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ELECTRICO FUTEBOL CLUBE (PORTUGAL)

SEASON 11 – 2034/35

Finances | League Results | League Results II | League Table | Portuguese Cup Results | League Cup Results | UEFA Champions League Results | Squad | U19 Squad | Under 23 Squad | B Team Squad | Youth Preview | Youth Intake I | Youth Intake II | Transfers | Released Players |

YOUTH CANDIDATES

ELITE | Diogo Matela | Kevin Semedo | Abou Basse | Chris Haagen |

TOP | Noah Aebli | Rui Estrela | Angel Pereiro | Rodrigo Amorim | Andre Branquinho |

GOOD | Bruno Alves | Paulo Silva | Salvador Pato | Precious Ibrahim |

DECENT | Oleksandr Stepanov | Luis Joshua |

NEWS

Ismael Toure won the Europa League Golden Boot for last season

Joao Silva won UEFA Europa League Young Player of the Year for last season

Ismael Toure made the Europa League Team of the Season last season

Ismael Toure won the CAF African Footballer of the Year award

Ismael Toure finished 2nd for most assists in the League last season

We got our youth facilities upgraded

Ismael Toure won Young Player of the Year Award last season

We were named Manager of the Year last season

Jan Reffet made the League Team of the Year last season

Portugal offered us the job as Portugal manager but we declined

Benfica offered us a job interview

Alexandru Popovici made his debut for Moldova

Ismael Toure won the Kopa Trophy

We won Best Portuguese Manager last season

Mussa Djalo won Portuguese U21 Player of the Year last season

We are tied with Benfica at the top for League player development

We got our training facilities improved

Mussa Djalo wins European Golden Boy

Stadium Expansion approved by the board

We got 1,3,5 and 7 at NXGN

Nuno Evora of the U19s finished Third Top Goalscorer in UEFA Youth League

We are expanding our stadium next year

We will have a temporary home next year

RESULTS

Another great season and we made a bit of progress, in that I can say we had an outside chance of winning the league towards the end of the season. It required results to go our way and they didn’t, and we were needing FC Porto to lose a couple of games and Sporting Braga to do the same, but it is progress. I think it may also be the first time we managed to beat Benfica, although they had an awful season finishing in 4th place and nine points behind us. A good season as we followed up on last seasons 3rd place with another.

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We finally managed to win our first major trophy as we took home the League Cup beating Sporting 2-1 in the final.

We bottled the Portuguese Cup; we had a great chance of winning that having drawn Academico de Viseu in the semifinal, but we ended losing on away goals. Considering it is a Chaves vs Viseu final I would have fancied my chances, but alas not to be.

We found the Champions League really tough and only got one win in the League Phase. We did get a draw at home to Manchester United which was very creditable, but we also got some batterings along the way such 6-1 to AC Milan, 6-1 to Tottenham and 4-1 to PSG. Still the money from the competition was very helpful and we will be back next year.

YOUTH TEAMS

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A Fourth League title for the Under 19s in a row and they did very easily.

We qualified for the UEFA Youth League this year and did very well, getting all the wat to the semi final before losing narrowly to Rennes.

The Under 23s need some work, we didn’t make the Championship Round and were poor, but we did better in the Qualifying Round.

Also, I have now decided to select the teams for the U23s and U19s. This was decided when we lost the U23 manager and I thought well I am getting annoyed that he sometimes doesn’t do what I want him to, so why don’t I do it. The U19 managers contract is up this summer and I will let him go.

BEST PLAYERS & PERFORMERS

Top Performers

1.       Umar Chidiebere

2.       Jan Reffet

3.       Mussa Djalo

4.       Adriano Torcato

5.       Rui Vallejo

Best Players

1.       Aneximandro Carmelo

2.       Fabio Leite

3.       Joubert

4.       Ismael Toure

5.       Mussa Djalo

LOCATIONS OF YOUTH INTAKE

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SUMMARY

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2 hours ago, Padders said:

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Season 56 - 2079/80 - EPL

Well, as the screenshots above show, we really struggled. Nearly got the sack!

In fact it was a complete embarrassment and broke every record going (not in a good way)

If people remember that Derby side that got relegated from the PL in the 00s, well we were worse than that.............................

