this guy but alas here we are.
Has taken over the shadow striker role with swagger. 

Dusan Kovac (37E)

The Slovak defender has become a staple in the backline and hopefully in his national team setup. 

Aleksandar Majstorovic (43A)

His release clause scares me and the agents are super ruthless here in Serbia.
I think I need to start inflating wages ridiculously so I can retain my wonderkids in the future.

Mitja Andelkovic (42F)

I am super stoked to have a bit of depth in the wing back positions and it’s nice to know I have kids who still have the grit and ambition to step up after loan stints.

Nikola Stejpanovic (37C)

The final defensive piece of the puzzle.
I hope I can keep around for the next few seasons as I think he has the same strain of DNA that Ciganovic (34F) has in his loyal body.

 

[WhiteCat33]

Nogometni Klub Pobrezje: 2039/40 – Slovenian 2^nd Liga (Season 16)

Season Review: https://imgur.com/a/NQyNPc1 

Performance: 1st - CHAMPIONS!

Well we did it convincingly this season. I had to make a devils bargain during the summer (which I'll get to in the transfer section) but we kept the team together for one final campaign. It wasn't even a contest this season as the competition was weaker and we were stronger. We claimed the title with 5 games to go and my offense set all kinds of records. It wasn't quite an undefeated season as we went 23 - 5 - 2, but was strong enough to see us win the title by 13 points. For reference how weak the others were this year, our last years record would have gotten us 2nd on Goal Differential. There was just one match day where we were 2nd, otherwise we stayed on top the whole way. 

Squad

Transfer

I noticed very early in the summer that my board was going to betray me on deadline day as I had to fight off an endless barrage of transfer offers that were getting larger than our bank balance and then this offer for my CAM the board 'kindly' accepted on my behalf made it clear I wouldn't be able to keep them even though all 3 had 2 years remaining on their contracts. So instead of waiting to rage out on deadline day I pre-emptively sold my GK, CAM and Striker but locked it to end of season transfers. While I could have gotten 'lucky' that one of the three would have made it till Winter window I highly doubt any of the three would have survived the year with these transfer values. My reasoning here is that the goal of the season is to secure promotion at all costs as it would trigger mandatory "Professional" status, which the board refused to grant otherwise. I know its almost assured we will get relegated back down, but that's fine as we will be professional against semi-pro teams. As long as they don't fire me all is good. Thus I made this 'devil bargain' to sell my players at probably a 10-20% discount to what I theoretically could have gotten, but ensured I'd have them all season as well as 50% Sell-On's. Regardless, for a Semi-Pro club in 2nd division Slovenia these are big transfers and we will use this money for sure next year. 

Franc Gulic 34e

Peter Kocuvan 34d

Janez Medved 34a

Also this happened over the summer: Maribor paid the highest transfer fee of the year for my old striker Denis Pozrl 32a bringing our total profit on him over $300k. He's been the starting striker for the U-21 Slovenian team for a few years now and has really performed well at Bravo. 

But Maribor weren't done collecting players from their local competition, as in the winter the board decided losing 3 star players wasn't enough and decided it was time to sell my LB: Bojan Nemec 35a

So this sends 4 of my 5 best Academy talents to the local rival, with our best talent going to the top team in Slovenia, Olimpija. My hope of course is these guys get picked up by European clubs, as both these teams regular features in EC & EC2. If not, when we really begin competing in 1 Liga we will see some of our old stars in the local derbies. Here are my transfer tables:

Youth Academy

Youth Intake Preview

Youth Intake

Two pretty quick wingers. Neither good personality, but if either one develops it would be stellar for us as right now I have a slow 6’5” striker playing as my AMR and he’d be a much better target man

A new LB to replace the one we just lost; he's inferior for sure, but he's not awful

As I’ll be hurting for strikers anything resembling a Poacher is welcome

Sadly GK isn’t as “A” as I’d hoped, but at least it’s a good personality. I have 3 like this now that are all equally bad so maybe one will develop?

