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Season 2029/30 Piala Presiden We won our group in the Piala Presiden, but we fell at the first hurdle against PSMS in the Quarter Final on penalties, disappointing. Piala Indonesia We got our hands on the Piala Indonesia with an aggregate win over Persipura in the final 5-4. It was a pretty straightforward tournament for us. 50 points collected. AFC Champions League It was a very successful Champions League campaign for us as we managed to get out of the group, as group winners. Sydney were certainly unlucky to miss out with 12 points, but the head to heard results and goal difference worked out how it did. We could not progress any further as we lost to Korean outfit Suwon narrowly 4-3 on aggregate. Still that is some really good progress for a side from Indonesia in this competition. Indonesian BRI Liga I We just lost on the league this season on goal difference. We found some really bad patches this season such as in February where we lost three matches on spin, and this is where we lost the title fundamentally. A shame for us and for me but we will just have to accept the outcome and do better next season. Squad Andreas Ado had a good season as he returned 26 goals. Andrew Vella was the standout player for us however, as he got 13 goals and 14 assists. The Australian is the main man at the club now and the job will be to somehow keep him at the club as that is likely to be a difficult endeavour. Transfers We made some Indonesian signings that I think improved us to go with the Australians that we had brought in last season. We did lost Fijian sensation Waisea Kumar to Adelaide United unfortunately for us, and that probably was a contributing factor to us not winning the league. Manager Thoughts Well the Indonesian leagues sure are pretty tough and while we have had success it has not come at all easy. This year we managed to get our hands on the Piala Indonesia, but fell short in the league. I am looking for that big season where we capture all three domestic competitions and probably then look for our next club, we will see what we can do next season. Manager Profile Summary

Season 2028/29 Piala Presiden After a promising start, we were very poor in the final two group games and found ourselves finishing bottom of the group. I was unaware of this trophy, so it is a bit of an early season League Cup, so nice to have this around for the extra points. Piala Indonesia We went out early to Persipura in the Second Round, again we simply were not good enough to take them down. BRI Liga I We looked pretty dead and buried in December when we couldn't find a win all month and the indifferent form continued into January, but we managed to recover and stay in there, and we had a great run at the end of the season. Going into the final game we had done enough to get a draw and win the league and we managed to do that against Barito Putera, although thanks to Arema's loss in the final game, we did not need it anyway. We win the league and get this leg underway with 100 points. Squad Andreas Ado continued to be main goal threat and got himself 20 goals this season. New signing Andrew Vella was key for us, with his assists and overall play. Kumar and Milutinovic two new signings again were key in anchoring our midfield. Transfers We found some key players this season, with out scouting in Australia at the CU Academy and we managed to pick up three key players for us in Milutinovic, Kumar and Vella. Manager Thoughts A great title win for us as we looked so far away for a while, but came back nicely and in the end we managed to get to the top. 100 points has now been added to our total and we are very much started on our journey through AFC5. Manager Profile Summary

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Season 2027/28 We left Singapore and went down to Indonesia to eventually after quite a wait, take over as manager of PSIS Semarang. They are a decent team in Indonesia, who were sitting in 9th, a long way off the top when we took over. The manager had moved upstairs to take up the Director of Football job and that is why we got the opening. The job here since, winning the league looked out of the question was to make sure that we moved up the table. In Indonesia there is one cup and the league, so pretty straightforward. Piala Indonesia Out before we took the job Indonesian Bri Liga I We were still very inconsistent after we took over, to the point where I changed up my tactics, towards the end of the season that resulted in three tight wins, which proved enough to get us into the Asian competition places. I am hoping we can build on this for next season. Squad The squad is decent if not really having any standout players in the squad. Really up and down the team we have pretty solid performers but no game changers, which I felt we had much more at Selangor and Albirex, so we may well need to see if we can do anything in the transfer market, but at the moment there does not appear to be anything on offer at the moment that is radically going to improve the team. We will continue to scout in the off-season and see whether we find anyone. Transfers None Manager Thoughts We got our feet under a new desk, this time in Indonesia and things went well enough that we managed to get continental qualification which is a plus. I do think the Indonesian league will be a really tough league to dominate, let alone win, so we may need to tough it out for a few season and see how things go. Manager Profile Summary

