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Taking a bit of a break from current version as finding the match engine quite frustrating and not really enjoying it done another season in my run since will update at some point

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Season 5 :2023/2024  Wuhan Zall

Build Up

So Year 2 in China begins and hoping ot make a big splash this year after a really promosing season last year. Feel i have a real chance at the AFC with how the tactic seemed to play in the league and feel like Chinese teams will be my toughest test in it.

Transfers

Unfortunatly my main midfielder of last year Jorginho got a bad knee injury in preseason and put him out for 6 months so i quickly had to reaccess i instantly though of Andreas Periera from previous United saves, i have always got him to perform well for some reason in the last 2 FMs and he was open to the move as he was currently slumming it in mid table in Russia so a cool 19m bagged him for me on a modest 140k a week for this league.

I then went a little bit nuts and wanted to sign a young exciting regen my scouts were locked onto too a portuguese stiker at Wolves so i splashed a pretty insane 80m to get him as i have crazy China money and no one to spend it on haha.

3 others were signed for the u19s from other Chinese teams and did not feature this season.

In the second window i dipped into the market again looking to pick up some Chinese reinforcements so i identified the top players in the league up to that point and chanced my arm in signing them which led me to picking up striker/winger Tao Qianglong for 18m from a struggling Guangzhou Evergrande and another players from my main rivals John Hou Saeter for only 5m, the database honestly handles these transfer poorly and you seem to be able to easiy form a kind of Chinese super team as these guys are heads and shoulders above other Chinese players.

The main outgoing was Marcos Alsonso to Evergrande for 19m and a few youger players sold to Divsion One teams.

The League

Opened with a very strong start winning our first 7 quite easily before hitting a bit of a wall against some of the tougher sides wehere we lost 2 and drew 3 out of 5 stuck with my game plan and reinforced in the transfer window around this time we then went on to run rampent in the league only dropping 6 points in the league. The main reason being Periera and Petagna absolutely destroyed the league and broke all kinds of records so if you find yourself in China i cant recommened these two enough. Probably one of the most dominant seasons ive had in FM so early on in a save but again i think this is partly due ot be being able to hoard Chinese players easily.

8 Players in the TOTY and 3 subs and Periera getting POTY and Petagna getting to Golden Boot.

The Cup

The Cup was a battle to the death two of our games going to extra time and one to penalties we really go lucky but ultimately cruised the final which was over two legs, seems to be a common trend in Asia.

The AFC

My first proper crack at this tournament so wasn't sure what to expect a very shaky group stage due to registration issues as i had Jorginho registered but then his injury kinda screwed me a bit so we scrapped through the groups where we could then re register our new man Periera and our new Chinese players into the mix. We faced the entire South Korean League more or less in our run of the tournament dispatching Seoul in a nervy fixture coming out 5-3 winners or aggregate before blowing away Suwon Bluewings 7-2 in the Quarters. Then we faced Jeonbuk Hyandai Motors a team who had beat us in the group stages so i was pretty apprehensive about it and too my shock we get absolutely battered away from home 3-0 not really creating much and honestly lucky to get out of there only conceding three but i had hope we have embarrassed teams at home this season scoring 5 or more on a few occassions so i spared me main lads in the games surrounding the second leg and it paid off with us coming out 4-0 winners after 2 late goals to go through then onto another two legged final getting sick of these type finals tbh where we dispatch Al-Hilal without much trouble 5-1 on aggregate. So there we go my stint in Asia is wrapped up with a treble in China in my second year.

Really a case of me abusing the ability to get the best Chinese players and stumbling across a gem of a striker for these league but i'll take and 3 more trophies to add to the collection.

I have now resigned from Wuhan with nothing left to gain in Asia bar a national job which who knows when will pop up and i now await my next challenge.

 

I will update this post with screenshots tomorrow!

