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2 minutes ago, darren1983 said:

Yeah like XaW said, load the 4th division even though it's unplayable (though I think if you get relegated from the 3rd the 4th becomes active but don't quote me on that) and pick what team you like and just save scum their results. Obviously the worse team you pick the longer/harder it'll be to save scum their results. 

Yeah I have done a few reloads but aint found that many different teams even when I load it up from scratch but I will perservere and try to get a team I like.

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1 minute ago, XaW said:

Load up a new save with all 4 tiers. Find a team in the 4th tier you want to manage. Holiday until they play a match, save, holiday a single day and if they win, holiday to the next match and repeat. Otherwise reload until they win. Do that until they have enough points to get promoted, then holiday until the season rollover and take over the team you scummed up into the 3rd tier and play as normal from there.

Oh god that will take forever. I will probably reload 10 more times tomorrow and if I don't get anywhere I will just choose Istres or AS Cannes. 

Thank you for the help.

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2 minutes ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

Oh god that will take forever. I will probably reload 10 more times tomorrow and if I don't get anywhere I will just choose Istres or AS Cannes. 

Thank you for the help.

If you chose one of the poorest team, yeah, can take a while, but if you take a good team it will probably not take that long. This is the same for Norway (and also Romania, I think), so I did it to get Follo up into the 3rd tier just recently! :D 

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30 minutes ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

Oh god that will take forever. I will probably reload 10 more times tomorrow and if I don't get anywhere I will just choose Istres or AS Cannes. 

Thank you for the help.

So I actually did the same earlier today as I wanted to have a look at what French teams would come up for future. I did about 15 resets trying to get a certain team promoted, only to find you can't take over a team in the fourth division (the useful information provided above would have helped me earlier 😀)

If you are happy to wait a few hours I can have a look and see if I have one for Toulon? I am pretty sure they got promoted in one of them.

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1 minute ago, naterr said:

So I actually did the same earlier today as I wanted to have a look at what French teams would come up for future. I did about 15 resets trying to get a certain team promoted, only to find you can't take over a team in the fourth division (the useful information provided above would have helped me earlier 😀)

If you are happy to wait a few hours I can have a look and see if I have one for Toulon? I am pretty sure they got promoted in one of them.

Yeah that would be awesome but don't worry too much as I think managing SC Toulon might be a bit of a cheat from the sounds of it from others on here. 

It might be better if I take the worst team even if it takes me longer.

I will do a few more reloads and see what I get.

 

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6 minutes ago, naterr said:

the useful information provided above would have helped me earlier 😀

All you gotta do is ask! ;)

Anyway, I think it's only Norway, France, and Romania in vanilla FM.

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Just now, XaW said:

All you gotta do is ask! ;)

Anyway, I think it's only Norway, France, and Romania in vanilla FM.

What is Vanilla FM. Sounds like a cheesey 90's radio station.

Are you saying you can only manage teams in Norway, France and Romania in this challenge?

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2 minutes ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

What is Vanilla FM. Sounds like a cheesey 90's radio station.

Are you saying you can only manage teams in Norway, France and Romania in this challenge?

Vanilla as in the basic version, meaning no custom databases or extra files.

And no, but those 3 nations have the lowest league as view-only.

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3 minutes ago, XaW said:

All you gotta do is ask! ;)

Anyway, I think it's only Norway, France, and Romania in vanilla FM.

I assumed it was me doing something stupid, hence reloading it many times. But lesson learnt, next time I shall ask.

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9 minutes ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

Here We Go!!!

@darren1983 or @XaW can you please let me know if I have done anything wrong. 

Here is my game set up.

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I have a bog standard player database with just International Players added from all the continents to help with getting decent staff in.

Here is my sexy avatar

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This is Manager Profile.

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SC Toulon Squad Overview

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We have a decent starting squad. We seem to have some good strikers. Aeron Zinga being the best one from the looks of it.

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We also have a good bunch of youngsters to start the challenge with. 

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I will try to do a decent update tomorrow when I start the save properly. 