There are a bunch of other bad personalities with decent attributes so we will see how they shake out. I’ll be taking 9 this year, which is a lot for me.

Awards & Best XI

Just wanted to show we had the best Goal scorer by a wide margin, 2 of the 3 best assisting midfielders in the league, and the best GK. Sadly only Blaz Grosic (assists) will be at the club next season, the other 3 are our star transfers out to other clubs. They all of course also set club records for each of the stats. Only stat that I'm bummed that Franc Gulic 34e didn't get was career POM awards. He was 1 shy of our retiring OG captain J Cerar who has 28 over a 15 year career vs Gulic's 27 over a 5 year one.

Edit: Best XI

Club Upgrades

Reputation: By getting promoted we are now a National Recognition club with 1.5 Rep. Stars bringing us up to the 19th most reputable club in Slovenia. Slowly getting there.

Scouting

Youth Recruitment

Stadium Expansion: Seems pricey to just at 254 seats (we were at 500)

Excel

Manager Thoughts

Well this will be the high point for a long while, but I did what I set out to do and that is gain Professional Status. Next season is going to be a bloodbath as I'll be using one of 3 bad 17-19 year old GKs all of which will get eaten alive in the top flight. Hopefully I don't get fired for how miserably we will do... Assuming I survive hopefully the rebuilding can begin. 

 

Edited February 1, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[Koetzer]

17 hours ago, Koetzer said:

And for the first time in many years we had a player in the top 50 wonderkids – central midfielder Jonsson progressed well and made his debut for Iceland.

He also got the international recognition now, our first player to win this award!

Spoiler

 

[Sn00gle]

Hey Mr. Bender this looks bad 

But this is nice place to get on winter break 

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35 Youth Intake Day

When I came to the youth intake day, my mind was only hoping for a backup goalkeeper to cover for Saná Pereira when he goes off to AFCON once every two years. When I got given my report, I was drinking water at the time and had to stop myself from spitting out my water in sheer disbelief at the realisation that for the 3rd time in 5 seasons, we had been given a player with 3.5 stars current ability or more in our intake. What makes this one even more surprising, was the fact he was a goalkeeper, and that were we in the top flight, and he's still THIS good.

The player in question is Tiago Trabulo. A Portuguese player from Aveiro, and someone that if we develop will be good enough to be the leading goalkeeper in the national team for Portugal. He is ridiculous, but when I tried to sign him up, immediately wanted a release clause of £18.25M. Are we going to lose him by his 18th birthday? Yes, absolutely. Are we going to lose him for a lot of money. Yes, we are. That for me, makes the entire situation all the more ridiculous to me.

Alfonso Aguilera was another player that came through with 5 stars of potential. He doesn't look impressive right now, mostly because midfield is where I honestly believe we are strongest, but if he develops well, he could be amazing.

Bernas on the other hand could be someone that does a lot for us straight away as a player who can come on from the bench as either a midfielder or a winger. He needs some work, but he is an exciting player.

Munuera is someone that is also a winger, but is not as ambitious. Given our winger options, we can't really go narrow right now, can we?

Ángel Álvarez is a really useful looking right-back that I have been waiting for to arrive. He probably isn't going to trouble the first-team for a long time, but I am hopeful we can develop him to be a pretty good player.

Alexi is a pretty exciting midfielder, who if we can get over his fickleness and develop, could be a very useful midfield option for the team.

The last person I am going to be showing is Tomás Belo, who is an attacking midfielder who can play as a central midfielder and as a striker. He needs a lot of work, but he's still exciting either way.

For a look at the other players in the intakes and the contracts I ended up offering them, feel free to watch the video linked down below.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 84

[JAwtunes]

Izola - Season 10 (2031/32) Review

Excellent season.  We picked up our highest ever points tally and won our third title in five years.  We managed to get through to the cup semi-final but were again knocked out on penalties.  The only really disappointment is that we are unable to offer contracts to several of our top players who are going to be out of contract at the end of next season.

