The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[The7Striker]

@Ron_Swanson and @Cultured Left Foot congrats 

[OlivierL]

59 minutes ago, diegolawliet said:

FC ROMANIA - ENGLAND (8° LEVEL)

 

New try. Yes, again. This time I'll change a little bit the direction. It was being hard to me survive the relegation from the Vanarama National League North/South, so I thought: what if I start the journey in a lower league? Of course I had to download a database, but I think it is allowed for this challenge. It's the Dan's one, the one with 20 levels on England. I decided to start in the 8th, in the Isthmian League Division One South Central. I simulated a season and I chose from one of the promoted teams: FC Romania. I liked that they have never won a title. The squad is very short, so the challenge is always the same: try to not lose any player in the first title and avoid the relegation, so I can start building a team with the first generation of regens.

 

[+] FC Romania's squad
[+] Isthmian League Division One South Central
[+] Manager's profile

Good luck with many Romanian regens but be careful for the brexit situation.

[OlivierL]

6 minutes ago, Ron_Swanson said:

[FM23] Reymersholms IK - season 39 - 2061 - CHALLENGE COMPLETED!

What a game that was! First, in 15th minute goal for Bayern, but thankfully it was an offside, then our boys stepped up, Ayham Homsi hit the post twice, we were creating more chances. In 68th min Karl-Johan Hallberg who was really tired and ready to be substituted made his last impact in this match and we're up 1-0. Not for long, just after the kickoff Bayern answered back. Just before end of regular time Robert Gustavsson saw his second yellow card but that didn't ruin teams morale. Extra time started with a hit in the face, Bayern takes lead, we have to switch to very offensive style because at this point we got nothing to lose. Then Michael Nyberg strikes the equalizer, Stefanos Anagnostidis made it 3-2, so now park the bus and pray. Unfortunately Bayern scored their third and all was decided in penalty shootout. I owe a bottle of good champagne to FC Porto who agreed to delay transfer date of Adam Larsson because this man saved two penalties and was a crucial part of that victory. Oh, and Hammarby just won Europa League a week earlier so Swedish teams became a strong force lately.

Maybe I'll stick with this career as a side job now, but I already have something fun in mind as my next chapter

@darren1983 looks like you can add Sweden into completed nations list

Edit: Just one more thing, managers career overview to prove 0 transfers in

Great job! Sweden check !

[Daddy]

congrats @Ron_Swanson

[Winski]

Wow, fantastic @Ron_Swanson!!! Great job!

[bg0123]

Usti nad Labem - Czech First Division - 5th Season (2028-29 Season)

It was an extremely difficult season. We finished 14th and in the relegation group. We weren't able to catch up anyone so we played a two legged match to (hopefully) secure safety in the First Division. We lost the first leg 3-1 but turned it around in the second leg with a 3-0 victory to stay in the division.

Transfers:

Youth Intake:

 

I've accepted that we were going to struggle and expect more of the same next season. Although there will be more stability in the squad next year so maybe that will help.

 

[KOWAL]

Where i can find a leaderboard with completed nation in challenge?

[The7Striker]

5 minutos atrás, KOWAL disse:

Where i can find a leaderboard with completed nation in challenge?

Second Post in the OP.

[XaW]

XaW - Fútbol Club Casa Estrella del Benfica - Season 2030/31 (Season 7) - Lliga Multisegur Assegurances

Squad | Transfers | Finances

Another strong and good season, but once again Inter went unbeaten. Our 3 losses were all to them too, so my hatred for them only grows. 20 wins out of 27 should be enough to fight for the title, but here we are. At leas the club continues to improve every season we get European football, and it also makes our intakes better and better. So things are going the right way, we just have a really big speed bump we need to overcome.

Copa Constitució Protecvall: We beat Mavlon before we lost to Inter in the quarter final.

Europa Conference League: We beat Icelandic side Víkingur Gøta on pens before we lost to Olimpija Lublana of Slovenia in the 2nd qualifying round.

Best players from the academy:

Arturo Tejada 25a - Another strong season our on the left wing.
Jordi Gallego 30b - Our new first choice right back, but also a good left back option. Excellent debut season.
Francisco Costa 29b - Not as good as last season, but still a good season in midfield.

New club records:

Most assists in a season - Jordi Gallego 30b - 13 assists
Worst discipline - Paulo Gonçalves 28a - 10 yellow cards, 0 red cards
Most league apps - Antonio Martínez - 172 apps
Most league goals - Abdourahamane Abdou 25b - 83 goals

We got some more improvements done this season.

U21s

They finished 3rd in the Andorran Under 21s Group 1 this season.

U19s

They retained the Andorran Under 19s Group 1 this season!

UEFA Youth League: They lost to BVSC-Zugló of Hungary in the 1st qualifying round.

