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Youth Intake Preview - April 2027 I think this will even get downgraded upon coming through.

205/26 Season Review We flew out of the blocks again winning eight on the bounce, scoring 34 goals in the process and conceding just once. We remained unbeaten for another six games until April when we lost our first game of the season to Jimma Aba Jafar. Form was then inconsistent until the end of the season, we lost a further five times in 15 games plus three draws. That inconsistency saw us drop from 1st place to 3rd place and that where we ended the season in 3rd. Our own form all seemed to coincide with the personal form of Yeshewas Belew who blitzed 21 goals in those first eight games but then only scored another 15 league goals in the remainder of the season. We exited the Ethiopian Cup at our first hurdle this season, losing to Ethio Electric 2-1 in the 2nd Round. 36 goals in 28(3) games for Yeshewas Belew this season which takes him up to 145 goals in 128 games for the club in all competitions. Only Binyam Getachew managed to reach double figures in the remainder of the squad whilst Kirubel Wendimu managed 12 assists from left midfield. We continued to lose money throughout the season with ticket pricing seemingly holding us back, average price of £1 per ticket isn't doing anything to improve things.

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Youth Intake Review - July 2026 Downgraded again which is no surprise. One elite talent in Tekelemariam Shemeles (I had to double take at his surname). Decent enough goalkeeper but poor personality. A slightly more positive set of players personality wise than previously.

Youth Intake Preview - April 2026

2024/25 Season Review A much better season for us as we finished in the dizzying heights of 4th place. This season started much like last season, with numerous wins on the bounce, this time it was only four though, Arba Minch (5-0), Ethio Electric (3-0), Legetafo (5-0) and Hadiya Hossana (6-0). We soon settled down though, losing our first match (gameweek 8) in early January. We hit a really rough patch where we didn't win for nine games in the league but only losing two of them. May was better with two wins, then three strange months where we played just four games between the 7th June and the 9th August, we only won one of those games. 59 goals scored was a league high but still three goals short of Saint George's league record of 62 set in 09/10. We conceded 48 goals, we concede 7 once, 4 four times and 3 four times, it was actually the 2nd highest behind relegated side Ethio Electric. We reached the quarter finals of the Ethiopian Cup beating Dire Dawa City (4-0) and Ethiopia Nigd Bank (5-0) before losing 2-1 to Hawassa. Yeshewas Belew was the hero again, 37 goals in 32 games with 32 of those coming in the league to be top scorer once more and set a new record for the league. Zekarias scored 16 in another injury ended season. Temam improved on last season assists tally with 14 this season. Just shy of £250k in the red, we're over the wage budget largely thanks to signing a few youth players and renewing the odd expiring contract here and there.

Youth Intake Review - July 2025 As expected its dropped from an excellent intake to a below average one. Nothing here of note, player wise, we do get our first foreign born player in Samuel Mekonnen who was born in the Italian town of Monteleone di Puglia. Personalities are pretty poor across the board apart from one Resolute, one Professional and one Determined.

Youth Intake Preview - April 2025 I don't see this staying as an excellent intake.

Transfers - Feb 2025 I've managed to loan out 11 youth team players for various amounts of wage percentage to help reduce the wage expenditure, its dropped from circa £400 p/w over budget down to £150 p/w over. It does leave my youth team short of players but when they're all pretty poor theres no point having them here to be honest.

I was surprised to see an Italian one so soon.

Transfers - Nov 2024 Three players in and no players out, so with the board slashing the wage budget in more than half due to the financial situation, we're over the wage budget by nearly £400. Worku is for attack, Beketa for defence and Legesse for midfield.

2023/24 Season Review We started the season emphatically, with 7 wins on the bounce which saw us sit top of the table comfortably. We beat the likes of Bahir Dar (predicted 4th) and Ethiopian Coffee (2nd) but we entered a break in the league when the AFCoN was played and things tumbled down around us. One win in 11 games with three draws saw us tumble down the table, thankfully our fantastic league start saw us ahead of where we should be still. May saw us pick up a win and a draw to stabilise things before two more losses. We then picked up back-to-back wins over Wolkite and Sebeta Kenema before seeing out the season with three draws and three losses, eventually finishing in a respectable 9th place. Just one game in the Ethiopian Cup this season as we lost 3-1 to Arba Minch in the 2nd Round. Yeshewas Belew was the cream of the crop for us once again, finishing the season with 25 goals in 31 games, with 24 of those in the league which saw him finishing the season as the leagues top scorer by eight goals. Mintesnot Zekarias scored 14 goals in a support role but finished the season early through injury. Sadick Temam made the most assists with 11. The balance continues to decrease as we only received £12k for finishing in 9th place in the league.

Youth Intake Review - July 2024 One elite talent in Tariko Saliso who is a RB. Could possibly get some gametime as back up next season. Personalities are quite poor overall but that is to be expected at this point in the save.

Youth Intake Preview - April 2024 Centre backs and strikers, nothing much inbetween.

