The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

hyrule_king · December 9, 2022

Season 1 Review

Edited December 9, 2022 by hyrule_king

Traldon · December 9, 2022

So i decided to give this a try

WhiteCat33 · December 9, 2022

A.S. Luxembourgo Porto

Season 18 2040-41 BGL Ligue (Tier 1)

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World of Football 2040

Matches | Squad | Transfers |Facilities | Supporters

Competitions:

We all know some years you're lucky and some years you're not. Sadly, this year we were not but I've been using it to start to develop alternative tactics and get some new youngsters into the starting XI and have seen some good development in attributes if not in progress on the pitch.

Conference League

Here we were super unlucky to draw Nottingham Forest in the 3rd QF. Naturally, they made it to the Quarter Finals so to keep the scores respectable is a big achievement, but sadly not a profitable one.

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Cup

We've all seen this before: Defeat to Swift Hesperange in the Final to a sold-out crowd at the national stadium (9.1k seats). We've been to 7 finals now and have won 3 of them, but only 1 was against Swift Hesperange. In this year's final we gave up 2 set piece goals and 1 counter goal, so even if we dominated the run of play our forwards just couldn't make the chances we got count. Our goal came when I moved our BBM up to striker and he did a lot better than our tried-and-true Joao Pedro 10c.

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League

The title comes down to how we can do head-to-head against Swift. This year we couldn't clentch the win in either match even with Swfit getting a red-card in both matches. The first match it was our defense that let us down in a 4-3 loss. To be fair both FBs were very young (16 & 17). As you can see pushing at the end of the game didn't materialize any chances. The second match though came during an injury crisis where we were basically out of strikers and our BBM did not do well at all up top with a 6.0 rating. We are getting close though with us not being handidly out-played in the fixtures.

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Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview

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Youth Intake

We had a very poor intake this year especially from a personality perspective. At least we have good youth coaches now so maybe some will develop though the normal pathway.

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Best Prospects

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Most promising is this CB

Then if my coaches are wrong on this striker's potential he could also develop

As well as this RB

HOYD & U21 Coaches Switchover

Over the summer I gutted my youth coaches (who all had bad personalities) and replaced them with recently retired Italian players who were all fairly professional and one French/Cape Verde Professional as my U21 AssMan. For the U21 Head Coach I spent more to bring in a Resolute German. Downside to this is they have no Luxembourg knowledge, which I think will negatively impact the intakes for a few years. I decided to wait to change over the HOYD to give him one final season, but after this intake his time had come, so my trainee has now moved to his preferred roll, and at least he's Luxembourgish and will finish his final coaching badge soon.

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Best XI

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I'll be trying out a 4-2-3-1 next year and had left it selected so that's what the AssMan went with. Will be moving Rivero 11g up as the Anchorman, the RB will slide into CB (natural position) and I have Gomes 15h you see above as the RB. I'll be re-training my other striker Pedro 10c as a AMR Inside Forward as that position is where we have the least cover.

Poached Player

Another poached player this time Wolfsburg. Carlo Clement (POACH 1) is developing well at SV Werder playing in their youth team and making 8 U21 appearances for LUX. Not a bad CB worth upwards of 1.4M now.

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Youth Products Highlights

Our BBM Nelson Graca 15c decided not to wait on Cape Verde and has fully committed to Luxembourg. He had a memorable first CAP where he broke his arm tackling an Aberjhani player, but he's recovered and made 8 appearances this year playing as their CAM (his initial position)

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I've also retrained my Captain to DM now that he's locked into a professional deal and he's actually playing for LUX as he's been in the team for a few years now, but always rode the bench.

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We have gotten another Portugal Youth Player, the best LM from 2 intakes ago. He doesn't have LUX second nationality, so very promising he got to play internationally at least a couple of times. He's now angry and wants more money, but we have him for 2 more years and have a 3 year extension available so I'm waiting on giving him his (deserved) pay bump:

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Transfers:

So Swift Hesperange finally were able to steal Marcelo Miguel 14h from me. Basically, since he generated they've wanted him, but I was able to fight off their bids. This year the board overruled me and accepted a reasonable 275k +40% bid. However, I still had the contract extension so I triggered it to keep my rotation striker around. Deadline day came and they said nah we still want him and put in a 325k straight bid. No option to challenge it so I had to watch him leave. To be fair we need the money more than him even if it leaves us exposed depth-wise at Striker, we at least got the max value out of him as I don't see him ever developing into a continental talent.