Around the world

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

Lliga UNIDA - 2024/25

U21s - Andorran Under 21s Group 1 - 2027/28, 2028/29, 2029/30
U21s - Andorran Under 21s Group 2 - 2024/25
U19s - Andorran Under 19s Group 1 - 2026/27, 2028/29, 2029/30, 2030/31
U19s - Andorran Under 19s Group 2 - 2024/25

Player statistics:

Most apps for the club

Name			Nation			2nd Nation		Time at club	Apps
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Pascal Breuil 25c	Andorra			France			2025-Present	178
Abdourahamane Abdou 25b	Niger			<N/A>			2025-Present	176
Arturo Tejada 25a	Andorra			Spain			2025-Present	163
Fabio Salmerón 26c	Andorra			Portugal		2026-Present	155
Sébastien Yongo 27a	Andorra			France			2027-Present	121

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation			2nd Nation		Time at club	Goals
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Abdourahamane Abdou 25b	Niger			<N/A>			2025-Present	89
Arturo Tejada 25a	Andorra			Spain			2025-Present	44
Fabio Salmerón 26c	Andorra			Portugal		2026-Present	27
Francisco Costa 29b	Portugal		<N/A>			2029-Present	24
Pascal Breuil 25c	Andorra			France			2025-Present	20

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation			2nd Nation		Time at club	Assists
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Fabio Salmerón 26c	Andorra			Portugal		2026-Present	41
Arturo Tejada 25a	Andorra			Spain			2025-Present	35
Sébastien Yongo 27a	Andorra			France			2027-Present	26
Pascal Breuil 25c	Andorra			France			2025-Present	21
Francisco Costa 29b	Portugal		<N/A>			2029-Present	15

Supporters:

Summary:

[XaW]

Wow, congrats @Ron_Swanson! Impressive work! 

[Jimbokav1971]

Hi Lads and Lasses. 

I'm doing a Youth Only save in a Town with a population of only approx. 46,800 and I've progressed to 2057. 

In all that time I haven't had any family relations come through the intake, (although I have had 3 players with the same unusual surname come through the same intake). 

I think my save was started with the Beta/Early Access, (but not positive), so it might be caused by that, but I'm trying to work out if this is a but and if so is it being seen by others?

Have any of you actually seen family relationships for Newgens in your own games in FM24?  (Thanks in advance). 

[JAwtunes]

Well done @Ron_Swanson

Just curious, what bank balance did you finish on?

[KOWAL]

Why when i try in  Spain there is so many new gen players in promoted teams like in one team 30 players all squad and 20 is new gen?

[Matsusipida]

7 hours ago, Jimbokav1971 said:

Hi Lads and Lasses. 

I'm doing a Youth Only save in a Town with a population of only approx. 46,800 and I've progressed to 2057. 

In all that time I haven't had any family relations come through the intake, (although I have had 3 players with the same unusual surname come through the same intake). 

I think my save was started with the Beta/Early Access, (but not positive), so it might be caused by that, but I'm trying to work out if this is a but and if so is it being seen by others?

Have any of you actually seen family relationships for Newgens in your own games in FM24?  (Thanks in advance). 

I've had one pair of brothers in my save. Luckily I still have them both. I haven't seen any other brothers coming through. They come from a town with around 48 000 inhabitants.

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[resurectedja]

FM23

Jadran Luka Ploče - Season 4 – 2025/26

 

It was a record-breaking season, but for all the wrong reasons. We managed to survive, but by a record low number of points. Rudeš, the team who got relegated this season was absolutely awful, and apart from a short burst of form were never close to jumping us. We finished the season 9th. We were around 7th or 8th during the first part of the season, but we really fell apart in February, going on a 8 game losing streak. We bounced back late to secure 9th. We were in the relegation playoffs against Varaždin. It was a breeze, idk why but they hardly had any players with good sharpness. We drew away and won resoundingly at home. If we were lucky in the first part of the season and the second part was how things really could be, I really think our fifth season could be our last in the league. We were a 1000-1 to win the league and our form showed why. The big 4 of Croatian football demolished us multiple times. We have conceded 8 and 7 goals once and 5 goals multiple times this season.

We made some money thanks to the 1,2 million euro per year tv deal. Not enough for upgrades, but its nice to have a financially stable club. We rented another stadium this year. The one in Zmijavci wasn’t up to standard so we moved to Imotski this season.

I was offered a job by Gorica and Lokomotiva this season. To ward of suitors my board offered me a new 2 year deal.

Due to no real upgrade options at HoYD I added an DoF to my staff. He is much better than everyone else at judging ability and potential. He is also a true Professional personality, similar to everyone else on our staff. Its high professional or bust if you want to join this club. He produced an astounding preview, promising 8 talented players. He not only delivered, but we got 11!!! Elite talents. It would be too much to post all of them, so I will only focus on the two best. Antonini Šiljić is a naturally fit, brave and precise tackling defensive mid. He also has a fairly professional personality. With 2 stars now, I expect him to be 3 stars by the time he is 17. Second starlet of this year’s intake is Vencel Spajić. A very talented deep lying forward with impressive bravery, flair and determination.

Only plan for next season is once again, not get sacked. Our best mid Žderić left on free and joined a second division team. Things are looking bleak.

[Jimbokav1971]

1 hour ago, Matsusipida said:

I've had one pair of brothers in my save. Luckily I still have them both. I haven't seen any other brothers coming through. They come from a town with around 48 000 inhabitants.

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That's brilliant to know. Thanks very much. 

[Haddock]

After lurking around for a while I've decided to join in on the challenge. Initially started with Wacker Innsbruck as I thought Austria was yet to be completed, only to later realise that @Perre8 had not only completed the challenge with that exact team - but did it in only 10 seasons! I know it's not really a competition but after seeing that everything I would manage to achieve would pale in comparison.

So a new start in Croatia and Kustosija it was.

Already a few seasons into the save and really enjoying it! Fun to see a few others here doing Croatia as well.

[The7Striker]

9 horas atrás, KOWAL disse:

Why when i try in  Spain there is so many new gen players in promoted teams like in one team 30 players all squad and 20 is new gen?

Unfortunately, it's something the game does to "simulate reality".

If you check at the start of the game, there is a high turnover of players in all the teams in the First and Second RFEF, partly because the financial issue is quite complicated in those leagues.

[darren1983]

15 hours ago, Ron_Swanson said:

[FM23] Reymersholms IK - season 39 - 2061 - CHALLENGE COMPLETED!

What a game that was! First, in 15th minute goal for Bayern, but thankfully it was an offside, then our boys stepped up, Ayham Homsi hit the post twice, we were creating more chances. In 68th min Karl-Johan Hallberg who was really tired and ready to be substituted made his last impact in this match and we're up 1-0. Not for long, just after the kickoff Bayern answered back. Just before end of regular time Robert Gustavsson saw his second yellow card but that didn't ruin teams morale. Extra time started with a hit in the face, Bayern takes lead, we have to switch to very offensive style because at this point we got nothing to lose. Then Michael Nyberg strikes the equalizer, Stefanos Anagnostidis made it 3-2, so now park the bus and pray. Unfortunately Bayern scored their third and all was decided in penalty shootout. I owe a bottle of good champagne to FC Porto who agreed to delay transfer date of Adam Larsson because this man saved two penalties and was a crucial part of that victory. Oh, and Hammarby just won Europa League a week earlier so Swedish teams became a strong force lately.

Maybe I'll stick with this career as a side job now, but I already have something fun in mind as my next chapter

@darren1983 looks like you can add Sweden into completed nations list

Edit: Just one more thing, managers career overview to prove 0 transfers in

Well done 

Have added to the HoF 

[darren1983]

On 25/05/2024 at 10:18, Cultured Left Foot said:

If you'd like to watch this series, its a YouTube playthrough series : www.youtube.com/c/culturedleftfoot

 WE DID IT !!!!! C.D. TOLEDO ARE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS !!!!

 

WAHOOOOOO !!!

 

 

We beat Barcelona in the final 3-2 after an epic game ! 

 

We leave the club in fantastic position, the board have been superb and have been upgrading most times we asked.

 

They didn't really have an excuse given the financial bounty we've created for the club.

 

We won the club a number of honours incuding every available top competition in Spain.

 

And the climb up the leagues was consistent throughout the save.

 

But the key is the Champions League win !!!

 

This has been one of my favourite saves I've done since playing this game since Championship Manager 2 !! 

Absolutley Amazing.

 

Thanks to everyone for the support and the comments on the videos and my posts here. I can't believe I achieved this and compelted the challenge. I'll certainly back to do it again as a YouTube series on FM25. 

After not compelting the challenge in England last game itterarion, I'm delight to say Spain = Completed.

My apologies I missed this till just now.

Well done though and have added this completion to the HoF as well 

[Matsusipida]

IFK Lidingö season 16 / 2039

During preseason we once again lost one of our key players in Gabriel Johanson 35A for 400K€.

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Season started brilliantly with us only dropping from the cup group by goal difference.

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Nice cup campaign was followed by nice early season with 5 wins and 2 draws. Afterwards we lost for and struggled to score goals. Team underperformed XG goals scored by 10.4 goals recording a team record low goals scored 39. luckily our star goalkeeper Simon Didrik 30C was in fine form and we only conceded 29 goals, 9 less compared to XG. we somehow managed to remain in promotion contention untill latter stages, but it just wasn't to be. We finished the league with a decent 4th position.

