The FM24 Youth Academy Challenge

[Scraborn]

I dropped a save in mid April to get a new team in england but on the 24th the same teams are promoted... is this normal?

[XaW]

3 minutes ago, Scraborn said:

I dropped a save in mid April to get a new team in england but on the 24th the same teams are promoted... is this normal?

I think it's just random chance then, as the date you need to save on to get new teams are May 24th.

[Scraborn]

vor 5 Minuten schrieb XaW:

I think it's just random chance then, as the date you need to save on to get new teams are May 24th.

So I still could get different clubs if I sim on? Or I'm getting something wrong?

Edited Saturday at 12:26 by Scraborn

[XaW]

5 minutes ago, Scraborn said:

So I still could get different clubs if I sim on? Or I'm getting something wrong?

Yeah, should be fine to reload from somewhere in April.

[Scraborn]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb XaW:

Yeah, should be fine to reload from somewhere in April.

now i'm in the 5th try and nothing changed so far... feels a bit weird?

[Thebaker]

3 minutes ago, Scraborn said:

now i'm in the 5th try and nothing changed so far... feels a bit weird?

I have seen this happen in other countries but not in England, saving in mid may and then holidaying till 24 jun should get a change in the teams

[jrobertgordon13]

I'm gonna do a Youth save in North Korea now.

[jrobertgordon13]

1 minute ago, jrobertgordon13 said:

I'm gonna do a Youth save in North Korea now.

Also, for this save, is it ok if I take over the lowest team from the 4th tier?

[XaW]

2 minutes ago, jrobertgordon13 said:

Also, for this save, is it ok if I take over the lowest team from the 4th tier?

Holiday for one season and take over the team who finished in last place in the bottom tier.

[XaW]

Such a filthy goal! Leave one in the dust by a dummy with the shoulder, then sprint past another before curling into the top corner. 

Who says you can't get quality in the lower leagues!  

[Padders]

16 hours ago, V50 said:

The stars above personality. Higher reputation attracts better players I think. So a 3 star HoY might not attract as good players as a 5 star one.

Ok fair point

Just checked on staff search and there nobody above 3 stars that is interested in joining

[Padders]

Season 188 - 2208/09 - SBC

We started awfully and were bottom after 6 games

Very inconsistent again but finished 6th

Lost to Aston Villa 1-3 in the play off final after having a player sent off after 30 mins

Yet again the players are SBC/L1 standard and not good enough

Easily out best player Dion Emptage last season upcoming, refusing to sign a new contract as usual for our best players 

[djsterry]

 

Villa Dalmine 20th season Update

Challenge Completed in South America !!!

We come out as league winners with a couple of games to spare 

Team performances were top notch all season, 0 losses in the league !

Copa Lib was won in 2077

can see no players bought 

Meet the team

GK

RB

CB'S

LB

CM

LW

RW

DLF/ SHARED POSITION

AF-STAR MAN

Overall a really strong team, took a few years to get going but the last few years has been a constant production line of top talent. 

Now I just need to decide where to go next, that is Europe and South America done on this save 

[dkouv]

Congrats @djsterry, the team looks pretty awesome!

[Neo_Geo]

Well done @djsterry 

[djsterry]

47 minutes ago, dkouv said:

Congrats @djsterry, the team looks pretty awesome!

thanks, It was unbelievable tbf, constant stream of wonderkids, think I had about 20 in total !

[Gersdude123]

My First season has gone better than I expected we have secured promotion in what was a close thing for promotion. We manged to also win the promotion stage never knew Portugal did that learn something new all the time.  

The Youth Candidates that we got through seem to be a mix bunch of players hoping some of them can add something to my team for next season. 

 

 

[JAwtunes]

@djsterry congrats

[XaW]

Well done, @djsterry! 

[HbG93]

Season Review 2029/30

The squad

The Table

A very good year resulting in our highest placement yet. A strong team effort but credits must be given to the class of 2027 with Canessa and Capacci being the two standouts. Savi 29a was the only one from the previous intake that played serious minutes. His initial physicals makes him a very interesting player to follow for the future. Mutton 27d whom picked up that nasty injury last year. Sadly seems unable to keep up. 

Overall I am very happy with this placement, and think the team now has enough about it to keep getting into the playoffs. It might not be the following season, but bar losing one of our better players I perceive Serie B football within the next couple of season.

Player Spotlight

Canessa 27f is slowly becoming our best player pushing Chiesa over on the left flank is no small achievement. Excellent year coming at 16 goal contributions in total from the right wing. His fellow 27-liner Capacci 27a had a run in with injures but whenever available showed class. Another player I would like to showcase is Caniparoli 28b whom is our first player to ever be capped at Italy youth level. Without him I think my outlook on keeping the 3-man line would crumble. 

