XaW Posted Sunday at 17:46 Share Posted Sunday at 17:46 5 hours ago, JD78 said: Bit of advice required please! I have taken Forres Mechanics to the Championship league in Scotland. We're now in season ten so decent progress. Had a couple of relegations from League 1 along the way but this time round we did a back to back promotion run. [Minor vent: we almost bottled the promotion. Needed 4 points from our last 4 games to secure automatic promotion. 3 of the games were against the bottom 3 sides in the league, the bottom 2 already confirmed as doomed. We got 1 point from 12. Managed the playoff easily after that though.] Felt good to get that off my chest! So in the ten seasons so far we've had some decent upgrades whenever we had money. Youth recruitment and junior coaching are up to 14 and 17 respectively. They won't improve the training facilities any further at the moment, both had just 1 improvement each so poor really. Last season the cost of running the youth side of things was £79k for the whole year. This season it's jumped to £84k per month! I can only presume this is because we're in the Championship now? We are hemorrhaging money! We had around £400k in the bank and it's dwindling fast. By the end of the season we'll be well in debt at this rate. So advice required please! Should I ask the board to reduce the recruitment and junior coaching levels? Or just carry on and let the board deal with the car crash that's coming? We don't really have any valuable assets to sell. Couple of players are wanted by clubs in the Championship but the fees they pay at this level are extremely low. Debt is just money you don't have. Missing coaching or recruitment are players you are not getting! Go into debt, the biggest issue you will have is not being able to improve more things. Always get more and gamble on it helping in the long run (in the game that is, in real life I might have told you something else! ) 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD78 Posted Sunday at 18:04 Share Posted Sunday at 18:04 15 minutes ago, XaW said: Debt is just money you don't have. Missing coaching or recruitment are players you are not getting! Go into debt, the biggest issue you will have is not being able to improve more things. Always get more and gamble on it helping in the long run (in the game that is, in real life I might have told you something else! ) Yes, think I'll just go with it and see what happens. Fingers crossed the increase in reputation and cost will produce a player or 3. In ten years we've never had better than a 2 star CA come through. I'd love an oven ready player for once! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianGuy72 Posted Sunday at 20:27 Share Posted Sunday at 20:27 Promotion! A great first season just ended. We didn't win the league but secured second place and promotion to the 2nd division. We now are a professionel club but finances remain a mess. I got 2 coaching badges and the youth intake was really good. But will it be enough to survive next season? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamespthomas Posted Sunday at 20:46 Share Posted Sunday at 20:46 Decided to have another go at this. My Alcione Milan save went downhill not long after my last post (my best youngster was sold for 500k by the board and was instantly worth £20m) and then got relegated and gave up in frustration. I always wanted to do a Wales youth challenge save so here we go. Cardiff Corinthians. Will be a tough one. Chosen for the added storyline of becoming a bigger club than Cardiff City in the English Pyramid on the way to success. Another cool fact......The First British Team to play Barcelona! https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/incredible-story-how-barcelonas-journey-9398122 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scarp Posted Sunday at 21:22 Popular Post Share Posted Sunday at 21:22 (edited) NK Roltek Dob 2045/46 We saw significant issues at the back three without our star players and we still have noone in the pipeline, I feel like it will still be a long way to finish the challenge, if ever. Especially now with Segrt leaving for free. In Cup we lost to Celje in the finals. But finally we managed to improve youth facilities! We had some decent games in the league phase as we beat Dinamo, Braga and Bodo, but AC Milan absolutely destroyed us, so once more we are out in first KO round. One absolute legend retires and leaves a hole in our defense Key players: Ivan Segrt, Mateo Kompara & Zan Stor Youth in-take Edited Sunday at 21:26 by scarp 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skora11 Posted Monday at 09:25 Share Posted Monday at 09:25 (edited) 20 hours ago, scarp said: NK Roltek Dob 2044/45 We are invincibles! Great season for us as we managed to clinch the title without losing a single game. Although it's bittersweet because both our star CBs Makaric and Kotnik will leave at the end of the season to Saudi and Inter. Kompara is still our best attacker but I started playing Roser there occasionally. Segrt will play one more season but he will leave after that, we had two youth in-takes in a row without even a 4* PA player so I am not sure how long can we keep up. Tadej Lazar (7+22) and Zan Stor (23+9) had break-out season in central midfield, being supported by Uros Vidovic as DM (2+10). I fully gave up on full-backs and we play with 3 in the back, which is already sub-optimal, but I do not see other options. In Slovenian Cup we beat Maribor 3-1 in the finals and secured a double. Teplice surprised us and we are out of Champions League very early. Thankfully no surprise in Europa League. We beat some good teams and only lost to the EL specialists - Sevilla. AEK was easy, PSV were rather hard but we got lucky on penalties. Rennes and AS Roma were both close opponents but we were better in both games and deserved to reach the final where we will face Newcastle. Newcastle started stronger and got ahead thanks to Young's shot from outside the box. We were quick to counter as Stor overtook Newcastle defense and scored. 