On the pitch

First Team

 

Spoiler

League

xG table (overperformed by 6 points)

Spoiler

Cup

Europe

We heavily rotated as I had no interest in Europe this season.

Off the pitch

Youth intake - described as 5 star in preview ("golden generation")

Preview and HoYD

Spoiler

low count...

Top u19 prospects

Spoiler

SUMMARY

Edited February 1, 2022 by JAwtunes

[Winski]

We are now halfway season 2026/2027 and that's a good time to show the progress of this season.

Our first Champions League advanture ended up with only 3 points. We are just not good enough yet to compete at this level. Espescially the away match against Inter was painful. But the home match against Sporting CP was wonderful! We won 5-1, and earned apr. € 3M with it. And because of this win, we finished 3rd, and qualified for the Europa League Knockout Rounds! But the draw against Marseille is disappointing.

In the league we are doing very well. With 39 points after 19 matches I can't complain at all. But Lechia is just another level this season... They finished 5th last season, so they don't play European matches this season. That's probably the reason why they excel in the league. We lost 4 matches, and that's mostly because my starting eleven was too tired after a Champions League match. So I played with a lot of backup players around CL matches. Lechia will win the league, that's for sure. Hopefully we'll finish on a European spot again!

We also got our first foreign affiliates. With Radunia and Znicz Pruszków we already had two domestic affiliates. But since this season, I was able to get foreign affiliates. I chose Excelsior Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Carl Zeiss Jena(Germany) as our first two foreign affiliates. I'm very happy with Jena, because that's a club I want to do a youth only save with in the future.

It's also a good time to show you the progress of three youngsters of our Garbarnia Academy. Two of them are first choices on their positions and playing almost every match. The other one is a talented youngster who could become the third player in my First XI from the Garbarnia Academy.

Szymon Dudek 23a is the first one. He is now clearly one of my best players. I'll show screenshots of the intake-day and nowadays: (yes, he's got a different face: that's my mistake...)

The next one is my left wingback Paweł Błasiak 24e. He's progressing nicely and is my first choice on this position.

The last one is Maksymilian Kondak 26d. He's now my backup for Kamil Kuczak, one of my star players. Kondak 26d played 6 matches this season, scoring 5 goals! So he's knocking on the door and will be ready rather sooner then later.

With the Champions League money I was finally able to upgrade our facilities! We improved the Youth- and Training Facilities once, and  the next upgrades are on the roll and should be ready in the next couple of months. We also upgraded the Youth Recruitment twice. The only thing that the board don't alow me to upgrade is Junior Coaching. We've got € 14M on the balance, we can upgrade all the other facilities. But Junior Coaching is still a problem... Don't know why exactly. But it should be a matter of time I think.

Edited February 1, 2022 by Winski

[Daddy]

2031 Season Review:

Chilean First Division:

Best finish to a season yet. 3rd place team drew the first place team on the final day. A loss there and we sneak into 3rd. 

Copa Sudamericana: 

Laid an absolute egg in the first leg of the quarter finals. Still showing great growth going from a team struggling to make the group stage to starting to push to the end of the competition.

Chile Cup:

Two tough early draws. Would have been nice to get back to a long cup run, but it wasn't to be. 

Misc:

Fortunately no players forcing their way out.

pretty cool claiming all three spots.

An interview turned down. Top division Brazilian team.

I just found this funny.

2031 Youth Intake:

Squad is really filling up with DM players so I've been retraining a bit. I know it's at the risk of overall potential, but I've been doing a fair amount of cross training to get some more versatility out of my squad. Any outright top flight players at a position I leave as they are if they're not blocked.

2032 Season Preview:

The year immediately begins with a takeover. I missed screen capping the email that confirmed the club is now a PLC with a 900K boost. I've heard this isn't one of the preferred take over types.