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Once again Jonathan Sletsjøe 30A was the best performer with 11 goals and 5 assists. Our former 1st choice striker Josip Kalinic 28F lost his form and only scored 2 league goals. Andreas Söderström 31A scored 7 goals and was our best Striker/winger. Johan Svensson 37A has made massive improvements and is now our best defender.

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Yout intake was dissapointing. highest potential prospects are casual and low self belief. HOYD got sacked.

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Facilities are the same. finances are on a decline. Promotion and some price money from there would be nice.

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Manager

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I feel like the save is stagnating in a way. We just keep loosing best prospects/players. next season we are losing our GK as we only kept him this season by promising promotion we couldn't get. 

Summary

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[bg0123]

Usti nad Labem - Czech First Division - 6th Season (2029-30 Season)

As expected, another difficult season. A little better than last year as we didn't have to go through a relegation/promotion playoff to stay in the league. My team seems to always come together when it's the end of the year, I wish we could have this consistently in the season then we may be more of a mid table team.

Transfers:

Youth Intake:

 

Second year in a row that we get a lackluster youth intake. I expect the same struggles this season, I can't wait to see the light at the end of the tunnel...

[Ron_Swanson]

16 hours ago, JAwtunes said:

Well done @Ron_Swanson

Just curious, what bank balance did you finish on?

Thanks. Here's how it looks like. Once we got in Allsvenskan finances were not a problem, pretty good money prizes and resonable wages was enough to make steady profit.  This graph starts about when we became Champions League regulars.

[libbyshuss]

@Ron_Swanson

 

[Ron_Swanson]

29 minutes ago, libbyshuss said:

@Ron_Swanson

 

That final whistle tho...

[Perre8]

8 hours ago, Haddock said:

After lurking around for a while I've decided to join in on the challenge. Initially started with Wacker Innsbruck as I thought Austria was yet to be completed, only to later realise that @Perre8 had not only completed the challenge with that exact team - but did it in only 10 seasons! I know it's not really a competition but after seeing that everything I would manage to achieve would pale in comparison.

So a new start in Croatia and Kustosija it was.

Already a few seasons into the save and really enjoying it! Fun to see a few others here doing Croatia as well.

The key in that save was the money you have at the start with Wacker Insbruck AND the money you receive in the second division for playing youth players 

[Riebow]

KSV Oudenaarde Season Review (25/26)

League

Quite an uneventful season, never in the promotion hunt and never in any danger for relegation. The goal is just to develop the players and hopefully haphazardly go up one season

Corky Cup

Not a great draw with Seraing, which didn't result in any nice gate receipts, which is the only goal at this point.

Youth intake

I didn't take a screenshot at the time of intake so you'll have to do with my excel snippet. As expected a lot of potential, but a bit disappointed with the CA considering the quality of the squad

Finances

Well, it happened. There's no money in this level and honestly even in full amateur we would be losing money despite barely paying anyone 

Transfers

The board already sold two prospects from last season's intake for almost no money. Let's hope the clauses bring in some cash.

Next season

No expectations for the league, just developing the players and hopefully sell some for some money so we can get our professional status back

[JAwtunes]

 one of my star players

[Perre8]

NK Karlovac - season 2 (2025/26) - first division 

 

After our good first half of the season, we continued flying the league, the team really started to gel, also a couple of youth players that came trough and delivered instantly!

We had a couple of upgrades in our youth recruitment and training facilities, the last one took a big chunk out of our budget!

A few of our youth players that are eligible for the first division who are worth mentioning are:

and our best player is our right winger with the lovely name Luka Viduka

so back to our progression in the league, we didn't get a real win streak but the other top teams like Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb had a really bad season that gave us some hope.

We managed to secure a european place in our first season in the top flight!

After the season i took my chances and asked for an upgrade for the youth facilities, the board came trough and did it but all of our sponsorship money is gone into that upgrade. So we really need that tv money and hopefully a european qualification!

Edited May 29 by Perre8

[Daddy]

Season 9 - 2032/33 - Czechia - First Division:

In jest, I had said I needed to raise my expectations and we would win the league. Turns out we're a bit closer than I realized. In the final ten matches of the season, I believe the team just wore down. The oldest player is 24, so there are still a lot of young legs and brains out there.

Two big moves last season. Southampton taking our best player in the midfield wasn't ideal, but we did get a nice 40% clause on there and if he sold for his current value we'd probably get 8-10 M in the bank in addition to the initial $2M. The painful one was Ali Ali leaving to Inter on an expired contract. He was our best player and immediately ranked as #2 wonderkid in the world. 

A very nice intake here, with a couple of players, jumped right to the first team as rotation pieces. 

2033/34 Season Preview:

I will underestimate the team again, but that's because of the addition of European football to the schedule. Hopefully being extra diligent about rotation and fitness we'll at least make the top six group again in the league, and I'd like to see us make the top 24 in the Europa League. 

