The FM23 Youth Academy Challenge

[XaW]

So I had several looks around and tested a bit, but didn't find anything that really stuck, so I went back to basics, or rather back to home. That's right, @The7Striker got it right, I'm back at Follo!

Do I really need to introduce Follo again? I don't think so, but as a quick recap, they are are my local team here in Norway and they had an excellent cup run about 10 years ago where they reached the final, but lost while getting relegated into the 3rd tier. I really hope I manage to complete it this time.

[Daddy]

5 hours ago, JAwtunes said:

Those kits look nice.  Are you paying for a subscription or is that just using the free options?

I switched to Kit Creator a few months back and actually prefer the flexibility you get there.  It's not possible to quickly create kits for loads of teams but I prefer it when you just want to create a couple for your own team.

I'm impulsive so I paid for it lol

[Neo_Geo]

Good luck @XaW, looking forward to reading about this save 

Edited January 11, 2023 by Neo_Geo

[Vlach]

 

Season 2027/28

 

It was a weird season. We started very bad, and i feared that the drop will come this year. But then some tactic-changes helped a lot, and we slowly climbed out of the relegation zone, had even success for the first time in the cup and reaches with much luck the semi-final. In the end it proved to be a very succesfull year, with a very good .... place.

The mixture of old and new players works fine most of the matches, while we still haven't got decent young players for every position. Long way to go still, but right now it seems like we are generally on the right track - against the top 10 teams we lose, against all the others we have a chance to draw or even win, and against the relegation candidates we are usually winning.

 

League

 

 

Lineup

 

 

Finances

 

 

 

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Transfers

 

Supporters

 

 

Best Forward Youngster - Tarchi 25C

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Best Midfield Youngster - Scibilia 24H

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Best Defense Youngster - Segre 26B

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Youth Intake

 

Well, the last one seemed better to me, more elite talents and better personalities.

 

 

 

[DazRTaylor]

Ok, so I thought I would try Macclesfield one more time.  The thing is, when you have to holiday three years to stand a chance of getting them, it is random how good the squad is when it comes up.  This time, it is fairly strong and I have won seven of our opening nine games.  So no relegation this season.  So hopefully this will now stick!

[the_hdk]

Polonia Warszawa - The Black Shirts

Season 27/28 (5th) - Ekstraklasa

Transfers / Players

5th season already. Going steady. Again small improvement. This was actually the first seaosn we ware in the fight for the championship. We lost but we ware there in the fight. Sadly our rival won. We had a great run in Conference league only to lose in semi finals against Eintracht Frankfurt. I think we are putting our name and growing our rep steady. 2-3 more seaons to become champions me thinks.

Only change in the first team is the rookie season of CHOJCZAK and what a seaosn that was! 60 goals in 54 games! 37 goals in the league, 2 in the club and 21 in conference league. Amazing debut season, and he was been calle dup for Polish national team for the EURO '28 so he could be our first regen to get a cap.

Chelsea finally broke the Liverpool's run (and defeated them in the final!). ZIDANE won his 4th CL. HAALAND with his second Ballon d'Or. Only surprise is Inter winning Italian league. 

 

BOCHENSKI class of '28. Not the best class, only two elites...but one of them is special! One foriegn players is always nice.

J.J. NANA. Already a classic. That smile, That name...I can already imagine the fans chanting his name to numerous songs.

Sadly another striker...a bit overkill of them now. Not the best personality but decent determination.
Great technique and flair. A new star is born! He is halve Cameroonian btw, that explains the french name.

 

GORECKI seems like a decent midfielder. Love his determination and teamwork. Needs work.

 

 

[grff]

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2044/45 Season Review

We continued our dominance of the Jupiler League as we clinched a four title in a row winning the league by 30 points. Elsewhere our Champions League campaign was disappointing as we struggled in the group phase meaning we faced Atletico in the next round who thumped us 4-1 on aggregate.

 

Player stats were encouraging. Our star striker managed to score more than a goal a game.

Our youth intake wasn't too bad as we took on a fair few recruits to bolster the squad due to a few retirements.

Transfers

Our youth facilities have finally been maxed out so this will hopefully see our youth intake move to the next level.

 

 

Edited January 11, 2023 by grff

[Daddy]

Will the third time in Austria be the charm? Two short runs in FM22, so let's see how FM23 is getting along.

Things started off well and have just been spiraling the last month or so. The team isn't necessarily lacking for player, but it is lacking for good players. A ton of injuries too are not helping matters at all. Other than one match where we got hammered we've been in all the losses until the end. I'm optimistic things will settle down to at least survive the season.

The areas we are thinnest at, so that's a promising looking intake.

[janvanbulck]

As indicated in my previous post, this season it was ""a must"" to get promoted

...well...

we achieved the impossible => Frome Town are promoted to the National League South

Screenshots:

 

Youth players, best developed:

One of the best' and got his chance in the first team .. but missed 3months due to injury.

This had a slight impact on his development:

Intake last season, and will get more playing time:

 

This seasons youth intake was labelled Excellent, but none of the regens is already oke to get his chance in pre-season.

On to next season , for now 

Mighty Frome'ys haha

[CameronFM]

Szolnoki MÁV FC

Season 2024/25

League | Cup | Squad | Transfers | Finances

A mixed bag of a season! After losing our star winger in Bálint Tömösvári, we were slow starters in the league and it really looked like we would live up to our pre-season billing of rock bottom. However, in October it finally all clicked together and Szolnoki MÁV recorded 4 defeats from October to May, which saw us shoot right up the table and into promotion contention.

We fell just short of promotion this year, but another year to develop youngsters in the second division is welcoming.

Youth Intake 2025

Originally dubbed a 3.5 star Good Intake, I was pleasantly surprised to see a couple of players appear on this listing. We had the potential of having a rock solid spine forming through our elite talents, which are the stars of the intake, but outwith them it is relatively poor.

All candidates were signed in order to bulk out the youth squad, so that development is heightened for players not ready for the senior squad yet.

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András Halmosi is the star graduate of the intake, and with the right mentoring, we should be able to path his future at the club after the summer.

Balázs Garancsi will be partnering Halmosi in the future once we get working on his technical ability. A great option to have around the club and his development actually started in the final 2 games of the season due to suspensions and injuries.

Lászlo Tóth was the final pick of the bunch, and despite being on the wrong side of 6 foot, I am delighted to have a quality CB coming through the ranks. He will be joining up with the senior squad in the pre-season.

Outwith the three elite talents, no one stands out as having a bright future for the club. There are players there that will aid in time with squad depth, but nothing more.

Ádrian Schimmer (Elite Talent from 2024) appeared the most this season following the sale of Tömösvári, and still has some work to do to get his numbers up over a course of a season.

Mihály Szileszki (Elite Talent from 2024) also made a handful of appearances due to first choice goal-keeper Kálmán Csáki deciding his future is elsewhere and will not renew his contract. Zsolt Bánhegyi also made appearances but injury halted his progress allowing Szileszki the opportunity to come in. 

