The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[tual]

vor 12 Stunden schrieb benrollo:

 

 

Playable Nations yet to complete the challenge!
Here's the juicy stuff. Who has the balls to fire up a Singapore save?!

 

 

I don't know exactly the rules, but are league with only one playable league possible for the challenge? Was thinking of trying it in India, but they have only the Hero I League. Same for some other asian countries in the list too (Singapore, Hong Kong etc.)

I think it's only Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea in the list with more than 1 league. So the hardest challenge (and they have the same YR as Singapore btw) is Malaysia?

[DazRTaylor]

3 minutes ago, tual said:

 

I don't know exactly the rules, but are league with only one playable league possible for the challenge? Was thinking of trying it in India, but they have only the Hero I League. Same for some other asian countries in the list too (Singapore, Hong Kong etc.)

I think it's only Indonesia, Malaysia or South Korea in the list with more than 1 league. So the hardest challenge (and they have the same YR as Singapore btw) is Malaysia?

Only one playable league is not applicable for this thread.  There is a separate thread where it is.

[JLAB]

Motor Lublin - Season 1 - Winter Break

One of the first things I did was bring in a Head of Youth Development, after discovering that I didn't have one at the club, and Jarosław Wosz was the best option at the time. This tells you a lot about how difficult I was finding it to even bring in new staff members. He's on a 2-year deal, so I will be hoping that he can bring in some good youth talent in his new role at the club.

So being able to bring in Paweł Pęczak as a coach was a bit of a shock. He's honestly the perfect coach and something I'd even transfer over to be a head of youth development if I was able to do so. He's the perfect coach right now, so losing someone for the other role would not be ideal.

Going into the first season of the save was something that I must admit, I was a little bit nervous about. I was fearing that it would be one of major struggle, so when we started the season with 6 wins and 2 draws in the first 8 games of the season, I couldn't have been happier. Naturally we've had moments during the season where our form has dipped, but we've never gone more than 3 league games without a win, which as far as I am concerned is the best thing about the season so far.

As things stands, we are currently in 2nd place and in the automatic promotion zone on results between teams. While Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała have a 5-point gap to us and Ruch Chorzów, it's not one that you can truly feel comfortable with when there are still 14 matches to go. I'm still thinking that we could drop into the bottom half of the table as a result of the 8-point gap to Chojniczanka Chojnice who are in 13th place. The fight to get into the playoffs and promotion fight is incredibly competitive and I am enjoying the challenge of it.

What I am not enjoying so much is the youth intake preview, which looks rather bleak if I have to be honest with you. I don't think I've ever seen one look as bland as this, even if I am apparently meant to expect a good centre-back and good full-back, two areas that probably doesn't need that much strengthening if I am to be completely honest with you. If it turns out to be a good intake, then I will be much happier than am I now. I am expecting nothing but disappointment right now.

JLAB's YAC with Motor Lublin Part 1

[CardiffDragon]

 

Season 2025 Review

 

After the nail-biting end to the previous season this one was quite timid by comparision, we finished 8th in the league and were in a much better position at the split 

 

and then..... yes i know it is only the relegation side of the league but even so.....

my forwards finally got their act together and started scoring at will almost. Boes well for next season, the only thing to concern me is that no academy players are close to breaking into the first team yet and my reserve team is only playing friendlies so the jump from U20 to first team is still very big.

 

as for youth intake

 it looked good  and  turned out ok

but once again the personalities, especially in most of the more promising players are not brilliant

forgot to do a summary last time of where the club is but

 

we are doing OK financially and thought increasing the youth facilities and junior coaching was good for a season and then the day after the end of the season.....

 

 

bitter pill to swallow

with the boards expectations for next season finally changed from "dont finish last" to establish yourself in the league it looks like things are finally on the up ( or have i just tempted fate.

 

 

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

I guess two years in the amateur fourth tier is enough to catch the eyes of top tier sides.