I wrote this before the start of the season and decided to play until the Europa League was drawn. In that time my keeper was sold to Man City for 10M. My current best keeper is a "Good Second Division" player. That makes everything more difficult and my most dire need for a future intake is a keeper. I only have three left in the system and this is the only player with real potential. 

[OlivierL]

36 minutes ago, JAwtunes said:

 one of my star players

your best striker, you are still playing in Iceland? 

I like that logo, did you create it yoursel or is this a new logo ? I loved my short save with them but hoped to get more african regens (and not almost 70/80% Polish players).

 

[JAwtunes]

53 minutes ago, OlivierL said:

your best striker, you are still playing in Iceland? 

I like that logo, did you create it yoursel or is this a new logo ? I loved my short save with them but hoped to get more african regens (and not almost 70/80% Polish players).

 

Yeah, my best striker has now gone, and then this happens.  I think I need to stop for the night

Thanks re the logo.  I am not the most creative but found somewhere that offered templates so I had a go at making a new one for the club.  I did try saves in Asia and Africa but wasn't feeling it, so have decided to give Africa another go.

Yeah, loads of Polish players. I was actually going to call then Afrika-Polska on my return to the save, but decided against it in the end.

[KOWAL]

WIECZYSTA KRAKÓW - POLAND 

For a week I was looking for someone to play with, changing clubs every hour. Finally, I chose the club from my city, Wieczysta Kraków. 
The stadium is located 10 minutes from my place of residence. 
In the 23/24 season, Wieczysta played in the 4th Polish league, currently she was promoted to the 3rd league in the FM and real life. 
I hope that I will stay with the save for a long time. 
The first goal is to be the best club in the city, which is serious. competition from Wisła Kraków and Cracovia. 
I will try to update after each season. Of course, I play on a cutom database for the 3rd Polish league.

 

Edited May 29 by KOWAL

[Winski]

Good luck with them, Kowal! They are very, very rich, but you know that already I think.
I had a short spell with them, a couple of months ago. But the squad was just too old and unbalanced.

Hopefully you will have more luck with them! I'll give them a try in FM25 for sure, as they are indeed promoted to the third Tier. So you don't have to holiday for two seasons anymore if you play on the vanilla database

 

[KOWAL]

21 minutes ago, Winski said:

Good luck with them, Kowal! They are very, very rich, but you know that already I think.
I had a short spell with them, a couple of months ago. But the squad was just too old and unbalanced.

Hopefully you will have more luck with them! I'll give them a try in FM25 for sure, as they are indeed promoted to the third Tier. So you don't have to holiday for two seasons anymore if you play on the vanilla database

 

Yes, the squad is very old and the club is very rich, the club attracts former national team players.  I'm just afraid that with such a large budget, the board will always want to fight for the highest goals, and with academy players this won't always be possible.

[Virtual Male]

Previous Season

Victor San Marino

Season 4 2027/28

Manager Profile - Competitions - Facilities - Finances - Transfer History

 

Competitions

• Serie C NOW Girone B (Past Positions) - It all came together this season! All season the top 3 were within a few points of each other after we opened a bit of a gap from 4th early on in the season, Going into the last game of the season we'd hit the top of the table for the first time over the season but there was only 1 point between the top 3 teams.

          Luckily there wasn't any final day drama for me as the team secured a 2-1 win and secured the automatic promotion place intro the Serie B. I don't know if we can stay up                but I'm hopeful we will be able to put up a good fight, even if we do end up coming back down we should have put a little more money in the bank and will, hopefully, be                  able to return at the first time of asking.

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• Italian C Super Cup - A little post season tournament between the 3 Serie C league winners saw the team end their year with a couple of lacklustre performances, only picking up a point from the games. I can't say it ruined my summer after the promotion though.
• Coppa Italia Lego Pro - A much better showing than we've managed in previous years ending in the clubs first silverware under Astley's leadership. This run really made me believe that the league form at the time was the real thing since we we're dominating teams from all 3 Serie C divisions, the two legs of the final were pretty straight forwards too with a 3-1 win setting up a more defensive 2nd leg that ended 2-1 to Catania with us winning 4-3 on aggregate. 

Squad

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• The team continued from last season with everything starting to feel really solid and the majority of the youth prospects that have been getting minutes have developed really well over the year to the point that I think we've got a really good chance of staying up next season as long as I can keep on top of the morale. Francesco Gattuso who's been the first choice keeper for pretty much the entire save so far decided that he wanted to leave the club at the end of the season so I made the decision to move 17 year old prospect Mathias Pedretti into the starting team full time to help him progress a little faster. This move cost us some points over the 2nd half of the season for sure but there was nothing to regret about it in the end, I am a little worried that he seems to love a massive blunder though but I don't really have any other options with Gattuso leaving and no-one else worth the time at the club right now, fingers crossed for next year.