7 minutes before half-time Segrt got fouled in the penalty box and Kompara scored from the penalty mark. We controlled the game going forward and deservedly won Europa League! We had takeover but still cannot progress with youth facilities. Key players: Ivan Segrt, Tadej Lazar & Zan Stor Youth in-take Great achievement and you have some great players that have came through. What are the preferred formations of your HoYD and is it him that are providing the reports of the intakes? Could explain why lack of full backs? Your star rating intakes are also compared against Segrt who must be one of the best players around so even 4 star potential players can turn out excellent. I think getting potential elite talents when he is the baseline is very good. Edited Monday at 09:28 by Skora11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post XaW Posted Monday at 09:25 Popular Post Share Posted Monday at 09:25 XaW - Folkestone Invicta - Season 2025/26 (Season 2) - Vanarama National League Squad | Transfers | Finances Our first season at a national level went really well. Of course, we were nowhere close to the dominance we had last season, but we still stayed far away from a battle against relegation and that's pretty much all we could have hoped for. The skills of the teams around us was also noticeable, and whenever I had to rest the starters the drop in quality was evident. I do love this board as they seem to accept pretty much everything reasonable I ask for, so the youth intake this season was much better than before, and I hope it will get even better in the coming seasons. One thing to note this season is that our captain and rock of the defence, Callum Davies, has decided to retire after the season. He went out lifting a trophy in his final game (more on that in the cups below), but he is sticking around as a U18 coach for us, so his tenure at the club will continue! I'm all for him being a symbol of loyalty for the new kids coming through! FA Cup: We beat St Albans City, York City, and Burton Albion before we lost to Premierships side Nottingham Forest in the 3rd round. FA Trophy: We beat Maidenhead United, Hampton & Richmond, Southend, Scunthorpe, and Walsall to reach the final. There we faced Wealdstone, who won the Vanarama South this season, in a very close match. It was 2-2 at full time, so we went into extra time. There we saw an unlikely hero in right back and new player Darron McPhee 26a fire a missile into the bottom corner to win it for us! Best players from the academy: Daniel Turner 25b - Is now a regular in the defence. Uses his physique to score a few goals from set pieces. Michał Szczepanik 25d - He is starting to turn into a nice utility player for us that can work well on both wings. Darron Berthanneau 25c - Not my favourite player and doesn't play very well, but he is a body that can fit into various positions and the other options were worse. Still hope he doesn't need to play regularly going forward. New club records: Most league apps for the club - Ira Jackson Jr - 205 apps Most league goals for the club - Ira Jackson Jr - 101 goals Youngest player - Ryan Jackson 26e - 15 years, 140 days Oldest player - Ian Gayle - 33 years, 138 days Fastest goalscorer - Michał Szczepanik 25d - 26 seconds Youngest goalscorer - Daniel Turner 25b - 15 years, 298 days Oldest goalscorer - Callum Davies - 33 years, 27 days Got a lot of requests for improvements accepted by the board this season. And more league requirements it seems... U18s They finished 2nd in the National U18 League South East this season. FA Youth Cup: They lost to Maidstone United in the 2nd qualifying round. Around the world Youth intake: Trophy cabinet Vanarama National League South - 2024/25 FA Trophy - 2025/26 Player statistics: Most apps for the club Name Nation 2nd Nation Time at club Apps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michał Szczepanik 25d Poland England 2025-Present 48 Daniel Turner 25b England Northern Ireland 2025-Present 46 Darron Berthanneau 25c England <N/A> 2025-Present 43 Hussein Boss 25e Somalia England 2025-Present 40 Rhys Hughes 25j Wales <N/A> 2025-Present 27 Most goals for the club Name Nation 2nd Nation Time at club Goals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Turner 25b England Northern Ireland 2025-Present 12 Michał Szczepanik 25d Poland England 2025-Present 10 Tanawat Khakhai 25h Thailand England 2025-Present 4 Rhys Hughes 25j Wales <N/A> 2025-Present 4 Garry Jones 25i England <N/A> 2025-Present 3 Most assists for the club Name Nation 2nd Nation Time at club Assists ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michał Szczepanik 25d Poland England 2025-Present 6 Tanawat Khakhai 25h Thailand England 2025-Present 4 Hussein Boss 25e Somalia England 2025-Present 3 Darron McPhee 26a England <N/A> 2026-Present 3 Jamie Edwards 25a Wales England 2025-Present 2 Supporters: YAC Bingo: Summary: 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thebaker Posted Monday at 13:19 Share Posted Monday at 13:19 got sacked from Finland as i just couldn't cure the defensive issues. Might park this one until FM25 and try to come up with a working tactic. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted Monday at 13:51 Share Posted Monday at 13:51 On 12/09/2024 at 16:31, fries said: Premier League 2042/43 (season 19) Season Summary A dream season! Everything clicked this season and we completed the challenge by winning both the Premier League and Champions League! In the league, we never hit a bad form and had a few periods of very good form. In the end, we only needed to win one of the last two games against Leeds or Crystal Palace. We unfortunately lost to Leeds. Thus I was a bit nervous before the last game. But we won the championship in the end! In Champions League league phase we had a good draw. I played the best 11 against Paris, Milan, and Barcelona, and the second best 11 against the other teams. We qualified as number 4. In round of 16, we were up against AC Milan again. We lost the first game away from home. But in the second leg, we won in the penalty shoot out. In the quarter final, we were up against Paris SG, again. In the first leg away from home, we lost again. In the second leg we won. This time in extra time. In the semi final, we were up against Barcelona, again another team from the league phase. We lost the first game