[Team manger does not arrange friendly matches]

On 02/03/2024 at 21:51, lyonharted said:

Has there been any change for this issue? I'm dealing with the same situation, playing as Scarborough Athletic. My U18s play matches, but despite my U21 side being in a league (the Humber Premier League, to be precise) and shown as such, they never have any matches. I have the setting in staff responsibilities set to "arrange a friendly every week", so even if the game thought the U21s were playing, my staff should still be scheduling friendlies, but they don't. I have to manually do so for every match. 

Could someone from the team just drop by and let us know whether it's reasonable to assume this is not going to get fixed?

[Staff never schedule friendlies when instructed to]

This has been reported here since November, so don't hold you breath waiting for a fix. Also the "make first team players automatically available" button does nothing either, so it's just all messed up.

[Youth managers not arranging friendlies]

I know i'm being very particular when i chose to not play the game on release since a trivial feature was broken. I know the meta on this forum is just to scream about everything all the time, and i just bided my time and submitted a bug report and continued the conversation by adding information in a few topics. Games are big and complicated. I get it.

Now, it's February, and this hasn't even been mentioned since release. Youth managers are not creating friendlies. Sometimes they do, but whatever you do, you can't change it once it stops working. The pull-down menu in staff responsibilities -> match that determines the frequency of friendlies does... not... do... anything. It's a pull down menu that doesn't work. If you're not going to fix it, say so. I'll just throw an indicate pair of screenshots from the last patch to underline the point, but really, I've uploaded a save once and the problem is still there, so you can use the first uploaded save to look at it if you want to.

Again, if it's not a priority, or just not in the cards, let us know it's not going to be fixed. I'm not demanding a fix. Just politely asking for an acknowledgement.

[Youth managers not arranging friendlies]

So i don't know if the patch did anything to fix the issue, or maybe it just randomly works sometimes - but the patch definitely broke it a bit more. Now the selections for auto picking first team players for the reserve teams don't work at all. Not from the staff responsibilities menu, or the news item that asks whether you want to make first team players available.

There's a savefile just before a U21 friendly where you can test it out. Si cloud: "Mika Vasara - AFC Telford.fm"

It seems to me, in general, that something is just completely bugged about youth team management and automation. 

[Unfit players not auto for U21s]

10 hours ago, foleyo said:

I get the same issue - u21 friendlies are also not being set up when there are no games in a week when I have the option selected on the same page in staff responsibilities 

Have to be clear here - maybe it's the same issue, maybe not. Your issue of friendlies not being created is already posted and under review in the link below. I would encourage the original poster to go into the youth teams, and see if they have any fixtures that the senior team player could have played in. If it is indeed the same issue as below, as said, it's already under review.