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NK Roltek Dob 2036/37 We were very consistent this season and with the exception of few rounds we were on the top of the table most of the season. Even though none of the players were playing outstandingly, as a team we were performing very well and the level of teamplay was fantastic. We still did not sell a single player through the whole challenge, which I find kinda interesting. Another double, this time the final was rather easy Once again we met Ki and dispatched them easily, after that we went to play Dinamo and I thought that will be it, especially after they snatched a draw at our stadium. two goals in the overtime in Zagreb meant we went on to play Pogon, which was a favorable draw for us and we managed to reach Group stage of Champions League, thus securing our finances for a while! Honestly most of the teams are on another level to us but I am proud with the win against Bodo and draw with Rangers! Key players: Saso Horvat, Marijan Mijatovic & Goran Filipovic Youth in-take: Luka Kondic & David Kostl Youth in-take

@Neo_Geo thanks a lot sir!

Does someone perhaps have the bingo template to share please?

NK Roltek Dob 2035/36 I was very wary of this season as we let go of the old guard, Kasnik, Pantelic, Mitrovic, Justin - all released on free as they were no longer the great players they once were. This meant our depth was even lower and that the last remaining old guard player was Tim Zidan as a back-up. very interesting thing happened with Saso Horvat - and a first for me in my FM career. As I mentioned before I was letting Saso leave as he wouldn't renew the contract. Last summer I could sell him for around 0.5M and there was Serie A teams having interest in him. He did not renew the contract. But he did not join any other team, which means he continued with us on month-to-month contract while being our best player and refusing any contract negotiation (he's on 500e weekly while I can offer up to 3k now). Anyway, to the league - start and finish - we managed to grasp the top spot very early on and never let go. I was myself surprised as it seemed we were showing no progress for many seasons. First title is in the bag! In League Cup we also went all the way to the finals, beating Domzale in the Semifinals and it was time to face Olimpija for double. it was a close game that came down the penalties where we have been the lucky ones and secured the historical double! We started our European campaign versus Siauliai which were not a proper opponent for us, but already next round we had to go to Portugal to face Moreirense. It was very tight couple of games but we managed to sneak through to face SK Rapid. Some of you may remember few years ago when we dispatched Rapid 5:0 at home, well, lets just say this year the tides have turned. And we managed to sign Horvat! Key players: Saso Horvat, Timotej Florancic & Franci Novak Horrible youth in-take

NK Roltek Dob 2034/35 Another decent season but we are not really showing any progress in the league. Still miles from challenging for the title. In the Cup we made it to the finals but Domzale destroyed us, even though they managed to score only one goal. We also will lose Saso Horvat after the season as he's not going to renew the contract. His market price was only around 0.5M so I decided to let the contract run out as qualifying for Europe will give us more money than that. Positive sign is that we found Pantelic replacement in Kompara who became our topscorer and elevated some pressure from Novak. This year we entered Europa League but I knew our chances of progressing to the group stage were very slim. Nevertheless we managed to dispatch Zilina but PSV Eindhoven were too much for us, even though we gave them hard time. In Conference League I was hopeful to reach the group stage but that changed quickly when I found out our opponent for 4th qualifying round. Key players: David Kompara, Zan Majer & Franci Novak Youth in-take: Matej Krizan, Dusan Matko & Amadej Sprah Youth in-take

NK Roltek Dob 2033/34 We started the league on a strong note and we managed to keep in top3 for the majority of the season. After the winter break we managed to get a comfortable lead on third place but unfortunately Domzale is still on another level, which they confirmed by destroying us in RO16 in League Cup. It's slowly coming to the end of our players from 2nd league, as Pantelic lost his form, Kasnik is getting slower and slower and Justin and Mitrovic are also no longer our starting players. Anyway I am very surprised that they lasted this long. Novak is becoming super good and slowly challenges Horvat for the best player spot. In Europe we started against Differdange which we comfortably beat and then went to Israel to play Beitar Jerusalem. Games were closed and let us know that our form is not as strong as last year. Next on was Lugano who outplayed us and we did not make it into the group stage. At least we will have more stamina for league run I guess. Key players: Franci Novak, Saso Horvat & Goran Filipovic Youth in-take: Alesio Zefi, Aleksander Jazbec & Slobodan Matko Youth in-take

I made a grave mistake of not taking my laptop with me on business trip this week. Ah the struggles of the FM player.

