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FK Rača Bratislava Season review Season 13 | 2036-2037 Niké liga Transfers | Affiliates | Facilities | Finances | Manager Profile | Club overview What a fantastic season! We are making really nice progress in this save. We became champions again, for the fourth time in a row. So that's nothing special. We also won the Cup again, so another Double for us! But the real progress is in European matches. We are now at a level where I can keep my best players at the club. With almost €100M positive balance we don't need to sell players anymore. And although there is a lot of interest in some players, they are happy to stay at our club. Sometimes big European clubs, or rich Saudi Arabian clubs, make a bid for my players. But I'm able to keep my best players now. So we can really build someting. This results in our second European final of this save! Not the Champions League, but the Europa League this time. We started in the CL Playoffs, but lost against FC Sion. In the Europa League we had a fantastic journey, that took us to the final. But Liverpool was just too strong: we lost 2-0. Although we lost the final, we can look back at a fantastic campaign. I mean, we won twice against Borussia Dortmund, with a 0-4 away win as the biggest highlight. An unbelievable result. Let's hope that we can do the same in the Champions League in the next seasons :) Oh and I also got the message that I'm now the best manager ever in Slovakia I'll show you all our current first team. GK Lubomir Ilko 30a DR Marek Kocis 28c DC Dusan Kralovic 28e DC Michal Petras 34d DL Richard Nagy 35b MC Miroslav Kalman 32c MC Ivan Kuc 32f MC Lukas Luptak 33h SC Tomas Mihalik 32g SC Viktor Lukac 30c SC Alex Adamec 32h Some promising players on the bench: Igor Augustini 36c, Andrej Sokol 34b, Tomas Pavlovic 36a, Erik Luptak 36b and Miroslav Vasil 34g. We also had two players in the NXGN 2037! Youth intake I decided that it was time to hire a new HoYD. Our new man is Barna Kiss, and he looks like a fantastic HoYD with a Perfectionist personality. The preview was still from our old HoYD. I hired Kiss after the preview. I think this intake is okay. Some decent talents, but nothing spectaculair. We did got three foreign players, something unique as most players from our intakes are Slovakians. Upgrades Well, our Training Facilities were downgraded. But thankfully our board was willing to upgrade it again. We still can't upgrade our Youth Facilities any further. Let's hope this will change soon. I also asked the board to build a new stadium, as we now got a waiting list with 6209 fans. But the board responded that we can grow without building a new stadium. Progress

Well done, @scarp!! Fantastic!

FK Rača Bratislava Season review Season 12 | 2035-2036 Niké liga Transfers | Affiliates | Facilities | Finances | Manager Profile | Club overview Another great season! For the third consecutive time we won the Double! So it's fair to say that we are best club in the country. But we are still far away to win the most league titles, as Slovan Bratislava won the league 18 times. But things are going very well at Rača. We almost maxed out our facilities. Only our Youth Facilities can upgrade one more time. Our players are developing nicely and are getting better and better. And we finally got some foreign affiliates. Not one, but four! With Cibalia(Croatia), KF Tirana(Albania), MTE 1904(Hungary) and OFK Beograd(Serbia) we got some nice affiliates. I can't wait to see some foreign players in our next intakes Another nice thing to mention is that 8 players has been called up for the national team. This is a new club record. And with 2 former Raca-players (Kovac 27a and Guľa 31a) we even got 10 academy players in the National team. Best players this season were Tomas Mihalik 32g, Alex Adamec 32h, Miroslav Kalman 32c and Marek Kocis 28c. Europe For the first time in the club history we qualified for the Champions League League Phase! With our last years league win we qualified for the Playoffs, were we met Ludogorets. We won: 2-0 away and 0-0 at home. So we qualified for the League Phase. We got a very, very difficult draw. But it was a fantastic experience to play against big teams like Ajax, Real Madrid and FC Bayern. We even won our first match against Atalanta. But we lost almost all the other matches, which is no shame at all. We did won against Ferencváros, but it was not enough to qualify for the next round. Let's see if we have more luck next season Youth intake The preview was not good. The intake itself gave us 3 Elite talents, which is still quite good. And they all look like really nice talents. Upgrades Our stadium is getting another expension. After this expension we got more then 14.000 seats. We even got a waiting list(2.350 supporters) for our stadium, so this expension is very welcome. Progress

I'm happy for you that you survived this very difficult first season Nice talent, Nagy 25a! He'll be a starter next season for sure I guess. Good luck next season!

Yeah, that's annoying! But keep on fighting, things will getting better! If you manage to survive the first season, the next one will be easier as you can play with many more players than this season. You can do this!

That's correct. You can play youth players when they became 16 years old. You can't play with 15 year olds.