away from home 1-4. I though it was over. But in the second leg we managed to win 4-1 too. We won in the penalty shoot out. 3 great comebacks and we made it to the final! In the final, we were up against Napoli. In the middle of the first half we managed to score from a corner, and just before half time we secured the lead with 2-0. My team has lots of depth and one elite player. I rotated the team a lot and I think a lot of my success was due to playing time management. Flynn developed well this season and he is by far my best player. Eze had a great season with 16 assists and 10 goals. Asamoah and O'Halloran did well in the defense and Harewood and Jamerson did well offensively. For the first time in many years, I did not have any players on the NXGN-list. A bit disappointing. Flynn, my best player, won the best young player award! He has elite mental stats! We also had 4 players on the team of the year! Asamoah also won the best rookie award. The youth intake preview was great. 5 stars and two A's. The actual intake was okay. 4 elite talents, but I am not that happy with the personalities. No outgoing transfers of significance this season. Finances and Upgrades No upgrade to report about here. Next season Well, the challenge is over. Maybe I will continue with this save. Maybe I will play with my only other FM24 save, with my favourite save. Or maybe I will try the Youth Academy Challenge with another team. congrats @fries 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarp Posted Monday at 15:28 Share Posted Monday at 15:28 5 hours ago, Skora11 said: Great achievement and you have some great players that have came through. What are the preferred formations of your HoYD and is it him that are providing the reports of the intakes? Could explain why lack of full backs? Your star rating intakes are also compared against Segrt who must be one of the best players around so even 4 star potential players can turn out excellent. I think getting potential elite talents when he is the baseline is very good. Thank you! Yes, I think I just got too excited by the luck of having three world-class talents come through in between 2-3 years. Even though after Segrt's departure, my defenders CA/PA did not really change, only some of my best talents got elevated in CA. The issue with full-backs is not that they would not be coming through, it's their quality. In 20+ years I haven't had a full-back with more than 3* CA and two of those came through ~12-13 years ago and played 10 seasons for me, namely Ivanovic and Kastrevec. I admit I might have tried to do a better job of cultivating the 3* PA players that I had. My previous HOYD that gifted me the talents have currently 5-3-2 as preferred formation, but I believe it used to be 4-3-3 - is this possible? Maybe I misremember. Anyway I exchanged him for a new one for this season, so let's see if anything changes on that front. By the way, before our EL win I could not get any world-class HOYD, all the possible options were worse than my previous HOYD who I signed around 15 years ago. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scarp Posted Monday at 16:29 Popular Post Share Posted Monday at 16:29 (edited) NK Roltek Dob 2046/47 We lost few games here and there but overall were comfortably on the top spot after all 36 rounds. We broke Slovenian League record of most points, as well as few others. David Kompara at the age of 32 had probably his best season yet, supported by his cousin Mateo Kompara. Zivec became our number one goalie and our CBs are showing some progress as well. In the end Segrt's farewell did not hurt as one bit, as we played better than last season. We can celebrate double once again as Mura was nowhere on our level in the final. We did really well in CL League phase. After initial loss to BvB we managed to beat Astana, Wolfsburg, Chelsea and Galatasaray in a row, before finishing with three draws against Feyenoord, PSG and AC Milan. Still it was not enough to go straight for RO16. We beat comfortably Brugge and then we faced best club in Spain. At home we managed to draw thanks to Kompara cousins, but on Nou Camp Barcelona showed us who's boss. Key players: David Kompara, Mateo Kompara & Zan Stor Youth in-take: Bojan Cifer & Jaka Klanjsek Youth in-take Edited Monday at 16:32 by scarp 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koetzer Posted Monday at 17:30 Share Posted Monday at 17:30 House of Billiards | Suriname | Season 2030 Three in a row! Solid defense was the key this time, we conceded the first goal only in tenth game. Cup No easy games in the cup, but we defended this trophy as well. Caribbean Shield Revenge! We won both group stages confidently and once again got Inter in playoffs, conceded an early goal but made a comeback in second half! The final itself wasn’t so important as both teams already qualified for the next level, but winning a trophy for the first time is always a nice bonus (especially defeating a team from the strongest Caribbean league). Caribbean Cup Well, that win over Waterhouse certainly wasn’t an accident, we topped the group with two Jamaican teams, defeated the third one in semi-final and lifted our fourth trophy in a year against Trinidad champions! This schedule with a month between stages was a bit boring though, we didn’t even have suitable opponents for friendlies except our own reserves. And yes, we’ll start the next season in Champions League! Squad stats Marcelencio Waal – his first season with 30+ goals (of course we had more games, but these extra ones were against stronger teams than we usually face in the league) G.Becker *26c and Y.Pinas *26b – shared the lead in assists. N.Pinas *25a – returned his goalscoring form after a less productive previous season. G.Pinas *26j – finally his performance is more suitable for being one of the best players by ability. Transfers – more loans. Youth intake (preview) Rozenblad *30a | Valies *30b | Kompagnie *30c | de Baas *30d | Pinas *30e | Pengel *30f Rozenblad and Valies went directly to the first team and already scored a few important goals (though I won’t be surprised if Waal remains our top goalscorer next season anyway). Sadly our DOF (who was responsible for the youth intake) decided to leave after this season, and there is no one available to replace him equally. After winning the Caribbean Cup we became the biggest team in Suriname! 