Season 2026 Singapore Community Shield We got another win over LC Sailors in the Community Shield, as we won out 4-0, to take 15 points. Singapore Premier League We finally got the job done in the league. LC Sailors started the season awfully which gave us some much needed breathing room as we stormed to the top of the league. A dodgy May put the likes of Tampines, Geylang and LC Sailors back in the picture but we managed to keep them behind us and win the league with a game to spare. That's 100 points and this leg over. SIngapore Cup Left club before we entered the competition. Squad The added youth players certainly helped solidify us a little bit but we still don' have a lot in midfield and it was credit to the two strikers at times in Kakuta and Mori that we got through a lot of games as they were prolific this season. A team that still needs a lot of work, but with some good youngsters already in the team, they should continue from here now. Manager Thoughts Well we finally got the job done in AFC6, as we got that league title win and pushed past the 500 point barrier. Next time up we will be in AFC5, which is composed of Indonesia and Hong Kong. AFC6 COMPLETE! Manager Profile Summary

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Season 2025 Our next venture would be in Singapore, as just a few days after we left Selangor, we arrived at Albirex Niigata. Now Niigata is not in Singapore, it is in Japan. This is the child club of a Japanese club and we will be forced to only use Japanese players here. More likely we will have to use Japanese youth players and raise as many as we can through the youth ranks. The club are pretty good for the SIngaporean standard and are expected to finish in 2nd place. LC Sailors are by far and away the best side in Singapore, and it will be tough to reel them in, especially with the restrictions on transfers at the club. Singapore Community Shield In our first competitive game we managed to come through against LC Sailors in the Community Shield 2-1. Add another 30 points onto the board. Singapore Cup The Singapore Cup is right at the end of the season and we managed to come through this one as well. We won the group thanks for beating LC Sailors, and they would not make the final losing to Hougang United in extra time of the second leg. We however had no problems against them as we dispatched them 6-0 for the win, and 50 more points. Singapore Premier League The Premier League would have given us enough points to complete the section but unfortunately for us we were unable to overcome LC Sailors as we lost out finishing in 2nd place. Ultimately they were just too consistent. I wouldn't even say we were inconsistent just they did everything just a little better than us. Next season hopefully we can do better in this competition. Unfortunately for us, no points. Squad The squad is pretty average I would say. We have some real gaps especially in midfield and fullback as we had to play some youngsters all season. The issue has been a real lack of talent that we can go after. The youth intake was good so perhaps we can upgrade our youngsters in midfield with some from the intake. I am hoping that we can go one better in the league but covering some of these gaps is key to that. In terms of performers, Mori got the most goals with 25 goals in 28, and Jan Kobayashi was the best player, anchoring our defence. Transfers Losing Kunimoto was a big loss. He wanted to leave, and we made him a deal as long as the figure hit £55k and ultimately we had to sell him when it did. We did bring in Nagai, an older midfielder out of pure desperation but it counted as the season before. To be honest he has not been good enough to justify taking the screenshot. Manager Thoughts Some progress as we amass 80 points, which is not bad, but the league was the big one and we fell short. We will be going all out for that one next season as that will be enough to send us on to AFC5, should we do it. The AFC Champions League should come around for us, or possibly the AFC Cup, the qualification for these competitions is often up to a year ahead so we will see what happens. Manager Profile Career Summary

Season 2024 Piala Sumbangish A very dominant opening league game, that doubled as the Piala Sumbangish as we ran out 7-0 winners against Kuala Lumpur City. Another 15 points. Piala FA Malaysia We got our hands back on the FA Cup as we took down Johor DT in the final winning 4-1. Another 25 points. Piala Malaysia The Piala Malaysia was not as straightforward as we lost the first leg in the semi final, but came back. International call-ups played a big part in that. The final against Negeri Samilan was a tense one as we only just got past them on the lottery on penalties. Another 7 points as the diminishing returns get pretty tough on us, for having won this competition for the third time. AFC Champions League We did not have a very good Champions League campaign, we were not quite at the races ultimately as we lost our first four games and only came back right at the end of the group stages. Liga Super Malaysia Our league form was quite frankly ridiculous this season as we dropped just two points as we walked to a third league title. Another 25 points. Squad Here is the squad. George Attram became the main man up front and did a great job for us with his 42 goals this season. Ezequiel Aguero, a late acquisition for us was also great and replaced Guilherme well as he got himself 30 goals. Caion was on the wane as he reached 34 years old. Elsewhere Agyarkwa, has become probably the best player in the team as he recorded 32 assists this season. Transfers Not a huge amount of activity, as we made a lot of moves last season. Manager Thoughts Another great season with Selangor and to be honest our final one. Had we progressed in the Champions League I would have stayed another season, but the diminishing returns are getting pretty bad, so it time to move on. Don't know yet whether that will be to another Malaysian club or over to Singapore, that still remains to be seen. Manager Profile Summary