@mschafer13 those are the best moments in FM Good job and enjoy

NK Roltek Dob 2032/33 As you can see at the top of the screenshot, this has not been an easy season for us, but in the end we managed to equalize our best ever final position. We struggled massively with squad depth and fitness due to games in Europe but thankfully the league was very even this season, which gave us opportunity to climb back towards the end of the season. Tian Pantelic had his best season yet at the age of 31 while scoring 29 goals and 8 assists for us - and he's been playing in Third Division in 2024! Saso Horvat quickly rose to become our best player and he's a level ahead of everyone. Unfortunately he wants to leave and as he's unhappy he has not been performing up to his standards towards the end of the season. In League Cup we lost in 3rd round. Now about Europe... We started very strong in Europa league by smashing Hapoel beer Sheva who were the favourites and then dispatching Asteras Tripolis in similar matter. In the last qualifying round we faced Midtjylland who were a step ahead of us and beat us comfortably. To pass into group stage we had to beat Hammarby and to my surprise we managed to snatch a win in Sweden and then manage to hold onto a draw at home. This must have been it, I thought.. But we actually managed to go through the group stage after beating Haka, HB and drawing with Asteras Tripolis and Tobyl. We absolutely destroyed Rapid and move to next round, where we beat Hearts at home and I was getting hopeful.. but in the end they got the better of us. Key players: Tian Pantelic, Saso Horvat & Franci Novak Poor youth in-take

NK Roltek Dob 2031/32 Another great season in the bag! We were sitting on third place for majority of the season, but our best player Zenkovic got injured for 5 weeks towards the end of the season and without him we lost some important games. This time we went one step further in Conference League, after winning against quite tough opponents AEK Larnaca and Viking. LASK was a bit too for us, especially because of no depth we had very tired players. And this time we do not stop here! We had quite easy draw in Slovenian Cup, making it comfortably all the way to the finals, where we faced Maribor - and became Slovenian Cup Winners! This also means we will play Europa League next season, which should bring us even more needed finances! Key players: Dino Zenkovic, Darko Mitrovic & Saso Horvat Youth in-take: Anze Kastrevec, Zan Majer & Timotej Florjancic Youth in-take

NK Roltek Dob 2030/31 Great and very important season for us! Firstly because of a lot of investments into stadium and facilities we are running out of money very fast and we needed another qualification to Conference League. perhaps more important fact is that we finally started a slow rebuild. We have two great midfielders in Zajc and Horvat who both were starting whole season and played on Kasnik's level. Ivanovic is slowly replacing Turk (our first proper academy player) and Poglajen is starting to show up for the AMR position. Also Filipovic finally started playing well and his CA ability reached 4.5*! Key players: Tian Pantelic, Klemen Justin & Saso Horvat Youth in-take: Alen Oblak, David Kompara & Darko Kovacevic Youth in-take Our starting DM for past 6 years - thanks for everything!

@Neo_Geo I really like the home kit! by the way, what significant changes will FM25 bring? I am out of the loop.