2024 star graduate Ádám Pintér struggled for game-time this year, but will certainly be given the benefit of the doubt and a chance to shine.

We also received a welcoming youth facility upgrade throughout the year, starting our journey to have the best academy in all of Hungary!

[Neo_Geo]

 

 

 

Season Review
Another domestic double and this time unbeaten (though 2 draws meant a lower points total than last year).

In the NACL we gave a good account of ourselves as we were unbeaten in the groups but the Jamaican sides proved too good and the 2 draws against them led to Harbour View qualifying from the group.

It was a good year financially and with a new sponsorship coming in as well as the increased average attendance I was able to get enough finances to improve the training facilities (and still get back up to £72k after the cup win), the junior coaching and the youth recruitment as well as furthering my own development with the Continental A license now being studied for. We also now have an additional coaching place open up as we shape the club up off the field. I still haven't made any request to have the club become professional yet as I don't think its wise at this point.

The intake this year gave me my first Model Citizen graduate since Santa Venera in Malta in FM 22, and he's also a decent looking prospect. It was the first intake for our new HoYD who has a better rating and has a determine personality.

Next season I'll look to replicate this year if possible and maybe try to find a 2 AMC formation to work with Llenza (Elite2) and Fernandez (Elite3). In the NACL I'd like to qualify for the play off but realistically I think just giving a good account of ourselves is all I should hope for.

[Neo_Geo]

Aaaaaaand thats a wrap in Puerto Rico.

I was only able to add a player to my NACL registration, I wasn't able to submit the brand new registration for this season meaning the only way I can add new players is if I sell players already in the team and even then I'll be limited to how many I can add.

The league registration has been fine but the NACL remained with the same squad I picked last season and I had one space for my star graduate but I couldn't remove anyone.

Oh well,  I'll keep the save there for now just in case I've missed the point and someone more informed than I cares to comment on it.

I think its time to have a proper crack at England now.

For those who are interested here was the table and scores for the NACL group this season:

Disappointing as things were going quite well.

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by Neo_Geo

[r70lla]

Is it too late to give this challenge a go?

[fries]

12 minutes ago, r70lla said:

Is it too late to give this challenge a go?

Not at all. The journey is enjoyable.

[Winski]

BKV Előre Football Club
Season review
Season 1 | 2023/2024

 

Well, this was unexpected. We managed to finish 2nd, and gain direct promotion to the highest divion: OTP Bank Liga!!! What a great success. I'm really not sure if we are good enough for that, but I'm not complaining
But yeah, what a season it was. ZTE was a level apart this season, but there were several teams fighting for that second place. We were only an outsider. We slowly climbed up the table and after about 22 matches we were very close to that second place. After 29 matches we became 3rd, but the marges were very small. We managed to grab the 2nd place and with just one match to go, we only had to win our match. And that's what we did. We won 3-0, and that sealed the promotion!
I never thought it was possible with this team to gain direct promotion.

Ádám Ihos became topscorer of the league with 26 goals. Other important players were Gábor Kubó, Norman Szabó and Attila Busai.

 

Upgrades
I had to ask the board every month for it, but we finally managed to get our first upgrades! Both the Youth Recruitment and Junior Coaching are upgraded. Our Training- and Youth Facilities not; we don't have enough money for that yet.|

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Youth intake
The youth intake preview was promising. The intake itself gave is four Elite Talents. But the state of our current facilities is quite bad, so I don't expect any wonders. I'm just very happy we finally have a U19 squad full of youngsters. It will give me some more backup-options next season.
 

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[Neo_Geo]

Fancied going a team from Vanarama South, so its off to North London with Enfield I go.

Expect slow updates for this one with such long seasons and trying to get a formation that sticks.

[Diego D10S]

                                                                       

                                                                                                                                                                                          Season 2024 / 2025

                                                                                                                                                                                4th in Serie B - Lost promotion final

GL ALL !!  

[WhiteCat33]

A.S. Luxembourgo Porto

Season 30 2052-53 BGL Ligue (Tier 1)

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Intro & Club | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 |Season 7 |Season 8 | Season 9 | Season 10 | Season 11 | Season 12 | Season 13 | Season 14 |Season 15 | Season 16 | Season 17 | Season 18 | Season 19 | Season 20 |Season 21 |Season 22 |Season 23 | Season 24 | Season 25 |Season 26 |Season 27 | Season 28 | Season 29

World of Football 2040 | World of Football 2050

Matches | Squad | Transfers |Facilities | Finances | Supporters

Competitions:

Europa League

In qualification we got unlucky with Athletico Madrid in the CL League Path Playoff. We actually played well but fell just short losing 2-1 in Spain. This sent us into the Europa League where we fared well enough to qualify for the knockouts. We made it through the first knockout round but in the round of 16 we had heartbreak in France where we lost to Nice 1-0 due to a 94' own goal by our young RB. TBF they outplayed us by an insane amount but a loss like that still stings.

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Cup

We got unlucky and drew Titus Peterange in the 3rd round of the cup and lost the penalty shootout.

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League

With Titus Peterange in the Champions League (and getting absolutely annihilated) it was like the old days where Swift Hesperange were our competition for the title. However, it wasn't really that close and even with us losing to Swift in the final 4 games we still fairly easily secured our 8th title. [accidently did this before the final match]

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Youth Academy:

Youth Intake Preview

3 for 3 Golden Generation Previews, can he seriously deliver again?

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Youth Intake

Not quite the CA of the star prospects of the last 2 generations, but he found us a full Midfield 4 of elite talents. I forgot to screenshot the squad-view. Suffice to say the personalities were equally horrible.

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Best Prospects

 

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Best prospect is a RM who has speed and personality right now, but will need to develop a lot to be relevant.

High potential DLP prospect but again this is very weak CA.

Slightly lower potential BWM to complement the one above

And a LM to complete a full midfield of Elite Talents

HOYD & U21 Head Coach

It took a lot longer than I thought it would but a team is finally after my U21 Head Coach, usually I’d try and fight it but honestly I want to move him on now that his personality isn’t good. He’s going to a really bad team so I hope they’ll give him time even when they get relegated as they are dead last. Moved my Bhutanese HOYD-in-training to the U21 Head Coach spot, hopefully he’ll get more accomplished at the job but he’s got great attributes for it and fits our playstyle perfectly. 

After this Intake I’ve decided to bring up my development HOYD into the main role to coincide with changing of the U21 Head Coach. San Dara did fine with his Golden Generation, but I want better personalities and 3 years of bad ones while making it to basically the end of his contract is ‘real’ enough for me to consider a switch-over. Welcome Olivier Koyalipou who has been a U21 coach for 3 years now from Central Africa. Hope he retains his personality.