2023 Season Piala Sumbangish The Super Cup in Malaysia is a little strange as it doubles as a league match as well. So for both three points in the league as well as the Super Cup, we overcame Johor DT 4-1, to get another 30 points on the board. Piala FA Malaysia The FA Cup ended in heartbreak as we failed to find the net in the final against Terengganu as they overcame us 1-0, to become FA Cup winners. Some points dropped here for us. Piala Malaysia A very straightforward route to the final for us as we faced, probably the second best team in Malaysia behind us on form, and in a tough final we overcame them 2-1 to record 15 points, for our second win of the Piala Malaysia AFC Champions League The Champions League was a strange one for us as it was in our hands going into the final game. We hosted Vissel Kobe of Japan at home, and a win would definately secure us first place in the group. However we were unable to overcome them. In fact we only beat the best team in the group, beating Guangzhou 1-0 twice in the group stages to pull off a famous double over our more illustrious opponents. We do however tumble out of the Champions League. Liga Super Malaysia It was tighter than last year but again we more or less strolled to the title with a few games still to play. We did suffer a couple of league losses that were a bit concerning but it never really stopped our overall form which was very good and enough to win the league title for the second year in a row. KL City were the nearest challengers, five points behind. Another 50 points for us. Squad Our squad has expanded in the last few weeks that we almost dont have enough room on the page to show the team. Caion has continued and improved his form after Hyuri left as and he bagged himself 45 goals. Guilherme has been great as well. The elder statesmen managed to get 32 goals in all competitions a great return for him and it helps with match day squad rules that he is Malaysian qualifying. Lau was great, continuing his form from last season, especially on the assist front. Campos was a little disappointing and I can see him leaving us at the end of the season since he had not provided us enough. Agyarkwa, has really improved this season and he could be a force for us in the coming season as the young Ghanaian gets better and better. Transfers Lots of new faces in and plenty out as we look to streamline the wage budget. A lot of focus was on bringing in better Malaysian players so that we could have more freedom when it came to playing the foreigners. Manager Thoughts We played really well this season and we are unlucky not to have got to the Champions League knockout stage. We did drop the FA Cup this season which was annoying, but we got plenty of points this season. I think we will give Selangor another season before we inevitably have to look elsewhere for a job. Manager Profile Summary

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Manager Our random number generator gave us a Slovenian manager so we meet Marko Zuprancic from Ljubljana. We decided for the opening club for this challenge to use the "Pick My Team" feature in FM23, and we got handed a pretty nice outcome of Selangor in Malaysia who are one of the best teams in Malaysia. However we would still somehow need to overcome Johor DT, who have been extremely dominant for almost a decade in Malaysia. Malaysia has a league competition and two cups. The FA Cup will be treated as the main cup for the season. Piala FA Malaysia The FA Cup is the early season cup and we managed to go all the way and win it. In the end we needed a bit of luck in the final but we held on to win the cup and get our first 50 points of the challenge. Piala Malaysia The Piala Malaysia occurs after the league season end and we managed to go all the way again. We beat Johor DT in the final on penalties after a mad 5-5 draw. The rest of the games were very comfortable for us. Another 30 points in the bag. Liga Super Malaysia A fantastic league season saw us go undefeated all season and lift the league title for the first time in quite some time. In the end we won it by 12 points from Johor DT. 100 points in the bag. Squad This is the squad above and really the stand out performers this season are the two Brazilian's upfront Hyuri and Caion, who got 41 and 37 goals respectively. Hyuri probably our best player this season is leaving us, for Fortaleza in Brazil so that will make things a lot more difficult next season, although the replacement Diogo Campos has already joined us. Not sure he is at the same standard but he will have to step up for us. Transfers Most of the transfers were already made and we did not actually make any this season, the players that we did bring in have only joined right at the end of the season. The Malaysian transfer window is a bit weird in its placement in the calendar. So we have brought in Diogo Campos who will replace Hyuri. The other players in, I hope will upgrade us at key positions and free up some foreign allocations spots where necessary to give the squad a bit more flexibility. Manager Thoughts A great start. We will be in the AFC Champions League next season. I will expect we will be no match to Asia's best we will certainly give it a go, and hopefully we can repeat the success we had this season. Manager Profile Summary