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Club Infrastructure & Finances

Nothing because we lost 812k this year. Basically, there isn't enough domestic dollars to break even without Continental Group Stage pay. Our last season taxable loss was 1.1M (450k was taxes for the previous year) and this year was 523k, so even with Miguel 14h transfer we at least had a slightly better balance than last year. We have 2 more years of debt payments left and then we will have 190k less in expenditures. It's make-or-break next season financially...

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Coaching Badges

I finally started the Continental Pro, but still have a few months to go. I Hit 600 matches this season!

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Thoughts

Excel Season 1 - 15

Man I want to win the league so bad! Being as I like having it difficult, this is keeping me interested in the challenge of this save. Thankfully its not just me recognizing that this LUX league is way better than it should be, Europe is noticing and our European Coeficient last year jumped to 34! This is almost good enough to bump the 2nd place team into Europa League Qualifiers instead of Conference League. We just have to move up 2 more spots and oust Iceland to get them. Sadly, with none of our teams making into group stages this season we will not be moving upwards. But if both Swift and us make it next year... A guy can dream!

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Edited December 9, 2022 by WhiteCat33

Diego D10S · December 9, 2022

Makoto Nakamura · December 9, 2022

FK Zemun: 2032/33 Youth Candidates

Another 4.5* excellent intake.

A big group of players with 5* potential and a ocuple of really tall players too!

Makoto Nakamura · December 9, 2022

This is also the first time I've had a player in the NXGN list!

The7Striker · December 9, 2022

13 minutos atrás, Makoto Nakamura disse:

This is also the first time I've had a player in the NXGN list!

Get ready to sell him :lol:

WhiteCat33 · December 9, 2022

31 minutes ago, Makoto Nakamura said:

This is also the first time I've had a player in the NXGN list!

Yeah #6 at just 17 means everyone will want this guy. hope you can get a good percentage profit clause in the sale

Makoto Nakamura · December 9, 2022

2032/33 End of Season Review

One point worse off than last season but we've finished with a positive goal difference for the first time at this level! Considering our oldest member of the first eleven is just 22 I would definitely say we have a bright future. Again, if only we only we could improve them damn youth facilities!

Overall Best XI

2032/33 Best XI

Miroslav Cvetković (YP5n)

Dragan Janjić (YP5h) - Dejan Golubović (YP4l) - Marko Živanović (YP5j) - Branko Cvetanović (YP6d)

Dobrivoje Dapčević (YP4d) - Kosta Pantazis

Vladimir Plavšić (YP6b) Nikola Stojanović (YP7g)

Jovan Miletić (YP9a) - Danijel Marić (YP8d)

The board are disappointed in me...

It's been 6 years since I had the option now.

Edited December 9, 2022 by Makoto Nakamura

OlivierL · December 9, 2022

Youth Intake Preview

First intake from our new hoyd Ramović .Two superb personalities and one good GK and Striker. Let's hope this intake includes some potentially semi-finalists for a World Cup.

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Lukanić 25D has a lot of ability and personality.

Srbljinović 25H could be our first goalkeeper in a few years.

Edited December 10, 2022 by OlivierL

Makoto Nakamura · December 9, 2022

The star man is gone.

Makoto Nakamura · December 9, 2022

FK Zemun: 2033/34 Youth Candidates

Again an excellent preview.

Eight players with 5* PA!

hyrule_king · December 9, 2022

Promoted way too early into the third tier. Getting battered most games.

ludak · December 9, 2022

The first season is finished, we've had our ups and downs, but in the end the goal was to survive, and that we did.

The intake was good, though no players can make an immediate impact.

Rosić Mračina Protić Morina Nastasović Dunjić Lučić

Lučić and Morina are probably gonna be the players that see the most playing time off all, after them Mračina and Rosić.

See you at the end of next season.

DrJones · December 9, 2022

Grosseto 2024/25

The second season were a tiny bit better than the first. We managed to grab a playoff spot but we had nothing to say against a much more powerful Virtus Entella. I expect us to be in this godforsaken league for a long time...

Squad

We had three youngsters in our starting XI this season which is positive. Other than that there's not much to report on.

Youth Intake

A pretty exciting striker who scored two goals in his debut for us in serie C.

History

hyrule_king · December 9, 2022

Edited December 9, 2022 by hyrule_king

hyrule_king · December 10, 2022

SEASON 2 REVIEW

The inevitable relegation happened.

abirdc · December 10, 2022

For the past few years, I have been an avid follower of this challenge. However, I never tried this challenge out as to me, transfers is the most enjoyable part of the game.