Finished with 9 points! ONE win :(

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We broke the following PL records, lowest goals scored and lowest points!

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The board now want me to try stay up in the Championship, so hopefully that will keep us in the job...................

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Ooof that's brutal season mate. Glad they kept you on though. Was worried for a bit there.

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2 hours ago, Padders said:

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Season 56 - 2079/80 - EPL

Well, as the screenshots above show, we really struggled. Nearly got the sack!

In fact it was a complete embarrassment and broke every record going (not in a good way)

If people remember that Derby side that got relegated from the PL in the 00s, well we were worse than that.............................

Finished with 9 points! ONE win :(

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We broke the following PL records, lowest goals scored and lowest points!

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The board now want me to try stay up in the Championship, so hopefully that will keep us in the job...................

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Relieved for you. I thought the lack of an update was a bad omen.

How have the players taken it? Do you have them all contractually in servitude?

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2 hours ago, vikeologist said:

Relieved for you. I thought the lack of an update was a bad omen.

How have the players taken it? Do you have them all contractually in servitude?

Yes no real issues, kept all first team players. Had a couple with relegation release clauses that I have managed to sign on new contracts

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On 09/02/2024 at 16:09, Padders said:

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Season 55 - 2078/79 - SBC

Out of absolute nowhere we have finished 3rd and in the playoffs

Something clicked with the front 3 and scored loads of goals

We beat Crystal Palace over the two legs in Semi Finals 4-3 on aggregate

We play Ipswich in the final

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A terrible start, going 3-0 down in the first half :eek:

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BUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lads turned it around to draw 3-3 AET

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On to penalties we go.............

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We win 5-4 on penalites!

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Into the Premier League we go

One thing I will say, absolutely no way we are ready for PL

Upgrade in training facilities approved

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Once getting out the conference it has been a fairly quick rise 👏

Who are your best players and the best youngsters coming through?

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PUTNOK FC - HUNGARY

SEASON 2 - 2025/2026

 

We finished 5th in the hungarian first division, we missed out of the Conference League against MTK only because of the result againts each other.  :( 

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SENIOR SQUAD:

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S2 YOUTH INTAKE:

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ELITE TALENTS:

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TRANSFERS:

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FACILITES NOW:

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S2 HOYD:

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THINGS WORTH MENTIONING:

  • Board plans to build a new stadium
  • Unfortunately no new coaching badges
  • Several improvements were made in the facilities
  • It's a huge shame that I didn't get the manager of the year award, I didn't even finish in the top 3 manager :D 
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5 hours ago, Skora11 said:

Once getting out the conference it has been a fairly quick rise 👏

Who are your best players and the best youngsters coming through?

My Number 10 George Cooper is decent, looking like he might get the record goal scorer for the club if he continents

I don't have anything really great in the U18s, a lot of my best players are 25+, I need a few good intakes to get some PL quality players

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Season 3 ended just outside the playoffs again. We had an outside chance to make it the last day of the season with a win, but we drew and the other ties didn't go our way either. So while we finished a place lower than Season 2 we had 4 more points than last year. The Team of the Year is also starting to show a few younger players as well. Pinkard, White, Crichlow, Huws, Mahama, and Spencer are all youngsters that came in during the first 2 seasons. 

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The youth intake this year also didn't have anyone over 2 stars, but also the overall quality of the squad has increased. Groves in particular looks useful so far in the Season 4 preseason. GK has also been the weakest area of our team for sure, but the lad we brought in this year looks to have some potential. And even if he doesn't develop to his full potential he is still almost as good as our current fellow, and he's 6'4" at 15 years old. The setup is improving nicely as well.

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We've also had our first couple of youngster sales. Quitongo forced his way out and I wasn't able to get anything other than the cash for him. However, the Huws deal came along with 50% of next sale (his value jumped to $800k-$1.8m! when he joined Stoke), and they agreed to a friendly next summer so even if his value drops we'll get a good gate from that fixture. Sommerville came in with a high star rating and decent potential, but didn't play very well so we offloaded him as well for a small fee and 25% of his next sale (although his value didn't increase too too much).

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One final note is that the Season 4 preview has us outside of the relegation zone for the first time in the save! Progress?

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Thank you for reading!