Unfortunately the notoriety is a two-way-street, it means our players increase their reputation and can be snapped up on professional contracts, Hopefully we can make it up this year before we lose anyone else.

[glennuk]

Wondering why I would not have the option/button to praise players training (either by the training report email in inbox or going to the player then development-training).

Had it in my now abandoned/delayed Indonesia save, but not in my new Germany save. Any ideas?

[JAwtunes]

14 minutes ago, glennuk said:

Wondering why I would not have the option/button to praise players training (either by the training report email in inbox or going to the player then development-training).

Had it in my now abandoned/delayed Indonesia save, but not in my new Germany save. Any ideas?

You need to have been managing them for a minimum length of time, perhaps a month? At least that was the case on FM22

[WhiteCat33]

 

AS Rupensia Lusitanos Fiels 

Luxembourg Division 3 (5th Tier)

About: 

I have found a gem (I think) for a micro nation YAC and by complete accident. As I promised, after my failure with the Tier 3 I loaded up the Tier 5 and simed a season. After the first year ASRL Fels was dead-last in Division 3, so as the 'worst' team in Luxembourg, they are my candidate for glory!

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What is really cool is the fact that Larochette is the most Portuguese town in Luxembourg! In 2014 there was an attempted referendum to merge it with 2 neighboring towns which failed spectacularly. "What made this local referendum a national political case was that Larochette (or the "Fiels") is known as the most Portuguese village in Luxembourg: 960 of its inhabitants (or 44 percent of the population) are of Portuguese nationality, ahead of Luxembourgers who are at 883 (41 percent). In Fischbach and Nommern, Luxembourgers make up 72 percent respectively 76 percent of the population." (Read More Here!)

Club:

Yes, they have a brand new 4,594 Capacity stadium that they moved into just at the end of the first season. I checked and it wasn't glitched, they got a 720k Grant from the government to build the stadium so we have plenty of room for "big" cup matches, and don't have a debt load to service. Perfect, because we are amateur!

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As an Amateur club the facilities are all at the minimum, but it does start with Youth Intakes (so I'm not pulling a crazy Andoran challenge here)

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Coach:

I forgot to screenshot my coach, but its the same guy I used for the T3 attempt at Luxembourg my Guiseley English Captain Luke Farrell

Squad:

The dual national was reflected in my starting squad that was almost entirely Year 00 Intake players. While they had awful personalities, I was actually gifted a full 10 field players and 2 GKs that fit just fine into my Long Ball 4-4-2:

Supporters:

Season 1 2023 - 2024

With only a 22 game season and nothing to do between matches things flew by for year 1.

Transfers:

I took over the club on 6/24 so Jan Jacobs was brought in before I arrived. I canceled the other pending deals and all our players were on youth contracts so none got taken during the year.

Luxembourg Cup:

We won a game! Played a Division 2 side in our first competitive match (after beating up on bogus formation U21 greys to build morale & fitness). Lost the second against a Division 1 (Tier 3) club in a 4-3 thriller, which to me was a great start

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Division 3: 3rd of 12, PROMOTION! 

Top 4 teams are auto-promoted out of the bottom league so no playoffs. The other teams picked up a mix of youth and older players, but I guess my 11 were one of the better amateur sides. 

Coaches:

It may come as a surprise but there don't seem to be any Luxembourg coaches who want to work at the worst club in the country. I put out adverts for everything and set the Chairmen to find coaches and it took till February before he found us our first coach to run our U21 Squad. His qualifications: he is a human

Youth Intake:

So yes, Mr Casual was in charge of my youth intake, but at least he showed up so late he didn't find the players in December. Because of this we actually got what I'd consider a good start personality-wise for the club

Professional Players:

3rd GK now, and my current is the captain but this guy will be better considering he’s 6’5 and has good personality

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Down for a tall professional CB

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Resolute FB is good as I’m playing a CB out wide right now

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As you can tell everybody is dual national which is amazing! We even are going to get Cape Verde players as well (IRL a recent mayor of the town is from Cape Verde). This will be neat. Right now I'm not tracking the cities of birth as I think that will be insane for this save across 3 distinct countries.

