The default training schedule for semi-pro clubs in Football Manager is 4 sessions per week, 2 each on Tuesday and Thursday, with a match at the weekend. More matches means one day of training is removed, no matches means an extra two training sessions on Saturday.
In this feature from the Football Medicine & Performance Magazine, Daniel Bernardin (Head of Performance at Queen's Park Rangers) and Dylan Mernagh (First Team Sports Scientist at Queen's Park Rangers) write that "most semi-pro clubs will train Monday, Tuesday and Thursday", and they deliver one strength and conditioning session per week on Wednesdays to their client clubs.
Anecdotally, some users in this discussion from 2015 mention that semi-pro clubs in Sweden and Norway typically train every day in the afternoon or evening. One user mentions that semi-pro clubs in Sweden's third tier having as many training sessions as the professional clubs, albeit not as individualised due to fewer coaching staff. Another says that their local semi-pro club (one who were closer to being amateur than to going pro) in Norway trains 4-5 days a week in real life.
My suggestions:
If a semi-pro team can afford to do so (e.g. a team in the Vanarama National League and VNL North/South [English 5-6th tiers] or Regionalliga [German 4th tier] with a mix of professional clubs and semi-pro clubs) they should be able to train more than the current limit allows for.
Semi-pro training schedules should be able to be adjusted by the nation's researcher(s) to better reflect the actual situation.
The default training schedule for semi-pro clubs in Football Manager is 4 sessions per week, 2 each on Tuesday and Thursday, with a match at the weekend. More matches means one day of training is removed, no matches means an extra two training sessions on Saturday. In this feature from the Football Medicine & Performance Magazine, Daniel Bernardin (Head of Performance at Queen's Park Rangers) and Dylan Mernagh (First Team Sports Scientist at Queen's Park Rangers) write that "most semi-pro clubs will train Monday, Tuesday and Thursday", and they deliver one strength and conditioning session per week on Wednesdays to their client clubs. Anecdotally, some users in this discussion from 2015 mention that semi-pro clubs in Sweden and Norway typically train every day in the afternoon or evening. One user mentions that semi-pro clubs in Sweden's third tier having as many training sessions as the professional clubs, albeit not as individualised due to fewer coaching staff. Another says that their local semi-pro club (one who were closer to being amateur than to going pro) in Norway trains 4-5 days a week in real life. My suggestions: If a semi-pro team can afford to do so (e.g. a team in the Vanarama National League and VNL North/South [English 5-6th tiers] or Regionalliga [German 4th tier] with a mix of professional clubs and semi-pro clubs) they should be able to train more than the current limit allows for. Semi-pro training schedules should be able to be adjusted by the nation's researcher(s) to better reflect the actual situation.