Challenge accepted Good luck with Inter! And have fun also, I like it a lot managing in Slovakia

Welcome in Slovakia! And nice to see that you also chose Raca! Good luck!! Last week I returned from my Holiday, after I spend a couple of weeks in Southern France with my wife and kids. Yesterday I started playing FM again. I’m at the end of season 2035/2036 with Raca, so the next update will follow soon

FK Rača Bratislava Season review Season 11 | 2034-2035 Niké liga Transfers | Affiliates | Facilities | Finances | Manager Profile | Club overview So, after the deception in Italy, I decided to go back to my Raca Bratislava-save. Season 11, and we won our second consecutive league title! We won the league with 14 points ahead of the number 2 Slovan Bratislava. And we also won the Cup again, so another Double this season!! Best players this season were Alex Adamec 32h, Peter Lukac 24c, Miroslav Kalman 32c and Tomas Mihalik 32g. Europe We made our debut in the Champions League this season. But we lost in the Playoff against Lugano. So no Champions League Group Phase, but the Europa League Group Phase instead. We had soms great results againt very good teams. We lost in the Round of 16 against Torino, although we won our home match with 3-2. So even in Europe we are getting better and better. Hopefully we are able to get into the Champions League Group Phase next season, to test us against the best teams. Youth intake Another good intake! The preview was excellent, and the intake itself was a very good one. We got three Elite Talents. And they look really talented! The only downside is that we don't really need new players on these positions. Upgrades Another Youth Facilities upgrade!! After many rejected attempts, our board was finally willing to upgrade it once more. So I'm very happy with it! It's the only part of our Facilities that I can upgrade. Oh, and one of my youth players has been poached by Aston Villa. So I'll keep an eye on him, but it also means that our youth players are getting good enough to get poached by clubs like Villa. Progress

Look at this... I just got sacked, after 15(!) straight defeats. Fifteen! And that at this club. In my previous save we finished 2nd, and now this... We had lots of injuries(5 first team players, including my only serious GK) but I couldn't turn it around. After so many defeats the morale was so low, that we just couldn't win anymore. I had an emergency meeting with the board, and they told me to earn 6 points in 5 matches. But we lost everything, so I got sacked. Goodbye, Campobasso....

Città di Campobasso A new save! I've got some unfinished business in Italy. I lost my previous save with Campobasso due to some problems with my old laptop. As I really loved that save, I'll start again with them. So back to Molise, back to Campobasso! It's quite nice to see all those familiar faces again

It’s weird maybe, but I lost the motivation to continue my save with Raca Bratislava. It suddenly came, and now I want something else. It became a bit boring. I don’t delete this save, but I’ll try something different for now.

Well done, @naterr! I think @darren1983 can add you to the Hall of Fame.

FK Rača Bratislava Season review Season 10 | 2033-2034 Niké liga Transfers | Affiliates | Facilities | Finances | Manager Profile | Club overview We finally did it! After ten seasons, we are the champions of Slovakia!! And not even that, we won the Double as we also won the Cup again. And how: we won 0-4 against our biggest rival Slovan Bratislava. So it's fair to say that we are one of the best teams in the country now. We won the league with 20(!!) points ahead of the nr. 2 MSK Žilina. A surprising nr. 2, because for the first time in 13 years Dun. Streda didn't finish in the Top 2. They finished 5th this season, and nearly qualified for European football. The only reason they qualified is that from this season, Slovakian teams now got 5 European spots, instead of 4. And with our 1st place we qualified for the Champions League for the first time! Not the League Phase yet, but the Playoff. But that's also a huge step forward compared to last season, as the winner of the league from last season only qualified for the First Qualification Round. So that means that if we fail to qualify for the CL League Phase, we still got a guaranteed Europa League Phase ticket Europe We had a very good European run in the Conference League this season. Not as good as last season, but still a good one. We lost in the Round of 16 against the later winner of the Conference League: Sparta Praha. So if we had to lose against the later winner, it's not that bad. Players At the start of the season I lost my best player Stanislav Guľa 31a. He went to AC Milan for a transfer record of € 7,5M. A big loss, but also a very good transfer for us. The biggest transfer in Slovakian history, and we even got a 50% clause. He didn't play a single game this season for them. But he's in their first team squad, on the bench, waiting for his chance. With his departure, I had to shuffle our midfield a bit. I made space for youngster Miroslav Kalman 32c, and wow, what a season he had. He played 51(!) matches, scoring 21 goals and 18 assists. And he even made his debut for the national team! What a player. Let's take a look at the players who made us champions this season: GK Lubomir Ilko 30a : very talented GK. A bit on the short side, but he's our most talented GK. DL Lubomir Gabris 32a : a great young player, who already played 2 matches for the national team. DC Jozef Kica 31c : a good, tall and brave defender DC Dusan Kralovic 28e : our captain! Solid defender. DR Marek Kocis 28c : a great wingback, with 3 caps now. Lots of good clubs are interested in him, but he doesn't want to leave. MC Roman Luhovy 29d : our carilero. Really nice player, but his attributes hasn't improved the last two seasons. MC Samuel Kolesar 28d : our 'weakest' player, but still a very important one. A real leader on our midfield. MC Miroslav Kalman 32c : our new goldmine. Fantastic player. SC Stefan Sokol 31b: very talented striker. Scored 24 overall goals this season. SC Viktor Lukac 30c : our topscorer! Scored 32 overall goals. SC Peter Lukac 24c : club legend! Is scoring goals for fun. But we got some really talented youngsters coming, so I'm not sure if he can keep his place. Youth intake A very promising preview, and a very promising intake as well! Some really nice players in this intake. Can't wait to see how they will develop. And although I'm still happy about my HoYD Ibrahima Sidibé, I am looking for a replacement. I want someone with better judging-abilities, and with a different preferred formation. Upgrades We were finally able to upgrade our Youth Facilities again! After many, many years of waiting for the option to come back. But after the upgrade was completed, the option was there again, but the board isn't willing to upgrade it again. Let's hope that will change soon. And we also expanded our stadium. We now got a capacity of 10.800. Progress

@XaW Question about your save in Denmark: did you come across the problems that I had in my save? I couldn't give my staff part-time contracts. And I lost several players for free, while they had a semi-pro contract.