 

						Leagues		Cups	
Season	Nation	  Division  	Club		1st	2nd	1st	2nd	Cont.	CWC	Other Achievements
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2019/20	Indonesia DU		PSPS Pekanbaru	5th	3rd	Winner	n/a	n/a	n/a	Won promtion in 2nd stage on league finishing 3rd + Cup win, MOTY, POTY
2020/21	Indonesia ISL		PSPS Pekanbaru	2nd	N/A	4th Rd	n/a	n/a	n/a	Asian Confederation Cur Winner, MOTY, National C Licence
2021/22	Indonesia ISL 		PSPS Pekanbaru	1st	N/A	Winner	n/a	n/a	n/a	Domestic Double,MOTY,POTY,National B Licence
2022/23	Indonesia ISL 		PSPS Pekanbaru	N/A	N/A	N/A	n/a	Grp	n/a	First AFC appearance, Leave after 6 League games.
2022/23	China	  CSL 		Wuhan Zall	4th	N/A	N/A	n/a	n/a	n/a	Fight back from relegation to top 4, National A License
2023/24	China	  CSL 		Wuhan Zall	1st	N/A	Winner	n/a	Winner	n/a	Treble Season, Continental C and B Licence, MOTY,POTY


Challenge Progress

Club

2/10 Top domestic leagues (Liga Super Indonesia 21/22,Chinese Super League 23/24)

2/10 Top Domestic cups (Piala Indonesia 19/20,Chinese FA Cup 23/24)

1/5 Continental championships (AFC 23/24)

0/1 Club World Cups

International

0/5 Continental tournaments ()

0/1 World tournaments ()

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Really feeling your pain @Skogmus do they have any insane players? or just seemingly one of those things?

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Unlucky @Skogmus hopefully you beat the damn Germans next time around

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Season 4 :2022/2023 PSPS Pekanbaru + Wuhan Zall

Build Up

So as you can see i have moved from my first job onto bigger and better things, leaving PSPS was bitter sweet really enjoyed my time there and was a few games into the season before Zall offered me the position, Dalian Yifang had rejected me previously so i though i was in for another year of it. Before leaving i played 5 of the 6 AFC games and had us hanging in in 2nd needing to win to gurantee passing through to the next round which i would have been confident of doing as it was against the weakest side unfortunately the AI didn't manage it after i left so they crashed out and began to stuggle in the league in the later months they have revived and are back up to 3rd so seems the new manager is settled in a doing well now thankfully. We also bagged the Community Shield before leaving with an easy 3-0 win so offically did a clean sweep of all trophies Indonesia.

The Transfers

I've only managed in China once before and never finished the season so i was looking forward to giving it a proper go now. I always felt as important as it is to get your 3 to 4 foreign players playing well the back bone of your squad is going to be Chinese players so i primarly set out to get the best ones i could find as our current ones were a bit lacking compared to others in the league. I ended up bringing in about 12 new Chinese players ill just list the ones that had the biggest impact on the year as someone are more long term projects.

Shao Zheng a really promising Chinese MR has performed super well for me since joining and im very excited about his future as he has a lot of potential for a chinese player if he got anywhere near 4 star he'll be a god in the league

Tian Jiayi another promising winger for the left side not as impactful as Zheng but rarely had a bad game and plenty of room to improve so quite excited about him also.

Wei Tao a keeper for the future who i may start next season as he's not far off our starter who i also brought in new, he is Zou Dehai gave some solid performances and seems quite reliable.

Our cbs really sucked ass and i fell thats why they were struggling im talking half a star and even silver star players for some reason they were overly reliant on a foreign cb who i'll mention in a bit. So i picked up a few 2 star cb to see who would work well.He Guan Li Ang became the starting two pretty fast after i dumped the idea of using the foreign cb as he just wasn't performing well.

I then snagged a promising Chinese striker in Huang Zichang and a RB in Li Hailong.

That gave me a good strong foundation of Chinese players i felt there were about 5 or 6 others some went into the reserve side as they werent as good as scouts suggested and others i just never used as i wanted to keep the same 11 for a while. Then for the fun part in the foreign signings, just to add i had an insane 85m budget on hand which is why i went a bit nuts buying chinese players as all these guys only like cost a few hundred thousand bar the first 2 wingers who cost be 3 or 4 m each.

When i arrived the standout names were Fernandinho, Jorginho,Sergi Gomez and Marcus Alonso as well as two other young brazilians straight from the Brazilian league. Straight away i just knew no way Fernandinho would not have the legs to play in the 2 man midfield i wanted to try as his physicals were through the floor at the tender age of 36 so to the reseveres he went where he nicely ended up getting a 4 month injury and announced he'd retire soon, Jorginho was perfect still only 30 he was in his prime and coudn't wait to use him. I used Gomez initally at CB and Alonso at LB but we were leaking goals quite badly still this caused me to sell Gomez and bump Alonso up to a ML role and reinforce at cb as i mentioned above which worked really well with our midfield shielding them.

Later in the season i phased Alonso out as the young Chinese wingers were doing a fine job and my two new foreign singings were performing amazing. Those 2 signings were Hannibal Mejbri who i knew was a star from my Man U save he was transfer listed for only 4m so i couldnt resist trying to get him and seeing could i turn him into a star still only 19 him and Jorginho soon began to dominate in midfield leaving us regularly with 65% possession or more after that the logical choice for me was to try and get a striker to bully Chinese back lines so i picked up this brute from SPAL Andrea Petagna and what a signing he proved to be i took the risk of selling the 2 brazilian forward we have and intrusting it all on this man with a Chinese partner up front and he quickly dominated the league scoring 16 goals in his 13 games managing to snag the Golden Boot in just half a season the first proper prolific striker ive had this save so far and can't wait to see him go a full season.

 

I also randomly picked up Ozil for free and on only 20k a week but ended up dumping my tactic with a 10 role so he didnt really feature he seems to be happy playing week in week out for the reserves so thats fine by me.

 

The League

We took over after roughly 10 games with the team struggling down in 13th but with not many points between them and the top dogs realistically. So still plenty to play for in terms or AFC places as the same side came 5th the year before. The first few games i had to use what we had and well i really struggled, losing 3 of my first 5 and i really thought my dream China move was gonna come to a quick end, they then have a mid season break and the transfer window opened where i attempted to put my stamp on things aftwr which we win out first game but again slip to a draw and loss soon after and my manager rating slips to C- due to them thinking all my transfers were terrible business too haha. Then from nowehere we beat 3rd place Hebei 2-1 and never looked back the players got a big morale kick from the win and crushed the following 3 relegation battling sides so they were full of confidence coming into the top 2 sides Evergrande and Shanghai who too my absolute shock we beat from there we played mainly lower down teams not playing anyone really near the top 4 spots till the end of year and on the last game of the season snuck into 4th spot for an AFC place for next year.

Schedule - conviently every game i managed fit perfectly into the screen as you can see a lot of clean sheets largely due to the shielding of the 2 midfielders i feel .

League Table bad year for Evergrande this year! The squad The final tactic

 

The Cup

We were knocked out before i took over so will be gunning for this next year!!

						Leagues		Cups	
Season	Nation	  Division  	Club		1st	2nd	1st	2nd	Cont.	CWC	Other Achievements
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2019/20	Indonesia DU		PSPS Pekanbaru	5th	3rd	Winner	n/a	n/a	n/a	Won promtion in 2nd stage on league finishing 3rd + Cup win, MOTY, POTY
2020/21	Indonesia ISL		PSPS Pekanbaru	2nd	N/A	4th Rd	n/a	n/a	n/a	Asian Confederation Cur Winner, MOTY, National C Licence
2021/22	Indonesia ISL 		PSPS Pekanbaru	1st	N/A	Winner	n/a	n/a	n/a	Domestic Double,MOTY,POTY,National B Licence
2022/23	Indonesia ISL 		PSPS Pekanbaru	N/A	N/A	N/A	n/a	Grp	n/a	First AFC appearance, Leave after 6 League games.
2022/23	China	  CSL 		Wuhan Zall	4th	N/A	N/A	n/a	n/a	n/a	Fight back from relegation to top 4, National A License



