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NK Dornava - 2028 Youth Intake Another excellent intake! They just keep coming. Our junior coaching is topped out now, so I guess this is pretty much the ceiling for now (until our reputation improves). So potentially future intakes won't immediately look better than the last each time. 28a Sasa Pirc is rated the best player at the club on arrival, and does look like a good player. In fact, the top nine players from this group are now rated the best nine players at the club. The previous highest rated player, 27a Borut Rozman, had a CA which varied between 4.5 and 5.0 over the last few months. It's now been re-assessed to 2.5 stars. There's one new nationality, a Ukrainian. In the tryout match they beat the Under 19s 7-0. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - April 2028 Pokal Slovenije We managed a second cupset this season, knocking out Smartno from the third tier. They're struggling to stay out of the relegation area, but if they were hoping for a better time of it in the cup we were having none of that and battered them. That put us into the quarter-finals, and at this point only the big boys were left. All possible opponents were from the 1. SNL, so it was almost inevitable that our cup run was over. We didn't stand a chance against Bravo, but I don't think we were embarrassed in defeat. We received £10k in prize money for reaching this stage. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - November 2027 Facilities A message popped up that the board were happy with our performances this season, so while they were in a good mood I got our junior coaching upgraded again. Still no movement on the youth recruitment though. ------------------------------------ MNZ Ptuj Super Liga The goals started to slow down and while we pulled out a couple more wins, the complacency led to an atrocious hammering at home by Gorisnica. I changed formation a little, going from 4-4-2 to 4-5-1. In part just to mix things up, and also because 27a Borut Rozman had now turned 17 and was available for selection, and I needed to find a way to get both him and 25a Aljosa Gulic into the team (both 4.5 star CA players). This gave us our groove back and we ended 2027 with a pair of big victories. That's a pretty nice gap to have going into the winter break. I just wish we could keep going. But as always, the four month break allows more players from the last youth intake to become old enough to play, so we should be even stronger when we return, ------------------------------------ Pokal Slovenije We received a couple of generous draws in the cup, both opposition coming from the leagues below. The second string made easy work of this, though the game against Panonija did include a couple of first-team starters as it was our last match before the winter break, so I didn't need to worry about resting them. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric added another penalty to make it 20 career goals to date. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - September 2027 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga Excellent stuff. Four big wins and a draw. It could have been ever better too, but unfortunately we missed a penalty against Ormoz. They were relegated back into this division this year, so I'll still take a point against them as a decent result. Let's hope we can keep this up. ------------------------------------ Pokal Slovenije We're going on a cup run! Or beating our previous best at least, as we've made it into the second round for the first time. The starting line-up for each of these games was entirely rotated (apart from the goalie) to rest the first-choice team for the league, and it shows how far we've grown already that the second string were good enough. I was especially pleased with the victory over Interblock Ljubljana as they're in the league above us, albeit struggling at the bottom. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric has already beaten his tally from last year with three goals so far, including our first goal of the season with a free-kick on the opening day. He did miss a penalty against Ormoz though. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2026/27 Season Review History, Finances, and Facilities I made the usual requests at the end of the season, but the board are firmly refusing to improve our youth recruitment. Our junior coaching got another bump though, and I think it is now the third best in the country, behind only the big boys of Domzale and Olimpija Ljubljana. For reference, both of those teams are in the top division and Domzale have just been crowned champions, while we're in the fourth tier. We set a new record high league position, and made another small profit. The cup performance, or lack thereof, was a disappointment again though. ------------------------------------ Squad Stats 23a Nemanja Jeric had his lowest scoring season with just two penalty goals. But in terms of doing his actual job, he had his best season with seven clean sheets, conceding only 21 times in 20 games. He was the fan's player of the season for a third time in a row. Top scorer was 25h Aleksandar Cerar with 13 goals, while 25a Aljosa Gulic and 25f Aleksandar Ernisa were the top creators with seven assists each. There are only two original players left in the squad now. Peter Stancic is our back-up left-back, and Matjaz Igerc is the third-choice central midfielder. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - May 2027 The draw against Grajena was hugely frustrating. Although a 93rd minute equaliser looks like a moral victory, only drawing a home tie with the team bottom of the table is not good enough. We were this close to a classic FMing, as our xG was 2.69 compared to their 0.16. Annoyingly, we made the same mistake against Markovci, this time 1.97 xG to 0.25. And we completed the hat-trick of crap results with a 2-0 loss to Apace, which again went against the xG, though not as extreme (our 0.98 to their 0.42). The loss to Apace ended our title hopes and Bukovci tied up the league with three games to play. Coincidentally our next game was hosting them, and with the pressure off we picked up the victory. Beating the champions is obviously an achievement, but it also added a bit of salt to the wound of the previous month. If we hadn't screwed up March and April we could have taken the title fight to the wire, but it wasn't to be. We won our final two games to end the season on a high, but also with a tinge of regret. Bukovci were just too strong for us. Although we had a very good season, one I am very happy with, we couldn't keep up with them. Their main striker ended up with 31 goals, averaging a strike every 44 minutes. ------------------------------------ Goalkeeper 23a Nemanja Jeric scored a penalty, just his second goal of the season. He now has a 93.33% accuracy rate from 15 attempts. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2027 Youth Intake The improvements made to our junior coaching are really taking effect now, as again the new batch of players outclasses anything that has come before. 27a Borut Rozman is instantly rated as the best player at the club, and the next seven players listed below are also all in the top ten. The players already at the club have had their CA stars re-assessed accordingly, and only three of them remained at 2.5 stars or above (4.5 for 25a Aljosa Gulic, 2.5 for 25c Marko Vodopivec and Matjaz Igerc). No second nationalities is a bit boring though. ------------------------------------

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NK Dornava - November 2026 Facilities While we were doing well a couple of requests were put in. One was rejected, but our junior coaching was improved. ------------------------------------ MNZ Ptuj Super Liga The good times continued, with just one big misstep. We're scoring plenty of goals, with 25h Aleksandar Cerar in particular hitting a purple patch. We hit a roadblock in the form of Bukovci though. The first-half was pretty even, but after the break they showed their superiority and picked up all three points in a dominating performance. Looking strong in second place. The loss to Bukovci is the difference maker at the moment. They're clearly the strongest team in the division. They have a striker with 21 goals already, and have finished in the top three each of the last four years. In one of these years they topped the table, but missed out on promotion through the play-offs. ------------------------------------

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NK Dornava - September 2026 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga We've made a flying start to the season with only two points dropped so far. All of our 2025 graduates are available now and it makes for a much stronger squad, especially in attack. The original players aren't getting much of a look in now, there have been several games where our entire starting line-up has been made up of youth players and that will only happen more and more going forward. I don't think I've shown my tactic yet, so I'll drop that in here. It's nothing special, just a bog standard 4-4-2 from the tactic creator, with a few slight tweaks. This is encouraging. We could well be in the mix this year. ------------------------------------ Pokal Slovenije Our two cup ties were against sides at the same level as us, but in different regions. We got through the prelim round easily enough, but then fell at the first round again. The Peca game was closer than the scoreline indicates, but they were clinical up front and we were not. Their goalie was also man of the match. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric is off the mark with his first penalty of the season. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2025/26 Season Review History, Finances, and Facilities The board rejected any requests for upgrades during the season, but did concede that they'd improve the junior coaching if I committed to playing youth players throughout the year. Obviously that objective was easily met, so the improvement was applied at the end of the season. The first half of the season had me worried that we'd be in a relegation battle, the big improvement after the winter break saw us surge up the table and actually finish higher than we did last year. We've made a profit again this campaign. Still no luck getting anywhere in the cup though. Could really use getting through another round or two for a small reputation boost. ------------------------------------ Squad Stats 23a Nemanja Jeric took the fan's player of the season award for a second time. We played 19 games over the season, and only eight players started at least half of these matches. There was a lot of upheaval and rotation while we were struggling, and then replacements when the 2025 academy graduates started coming through. 25i Aljosa Curk made the biggest impression of the debutants, finishing as our top scorer with seven goals. Assists were spread throughout the squad, nobody managing more than three, but 25b Primoz Repas reached this tally in just seven games. Our starting XI over the final few games of the season consisted of four original players, two 2023 graduates, one 2024 graduate, and four 2025 graduates. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - May 2026 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga After how poor we were towards the tail end of 2025, I wasn't expecting much from the second half of the season. But it actually turned into a great run of form. It could have been the break that rejuvenated the players, or smashing a few rubbish teams in friendlies, or a few more 2025 academy graduates making their way into the team, but suddenly we were winning games again. We limited Hajdina to an xG of just 0.1, and although we probably should have scored more, grabbing just the one was enough. We were losing to Markovci, but only for a few minutes. We won a penalty which saw them reduced to ten men, and after we scored from the spot it all went our way, and we got a second before half-time for the win. We then battered Gorisnica with style, 25i Aljosa Curk getting a perfect 10/10 rating for his four goal showing. Beating Ormoz was a bit of a treat, as that was their only loss of the season. The win over Bukovci was a smash and grab, we scored from just 0.23 xG and 23a Nemanja Jeric in goal was man of the match. Blimey, wasn't expecting this a few months ago. We hauled our way up the table to finish in 4th place. A long way behind 2nd and 3rd, let alone the runaway winners, but at least we were best of the rest. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric had a great few weeks in March and April, scoring three penalties in four games. His overall career record is 14 goals from 49 games. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2026 Youth Intake A golden generation! I've named the players based on potential, but I think the accuracy of that is even more in doubt when everyone is listed as 5.0 stars, and really CA is more important now so I've sorted them in that order. There's a lot of CA on show too, though not as much as last year. Still plenty of players who should get a chance when they turn 17, though some of the personalities are disappointing. 36c Ruben Magalhaes is immediately ranked as our second best player, but as he's only just turned 15 it will be nearly two years before I can select him. Hopefully he'll learn to cross in that time. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - November 2025 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga The win at the end of September was a false dawn, as we've been absolutely rancid since then. I mentioned that our defence had been decent, but that's completely fallen apart and we're conceding by the bucketload. There was one great game when everything came together against Zavrc and three academy players scored, but other than that it's been completely dreadful. It seems like they're actively trying to get me fired. Back to the bottom of the table. We have a four month break now, which is such a pain. And I've just noticed there's only ten teams in the league compared to 12 last year. I guess there's something wacky going on in how the rules have been set up for the regional divisions in this mod. It's difficult to see where are next points are coming from. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - September 2025 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga We continued as we left off, starting the season really poorly. Not just results, but performances too. We weren't too bad at the back and a couple of clean sheets allowed us to scrape a couple of draws, but just one goal from the first four games showed how ineffective we were going the other way and really limited how many points we could pick up. The draw with Markovci made it ten league games without a win, and things were getting pretty miserable. The team wanted a meeting about the poor atmosphere, and then got unhappy when I said they needed to improve results to make that happen. Nonetheless, it happened next time out. 25o Gabor Kabole made his debut in defence, and in his 17th appearance, striker 23o Darko Irgolic finally scored his first goal for the club. We were bottom of the table after four games, but at least we have a first win on the board now. ------------------------------------ Pokal Slovenije We had the xG and the possession, but not the goals. Another early exit from the cup. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2024/25 Season Review History, Finances, and Facilities A good season as we survived with ease. We made a profit and improved our junior coaching, and with the supposed quality of the 2025 youth intake I'm looking forward to next season. ------------------------------------ Squad Stats Performances were generally down this year, and we scored fewer goals despite now playing more games. Nobody reached double figures, and goalie 23a Nemanja Jeric was joint-top scorer with eight goals (made up of seven penalties and one free-kick). When the class of 25 start becoming available next year lots of these players will likely start being replaced. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - May 2025 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga A truly pathetic way to end the season. In mitigation, it was a tough run with these four teams being the sides that placed 2nd-5th in the table, but only one point from this is weak. 23a Nemanja Jeric may not have scored this month, but he did save two penalties. We ended up in 6th place, as expected at the start of the month. The gap to Gorisnica tells the story though. From a one point deficit with hopes of 5th, we finished nine points down on them. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - April 2025 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga Very inconsistent, very frustrating. Thrashing Grajena was obviously the highlight, Darko Kolar finally getting his act together and scoring a brace. Shame he went back to being a donkey again immediately afterwards. The nadir was the loss to Zavrc. 23n Gasper Kozel scoring his first goal for the club was a plus, but losing after leading 2-0 at the break is infuriating. We look pretty much nailed on for a midtable finish, either 5th or 6th. We play Gorisnica on the penultimate day, though with the stakes being this low I wouldn't go as far as calling it a potential six-pointer. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric added three more penalties this period. He now has eight goals for the season, and is our joint-top scorer. That's quite the damning indictment of our forwards. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2025 Youth Intake A golden generation! 16 elite talents. Oh my! This is quite the intake. Obviously they're not actually good, but for this much CA to be on show already plenty of these players could make an impact on the team straight away. Apart from the fact that we can only start players 17 or older, so they'll have to wait for now. But I'm excited to end this season and start having them available next year. In the tryout match they smashed our Under 19s 8-1. We don't use a DMC or AMC, so I'll have to have a think about where 25a Aljosa Gulic and 25c Marko Vodopivec will fit in. Here's 25b Primoz Repas, and how he looks compared to my current starting left-winger. He'll be a big improvement. His physicals aren't quite as good, but if you ignore the natural fitness it's a lot closer. Our first-team has had its CA re-assessed following the new arrivals, and it's pretty extreme. Only six players now have a CA above 1.0 stars, and only one higher than 2.5.