Retirement

Gerbaudo will go down as a real player legend. He was always someone I could lean on in the midfield. On top of that his personality was good and helped influence the youths.

Youth Intake

The class of 2030 has a lot of catching up to do. I don't expect any of these to aid our next campaign in any meaningful manner. Marci 30a was a recruit I looked forward to as our defence needs new recruits. I'm happy he comes with a bit of jumping reach and strength, but he has a long way to go. Rocca 30b is a fair enough player at 15 years old however the road for him will be long as I don't use full-backs. Lastly Zucchetti 30c comes in with quite nice physicals, but the rest is severely lacking.

Financial Troubles Ahead

The clubs ever lowering sponsorship income crossed with increased running costs of the youth setup has simply become too large. I sit with a feeling of needing to make the jump into Serie B in order to protect my current facilities. That or pray for a good old takeover to occur.

Season Summaries

Edited Saturday at 17:44 by HbG93

[HbG93]

@djsterry Well done! Hope my Italian Wolves can emulate your success 

[darren1983]

Well done @djsterry have added this latest one to the HoF as well.

[darren1983]

Dulwich Hamlet Premier League Season 2040/41 Review

 

League - This gonna be a quick one really. Pretty much same as last season (finished 2 points worse off) but better against the bottom sides, struggle against the top ones, and go 50/50 with ones around us.

FA Cup - Made the 4th round but lost to Bournemouth side. Annoying as we were comfortable in the league so I really tried in it this year but our away form was shocking this season

League Cup - Poor from us, annoying here as all the top sides went out early and one semi had 2 Championship sides in and it was won by Villa who ended up relegated. Could have been a chance for us here.

Transfers - Loads of loans out (27 in total) would make Chelsea jealous  

Squad - Starting to move on from the stalwarts, Abdusalam finally had a major breakthrough I've been waiting for this year with 23 goals (joint top Prem scorer) but he hit 21 in the Championship 5 years ago and never kicked on so we'll see if this is an actual breakthrough. We had a top 5 attack and a bottom 5 defence so we need to improve. In the loan army there are 2 or 3 18 year olds who I'm hoping will be ready to play a part next season and take us up another level. We'll see though as I'm starting to feel we've reached the glass ceiling and need 2 or 3 special players to develop if we're going to kick on from here.

Intake - the preview was decent as was the intake really.

Jimmy Lisle 41A - a right back, we do need to improve the backline
Chez Waller 41B - lovely first name and a ok looking attacker
Nico Lambert 41C - CB, looks solid

Career Overview 

2024/25		VNLS		1st 		Good			Average			Promotion, Manager of the year
2025/26		VNL		10th 		Good			Above Average		First coaching badge
2026/27		VNL		2nd 		Good			Above Average 		Promotion via playoffs, Manager of the season, second coaching badge
2027/28		L2		10th 		Adequate		Above Average		3rd coaching badge
2028/29		L2		12th 		Good			Above Average		Continental C Licence obtained
2029/30		L2		15th  		Good 			Good  			Continental B Licence Obtained. Started on Continental A 
2030/31		L2		11th  		Good  			Excellent		Finished Continental A Licence
2031/32		L2		2nd 		Good 			Excellent		Promoted. Manager of the year. Started final coaching badge
2032/33		L1		4th 		Good			Excellent		EFL Trophy winners. Promoted via playoffs. Completed all coaching badges
2033/34		Chmp		14th 		Excellent		Excellent 
2034/35		Chmp		10th 		Exceptional		Exceptional
2035/36		Chmp		8th 		Exceptional		Exceptional
2036/37		Chmp		8th  		Exceptional		Exceptional
2037/38  	Chmp  		1st  		Exceptional		Exceptional		Promoted as Champions
2038/39		Prem		13th  		Exceptional		Exceptional		League Cup runners up
2039/40		Prem		9th  		Exceptional 		Exceptional
2040/41		Prem		10th  		Exceptional		Exceptional

 

 

[djsterry]

18 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

Well done @djsterry have added this latest one to the HoF as well.

thanks

[djsterry]

Well lets get a start on Asia then

[Neo_Geo]

17 minutes ago, djsterry said:

Well lets get a start on Asia then

Who you replaced has to be one of those name pranks  Didi Dong

[The_Gato_In_Goal]

Great job @djsterry
Winning the Copa Libertadores in Ecuador looks harder now that I've seen your team 

[kingjericho]

Ok let's see if I can get a second save going! Rödinghausen have been promoted to Germany's 3.Liga

[Scraborn]

@djsterry congrats any smal tips for me in England?