-R

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Çankaya Futbol Kulübü Season review 2038/2039

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On the field

Europe 

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Second time in Europe, and this time we wanted to get to actual european football by reaching the league stage. We had no real problems in the playoffs. In the first leg against Austria Lustenau we got a early lead and I felt comfortable subbing in some young talent. that was a mistake, and they came back to win it. The second leg at home we made no such mistake and we were in the Europa league proper.

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We had some tough matches against premier league teams, but in the end qualified easily for the KO playoff

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We had a tough opponent in Sporting in the playyoff round but two solid 2-1 vicotries saw us through to the round of 16. There we faced Galatasaray. We won 3-2 at home, lost 3-2 away and then went on to concede in extra time. A dissapointin end but round of 16 in our first Europa league campaign is not bad at all.

Ziraat Türkiye Kupası

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We got to the final for the second time in our history. For the second time we faced Fenerbahçe and for the second time we lost.

The route to the final was not easy as we faced only top tier teams and had to face all of the big three clubs.

Spor Toto Süper Lig

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Our first real title push. A loss for us on the final day makes it look a lot more comfortable for Beşiktaş than it actually was. We pushed them the entire season but in the end the fixture load and title pressure bacame to much for my young squad. Only 3 losses the enitre year but 10 draws is what did us in.

U19s

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Another title for our youngsters.

Squad 

Player of the season: Hakan

7.2 avg. 9 goals, 9 assists. Constant thread on the wings

Topscorer: Mürsel Karataş

18 goals for the young striker.

He also takes the young player of the year award

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2 on the list this year.

Youth intake

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Decent intake, not spectacular.

these are the ones where our hope lies:

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Board

Finances | Transfers

Umran Bas is the only significant transfer. A defender we couldn't really lose but he forced his way out. Defense is our weakest part of the squad. The finances are still healthy,

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After asking for it for years, we finally got another upgrade to the youth Facilities. 

Next season

We have Champions league football next year. I hope we can build on this year and challenge again for the title. Once in a while the big three all have a bad season, I must be there to take advantage.

10 year summary

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On 12/02/2024 at 01:06, darren1983 said:

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Season 2026/27 Review National League

Was a strange but decent season really. Our issues last year were letting goals in so over the summer I had a tactical rethink and went from my usual 433 to a 4231 with 2 DM's sitting in front of the back to offer some extra protection. We opened the season with a 5-1 win and I thought we had cracked but in out next 5 games we lost 4-1, 5-2 and 6-1 and I quickly went back to what I know! 
I figured this would be a tough season with our players getting older and our young players not being ready yet and so it proved. We continued to ship goals but we also scored goals, it meant we were good enough to beat the bottom sides and keep a double digit points between us and the relegation zone but the top sides battered us. As a result I basically just speed ran through this season waiting for the youth intake but in the new year we started to play well and win games and keep clean sheets and somehow found ourselves on the edge of the playoffs.
Dropped points against the sides directly above us killed the fait hopes of playoffs so for the final few games I just played the kids really and as a result we ended a very respectable 10th spot.

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Fact we scored 83 goals and still ended with a minus goal difference tells the story as to where our issues still lie. 

In the cups there was nothing to write home about as we lost in the first round in both. In the FA Cup Maidstone from our league beat us and in the FA Trophy Kiddierminster from league below beat us.

Youth Intake

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The preview looked good and the result was pretty good. I don't think the players are as good as my coaches think but there are some good players here. My focus on youth recruitment seems to be paying off and we're not 2.5* which is good recruitment and think it'll pay off even more next season

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Career Overview

Season		League		Position 	Junior Coaching		Youth Recruitment	Notes

2024/25		NVLN		2nd 		Fairly Basic		Average			Promoted via the playoffs	 
2025/26		VNL		11th 		Average			Above Average		Finally got first coaching badge
2026/27		VNL		10th  		Adequate		Good			Still only 1 coaching badge

As you can probably tell I really did fly through this season but think next season will be a real struggle. A couple of the young players have stepped up this season which has added some nice depth but my senior players are struggling a bit now as they're really not for this level. In some good news though, the original star boy McStravick whose contract was up last summer is still here because he just stuck around on a non contract deal. Again I spent all season trying to get him to sign a new deal but he still says we're not good enough for him but I'll keep him around till either he leaves or we get better.