NK Dornava - November 2024 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga To stop our losing streak I put the AssMan in charge of team selection for the final few games before the winter break. This choice paid off immediately with Bostjan Kralj finding a stoppage-time winner at Gorisnica. We probably just about deserved the win. We didn't deserve anything against Bukovci though, and it was a disappointing home loss, at which I threw a strop and gave up for the day. Loaded the save back up this afternoon and struggling Boc were the ideal opposition. We hammered them, Mitja Korosec providing the spark with the opening goal and a couple of assists. Any worries caused by our poor October can probably be put to one side for now. I'm back in the mind that we won't be pulled into a relegation fight. Promotion is off the cards too, so as long as we don't come 12th it really doesn't matter where we end up. We're averaging roughly three academy starters per game (40 combined starts in 14 matches, including the cup), so we have a bit of freedom to increase that over the second half of the season. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric is our joint-second highest scorer at present, adding a penalty and an assist this month to make it five for the season so far. ------------------------------------ Finances and Facilities Our financial situation is still comfortable, with just over £54k in the bank. A couple of requests were granted, as our junior coaching was improved and we're allowed to hire another coach. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - October 2024 MNZ Ptuj Super Liga I don't know what I did, but I think I've offended the FM Gods. After 32 league games unbeaten we've collapsed and lost three in a row. The Zavrc game was pretty even, a low quality affair, and they just happened to get the only goal. But against both Podvinci and Ormoz we were awful and convincingly defeated. Our previously reliable striker, Darko Kolar, has been absolutely terrible this year and can't hit a barndoor, and no one else is stepping up to provide the goals instead (though at least 23e Dominique Burgher had a good month). Did I speak too soon? We still have a six point margin above last place, but our form stinks. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric scored a penalty to make it three for the season, at a success rate of 75%. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - September 2024 Finances and Facilities Once promotion was confirmed the board announced we would be becoming a semi-pro side. The news item said that we'd be able to offer contracts to players now, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I can't offer contracts to the senior players, but a bunch of the youth players have automatically been put on to £25 per week. So I'm not really sure how it works. We've received our annual sponsorship payment of £52k so we've now got more than £70k in the bank, but any requests for upgrades were denied. We made almost £30k profit last year, I assume it won't be as much this time due to the wages we're paying, but this will be offset somewhat due to the additional games and larger attendances. ------------------------------------ Departures No one of note left, just a few squad players who weren't involved much. Makes the team selection screen easier without them clogging it up, and also opens the door for more places on the bench for academy players. ------------------------------------ MNZ Ptuj Super Liga An unbeaten start to the season, and nine points from a possible 15. I'll take it, but at the same time it could easily have been both a lot better and a lot worse. Against Boc we had an xG of 2.65 from 21 shots (five on target), and against Grajena it was much the same story, xG of 3.02 from 24 shots (six on target), including a missed penalty. We should have won both those games. At the same time though, we only grabbed a point from each of the Grajena and Stojnci games due to equalisers in stoppage-time. We did well to avoid a pair of losses there (which would have been my first in the league). I'm glad we're now playing in a league with more teams and more games so our schedule is more consistent. There's still an obscene four month winter break, but other than that I don't think we ever go more than a week without a game. It looks like we'll be in the mix this year, though a third successive promotion might not be on the cards. Top spot isn't automatically promoted, there seems to be some sort of play-off system with the winners of seven regional divisions aiming for four promotion places. Either way, relegation shouldn't be a possibility. ------------------------------------ Pokal Slovenije Very frustrating. We smashed Gerecja Vas just a few days before we did the same to them in the league, but then got eliminated by a Cerkvenjak side a tier below us (although in a different region). I can't even blame a rotated side, it was mostly full-strength and should have been enough to get the win. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemaja Jeric missed a penalty against Grajena which could have seen us take the win, but he's scored two more penalties since. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - 2023/34 Season Review History, Finances, and Facilities Back-to-back promotions, lovely stuff. Nearly £30k profit, and a couple of upgrades too. Lots to be happy with this season. Next season we'll be up in the fourth tier, and after steamrolling through these first two years that might be where the challenge begins. ------------------------------------ Squad Stats Lots of good performances again, with Darko Kolar the standout performer again. Over the two years he has a total of 33 goals in 29 games. The main creator was Matija Kovacevic with nine assists coming from midfield. It's perhaps a little disappointing that nobody else offered a high individual tally, but that's a minor quibble as contributions were split around the team instead. The stats suggest that Bojan Panic should have seen more gametime, but he was the first victim of an academy player coming through in his position. ------------------------------------

NK Dornava - June 2024 MNZ Ptuj 1. Class Lots of the 2023 youth intake have now turned 17 and are available for selection, and several of them have been filtered into the starting line-up over the final games of the season. Results have stayed strong, but performances did drop a bit. We stopped smashing everyone in our path, and although we carried on winning regularly, we were conceding more and the winning margins weren't as high. Goalkeeper 23a Nemanja Jeric scored from the spot on his debut, and 23e Dominique Burgher picked up a first assist on the final day. Easy, again. £2.15k prize money for winning the division, and adding a second trophy to the cabinet. ------------------------------------ Goalkeepers 23a Nemanja Jeric was thrown straight into the first-team and was a bit expensive at first, conceding two goals in each of his first three games. His form improved and he responded with a couple of clean sheets, and he also scored two penalties and a free-kick. ------------------------------------