[djsterry]

1 hour ago, The_Gato_In_Goal said:

Great job @djsterry
Winning the Copa Libertadores in Ecuador looks harder now that I've seen your team 

Found the Copa quite easy tbf, I played my 2nd team in that to keep my main team fresh for the league.

[djsterry]

45 minutes ago, Scraborn said:

@djsterry congrats any smal tips for me in England?

Yeah have lots of patience , all about the pace in the lower leagues imo, don't get too attached to players. I sold quite a few just to fund the upgrades, a star man can quite easily be a sub in 2-3 years so club progress over any attachment to players 

[djsterry]

1 hour ago, Neo_Geo said:

Who you replaced has to be one of those name pranks  Didi Dong

I can neither confirm or deny if I had anything to do with that 

[dgcastillof]

Conwy Borough - Wales

 

Yeah, it will be Conwy Borough again. I say again because I think my first attempt was done (and failed) with this team in Wales. By the way, @XaW, I can't send PM but the idea of merging the accounts is great. My username was diegolawliet. I chose this team because it has the most number of players in squad and I know that's very important for the first season. 43 players in total, though many of them have already received some bids. I hope I don't lose so much players. What I know now that is key for this challenge is the Head of Youth Development role, which is currently free, so I'll post an advertisement and see if I can hire someone good. About the league: the JD Cymru North has 16 teams which play against each other twice in a season and the worst three get relegated. My goal is to not be relegated. It doesn't matter if it's by goal difference.

 

 

[+] Diego Castillo Flores' profile
[+] Season preview
[+] Game information

[Neo_Geo]

FLEURY 91 BOTTLE IT IN THE FINAL WEEKS

The ageing squad of Fleury 91 huffed and puffed over the line in 5th place despite leading the way in the division in our purple patch in the middle part of the season.

Truth be told we just couldn't beat the teams around us and towards the end of the season we just couldn't win with 3 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses in our last 8 games (two of those losses were against Dijon and Red Star which really didn't help). Despite being second top goalscorers in the league we struggled to score in the last few weeks. Conceding 44 goals as well was disappointing especially as we had 2 ball winning midfielders on defensive duty in front of our back 4 and I was playing full backs rather than wingbacks.

 

In the French cup we made it to the 9th Round (The 9th Round is 5 rounds from the Final) as we had drawn teams in our league until an away tie to EA Guingamp of Ligue 2 who beat us 2-0 in a very one sided affair. This match gave me a little insight into what it might have been like getting promoted though Guingamp did finish 7th so perhaps we wouldn't have been too bad had we got promoted.

Financial we lost around £300k this season and with most of the high earners still at the club and unlikely to be replaced by youth for a couple of seasons we are likely to fall into the red by season end.

 

BRAZILIAN ANGLE PROGRESS

The only thing I was really able to do this year was to try and emulate Flamengo's playing style with the two ball winning midfielders, wide full backs and inverted wingers/forwards. As I hadn't planned for managing Fleury 91 nor did I know about the Brazilian links before I started the game I only had the French leagues loaded, I added Brazil which started in January 2025 but as of yet no staff are interested in a position at the club.

I also tried to go for some of the lower rated coaches just in case they might actually talk but they won't yet, probably due to the club still being semi-professional and  them being based in Brazil. I will keep trying and always look to favour a Brazilian member of staff over any other nationality where possible to bring the Brazilian flair to Fleury-Mérogis.

 

YOUTH INTAKE

Not the best intake though I think having a strong squad coupled with poor junior coaching and youth recruitment will have resulted in this, I am a little concerned as its quite an old squad so I will either have to accept that it'll be a number of years before we challenge for promotion again or I somehow manage to get the aging squad to still perform.

 

Kadri looks like a good prospect and with both of my strikers being 32 years old I need to look to get Kadri playing a fair bit next season. He has great passing and ball control with a determined personality and high natural fitness so I think I can make something work with him playing a little deeper. With Besse coming through as well I can look to play the two together as my AMC is 33. I guess the worry is that 6 and 9 finishing might not be that prolific. As I say I may have to accept I will need to ride out this league for a few years until the board sanction the improvements required to get a better intake.

 

CLUB NEWS

The path to coaching badges was straightforward with every one of my requests granted without needing to persuade the board after an initial rejection.

On the other hand it was a battle and a half with the junior coaching and youth recruitment as they were turned down about half a dozen times due to deteriorating finances until a few weeks before season end they approved the junior coaching and were persuaded for the youth recruitment.