So when shutting down after posting this on Sunday while watching the super bowl I didn't save the game and didn't have auto save on which meant I lost like 6 months of this save including the youth intake. I didn't even realise till I went to load it up last night and saw I was in December. I spent all of yesterday evening just annoyed at myself. 

Let this be a lesson - MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AUTO SAVE ON!

I usually do but must have had it turned off. I dunno what to do now. I can't face redoing a half a season. I may try again with another team after a short break :( 

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ELECTRICO FUTEBOL CLUBE (PORTUGAL)

SEASON 14 – 2037/38

Finances | League Table | Portuguese Cup Results | League Cup Results | UEFA Champions League Results | Squad | Youth Preview | Youth Intake I | Youth Intake II | Transfers |

YOUTH CANDIDATES

ELITE | Jose Melro | Daniel Fernandes |

NEWS

We announced a partnership with KGHM Zaglebie of Poland

Details of the agreement with Zaglebie

Recognised as one of the best academies in the world

Four players in NXGN

RESULTS

We are back in 3rd place. Last year’s title win didn’t seem sustainable at the time and this season we were far more inconsistent, winning against some sides that I considered better than us and losing to relegation scrappers. In the end we were still in with a shout of the title towards the end of the season especially after beating Benfica 1-0 but we drew to Porto and lost to Chaves to make sure that wasn’t going to happen. At least we qualified for Champions League football.

In the League Cup we got to the semi finals and were beaten by Porto on penalties in the Fifth Round.

In the Portuguese Cup we lost to Porto in the 5th Round

In the Champions League we really struggled but a final League phase win at Anfield out of nowhere gave us our Knockout Round place. In the next round we would be drawn against Liverpool, having beaten them in the League phase I had some hope and a 3-2 win at home gave us the advantage but they turned the tie round late on at Anfield winning 3-1 and knocking us out.

YOUTH TEAMS

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The U19s won the league again quite easily but only made it to the Knockout Rounds of the UEFA Youth League losing to Arsenal.

The U23s only made it as far as the Championship Round and did very little when there.

LOCATIONS OF YOUTH INTAKE

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SUMMARY

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Kavala Football Club / Αθλητικός Όμιλος Καβάλα

Season 15 - 2038/39

Schedule / Squad / Transfers / Finances / Manager

 

Season Summary: Another memorable year for Kavala! We smashed our record in the league, securing a second-place finish in the regular phase, trailing the leader and reigning champions, PAOK, by just 5 points. Our team embarked on an impressive streak of 15 unbeaten games, clinching notable victories against Olympiacos and PAOK. However, our triumphs were marred by a disappointing end of season, as we stumbled in the crucial matches, losing all four of the last games. This not only dashed our hopes of claiming the title, which had been within reach by just one point, but also shattered our dream of securing a historic Champions League qualification, as we finished 8 points behind the leader and 6 behind AEK in the championship group.

In the cup, we triumphed over our affiliated club AS Anagennisi Karditsas from the second tier, only to be defeated by PAOK in the quarter-finals. Olympiacos emerged victorious in the competition. Despite finishing 3rd in the league, we'll have to play Europa League qualifiers next season.

Our European campaign, however, was a source of pride. Although we suffered a disappointing elimination in the Europa League playoff against Rakow, whom we had previously defeated two years ago in the UECL qualifiers, we demonstrated resilience in the Conference League. We won 4 out of 6 group stage games, including a remarkable 10-1 victory. Advancing through the elimination rounds, we secured wins against Lens and Valencia before succumbing, once again, to Brighton in the semi-finals, echoing our fate from two years ago. It seems we have a knack for being eliminated by eventual competition winners, as this marks our third participation in European competitions, having been previously ousted by Brighton (UECL winners in 2036 and 2039) and Nice (winners in 2037).

Christos Omiridis continued to shine as our top goalscorer, while Gersi Kuqi proved to be our most consistent player, boasting an impressive average rating of 7.27. Alexandros Toungelidis was honored with the Greek Player of the Year award in the Super League, and Vasilis Kyrialanis was recognized as Goalkeeper of the Year. Both players secured a spot in the league's XI of the Year.

For the second time, I was honored with the Manager of the Year award, coinciding with an offer to take on the role of Belgium manager.