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Best XI

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Youth Products Highlights

We have a true Golden Generation on our hands. 2 from the 28 intake & 3 from the 29 intake giving us basically a new backline and strike partnership. Then add in this year giving us a full Midfield and our one RB from the 27 intake and we have a full 10 field players that have potential. 

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Club Infrastructure

It took a bunch of failed tries but eventually our owner was able to turn-over the club to new management. Sadly, they aren't Youth Focused to the point of wanting us to spend our transfer budget...  Hopefully I can negotiate this away during contract renewals. At least part-way into the season we were able to return our training facilities to State-of-the-Art. 

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Spend original transfer budget…Especially when its set to this:

Luxembourg (POR & CPV)

 

With Titus doing terrible in the CL Group stage and us just making the Rnd of 16 we saw more slight slips for LUX and ourselves in Europe.

Both our star prospect CBs were called up by POR for the U20 World Cup. They started every match together anchoring the Portugues all the way to the cup! It's going to be awful holding onto these two. Also Cape Verde won the African Cup of Nations

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Thoughts

Excel Season 1 - 15    Excel Season 16 - 30

Well 30 seasons in Luxembourg and sadly no trophies to show for it. We are competitive in the Europa League, but we haven't found that lethal striker to give us the edge over the playable nation sides. However, with a full Golden Generation on our hands the future has hope for the club. Because of all the youth talent I'm going to take the risk and pre-emptively transfer-out the older players at the squad. The only exception will be at GK where both of my GKs are from the Y14 intake and are 31. Let's just say I'm eager for a GK intake, but it isn't quite dire yet.

The oldest players I'll be keeping are 2 either-footed 27-year-olds: Joa Valente 18e (CB) & David Sousa 18d (ST) who both are Professional personality and 3.5* ability so will serve as team leaders and mentors for both ends of the pitch. The remaining squad will be 25 or younger. This will mean selling some starters who are 29+ and would be the best choice next season, but I'm hoping their absence will jumpstart the development of the young golden generation. The big departures: Abillio Monteiro 10a [35 CM] ; Fabio Algarvio 11a [34 ST] ; Nelson Graca 15c [31 ST] ; Rodrigo Silva 17j [29 LB] ; Edgar Vassalo 16f [30 RB]

 

Edited January 12, 2023 by WhiteCat33

[officiallydeej]

 

Liga Bwin - Really happy with our first season at this level. We floated around in mid table most of the season and although we hit a bad run in the last third of the season had enough points on the board to keep us out of any real trouble. I've still not managed to improve our poor away form, we didn't win a single game away from home all season. Luckily home was a relative fortress and we finished with a home record of 10-3-6. This does seem endemic across the division, despite only taking 3 away points there were 3 teams who had worse records!

Taca de Portugal - The usual fourth round exit here, our second string losing 4-2 at Visela.

Allianz Cup - I use the first two rounds of this as extended fitness friendlies as they are before the league starts. We picked up an impressive 3-0 win at Estoril (only away in all comps) in the first round before losing on penalties to second tier opposition in round two. Our squad is still paper thin in terms of quality players so I wasn't disappointed to not need to staff the two extra group games that round three brings.

 

Top Prospects

  

 

Well Roicado 25e is still here and still frequently unhappy about it. We did our usual dance of him asking to leave if a fee that no one is willing to pay is offered, followed by him coming back after the window happy to stay as there were no offers. I need to try and extend his contract again soon but his agent is asking for a non-negotiable 400k release clause at the moment which isn't something I'm willing to give him with 2 years still to run. His average rating took a dip this season but that's to be expected playing against a much higher level of opposition.

Laureano 25h has now joined Roicado in asking to leave at least once per season though he seems much easier to appease straight after the window closes. He has now been capped by the Portugal U21s and although I don't think he'll make the full side does have the option Angola as a fall back.

Ramos 27h broke into the team from nowhere this season, skipping the B team and jumping straight in from the U19s. He wasn't a star of his intake and I'd not really picked up on him until he came and asked to change his status to first team player which caught me completely off guard. I gave him a chance in the first five and he ended the season with 31 league appearances and 3 caps for Sao Tome & Principe.

 

Youth Intake

 

 

Although it doesn't look great I'm quite pleased with this intake. An okay mix of personalities and two 5* potential attacking players isn't to be sniffed at now we're in the top tier. Although naturally a striker Garnito has attributes more suited to an inside forward so I'll be looking to retrain him out there. Borges is also giving me winger vibes but he's scored 5 in 5 up front for the U19s so far so I'll keep an open mind on how to develop him. The nationality diversity is also excellent as our reputation is increasing with no fewer than 8 dual nationals and 2 non-Portuguese players coming through, over half of the intake,

 

Transfers & Next Season

 

Nothing to report transfers wise other than two largely successful loan spells for Silva 28b who will now be knocking on the door of the first team next season. I've only lost  one players I didn't want to let go so far in this save and I still feel keeping the squad together is key to staying up the next couple of season before we are in a position to push on.

The biggest issue in the save is finances and even after a season in the top tier we are sinking further into the red. The board keep cutting the wage budget with our now less than a third of the next team at this level and although we can still offer contracts the players are happy with this is starting to get tight. I'm not really sure how to get out of this whole short of miraculously getting into Europe or someone offering big money for Roicado or Laureano but honestly neither of these events seem likely. For now we'll keep pushing on and hope there's something positive to report on the balance sheet in 12 months time. We move into José Fonte Park (yeah I'm still unhappy Mr President) in 12 months but with the capacity only 9,600 I'm not sure it will be the game changing money spinner our glorious leader is hoping for.

[Daddy]

Not enjoying Austria. Will do England yet again. 

[DazRTaylor]

Youth Candidates

Season 2025/26

Macclesfield

Our preview was exceptional and raised my expectations somewhat:

I was very disappointed with the intake as there is no one ready for the first team.

[the_hdk]

10 hours ago, Daddy said:

Not enjoying Austria. Will do England yet again. 

how come?

[Flashman\'s School Days]

Jomo Cosmos - Season Review 2026/27

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

DStv Premiership - WINNERS!

A quite unlikely title win and something I didn't expect at the beginning of the season.  We started the season with 4 draws in our first 5 games and our inability to finish games off was a real reason why the league ended up being really close because in 7 of our draws this season we conceded an equalising goal in the 85th minute or later.  Orlando Pirates were unbeaten until the penultimate game of the season when they lost to Golden Arrows who we then had to play on the final day and with goal difference we only really had to draw, thankfully they went down to 10 men and we were able to get the win.  Orlando probably had an underperforming season as they won the Champion's League and I expect the other teams to do a lot better too.

TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup - Quarter Final

We had a fairly easy run to the group stages through the three rounds you have to play and then we were drawn against decent sides in TP Mazembe and Pyramids.  We quite easily beat Mazembe and we dominated both games against Pyramids but somehow managed to lose both games in what were their only wins in the group.  Our reward for winning the group was Young Africans of Tanzania, we dominated both games and the xG on aggregate was 5.25 v 2.79 in my favour but the score was 4-4 with them scoring with the last kick of the game in the second leg to take it straight to penalties where we bottled it.  Disappointing as I think we could have at least got to the final.

MTN 8 - WINNERS!

In the cup competition that begins the season from the past season's top 8 in the league we managed to grab the first proper silverware of the save and give us a decent chunk of proze money too.  We had a couple of decent opponents to get us to the final where we played Sundowns, where they were probably slightly the better team but we came away with a 1-0 victory.

Telkom Knockout - Semi Final

Managing to get through two rounds with good victories we again had to face Sundowns who got their revenge on us, we went down to 10 men after 63 mins and we conceded the only goal of the game in the 88th minute which was typical of us this season.

Nedbank Cup - First Round

We first get drawn into this competition whilst there are still non league sides, so obviously we got Orlando Pirates who comfortably beat us.

Squad

Morgan Mauku 26g had his debut season and played almost 50 games, doing really well on the whole but as happens with young keepers he did have a few shockers, it's nice to now have an actual talented goalkeeper.

Nkosinathi Clark 24d and Victor Shongwe 25b both had solid season as rotation options at fullback whilst Khaya Mashiane continued to be our best centre back and Siphamandla Ndukwane 24e really improving as the third choice centre back,

Matsi Sono had a decent potential final season, his physical attributes are deteriorating but he scored a pen on the final day that confirmed the title win which would be a nice way to go out.  Njabulo Francis 24g had a good season of development being the third option in DM and will most likely step up to be first choice next year.

Thokozani Shabalala had yet another storming season off the right wing, he always gets plenty of goals and assists.  Luke Mthimkulu 24a continued playing well but it's a shame I haven't managed to mentor his unambitious personality away.  Mfundo Smith 26f had a fantastic debut season playing off the left wing despite still being 16 years old, even scoring the winner on his debut in the MTN 8 Final.

Ayanda Kubheka had a decent goal scoring season but it took him a while to get going so he didn't hit the heights of last season.  Luckily to make up for that Gontse Molefe absolutely ripped it up scoring 37 goals and was undoubtedly player of the season.

Youth Intake

On the face of it, not as much potential in the intake this season but I think that is actually due to the improvements in the players, so I have high hopes for some of this intake.

The best players from the intake are George Modiba 27a, Itumeleng Cele 27c, Siyabonga Chauke 27f and the most exciting prospect is Siyabonga Silangwe 27b.

Finances

We made great strides this season with our finances mainly due to prize money.  After we got the prize money for winning the MTN 8 I immediately asked for a youth facilities upgrade but since then I haven't asked for anything else, I am slightly reluctant to ask for Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment just now because it would mean we would lose a lot each month and I'm not sure how sustainable it would be.  Strangely we haven't had much interest in any of my players from abroad so I am making no income through player sales.  Our new stadium completes early into next season so I have to wait and see if that causes us to make more or less money.

[ludak]

 

Yet again!

 

We've won our 4th double in the last five seasons. We are basically untouchable in Serbian football.

This season we saw our best defense, achieving least goals conceded, and most clean sheets so far. As far as offense goes, we continue to be a force. 

 

We're slowly but surely progressing towards a team that could win a CL, and this season show's it, as this is how it went this year:

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This was our best year in the league phase, all that we needed for a historical success was to win the first round!

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A fantastic series by Mitrovic helped us achieve our goal for the season, everything after this was not important, but welcome.

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 Atletico beat us before this season, and I was sure they'll do it again, but, as you can see...

First game was a hard one, as they scored in the second minute, but as it would turn out. it was their only goal for the next 178 minutes against us, as we dominated both games. 

 

We got to the next round and there they were, my biggest enemies in every FM save:

 

I was yet again sure we lost it.

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4-1 at home and a 0-2 lead in the first half had me hyped. Could it be this easy?

 

Surely this is it, we cant go any further than this, can't we?

 

 

This was the moment that I thought this was it, I was gonna win it and finish this, but..

 

 

Never really had any luck when it came to these kind of games. The only way for me to win is to be way better and that's it. This was a showing why they won 3 of the last 5 Champions Leagues.

 

The past few intakes were good, so an average one doesn't bother me really.

Vucetic  Gavrilovic

I like Vucetić more, but he has to fix this personality. 

 

The team this season:

 

Mitrović

Julien  Nzigamasabo Đorđević Tadic 

Vuković

Milosevic Durakovic

Vujovic                             Mladenović

Ristić

 

Some players that played an important role, or are coming up in the next few years:

Stanimirović  Batalo  Ognjanović Đuričić Petrić Jovanović

 

Batalo is gonna keep his role as a backup ST and AMR, Ognjanović and Đuričić are going to the first 11, and Petrić and Jovanović are going to play a lot more next season.

 

 

I guess this is the best screenshot to finish this one off. 

 

That's all for this one lads, see ya at the end of next one!

 

 

[Neo_Geo]

@ludakthats a sore one, did you set up defensively for the return leg against Man Utd?

If only you could use some of your amassed fortune to bring in some players……but that’s the challenge and why we love it.

Better luck next season, it feels like it must be coming at some point.

[ludak]

@Neo_GeoNah, I tend to play attacking football always. 

Never knew how to setup a tactic to defend properly in my early years of playing, and then I just gave up a long time ago. 

Although I know how to play without conceding a lot, I just don't wanna. 

[Neo_Geo]

7 minutes ago, ludak said:

@Neo_GeoNah, I tend to play attacking football always. 

Never knew how to setup a tactic to defend properly in my early years of playing, and then I just gave up a long time ago. 

Although I know how to play without conceding a lot, I just don't wanna. 

You have your footballing principles and stay true to them so when you do win it it will happen because you are better rather than being lucky or outfoxing the AI.

[Diego D10S]

[polesetter1]

Stomil Olsztyn | 2024-25 Season Report | Fortuna 1. Liga

EKSTRAKLASA JEST JUŻ NASZA! EKSTRAKLASA, HERE WE COME!

It was too easy. We've almost doubled our points tally from the previous season. We were winning the games, where 6 or 7 players were U-18. We've secured promotion with 7 matches to go. Also, thanks to the upgrade to our training facilities, our young players finally started to develop. We've also got some good prospects from the academy, with few of them already gaining experience in the first team. Now, we'll probably get relegated next season, but there is much more money in Ekstraklasa (our wage budget already tripled after promotion!) so I hope that we'll be able to upgrade our facilities even further. Of course, we will fight to stay in the top division! We don't have big talents (like Banul and Drabiszczak) anymore, so I think, that we should be able to keep all the key players in the team.