Coaching Badges:

Even though we have no money the board agreed to 2 courses, the second I'm currently taking:

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Suporters:

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Thoughts:

Luxembourg is like a pallet cleanser to the slog of English National League. Right now it costs us more money to put on a game than we make in tickets so we are slowly losing money, but everyone is amateur so it shouldn't be an issue. I haven't played as a full amateur club in a while so will be interesting to track all my stolen players as we build ourselves up.

Hopefully I can find a HOYD this summer, but at the very least I'll be using a different coach for the next intake and be looking to move on Mr Casual.

EDIT: For @The7Striker I'll also make sure to include the Nation part of the spreadsheet every year (rather than sporadically). No change Y1 for the nation, but we're up to 80 of 102 teams in Luxembourg!

 

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[thomas_e]

Such a joy following all the updates, especially now after the release when the forum is hectic! Some great journeys!! 

One wish from me: post screenshot of your best players, especially the players coming through from the academy. When I'm reading about a great talent I would like to see his stats  

[The7Striker]

Cant wait to see more from the @WhiteCat33 and Luxembourg story as they climb in the nations ratings. 

[syemo]

So what advice would you give to someone to try this youth challenge out. What league's are the best etc

[Sn00gle]

Not so good run as @JLAB , simillar problem with young players in first team. 15 points to survive... Guesst im bad tactican

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Sn00gle

[WhiteCat33]

2 hours ago, syemo said:

So what advice would you give to someone to try this youth challenge out. What league's are the best etc

Think about where you want your challenge to be, and which tier of nation you want to manage in. Top leagues, mid-level or low/micro nation.

Do you enjoy long seasons working your way slowly up the ladder into the richest league on the planet, then go to England. If you want a shorter climb to the top-flight Germany sets you up with pretty strong set-ups in the 3rd Bundesliga while still having the monsters to slay at the top when you get there. Portugual has been popular for many as a mid-level domestic league with great intakes. 

Midlevel I played a fun save in Slovenia last cycle bagging two Euro Cup trophies, and other countries in the region like Slovakia & Serbia can be great saves. Be warned though most have a minimum age of 17 for registration so the first 2 years will be really hard as you won't be able to play your intake players. Isreal is another option.

Then the micro which is what I enjoy more. For me isn't so much about actually getting on the leaderboard, I like the impossible tasks in tiny countries to get my team competitive on the continental level and bring their natoinal teams out of obscurity. Lots of fun stories to be had. Last year I played over 30+ Seasons in St Vincent (Caribbean) and Malta as some of the tiniest nations through downloaded databases. And you can see I just started Luxembourg, while I also have an England save I'll switch between.

EDIT: I should mention DON'T play in Belgium or Scotland. The first has the worst finances in the game, and is not suitable for a first attempt and Scotland has major youth bugs. Denmark had contract issues last year (but may be fixed now?) and France has weird stadium hopping bugs for promoted sides. 

Edited November 10, 2022 by WhiteCat33

[Ice029]

First season with the Yellow-Green boys ended exactly as expected: no chance of promotion of course, but we won the battle for relegation as expected.

Plans for next season: the same as there are a few big names that will be leaving us in order to play with better quality players.

So without further to do:

 

Final Table: (2nd tier of Romania does the teams play against each other once then it splits into 1 Champions Group and 2 Relegation Groups)

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Intake: (not great, not terrible)

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Best intake player: (due to regulations of under a specific age player in playing 11 and a lack of left back, I present you my new main left back)

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[MadCatPT]

After some deliberations will start with Weston Super Mare, only 17 players, of which 1 has an offer from another team and another 1 has his contract expiring and feels the squad is not good enough (can't really fault him).