Annoying the forum software automatically refreshes the page and deletes all of the post I previously started :mad:

 

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My young player of the season from season 1 got a couple of injuries early on in season 2 (pulled calf muscle and a relapse of this) meaning he lost around 2 months of playing time.

The mid-season break took place and what a great opportunity to work on his fitness levels (and other fringe players) ahead of the second half of the season......

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That'll teach me to play friendlies to get fitness levels up :lol:

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Also, in the "how to avoid clauses in contracts" discussion. I asked the agent to not have anything locked and he refused. I then told him I had to think about it more. A few days later...

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And now, it's not locked in anymore and I was able to remove it! :onmehead:

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1 hour ago, XaW said:

Also, in the "how to avoid clauses in contracts" discussion. I asked the agent to not have anything locked and he refused. I then told him I had to think about it more. A few days later...

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And now, it's not locked in anymore and I was able to remove it! :onmehead:

Yes learnt that trick on here few weeks ago, worked for me as well

Got 3 year extension, the same player still wants to leave and has moaned the whole time :rolleyes:

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11 minutes ago, WhiteCat33 said:

It only took 44 years but we have our first foreign Affiliate, and its actually an awesome one! I have tried in vain for years to get one and the board have spat in my face never agreeing to anything outside of Barbados. It's just this year after our NACL final the "foreign youth affiliate" option appeared, and after begging 3 times the chairman finally agreed. The reputation bar must just be stupidly high in the way the North America is set up considering we are a top 5 club currently. Having no affiliates has been the biggest drag for this save as affiliate youngsters is one of my favorite mechanics in the game. 

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Awesome news and a good lesson in never giving up asking the board for something :applause:

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21 minutes ago, Neo_Geo said:

Awesome news and a good lesson in never giving up asking the board for something :applause:

If only they kept the youth facility option available... still salty about that "improvement"

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It never occurred to me to move my 16 year olds into the first squad to just see whether they could play

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So I moved my hot prospect striker Ernad Petanjek Y1-A into my main squad and lo and behold he was allowed to play, I give him his debut and he got an assist and was playing well before the 56th minute struck...
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At least its nothing serious but quite funny that I had waited all this time to get him available (when he might have been available for a while so I need to try it with others) only for him to get injured after playing pretty well

EDIT: Interesting that two 16 year olds can play with 3 star current and 5 star potential, but two others with 1.5 current and 5 star potential can't play. It's either based on current ability or its based on potential and the two that can play have much higher 5 star potential than the two that can't.

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Going for Gold!

Terry Hamilton at Ashanti Gold - Season 2

The League

Yeah that youth intake sent a rocket up us - we dominated, this was easy! 

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Unbeaten in the league and only 3 draws, couldn't have asked for much more. The players are settling in well and the fast attacking tactic suits them well.

Ghana FA Cup

Another 2nd round exit - nothing exciting here ..... yet

Youth Intake

Just a "good" rating this time, not many prospects here but maybe the stars are lying to me.

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Danso

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Pretty "meh" really, but loving the aggression! 

Team of the Year

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Most of the guys here are from the last youth intake, apart from the Striker ( who is looking to leave ).

I seem to have luck with a few players - their contract expires but they stay here, then no teams seem interested in them.  works for me! 

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No coach badge still - we have no money and when we did have money they were scared I would leave for better things. They didn't believe me when I said I would be here until we win a champions league.

Also facilities degraded, damn!

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My first youth intake with SC Toulon isn't exactly very inspiring but that is expected so far while I build up the facilities and coaching.

These are my 3 best prospects. Hopefully one of them becomes a first team regular.

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I have managed to convince the board to improve youth recruitment and academy coaching so far in my first season.

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SC Toulon First Season Review

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Competitions

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We managed to win the title on the last day of the season with a 3-2 vs AS Nancy to clinch it.

The board asked us if we want to turn profressional after we got promotion and I accepted.

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This will help greatly in improving our players.

Best Players

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Mahamadou Doucoure was our top goal scorer with 21 goals for the season. Nice to have such a potent finisher in the team.