Challenge Progress

Club

1/10 Top domestic leagues (Liga Super Indonesia 21/22)

1/10 Top Domestic cups (Piala Indonesia 19/20)

0/5 Continental championships ()

0/1 Club World Cups

International

0/5 Continental tournaments ()

0/1 World tournaments ()

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2 hours ago, LeoFM said:

Very frustrating to not have a greater goal return. The amount of 1v1 chances he missed is incredible considering his job is to play football. 

This is a pretty big issue with any striker right now imo and something that is kind of spoiling the game for me a little bit strikers just cant score genuine striker goals most of the time its long shots or some deflection/tap in

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Season 3 :2021/2022 PSPS Pekanbaru

The Build Up

Getting so close to the title last year i decided to give it another shot to get our first League title under our belt. For this season i decided to go all out recruitment cutting a few of regulars in the team in the hopes the improved quality of player will overcome the reduced chemistry. With no confederation cup this year we have far less fixtures so the League is top priority anything less will have been a waste.

 

Transfers

Marcelo Santos a young cb from Brazil im not sure why he was interested in coming but he provided a major upgrade in the back line for us, came mid way through the year but has been nailed on since arriving and hoping to hold him for another year or two.

Tedi Berlian a promising FB left go free from the defending champs i quickly picked him up and he's proven to be a solid addition.

Iman Budi Hernandi some expereine added to the midfield snatched up on a free again from a newly promoted side,very consistent and improved our attack considerably with his ability to regain possession.

Kei Hirose another foreign import fort our left wing an area of real trouble for us up to now had a decent return but hardly spectacular

Celio Codo finally a half decent striker a journeyman from Brazil he banged in quite a few goals for us and was absoultely dominant in the air leading the league in key headers and headers won, a big reason we improved quite a bit up front.

Akbar Zakaria A full back for the opposite side again putting in some stellar performances improving our back line considerably .

League

Well a big task awaited us and i knew key to our success would be improving our goal scoring ability something we lacked till now averaging roughly 1.5 goals per league game.Thankfully that all changed this year thanks to our additions out wide and upfront as well as our back up right back coming good and improving that flank. In the end we had a comfortable title win in comparison to the previous two champions largely thanks to us being red hot from July to September going upbeaten during that spell.

Schedule Part 1 Schedule Part 2 Table

Cup

A small part of me wanted to at least make the final with how well we were playing all season and crashing out early last year and thankfully we did just that making it to the final and winning it against last years league winners.

Schedule

Awards

Season Awards our magical number 10 bags another fans player of the season making that 3 for 3.

Zulhari played in CM quite a bit too and picks up young player of the season but misses out on out Team of the season as our CM position performed quite well across the board.

Pratama is the rw back up who made the position his own this year and gave us the consistency we'd been lacking till this year.

Zulfikar bags player of the season too to add to his award cabinet POTY

A few players make it into the TOTY also TOTY

A quick look at Zulfikars profile too Zulfikar

And the full squad Squad

 

Looking Ahead

So now it comes to planning my next move ive simmed ahead and did two interviews in South Korea but didn't make the cut and due to my preformance in the Confderations Cup i have boosted Indonesias co-efficent enough for the league champions to get a Qualifying spot in the AFC. These games started quite soon after the end of the league so i decided to stick around for those anyway as felt i owed them that. I wasn't to sure what to expect from the qualifiers but lookin at the fixtures i fancied making it to last round of quals at least where i'd face a Chinese side Beijing Sinobo Guoan last years 3rd place.

First round we face up against what i assume are Mynamars champions Yadanarbon and easily control the game coming out 3-0 winners. The next game matches us up against Port from Thailand a slightly closer game but again coming out 2-0 winners . Now we face by far my biggest and toughest game of my career to date a Chinese team spending 2m a week on wages im clearly up against it here i glance though their squad to see Gedson Fernandes a player i used in a Man united save who became an absolute beast so to say i was a bit nervous was an understatment.

We start well taking the game to them with a few early shots and once chance in the opening 20 before the bounce back with 2 quick chanes of their own but we hold tough eventually we go in 0-0 at half time we chances few and far between but we have the slight edge in possession which has honestly shocked me but i know too well morale and chemistry play such a huge part for teams from previous saves. We come out early and who else but Zulfikar springs up with a curling effort from outside the box 1-0 to the boys i can't believe it the match rages on when a loose corner falls to our signing of the year Hernandi and he smashes it into the top corner 2-0, surely it cant be? Fernandes is surely going to bully my midfield as they tire and make some chances.But the game gradually trickles out with them making little to no chances, im really not sure what ive just witnessed possibly my biggest upset ever in a big game such as this. Most of their players earn more then my whole team and we've just sent them packing

I got what i feel is a handy group with a South Korean side and two sides without active leagues so i think i have a good chance of making it through the groups for a round or two at least. I'll be keeping my eyes open throughout the next year for a new job but until then the AFC provides something different and fun to work on

Schedule Beijing Sinobo Guoan Squad Group Draw

 

 

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I decided to stay for now anyway @TheEarl

Part of me would be a bit annoyed if i gave up on the title that easy.

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Season 2: 2020/2021 PSPS Pekanbaru

The Build Up

My first foray into a top division and the clubs first return to the top division in 5 years, excitement was high but the board was quite realistic with what layed ahead and had just outlined to fight bravely against relegation with the media prediction putting us as top contenders for relegation by some distance. We reinforced as much as possible in the summer our reputation got a slight improvement with us rising from 1 star to 1.5 after our suprise promotion and cup win last year unfortunately that didnt effect things too much in the transfer window and the calibre of player on offer was somewhat lacking however some decent upgrades were acquired and with outgoings too the squad had taken shape somewhat with depth in each position. Prolific goalscorers do seem to be lack in Indoensia with most teams wingers and strikers rarely breaking 10 to 12 goals for the year. My main goal for the year was going to be to get as far in the Asian Confederations Cup as possible as in all my years in FM this was a totally new tournament to me and seemed quite different from anything ive played in before with good prize money on offer it seemed like a sure fire way to secure the clubs future.

The League

Overall i can't be too unhappy with the league performance our form was quite up and down with us really struggling for a consistent goal scorer all year, our number 10 from last POTY of division 2 took a while to settle into the division but eventaully started to find his feet and when he did we begin to see some good form develop.We had a very promising start to the year with two emphatic 5 nil wins which got me thinking this could be a bit of comfortable year,hoever FM soon brought me back down to earth and we struggled for the next 2 months to reall find any form i made a slight tweak to our tactics after this as i found the long ball was really punishing us as it does most teams in this FM so i set out to make us hard to score against and hopefully knick a goal from set pieces and the odd bit of nice play we can manage. As you can see from June to August this really paid off and we conceded only one goals in that time and only another 2 between then and our first defeat which saw us shoot up the table as anyone seems to be capable of beating anyone this season with last years champs languishing in mid table it seems like quite the volatile league. With some patchy form following i stick to my guns and we end up finishing quite strongly securing ourtselves a superb 2nd place finish unfortunately or 2nd last game was against the eventual winners and winning that would have knicked us the title on GD however it was not to be 

 

 

The Cup

After great success last year i was quite confident of defending our title this year with an improved squad and us performing well in the league, we cruised through the opening rounds but ultimately our own confidence got the better of us with us pulling our best bottling performance of the save out and throwing away a 3-1 lead in the first leg of Round 4 to only lose 4-1 in the return leg and crash out to a League 2 side.