 

SQUAD NEWS

The squad is old with 15 of the 25 being 30 or over so my main concern is having enough quality for the coming 2/3 years before I can get the intake starting to produce better talent. I felt there was an element of staleness during the final stages of the season and I didn't really have the depth to switch things up. Once again my tactics paint a familiar picture of a poor back line (apart from a fullback) and a great frontline. The fact my 32 (now 33 year old) number 10 scored 18 goals says a lot about the formation with the main striker being a deep lying forward to draw out the central defence and create space for the number 10 and inverted forwards/wingers. With Kadri and Besse coming through this year I am hopeful they can develop the same type of partnership,

 

BINGO CARD

3 targets met in the first season is fine but I really can't see any others getting met any time soon!

 

NEO_GEO'S FINAL THOUGHTS

A pleasing first season given the prediction but watching the title challenge, then promotion challenge fall apart wasn't that fun. I do have real concerns over the longevity of the current squad and I really need to hope that the board sanction junior coaching and youth recruitment improvements twice this coming season but I'm not holding my breath.

[jrobertgordon13]

Im heading to Argentina.

[abirdc]

Can we use nations with 2 leagues? I believe we can, we just need the tier 2 to have promotion/relegation? 

Correct me if I am wrong. 

Sorry to tag you @darren1983 @XaW

Edited Sunday at 10:29 by abirdc

[libbyshuss]

Austria - 2061/62 

Wels Win 9th Straight League title, Mess Up In Champions League Again

The league was quite exciting this year. When Rapid beat us with 4 games to go to go 4 points clear I thought it was all over. But they completely bottled the last 4 games meaning we could slip in and take the title right at the death. We were able to lose our final game to a 90+2 minute goal and still be champions as they struggled to a 0-0 draw. Nice!

Same old story in the Champions League. Some nice results, but we really struggle against the bigger teams away from home

 

What with the completely unsurprising news about FM25 it looks like I'll be plugging away in Austria for a while yet!

[djsterry]

14 hours ago, djsterry said:

Well lets get a start on Asia then

Quick Update not counting the first season as only 6/7 games left when I joined 

This is the starting point for facilities, not great

Finances are insecure and basically had no staff

I hired a HOYD that was actually just a performance analyst, finances are very tight and no one else would join on the £400 a week max

 

released a few terrible players, standard is very low I'm just going to trust the player reports here and all these were 1/1.5 potential and had no useful stats. Players wont improve much at this level with my facilities etc so I'm looking for any useful stats.

Going into next year not knowing what to expect , team looks very poor to me but they are expecting a top half finish. 

[darren1983]

5 hours ago, abirdc said:

Can we use nations with 2 leagues? I believe we can, we just need the tier 2 to have promotion/relegation? 

Correct me if I am wrong. 

Sorry to tag you @darren1983 @XaW

If there is relegation from the second tier then yes. If not then no.

[Scraborn]

I just finnished my first year in England. After many Holidays with the same Clubs in the end to chooe from I put them on a wheel and picked random. Thats the only reason I picked Dulwich Hamlet. Afterwards I read myself into the Club and was surprised that they got a link to Germany. Hamburg nontheless - for me as a guy from Freiburg just the other side of the country but a link is a link. Interesting colours and a weird crest for an english side so I packed my bags. Lets see what we archieved.

First thing first... I failed to archieve only a top half finnish and won the League. This might hurt in the long run "suffering from succes" I guess.

 

As mentioned the goal was simply to finnish in the top half. We had an rather slow start. We hardly lost games all season but we drew a lot and danced around 8th to 4th until matchday 29 when good form finaly kicked in. Our first short topplace stint was after 31 matches and continiously for the last 12 matches. During the season I lost some of the non contract players. I coulnt sign all of them due to Brexit rules for my first choise AF or weird wage demands. 17 players of the initial squad remained. Two of them will retire in Summer. So I had to hope for a good first crop. When I started the save Dulwich had five youth players with only one usefull option for the first eleven.

 

Next season we will be fighting for our lives in the Vanarama National League - I hope to not get sacked after 10 losses in a row. My plan was to aim for promotion after two or three seasons. So its hardmode I guess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the end we finished with 5 points clear and a massive goaldifference in our advantage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All three players hurt when leaving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is our "final" squad of Season 24/25.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Danny Mills was our hero this year scorring 42 Goals in all competitions. With his 33 years of age he wont stick around for a long time but as long he is of use he stays.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anthony Jeffrey was our best assister with 15. Assists where well distributed within the team but he was better than anyone else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sephan John started in the U18s team but was quickly promoted to the first team. After retraining him to a attacking Winger in RM he had a good first year with 5/12 in his first season. Hopefully the mentoring will give him a better personality but beggars can't be choosers I guess, right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This first intake will give some needed options for the squad. Let me show you my personal Top3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lets start with Sam Pinney. He should become my first choice DLF. Maybe not in the upcoming season. He could be faster in my opinion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maurice O'Connell looks like he could develop inmy future AP in center mid. But he needs some work with his personality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finaly Shannon Ruth. He might be needed rather sooner than later because of a retiring left back. As second choice of course. But with all the rotation he will be needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So long see you in one year. Thank you for all your shared stories. Good luck

[Gersdude123]

For Being in the 3rd tier Portugal  is there anything i should expect or my main aim for the 1st season in that Division should be just about staying up and then focus for promotion the Following season.  