Let's hope it's not a short save,

Anyone else in England has gotten squads as small?

[JAwtunes]

Cardiff Corinthians - Season 2037/38 Review (s16)

This was another successful season where we won the league and welsh cup, and finished runner-up in the league cup.

We had to sell our star player (Bolger) to Espanyol but were able to maintain last seasons strong form.

I managed my 700th game at Cardiff Corries this season.

Our intake potentials are not great, and current abilities / attributes are a bit mediocre and I am considering knee-jerking and finding a new HoYD if there is any decent alternative.

Competitions - Domestic

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League

Welsh Cup

Welsh League Cup

Competitions - Europe

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CL Qualification

CL Group

Competitions - World Club Cup

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Players

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Top Players

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Top Prospects (exc. those already Top Players

Youth Intake

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Preview

Intake

HoYD

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Facilities

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SUMMARY

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Wales National Team

 

[jepze]

I got a question. If i sold a player, can i loan him back for the rest of the season?

[JLAB]

Just now, jepze said:

I got a question. If i sold a player, can i loan him back for the rest of the season?

You can't no.

[jepze]

Just now, JLAB said:

You can't no.

Thank you for the answer, hopefully i can promote witout my best player then.

[The7Striker]

2 minutos atrás, jepze disse:

Thank you for the answer, hopefully i can promote witout my best player then.

Try to postpone to the end of the season on the transfer date. That way is allowed cuz its not a loan player.

Edited November 10, 2022 by The7Striker

[jepze]

3 minutes ago, The7Striker said:

Try to postpone to the end of the season on the transfer date. That way is allowed cuz its not a loan player.

It was my board there accepted the offer, so couldn't do anything about it.

[hubwub]

Does anybody have a tutorial on how to make nicknames using a LNC file? @XaW

[hubwub]

CDS Tampico Madero - Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League - 2025/2026

We've done it and beat LA Galaxy (11th in the MLS Western Conference). We've qualified for the second round of Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League!!!

One game left in the group stages and it's against Houston Dynamo FC (14th in the MLS Western Conference).

I will be playing continental football during Liga BBVA MX Clausura.

 

[WhiteCat33]

1 hour ago, MadCatPT said:

After some deliberations will start with Weston Super Mare, only 17 players, of which 1 has an offer from another team and another 1 has his contract expiring and feels the squad is not good enough (can't really fault him).

Let's hope it's not a short save,

Anyone else in England has gotten squads as small?

I had 14 I think with Guiseley. Good luck!

[Vercitorix]

1 hour ago, MadCatPT said:

After some deliberations will start with Weston Super Mare, only 17 players, of which 1 has an offer from another team and another 1 has his contract expiring and feels the squad is not good enough (can't really fault him).

Let's hope it's not a short save,

Anyone else in England has gotten squads as small?

I've just started with Truro, I currently have 13 players on the books. Hoping to get to Intake day!

[benrollo]

I'm going to give myself a real challenge for my next attempt, and travel to Belarus. I appreciate there's a lot going on in the world at the moment and Belarus aren't exactly a country to be singing and dancing about, but seeing as this is a football management game, I'm just going to concentrate on these facts:

> They have the lowest youth rating for an eligible European nation

> I had a really fun save with (now defunct) MTZ Ripo Minsk in FM06 - bonus points for anyone who remembers Sergey Kisliy!

Holidaying now to see who comes up

[jepze]

 

Jepze - Knattspyrnufélagið Þróttur - Season 2024

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Second season is done, and what a season. In the start of the transferwindow, we sold our best player, and i tried all i could to don't sell him, but the board said, taht the club could get use of the 500.000 DKK, and then he was gone. But we could play without him, and we got an amazing season. Up to the last day of the season, we couldn't get to the first place, but in the last game, our rivals in Fram Reykjavik bottled it, and we got the first place. In the other way, we only got 2 losses and only have 3 points down to the 4th place, so it was a battle, and we won it. Next season we'll play both UEFA Conference League, because of win in the cup, and we'll play in the best league in Iceland. Our youth players isn't good enough to play regulary on the first team, but hopefully we can get some money in the bank and upgrade our youth income.