Both club and media predict continental football which is great to see. Almost all my good players signed 2+ years out with pretty decent release clauses, for those I couldn't get rid of, and only one player wanting to leave for a larger club (no current interest and the amount I agreed to let leave for is way more than I think he'd get an offer for). A lot of players have not maxed out their potential yet either so I expect this and the next few years to be a real strong push to the top of the league.

Class of 21 Reunion:

This is the intake from the holidayed season. There was only one player on the list. He's still with the club in the B team as an emergency backup. 66 First team appearances with 7 goals. 

[Winski]

The first time I asked the board, after writing my last post, they finally agreed to upgrade our Junior Coaching budget

[OlivierL]

 

Africanos Bragança - Portugal - Youth Intake 12 - Class 2034

Preview

What a great intake ! We got our much needed DMC and we get a very big attacking quality injection. Highest average (40.98%) attributes and this class produced the top three of highest CA intake players.

Our improved reputation and facilities keep procuding good prospects. 

    

 

  

I need to show 7 players. Sanches 34D is the DMC we needed , his personality isn't great. We got three new wingers in Cardoso 34i, Lima 34F and Oliveira 34J , really excited about them. Sequeira 34G is a great striker with 16 finishing but his determination is bad. Monteiro 34C is our other good striker and with Vaz 34B we also got a very good DC prospect. Really happy with above 7 !

[libbyshuss]

Barracas Central

Argentina

Division 2

2022/23 (season 1)

Season Summary

Well, if I thought jumping in at tier 2 in Argentina was going to be easy I was quicky disabused of that notion. There's no prize money in the Argentina leagues, which makes things a little tough. And Barracas have a tiny ground, no money and a big wage bill. Not ideal!

League - So Division 2 is split into two groups and the top teams play off in a promotion final. At the end of the season both leagues are placed together to give you your overall end position. Bit hars as one group had one more team than the other! But we did ok in the league. We had runs where we excellent followed by runs where we were terrible. But we avided the drop and that was ll the board wanted. So 11th out of 37, not too shabby.

Cup - weirdly the cup kinda goes over the eague season, it's a bit odd. So we're sti in it but it doesn't finish until christmas-ish

 

Players

not a bad squad for division 2. We're overloaded with attacking midfielders and some of them look real class and easily division 1 standard. So I'd imagine they won't be around for long

 

Youth

So I had a udicrous wage bill really so the squad needs a maddive overhaul. What I could really do with is a really good youth intake to start replacing those expensive reserves with cheaper youths. So, did I get one? Nope.

Plus, the better youths don't want to sign £5 a week youth contracts but £300 a week full time ones!

I got excited seeing three A grades, then saw the half star intake prediction! D'oh!

It wasn't quite half star but it wasn't good either...

 

I only signed 3. Not Medina - easily discouraged personality with 1 determination? no hope there.....

 

Finances and Upgrades

An absolute nightmare! Started the season 1m in the red, finished 2m in the red. And I sold 600k worth of players and the board injected 700k to help costs. So, financially, it's a huge mess. 

First thing is to get the wage bill down. The board set a 28k limit and the bill was 27k when I arrived. It should be half that next season. The next step, sadly, is to sell my best players. 

no chance of any upgrades otherwise....

 

Career

[JAwtunes]

13 hours ago, Winski said:

We are now halfway season 2026/2027 and that's a good time to show the progress of this season.

Our first Champions League advanture ended up with only 3 points. We are just not good enough yet to compete at this level. Espescially the away match against Inter was painful. But the home match against Sporting CP was wonderful! We won 5-1, and earned apr. € 3M with it. And because of this win, we finished 3rd, and qualified for the Europa League Knockout Rounds! But the draw against Marseille is disappointing.