 

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• The stand out player over the season was Nicolo De Prisco  (the first academy product to do this), he grew into arguably the best midfielder at the club and was the first name on the team sheet by Christmas, I've locked him into a long-term contract so he'll be sticking around for a long time unless a ridiculous offer comes in for him. 

Youth Intake (Preview)

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• The preview promised me an 'excellent' intake but the letters didn't really fill me with confidence. When they arrived I can't say I was filled with excitement if I'm honest, there will be a couple of players that can make it into the first team though I'm sure with my favourites being Alessandro Liguori and Simone Cecchetti. Cecchetti will get more game time initially than Liguori purely because we're well equipped in the midfield right now, I'm going to try to do something about their personalities though because unambitious while not being the worst definitely makes it much harder for these guys to hit their full potential.
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Transfers  & Finance - The club lost about 300k over the season and it's starting to become a bit of a concern for me since we've not made any progress with upgrading the facilities but are consistently losing money which really isn't ideal for the future of the club and me being able to keep hold of any good prospects that come through with the club. Hopefully there will be some more money in Serie B than there has been in Serie C but I'll just have to wait an see. Nothing of note on the transfer front again with the biggest sale being for £13k, I might have to look at cashing in on what little youth talent we have next year if the financial situation continues to get worse.

 

Other - The board have decided that now is the time to build a new 5500 seater stadium at the cost of £7.855m. £5.5m of which we've secured a loan for so that'll be another £600k a year I'd have to find just to break even. I get why the board felt like this was the right move since our current stadium didn't meet league requirements but it could really hold me back for this challenge as I feel like this might mean I have to just survive the next decade while we clear the loan before the money will be available for any substantial facility upgrades, hopefully I'm wrong though.

[Perre8]

17 minutes ago, KOWAL said:

Yes, the squad is very old and the club is very rich, the club attracts former national team players.  I'm just afraid that with such a large budget, the board will always want to fight for the highest goals, and with academy players this won't always be possible.

How come they are that rich? What is the balance? 

[KOWAL]

28 minutes ago, Perre8 said:

How come they are that rich? What is the balance? 

their owner is Wojciech Kwiecień, he owns over 200 pharmacies, 3RD division in Poland

Edited May 29 by KOWAL

[KOWAL]

1 hour ago, KOWAL said:

WIECZYSTA KRAKÓW - POLAND 

For a week I was looking for someone to play with, changing clubs every hour. Finally, I chose the club from my city, Wieczysta Kraków. 
The stadium is located 10 minutes from my place of residence. 
In the 23/24 season, Wieczysta played in the 4th Polish league, currently she was promoted to the 3rd league in the FM and real life. 
I hope that I will stay with the save for a long time. 
The first goal is to be the best club in the city, which is serious. competition from Wisła Kraków and Cracovia. 
I will try to update after each season. Of course, I play on a cutom database for the 3rd Polish league.

 

unfortunately, after the first match I have to change my career, I found some bugs in the custom database, half of the players under 21 years of age are not verified by the game as under-21s, and there are no suspensions after a red card. Finally, I thought I found the save, but unfortunately you recommend a country for the challenge

[Perre8]

6 hours ago, KOWAL said:

unfortunately, after the first match I have to change my career, I found some bugs in the custom database, half of the players under 21 years of age are not verified by the game as under-21s, and there are no suspensions after a red card. Finally, I thought I found the save, but unfortunately you recommend a country for the challenge

That's unfortunate! And indeed they are very rich damn

is their reputation high enough to get promoted twice maybe? Then you can holiday the first season and see if they got promoted and do the same for season two in the vanilla db? 

[libbyshuss]

Scotland - 2030/31 - Cinch League 1

The Blue Brazil Survive Their First Season In The First Division!

But only just. We were by far the favourites to finish bottom so it was always going to be a struggle. But we managed to keep on picking up results, even if they were draws, and then had a couple of little runs where we'd win three on the bounce. The final 7 games returned zero victories, which was a worry, but we'd luckily just done enough by then to keep ourselves in League 1. 

 

Player of the Season

Paul Dall 28D - AML/AMR (7.05)

quite an easy one, this. Only played 6 games last season but broke through this season to make himself far and away our most important player. 14 goals and 11 assists, can play either wing, fast and determined. My very own Andros Townsend!

 

Youth

The intakes seem to have settled down a little bit afte rthe influx of elite talents. This was again an excellent intake but with a more normal number of elites. Including one who looks like he could be amazing and who went straight into the first team

I immediately signed Gordon up to a 6 year (3+3) contract!

 

Career

To be honest, just surviving in league 1 would suit me fine at the minute. The legacy players are now the weakest in the side and I'm thinking next season to go full youth for the first team. The average age will be ridiculous though!

[KOWAL]

2 hours ago, Perre8 said:

That's unfortunate! And indeed they are very rich damn

is their reputation high enough to get promoted twice maybe? Then you can holiday the first season and see if they got promoted and do the same for season two in the vanilla db? 