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Mjólkurbikarinn is the primary cup in Iceland, we got all the way to the final and won against the 3rd place in the best league, Íþróttabandalag Akraness, 5-2 in the final, and we can play our first games in Europe next season (I hope, but don't know if it's in the end of next season in the season 2025/26).

Deildabikar is the other cup we played in, and otherwise than the main cup, we couldn't get out of the group stage, but we did a lot better than last year.

Now to the interesting thing. Our youth intake. We got an excellent preview, but the players is not good enough for the first team right now.

Youth preview.

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Youth intake:

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Trophy cabinet

Inkasso-deild karla - (2024)

Mjólkurbikarinn - (2024)

[Winski]

Tough times at Tyresö FF
I need to get 6 points from the next 5 games, otherwise the board will sack me...

[Winski]

It's going to happen...... pfffff... Can't believe this is happening.  Superettan turns out to be a step to high for us. But after al those promotions in the last seasons, I thought I had some credits.
Everything is collapsing right now. Whatever I try, we can't win anymore.

[Daddy]

2024/25 Midseason Review:

Not too surprising as just getting promoted was a bit of a shock. It's close enough at the bottom where it's not a forgone conclusion we go back down. The schedule calms down a bit, and hopefully we avoid some of the misfortunes we had schedule wise where we'd face a top team, a cup match, then a midtable, and then finally the shattered squad would lose to a bottom table team. The schedule definitely cost us a few points, but overall we're just fairly overmatched. An old squad getting older. I keep tinkering with tactics, possibly too much, with the hopes of finding something to stem the bleeding and get us on tract to finish at least 20th.

Intake Preview:

Another super strong preview. Based on the thin and aging squad the potentials here could be legit and not the fantastic preview with meh players. Odds are due to facilities the vast majority will come in a ways off from first team caliber with maybe one or two being capable to see action right away. 

[Winski]

My career at Tyresö FF is over.....

I really loved managing in Sweden, but man, this was tough. The step to become a professional club and compete in Superettan(2nd div.) was just too big. Our succes came too early...

I come back in Sweden one day, to take revenge. But now it's time for a new challenge...

[Wilkesy93]

Does anybody have a list of the countries where in the bottom division the clubs are professional?

 

I know Italy is one are there any others?

[The7Striker]

FC Chernomorets 1919 Burgas 

 

Welcome the fourth biggest city in Bulgaria, welcome to Burgas, located on the shores of the Black Sea.
Despite being the fourth largest city, the city is not at its best when it comes to football.  Two clubs used to be located in Burgas, PFC Neftochimic Burgas and FC Chernomorets Burgas. Due to financial problems both clubs were dissolved and later replaced.
So meet FC Chernomorets 1919 Burgas, formed in 2015 by the "Future of Chernomorets Burgas", the goal is to take the club to the higher league. So lets get started. 

 

The Manager:

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[15charactersmax]

16 minutes ago, Winski said:

My career at Tyresö FF is over.....

I really loved managing in Sweden, but man, this was tough. The step to become a professional club and compete in Superettan(2nd div.) was just too big. Our succes came too early...

I come back in Sweden one day, to take revenge. But now it's time for a new challenge...

Damn I feel that, I only updated 4 seasons on here but actually played 8 in Sweden and never got out of the 3rd league which meant we never went pro. Just couldn't compete with the pro teams coming down from the division above where even the bottom finishing team got like 800k in prize money. In the end the bug which meant my youth team weren't playing in a league any more was the final straw.

 

[Braumiller]

23 minutes ago, Wilkesy93 said:

Does anybody have a list of the countries where in the bottom division the clubs are professional?