The major transfer of the year involved our prodigy Efthymis Christou. Despite being the winner of the Golden Boy award and runner-up for the Kopa Trophy, Christou opted not to renew his contract, which was set to expire at the end of the season. Faced with the prospect of losing him for free, we reluctantly sold him to Benfica for 5 million euros during the winter transfer window. Remarkably, he leaves behind a legacy of 88 league appearances and 26 goals for Kavala.

Investments in our facilities persist, with 5.750.000€ allocated to enhancing the training facilities of our sports complex.

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Youth intake: This year's youth intake has provided us with several promising talents, including Maros Lesko 39a, Nikos Prountzos 39b, Kostas Ousios 39c, Orfeas Grafas 39d, Ilias Kapnopoulos 39e, Stamatis Bourselis 39f and Efthymis Avgouleas 39g. Furthermore, our partnerships with affiliated clubs have begun to yield results, as evidenced by the emergence of a Slovak and a Polish player in the intake. Thanks to improvements in the youth system, we have once again clinched the U19 title, marking our sixth consecutive victory.
 

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End of Season Review

Season 2028/29

Le Puy

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Season Summary- We got lucky this season. We overperformed the xg table massively (we were supposed to finish 15th with 40 points. Instead, we got into the promotion play-off positions (3rd) with 61 points. We missed out on winning the league, by losing our final 2 games against the other top 2 teams. In the promotion play-off, we drew twice, but we went through on away goals. Lastly we somehow also got into the quarter-finals of the French Cup after defeating 2 Ligue 1 teams. We ended up losing to Lille 3-1. Hopefully, we haven't wasted all our luck in one season as we are going to need it next season to stay up.

Season Details

Transfers Out- We lost our starting goalkeeper on a free as he refused a new contract

Youth Candidates- this was a quite bad youth intake, but there is a bit of hope that a few of them can become part of our set-up in the future. The fact we got two center-backs is good as our starting center-backs are starting to become old. Noureddine Bounou is the better of the 2 center-backs, he needs to get a lot quicker and better defensively as soon as possible.

Key Players

Jules Meyer - He got an injury mid-way through to the season, which led to a massive decrease in our form. He is now a Le Puy Icon after winning the Player of the Season yet again. He scored 11 goals and assisted 12 times in 30 games.

Ousmane Tine 3A - He was our most productive winger this season, with 13 goals and 13 assists in all competitions. He has now claimed the starting position down the left wing. Ended up being our YPOY

Andreas Kruger 3B- Our starting striker, who scored 16 goals and assisted 5 times. He is also the only player with a senior cap and goal for his country

Goran Grahovac 2A- Had another strong season as our dlp, has kept on growing quite a lot. But still needs to become quicker and stronger

Personal Contract

Season     Contract Start Date     Contract Expiry Date     Pre Tax Wage     Post Tax Wage
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At start          20 June 2024             30 June 2025          €1300 p/w         €1100 p/w
2024/25           30 May 2025              30 June 2026          €1300 p/w =       €1100 p/w =
2025/26           15 May 2026              30 June 2028          €1300 p/w =       €800 p/w =
2026/27           15 May 2026              30 June 2028          €1300 p/w =       €800 p/w =
2027/28           31 December 2027         30 June 2030          €900 p/w          €600 p/w =
2028/29           31 December 2027         30 June 2030          €900 p/w          €600 p/w = 

Personal Coaching Data

Season     Reputation            Qualifications     Att   Def   Fit   GkD   GkH   GkS   Tac   Tec   Men   StP   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     1    7     1     1     1     1     1     1     1
2024/25    Minimal = (1.00*) ↑   National C       ↑   4 ↑   4 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   1 =   3 ↑   5 ↑   3 ↑   1    7 =   1 =   3 ↑   4 ↑   3 ↑   9 ↑↑  4 ↑   3 ↑
2025/26    Minimal = (2.00*) ↑   National A       ↑   8 ↑   8 ↑   3 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   8 ↑   8 ↑   8 ↑   3 ↑  9 ↑   1 =   7 ↑   7 ↑   8 ↑   9 =   8 ↑   8 ↑
2026/27    Minimal = (2.50*) ↑   Continental B    ↑   12 ↑  11 ↑  4 ↑   1 =   1 =   1 =   11 ↑  11 ↑  11 ↑  4 ↑  12 ↑  1 =   10 ↑  9 ↑   10 ↑  20 ↑↑ 12 ↑  12 ↑
2027/28    Minimal = (2.50*)     Continental A    ↑   13 ↑  12 ↑  7 ↑   1 =   3 ↑   1 =   12 ↑  12 ↑  12 ↑  5 ↑  12 =  1 =   11 ↑  10 ↑  11 ↑  20 =  13 ↑  13 ↑
2028/29    Nonimal = (3.00*) ↑   Continental Pro  ↑   14 ↑  13 ↑  8 ↑   1 =   3 =   1 =   13 ↑  13 ↑  13 ↑  6 ↑  12 =  1 =   12 ↑  11 ↑  12 ↑  20 =  14 ↑  15 ↑