But after FM 2023 came out, I really can not get myself to enjoy any save. Hence I finally felt the urge to try out the Youth Academy Challenge. At first, I tried out Indonesia, which I had to abandon due to some stupid bugs. I took a closer look at rest of the Asian nations, and finally selected Malaysia, the country with the worse youth rating out of playable nations. The team I chose is:

Club Introduction

Kinabalu Jaguar FC

Introducing Kinabalu Jaguar FC, a Malaysian Club based in Kota Kinabalu. The club is an infant, established only in 2021. In game, they have won the 3rd tier of Malaysia and got promoted into the 2nd tier.

The club is predicted to finish 9th out of 12 teams in the 2nd tier, although I should mention that the below 03 teams are 2nd team of 1st tier teams, and they are stronger than us. This is reflected in the board expectation, as they expect us to attempt to avoid relegation.

Their supporter base is also small, with 130 season ticket holders in a 4,000 seater stadium.

There is only 18 players in the whole club, with only 06 defenders. The facilities are atrocious and much work is needed to be done if we can move forward. However first thing is first, we need to secure survival in the first season.

This is me.

Edited December 10, 2022 by abirdc

CardiffDragon · December 10, 2022

Jst a quick one....could not resist putting this up.

Yes i know it is only the Europa Conference league and i know it is only a Gibraltarian team but even so, it is still europe!!!

and the away round was with my "B" Team

and thanks to this we now have two Europa Conference League records for the same tie.....

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Makoto Nakamura · December 10, 2022

2033/34 End of Season Review

Another season in 10th, it's going to take something special to break into that top half.

Overall Best XI

2033/34 Best XI

Miroslav Cvetković (YP5n)

Borislav Babić (YP6f) - Dejan Golubović (YP4l) - Marko Živanović (YP5j) - Branko Cvetanović (YP6d)

Dobrivoje Dapčević (YP4d) - Miodrag Arsić (YP7i)

Vladimir Plavšić (YP6b) Nikola Stojanović (YP7g)

Jovan Miletić (YP9a) - Danijel Marić (YP8d)

hubwub · December 10, 2022

Club Comunicaciones - Liga Profesional de Fútbol - 2025

MANAGER: PROFILE

Competitions

Copa de la Liga Profesional

The first competition of the season. We finished second in our group to Club Atlético Boca Juniors. We couldn't repeat as we lost to Club Atlético River Plate to penalties in the final.

Supercopa Argentina

Our next trophy opportunity was against Club Atlético River Plate as they were the defending Liga Profesional de Fútbol champions. Revenge was on the menu as we won 2-1.

Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores

Our first continental competition had us pitted against a heavyweight Brazilian team, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo in the group stage. We ended up at the top of the Group D.

Eventually, we were pitted against another great Brazilian team which was Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense. We lost in the second round to penalties. I do take great pride that Club Atlético River Plate lost to Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras in the Final.

The best thing to come out of playing in this competition is the money injection.

Copa Argentina AXION Energy

Our second trophy defense was a success. We got another chance at Club Atlético River Plate ending up in penalties. We came out triumphant. We faced Club Deportivo Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba in the final with a 84th minute goal from Emiliano Trovento.

Liga Profesional de Fútbol

This one came down to the last three games of the season against Club Atlético River Plate. In the end, we ended up as the champions at 66 points (20W-6D-1L). Our only loss of the season was to Club Atlético River Plate. October was a rough month, we had a leaky defense.

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Squad (Best XI)

Julián Kadijevic

Lucas Barreto - Mauro Miraglia - Jerónimo Ávalos - Tobías Bovone

Daniel Cavallini 22I - Tomás Friesel

Ariel García 23I - Emiliano Trovento - Diego Casoppero

Liam Castro

We are still a firm believer in the 4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide.

Youth Intake

This season I got a new HOYD, César Montiglio. I needed a new HOYD with better coaching stats.

He comes in with a Resolute personality, 13 JPA, 13 JPP, and 11 WYY. His preferred formation is a 4-3-3 DM Wide. It's a bit ways away from my 4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide. He's gotten better coaching badges since being at the club.

He became a starter right after coming through my youth intake. He has improved by 1 points in certain attributes but it's just his first year. He's going to be great in the future.