I've simulated it a dozen or so times recently, it took me a whole day to do it and unfortunately it didn't work out because there are two more teams I would like to play even more: Hutnik Kraków and Garbarnia Kraków

 

[Perre8]

38 minutes ago, KOWAL said:

I've simulated it a dozen or so times recently, it took me a whole day to do it and unfortunately it didn't work out because there are two more teams I would like to play even more: Hutnik Kraków and Garbarnia Kraków

 

what is their reputation value in the editor? if it is high enough they can promote two times in a row but it depends how high it is in comparison with the rest of the clubs in that league and the league higher up

[Winski]

Well, their reputation is not very high, I can tell you. I had to holiday two seasons, but it took a while to get them from the 4th to the 3rd division. And it took even more time to get them promoted to the 2nd division. It took me days.

So it was a real pity that I quit the save after the first season. This is what I wrote about it:

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Well, this was not what I expected. I became champion of the Fortuna 1. Liga(Tier 2), but almost every player at the club was unhappy. Most of them because they want to play at a higher level. And they are all leaving the club in the summer, because they are not willing to sign a new deal. Also not after we became champions. Then some others are just too old, and their attributes are declining fast.
If I was continuing this save, I had to promote almost every youngster from our first intake to the first squad. But the intake was terrible, with lots of crap players.

So unfortunately I quit with this save. I just really like the idea of this club (the owner was throwing money at us for fun!), but a squad full of 15 and 16 year old kids, on the highest level of Poland...that's not gonna work.

Maybe I'll try it again, if I can get them promoted again. But I think I'll wait until FM25.

[Ron_Swanson]

Stal Stalowa Wola - Poland - Fortuna I Liga

New journey begins. Just bought FM24 recently and this edition gives me the opportunity to finaly try this challenge with my hometown team so I couldn't resist to do it Took a while to get them promoted but here we are.

The club has a really good facilities for Polish standards. Built just few years ago, PCPN has a complex of training grounds and a stadium for 3764 spectators

It's one of the most succesfull teams in Polish 2nd tier (but only 4 season in top division sadly) - here's the historic table at the end of 22/23 season:

Squad for current season looks decent, but we have a few issues. Some of the key players were loaned from another clubs and now once they're gone we lost depth especially on both sides of defence. One transfer was already arranged, a rather average striker, but what hurts the most they sold Bartosz Pioterczak who is considered as a best talent of the club and is a regular in first team in real life. The league we're in has a rule that you must have at least one U21 player on the field and an award system based on number of minutes for U21's throughout the season and we don't have many quality youngsters yet.

[XaW]

 

XaW - Fútbol Club Casa Estrella del Benfica - Season 2031/32 (Season 8) - Lliga Multisegur Assegurances

Squad | Transfers | Finances

We keep taking steps towards the top, and while we finished 2nd again, we did beat Inter for the first time! Sure, it was on pens, but it was the cup final, so I'll take it as a win! We have also narrowed the gap down to 9 points, so we are inching closer and closer. Interestingly they did lose a league game this season, but not to us. Surprisingly, it was to Lusitanos who finished last and got relegated. Something to do with complacency I'd wager. At any rate we keep slowly improving, and hopefully can actually get in a title fight with Inter soon, but next season is probably too much to ask. Though we did have a fantastic youth intake this season, so I think we can improve next season too.

Copa Constitució Protecvall: We beat Carroi B, FC Santa Coloma, and Mavlon to reach the final. There we beat Inter on pens after a crazy game. We were 0-4 down at half time, but bounced back to 4-4 and took them to pens. There they missed the first pen and we scored all ours to clinch it!
Supercopa Andorrana: Before the season started we lost to Inter in the Andorran version of the community shield.

Europa Conference League: We beat Icelandic side KR and Neftçi Baku of Azerbaijan before we lost to Adana Demirspor of Turkey in the 3rd qualifying round.

Best players from the academy:

José Antonio 31a - Amazing season on the right wing and a major part of our attack.
Quentin Riviere 30a - Our 1st choice striker had a crazy season scoring about a goal a game!
Arturo Tejada 25a - The 3rd part of our attacking trident also had a great season.

New club records:

Most goals in a season - Quentin Riviere 30a - 25 goals
Most league goals in a season - Quentin Riviere 30a - 22 goals
Most goals in a match - Arturo Tejada 25a - 4 goals
Most goals in a league match - Arturo Tejada 25a - 4 goals
Most assists in a season - José Antonio 31a - 17 assists
Most Player of the Match awards in a season - Quentin Riviere 30a - 6 awards
Most league apps - Sergio Coll - 191 apps
Most league goals - Abdourahamane Abdou 25b - 83 goals

We got some more improvements done this season.