Schedule - 2nd Round

Spoiler

League Table

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First Team Squad & Statistics

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Transfers

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Youth Intake

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We were lucky to get some talented players with proper mentalities. I think that this is the first intake, that we will be able to build something on. Andrzej Kolcz (25B) is already ready for the first team and he's played most of the matches since the intake. Unfortunately, some positions double.

Next Season

First of all, I hope that our board will keep their feet on the ground and won't make any premature decisions if something goes wrong. Playing in top division will help our players to gain some priceless experience and develop at faster rate. We will also increase our budget. TV rights alone should allow us to develop our training & youth facilities. We were almost invincible this season, but we've kept our morale in the best possible condition through the full season. It will be impossible in the Ekstraklasa. Here is our starting 11 for the next season:
GK - Konrad Syldatk, I think that he's ready for Ekstraklasa. Our first-choice goalkeeper for years to come.
DR - Karol Żwir - he's also ready for Ekstraklasa. Unfortunately, he's getting old - but potential replacement appeared during last youth intake (Michał Goździejewski (25C)) so I'm quite calm in that area.
DC - Hubert Krawczun - a decent defender for 1. Liga level. I'd gladly welcome some central defender from youth academy.
DC - Jakub Tecław - he's been retrained from defensive midfielder and turned out to be great in this position. Great heading and quite good passing make him good all-around defender.
DL - Mateusz Jońca - I thought he has potential for Ekstraklasa, but he's already 24 and had very long injury this season, who he didn't develop at all. On the other hand, Shibata was great as left wing-back.
DM - Szymon Dowgiałło - he's a decent defensive midfielder for 1. Liga. I don't think that he'll develop enough for Ekstraklasa, but we have some depth in that position.
DM - Jakub Philipkowski - he's still very young (18). He also has potential to be a leading player for our side, so he should be able to perform at Ekstraklasa level soon. He's a newgen from season 22/23.
AML - Andrzej Kolcz (25B) - the first talent I'm really excited with. He's 15 but already near first team level. He should develop really fast in Ekstraklasa environment.
AMC - Michał Żukowski - the player who really shocked me during 24/25 season. He was our top performer, with 9 goals and 8 assists. He was the best player of 1. Liga with an average rating 7.39. He's skills aren't outstanding, but he performs well on the pitch. I think, that everything clicked with his role in our tactic. Great player.
AMR - Filip Wójcik - a player that's probably already at Ekstraklasa level. He's created loads of chances for us this season and had the most assists in 1. Liga - 10. Crucial player. He's already 24, so I hope that we'll be able to keep him.
ST - Bartosz Florek - he was trying to force the transfer, so spent most of the first round on the bench. When he came to his senses, he was our main striker again, scoring 12 goals in 12 matches.

Our squad is quite young, and if we'll be able to avoid relegation in the first season, we should be able to become established Ekstraklasa team. If we got relegated... Some clauses will probably trigger, but we should be capable of another promotion.

[the_hdk]

Polonia Warszawa - The Black Shirts

Season 28/29 - Ekstraklasa & Champions League

Players / Transfers

Great season and finally our first CHAMPIONSHIP. Third of Polonia. With same tally as last season but other clubs ware just bad. Legia finished 7th!. And Wisla got relagated with RAUL as a manager. Cup was ok-ish  sadly again QF. We managed to get into Champions League. Money money money!
We got two new midfielders in 1st 11. KOZIEL and KALINOWSKI. Next seaosn might see some changes in the defense...and we will probably lose BLASZCZYKOWSKI...he already declied 3mln offers. I just hope we can keep atleast one striker.

But we got humbled...badly. we lost 11-1 against Man United!...yeah...Im not gonna rest until we beat Man U at their home turf!! #newrival

Some interesting things outside of Poland. RB Leipzig managed to get the title and Europa League. Their best season ever. Netherlands winning the Euro always warms my heart.

Real Madrid won the CL in the final against Arsenal...whats more crazy is that KLOPP is their manager...so this is his 6th CL win! (5 with Liverpool).

CHAMPION

BOCHENSKI class of '29/ His last as I fired him. I know I know...we keep getting elite players...but he was a bridge HoYD anyway.

Not bad...no foreign intake sadly...but three elites is welcome. Especially the goaly. We need one!

I dare you guys to try prenounce his surname :D. DLUGOLECKI...at first I though his surname meant in polish long arms (very fitting for the goaly) but i think it refers to a small town....for me he will be LONG ARMS!. This will be our #1...no doubt about it.

The best acording to BOCHENSKI is WOLSZTYNSKI...another striker...who cannot finish (yet). Let's see how he will grow.

 

And the new HoYD for next seaosn is.....BERESZYNSKI...old polish national...still only 36...I hope he will develop as he only has national C. Perfectionist is great...and I had great succes in my turkish save with that personality. I also hired his dad as a scout...for RP purpose.

 

 

 

[Daddy]

6 hours ago, the_hdk said:

how come?

I didn't like the team. It just wasn't clicking for me. I'm not giving up on Austria forever, but I'm really wanting to make progress in England.

[Daddy]

Back to England!

Fairly decent starting facilities. The squad is a bit thin, but the players there are fairly solid. 

Expectations point to staying up and I think that's doable. 

Still experimenting with the kit creator. These are certainly unique. 

[LazyBandit]

FC Wacker Innsbruck Season 1 (2023/24)

Squad

I forgot to take a screenshot of the starting squad but we had a group of about 20 players in the first team and another 10 in the U18s. So compared to past attempts this was a much more robust base to start from.

League Table

The expectation from both the board and the supporters was to gain promotion, which meant we had to win the league. Luckily we had probably the best overall squad, but SVG Reichenau didn't make it easy for us. At about the midway point in the season we were only in third, and neither the board or supporters were happy so I was afraid I'd be sacked before the save really got going. SVG Reichenau slipped up and lost in the penultimate match week, at the same time we were finishing on a hot streak.

Intake

I was very happy when I saw this intake. A handful of players who will provide immediate depth and 1 who could probably start soon.

Matthias Cott is probably the best player I've ever gotten from an intake in a youth academy challenge. A bit too slow to play on the wing for my liking, I see him as more of an attacking midfielder perhaps. No matter where he plays, I think he has a bright future with us.

Youth Intake Countries: 4/227 (1.76%)

Season Review

Typically the first season goal in these saves is to simply avoid relegation. This time however our goal was to win the league, so that was a bit challenging. The boards expectation going into our first season in the 2nd division is to simply avoid relegation, so we'll have a bit more breathing room. The board has agreed to increase our youth recruitment from above Average to Good. However our youth facilities has also been downgraded from Great to Good. They also refuse to allow me to take a coaching course, out of fear I'll leave for a bigger club.

[DazRTaylor]

End of Season Review

Season 2025/26

Macclesfield

Season Summary

A terrific season in the league where we made the promotion playoffs.  No cup runs of note was disappointing though expected.

Season Details

League Table - A sixth place finish is far beyond what I expected.  A definite overachievement.