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Fernando Guerrero 25B

Ezequiel Pereyra 25K

Miscellaneous

Finances

Our finances are in the positive because of Copa CONMEBOL Libertadores prize payouts. We also got a lot from gate receipts which could be higher if our facility wasn't limited to 3,139.

Our performance has got us 4,455 people waiting for season tickets. Our average season ticket price is €92 and our average ticket price is €18.

Our bank loan still exists. Good thing we have more sponsorship income.

I have two players that are unhappy because my squad isn't ambitious enough for them and they want to move.

My goalkeeper Julián Kadijevic (€11,250,000) and Emiliano Ojeda 22H (€4,500,00) both want to leave. However, with what I set as the trigger for them to move. I don't think they'll be moving.

I doubt any of the teams in Liga Profesional de Fútbol or Primera Nacional can meet that. Most of the clubs have balances in the red. In the Primera Nacional, 29 teams out of the 37 are in debt.

Even though they want to leave, nobody will bid on that price unless I add the European leagues into my save.

Edited December 10, 2022 by hubwub

libbyshuss · December 10, 2022

On 08/12/2022 at 22:58, Trainspotting90 said:

mate, your u20 are in primavera or not partecipate in any league?

they don't participate in any league, looks like you're right about that bug

the reserve manager doesn't schedule any friendlies either - i have to do everything myself.

little bit annoying but not game breaking

libbyshuss · December 10, 2022

On 08/12/2022 at 22:58, Trainspotting90 said:

the D in SSD are for "amateur", a financial rule for all the teams under the serie c, if a team is promoted to the serie c, the D disappear, you are at 2037 SS Catania

thank you, i had no idea! Changed it now

Trainspotting90 · December 10, 2022

45 minuti fa, libbyshuss ha scritto:

they don't participate in any league, looks like you're right about that bug

the reserve manager doesn't schedule any friendlies either - i have to do everything myself.

little bit annoying but not game breaking

yes, the problem is the primavera championship have a pro/rel sistem, but in reality if a team relegate in serie d, probabily the u20 team is inscribed to juniores (the serie d youth league), because the sistem is money espensive for a team changed from "pro" to "semipro"

in game this is not contemplate

Trainspotting90 · December 10, 2022

47 minuti fa, libbyshuss ha scritto:

thank you, i had no idea! Changed it now

yes, the D mean Dilettantistica, in english "Amateur", fot the team from Serie D to Terza Categoria, a financial status because the only pro league are Serie A, B and C

Neo_Geo · December 10, 2022

Season Review

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I've got to admit I was worried about this season after losing 4 first team players to EPL sides however their replacements did a sound job and we retained the league title however the squad didn't have enough quality in depth to rotate to win the Swiss Cup so no treble double.

There were some changes this year at the club with a takeover occurring but no new investment (not a major worry as finances are fine following the sales last summer) and a new stadium is being constructed but only with 9,250 capacity. The annoying part is the new chairperson hasn't led to the youth facilities upgrade request being available once more so I'm still stuck at 4 star.

The league was pretty straight forward this year and I've been switching between a 4-3-3 DM Wide and 4-2-3-1 depending on whether I am playing at home or away as this allows me to play Bregvadze (Elite7) after he returned from an impressive 6 month loan spell. We did have a slight scare during the Champions Play Off when my entire midfield was away at the U21 world cup with Switzerland and I lost the second Play Off game before narrowly winning the decisive match at home, had it been a year with 2 away games we might not have won it.

In terms of the squad I am pretty pleased with the progress and at the moment the players with interested clubs the interest is not from the elite clubs (Cantarella had an offer from Brentford as an example so he was fine with me rejecting this).

My former player Boris Mandli got his big move to Bayern for £55m which meant I only got £10m from this sell on but as I say finances aren't really a concern now. He then thanked me for his career progression by scoring twice against me in a 3-0 aggregate win in the Champions League last 16. He now has 43 goals in 39 caps for Switzerland and is a beast.....he's definitely someone I would have liked to have got through the intake later in the save as I would have had a better chance of holding onto him. Cantarella is a fine player (won the NxGn this year as well) but Mandli is just that one or two levels higher up.

I'm still sticking with my model citizen HoYD for the moment (mainly because I don't have great alternatives that are interested and don't want wages I can't offer) but I was a bit concerned at the number of negative personalities in the intake this year so it's something I will be monitoring very closely in the next season or two.

Supporter profile unchanged, just more social media presence.