NK Roltek Dob 2029/30 So far our worst season and we were nowhere close fighting for Europe. We also lost in 2nd round of the League Cup. In Conference League we actually played well, first we comfortably beat Sutjeska and afterwards we almost overcame Hajduk Split, which is much bigger team than we are. We currently have only one decent CM out of 3 positions so we are massively struggling. Filipovic is developing nicely but it's not showing on the pitch. We have no back-up for our aging players and no depth, but at least we are starting to get decent youth in-takes. Key players: Jaka Kasnik, Dino Zenkovic & Ozbej Kisovec Youth in-take: Marijan Mijatovic, Andrej Valencic & Robert Cankar

NK Roltek Dob 2028/29 We were playing good football through out whole season, even flirting with top3. In the end we managed to reach Europe after one year pause, which should help our struggling finances (due to Stadium construction). In League Cup we failed already in 2nd round after fully rotating the squad. Jaka Kasnik had another splendid season and carried us forward, I am worried about our striker though, as pantelic was very quiet all season long and we have noone else. Key players: Jaka Kasnik, Dino Zenkovic & Tim Zidan Youth in-take: Saso Horvat, Matic Poglajen & Jernej Pesa Transfers Amazing youth in-take Finally we got a decent in-take! Looks like HOYD change bears fruits.

NK Roltek Dob 2027/28 It was a decent run in the league, although this time we were nowhere close fighting for Europe. In Conference League we first played Kí from Faroe Islands that we managed to comfortably beat, but Vojvodina was on another level for us, even though we played really well in the first game and were up 2-1. In League Cup we played really well and made it all the way to the final, where we faced the best team in the country - Olimpija. They beat us comfortably which meant no European football for us next season. As fasr as our team goes, the best player this season was Zenkovic who was previously mostly back-up. Sipek is already 32 and seemed to be quite on decline. Also Gosak might have had the last starting seaosn in him, unfortunately we do not have any replacement. Rest of the team is still okay age wise, but still no talents to replace old players. Filipovic became 17 and he's our best hope, already playing for Serbian u18. Key players: Jaka Kasnik, Dino Zenkovic & Tim Zidan Transfers Horrible youth in-take We also announced new Stadium plans, with the planned capacity of almost 11 000, great increase form current 273 spots. Our facilities significantly downgraded this year almost across all items.

@aldojags nice, great job you've done with Dob! I agree fully, I also thought I could beat even the best team straight in the second season, even without signings. I think now it may get tougher for me as I am not getting good enough youth, but the money from Conference League will surely help in the long term. For me Klemen Justin performs very well, but at the start I had 4 great players for two positions and Zenkovic is usually a substitute for me - even though based on CA he would be star in any other position than on the wing, where I prefer Justin or Sipek. You must tell me how you managed to sign kovac for 900k, what a beast!

NK Roltek Dob 2026/27 I knew we will do well this season and we started off very strong and were hovering around top 5. In the middle of the season we started getting quite bit of injuries and fell down all the way to 7th. Somehow Pantelic always shows up towards the end of the season and after 4 wins in last 5 games we managed to sneak into European Football! Our stadium currently can host around 300 fans, so that will be indeed interesting On the other hand it's concerning that we are not getting any talents from our youth in-takes and once our core ages we might not be able to replace our star players. So far the only youngster capable of playing in starting 11 is Jaka Turk on the right side of the defense. Key players: Klemen Justin, Tian Pantelic & Tim Zidan Youth in-take | Goran Filipovic Transfers

NK Roltek Dob 2025/26 We managed to keep all the players and slowly started to incorporate 1 or 2 youngsters to the A team. Our start was not that good and we were sitting aorund the 7th place but suddenly we started picking up win after win and eventually even surpassed Triglav for 1st place. In the end we did not manage to hold on to the 1st place and had to play in play-offs. I was hopeful because in both seasons we played very well vs. First Division teams and we managed to beat Beltinci to book ourselves a spot in the First Division! Honestly I am not even that worried for the next season, I think we should manage to stay up. But our depth is really lacking, if we get an injury crisis that would be really bad for us. Key players: Jaka Kasnik, Tian Pantelic & Davorin Gosak Transfers

NK Roltek Dob 2024/25 I wanted to try a league I never managed before and Slovenia caught my eye. I did not have high expectations as I took over a semi-professional club but was positively surprised my level of certain players, still we were expected to finish 15th. We started the season very well and just kept on doing just that, at some point even reaching the promotion places before eventually dropping down. Slovenia is quite tough as you cannot field players before the age 16 which will make first two seasons quite hard. Also the youth intake was not as good as in my games with Usti nad Labem, but it may have something to do with the quality of our players here in Dob.We also managed to do really well in Slovenian Cup as we managed to go all the way to Quarterfinals, beating famous teams like Celje on the way. Key players: Jaka Kasnik, Tian Pantelic & Davorin Gosak Youth in-take: Jernej Kmetec & Jaka Turk

@Daddy Fantastic work, huge congrats!

