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IFK LIDINGO - YOUTH ACADEMY CHALLENGE #1 (2024 SEASON REVIEW) Our first season of the youth academy challenge with IFK Lidingo is fully completed and it was a fairly interesting one with some good things to note and them some worse things on the side which may confuse or complicate things in the upcoming year, but let's get into the wrap-up regardless of the 2024 season and our first season in Swedish football with the club IFK Lidingo, the boys in blue. The League & Results Unfortunately no promotion in our first season at the club, however also no relegation - so we remain in the Division 2 Norra Svealand for another season after finishing in a respectable but not brilliant 7th place with a total of 37 points after 26 games, a short season in all fairness which leaves little room for error, as shown by the top 5 teams being separated by just five measly points. I am pleased with this as the squad is not brilliant and we had no youth players which could have been used to develop and improve the squad as the season went on, but a positive goal difference and our dignity kept intact after season 1. Some good results in and around there but overall our season is defined by inconsistency and inability to grind through and win a lot of games on the bounce, but that is somewhat so be expected from a newly promoted side, even if we were promoted as a fairly decent one in a pretty poor-mediocre league. I am happy and I thought we played well in a lot of these fixtures, usually dominating and losing a game due to misfortune or poor finishing which I will attempt to iron out the latter in the second season with more training regimes to work on it and adjusting the tactic to get the best out of our forwards best roles. Not a bad season at all! The Youth Stuff Our youth intake preview came through in the middle of June and I was pretty happy with what it was promising, a five star "excellent" intake and a good batch of players including particularly good players at fullback and in central-midfield which had me excited as we could be potentially plugging the gaps in our side and ironing it out as we start to piece together a system to fit the players that are coming through at the club. ----------------------------------------------- The unique fact of the matter was that nearly all of the players that came through (all completely Swedish too) had five star potential, so despite rejigging my player reports to a more accurate staff member, they remained pretty much the same; so I will take it with an extremely massive pinch of salt but I will look to include plenty of the players in the upcoming season and attempt to get the best out of a good few of them to develop them into players that are good for the division or at least good enough to play at the club at a high enough level and perform fairly consistently. A couple of players that I am pretty excited about (I know they all look rubbish or have at least a couple fatal flaws in their game), are Johan Skoog who looks like a fairly rounded central-midfielder who will play decently for us in midfield next season. Also Albin Larsson who can slot in at full-back or as a more defensive or creative winger option too. Arne Edstrom who looks like one of the best technical players to come out of the intake and can play in a creative midfield role, but is very poor physically and Frederik Frik who will be one of two goalkeepers at the club and I will try as the starting goalkeeper as I look to develop his personal game further. The Final Squad Statistics Overall we had a pretty good year goalscoring wise despite our clinical-ness also being our achilles heel in certain matches at times. Victor Söderström was brilliant netting 17 goals in 26 games but unfortunately will retire at the end of the season, forcing us to move towards the 4-3-3 system and cater to Teo Brenner Toris (who also had a pretty good year with 15 G/A) as a single striker working to get him some more goals next season. Linus Månsson will also be retiring at the end of the season at the ripe old age of 27. We definitely could have kept him for a good few years and hopefully this season is the one and only season that shows premature retirements. The Miscellaneous Stuff The finances look very stable with almost no incline or at least a steady one that leaves us somewhat on a loss at the end of the season but with a good amount of sponsorship money to hopefully come through and support us. Tactically we will look to swap to a 4-3-3 shape and attempting to replicate a 3-2-5 shape in possession. In which I show probably our best possible starting side in my personal opinion before the upcoming season. A decent first season at the club, but loads of room to improve! Not the best post in the forum but I am just attempting to show my progress so far and thought it was better than a waffly and in-depth forum post about it.

IFK LIDINGO - YOUTH ACADEMY CHALLENGE #0 My friend & I will be taking on this challenge together by rotating through seasons with Swedish club IFK Lidingo in the Swedish Fourth Tier. Potentially been used as a club before in this thread but hoping to get this seriously underway quickly and fly through the early seasons whilst picking up some achievements and potentially a couple promotions. First time ever posting one of my attempts in this forum and never actually completed the premise, furthest we had gone was with Follo FK in FM23 who we managed to get to the second tier of Norway after five seasons. Our biggest ever legend from that save Jíao Zhong takes over as manager of IFK Lidingo; with a very small squad and chance of success in the Swedish leagues, I'm looking forward to updating how we get on further into the save with more and more updates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking forward to this one and getting into Swedish football as a whole!

Didn't keep up with this much last year, will be following...