[Thebaker]

With the delay in FM25 i have decided to have another go, this time in Spain. Profile

Managed to get Xerez DFC who have below average facilities compared to many at this level but a big stadium and quite a few fans. The squad is a bit small and unbalanced with some good older players and almost nothing on the right hand side.

[thomas_e]

I basically havent played FM since I completed this challenge again back in April. 

If there is anything positive about FM25 being delayed, its that its given me motivation to get a new FM24 save started

[HbG93]

Season Review 2030/31

The squad

The team built on a successful previous year. Marci 30a is the only proper new addition to this years squad. Im hoping he could follow a similar development path to that of Caniparoli 28b. The usual players proved reliant once again. Morelli and Capacci 27a have become fine midfielders. Young Savi 29a had a terrific year and is solidifying himself as the most exciting prospect in our ranks. 

Takeover

Well that certainly helps take the edge off! While the new board didn't invest directly in the club they did take on the clubs current bill. 

The Table

Absolutely brilliant! We have not only improved our last finish, but gone a head and bloody won it. I am both very happy but also bit scared of the prospects of playing the Serie B. Regardless this season was our 7th in the Serie C, so I was starting too feel the need to get up quite badly. It wouldn't surprise me if our stay in the Serie B is either as long or drastically shorter due to relegation. Either way an important step for the team as the reputation the club will gain is for sure a benefit. 

Player Spotlight

Savi 29a had an excellent year and while his attributes still leaves for more too be desired. Seeing him able to give these kind of performances are encouraging. Hopefully the bigger challenge of Serie B helps burst his growth. Canessa 27f is continuing his impressive path. The day a new recruit knocks this guy out of the team is a great one. Caniparoli 28b is becoming a very good little defender also went past 100 league appearances for the club. 

Youth Intake

Our last intake done in the Serie C (well hopefully) is a rather quiet one. F. Porciani 31a and A. Bardini 31b are in fact the only ones that will represent the class of 2031. I would be quite bothered about this intake if it wasn't for the promotion! I really look forward to next years intake as I hope the step up and reputations boost we will be getting. Will have a slight little boost in the quality we get. 

Season Summaries

Edited Sunday at 15:47 by HbG93

[Perre8]

After several years of game time in Croatia with NK Karlovac it is time for something else. I wasn't making any progress in the Champions League, domesticly we were dominating things. My chairman refused time and time again to max out the youth facilities even with 250 mil in the bank!!

So i was searching for a new challenge... with FM25 delayed, i was looking for the new seasons experience so i looked into the released data updates and found a big big giant in France. With a little bit more time in hand to complete it I chose for a club that is ready to shoot up!

[Padders]

Season 189 - 2209/10 - SBC

We started ok and found ourselves top with the 11 games to go

Then the good old bottle job and another embarrassing run, losing 7 out of the last 11 games, to finish 9th

The annoying thing was, we beat Brighton (PL) in the FA Cup 5th round, scoring twice in the 2nd half of extra time and win on penalties, a great result

Dion Emptage still refused to sign a new contract and left to UAE at the end of his contract

[abirdc]

17 minutes ago, Perre8 said:

After several years of game time in Croatia with NK Karlovac it is time for something else. I wasn't making any progress in the Champions League, domesticly we were dominating things. My chairman refused time and time again to max out the youth facilities even with 250 mil in the bank!!

So i was searching for a new challenge... with FM25 delayed, i was looking for the new seasons experience so i looked into the released data updates and found a big big giant in France. With a little bit more time in hand to complete it I chose for a club that is ready to shoot up!

Which data update did you use for this?

[Perre8]

11 minutes ago, abirdc said:

Which data update did you use for this?

data update from sortitout

[XaW]

1 minute ago, Perre8 said:

data update from sortitout

Only official updates are allowed in this challenge, sorry.

[Perre8]

19 minutes ago, XaW said:

Only official updates are allowed in this challenge, sorry.

isn't that the same for the custom db's?