Ústí nad Labem 2026/27 Not gonna lie, I was very close to stopping playing with us losing our professional status after finishing 3rd last season. We started the season with the board selling our biggest talent Lukas Rezac for only 44k (140k), which was a low blow as we do not really have that many options in central defense. At first I agreed to him continuin with us on loan until the rest of the season but afterwards I realized it might be against the rules, so I terminated his loan (after 28 days - earliest possible) with him not playing any game for us on loan - by the way, anyone can confirm whether keeping sold players for the remainder of the season on loan is against the rules?. In Autumn we did not play exactly great and were placed 7th before winter break. I was feeling quite sad about it as I enjoyed the save thus far but with us moving to semi-pro and majority of players on contract until the end of the year, we would probably have to let go of most our players in summer on free. Something clicked through the winter break though, our full-back Vrabec and Filbert stepped up the game massively and Cerny and Bunes made fans forget about Kucera (who has became a fringe player, but still managed to score three important goals). We started winning comfortably most of the games and locked in play-offs with 3 games in advance. Coming into the last game of the season we were 3rd behind Sparta B and Hradec Kralove and we were playing away at Jihlava. We managed to get a draw and at the same time Hradec lost their home game to Teplice, thus promoting us to 2nd place in the table! And considering Sparta B team cannot be promoted, we have been promoted straight to the First Division!!! Key players: Petr Rybicka, Jakub Vrabec & Adam Cerny Youth watch: Stanislav Trapp, Seidu Mensah & Jiri Schut

Good luck! I must admit that in the end the sense of uniqueness for my challenge was too much handle. I will start a new one and see if I can stick with that one for a moment.

And this is what I get for the 3rd place

Ústí nad Labem 2025/26 What a season! I was quite worried coming into the next season as we did not have an attacker suited to play my favourite tactic and we had a quickly aging core of Kucera and Richter. Youth players were nowhere near ready and my expectations were to fight around 10th place in the table. Fortunately, I decided to tweak our tactics and make changes to the roles of the players that were struggling even though they were supposed to be our star players. I started using Ismael Dao as an inverted winger & let Petr Rybicka to play a role of advanced forwarded - these changes were instrumental to our success, as both of them became our best players this season. Rybicka scored 25 goals and Dao seven, to which he added 10 assists. We played surprisingly great football through out the season and eventually managed to climb the play-off spot, to everybody's surprise. I knew it's too early for promotion, but would take it anyway just for the finances (and hope to not get fired as we get relegated next season), where we are really struggling even though I keep the budget very much in check. In the play-offs we faced Brno, who showed us the difference between 1st and 2nd division as they comfortably controlled both games and we remain in 2nd Division. As far as our team goes, Kucera is starting to show the older age and so is Richter. We still do not have a proper right winger as Hycka retires at the end of the season and Cohla is our only other (sub-par) option. Defense is also looking weak, although we have some great prospects there, Lukas Rezac from last year youth in-take quickly became our defense leader and in April we welcomed Jakub Vrabec who's already our best LB while being 16 years old. Key players: Petr Rybicka, Ismael Dao & Lukas Rezac Youth watch: Hynek Zizka, Petr Plachy, Lumir Cicovsky

@Daddy Thank you! Fingers crossed you get it done, how far you are from winning CL you reckon? Finances are indeed quite challenging, and even though the facilities were OK to start with, they're already losing their status.