U21s

They finished 2nd in the Andorran Under 21s Group 1 this season.

U19s

They retained the Andorran Under 19s Group 1 this season!

UEFA Youth League: They lost to FK Sarajevo of Hungary Bosnia Herzegovina in the 1st qualifying round.

Around the world

Youth intake:

Trophy cabinet

Lliga UNIDA - 2024/25

Copa Constitució Protecvall - 2031/32

U21s - Andorran Under 21s Group 1 - 2027/28, 2028/29, 2029/30
U21s - Andorran Under 21s Group 2 - 2024/25
U19s - Andorran Under 19s Group 1 - 2026/27, 2028/29, 2029/30, 2030/31, 2031/32
U19s - Andorran Under 19s Group 2 - 2024/25

Player statistics:

Most apps for the club

Name			Nation			2nd Nation		Time at club	Apps
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Arturo Tejada 25a	Andorra			Spain			2025-Present	197
Abdourahamane Abdou 25b	Niger			<N/A>			2025-Present	182
Pascal Breuil 25c	Andorra			France			2025-2031	178
Fabio Salmerón 26c	Andorra			Portugal		2026-Present	167
Sébastien Yongo 27a	Andorra			France			2027-Present	150

Most goals for the club

Name			Nation			2nd Nation		Time at club	Goals
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Abdourahamane Abdou 25b	Niger			<N/A>			2025-Present	89
Arturo Tejada 25a	Andorra			Spain			2025-Present	56
Quentin Riviere 30a	France			<N/A>			2030-Present	38
Francisco Costa 29b	Portugal		<N/A>			2029-Present	36
Fabio Salmerón 26c	Andorra			Portugal		2026-Present	27

Most assists for the club

Name			Nation			2nd Nation		Time at club	Assists
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arturo Tejada 25a	Andorra			Spain			2025-Present	44
Fabio Salmerón 26c	Andorra			Portugal		2026-Present	41
Sébastien Yongo 27a	Andorra			France			2027-Present	37
Francisco Costa 29b	Portugal		<N/A>			2029-Present	23
Pascal Breuil 25c	Andorra			France			2025-2031	21

Supporters:

Summary:

[KOWAL]

1 hour ago, Ron_Swanson said:

Stal Stalowa Wola - Poland - Fortuna I Liga

New journey begins. Just bought FM24 recently and this edition gives me the opportunity to finaly try this challenge with my hometown team so I couldn't resist to do it Took a while to get them promoted but here we are.

The club has a really good facilities for Polish standards. Built just few years ago, PCPN has a complex of training grounds and a stadium for 3764 spectators

It's one of the most succesfull teams in Polish 2nd tier (but only 4 season in top division sadly) - here's the historic table at the end of 22/23 season:

Squad for current season looks decent, but we have a few issues. Some of the key players were loaned from another clubs and now once they're gone we lost depth especially on both sides of defence. One transfer was already arranged, a rather average striker, but what hurts the most they sold Bartosz Pioterczak who is considered as a best talent of the club and is a regular in first team in real life. The league we're in has a rule that you must have at least one U21 player on the field and an award system based on number of minutes for U21's throughout the season and we don't have many quality youngsters yet.

Nice bro I can't wait for the updates

[jrobertgordon13]

This is probably my highest scoring game in any YAC, 12 goals in one match!

[KOWAL]

Is there any information about % of chance that club with small reputation can promotion to higher tier. I simulate from 12p.m to now and Hutnik Kraków with 25 reputation not get promotion

[XaW]

42 minutes ago, KOWAL said:

Is there any information about % of chance that club with small reputation can promotion to higher tier. I simulate from 12p.m to now and Hutnik Kraków with 25 reputation not get promotion

It's random, but a weighted random based on the clubs reputation. So if the club has very low reputation compared to other possible teams, you can reload for days. I reloaded in England to get a team I wanted once, and I had 6 or 7 possible teams and only saw one around 400 reloads since they had low reputation compared to the other teams.

I had a look in the database and here are the possible teams in Poland (rough reputation as it can change over a season, but not much)

Spoiler

Team						Reputation
Sandecja Nowy Sącz				3850
Chojniczanka Chojnice				3750
Skra Częstochowa				3550
GKS Jastrzębie					3250
Stomil Olsztyn					3250
Pogoń Siedlce					3000
Kotwica Kołobrzeg				2750
Stal Stalowa Wola				2750
Radunia						2750
Wisła Puławy					2500
Olimpia Elbląg					2500
Olimpia Grudziądz				2500
Hutnik Kraków					2500
KKS Kalisz					2400
Polonia Bytom					2400

 

Garbarnia Kraków seems to be in the 4th tier, so they can't be promoted into the 2nd tier in the base game.

Hutnik Kraków looks to be one of the lower reputation teams, so they are among the teams least likely to go up. I would assume the 6 highest in that list would show up often.