I am bringing this challenge back for a third year and fourth iteration. Last time around my game crashed so bad that I still cannot play FM22, so hopefully this time around we may be able to complete it this around. For those uninitiated, back in FM20, I started this challenge which was to travel around the world using modded leagues added into the game in a sort of ultimate journeyman, where we net to conquer each stage by winning trophies that have pre-allocated points associated with them. Each stage would only have a few countries available and we would need to plot a way to maximise the number of points. In this save I went over 130 years completing a variety of countries before eventually instead of the save failed me, the computer itself failed me and I believe the save was lost forever, only the memory remaining on these boards. I decided to bring it back for FM22, and while we manage to complete a whole continent, this time the save failed us, as we arrived in North America and once again I was thwarted. Then I did one with just base leagues and a long way down the road when we had already reached Europe we had this save and game ending crash. For those who did not read the other threads they are here for posterity should you wish to partake in them Climb The Ladder 1 Climb The Ladder 2 Climb The Ladder 2.1 I will go over the rules again and provide the amendments as well. Ruleset How do you get points? You get points by winning trophies plain and simple. Depending on the trophy they are worth different amounts. The following is a guide of what each trophy is worth Top Division Domestic League title (100 points) Top Domestic Cup (50 points) Any other Domestic Cup (30 points) Top Continental Cup (500 points) Secondary Continental Cup (200 points) Any other Continental Cup (50 points) If there is any confusion as to what the main cup is, then I will just make a call at the start as to what the top trophy is, if I cannot verify it within the game. Can you lose points? Yes, you can lose points. There are two ways to lose points as below:- Being relegated at any time at a club or leaving a club for any reason at a time when you are in the relegation places (-50 points) Being sacked or resigning under pressure i.e. if there are comments in the media that I will be sacked then if I resigned it will be treated as a sacking (-100 points) Any more rules around the points? Yes, and this is a key point. The first time you win a trophy with a club, you receive 100 per cent of the available points as stated above. However the second time that we manage to win it in the same trophy with the same club, the points are then halved, and it will continue to half for every time we win that follows. So to give an example, let says that I am managing Liverpool and I win the English Premier League and English League Cup, I would receive 100 points for the league and 30 points for the League Cup. If in the second season I won the English Premier League, the FA Cup and The English League Cup, then we would get 50 points for the league, 50 points for the FA Cup and 15 points for the League Cup. If in the third season we won the English Premier League again, then it would only be worth 25 points. So as you can see we will be incentivized to plan our route through each stage and move on when it makes sense to do so. There is an exception to the halving of points. All continental competitions are never halved, even if we win it with the same team multiple times. How many points are required to get through a stage? There are two types of stage. The first are the normal stages whereby there are normally 3 or 4 nations loaded for the stage and we can pick a club at any of them. In these stages we need to win 500 points, to advance to the next stage. In Golden stages, which are normally at the end of the continent and will only have one country available we will need to win 1,500 points to get through the stage (previously it was 1,000 points required for the golden stages). In the diagram below, normal stages are in a variety of colours related to the continent they are part of. Golden stages are have a golden glow and have a gold inlay line around them on the diagram and should be easily identifiable. Who is the manager you will be using? The manager will be from a random nationality. I will use a random number generator to give me the nationality. The manager must then start with no coaching badges and Sunday League experience. So I still don't know who my avatar will be. How often will you be providing updates? As you can see from the diagram, this is a major challenge, that will last at least a few hundred years if I get anywhere near the middle or end of it. So each update will be a seasonal update, and focus mostly on results rather than players, since there will be many many different clubs. The other time I will update is when we switch clubs, and that will let you know the results at the last club before we moved. Where do we start? We start at AFC6 at the bottom of the diagram which is Malaysia or Singapore, and will have to work our way up through each stage. Where is the Diagram? Just below:- NB: I had a few people ask if they could do the same challenge, I did not respond because I was away from the boards, especially because FM22 did not work for me anymore. The answer is, yes you are free to use any resources in this post or previous challenges and have a go at your own Climb the Ladder challenge should you wish.