Club Facilities

Season     Training Facilities  Youth Facilities  Corporate Facilities  Junior Coaching  Youth Recruitment  Club Reputation
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At Start       Basic               Poor               Adequate              Good             Basic              Regional (2.00*)
2024/25        Basic               Poor               Adequate              Good             Basic              Regional (2.00*)
2025/26        Basic               Basic   ↑          Adequate              Average          Fairly basic       Regional (2.00*)
2026/27        Below average  ↑    Basic              Adequate              Average          Average ↑          Regional (2.00*)
2027/28        Adequate       ↑    Below average ↑    Adequate              Average          Average            National (2.00*)
2028/29        Adequate            Below average      Adequate              Average          Average            National (2.00*)

Season Record

Season     Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage
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2024/25      37        12       12       13          64              62                 -2              32.4%
2025/26      37        20       11       6           69              42                 27              54.0%
2026/27      37        5        10       22          35              67                 -32             13.5%
2027/28      37        16       12       9           62              49                 13              43.2%
2028/29      44        24       12       8           83              51                 32              54.5%

Overall Career Record

After Season   Played     Won     Drawn     Lost     Goals For     Goals Against     Goal Difference     Win Percentage     Time At Club
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2024/25          37       12       13       12          64              62                 -2               32.0%             328 days 
2025/26          74       32       23       19          133             104                29               43.0%             730 days
2026/27          111      37       33       41          168             171                -3               33.0%             1074 days
2027/28          148      53       45       50          230             220                10               35.0%             1431 days
2028/29          192      77       57       58          313             271                42               40.0%             1816 days

Transfer Sale Record

Date               Player                    Position               Club Sold To                 Country                   Transfer Fee
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Trophy Haul

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Career Overview

Season     Champions League    Europa League    Europa Conference League             League                             Position     French Cup    
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2024/25           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      12th       Seventh Round              
2025/26           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      2nd        Seventh Round
2026/27           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       Ligue 2 BKT                          18th       Ninth Round
2027/28           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      7th        Ninth Round
2028/29           N/a               N/a                    N/a                       French National                      3rd        Quarter finals

Record Number of Appearances (Players From The Academy Only) 

Season     Player                  Number of Appearances                     All time         Player              All time Appearances
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2024/25    Gilles Comte                        5                             2023-present       Gilles Comte              125
2025/26    Gilles Comte                        28                            2025-present       Ousmane Tine              76
2026/27    Gilles Comte                        28                            2025-present       Adreas Kruger             75
2027/28    Gilles Comte                        34                            2024-present       Goran Grahovac            75
2028/29    Ousmane Tine                        34                            2026-present       Abdelkader Belhadj        59

Record Goal Scorer (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                               Number of Goals              All time         Player              All time goals            
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2024/25    -                                          0                      2025-present       Andreas Kruger            17 
2025/26    -                                          0                      2025-present       Ousmane Tine              11         
2026/27    Andreas Kruger                             1                      2024-present       Goran Grahovac            2
2027/28    Andreas Kruger                             6                      2026-present       Abdelkader Belhadj        2
2028/29    Andreas Kruger                             10                                        

Record Number of Assists (Players From The Academy Only)

Season     Player                             Number of Assists            All time         Player              All time assists         
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2024/25    -                                          0                      2023-present       Gilles Comte              10
2025/26    Gilles Comte                               1                      2025-present       Ousmane Tine              8   
2026/27    Gilles Comte                               1                      2024-present       Goran Grahovac            6  
2027/28    Gilles Comte                               5                      2025-present       Andreas kruger            4
2028/29    Ousmane Tine                               5                      2026-present     Abdelkader Belhadj          4

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

Season     Player                           Number of Clean sheets         All time         Player             ALl time clean sheets
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2023/24    -                                          0

 

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В 10.02.2024 в 12:37, bombaleo сказал:

Guys, I'm in!