Next Season

The save is progressing really nicely for 8 seasons in and it's now at the grinding stage where we just keep chipping away in Europe and staying on the lookout for better staff and praying that the upgrade youth facilities shows up at some point as I feel this may tip things in our favour.

Edited December 10, 2022 by Neo_Geo

Makoto Nakamura · December 10, 2022

FK Zemun: 2034/35 Youth Candidates

Promised with excellency again.

ML is historically one of the weakest positions, not anymore. :cool:

hubwub · December 10, 2022

Club Comunicaciones - Liga Profesional de Fútbol - 2026

MANAGER: PROFILE

The odds of us winning Liga Profesional de Fútbol is at 100-1.

Since we are in the positive right now financially, we got an upgrade! Youth Recruitment gets an upgrade to Above Average.

Squad

I released 15 players from youth intakes that have gone through my club. They had low determination and didn't have the potential to make it to the first team. Even with releasing players, I'm at 58 total.

Liga Profesional de Fútbol

Where are they now edition of relegated teams?

2022

Club Atlético Platense

Made it back in two seasons to Liga Profesional de Fútbol after finishing 34th in their first season in the second division.

Club Atlético Barracas Central

Struggling in Primera Nacional.

2023

Arsenal Fútbol Club de Sarandí

Fighting in the Primera Nacional.

Central Córdoba (SdE)

Struggled in the first season in Primera Nacional but managed to finish 4th the next season.

2024

Club Atlético San Martín de Tucumán

Rough first season in Primera Nacional.

Club Atlético Aldosivi

Two straight relegations. They are no longer in a playable league in Argentina.

2025

Club Sportivo Independiente Rivadavia

Got promoted into Liga Profesional de Fútbol then got relegated due to average points.

Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors

Their performance for the past four seasons meant that they were a candidate to getting relegated through average points. It finally happened.

if you looked at the profiles of these clubs, they all have loan debts.

In the Liga Profesional de Fútbol, there are 12 clubs with no loan debt out of 28.

In the Primera Nacional, there are 18 clubs with no loan debt out of 37.

We will see if these numbers increase next season if clubs can eliminate their debt or not.

Edited December 10, 2022 by hubwub

Makoto Nakamura · December 10, 2022

2034/35 End of Season Review

Amazing season! We made our first ever cup final and we finished up in 3rd, just two points behind Partizan which means we have European competition next season!

Overall Best XI

2034/35 Best XI

Miroslav Cvetković (YP5n)

Marko Stevanović (YP10e) - Dejan Golubović (YP4l) - Marko Živanović (YP5j) - Branko Cvetanović (YP6d)

Dobrivoje Dapčević (YP4d) - Miodrag Arsić (YP7i)

Vladimir Plavšić (YP6b) Nikola Stojanović (YP7g)

Uglješa Vidović (YP8e) - Danijel Marić (YP8d)

FINALLY!

Edited December 10, 2022 by Makoto Nakamura

helminho · December 10, 2022

Table - League stats - Squad - Transfers

Most important establish players: Avellini, Caterisano, Ferlicca and the sold keeper Imbastro

The intake of Youth-candidates

Most promising youth-candidates: Beqiri and Santini

Edited December 10, 2022 by helminho

ludak · December 10, 2022

I've finished the second season since starting with OFK Beograd.

The goal was to stay in the league once again, and that was completed. It could have been better, but I'm happy with the result.

This is the second time it happened, so we're makin real progress there, and the intake looked nice again.

These are the best in my opinion:

Ristić Katerinis Miletić Rakić Obradović Karanović

Some of them are wanted by Partizan, and the trouble is that the board accepts anything above 5k, so I might lose a lot of them.

From the last intake the only players that had an active role in the first team are Dunjić and Morina, but some of the players are leaving at the end of the season so some of the others will have to step up.

grff · December 10, 2022

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2034/35 Season Review

A frustrating and ultimately disappointing season as we were unable to follow up our league winning campaign with another title challenge. We eventually scraped into the European Conference League which will no doubt be easier than our first venture in the Champions League.

Player stats were a mixed bag as we had some good performers in the domestic competitions but then absolutely tanked in Europe.

Our youth intake was the poorest yet as we only took on two of the prospects.

The biggest news from the season was the sale of our star CB/DM as he was not going to renew his contract. Therefore the decision was made to sell him and use the funds to improve our facilities.

Season history...

