hrmantovani

January 2023 For the first time, we are closer to promotion than relegation

December 2022 We blew up a 3-0 lead at HT against Dover...

November 2022 Slowly establishing ourselves in a midtable position to reach our season goal

October 2022 Great month for our standards and we are now 6 points away from relegation

September 2022 We are up 1 position, but we are out of the relgation zone

August 2022 Could have been worse, the main goal is to survive this first season.

Preseason 2022/23 a Transfers Nothing special, just backups for GK and RB positions.

Starting squad -

Chapter 1: England – Cheshunt Cheshunt Football Club is a football club based in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England. They are currently members of the National League South and play at Theobalds Lane. The original Cheshunt Football Club was formed around 1880 and played in black and white stripes. The first recorded game was in 1888, winning 4–0 against Novocastrians. They won the first Herts Charity Cup in 1900–01 and went on to win it again in 1903–04 and 1905–06. They also reached the FA Amateur Cup semi-final in 1903–04, losing 2–0 to Ealing. After their best league position of fifth in 1926–27, Cheshunt's form collapsed and they finished bottom of the Athenian league for the next four seasons. Heavily in debt, they disbanded in 1931 after their landlords, Cheshunt Cricket Club, raised the rent on their Albury Ride ground. The modern club was established in July 1946 at a public meeting in the Co-op Hall in Waltham Cross. A group of local businessmen decided to form a new club for the town, and local junior team Crossbrook Sports were used as the basis for the new club, retaining their amber and black kit. Club records Best FA Cup performance: Fourth qualifying round, 1925–26, 1958–59, 1966–67, 1970–71, 1977–78 Best FA Amateur Cup performance: Semi-finals, 1903–04 Best FA Trophy performance: Fifth round, 2021–22 Best FA Vase performance: Quarter-finals, 1981–82 Record attendance: 5,000 vs Bromley, FA Amateur Cup second round, 28 January 1950 Most appearances: John Poole, 512 (1970–1976, 1979–1983) Most goals: Darrell Cox, 152 (1997–2005, 2007–2008 & 2010) Record transfer fee received: £10,000 from Peterborough United for Lloyd Opara, 2006

The manager: Jason Roqara This is Jason Roqara, a 31-year-old Vanuatuan manager. He was a legend for me in a past save so he's my first manager in the challenge. From now on, the manager will always be the most remarkable player from the previous save. This is what the manager will always look like: the worst possible.

Introduction I only tried writing a career thread once since I registered here. It was a San Marino challenge on FM20 and I had to leave it because of a financial glitch that gave me money for transfers I never did. Since then, I have been screenshotting, writing and storing my FM adventures in Google Drive. I'm also a huge fan of Excel so I always spend more time than I should on my FM spreadsheets. This year I decided to give this career thing another go, so here I am! My ambitious goal this year is to win a Champions League in every European nation, always starting from the lower leagues and never changing clubs, unless sacked. I will be using custom databases for lots of nations, but I'll always consider the amount of leagues in each tier when choosing which level to start in. In Italy, for example, this means I won't even consider managing in the Promozione, their 6th tier with 53 leagues. Now, to give credit where credit is due: everything here is hugely inspired by shaunvamos and his career: Moneyballing My Way To A Champions League Title in Every European Nation. This was my favorite thread last year and I absolutely loved his multi-save approach inside the same challenge by creating a different save for each country. When a nation is completed, you start a new game back in the 2022/23 season and go again. This helps reducing the game processing speed (time is essential in a challenge like this), lowers the risk of a game-breaking glitch/crash dumps in a far future and also gives you the possibility of hiring real players in every country instead of soon living in a newgen world. Also at all times I will be using the increased realism files by Daveincid. The order used for the challenge follows the UEFA coefficient for the 2022/23 season. Table of contents Chapter 1 – England (Cheshunt) Club introduction Season #1 – 2022/23 Season #2 – 2023/24 Season #3 – 2024/25 Season #4 – 2025/26 Season #5 – 2026/27 Season #6 – 2027/28 Season #7 – 2028/29

I loved your original thread, great to see you back. This is 100% sure a challenge I'll be taking later on

The points are there to "force" you to manage in more than one nation in each step. But this year I also plan to ignore it and just follow the ladder as I wish! I'll be sure to follow your islands adventures

It's not an actual challenge from the Challenges forum, it's just a really interesting career thread https://community.sigames.com/forums/topic/526915-fm20-climb-the-ladder/

I did this obscure nation thing for a while on FM 21 and it's indeed really fun. Managed in all Oceanic countries, won OFC CLs in Tahiti and Vanuatu, then moved to Asia but only did 3 or 4 countries there. Might give it another go this year

Have you ever considered the ladder challenge?

This is a really good idea, I would've just kept the Serie A to 20 teams

Damn that's a shame... My spreadsheets would love it

I asked this once in the "Show Your Skin" thread and people seemed to agree that if the info is available in the game, it should be possible. Today I was looking for a long time at the staff screen (doing my first real save on FM23 instead of managing giants) and I realized that it is! What I want to do is add the left column, the "Team" one, to my custom squad screen view. This is the screen that I use to calculate role abilities for each player with Excel, then use it to rank my players by position. If I could also export a column indicating the squad a player is currently on (Senior, B, U19...) I could make a lineup for each of these, making it easier to manage.

Sadly this caused some conflicts in my Ajax save. This was the only editor file I used, so unless it's a FM bug itself this is the reason why the Dutch Cup didn't take place in the 2024/25 season and the Eredivisie in 2025/26.

He literally quoted the tactic he used

As soon as the pre-game editor came out I started looking for "fallen giants" around Europe for a youth save and Lyn TF was my immediate choice in Norway. Won the league twice and the cup 8 times and is now in the 4th tier. Just loaded them up on this database and found out they have a B, C and U19 teams, which is perfect for the save I wanted. Thank you for that These were my choices for other countries, by the way. MTK from Hungary is also really historic

That's a shame... Belgium is a really good country for this challenge

It is not! I just tested on another save and it's no longer an issue

What is the issue with Belgium? I was thinking about starting one with Genk (obviously doesn't fit the challenge)