Transfers - Summer 2023 The squad needed good improvements in most areas but we also retained quite a few original players to help with cohesion. Deliel as back up GK. Kasaye and Muhudin improve the left back situation and Worku in at RB. Sisay and Aniley improve the wings. Dalga and Belguda offer more options up front.

Thanks john! A successful first season at least

2022/23 Season Review First season completed and it was very straight-forward, we breezed to the Seconde Division league title by a huge 20 points over second placed Worabe Ketema, winning promotion in the process. We won 20 of the 22 league games, drawing against second placed Worabe Ketema and losing to Nekemt Ketema. We scored goals for fun, 86 in fact whilst conceding 26, which I feel was a little too high. We gave a decent fist of it in the Ethiopian Cup too, beating both Sidama Coffee and Ethiopian Coffee before losing to Hadiya Hossana in the Quarter Final. The main bulk of the goals came from Yeshetaw, who was quite frankly outsanding as he plundered 47 goals in 25 games. New signing Kifle Gambato supported well with 17 goals in 19 games and also contributed nine assist. Israel Hussein made the most assists with 16 from left midfield. Pretty much every players contract is up at the end of the season and expectedly most are asking for more wages per week, which at this moment we can't afford. Having signed all the youth players we are massively over the wage budget which has resulted in us losing more money than expected by the end of the season.

Youth Intake Review - July 2023 Dawit Taddese is the only player worth introducing. Map of Ethiopia

New Contract - July 2023 They originally offered me more wages and just a one-year deal, I managed to squeeze in a two-year deal at the expense of a few quid.

Youth Intake Preview - April 2023 Not expecting much in this first three to five seasons depending on improvements, if we can afford them.

Transfers - Jan 2023 We managed to strengthen in January after allowing a couple of players to leave. Sisay joins from top flight side Adama City on loan to play RM and fill in at CM, Nasir improves the defensive options and Gambato joins having been released by Sudtirol in Italy, although we could only sign him until the end of the season. You may notice he's already agreed a deal with Juve Stabia to join the Italian in September, he wanted around £600 a week to remain in Ethiopia.

I think it was just the nature of being a view-only league. Same as Man Utd got relegated to the Championship and Tottenham got relegated to League One.

Pre-Season - Nov 2022 Bit of a mixed pre-season but it was more about fitness and tactical familiarity rather than results. Upon starting the save, we had just 7 days before the transfer window closed to improve the squad. However, with the lack of fund, both transfer budget and available wage budget (just £44 left to spend per week) we failed to bring anyone in.

Thanks delta

The Partition of Africa In the map above you can see the land mass of Africa diveded up by European countries for them to rule except two green areas, Ethiopia to the East and Liberia to the West. The Partition of Africa began at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 in which the biggest European countries would claim African colonial land for them to rule. Normally, when selecting a country to manage in I have looked at which country had colonial rule over that said country and loaded that nation to enhance the save. In FM we see the roots of this colonialism still engrained in football, players from the likes to Guinea-Bissau, Angola and Cape Verde coming through at teams in Portugal, players from many of the French speaking nations joining teams in France, DR Congo players coming through in Belgium for examples. I've decided this time to choose a non-colonised country and that country is Ethiopia. Ethiopia Ethiopia is a land-locked country in the East of Africa, bordered by Eritrea to the North, Djibouti to the North-East, Somalia to the East, Kenya to the South, South Sudan to the West and Sudan to the North-West. Ethiopia is the 12th most populous country in the world with roughly 113m inhabitants, that makes it the 2nd most populous in African behind Nigeria. Ethiopia's capital is Addis Ababa and its largest city. Save Setup Ethiopia as the only playable nation with seven further nations as view-only. These nations have been chosen on the basis of that they are considered to have large Ethiopian communities within their own population. This may or may not help us bring through Ethiopian players in youth intakes. A large database with Players from top division clubs in Africa and Europe loaded. The Club Addis Ababa City FC There isn't much online I can find in regards to history other than that they formed in 2012. On FM their competition history is minimal, they were promoted to the Premier Division (tier one) but were promtly relegated again but found themselves back in the top tier last season but relegated once again. So they start life in the Seconde Division (2nd tier) in Group B (2 leagues) with a media prediction of 3rd overall (both leagues). The board want us work within the wage budget which is a given, we're currently spending £2417 of a £2460 budget. Finishing in the top two places is doable I think, only the top team in the league gains promotion to the Premier Division. We start the save with a modest set-up facilties wise but with ok coaching and youth recruitment which sets us off on the right foot. We also have use of the 35,000 capacity Addis Ababa Stadium which is also home to the national side, Saint George, Ethiopian Coffee and Mekelakeya. Above is our current first team, all 14 of them. Elias Mamo is deemed the best player who can play at RB or DM. Current Ethiopian international. Zerihun Anshebo is a decent central defender. Yeshewas Belew is the best striker at the club. We have a few reserve players and currently no youth players, a blank canvas. We're going to play a basic 4-4-2 initially with the view to move to a more attacking formation when we begin to improve and recruit players.