 

The Asian Confederations Cup

My main goal for the year was getting some silverware out of this the tournament seems to mainly consist of the cup and league winners of a lot of the weaker asian nations so i felt i had a great chance at success with us being one of the few teams even fully loaded into the game.

 

We begun with a playoff game to qualifiy for the first of the group stages which lined us up with an East Timor team called Boavista we comfotably dispatch them with a mad 15-0 aggregate score. From here we entered into a group format where the winner of each group and best runner up qualify for the semi final knockout section of our region which was called the ASEAN ZONE, there is also Central/South/East and West Asian Zones so it is quite a large tournament and an overly complicated structure. But anyway we top this group comfortably winning all 6 of our games against quite weak teams.

 From here we played the Semi Final v Binh Duong with a 3-1 win over 2 legs and the final v Ha Noi FC a comfortable 4-0 win in the Final of the Zone.

 

The fun doesn't stop there folks with us then moving onto the Interzone Playoffs against the other Zone champions who go through a similar format. From here the match difficulty jumped a little with us scraping an away goals victore v East Bengal the South Asian Champs from India before a tough final against the defending champs April 25 from North Korea i fully expected some North Korean shenanigans with us getting knocked out regardless of result but we knick a tough fought win 3-2 over two legs and progress out to the overall final of the tournament 

 

I head into the final sort of expecting a defeat after just barely getting by the previous 2 games we went up against Al-Ittihad of Syria who we suprisngly hammered 4-0 to lift the trophy and a cool 1.2m pounds in prize money which does wonders for the clubs future.

Also just to get an idea of how overly complicated this tournament is here is the rules outline haha

 Community Shield

We also played in the community shield this year due to our cup win however it was a resounding 2-0 loss which was a dissapointing start to an otherwise great year again for the club

Awards

Siswanto was a CB we picked up towards the end of the last season who really flurished this year averaging a 7.28 all year partnering well with our young player of the season Tri Oka who was with the club when i took over had great potential and decided to give him a shot after our poor patch at the beginning of the year and i never looked back. Krunia was a striker i signed who managed only 5 goals in 15 appearances for the club and who will be getting released shortly so my signings didnt exactly set the world alight this year haha.

I again picked up MOTY so another great year personally but no player awards for us this year but we did have 4 players in the TOTY - GK,CB,LB and CM.

 

As for next season im unsure if i'll stay on another year to try and clinch the title as my rep has jumped up a bit of the back of the last 2 years to 15% and i managed to get my National C Licence this year finally too so that may allow for some interesting moves elsewhere i have also learned a good level of Bahasa Indonesia should be interesting to see how many languages i have by the end of the save

						Leagues		Cups	
Season	Nation	  Division  	Club		1st	2nd	1st	2nd	Cont.	CWC	Other Achievements
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2019/20	Indonesia DU		PSPS Pekanbaru	5th	3rd	Winner	n/a	n/a	n/a	Won promtion in 2nd stage on league finishing 3rd + Cup win, MOTY, POTY
2020/21	Indonesia ISL		PSPS Pekanbaru	2nd	N/A	4th Rd	n/a	n/a	n/a	Asian Confederation Cur Winner, MOTY




Challenge Progress

Club

0/10 Top domestic leagues (Insert nations)

1/10 Top Domestic cups (Piala Indonesia 19/20)

0/5 Continental championships ()

0/1 Club World Cups

International

0/5 Continental tournaments ()

0/1 World tournaments ()

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Season 1 2019/2020 PSPS Pekanbaru

 