In the league we are doing very well. With 39 points after 19 matches I can't complain at all. But Lechia is just another level this season... They finished 5th last season, so they don't play European matches this season. That's probably the reason why they excel in the league. We lost 4 matches, and that's mostly because my starting eleven was too tired after a Champions League match. So I played with a lot of backup players around CL matches. Lechia will win the league, that's for sure. Hopefully we'll finish on a European spot again!

We also got our first foreign affiliates. With Radunia and Znicz Pruszków we already had two domestic affiliates. But since this season, I was able to get foreign affiliates. I chose Excelsior Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and Carl Zeiss Jena(Germany) as our first two foreign affiliates. I'm very happy with Jena, because that's a club I want to do a youth only save with in the future.

It's also a good time to show you the progress of three youngsters of our Garbarnia Academy. Two of them are first choices on their positions and playing almost every match. The other one is a talented youngster who could become the third player in my First XI from the Garbarnia Academy.

Szymon Dudek 23a is the first one. He is now clearly one of my best players. I'll show screenshots of the intake-day and nowadays: (yes, he's got a different face: that's my mistake...)

The next one is my left wingback Paweł Błasiak 24e. He's progressing nicely and is my first choice on this position.

The last one is Maksymilian Kondak 26d. He's now my backup for Kamil Kuczak, one of my star players. Kondak 26d played 6 matches this season, scoring 5 goals! So he's knocking on the door and will be ready rather sooner then later.

With the Champions League money I was finally able to upgrade our facilities! We improved the Youth- and Training Facilities once, and  the next upgrades are on the roll and should be ready in the next couple of months. We also upgraded the Youth Recruitment twice. The only thing that the board don't alow me to upgrade is Junior Coaching. We've got € 14M on the balance, we can upgrade all the other facilities. But Junior Coaching is still a problem... Don't know why exactly. But it should be a matter of time I think.

I like the side by side images of the players - i might start doing that.  Nice to see Dudek has had a shave

[TheWillsy]

South Shields season 13: 2034-35

As predicted, this season was a real struggle, and we got relegated without too much of a battle. The squad just wasn't good enough and we couldn't put together any real runs. We had a little run towards the end where it looked like we may catch Sheff Utd or Derby, but that was mainly because they were also nearly as bad as us. We finished with 30 points and 4 from safety. At least we weren't bottom! Tyler Hughes was the main highlight, with 19 goals in the league being a very good record.

I also requested a new stadium as soon as we got promoted and it looks like we will be getting one at some point:

A 5* preview again and finally an A grade for some defenders!

However, in reality the most promising defender was unambitious which is frustrating. 

By the next time we get promoted again I hope to have improved the defence as I feel this is what really held us back this season. Both starting strikers and Dove had good goalscoring records.

With the massive premier league tv money, we are set up nicely for the medium-long term now. We will be getting a new stadium and will be able to improve the training and youth facilities multiple times over. 

[JLAB]

Beira-Mar – Season 13 – 2034/35

The fixture list has seen us win our first game since the beginning of the calendar year, which is a pretty concerning stat after we had such a strong start to the season. Quintaneiro scoring against Rio Ave gave him his shooting boots at long last after losing them for most of the season.

We're not going to be fighting for Europe and we're not in a relegation battle, so we're mostly just fighting for a top half finish at best and mid-table at worse. So it's been a successful season so far.

We've also managed to convince the board to improve the youth recruitment to it's highest capacity possible, which is rather exciting to say the least.

The latest video shows how our games have been going and the goals we've been scoring. We also gave Tiago Trabulo his competitive debut.

JLAB's YAC with Beira-Mar Part 85

[dkouv]

Sant Andreu – Season 1 (2022/23)

Segunda RFEF Grupo III What a season! We started off drawing 7 and losing 1 out of our first 9 games, but gradually picked up pace to move into playoffs and towards the top of the table. A few injuries in March saw us slide down to second, but after the youth take arrived the much needed depth saw us win our last 5 games and clinch the title. Not only this, but looks like the dreaded playoffs have been reduced and the 1st placed team gets promoted automatically, so we’ll be playing in Primera RFEF next season.

