Branst23

Season 1 - May 2024 Hopefully the first of many as we are crowned champions in our first season! Lets try to make it an unbeaten season! Delighted to get out of this tier within the first season! Disappointment in the Cup Final, after we hit the post inside the first five minutes, I was encouraged only for an early red card to completely turn the game. Off the field More importantly, another two improvements signed off!

Season 1 - April 2024 I think I can safely say, that is promotion wrapped up ahead of it actually being confirmed! Lets hope we are able to make it unbeaten season! In the cup we managed to beat Vaduz 2 team, which sets up a final against their first XI! I can't imagine we will get anything out of the final but who's not dreaming about a 7th tier side getting qualification to Europe! I think we might get destroyed!

Thank you! I think it's going to be quite the challenge! Definitely will take a read of the book! Where does your love affair with Liechtenstein football come from?

2024 - Youth Intake The first and most important day each year of the save... Youth Intake Day! Wasn't expecting much from the intake based on the preview.... Initially it looks better than I first thought but I can't see any of these players playing more than a squad role unless our first team gets sold due to the amateur contracts they are on! Elite Talents Top Talents Good potential on these four recruits, will put them in the 2nd team so they are getting game time as unfortantely the U18 and U19 teams aren't yet in leagues! We will keep continuing to upgrade youth facilities, junior coaching and look for a better Head of Youth Development each season! Onwards and upwards (hopefully!)

Season 1 - December/January/February/March The winning streak continues, two friendlies to gain fitness after the winter break and then two wins in the league. Lucky for us FC Besa and Rebstein dropped points allowing us to extend the gap! Off the pitch, I managed to convince the board to let me undertake my 3rd coaching badge!

Season 1 - Youth Intake Preview Well... don't know what I expected but this could make next season challenging!

Season 1 - November 2023 2 for 2! Heading into the winter break where our next game will be in March! Near perfect half of the season!

Season 1 - October 2023 What a month of football! Unbeaten in the league still and managing to slightly rotate the side ahead of cup games. Not expecting to do much in the cup first year as boosting the rep and getting up the leagues is important! Lets hope we avoid Vaduz in the cup! Putting a gap between us and FC Besa is important as no doubt we will lose a point when the FM Gods want us to! More good news off the field... First badge down, next one started!

Season 1 - September 2023 A second unbeaten month to kick off the league campgain! Seems like we will be part of 3 or 4 teams fighting it out for the title in the first year, judging by the first two months. We also kicked off our Liechtenstein Cup campaign against our 2nd team and avoided egg our face by winning comfortably. Off The field Huge news off the field as we make leeps forwards to secure better intakes going forward. Both junior coaching and youth recruiment improved!

Season 1 - August 2023 Perfect start to the season, two wins out of two! Lost a few back up and reserve players on free transfers! Tactic Over pre-season tried to tweak the tactic slightly and have settled on the following. Aim's to press high, use overlapping players and has the CAM arrive late into the box! Success so far We move!

Season 1 - July 2023 Preseason under way, all about minutes into legs and boosting morale by playing lower reputation opposition. Lost a few players on free transfers (I can not wait to become a semi-pro side so this doesn't happen!)

Season 1 - June 2023 Overview Supports culture fits perfectly with the challenge! Will be key to improve youth facilities and junior coaching as we progress. Coaching Course Started off with no badges and sunday league experience... first things first, let's get the education underway! Initial Squad Overview Best Players Season yet to get underway, just lots of admin! Lets hope the amateur side doesn't lose too many players on frees!

Season by Season Summary Spoiler - to catch up where we are currently - reveal below

The Save Background For those who don't know, getting a Liechtensteiner club into the Champions League is near impossible. To qualify for the Europa Conference League, you have to the win the Liechtenstein Cup. Once you have done this you have to win the Europa Conference League, to qualify for Europa League and then win the Europa League to qualify for the Champions League. This all has to happen in concurrent years, else you are back to the ECL! To make this harder (that it needs to be), I will be making this save Youth Only, this means the only players new to the club each season will be via the youth intake (no transfers/loans in). Realistically, any success in Liechtenstein, Switzerland will be amazing. Challenging in Europe is going to definitely be a stretch target! The Club FC Ruggell is a Liechtensteiner amateur football team that plays in Liechtenstein. It is one of the seven official teams in the nation. They play in the Swiss Football League in 3. Liga, which is the seventh tier. The team annually competes in the Liechtensteiner Cup. The club has never won the tournament but has reached the final an impressive 7 times. Liechtenstein's football grounds are known for their outstanding scenery and FC Ruggell's ground at Freizeitpark Widau is no different! Bucket list item! Notable Mentions and What’s Next! @Warg92 Currently with FC Schaan doing a similar challenge that can be found here. @JBZ for the creation of the database which can be found here. Hopp Ruggell!

Loving the story so far, having done Liechtenstein saves for many years it has peaked my interest! I have a few questions: What is the aim of the save? Realistically what division do you think you can actually get them to? Whats the limit? Do you have to manually put nicknames on all your youth intake players to number them (eg YP07A)? Could you explain the naming convention? Did you choose Schaan as they had the most Liechtenstein nations in the team at the start? Would you ever do a save where you just made it Liechtenstein only (can sign only that nationality as well as youth intake)? Are you using instant result to get through as many games as quickly as you are?

That makes perfect sense, I got Ruggell to have a EL spot rather than a ECL spot due to doing so well in Europe, so that the Lietch Cup increased co-eff.

Great thank you - that's the same as the league rules. Did you win the lietch cup to get UCL qualifying and your UCL spot goes to 3rd? If so this is correct per irl league rules.

Do you have a screenshot of this happening please? Was this test run on fm24 or fm23?

Simmed 10 years into the game and can confirm no crashes. All divisions relegations/promotions worked. Great work as usual!

Great. Will test in the morning and let you know if any bugs before I dive into my save!

Hi @JBZ, thanks for your work on the databases over the years. Looking to start my Lietch save when the database is out, do you have a rough estimate when you expect it to be released? Not chasing but just want to know how invested I should get in a save I'm starting now if it will be soon out haha! Thanks again

Hi @Jimbokav1971, did you find a way of getting african newgens with the team or do you think its hard coded?

Hi all, Is there a version of the Italian DB which works and is verified on FM23.4 of the game? Thanks

Season 1 Recap League Table Tactic/The Inaki Show Transfers Issues going forward Never let your DoF offer contracts to youth/2nd team players... A massive issue with the save, can't resign 2nd contracts to 2nd team/youth players without them asking for a crazy wage.

Anyone else have the same problem... As soon as youth players get their 2nd professional contract they are wanting nearly 10k a week! Seems a huge increase and something the club can't afford especially in the first season? Thoughts/ideas?!