League Fixtures 1 & 2 - We went off like a train before a string of defeats.  We rediscovered our form, however, after a change in tactics.

Promotion Playoffs - We went out to Banbury United on panelties in the first round, despite being two goals up with eight minutes of extra time remaining.

F. A. Cup - We played well against Rochdale, who play in the league above, by taking them to a replay in the fourth qualifying round, though they proved too strong on their own patch.

F. A. Trophy - A home defeat to fellow Vanarama National League North side Spennymoor Town in the second round put paid to any hopes of a cup run.

Friendlies - We only lost once in a good pre season campaign.

Squad - We are not good enough for this league so the players need to develop.

Squad Dynamics - Everyone loves everyone else though.

Transfers In - None.

Transfers Out - I allowed five players to leave on free transfers as none of the five were ever going to get anywhere near the first team.

Youth Candidates - Striker Julian Holness YP26A1 is supposed to be the best prospect out of a disappointing intake.

Finances - Our high attendances enabled the club to make a healthy profit this year.

Key Players

Harry Freedman - Comfortabl on either the right wing or up front, he was our best player this year.

Neil Kengni - The striker was very reliable scoring at more than a goal every other game.

Daniel Malone - Playing as either a central midfielder or in the anchor role, he had a great season.

Sonny Whittingham - The central midfielder had a few niggles so didn't play as often as I wouild of liked.

Nathan Pennington - Our goalkeeper is clearly not good enough for this level, yet he continues to perform and exceed expectations.

Next Season

We overachieved this year so as long as we are not involved in a relegation battle, I will be happy.

Personal Contract

Season     Contract Start Date     Contract Expiry Date     Pre Tax Wage     Post Tax Wage
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At start          25 June 2025             30 June 2026         £750 p/w          £575 p/w
2025/26           1 April 2026             30 June 2027         £800 p/w ↑        £625 p/w ↑

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
2025/26    Minimal = (0.50*) ↑   None =               4 ↑   4 ↑   3 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   4 ↑   4 ↑   4 ↑   4 =   1 =   4 ↑   4 ↑   5 ↑   1 =   4 ↑   4 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Youth Level  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start   Below Average        Below Average          4       Basic                 Fairly Basic     Basic              Local   (1.00*)
2025/26    Below Average =      Below Average =        4 =     Basic =               Excellent    ↑↑↑ Above Average ↑↑↑  Local = (1.00*) =

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2025/26      54        27       12       15         105              73                 +32              50.00%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2025/26          54        27       12       15         105              73                 +32              50.00%             315 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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Trophy Cabinet

League Titles
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Cup Competition Victories
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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     F.A. Cup                    League Cup        Achievements
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2025/26           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Vanarama National League North        6th       Fourth Qualifying Round         N/a           Lost in promotion playoff first round.  F. A. Trophy second round.

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Appearances
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2025/26    Bayleigh Humphrys YP26I9                  1

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                          Cumulative Number of Goals
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2025/26    No one                                        0

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                        Cumulative Number of Assists
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2025/26    No one                                      0

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

Season     Player                    Cumulative Number of Clean Sheets
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2025/26    No one                                     0

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by DazRTaylor

[libbyshuss]

 

I've been stuck at the same level for about 10 seasons now but there's signs of change on the horizon...... Normally I'd go to try in another country at this stage but I've got this lad in my U18s and I want to see how far he can go:-

I played him in the first team a few times and he ended the season with 9 goals in 13 games with an average rating of 7.13. He looks very exciting!

We had great fun in Europe, going all the way to the final!

 

It looked a really good test to see how far we've come and....

So close!

ex-2 star youth player Lorenzo Lippi 40K has now scored 403 goals in 441 first team goals for us. And he made his Italy debut this season as well! Legend!

Youth

Another number 1 in the next gen top 50 wonderkids! Hopefully this one is the real deal

Still plenty of room to improve! 

also, I got all these affiliates feeding me possible youth players as well

 

So although it looks like I've made no progress for years I'm quietly confident of the next few seasons. If it doesn't happen then, then I'm off to Uruguay!

 

Career

[grff]

Royale Union Tubize-Braine: 2045/46 Season Review

A bit of deja-vu is starting to set in as we again win the league easily but struggling in the Champion's League. Man City ended our campaign in the round of 16.

We did win the Croky Cup to complete another domestic double.

Player stats were very good again. Another incredible season by our star striker who has become our record goalscorer thanks to consistently scoring more than a goal a game.

 

Youth intake wasn't great again but took a few on to bolster numbers.

Transfers

Season history

 

[kdavva74]

Is it okay if I attempt this challenge in Football Manager 15 but post it in here?

 

[polesetter1]

Guys... For the first time in my life AI got FMed by me! We've just scored our first points in the third match of the season after that encounter:

[officiallydeej]

 

Liga Bwin - European football is coming to José Fonte Park! We were the best of the rest outside of the six strongest teams in the country and thanks to Benfica's stellar performances to boost the nation's co-efficient we will be entering the Europa Conference League for the first time next season. A huge boost and probably the one I needed to push the club forwards in this save. Our players are still performing well above their level of ability so I'm not sure we'll be able to replicate this next season, especially with the extra fixtures but we shall see.

Taca de Portugal - We finally had a decent cup run! Our second team beat Penalva do Castelo (non-league), Chaves (2nd tier) & Lank FC (3rd tier) before our first team took over and despatched fellow top tier side Portimonense in the quarter finals. We were rewarded with a two legged semi final against Porto (The other semi was Benfica v Braga so there wasn't exactly a great choice!) and although we held them 1-1 at home they beat us 4-0 in the return leg. All in all a success and by far our best cup run to date.

Allianz Cup - Less to report here, beaten 1-0 in the second round by Famalicao.

Other - A week after my previous season review we got our sponsorship pay out for the season, £4m! This took us out of debt for the first time in the save and I immediately managed to get the board to approve upgrades to both Junior Coaching and Youth Recruitment. I revisited the boardroom in January to ask for a coaching badge (I'm still National B) and noticed the options for JC & YR available again. With a little persuasion we got our second set of upgrades in 6 months to now take both to excellent! There hasn't been any movement on the training or youth facilities so far but I'm hoping the financial boost from European football may twist Mr President's arm. We are due to move into our new 9,500 all seater stadium next month, which will save us on rental costs if nothing else.

 

Top Prospects

 

  

After 6 seasons playing together in our back four Laureano 25h has finally overtaken Roicado 25e to be our best player in the eyes of my assistant manager. Laureano is now our only 5* player, with 9 assists and an average rating of 6.92 not to be sniffed at playing at the top level against technically superior footballers. He is also showing no signs of wanting to leave at present and with another 3 years to run on his contract will hopefully be sticking with us for a little while yet.