Players: Until the last few games, we only had 11 non-grey players so I had to manage the resources judiciously. The plaudits have to go to our attackers who are rated as good to star players for the division, with Uruguayan Germán Fassani (ST) scoring 20 and assisting 8 in 34 games. Another key player was 37 year old full back José Llamas (DRL) who shook off the years to finish the season with an avg rating of 7.66 from full back.

 

Youth intake: Properly thrilled with this, it does make a difference to be a full-time club with decent facilities. Eight 5* prospects, and 4.5* is already a good player for our division. Aarón Hontoria 01a goes straight into the first team due to our lack of centre backs, but many of the others will provide useful rotation options next season.

   

Transfers: none

Season    |  League               | Pos. |     Europe     |   Best player                   |  Notes
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2022/23   | Segunda RFEF Gr. III  |  1  |     n/a         |  German Fassani (ST)            | Promoted


Facilities
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Season    |  Coaching     |  Recruitment      | Training Fac.  | Youth Fac.      |  Stadium
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2022/23   |  Average      |  Average          | Average        |  Average        |  6,557

 

Edited February 2, 2022 by dkouv

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2025/26

FC Isle of Man

I am not sure how much credence I now have with the previews as again, it wasn't great:

Whereas the intake was terrific.

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2025/26

FC Isle of Man

 

Season Summary

It was another incredible season where we romped to the league title and yet another promotion.

Season Details

League Table - We went top after three games and never looked back.  The title and promotion to the seventh tier was secured with three games remaining.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - As usual, consistency was the key, as we churned out the wins.

F. A. Cup - Vanarama National League North side Alfreton Town proved to be too strong in the second qualifying round.

F. A. Trophy - A narrow loss away to Redditch United in the second qualifying round eliminated the club before any cup run was possible.

Northern Premier League Challenge Cup - A dreadful performance away to Newcastle Town in the second round ended our interest in the competition.

Pre Season Friendlies - Winning just three of our ten pre season games, I was worried for the season ahead, though need not have been.

Squad - We have some real quality and if we can hold on to them, we should be just fine.

Squad Dynamics - It is magnificent.

Transfers In - None.

Transfers Out - Six youngsters were allowed to leave on loan, otherwise there were no departures.

Youth Candidates - It was another great intake with attacking midfielder James Brady YP26C51 being the clear star of the group.

Finances - We have less money than last year, though we have improved our facilities.  We continue to make a small profit.

Key Players

Freddy Anderson YP23A1 - The club record appearance maker had another solid season in the centre of the park.

Stephen Hartshorn YP24A17 - Our best player, he can be annoyingly inconsistent.

Fraser Hulme YP24G23 - The right back was superb all year.

Colin Bennett YP25B34 - Versatile left sided player, he was usually deployed on the left wing.  He had a terrific campaign.

Matthew Pratt YP24E21 - The left back continues to improve and has formed a lethal partnership with Colin Bennett YP25B34 on the left side.

Next Season

A top half finish would be lovely.