 

I know Italy is one are there any others?

Not a list, but I know when I did Holland that they were (or at least the team I chose)

[Braumiller]

   

[benrollo]

It's the excellently named Stenles Pinsk, and their even more excellently named stadium SDYuShOR. Let's see what we can do in Belarus.

[hubwub]

14 minutes ago, Braumiller said:

   

What is happening with this nicknaming?

[WhiteCat33]

A.S. Rupensia Lusitanos Fiels
Season 2: Luxembourg Division 2 Serie 2 (Tier 4)
Matches | Squad | Transfers | Finances | Supporters

Competitions:
Cup: Second Round - Same story, won first game lost second game.

League: 4th of 14 PROMOTION!

On the final day of the campaign we made a three goal comeback to win 3-1 to securely guarantee us the final automatic promotion spot. Overall it was a good season with only one really bad stretch in the fall where things got bad and I tossed some complaigning players who weren't good enough. Enough U21 friendlies and I got morale back in line. 

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U21 Division 6: Champions

Our rejects won their group! I'll be bringing up all of these top performers to the A team and this will be my typical pathway I think. Unfortunately my normal stats-view doesn't work with the U21 with how the matches register but thats fine.

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Youth Academy:
Youth Intake Preview

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Youth Intake

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Best Prospects

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Again good personality players of interest:

Best for the team is probably this full natural defender who is fairly ambitious who will be our sub for defense.

A Fairly Professional midfielder who could develop.

This balanced Right Winger is slow and tiny otherwise…

I'm really pushing it finding players, they aren't great.

Best XI & Accolades

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Youth Products Highlights

Of the Year 1 Players 5 are in the starting lineup. Again stars are meaningless right now but I do really like my RM and Striker from this group

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Club Infrastructure

Perk of promotion is the Club has gone Semi Professional! Maybe I can actually find a HOYD or Assistant Manager now! For signing contracts I'm sure I'll lose all my young talents because that dumb "Training Facility" promise is locked for everyone. I hate that new "feature" to this year's edition. So dumb.

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Coaching Badges

Finished the one I started last year

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Board Takeover

In the final month of the season the chairmen decided to retire and then just after the season ended we got a consortium interested

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His first order of business was to take out a bank loan to balance the accounts...great.

Thoughts
Boom back-to-back promotions and out of Amateur life. All clubs in Luxembourg are Semi-Pro so we are now on equalish footing with everyone. I expect to struggle in the next tier as our two experiences with Division 1 sides were not pleasant. This save is so fast, but I'd really like to get a HOYD or like an Assistant manager or anybody half-decent?

Not a good year for Luxembourg on the world stage sees everything drop to a new low. Just more runway for me to build the nation!

 

[Braumiller]

5 minutes ago, hubwub said:

What is happening with this nicknaming?

My nicknaming this year is [YearNumber-IntakeQualityDescription].  And using the .lnc file method now my eyes have been awakened to it  

My first image is making fun of myself, because year after year, if/when I run into issues I usually revert to a strikerless setup to try and consolidate.

[hubwub]

CDS Tampico Madero - Liga BBVA MX - 2025/2026

CLUB: PROFILE | FACILITIES | HONOURS | BOARD VISION | SUPPORTERS | FINANCES

MANAGER: CHARACTERISTICS | ATTRIBUTES

Liga BBVA MX Apertura

Improvement in regards to table position in the Apertura. Rough last three games! However, we just can't make it out of the preliminary round. This is the second year in a row in which we lost in the preliminary round and to penalties.

Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League

We finished out the group undefeated. We are facing Liga Deportiva Alajuelense from Costa Rica.

Youth Intake

Another excellent intake. We will see. At least, I'm getting more players for positions I need backup for.

Miscellaneous

New contracts for Jordi Rocha 23C and Guillermo Valdéz 24A.

New contract and training facilities have been upgraded. Nothing materialized from the club takeover.