JAwtunes · December 10, 2022

Cardiff Corinthians - Season 2041/42 Review (s20) & 20 season recap

This will be a shorter season review than normal as this marks the 20th season of the save, which I started back at the start of August. Its been slow progress but really enjoyable.

There is nothing particularly exciting happened this season, we won the three domestic competitions again (losing our unbeaten run in the league along the way, thanks to TNS). We qualified for the group stage of the UCL but finished bottom of our group. Andrew Catherall 39b (18yr) has developed into a real superstar and has outgrown our club. We are still unable to upgrade our youth facilities of course.

Competitions - JD Premier League (1st place but lost our unbeaten run which extended for nearly 100 games)

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Competitions - UEFA Champions League

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Players (Catherall is truly amazing and still developing well. He is Ambitious, which is a real worry so could start demanding a move soon)

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Top Players

Youth Intake (5 star but no Elite players - at least not on intake day. This is no doubt down to the excellent Catherall who is the benchmark these young'uns are having to match up to)

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Preview

Intake

HoYD - still Bari MORGAN

SUMMARY

full 20 seasons below as its a bit of a milestone. You can see our average attendances in the league are still awful. There seems to be some sort of cap in the league. We have been stuck with the same chairman for the last 12 years having had a couple in the first eight seasons.

20 Year review

I like to track teams / players / competitions etc in my saves to keep my interest but haven't really done so in this save, at least not for a while. I have therefore spent some time seeing what has been going on and have dropped a few images below.

Welsh Domestic Football

Cardiff Corries have dominated in the last decade

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Welsh Clubs

Swansea City are the top Welsh club in England having played in the Premier League for the last few years. Cardiff City have recently bounced between the Championship and League 1, while Wrexham have gone from the National League to League 1 then down to League 2 during this save.

The record player purchase in the JD Premier League is £70k in 2040 (Colwyn Bay), followed by £30k in 2025 (TNS).

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Welsh National Team

The national team have Qualified for one world cup during the save and have bounced between ~50 and 30 in the world rankings.

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Europe - Top 5 Leagues

These leagues are all playable. The English Premier League has the highest reputation and the usual suspects have been fighting for the title throughout the save. The Bundesliga is the second highest reputation and has been dominated by Bayern (they have won ALL) titles during the save. La Liga is the third highest reputation league and has been dominated by Barcelona and Real Madrid. Serie A is the fourth highest reputation and has been dominated by the Milan clubs in the last decade. Lastly, Ligue 1 is the fifth highest reputation league and has been dominated by PSG, though Monaco (3), Rennes (1) and Lyon (1) have managed to win the title during the save.

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UEFA Champions League and CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores

The UCL has been won by several clubs during the save, with the most successful clubs being Bayern (5), Man Utd (4), Man City (2), Real Madrid (2), Chelsea (2).

The Copa Lib has been dominated by Brazilian clubs in particular, with the most successful being Sao Paulo (4), Libertad (3, Paraguay), A Mineiro (3), Santos (2), Vasco da Gama (2).

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Edited December 10, 2022 by JAwtunes

JAwtunes · December 10, 2022

International

England (2), Brazil (1), Germany (1) and Italy (1) have all won the world cup.

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Balon d'Or

There have been three standout players in the save. Kylian Mbappe picked up five Balon d'Or awards in his time at Man City, then Cedric Visser (Holland) picked up three awards at Man Utd and Lucas Smith (England) picked up four at Arsenal over a 10 year period.

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Edited December 10, 2022 by JAwtunes

hyrule_king · December 10, 2022

16 hours ago, hyrule_king said:

SEASON 2 REVIEW

The inevitable relegation happened.

Daddy · December 10, 2022

2024/25 Midseason:

started off doing really well and then hit a pretty steep slump. Keep trying a few things tactics wise. One formation overhaul and otherwise just some instructions. The goal is not to be relegated so I think I'm fine there, but I'm disappointed as I wanted to build off last season.

Intake Preview:

Another strong preview. Depth is still needed, but I'm really just hoping for one player at any position that comes in here ready to start.

crusadertsar · December 10, 2022

Cool challenge! Just discovered it today. But just a quick question for those participating already. When the rule says that the club has to have been unplayable the year before. Does that include a club that was unplayable in FM22 and then got promoted in FM23 and is playable now. I had my hometown team Karpaty Lviv in mind they were just promoted back to Ukraine's 2nd level division this year and became playable again. What do you guys think?