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I already finished the first season for Aachen... and my ssd decided to die... now I have to start all over again. I’m not in the mood to return to Germany, so I’m going to conquer England with FC United. It will be fun, since the team has a catastrophically small number of players.



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p.s. Take care of your ssd

p.s. p.s. Why can't I insert an image with a link?

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Season Review 2027/28 (Season 4)

NK Kustošija Zagreb

Supersport HNL (Tier 1)

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League

Our first season in the top flight that we had to juggle both domestic and continental football and we performed admirably.

We don't have the squad depth to seriously compete at league level yet and although we won our first game of European football, 3 losses from 4 game shows us exactly how far we have to go before we can start to be taken seriously. 

Overall we finished 7th, with the extra matches taking it's toll on the thin squad. The beauty of the Croatian league is that apart from Dinamo Zagreb (who have won every title in the save) every other team have good and bad days meaning that there are usually places up for grabs from 3rd-8th with a month to go in the season. It keeps it interesting all the way through the year.

No European football next year means hopefully we can focus on the league and get ourselves back into the top 5.

 

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Europe

Our first taste of European football and it couldn't have started any better. A 5-2 drubbing of FC Noah meant we were almost guaranteed of going through to the next round. We then lost the return leg 1-0 but were through on aggregate. The Third Round Qualifying saw us lose both legs to FC Honka to be knocked out of the competition. A decent first look, but not the huge money earner we were hoping for.

 

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Awards

Karlo Igor Majic won our Player of the year award with an average rating of 7.02 

Adel Galonja 02A won our leading goalscorer award with 12

Mario Grlic 01A won our Young Player of the Year award with an average rating of 6.95 across 24 appearances

 

Youth Intake

A very promising looking Intake with 4 elite talents. Some good personalities too means hopefully 1 or 2 of them can develop and become stars

 

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Upgrades

The club's Youth Facilities were upgraded

I completed my National A and Continental C Coaching Badges

I signed a new contract worth $1,600 per week until 2030

 

Transfers

 

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Good morning everyone! I've just discovered this challenge, and i've never posted on this forum before :O

I'm starting a new career, with the extended italian DB to play the Serie D (4th division)

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Then, with my holiday man, i've travelled in time to June, 30th 2024, to choose my team for this challenge. And this is the chosen one!

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Siena is a "fallen" team, has a big history and has played in Serie A for many many times in the last decades.

Siena is a very nice city in Tuscany, 50k resident, and great history.

Now, for financial problems too, it's playing in the Eccellenza, and in my save has been promoted to serie D

 

On the next post, i'll show my avatar and the first step into squad!

Thanks to everyone that will read and support this!

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On 14/02/2024 at 14:19, TerminalPortugal said:

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ELECTRICO FUTEBOL CLUBE (PORTUGAL)

SEASON 16 – 2039/40

Finances | League Table | Portuguese Cup Results | League Cup Results | UEFA Champions League Results | Squad | Youth Preview | Youth Intake I | Youth Intake II | Transfers |

YOUTH CANDIDATES

ELITE | Rui Aragonez |

NEWS

5th Best Academy in the World

One NXGN player

RESULTS

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Well this challenge is over for me.

I will start however with the league, this year we just seemed far more assured than any other season. For quite a few years we have been challenging for the title, but it’s always a win on the final day or trialling Benfica or Porto by a few points, this time for the first time we led early on and it never looked like we would through it away. We won the league with a couple of games to go and could rest players for the other competitions.

The League Cup wasn’t great but we were a bit unlucky. We won one and drew one, but that wasn’t enough to get through due to goal difference so we went out in the Group Stage.