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Forgot Youth Intake

[hubwub]

7 minutes ago, Braumiller said:

My nicknaming this year is [YearNumber-IntakeQualityDescription].  And using the .lnc file method now my eyes have been awakened to it  

My first image is making fun of myself, because year after year, if/when I run into issues I usually revert to a strikerless setup to try and consolidate.

I want to try nicknaming. Can you take a screenshot of your lnc file, just so I know how formatting is like.

[MacronQLF]

Joining the challenge too ! Wasn't sure about what i was doing when i choose mexico

 

But it's going well ! VERY WELL , we won the closing stage ( i have no idea what this mean because we will play the opening stage after but ok ) after the playoffs !

Result:

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The team: 

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the preview of the young intake :

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The funny part about this save is that my tallest player except goalkeeper is 1.78 m tall so it's a tactical nightmare sometimes due to the fact that we concede nearly all of the goals on set pieces, let's hope we can get the team in good places in the opening stage !

 

Honestly it is by far the best start i had since i tryed this challenge, mexico feels like a easier country because teams have a very similar players level, good facilities and proper teams, the only downside is they didn't add a u20 championship in 2nd division so it's really hard to young players to get playtime 

 

[Braumiller]

6 minutes ago, hubwub said:

I want to try nicknaming. Can you take a screenshot of your lnc file, just so I know how formatting is like.

I have a squad view with these two columns that I use when the youth candidates come in (this is just taken now with my senior squad for screenshot purposes):

I then do a Print Screen via the FM menu and save as a Web Page.  I then open that in Chrome (my default browser) copy and paste that into my Text file (which is saved as the .lnc file) and format.

My text file looks like this currently:

The extremely helpful post I used to learn this method is this one from @SuperRedditch

 

Edited November 10, 2022 by Braumiller
to add link to helpful post

[hubwub]

14 minutes ago, MacronQLF said:

Joining the challenge too ! Wasn't sure about what i was doing when i choose mexico

 

But it's going well ! VERY WELL , we won the closing stage ( i have no idea what this mean because we will play the opening stage after but ok ) after the playoffs !

Result:

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The team: 

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the preview of the young intake :

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The funny part about this save is that my tallest player except goalkeeper is 1.78 m tall so it's a tactical nightmare sometimes due to the fact that we concede nearly all of the goals on set pieces, let's hope we can get the team in good places in the opening stage !

 

Honestly it is by far the best start i had since i tryed this challenge, mexico feels like a easier country because teams have a very similar players level, good facilities and proper teams, the only downside is they didn't add a u20 championship in 2nd division so it's really hard to young players to get playtime 

 

Welcome to Mexico! Glad to see more folks managing in North America!

14 minutes ago, Braumiller said:

I have a squad view with these two columns that I use when the youth candidates come in (this is just taken now with my senior squad for screenshot purposes):

I then do a Print Screen via the FM menu and save as a Web Page.  I then open that in Chrome (my default browser) copy and paste that into my Text file (which is saved as the .lnc file) and format.

My text file looks like this currently:

The extremely helpful post I used to learn this method is this one from @SuperRedditch

 

Thanks for this! Going to use this to fix the naming of my youth intake!

[Barnsley]

has anyone got a link or template for these fancy spreadsheets people are using! brilliant!

 

Came 13th in the Vanarama North with FC United 4th season in charge, not sure how to get any higher! was a point off the playoffs after 30 games but had a 7 game losing streak couldn't break it and complete derailed the push. Faulted off at the end and couldn't turn it round. still media prediction was 22nd - and the next 4-5 years of the boards plan is to continue to attempt to avoid relegation so no real requirements, just need to focus on trying to some how get professional status and continuous improvement on the facilities. at some point i guess the products i produce over a few year span will then be enough to take me up a couple of levels! (I Hope!)

[Neo_Geo]

2 hours ago, Wilkesy93 said:

Does anybody have a list of the countries where in the bottom division the clubs are professional?