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kaivolax Posted Monday at 17:54 Popular Post Share Posted Monday at 17:54 Season 7 and 8 Review SC Westfalia Herne League Table Season 7 A decent midtable finish at 9th with 16 points to both promotion and relegation spot. In the DFB-Pokal we went out in the third round / eighth final against Hamburg. In the Verbandspokal we made it to the final fourth year in a row losing to Bielefeld. As they were also promoted to 2. Bundesliga we'll take their cup spot in the DFB-Pokal next season. Youth Intake Ostrowski and Hartel will take turns at the starting AML spot. League Table Season 8 A small improvement from last season finishing at 7th. We were even hanging to a promotion spot but 4 losses in last 7 matches saw us finish just outside the playoffs. With a win in the last match we would have placed 5th and claimed the playoff spot. In the DFB-Pokal we made it to the quarterfinal eventually losing to Leverkusen. Transfers Season 8 Out went both starting fullbacks in Ammen and Schuhen with 50 % of the next sale clause. Used the clause on Ammen in February which netted us 7.07M and should enable us to upgrade facilities a couple of times. On the winter deadline day Augsburg stole our best player and top goalscorer for the last 4 years Woitzyk. Board had renegotiated his contract as he wanted more than I could offer and had inserted a low minimum release clause. Our other natural strikers are all below par so we'll need to retrain our backup AMC and AMR from this years intake to STC and see what works. Youth Intake Season 8 Algermissen and Sabic will be new starters when they can be registered. Club Statistics after Season 8 Upgrades to training and youth facilities are ongoing. Season 9 Preview With Woitzyk gone we are missing a prolific striker now. Algermissen will be the new keeper in January when he can be registered. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scarp Posted Monday at 20:45 Popular Post Share Posted Monday at 20:45 NK Roltek Dob 2047/48 Not many changes versus last season, we continued with the same team more or less. Even though Roser should be our best player he's not performing very well. it might also soon be the end of the journey for Saso Horvat who's still playing for us at the age of 35. Kompara is 33 but still scoring plenty - his 5th season in a row scoring 30+. We have Kavcic to replace him - I might give it a go next season. Defense is still rather lack-luster. We beat Celje in League Cup final for back-to-back doubles. League Phase was harder than last year, we had to beat Feyenoord in the last game to secure advancement to KO round. Some crazy games here! We managed to beat Liverpool not only once, but twice, specifically destroying them on Anfield with 6 goals. Against Juventus it was goals galore and we also made it through, as Zivec caught penalty in 90+6 minute. Man Utd was the first team that played more defensively and they managed to beat us, even though we gave them a fair fight. Hats off to the absolute legend! Key players: Tim Pavel, Mateo Kompara & Tadej Lazar Youth in-take: Stojce Hristov & Dejan Morec Youth in-take 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scarp Posted Tuesday at 09:01 Popular Post Share Posted Tuesday at 09:01 (edited) NK Roltek Dob 2048/49 We had a decent season, although we did not repeat the double as we surprisingly lost to Tolmin in semifinals. I believe our season could have been better if I kept playing Kompara up-front, but due to his age, i decided long-term better decision is to try to play Kavcic as much as possible, even though he did not score nearly as much as Kompara does. We also had to replace retired Horvat, but as he was already only on hte verge of starting lineup, it was not such a big issue. We have great pipeline of talent on the wings now, still sturggling in the defense department. Big achievement - we have NXGN 2049 winner We barely made it through this time. We managed to repeat quarterfinals as we beat Valencia and Benfica comfortably, before narrowly losing to Tottenham. Club World Championship, players were super tired, not a big fan of the competition. I guess we did alright to bring this guy to the football world... Key players: Tim Pavel, Mateo Kompara & Zan Stor Youth in-take: Iztok Radonjic & Dejan Horvat Youth in-take Edited Tuesday at 09:05 by scarp 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren1983 Posted Tuesday at 10:02 Author Share Posted Tuesday at 10:02 Getting ever closer @scarp I find that if you've got a side making champions league quarter finals regularly then just need luck of the draw and you win it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarp Posted Tuesday at 10:27 Share Posted Tuesday at 10:27 @darren1983 Indeed, although from my experience it's very rare to win the final on the first try. But not to get ahead of myself, we never even made semifinals yet. We look better this season than the last one, but I reckon we are still 3-4 seasons off. If I got the same luck from in-takes as I had with Minaric, Kotnik & Segrt next to each other, I believe then it would be easy for us - but so far nothing close to suggesting that. A bit of fun alternative future Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted Tuesday at 11:42 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:42 Got the new intake, gave a new striker a start and well... he did well! Pretty nice to score 4 on your debut! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scarp Posted Tuesday at 11:50 Popular Post Share Posted Tuesday at 11:50 NK Roltek Dob 2049/50 In the summer I decided to let Kompara leave for sunny La Coruna and decided to fully embrace Kavcic as our number one striker. We had few upcoming talents promoted to the first team but usually they were just cameos. At the same time I tried to go back to 4-3-3 but after few games decided to stick with the 3-4-3 that we've been using lately. Mateo Kompara had probably his best season yet, getting 28 assists and 9 goals for us. Matija Kavcic also produced more goals than last season and almost breached 30. In League we surprisingly lost to Mura in quarterfinals. Mura was not our favourite opponent, as they also beat us 7-0 in league few months before that Only Maribor to go.. We managed to advance from League Phase straight into RO16, as we beat all the teams with the exception of loss against Barcelona. We started RO16 with a loss on Nou Camp but we responded swiftly with 3-0 win at home, securing quarterfinals for third time in a row. Against PSG we were up 2-0 until late added time but a VAR penalty gave PSG necessary goal for a rematch. Thankfully in Paris we managed to bring the game to overtime, and then thanks to youngster Ilic's goal to penalties, where we somehow were the luckier one (crazy considering none of our players has penalty scoring attribute above 9). Real Madrid was next and I was sure this was the end of the journey when we only drew at home, but somehow Kavcic had best 2 minutes of his life on Santiago Bernabeu and booked us Champions League finals against AC Milan! I am not gonna spend much time delving into the details.. WE DID IT! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! Key players: Mateo Kompara, Tadej Lazar & Matija Kavcic Youth in-take 21 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skora11 Posted Tuesday at 11:59 Share Posted Tuesday at 11:59 8 minutes ago, scarp said: NK Roltek Dob 2049/50 In the summer I decided to let Kompara leave for sunny La Coruna and decided to fully embrace Kavcic as our number one striker. We had few upcoming talents promoted to the first team but usually they were just cameos. At the same time I tried to go back to 4-3-3 but after few games decided to stick with the 3-4-3 that we've been using lately. Mateo Kompara had probably his best season yet, getting 28 assists and 9 goals for us. Matija Kavcic also produced more goals than last season and almost breached 30. In League we surprisingly lost to Mura in quarterfinals. Mura was not our favourite opponent, as they also beat us 7-0 in league few months before that Only Maribor to go.. We managed to advance from League Phase straight into RO16, as we beat all the teams with the exception of loss against Barcelona. We started RO16 with a loss on Nou Camp but we responded swiftly with 3-0 win at home, securing quarterfinals for third time in a row. Against PSG we were up 2-0 until late added time but a VAR penalty gave PSG necessary goal for a rematch. Thankfully in Paris we managed to bring the game to overtime, and then thanks to youngster Ilic's goal to penalties, where we somehow were the luckier one (crazy considering none of our players has penalty scoring attribute above 9). Real Madrid was next and I was sure this was the end of the journey when we only drew at home, but somehow Kavcic had best 2 minutes of his life on Santiago Bernabeu and booked us Champions League finals against AC Milan! I am not gonna spend much time delving into the details.. WE DID IT! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! Key players: Mateo Kompara, Tadej Lazar & Matija Kavcic Youth in-take Well done 👏👏👏 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fries Posted Tuesday at 13:11 Share Posted Tuesday at 13:11 Congrats @scarp! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpm2342 Posted Tuesday at 13:29 Share Posted Tuesday at 13:29 1 hour ago, scarp said: I am not gonna spend much time delving into the details.. WE DID IT! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! Amazing job Scarp! it was fun to follow this journey. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mpm2342 Posted Tuesday at 14:02 Popular Post Share Posted Tuesday at 14:02 Crewe United 2035 Season Update Season 11 Update: Finished 7th this season. Had a good start and then a really poor middle that dropped us down to 9th at one point. We are firmly in the mix with the middle 5 through 9 teams with 4 teams separating from the pack at the top this go around. No cup wins this season, but did better in most of them. Our balance is still growing but not enough to give the board confidence in our financial situation. Transfers: Spoiler Youth Candidates: Don't seem to have missed our HOYD, will see if that changes after a few seasons without one. Maintained our perfect record of "golden generation" Lindsay, Sheppard and Miller are good enough to get match time and training with the senior squad. Not starters, but want to try and develop them. Happy with the personalities in this group and will try and develop the better ones to eventually give a mentoring base in the first team. Squad Update: Here is how the squad is rated heading into next season. Nice improvement from the CBs but not much anywhere else. No change in the overall squad rating. I was hoping that rotating the squad would help development and it did for one season, but last season, it didn't help at all. I suspect it is down to the training facilities etc. but I have not figured out how to get the most out of what we have. We have 2 positions that are good for the league and have to hope for some development elsewhere (or intakes) Bingo No update. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted Tuesday at 16:16 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:16 (edited) 2 hours ago, mpm2342 said: Crewe United 2035 Season Update Season 11 Update: Finished 7th this season. Had a good start and then a really poor middle that dropped us down to 9th at one point. We are firmly in the mix with the middle 5 through 9 teams with 4 teams separating from the pack at the top this go around. No cup wins this season, but did better in most of them. Our balance is still growing but not enough to give the board confidence in our financial situation. Transfers: Reveal hidden contents Youth Candidates: Don't seem to have missed our HOYD, will see if that changes after a few seasons without one. Maintained our perfect record of "golden generation" Lindsay, Sheppard and Miller are good enough to get match time and training with the senior squad. Not starters, but want to try and develop them. Happy with the personalities in this group and will try and develop the better ones to eventually give a mentoring base in the first team. Squad Update: Here is how the squad is rated heading into next season. Nice improvement from the CBs but not much anywhere else. No change in the overall squad rating. I was hoping that rotating the squad would help development and it did for one season, but last season, it didn't help at all. I suspect it is down to the training facilities etc. but I have not figured out how to get the most out of what we have. We have 2 positions that are good for the league and have to hope for some development elsewhere (or intakes) Bingo No update. I'm sure you have prob posted about it before but cannot see it. How do you go about calculating the player role % score? Is there a spreadsheet you use? Edited Tuesday at 16:16 by TheLutterworthFox Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XaW Posted Tuesday at 16:34 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:34 Well done @scarp! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpm2342 Posted Tuesday at 16:57 Share Posted Tuesday at 16:57 36 minutes ago, TheLutterworthFox said: I'm sure you have prob posted about it before but cannot see it. How do you go about calculating the player role % score? Is there a spreadsheet you use? I started with a spreadsheet created by Jenna at the FFM: https://theffm.co.uk/football-manager-spreadsheet/ I have implemented my own rating system and a lot of other sheets and calculations as well which I would be happy to share, but it is very rough and quite manual as it is not made for others to use. The rating system is out of 100, so if a player has 20 in all relevant attributes, they would score 100%, 10 in the attributes 50% and so on. If you search for @WhiteCat33 he has posted a similar spreadsheet with different calculations, but his is more polished than mine for sure. I have incorporated some of his stuff into mine as well - the hidden attributes and youth nations. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLutterworthFox Posted Tuesday at 17:02 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:02 3 minutes ago, mpm2342 said: I started with a spreadsheet created by Jenna at the FFM: https://theffm.co.uk/football-manager-spreadsheet/ I have implemented my own rating system and a lot of other sheets and calculations as well which I would be happy to share, but it is very rough and quite manual as it is not made for others to use. The rating system is out of 100, so if a player has 20 in all relevant attributes, they would score 100%, 10 in the attributes 50% and so on. If you search for @WhiteCat33 he has posted a similar spreadsheet with different calculations, but his is more polished than mine for sure. I have incorporated some of his stuff into mine as well - the hidden attributes and youth nations. Thanks for replying. I had a feeling it was something along those lines. I did something very rough myself a few years back but it was basically me finding the average attributes for each area (defence, midfield, attack, goalkeeper) in the comparison area in squad planner and then creating search filters to find players at that level. I'll take a look at the WhiteCat and Jennas sheets and see what it is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted Tuesday at 17:14 Share Posted Tuesday at 17:14 Well done @scarp first to complete Slovenia, awesome Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianGuy72 Posted Tuesday at 18:44 Share Posted Tuesday at 18:44 Halfway through the season we're currently in a playoff spot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldojags Posted Tuesday at 20:26 Share Posted Tuesday at 20:26 @scarp tremendous work!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamespthomas Posted Tuesday at 20:45 Share Posted Tuesday at 20:45 Season 1 - 2024/2025 Cymru South - 1st "NORTON FERREIRA, THE WELSH LEAGUES HAALAND, FIRES CARDIFF CORINTHIANS TO THE WELSH PREMIER" Season Summary Great first season to finish top. Had a very small squad and got quite lucky with injuries and some amazing performances from some standout players. Norton Ferreira who was already at the club was sensational uptop and carried us with 49 goals in all comps in 41 games. His Finishing, Pace, Off the ball of 13 was too good for this level. Managed to upgrade 2 no. Youth Recruitment and Youth coaching upgrades but we will need to get into Europe to afford any facilities upgrades. Got to the quarter finals of both cups but Penybont and Newtown (Welsh Premier( were too strong. Only really used 13 or so players consistently. Some amazing performances from Norton Ferreira, Ieuan Owen, Aron Davies and Herman Yohanes. Player of Season - Norton Ferreira. Should keep us competitive until the youth setup is up and running, if we can keep hold of him. First Youth Intake was decent, McCabe and Clark should be a good partnership at DM. 5 stars means Good player for Cymru South. Could have done with some CB's and a decent RW. Ticked 1 off the YAC Wales bingo card i've edited from @XaW 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post XaW Posted Tuesday at 20:47 Popular Post Share Posted Tuesday at 20:47 XaW - Folkestone Invicta - Season 2026/27 (Season 3) - Vanarama National League Squad | Transfers | Finances We built on last season and did a bit better by ending in the playoff spots, but losing out there. Most of the season we were about the same as the last one, but the intake was amazing with many great players who stepped right into the first team and made ut win more games. So many in fact that we just edged inside the playoff spot on the final day. Getting in an amazing striker as well as a couple of great defenders really changed how we played. Much fewer dumb mistakes is key to winning close matches, and this was proven once again. In the playoff First Round we narrowly lost to a very strong Rochdale side to miss out on a possible shock promotion. I do have hope we can fight for another playoff spot next season if the new players continue to deliver as they did at the end of this one. FA Cup: We beat Eastleigh, Cheltenham, and Boston United before we lost to Wrexham in the 3rd round. FA Trophy: We lost to Aldershot Town in the 3rd round. Best players from the academy: Darron McPhee 26a - A really good season from our right back. He has been targeted by bigger clubs all season, but not made any fuzz about it, luckily. John McGowan 26b - Was far down the list, but got a chance and did well, kept playing well most of the games he got. Daniel Turner 25b - The best central defender for most of the season, and did well with poorer partners in defence. New club records: Most goals in a match - Dan Crofts 26f - 4 goals Most goals in a league match - Dan Crofts 26f - 4 goals Youngest player - Dan Paxman 27e - 15 years, 112 days Fastest goal - Andre Coker - 17 seconds Most league apps for the club - Ira Jackson Jr - 245 apps Most league goals for the club - Ira Jackson Jr - 125 goals Got a single request for improvement accepted by the board this season. U18s They won in the National U18 League South East this season! FA Youth Cup: They beat Poole Town, Dartford, Billericay Town, St Albans City, and Plymouth before they lost to Tottenham in the 4th round. Around the world Youth intake: Trophy cabinet Vanarama National League South - 2024/25 FA Trophy - 2025/26 (U18s) National U18 League South East - 2026/27 Player statistics: Most apps for the club Name Nation 2nd Nation Time at club Apps ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Turner 25b England Northern Ireland 2025-Present 91 Michał Szczepanik 25d Poland England 2025-Present 75 Darron Berthanneau 25c England <N/A> 2025-Present 72 Hussein Boss 25e Somalia England 2025-Present 52 Ryan Jackson 26e England <N/A> 2026-Present 50 Most goals for the club Name Nation 2nd Nation Time at club Goals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Turner 25b England Northern Ireland 2025-Present 19 Michał Szczepanik 25d Poland England 2025-Present 15 Dan Crofts 26f Wales <N/A> 2026-Present 10 John McGowan 26b England Scotland 2026-Present 9 Gary Richards 27b Wales <N/A> 2027-Present 9 Most assists for the club Name Nation 2nd Nation Time at club Assists ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darron McPhee 26a England <N/A> 2026-Present 13 Michał Szczepanik 25d Poland England 2025-Present 9 Aarran Worner 26i England <N/A> 2026-Present 7 Darron Berthanneau 25c England <N/A> 2025-Present 4 Hussein Boss 25e Somalia England 2025-Present 4 Supporters: YAC Bingo: Summary: 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamespthomas Posted Tuesday at 23:19 Share Posted Tuesday at 23:19 @scarp thats amazing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Posted yesterday at 02:24 Share Posted yesterday at 02:24 14 hours ago, scarp said: NK Roltek Dob 2049/50 In the summer I decided to let Kompara leave for sunny La Coruna and decided to fully embrace Kavcic as our number one striker. We had few upcoming talents promoted to the first team but usually they were just cameos. At the same time I tried to go back to 4-3-3 but after few games decided to stick with the 3-4-3 that we've been using lately. Mateo Kompara had probably his best season yet, getting 28 assists and 9 goals for us. Matija Kavcic also produced more goals than last season and almost breached 30. In League we surprisingly lost to Mura in quarterfinals. Mura was not our favourite opponent, as they also beat us 7-0 in league few months before that Only Maribor to go.. We managed to advance from League Phase straight into RO16, as we beat all the teams with the exception of loss against Barcelona. We started RO16 with a loss on Nou Camp but we responded swiftly with 3-0 win at home, securing quarterfinals for third time in a row. Against PSG we were up 2-0 until late added time but a VAR penalty gave PSG necessary goal for a rematch. Thankfully in Paris we managed to bring the game to overtime, and then thanks to youngster Ilic's goal to penalties, where we somehow were the luckier one (crazy considering none of our players has penalty scoring attribute above 9). Real Madrid was next and I was sure this was the end of the journey when we only drew at home, but somehow Kavcic had best 2 minutes of his life on Santiago Bernabeu and booked us Champions League finals against AC Milan! I am not gonna spend much time delving into the details.. WE DID IT! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! Key players: Mateo Kompara, Tadej Lazar & Matija Kavcic Youth in-take congrats @scarp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scarp Posted 23 hours ago Popular Post Share Posted 23 hours ago Thank you very much everyone! Always a pleasure to participate in this challenge. You know that feeling when you finish a great book and suddenly feel this emptiness in your life? That's how i felt yesterday I was thinking about restarting in different country, as I love the competitiveness and youth development aspect of the challenge, but at the same time I miss the scouting part dearly. I decided to create a challenge for myself, similar principles to youth challenge but you can sign/buy players from your country - of course it will be much easier and not the real challenge but should combine all the aspects I like about the game. I will be posting my progress over at the Career Updates forum, if anyone is interested - that is before I come back here for another round! (hopefully earlier than in 4 years this time) 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ'43 Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Kavala Football Club / Αθλητικός Όμιλος Καβάλα Season 40 - 2063/64 Fixtures / Squad / Transfers / Finances / Manager Season summary: this season was quite comfortable, as we finished the regular phase at the top of the table with an 8-point advantage over Olympiacos. Our impressive form continued in the championship phase, where we secured our 12th title, setting a new club record with 89 points! In the Greek Cup, despite making a lot of changes to the starting eleven, we managed to reach the semi-finals. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get past AEK. Our Champions League journey began in the playoff stages, where we easily progressed to the league phase. Although we lost three group-stage matches to Chelsea, Liverpool, and PSG, we qualified for the knockout rounds. We defeated Kobenhavn but fell to Real Madrid in the Round of 16 with a 6-2 aggregate score. Kostas Grontis (58d) was a standout performer, being named the best goalkeeper in the league. He conceded 20 goals in 22 matches and kept 9 clean sheets. Kostas Panos (58a) was another key player, finishing as the Super League’s top scorer with 23 goals and being named the league's best young player. He also came 2nd in the Greek Player of the Year award, which was won by Prokopis Varsamidis (56c). Across all competitions, Panos scored 32 goals, making him our top scorer for the season. Thodoros Bedrelis (47d) once again proved to be our most consistent performer, with an average match rating of 7.35. In total, 8 of our players made it into the league’s Best XI, and I was honored to be named the league’s best manager for the 16th time. Our young talents also gained recognition, with Fanouris Pindonis (61a) finishing 3rd in the NXGN list of the most promising youth players in the world, while Jan Weigel (60j) was ranked 50th. On the international stage, we had 11 players representing their nations this summer. A special mention goes to Pierre (54a), who helped Brazil win the Copa América, adding it to his World Cup triumph. Despite offers of up to €180 million from top European clubs, we’ve managed to keep him with us so far. Lastly, we’ve seen a change at the top as a new board took charge of the club. However, there are no plans for future investments, which is concerning given that our youth facilities need improvement. It’s also uncertain if I’ll remain in charge, as the new board’s vision prioritizes signing high-reputation players, something that hasn’t been part of our long-term strategy. Youth intake: this year was underwhelming. We signed just six players, with Akis Arsenidis (64a), Vasilis Gialamas (64b), and Stravos Kyriakidis (64c) being the most promising of the bunch. Spoiler Team history: Manager history: 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren1983 Posted 23 hours ago Author Share Posted 23 hours ago Well done @scarp I knew you were getting close. Congrats. Have added you to the HoF 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo_Geo Posted 18 hours ago Share Posted 18 hours ago (edited) 4 hours ago, scarp said: Thank you very much everyone! Always a pleasure to participate in this challenge. You know that feeling when you finish a great book and suddenly feel this emptiness in your life? That's how i felt yesterday I was thinking about restarting in different country, as I love the competitiveness and youth development aspect of the challenge, but at the same time I miss the scouting part dearly. I decided to create a challenge for myself, similar principles to youth challenge but you can sign/buy players from your country - of course it will be much easier and not the real challenge but should combine all the aspects I like about the game. I will be posting my progress over at the Career Updates forum, if anyone is interested - that is before I come back here for another round! (hopefully earlier than in 4 years this time) It's funny you should mention this. I was close to kicking my team, Rangers, down to the bottom tier of Scotland a la 2012, releasing all their players and doing a Scottish only save focussing on youth development where I could only sign Scottish players under the age of 20. It was going to be about building the squad in the right way and not the mismanaged way we have done it (particularly in the last 3 years). However I enjoy posting updates and reading those of others in this thread as its a great community and that's what made me ultimately go with a save I'm unlikely to finish just to see how much I can impact the fate of a nation just by developing youth players. If I had a place to post my progress I probably would have done my Rangers save (just purely because I am so disillusioned with the way the club is being run). I'll keep an eye out for your posts on the career thread if you do start......you might just make me want to start my own.....although now that I am talking about it I'm thinking a Scottish lowland league with a new team similar to FC United of Manchester or AFC Wimbledon as a rebirth of the club that still holds its traditional values.......... Edited 18 hours ago by Neo_Geo 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Padders Posted 17 hours ago Popular Post Share Posted 17 hours ago (edited) Season 173 - 2193/94 - SBC A rather frustrating season as we didn't push on from the 4th place finish last season and finished just outside the playoffs in 7th Sean Prendergrast went to Sevilla at the end of his contract Before he left he got his first England cap My first England international for decades, I can't remember the last one I had Edited 16 hours ago by Padders 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
naterr Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago Naterr Garcia - Barwell FC - 32/33 League Another good year in the Vanarama National league - into the playoffs. At the beginning of the season it looked like we might challenge for the title but the mid season slump killed that! Playoffs It wasn't to be - Semi Final Knockout to eventual winners Kidderminster. Youth Intake Finally a good one! a really good one, this could help us. Kitenge looks special! Kitenge Spoiler Finances Mixed feelings on this one - it is nice to get the money but.... I could have cashed out the other year for £3.5m, but I waited as his valuation was between 80 and 100m! Obviously a silly mistake, so if we get in that situation again I will cash out! Competitions Paul Moore with the great ratings again - luckily no one is sniffing around him yet! Admin 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winski Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago Well done, @scarp!! Fantastic! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkouv Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago Congrats @scarp, amazing achievement! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Gato_In_Goal Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Congrats @scarp, those smaller European nations are not easy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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