We would win the Portuguese Cup beating Benfica in the final 4-1

The Champions League is the main talking point though. Prior to this season I had no confidence, but this season my confidence was growing as the performances started looking dominant. We started off with a 3-0 win over Ajax, and beat Maribor 9-3, we beat Nice 5-1 away. In the end we qualified as one of the best 8 qualifiers only losing twice in the League Phase once to Newcastle and Inter Milan.

In the Last 16, I was troubled when I saw that we got Man City, and expected to exit the competition, but we were brilliant winning 2-1 in Manchester and getting a drawing goal in extra time after losing 3-2 at home.

RB Leipzig were next in the Quarter Final and we dealt with them easily 4-1 on aggregate.

The semi final saw us up against Bayern Munich and we had to face adversity as we lost 3-2 away in the first leg but came roaring back at home 4-1 to book a place in the final against Chelsea in Munich.

The final was actually a pretty simple game, the stats will say they had the better of the chances, but I didn’t feel under threat the whole game, we would win it 2-0 with goals from Mussa Djalo a striker we have had for years and years and Andy Zuke a full back who has just made the first team last season.

A treble to complete the journey.

PS: We lost the UEFA Super Cup to Arsenal 3-2 and won the Euro/SAM Trophy 3-2 against Botafogo.

CHALLENGE COMPLETE

YOUTH TEAMS

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The U19s returned to winning the league this season and got as far as the semi finals of the UEFA Youth League before losing to Copenhagen U18s.

The U23s lost the final of the Taca Revelacao but won the Liga Revelacao

LOCATIONS OF YOUTH INTAKE

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Final Map

SUMMARY

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Nice one man, and pretty quick as well! Congrats!

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FC Vaajakoski 2037

Finnish Premier League

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A great leap forward as we qualify for our first European adventure!

Going pro was a major factor. We already had the talent, just not the training time. A few players have burst into the squad and went from interesting talents into full on star players within a season.

 

Squad

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We started the season with Salmela in goal but he wasn't ready for that at all. Uusitalo came back into the squad doing really well and keeping his place for the rest of the season.

We have defensive stars in Ojanperä and Ahonen, both being watched from the Serie A.

In midfield, Granholm is starting to pull the strings as a playmaker and Filankembo keeps bombarding his opponents with his runs.

Up front we have a (luxury) problem: Lähderinne is the better striker but Nikkanen scores whenever he's in the team.

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We actually received some money this year. Laitinen, Syrjä and Halonen left after years of good service.

 

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Lehtonen seems to be the next great thing up front for us, with Lyyski a close second.

Kähkonen is the goalkeeper we've been waiting for.

Kuusela is going to be a very useful playmaker and Tuovinen is more of a centre back, so we'll retrain him to that.

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Needham Market Football Club

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Finally bought FM24 after missing out the last two editions. :) Always read this thread and loved this challenge, closest I came was in Slovenia in FM21 where I took Dravograd to the semi-finals of the Champions League. Tough challenge in England and Needham Market will be no different, though there are a few key players and we have a squad of 16 or so. Aiming for survival and that's it!

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Ok, the manager is ready, let's start this journey!

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 We have one trasfer incoming, that i cannot delete

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First thing i need to do, is to get staff because i haven't :D

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@TerminalPortugal Nice, you got some real gems in there! What I like is that most of them are solid all-rounders, no real weak spots attribute-wise; plus a center back with good jumping and a good striker (and a goalie if you can get one!) are super helpful in this challenge from past experience ;) 

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13 minutes ago, dkouv said:

@TerminalPortugal Nice, you got some real gems in there! What I like is that most of them are solid all-rounders, no real weak spots attribute-wise; plus a center back with good jumping and a good striker (and a goalie if you can get one!) are super helpful in this challenge from past experience ;) 

I have a theory about why they are well rounded. I think once you get good facilities and coaches, you can go either default position training or role training. I think that default position training and a focus gets you quicker improvements but more evenly spread and role training is slower but will probably get you very specialised players. I started the latter, then moved to the former and then back to the latter in the last two years in terms of development. Not sure there is anything in it at all but just my observation of it.

Yeah keeper is such a major one, if you don't get one its such a weakness, every other position you can convert players, a centre back to full back. a centre back to defensive midfield, a winger to striker. You can convert anyone to keeper, at least not that im aware.

In terms of the centre backs I spent ages without one that had good jumping reach and heading then I got three all around a three year period recently and it definitely helped.

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