Edited December 10, 2022 by crusadertsar

JAwtunes · December 10, 2022

2 minutes ago, crusadertsar said:

Cool challenge! Just discovered it today. But just a quick question for those participating already. When the rule says that the club has to have been unplayable the year before. Does that include a club that was unplayable in FM22 and then got promoted in FM23 and is playable now. I had my hometown team or Karpaty Lviv in mind they were just promoted back to Ukraine's 2nd level division this year and became playable again. What do you guys think?

Welcome aboard. If I've understood correctly, it sounds like they would be eligible in FM22 but not in FM23.

crusadertsar · December 10, 2022

2 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

Welcome aboard. If I've understood correctly, it sounds like they would be eligible in FM22 but not in FM23.

Aww that's what I guessed. Too bad. Will have to look for a different club then.

Edited December 10, 2022 by crusadertsar

Makoto Nakamura · December 10, 2022

FK Zemun: 2035/36 Youth Candidates

Just the one A rating, for once this excellent intake doesn't sound excellent.

Five players with 5* potential and then quite the drop off.

BigJack · December 10, 2022

FC United Season 13 - 2035/36

Season Preview

Preview

Predicted Finish - 23rd

Competitions

Overview

EFL League One - 13th. League Table Past Positions

FA Cup - Knocked out in the First Round by Crewe.

Carabao Cup - Knocked out in the Second Round by West Brom.

PJ Trophy - Knocked out in the group stage.

A solid season with plenty of progress from last year. We finished 3 places higher in the league with 10 points more than last season. Our highlights this season included breaking our highest ever win with this 8-0 win over Fleetwood. We looked like we could make a late run for the play offs with 8 games remaining but we ran out of steam.

Playing Squad

Squad Transfers Seasons Best 11

Another year older and the team is really starting to take shape now and I believe if we can keep the squad together, then next season we should be pushing for the play offs. We had 2 players get in this years Team of the season. Petrie 33a, Jewell 33d, Chaplow 31c and Liddle 33c formed our front 4 this season and were all really good, between them recording 73 goals and 46 assists. Smith 32b filled in well when needed and will play more next season as Chaplow moves on. Wood 34a and Jarman 32a have really progressed this season and I think both can be key men for us next season, if we can keep the numerous interested clubs hands off them. Askey 35c and Macormac 34c have started to come into the senior side and are now back ups to the first team and looking to make breakthroughs next season.

Chaplow 31c is off Joining Forest for £5m + 50% of his next transfer fee. He refused all efforts of a new deal so I had to sell him, I did manage to make it so that he stayed for the season.

Youth Development

Preview Intake Personalities

A pretty poor intake with only the 3 elite talents, luckily 2 of them have decent personalities. We need to upgrade the facilities asap and I am hopeful next season we will be able to do just that.

Bascoe 36a

Woodcraft 36b

Rouse 36c

Finances and Facilities

Finances Facilities

We completed the Stadium Expansion with 2 home games remaining, both of which were sell outs. Hopefully we can get another expansion soon as we lose around £350k a month still. We also got an upgrade to the Training Facilities, but due to a downgrade a while ago this only took us back to adequate, with the money from Chaplow's sale, I am hoping to get upgrades to both the Training and Youth facilities this summer. The board have agreed to a Youth Facilities upgrade but not to the training facilities just yet.

Other

Club Records Overall Best 11

Edited December 10, 2022 by BigJack

OlivierL · December 10, 2022

Season Preview | Competitions | Honours

HLN : A good first season at the highest level. Never any relegation troubles and we had a chance to finish in the top five in order to qualify for europe in the future.

Supersport Hrvatski Kup: We lost in the first round against a second tier team.

U19: Our U19 finished 4th in the Hrvatska Juniorska Liga.

First XI| Overall Best XI| Transfers | Youth Intake 2025

A solid first season from our squad. Frano Vlašić will feature in the Toulon Tournament. Porto, Köln and some Italians teams are trying to steal him.

Picak had a very good season with 7 clean sheets.

Finances & Upgrades

Our finances are good. The Tv rights deal is giving us options and we don't need cash injection from our board at the moment.

Our board renewed the Affiliation with Dinamo but without an option to buy our players. I was able to get my first affiliated team in Croatia with a youth link.

Nation Watch

Objectives

Spoiler

Objectives that i want to achieve during this save, not everything is realistic. i also have a small objective list as future Croatian manager.

Next Season

I hope to integrate some youth players into the senior squad. Not getting relegated is again the objective and secretly I hope for the top five (chance of European football).

hubwub · December 10, 2022

@OlivierLI am digging those objectives for your players. I might take it for my Comu save.