Roicado is still the rock that holds our team together. He's so much better than any of our other centre halves that if he's ever unavailable we simply don't have a chance of winning the game. Racking up an impressive 16 bookings probably shows how much defending we did despite finishing 7th (41% average possession in the league!) but he really is key to all our success. His contract situation is a little more precarious with only 1 more year to run and mumblings of wanting to explore his options which so far I've managed to twice dissuade him from. Although he is willing to come to the negotiatining table his agent is demanding a non-negotiable £400k release clause which is frankly ridicious and I'm not willing to put in until a week before he hits 6 months remaining and be poached for free. I keep working on trying to get him to sack his agent and will keep doing so weekly for the first half of next season.

Madrigal 25g has been a somewhat slow burner. He joined in the famous 2025 intake (still populating 7 of the starting 11) but until this season had floated around between the B team and subs bench, mainly due to him not having a good attitude to training or matches. After 2 years intense mentoring from one of our original players (model citizen) I managed to boost his personality enough to start to see him push towards his potential. He finally nailed down a place in the first team this season and his return of 15 goals was more than double that of our next highest scorer. Centre forward is probably our weakest position and our continued development is probably hanging on Madrigal's performance for the next few seasons.

 

Youth Intake

 

 

 

The board's investment in coaching and recruitment paid off immediately with our most promising intake in a long time. Three 5* and three 4.5* prospects looks very promising for this stage of the save. Abulai Co appears to be the best of the bunch and since these screenshots were taken has already begun developing rapidly in our U19s team, overtaking both the left backs playing at that level. He'll move to the B team from August and I would expect to see him on the bench for the first team fairly quickly. Caldao Senica has a little bit further to go to break into the first team but he's already scored 7 in 9 for the U19s playing as a left winger so certainly has an eye for goal. Hopefully this is the intake that can sustain the team's push to the top of the league in the next few seasons.

 

Transfers & Next Season

 

 

I didn't particularly want to lose Almeida 27b as he had decent potential but he started demanding first team football despite being nowhere near the level needed. He was about to enter the last year of his contract and intended to explore options so I left him leave before he started unsettling the squad.

Next season will undoubtedly be tough with the early season European games and it wouldn't surprise me to finish lower in the league. In all honestly with the players we currently have I'd be happy to finish 1 place above the relegation zone whilst facilities improve and better graduates develop. We haven't had our sponsorship payment yet but if it matches last season then along with any boost from Europe we should be financially sound at last. We still only spend £17k pw on wages throughout the whole club so hopefully the players don't get too greedy at the next set of contract renewals.

 

 

Edited January 14, 2023 by officiallydeej

[JLAB]

Motor Lublin - Season 9 - Season Review

Heading into the winter break, we had a 9 point lead at the top of the table. I didn't think that anything could stop us from winning the title this season. Yet we've endured perhaps the worst run of form I have ever seen from us after the winter break, and I felt myself at a loss as to why we were doing this badly. Only winning 4 out of the last 15 matches is simply not good enough.

So it should have come as much of a surprise to me when we found ourselves failing to win the title. Yet, the fact we only finished 2nd is more of a shock to me than anything else. We should have fallen from lower than that. Still, we've bottled a 9 point lead and failed to win the title. It's not ideal for my confidence in the side.

We at least had a decent youth intake, so let's cover that briefly.

The most exciting player was Kamil, he's already made some experiences in the first team on from the bench every now and again.

Jan doesn't look amazing and is really inconsistent, but he has great potential.

Wiktor has great potential as a goalkeeper, but once again is inconsistent.

While my favourite player is Tadej Likar, mostly because he is both Slovenian and Polish. He has good potential and has some decent attributes at the beginning of his career.

The board still loves me, so despite losing out on my 3rd Ekstraklasa in 4 seasons on the final day of the season, we're still only expected to finish mid-table next season.

The board are even more pessimistic, as they only want to attempt to avoid relegation. They've seen how we've ended the season and think we're going down next season.

Marek Sawicki got 23rd place in the NXGN awards and is in the Media Dream Eleven. So he's doing well with his development.

 

More Build A Nation related news now, as the Ekstraklasa gained a place in the competition rankings list, but Poland slipped down 2 places in the coefficients. It's not ideal in that regards.

JLAB's YAC with Motor Lublin Part 27

[JLAB]

A look around the world

So not really an update for my progress, but for a look around the playable leagues and how that's been going.

Belgium has seen a variety of winners in the first 10 seasons of the save. 5 different teams have won the Jupiler Pro League with Genk winning it on 3 different occasions being the most.

The Czech's Fortuna Liga has had less different winners, but while Slavia Prague have won 6 league titles, FK Třinec caused a shock by finishing in 2nd randomly one season.

The Premier League has been shared by Liverpool and Man City. Both teams have won the league 5 times each.

PSG may have dominated the last 5 years, but they took 3 seasons to win the first season, with Monaco beating them both times. Marseille also claimed a Ligue 1 title, but PSG have claimed 7 overall.

Bayern München are doing Bayern München things. They've won 9 Bundesligas in 10 seasons, with RB Leipzig in the 2nd season being the only team to have stopped them.

Italy has had 3 different winners in Juventus, Milan and Inter so far. Juventus might have taken 5 Serie A titles, but they haven't had it all their way so far.

The Slovak Fortuna Liga has seen 3 different winners so far, but Slovan Bratislava have claimed the most titles with 5 so far.

La Liga is the Real Madrid and Barcelona show. Real Madrid have won 7 of the last 10 La Liga titles.

While the FavBet Liha in Ukraine has seen Shakhtar and Dynamo Kyiv share the titles so far, with Shakhtar having won 7 out of the last 10 titles.

I went into more detail of the last ten seasons for each country and the winners of the Champions, Europa League, Europa Conference Leagues, the Euros and World Cups in the video that will be linked below.

JLAB's YAC with Motor Lublin Part 28

[ludak]

As I have a lot of free time I managed to play another full season.

 

This update will be short, as we we were a bit worse than last year.

 

 

We dominated the league again, and got ourselves a 7th in a row.

 

 

Six cup wins form eight finals is not that bad.

 

 

We almost had Chelsea away, as we conceded in the 92nd for 3-2 and that was it for this year.

 

 

Just bad, that's everything I have to say for this years intake.

 

 

The future does look bright.

 

That's all for this season. I hope I'll finish another one by tomorrow. 

[streety]

 

 

 

So taking over at Livorno for this challange. Time to get this club in some sort of order. My first step was to look at the squad first impressions was it was not bad hmm then i saw i had a few aging players... its not a bad squad its workable i think...