 

I know Italy is one are there any others?

Switzerland I think as well as my team, FC Chiasso, are professional from the get go.

Holland I believe was the same but I think there was something with no relegation from keuken kampioen for the first 5 years?

I’d imagine most nations with 2 playable tiers the 2nd tier clubs and therefore newly promoted clubs that are eligible for the challenge are likely to be professional.

[Daddy]

A surprise promotion and then I don't get to finish the season. Seems a quick trigger fringer.

yeah I knew it was coming when the team had a draw in a friendly to a team playing in whatever the "Combined Counties D1" division is.

 

Taking a break from England. I'd like to try somewhere in Africa since I've never played there. I don't know enough about databases and what qualifies for the challenge. Depending on how the night goes I'll either look into that or go somewhere already in game. For now, off to RimWorld for some war crimes.

[SkiIIs]

Season 1 2023/24 - Tampico Madero - Mexico Expansion League

I chose this team as they had a large following and cash in the bank, started with 3.5m balance which we were able to use to improve facilities and upgrade coaching badges.

The team was pretty solid with a couple of stars but we are very light in central midfield meaning i started with a 4-2-2-2 formation as we had no DM's. I think this really shocked the team as even though we would be the better team for most games, we just couldnt notch the wins and concede quite regularly. In the opening stage we ended up finishing mid table after a really slow start, we were then knocked out in the first game of the prelim round.  In the closing stage we were better as the team were getting used to how I want them to play and we finished 5th, We won the first game of prelim which put us in the quarters, we unfortunately drew the team that came first in the closing stage Venados.  First leg at home we won 2 - 0 in a dominate performance.  We then went 1 - 0 ahead away but then bottled it and copped 3 early in the second half.  To my despair the league standings are the differentiator if the legs are tied!

 

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Intake was ok, nothing really exciting me to be honest. I signed them all as we literally had no players in the u20 squad, Luna could become decent at left back

Come end of the year we got a huge cash boost from sponsorships, 1.3m for this leve is nuts!  We also got 870k of 'other income' at the same time to put the balance back to 2.8m which ill look to spend next year.

We were also given the option of starting our own B team which i instinctively approved.  @darren1983and @XaWi assume this is ok to move players in and out of the B team?  I havent done so thus far in season 2 but want the ok before I do, cheers

[hubwub]

18 minutes ago, SkiIIs said:

Season 1 2023/24 - Tampico Madero - Mexico Expansion League

I chose this team as they had a large following and cash in the bank, started with 3.5m balance which we were able to use to improve facilities and upgrade coaching badges.

The team was pretty solid with a couple of stars but we are very light in central midfield meaning i started with a 4-2-2-2 formation as we had no DM's. I think this really shocked the team as even though we would be the better team for most games, we just couldnt notch the wins and concede quite regularly. In the opening stage we ended up finishing mid table after a really slow start, we were then knocked out in the first game of the prelim round.  In the closing stage we were better as the team were getting used to how I want them to play and we finished 5th, We won the first game of prelim which put us in the quarters, we unfortunately drew the team that came first in the closing stage Venados.  First leg at home we won 2 - 0 in a dominate performance.  We then went 1 - 0 ahead away but then bottled it and copped 3 early in the second half.  To my despair the league standings are the differentiator if the legs are tied!

 

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Intake was ok, nothing really exciting me to be honest. I signed them all as we literally had no players in the u20 squad, Luna could become decent at left back

Come end of the year we got a huge cash boost from sponsorships, 1.3m for this leve is nuts!  We also got 870k of 'other income' at the same time to put the balance back to 2.8m which ill look to spend next year.

We were also given the option of starting our own B team which i instinctively approved.  @darren1983and @XaWi assume this is ok to move players in and out of the B team?  I havent done so thus far in season 2 but want the ok before I do, cheers

Did you lose any players during the transfer window?