OlivierL · December 10, 2022

7 minutes ago, hubwub said:

@OlivierLI am digging those objectives for your players. I might take it for my Comu save.

Ok good luck, had more of those for my Gibraltar save from last year.

fries · December 10, 2022

Premier League

2033/34 (season 11)

Season Summary

Second season in the Premier League.

We survived again with less trouble. We gained 10 more points than last season.

My striker duo Walters and Walters did okay with 15 and 11 goals each.

I am happy with the quality in most positions, except the fullbacks. I hope some of my young players will step up in those positions.

Jack Smith is without a doubt my best player. Happily I managed to renew his contract this season. Otherwise it would run out after this season. I am very happy to keep him!

I had 2 players on the NXGN list. Smith won the award. While Toby Walters was my other player on the list.

A surprising award was that Toby Walters won the Players' Young Player.

The youth intake preview looked promising.

I am also very happy with the intake of 5 elite talents. I hope to see them in the first teams in a few years.

No transfers of significance this season.

Finances and Upgrades

We played most of the season in Newcastle because we were expanding our stadium. It can now contain 22,452 fans.

The board has also agreed to upgrade the training facilities. However, I can unfortunately not ask for upgrades to the youth facilities.

We will also upgrade our youth category to level one afters this season.

Next season
Next season, I just hope to keep developing my players.

Winski · December 10, 2022

1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig

We are now halfway our second season, and our first in 2. Bundesliga. Things are going very well! We are in a 5th place, and are performing above any expectations.

We are also finally able to upgrade some of our facilities. And beside that, I'm able to start a coaching course.

The youth intake preview doesn't look very promising, although it's labelled as a golden generation.

WhiteCat33 · December 10, 2022

A.S. Luxembourgo Porto

Season 19 2041-42 BGL Ligue (Tier 1)

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World of Football 2040

Competitions:

Conference League: League Path 4th Qualifying Round

First three matches went great and then we drew: Benfica, our first test against Portuguese opposition. The home match was an unmitigated disaster where our defense collapsed in the second half and we lost 5-0. With qualification lost, we went to Portugal to play for our pride and managed to pull off a 2-2 draw. I know they were complacent due to the Agg score, but I still count this as a success for us.

Spoiler

Ugly game, 7 shots on target for them and 5 goals ☹

Especially considering this:

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They were the Runners Up of the whole competition. Man my draw luck this save is absolutely cursed!

Cup

We did it, we beat Swift finally and get our 4th Cup Trophy

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League

Second best again. We actually had trouble with a new team Differdange who we drew and lost to this season.

Spoiler

How did we do against Swift?

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Too little too late in the home first match

So how good are they? This year they qualified for the Conference League Group stage and finished 10/36 with wins against Malmo (Sweeden), Astana (Kazakstan), and a big win against Konyaspor (Turkey). Easily knocked out by Feynoord, but still this is a no joke team.

Spoiler

Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview

New HOYD, so not surprised how awful this is

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Youth Intake

Preview was accurate as we had no elite talents...

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Best Prospects

Only a couple worth showing

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Best XI

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This Season

All Time

Youth Products Highlights

We have 3 young defenders looking pretty good as well as our LM. There are also other rotational CBs and CMs that are developing decently, but the squad is still very much the Starting XI and then the rest.

Edit: Among these is our RB who is our first Cape Verde Youth International! U23 & U20 call-ups.

Spoiler

Poached Player

Our second poached player has arrived and is another CB, but even with my limited knowledge doesn't look that exciting.

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Club Infrastructure

It happened at the end of the season, our loss went so big that we have reverted back to Semi-Pro... I had a loss of 600k this year, which is 300k less than last year but we've bled through all our stores and our cheap owners refused to put even $1 into the club.

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Coaching Badges

We finished our final coaching badge:

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Thoughts

Excel Season 1 - 15

No getting around that this is bad we are going back to semi-professional. The question now is what to do about our financial situation and if I can salvage the save. We really need group stage money. I played till June 15th before posting because I wanted to see where LUX coefficient would be. Thanks to Swift's group stage performance Lux is up to 32!

And that missing place now moves into Europa League.

The bad news is, this is 2 seasons from now so I have to survive another cycle like what we just had and hope that the FM Gods don't decide to deliver me an impossible opponent in the qualification phase and I can hold onto my team.