The Club

Wasting no time I threw my hat in the ring for a few jobs straight off that bat receiving interviews from Cobh Ramblers in Ireland which is near my home town, Hapoel Umm el-Fahm in Israel and PSPS in Indonesia. Receiving offers from all 3 after some stellar interviews i decided to ditch my local club and jet off to Indonesia drawn in by their good facilities for a club of their standing. A whopping 25,000 capacity stadium awaited me in Indonesia and a surprisingly healthy bank balance of about £600,000. And room to maneuver in terms of recruitment too with the club only spending 10,000 a week of their limit of 32,000.Coming in after just two games into the season with one win and one loss under their belt things looked promising albeit with a mish mash of players in my 25 man squad. As I glance through the names i notice the club seemingly only having one out and out fullback and no real wingers i could be in for a rough ride in my first year.The club vision was straight forward a mid table finish in the league and be competitive in the cup would keep the board off my back for the year with the goal of earning a promotion in the next 2 years.

The League

I shoehorn my players into my preferred 4-2-3-1 formation and take the gamble that if i can get morale up with a few cheeky wins we may snowball and end up having a decent year.Unfortunately the transfer window was closed and unable to reinforce now i set out to find some good value staff and get scouting some fullbacks and wingers as we await the next window.

We had a mixed bag of results through out the year with my main focus being settling on an 11 getting my good performers tied down to another 12 month contract and getting them familiar with the tactics as the Indonesian 2nd Division splits into 2 stages the aim was too hopefully hit a peak around then with the transfer window opening at the same time and try and push on for promotion. Thankfully we scrap into the second stage with a 5th place finish spot enough to earn ourselves a spot into stage 2.Stage 2 involves the top 4 from the two lower divisions East and West facing off in a mini and knockout competition for three promotion spots.

Just before the start of stage 2 im able to reinforce with some players ive identified during the year so finally we have some full backs and wingers to support what has been a solid cb partnership and dynamite number 10 up till now, these signings are key for what then unfolded.

We went on a very strong run topping our Stage 2 group qualifying outselves for the knockouts against the top 2 in the 2nd stage 2 group as well as the runners up in our group unfortunately we lose your semi final match narrowly 3-2 on aggregate but all is not lost to my delight the winner of the 3rd place play off also gets a promotion spot. We have a tricky match against someone who had beat us in the regular season but we had since got the better of in a Stage 2 match up and unbelievable we come out top and clinch promotion to the top division. Absolute scenes.

Cup

Of course while all the above excitement is going on we have the national cup running also which annoyingly is double legged through all of the later stages from Round 4 onwards so it adds a lot of fixtures in a deep run. Thi splayed a big part in the team adjust to tactics and picking up form throughou the year and well i cant say much else but that we somehow managed to win this taking down 2 teams from the top division along the way getting a bit of favour with the finalists being one of the teams being relegated to the lower league next year our only suprise victory coming in the semi finals against 8th place in the top tier everyone elsei felt was a winnable game and so we got som enice luck in the draw for that and that qualifys us for the Asian Confederations Cup which should be a nice financial boost going into next year. Cup Run Part 2

 

Season in Review

Probably the best start ive ever had to a unemployed save so quite excited to continue with the team although offers from the top league may be tempting while interest in me will be high as i didnt get a chance to earn any badge this season due to coaching demands.

Our fantastic number 10 got player of the year while i scooped manager of the year.Awards

The man himself Number 10

						Leagues		Cups	
Season	Nation	  Division  	Club		1st	2nd	1st	2nd	Cont.	CWC	Other Achievements
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2019/20	Indonesia DU		PSPS Pekanbaru	5th	3rd	Winner	n/a	n/a	n/a	Won promtion in 2nd stage on league finishing 3rd + Cup win, MOTY, POTY





Challenge Progress

Club

0/10 Top domestic leagues (Insert nations)

1/10 Top Domestic cups (Piala Indonesia 19/20)

0/5 Continental championships ()

0/1 Club World Cups

International

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0/1 World tournaments ()

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Gonna give this challenge a whirl hopefully have my first season update in a few days