Yassine Kich

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Kich had an amazing season and was our best player overall with an 7.30 average rating, 14 goals and 12 assists.

Squad Overview

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Hopefully next season we will stay in Ligue 2 and try build up our finances a bit.

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Poor squad planning by me and getting rid of rubbish players has left me with no goalkeepers for the whole season.

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Going to be a long, painful season relying on greyed out goalkeepers.

On more positive news Traore has broken some records already.

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Thank god it is Youth Intake day today for SC Toulon. We haven't been able to have an actual proper goalkeeper behind the sticks all season and also at times we had greyed out centre backs as well.

We get our first Golden Generation with us getting a Goalkeeper thank god lol.

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Johan Brun our goalkeeper from the intake looks really good and will be our first team goalie for at least the next 12 months.

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Here are some of my other top prospects. 

Jordan Bourreau(S2YP2) - 15 Year Old French Right Winger

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Francis Toure(S2YP3) - 16 Year Old French Full Back

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Afonso Guerra(S2YP4) - 15 Year Old French Winger

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Club Deportivo Arturo Fernández Vial 

 

Season 2026 - Campeonato Juegaenlinea.com (Chile Second Division)

 

Development Center

Youth Candidates

Finances

Transfers

Squad

Copa Chile MTS

Board Requests

Manager Profile

 

Very good results, brilliant season. At the Copa Chile, all the big names such Universidade Católica, Colo Colo and Universidad do Chile lost in first/second round, we went until the final which was against a Non League Team.

As we won this competition, going to Copa Libertadores next year. And, at the League, made and win the playoffs, Deportes Temuco we won over penaltys, Deportes La Seren won 6-2 and the final agaist Unión San Felipe won 5-2.

Roberto Rivera 24b became a regular starter this year.

 

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2034

Table | Squad | Transfers

Started the season with a challenge for promotion in mind which was helped by a good start of 4 wins in the first 5 games. Injuries to my midfield disrupted the team and players lost form so they only won 1 in the next 7 to slip into midtable. The team remained there for the rest of the season unable to string together a run of results, the lack of decent options at GK and CB are holding the team back.

Finances, still no movement on any requests.

Tahiri and Lai were the best players. Keymer scored his hundredth goal but was otherwise poor, Strom filled in.

The youth preview promised much but delivered little with some terrible personalities, Varli is raw and Franco would be really decent if his physicals were higher.

Spoiler

Youth intakes:

Continent

Europe

Africa

South America

Asia

North America

Oceania

Overall

160

100%

Country

#

%

Country

#

%

Country

#

%

Country

#

%

Country

#

%

Country

#

%

Europe

152.16

95.10%

Sweden

143.33

89.58%

Eritrea

1.5

0.94%

Uruguay

1

0.63%

Iraq

1

0.63%

Jamaica

0.83

0.52%

     

Africa

4

2.50%

Bosnia

1.5

0.94%

Gambia

1

0.63%

     

Palestine

0.5

0.31%

USA

0.5

0.31%

     

Asia

1.5

0.94%

Greece

1.5

0.94%

Somalia

0.5

0.31%

                       

North America

1.33

0.83%

Albania

1

0.63%

Niger

0.5

0.31%

                       

South America

1

0.63%

Turkey

1

0.63%

Nigeria

0.5

0.31%

                       

Oceania

0

0

Italy

1

0.63%

                             
     

Serbia

1

0.63%

                             
     

Kosovo

1

0.63%

                             
     

England

0.83

0.52%

                             

 

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Season

League

Position

Swedish Cup

Europe

Top Scorer

Top Assists

Attendance

Training

Youth

Junior

Youth Rec

Notes

2025

D2 WG

5th

Not entered

N/A

Arvidsson,Messaoudi (8)

Jensen(6)

261

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2026

D2 WG

5th

Not entered

N/A

Keymer-25c (11)

Warmlov(6)

251

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2027

D2 WG

6th

Not entered

N/A

Keymer-25c (10)

Lai(9)