The target for the coming season 

 

Main aim of preseason was friendlies, tactics and getting staff in my main aim was getting HOYD in whos somewhat good to improve theses youngsters that im going to have to blood into the first team to replace the outgoing aging players. My biggest fear is that they all call it a day at the same time at the end of this season   

 

 

So i bought this guy in to help and devolp the kids. The friendlies went well unbeaten in all games. Although im not conviced defensivley about the team but i think its the players getting used to the tactic so lets see how well we are doing at the halfway point in the season im fully expecting a relegation dogfight so. Lets get the season klicked off

 

 

 

 

[Daddy]

2023/24 Midseason Review:

I've actually played five more matches after capturing that screenshot because I was so certain I would be fired. Amazingly the board kept accepting my excuses and I finally snapped the 12 match losing streak, and actually won two in a row. How did we get here? There are actually a handful of decent players, but I both haven't figured out how to unlock them tactically and they constantly don't seem to play well together. I have a couple players that are good at the wing, a couple good in the midfield, and a couple good on the attack. I'll say six of the starting eleven aren't terrible for this level, but I constantly get bad partnership warnings on the tactics. They all seem to do their own thing which doesn't lead to many goals, and opens up the other team to our terrible center backs and even worse keeper. We're -3 for XG, which wouldn't make a huge difference. We're +13 on XGA which absolutely makes a huge difference. Survival is going to take a major turn of events. I'm just as likely to get fired before the team even gets relegated than I am to survive. Winning last two games gives a sliver of hope though. We'll see, I really want to make it because...

Intake Preview:

Help is on the way. 

[Daddy]

After, no lie, close to 10 of these emergency board meetings I couldn't talk my way out of this one. Went on a 5 match unbeaten run, with three win in there, but the last two losses were not great to fellow bottom table teams. I was close to figuring things out, but could not overcome possibly the worst keeper and defense combo I've ever dealt with. 

Still got England on my mind so I'll reload a bunch and pick a new team either later tonight or tomorrow.

[Daddy]

We ride again. Somewhat decent starting facilities and not a completely barren squad. I wanted a team I hadn't seen used and these guys looked interesting. My biggest concern is just one keeper on the squad, so hopefully I avoid long term injuries.

Low expectations. We'll see what comes.

I took the color scheme from the DB Editor, grabbed their actual kit sponsor, and made some decent looking kits I think (compared the last few attempts I've done)

[the_hdk]

Polonia Warszawa - The Black Shirts

Season 29/30

Players / Transfers

Second championship and in a row. Great season for us. We did lose the SuperCup so that is a shame. We did have three changes in the first team. Our captain and goaly BRUDNICKI wanted a new challange and didn't want to extend so I left him go. He was replaced by DUDEK (great name for a goaly obviously). Same applied to our RB PIASEK. He was let go for a very low amount of only 40k. And BLASZCZYKOWSKI left as his foreign min fee was activated by about 16 clubs. He choose Granada in La Liga. Sadly only 1.6m. Still our biggest transfer to date. Our new RB is NAGY who after playing 3 games for u-21 Hungary switched back to Poland. KOWALCZYK is our new striker. We are getting quite alot of interest in our attackers so I do fear we are going to lose another one in off season.

Stuttgart with an upset in Germany. Chelsea with their 4th CL win. ZIDANE has now 6 CL wins and equals KLOPP. HAALAND continues the battle with MBAPPE and wins his 3rd Ballon d'Or.

 

Our biggest transfer to date.

BERESZYNSKI class of '30. great class. four elite is great. One foreign intake player. A slovak.

I'm  a bit disapointed by our HoYD. He does not want to study so...I'm unsure his still are going to go up.

 

Best of the class. BAWOLIK looks like a decent wing back. Maybe even future captain.

 

And latest news....Our French Chairman decided to lose the club...and we have a first possible takeover. I guess we will be getting a new sponsor (Sii is company of our Chairman).

Edited January 15, 2023 by the_hdk

[thomas_e]

Catania SSD

Season Summary 2023 - 2024

Great first season, but trouble on the horizon

 

After my save with Energie Cottbus I loaded up quite a few nations and saves, both in Europe and South America. After some consideration I ended up starting in Italy with Catania. This is certainly one of the biggest teams you can manage on this challenge this year, but I don't think it's an easy one! As with many Italian sides we have a very old squad and in great need of producing talents as quickly as possible. Luckily the club facilities are there already! 

Our first season was a really good one! We played really good from start to finish, winning Serie C with a solid 88 points from 38 games. Crotone and Benevento were my biggest competitors, but we managed to perform more consistent than them! 

I am playing a strange assymetric 3-5-2/5-3-2 formation, just trying to make a tactic that suits my players, but I think I have to work in the summer to change it quite a bit. We are scoring plenty of goals, but we are really vulnerable in defense, only keeping it together by having the best goalkeeper in the league! 

Promotion in the first season is great, but I am not sure how long this save will last. We are entering our 2nd year with such an old squad. Hopefully we can use the experience in the team to stay in Serie B. 

The youth intake was a solid average.. 

 

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[Brentmeister]

@DazRTaylorHow did you get Macclesfield to come up? I've simmed 4 years into the future and reloaded several times but can't seem to get any different/interesting teams? I've been trying to get Hashtag United for hours!

[Neo_Geo]

 

 

Season Review
First season in England complete and finished 9th (10 places higher than the initial season preview although that dropped to 24th after the first transfer window ended!) so I am delighted to have the save still alive after one season as I know how brutal it can be.

I started with a 4-2-3-1 DM AM with my best player, Wraynel Hercules, on the right side but I soon changed to a 4-4-2 DM and played him up top which was the key to the success we had in goals scored at least in this first season. Hercules bagged 45 goals, got top goalscorer and won the player of the season which then led to him complaining about playing at a higher level and having clubs 2 divisions above sniffing around. I decided to offer him for £150k before the end of the season just to see if it got any bites and it did with Grimsby and Chesterfield coming in with the money up front. He left for Grimsby

This was the best scenario I could hope for given the circumstances and given our finances just broke even this year and I couldn't get any facilities, coaching or recruitment upgrades due to finances being poor I thought this might change things......nope, the board rejected my requests again so I am stuck at 0.5 stars for Junior Coaching and Youth Facilities.

Maybe one of the reasons the board won't commit to any of these is this little news snippet that came in

It's likely to cost a fair whack and if they did commit to other costs just now we'd be in the red no doubt. All I can hope for is perhaps making the FA Cup proper and getting very, very lucky!

The intake wasn't great (the preview only had stikers as an A and then it was Cs and Ds after that). Luckily I checked the Staff Search tab for a new HoYD and I found Jon Beale listed as interested and I managed to bag him for just £180 a week (with 18 WWY, 15 JPA and 14 JPP he is far better than I could have hoped at this level).

Next season its about survival even more so now that Hercules has left, so its going to be down to Piesse (Elite1) who actually scored 2 on his debut and Cumbe (Elite1) to step up and hopefully score a decent number of goals. I now have 9 players over 30 so I really need a good intake this year otherwise this ship is going down (maybe not this coming season but soon). The real issue is going to be to try and stop conceding as much as I have this year because if the goals dry up I'm definitely going to be down the bottom end of the league.