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     = (0.50*) ↑  National B     ↑↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   3 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   6 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑   4 =   1 =   4 ↑   4 ↑   6 ↑   5 ↑   6 ↑   6 ↑
2023/24    Minimal     = (0.75*) ↑  Continental C  ↑↑   8 ↑   8 ↑   4 ↑   3 ↑   1 =   1 =   8 ↑   8 ↑   8 ↑   4 =   1 =   7 ↑   7 ↑   8 ↑  12 ↑   8 ↑   9 ↑
2024/25    Minimal     = (0.75*) =  Continental B   ↑   9 ↑   9 ↑   4 =   3 =   1 =   1 =   9 ↑   9 ↑  10 ↑   4 =   1 =   7 =   7 =   8 =  13 ↑   9 ↑  11 ↑
2025/26    Minimal     = (1.00*) ↑  Continental A   ↑  10 ↑  10 ↑   5 ↑   3 =   1 =   1 =  10 ↑  10 ↑  11 ↑   4 =   1 =   8 ↑   8 ↑   9 ↑  18 ↑  10 ↑  12 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Youth Level  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Poor                 Poor                   0       Adequate              Basic            Limited            Obscure     (0.50*)
2022/23    Poor  =              Poor           =       0 =     Adequate =            Average      ↑↑  Fairly Basic   ↑↑  Obscure   = (0.50*) =
2023/24    Poor  =              Poor           =       0 =     Adequate =            Excellent   ↑↑↑  Good          ↑↑↑  Obscure   = (0.50*) =
2024/25    Poor  =              Poor           =       0 =     Adequate =            Exceptional   ↑  Excellent       ↑  Obscure   = (0.50*) =
2025/26    Basic ↑              Below Average ↑↑       0 =     Average  ↑            Exceptional   =  Exceptional     ↑  Obscure   = (0.50*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2022/23      41        22       11        8          91              55                 +36              53.66%
2023/24      48        35        7        6         119              42                 +77              72.92% ↑
2024/25      47        32       10        5         110              29                 +81              68.09% ↓
2025/26      46        31        9        6          98              39                 +59              67.39% ↓

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2022/23          41        22       11        8          91              55                 +36              53.66%             301 days
2023/24          89        57       18       14         210              97                +113              64.04% ↑           673 days
2024/25         136        89       28       19         320             126                +194              65.44% ↑         1,036 days
2025/26         182       120       37       25         418             165                +253              65.93% ↑         1,400 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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2023/24    North West Counties League Division 1 South
2024/25    North West Counties League Premier Division
2025/26    Northern Premier League Division One West

Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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1 x Northern Premier League Division One West (2025/26)
1 x North West Counties League Premier Division (2024/25)
1 x North West Counties League Division 1 South (2023/24)

Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                                         Position     F. A. Cup                  Carabao Cup          Achievements
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2022/23           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       North West Counties League Division One South     3rd          N/a                         N/a              Dropped out of promtion places on the last day of the season.  F. A. Vase second qualifying round.  North West Counties League Cup first round.
2023/24           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       North West Counties League Division One South     1st ↑     Second Qualifying Round        N/a              Promoted as champions.  F. A. Vase first qualifying round.  North West Counties League Cup quarter final.
2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       North West Counties League Premier Division       1st ↑     Extra Preliminary Round ↓      N/a              Promoted as champions.  F. A. Vase quarter final.  North West Counties League Cup first round.
2025/26           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Northern Premier League Division One West         1st ↑     Second Qualifying Round ↑      N/a              Promoted as champions.  F. A. Trophy second qualifying round.  Northern Premier League Challenge Cup second round.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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2022/23    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                    5
2023/24    Hamish Norris YP23E5                     47
2024/25    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                   90
2025/26    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                  128

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
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2022/23    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                       3
2023/24    Hamish Norris YP23E5                        15
2024/25    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                      30
2025/26    Stephen Hartshorn YP24A17                   50

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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2022/23    Hamish Norris YP23E5                        2
2023/24    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                     11
2024/25    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                     28
2025/26    Freddy Anderson YP23A1                     33

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
2023/24    Frank Kidd YP23C3                         12
2024/25    Stuart Gibson YP24D20                     24
2025/26    Stuart Gibson YP24D20                     25

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 3, 2022 by DazRTaylor

[Daddy]

2032 Midseason Review:

Very strong first half! Hopefully second half keeps that momentum.

Tough draw here. VDG knocked us out couple seasons ago on route to winning the whole competition. Velez is about our equal. Ultimately what hurt was a very sloppy loss to El Nacional that ended any chance of advancing.

2032 Youth Intake Preview:

All the projected A rank talents are in positions of strength. If the actual intake comes out this way will have to do more retraining and some players may start getting sold off.

Edited February 3, 2022 by Daddy