261

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2028

D2 WG

10th

Not entered

N/A

Keymer-25c (15)

Messaoudi (7)

241

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2029

D2 WG

7th

Not entered

N/A

Strom - 27j (11)

Athanasiou -26p (7)

250

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2030

D2 WG

9th

Not entered

N/A

Lai(12)

Noren -28k (5)

267

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2031

D2 WG

8th

Not entered

N/A

Keymer-25c (14)

Lai(5)

277

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2032

D2 WG

8th

Not entered

N/A

Keymer-25c (15)

Babatunde- 29h (6)

275

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2033

D2 WG

5th

Not entered

N/A

Keymer-25c (19)

Sjoqvist(8)

289

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

2034

D2 WG

6th

Not entered

N/A

Strom - 27j (12)

Sjoqvist(7)

287

Basic

Basic

Fairly Basic

Limited

 

 

Youth Name

All time apps

 

Youth Name

All time Goals

 

Youth Name

All time Assists

Roger Gustafsson (25e)

210

 

Ted Keymer (25c)

101

 

Manolis Athanasiou (26p)

27

Ted Keymer (25c)

208

 

Milton Strom (27j)

34

 

Ted Keymer (25c)

19

Mathias Sandin (25d)

193

 

Manolis Athanasiou (26p)

22

 

Marcus Noren (28k)

18

Manolis Athanasiou (26p)

178

 

Marcus Noren (28k)

20

 

Martin Tahiri (30i)

14

Marcus Noren (28k)

109

 

Martin Tahiri (30i)

16

 

Mathias Sandin (25d)

11

 

 

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Unfortunately my time with SC Toulon is over as I got sacked after getting relegated with Toulon in my 3rd season.

I will be honest I regret picking Toulon again as I think you should never go back to a former team to repeat the challenge.

I am going to think about where to try the challenge again.

Germany, Portugal or Italy?

I am going to do a few reloads and see what comes up.

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1 hour ago, Ronaldo Beckham said:

Unfortunately my time with SC Toulon is over as I got sacked after getting relegated with Toulon in my 3rd season.

I will be honest I regret picking Toulon again as I think you should never go back to a former team to repeat the challenge.

I am going to think about where to try the challenge again.

Germany, Portugal or Italy?

I am going to do a few reloads and see what comes up.

Sorry to see you sacked. I would recommend Italy. There are 3 different third tiers and plenty of good clubs to choose from. The 3 different third tiers also make it really easy to loan out players and give them plenty of game time to aid their development.

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34 minutes ago, resurectedja said:

Sorry to see you sacked. I would recommend Italy. There are 3 different third tiers and plenty of good clubs to choose from. The 3 different third tiers also make it really easy to loan out players and give them plenty of game time to aid their development.

Yeah so far I have looked at Germany, Italy and now looking at Spain. 

I didn't bother with France this time and there is no reload date on the OP of this thread for Portugal so I have left them as well.

I got to pick a top 5 nation or else it will take me forever to win the Champions League.

I found a few teams in Germany that would be good. The main one being a team called Schweinfurt who I have never heard of before but I like their club colors, kits and they have good youth facilities which will help me in the challenge.

Italy have Livorno but I felt like that would be too easy picking them because of their history, reputation and they have good facilities.

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I Have Made My Decision

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I have decided to pick Schweinfurt 05 FC. 

I liked their nice shade of green club colours, their kits and also they have good youth facilities.

Here is their recent home shirt.

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Here is some of their other shirts.

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Here is their stadium

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Here is a bit of a background of the club.

Nickname(s) - Die Schnüdel

They finished 11th in the league in real life last season.

They won the German championship in 1942 and the German Cup in 1936.

Notable past players

 

 Albin Kitzinger (MF)

 Andreas Kupfer (MF)

 Robert Bernard (MF)

 Günter Bernard (GK)

 Lothar Emmerich (FW)

 Erwin Albert (FW)

 Michael Glowatzky (FW)

 Sebastian Kneißl (MF)

 Florian Trinks (MF)

 Daniel Adlung (MF)

 

 

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