jrobertgordon13

I’ll have one from now on in the first post. There was one on a separate website at some point, however that’s outdated now.

I am beginning with Leiston FC for my first dafuge save of FM24!

Welcome to another year of the Dafuge Challenge! I was worried no one would do it again, so I decided to pick it up. Anyway, let’s get into the rules and such. All of the following is from the FM23 edition of the Dafuge Challenge, so if anything should be added/removed, let me know! The Aim To take a small club who were previously unplayable in an unedited game from the Vanarama National League North/South to Premier League and Champions League glory. The Rules Start the game unemployed and choose the advanced setup. Like last year, you have the option of loading whatever leagues you like at the start and throughout the game. All of the boxes should be left unticked apart from 'do not add key staff' and 'prevent use of in-game editor'. It should look like this. Just like previous years, the players for the newly playable clubs need to be added which can be done using the 'advanced' option on the database size. The players from the four feeder league have to be added, which looks like this (the other two are further down). You can also add anything else you like to increase the size of the database. The extra levels of detail that you can change while in the game are up to you. Add yourself as an unemployed manager, the details are not important at all. I like to call mine 'Holiday Man'. Go on holiday until 24th May (this is when the promoted clubs are decided), save the game then go on holiday until 24th June (this is when the promoted clubs are revealed). Repeating these steps will give you a new set of clubs to pick from. Retire your 'Holiday Man' manager allowing him to finish his career unbeaten. Add a new manager, the personal details are completely up to you but I would expect people to use their own true nationalities and languages spoken. Choose one of the new clubs promoted to the Vanarama North or South to manage. A quick way to check the new teams is to find the 'England Overview' screen, then the 'season summary'. Just above the FA Cup summary you should find a list of the nine newly promoted teams. Coaching badges must be set to 'None', with past playing experience set as 'Sunday League Footballer'. The coaching attributes are completely up to you. You may not move clubs unless you are sacked. If you get sacked, you can either take over a newly promoted club that satisfies the original criteria (check the club's league history), or just start again. Any form of international management is not allowed, until you have completed the challenge. Assigning parent clubs and loaning players is completely up to the player, although it should be noted that on occasions a parent club can lend players which will make the first season or two slightly less of a challenge. It is completely up to you how you play this one. Personally, I like to assign a parent club for financial benefits but never take any players on loan from them. To sign a player, you must be able to scout them, this doesn't mean you have to, just he must be accessible to your scouts. If you have a foreign player on a free transfer who is willing to come on trial, you do not need to be able to scout them, as long as you have them at the club on trial so you can get a coach report on him. If an agent offers you a player, you can sign him without scouting him. No external utilities such as scouting programs should be used and the database should be unedited (with the exception of cosmetic changes which cannot be discussed here). Should SI release a data update, this would be allowed but any other data updates are not. Use of save game editors is strictly banned, whatever the reason. Ticking that box at the start should see to this. Rules for this Thread Player naming is allowed. General discussion on tactics is allowed, although people should not refer to downloaded tactics. They are not banned, but I would expect the majority of people to avoid them. When you join the challenge, post a screenshot of your manager's profile on the 25th June like this. Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, we want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing really badly. At the end of every season, could everyone post some kind of season review, including at least a screenshot of a league table and the clubs transfer page. If you give this a title in bold it makes it a bit easier to pick out. How to Post a Screenshot While in FM, press Alt and S A picture will be saved to a screenshots folder, in the FM22 folder in your documents Upload the image to an image hosting website such as Imgur Post the direct Url to the image here. Anyway, let’s get going! Previous hosts: @dafuge @DazRTaylor Hall of Fame: Name Club Season Game SaintsFCFan7498 Basingstoke Town 2041 FM24

I’ll do it if you want, i’ve been looking for a challenge to host for a while

Ok, so what’s the hardest nation to do the challenge in the base game? Excluding broken nations.

I probably won’t be able participate in this challenge early on, considering I will be focusing on the Youth Challenge, however I’ll leave it here just in case anyone decides to join. Credit to @vikeologist for the idea of course. Anyway, let’s get started! Aim: To win the UCL using only players from your own nation Rules: Your manager must start with Sunday league reputation and no coaching badges. They can be any nationality. You can take charge of any club, and if you want you can do the national team. (bear in mind that if you don't take control of the national team, you will have to wait till they win the World Cup) If you are sacked, you can take over another club in the same nation You can have foreign youth academy players be generated, however you can't use them in league or CL matches. You cannot sign any foreigners, not even on loan. To be eligible for this challenge, a player must've either a) have been born in the nation or b) have been capped at the senior team level for that nation 'Nation' in all cases means the league nation. (ex. England rather than UK) If you are managing a team that plays in a different nation then they are based in, you will have to win the league and WC with different nations. You can sign foreign staff. Extended DBs are allowed, but only for league expansions (i.e. adding another nation's league or adding lower tiers to an existing nation) HALL OF FAME: N/A

I've taken over at...in Sri Lanka, let's see if I can do something there!

HALL OF FAME: n/a

So I know this has been done before (Credit to @vikeologist for doing it first) however I felt like reviving it cause commenting on the old posts would be weird. So anyway, here we go! Aim: To win the UCL using only players from your own nation To have your nation win the World Cup Rules: Your manager must start with Sunday league reputation and no coaching badges. They can be any nationality. You can take charge of any club, and if you want you can do the national team. (bear in mind that if you don't take control of the national team, you will have to wait till they win the World Cup) If you are sacked, you can take over another club in the same nation You can have foreign youth academy players be generated, however you can't use them in league or CL matches. You cannot sign any foreigners, not even on loan. To be eligible for this challenge, a player must've either a) have been born in the nation or b) have been capped at the senior team level for that nation 'Nation' in all cases means the league nation. ex. England rather than UK If you are managing a team that plays in a different nation then they are based in, you will have to win the league and WC with different nations. You can sign foreign staff. Extended DBs are allowed, but only for league expansions (i.e. adding another nation's league or adding lower tiers to an existing nation)

Where was Boreham Wood at the start of the game? Certainly not in the Prem!

Saw an amateur match yesterday, it was fine. It was so low down we just got seats and watched the game. We saw one goal and left cause my dad had to do work.

Congrats!

I might attempt this in Oceania next year, so I’m watching closely.

For me I would’ve renamed a team in the Championship to Mawborough, but i’m not the one in charge here so it doesn’t really matter. Either way, we’ll see Mawborough in the Prem, and thats always nice!

Oh ok

If i attempt the Dafuge challenge on Football Manager 2017, where would I put the season recaps? Here or the FM17 post?

So I've decided to do a experiment where I swapped teams from the MLS with some amatuer teams in the lower ranks of the league system. This is the result of those experiments... The Continental Soccer League was formed by investors of the MLS who had grown dissolusioned with the league for a variety of reasons. They decided on forming their own league, the aformentioned Continental Soccer League. The Leagues current champions are the San Francisco Deltas, who won the 2016 season. I use Football Manager Touch 2017, as its editing system makes it really easy to swap teams imo. Here is the current championship banner for your SF Deltas:

Our squad is just Southampton from 2016/17, and we begin in the Premier League. I was technically inspiried by you for the idea, mainly because you used to upload the highlights for Mawborough and Stopsley.

Boring match vs Hull City:

We have another embarrasing game vs Shaktar Donetsk, this time in the Europa League:

This was an embarassing game:

First ever Leicester Derby vs Leicester City:

Next Match was againsr Watford, and a 0-0 draw... so no highlights

First Premier League game vs Bournemouth, let's see how this goes!

Last friendly match of the 2016-17 season vs Guangzhou Fuli: