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Chemie Leipzig.
Took me 11 seasons from the regional division to a UCL win in our first season in that competition. I have no idea how we won that, we shouldn't have been in the final.
Lok finally managed to be promoted into Liga 3 after 16 seasons. BW Leipzig and Inter Leipzig play in the 5th division against each other, BW Leipzig is my affiliate. And RB Leipzig won the Bundesliga once, but after Chemie Leipzig did.
Interesting side note, I not only won the Bundesliga before RB Leipzig, but also the Champions League before PSG.
Technically speaking he should have a shot at it.
I mean if Kompany goes to Bayern after getting them relegated, then Dyche should go to Barca, Madrid or Juventus after he got them into Europe after finishing 7th đ¤ˇââď¸
Red Star Merhl Belair - who reside in the Fourth Tier of Luxembourg irl.
They were the lowest placed team in the pyramid and that had a badge in the pack I was using, and their website had a "history" section that was a word document detailing season by season rundowns from years gone by, which immediately piqued my interest.
I'll be honest, it should have taken a lot more than 18 seasons, but we got an unbelievable draw, beating Lazio in the semi final for example, and managed to avoid Real Madrid/Manchester City.
Alloa Athletic in 2032 (fm23) so what's that, 9years? Should have taken longer tbh but got very lucky with the draws and the only major team I had to get past was Bayern, which we managed on penalties
not too obscure but when i saw a team with a zebra on their badge in the german third division i knew what i had to do. took me 12 seasons to win ucl and germany
Annan Athletic, back on FM12.
Probably easier due to the fact the challenge I was doing only allowed me to load the Scottish league. If I recall correctly, my keeper was Loris Karius.
Salford City, 9 seasons, got very lucky with the run in the season we won it, actually won the champions league a season before our first premier league win.
Banbridge, 3rd tier of Northern Irish football. I think it took me around 17 seasons. The top tier was a real stumbling block trying to get my team to even qualify to start getting funds for good prospects.
Motherwell. 3. Don't ask for an explanation, I can't give one. We went on a crazy run. Best I can say is that in the Scottish League, you can get some pretty unrealistic players to sign.
yeah but after a while i get sick of the play offs in the top division. Btw do you inow there are 2 SK Beverens ? like the club, love the stadion also actualy.
I donât mind the play offs, I did a Cercle Brugge career mode a few years ago so was already familiar with it. I did see that there were 2 Beveren clubs and they merged a few years back, is that what you meant?
no , so the original went bankrupt and a part of it merged with another division 2 club and aded there new to the club. Creating waasland beveren, i think they droped waasland know bit not sure. Whe see fusions of clubs as a bad thing in general here ( except for fusion clubs) so a part of the original beveren Supps started from the lowest level posible again with SK Beveren.
Ahh got you, thatâs endeared the club to me even more. Thatâs pretty much the same story as AFC Wimbledon. They relocated to Milton Keynes (a city just outside London) and renamed the team MK Dons. then some of the supporters created AFC Wimbledon and started from the bottom of the pyramid and now they are in the same league as MK Dons and are massive rivals.
Virtus Acquaviva from San Marino in FM23. Won a Europa League in 2031 and the first Champions League in 2036. Ended up winning two more in the next three years before moving to another club in San Marino.
With Fiorentino I managed to win another Champions League in 2047 after losing 2046 final :)
The career is still ongoing though so who knows when a third team from San Marino will win?
Haven't left the second team yet, but I just lost an all Sammarinese Champions League final against Virtus.
Virtus had some up and downs but always managed to reach at least the second turn of CL so they stayed pretty competitive. To ensure that they didn't fall off I built the best staff possible and best facilities, and renewed all the coaching staff before resigning to make sure that they didn't leave with me!
Nantes in 2 seasons on FM21 by complete mistake through using the instant result button. Had an easy group I topped, got another 2 easy draws to the semis against Porto (I think) and Lille, so youâd think thatâs a great run, tons of money and I expected to get dumped out there and thenâŚand then inexplicably beat Liverpool 4-1 on aggregate and then Real Madrid 3-2 in the final having been 3-0 up
MĂĄlaga CF
From the Spanish 3rd division to a CL title in little under 5seasons(even surprised myself there). Interestingly I still had one guy from the OG team playing regularly and two other players in rotation(they got some serious young talentđŤĄ)
Honestly not that impressive. My goal is league wide success. Personal club success is meaningless. It will be a long build a nation save maybe even import to FM25 going for #1 League over England.
TBH to start out I just sign the fastest players possible. Start in June when game starts. As soon as it hits July 1st. Move all money to world scouting packing and trial anyone with acc/pace range in 15s. Get the fastest that you can afford regardless of all other attributes and play a 424.
Once players signed cancel scouting package. Think it costs like 30-40k for 1 month. Do that the following the July and repeat. Goal is to have an entire squad of minimum 15 acc/pace as quick as possible then focus on getting strikers and flanks to 17 acc/pace.. Age doesnt matter most players will only last 2 seasons at club.
My goal is to start getting deep into Champions league as soon as possible for money and rep to keep getting faster players then eventually better players. And at some point i buy like 25 players age 18 to give me home grown in 3 seasons. Because you are basically playing Champions league with 17 players because you dont have enough home grown so you cant register 25.
Those early seasons you gotta focus your bench on learning 4 positions each. IT is the only way you can get deep in Europe. Because suspensions and injuries you wont have enough players to cover the gaps if they cant cover 4 position each.
So my strikers would also learn AML/AMR and DM. Centerbacks would learn left and right back and DM. DM would learn center left and right back.
Think I won 2 ucl in a row then Real Madrid knocked me out in Quarters the next 2 seasons and I came back for 2 in a row after that. They also knocked me out in club world cup but I won the next one.
Real Madrid cleaned up in 2032 signed a bunch of oldheads but i kid you not most of their starting squad had like 18 acc/pace except centerbacks. So I had no chance against them. But after 2 seasons their attributes plummeted cause they were all >35 years old. probably the oldest club i ever saw and amazing the players still had high physical attributes. They got mbpappe at 38 and he still had 18 and 19 for acc/pace for 2 seasons. He got to 40 and dropped off cliff was retired next season.
We are now the #1 rep team in world. Faroe Islands Prem League went ranked from 144 to 75. Just got 10th coefficient for Europe which is huge for the league.
Long Long Long way to go. The board just announced plans for new stadium but didnt give any info said they were looking for a spot so no size estimates.
I was finally able to give 1 club in my nation 50 million last season and plan to give another club 50 million this season.
The league hasnt hit 100 reputation points yet as the TV deal has not been automatically turned on. It turns on for leagues that dont have it enabled at 100 rep points. And it is usually worth like 20 to 40 million per club when it starts.
Now I have to try and start a massive in nation and out of nation loan farms with an eye towards turning huge profit every season in meaningless player sales. As my long term goal is to give 6 clubs 50 million dollars every season.
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if you say so. i mean your username fits trolling
It's fun but it usually the only save I do all year. Because it does take a lot of time.
But I've started to holiday from to match ignoring all the emails and it soerds up the process tremendously
I just did something wild and if it wasn't myself i'd scream SAVE SCUMMING. Started a save with Rosenborg on a Scandinavian Super League Database. After winning the league in season 2 i qualified for the UCL for the 1st time. Barely scraped into the playoffs as 22nd place and got the most Mickey Mouse run i've ever seen. Porto in the playoffs, Galatasaray RO16, RB Leipzig Quarters. Then Bayern in the Semis where i SOMEHOW win 3:0 at home with 2 goals in 90+2 and 90+4. Lost 2:1 in Munich. Final was against...Napoli lol. They were th3 far better team and lead 1:0, in the 93rd!!! minute i get a penalty and score. Won the final on penalties.
By far the most fairy tale run i've ever had or seen.
How do you even get promoted to PL with a team that low? I can get up to league 2 max and never any further. I am awful at the game but do you have any tips
No oneâs saying itâs easy. Just be patient, as you saw it took me 17 seasons. Iâm not amazing at the game either but I do have good ball knowledge so I knew who to sign which helps. Utilise loans from young players at top clubâs youth academy. For instance in like national league/league 2 you should be going for prem u21 players so check their youth squads. In deep non league try sign league1/league2 reserve/u21 players for free loans at the end of the transfer window.
This is my first ever fm so im new to the series but my mates play which helps. Maybe watch some YouTube vids to help with things if thatâs what you like. Itâs really good and worth it so just keep dedicated and itâll work for you. Feel free to ask questions if you want.
Thank you! Yeah Iâm very new to this and only play on my phone (I donât have a laptop at the moment, swear they always break on me!) but Iâm having fun so who cares
My advice would generally be to worry less about getting young players to develop, but only focusing on getting players that can get you promoted. So try to utilize loans as much as possible, and don't worry about signing older players that won't stay with you for long. (You can worry about that once you reach the pl)
CĂĄdiz, 5 seasons. Almost relegated them in 2029/30, then qualified to UECL by getting 6th on the next season, in 2031/32 we won the Conference League against Aston Villa i think, and placed 3rd in the league.
In 2032/33, we were runners-up to Real Madrid in both the League and the Cup, and reached the Round of 16 in UCL, being knocked 4-3 on aggregate to Man United.
In the following season, we placed 4th in the league, got eliminated in the Cup's quarterfinals to Real Sociedad, but we managed to get 1st place in the UCL league stage.
After beating Lyon (4-1), we were drawn against Real Madrid. First game at home, 2-1 for them. Second game, a player of theirs is sent off and we win 5-0. Then Barcelona, we won the first game 2-1 in Nuev(Ăssim)o Mirandilla, and were losing 2-0 when my CB Luca Bello scored at the last minute and then on extra time to qualify us to the final. But then Ansu Fati scored on the last minute of ET. Still, we won on pens after Bello scored again (these were the only goals he scored in his entire CĂĄdiz run). We won the finale against Bayern 2-1 and CĂĄdiz is officially a champion of europe before AtlĂŠtico
Some impressive stuff here. And I was feeling pleased with myself taking Bradford City from League 2 to PL in 16 seasons in FM21. Very much doubt I'll be winning the Champions League although probably more chance than winning the PL.
Paris FC in FM21, took 8 years, and it was a total fluke. We were 2nd best in France (lost the league to PSG by 5 points that year), had favorable draws until the QF, where we inexplicably hung 4 goals on Liverpool in the home leg. For some reason Hertha BSC made it to the semi final and they weren't very good at all - mid-table in the Bundesliga - and we scraped past them on penalties at home.
In the final against Inter we were total outsiders according to the bookmakers and Inter were dominating the first 30 minutes, shots on goal, hitting the woodwork, the whole shebang, and we were just somehow hanging on. Then their DM decided to try and end my winger's career with what can only be described as a dropkick and got sent off. In the second half we managed 2 shots and one of them went in, 1-0 and that was that. Inter out-XGd us, 3 to 0.3.
Took another two years before we could unseat PSG to win Ligue 1, went to the CL final that year too, only to lose to Inter.
It took me 21 years to win the Champions League with Llangefni Town out of the northern Welsh 2nd tier. I even started an academy trained player named Craig Evans in the midfield.
Rugby Town in 34/35. Got to Prem in 32/33 and finished mid table but won the FA Cup. Finished mid table again but won the Europa in 33/34. Then in 34/35 just escaped relegation by 4 points but won the CL beating RB Leipzig (with a favourable draw). Was a weird season, also won the Carabao.
Lowestoft Town. How many seasons did it take? Let just say my in game generated son had started and retired from playing football before this happened.
Blyth Spartans, took about 10 seasons.
Once I also reached the final and lost with Odense (3rd season), Lech PoznaĹ (6th season), Hajduk Split (7th season).
Nice! I'm currently in my 7th league season with Blyth, should be able to get promoted soon to league one! I hope I can take a leaf out of your book haha
I guess I haven't really caused an upset, but I was close to taking Feyenoord to the UCL title in FM23. It was the first season at the club for me in my journeyman save (28/29?) and we got some lucky draws, but we did beat the likes of PSG. How? Idk, luck and counter-attacking. We were close to beating Bayern in the finals too, but that match ended 3-1 to them
AFC Fylde, 10 I think - from national league. Took over mid season, next season back to back to back promotions then 3 grueling seasons in the championship, then only 3 in the prem and won the CL first time of asking. Never won the league. Man City.
I won it with Portlaoise FC. I had to use a league mod to make them a playable team basically like a division 10/11 team in UK. But with the complications of no one wanting to join my club and the ffp breakdown being broken, I regularly fail ffp because in irekand it's done on a yearly basis rather than a 3x yearly and I'm fully convinced that my transfer income doesn't offset the ffp. As I have around 1b in revenue and 1.5b in transfer spend.
I basically do a club revitalise every year to 18 months blood first team regulars buy from corner of the world and farm them out to psg, Liverpool and real Madrid. Liverpool is my biggest player buyer think I've brought in over 400m in player sales from selling to them over 3 year period.
I have editor enabled just for if issues arise with save, like on player had a transfer to lazio organised agreed to sell player and when I confirmed the sale player was released some how so had to resign to club and manually transfer to the club for the agreed fee.
I have won the champions league twice, but won Conference League and Europa League back to back before winning Champions league. Did it over about 11 years.
AS Cannes, Start in the 5th tier of France in 2021
In 2035 I won the champions league working on a budget of 15m and player sales in my last season. This is the simple version as the long story is a very long one lol
King's Lynn Town from National League to Champions League. I think winning the Premier League took 12 seasons, but the Champions League took 17. RB Leipzig just kept doing a number on me
Esh Winning. I think it took me about a dozen seasons. I think the game is too England biased though cos I won it before I even came close to winning the premiership.
Alfreton Town, last year and it took 10 seasons. Got back to back promotions from vanarama north all the way to the premier league. Free transfers and youth academy prospects were on point in my 3-5-2 control possession
Cardiff Draconians. They are an amateur Welsh team in real life, took me 25 seasons overall, over a year of playing time. Most of my team was South American by the end
Royal fc mandel United on fm 23, got a borderline lukaku regen and signed as much Belgian 16 year olds as I could to try get the one or two who had world class pa, think it was the 7th or 8th season I got the ucl in
Wrexham. Three back to back promotion, two seasons in the championship, then 17th in the prem, 11t, 5th, 4th, then next season double prem champion. We somehow fmâed our way through inter lazio and real madrid in the final. Beljo scored one header in each game and thatâs it.
Us Lecce, in my third season. I was able to pick up some young half wonderkids and I'll be honest I save scrummed if there were any injuries over 3 months so it probably doesn't count haha
Leeds Utd, in fm12 (5 Season), Vitoria Guimaraes fm18 (6 or 7 seasons) and Dynamo Kiev in fm23 (6 Seasons), FM 24 I did win back to back over 3 seasons with FC Porto but there not that obscure (even all the other teams đ)
Not even close to being as obscure as most people's answer, but it was with Brighton, in my second season. Also won the league both seasons, and the FA-cup the second season.
Tried out a tactic that obviously worked out really well.
Swansea on FM14 second season.
Had an insanely good first season and qualified for the UCL. Barely scraped out of the group stage and won every single playoff game off the away goal rule.
Faced Real Madrid in the final. Won 4-1 after 3 extra time goals. Love you Michuâ¤ď¸
Bekescsaba in Hungary, fm 23 in 2035. At this point i given up hope after exiting in the last 16 every year for like 7 seasons in a row. In 2035 out of nowhere it just clicked and i went all the way
Sarpsborg in Norway, I ended up playing 30 seasons, won the champions league 3 times and the Europe league twice, took me 22 years to win my first champions league
Velez Mostar but took me about 26 seasons, spent 35 years with Feronikelli from Kosovo on FM22 got to final twice but lost both times. I occasionally circle back to the save to try and win it
Not the champions league but I won the europa with HK when they were in the Icelandic 2nd division in fm19 got bottle necked because I had a small data base so there wasnât a lot of regens to pick from took me about 15 years
Cork City. Lost the final in 2056, but won the first one in 2057. It's 2095 now. I've 16 UCL titles, 5 or 6 WCW, many 10+ Supercups or so, and many other titles. I need one more UCL to be the GOAT
Roskilde
A Danish Amateur team in the 5th tier.
19 years to win European Cup.
Think I got PSG in knockouts 4 years running so should've been quicker. Still one of my all time favourite games. And at 19 years by far the longest.
London Samurai. 15 seasons.
Custom Database file to add the English lower leagues. Starting in the 8th tier so about 12 years were spent getting to the premier league (quite a few back-to-back promotions with 2 seasons in the Vanarama & 3 in the Championship iirc).
The CL got a little bit broken in my save though, coefficient points weren't accumulating properly (i.e. full reset every season) so lots of terrible teams were getting into the CL. Saw some wild scorelines in the group stages, once won 26-0 against a very poor team from Czechia. The latter stages were still the usual suspects though so it didn't really taint the achievement too much.
FC BROMLEY, 10 SEASONS cause while being in Championship I got some rich mf from France and while I being the legend already he make the stadium new and NAMED IT AFTER HIM, bastard
York city. Won the champs league yet my stadium was tiny still as I had to wait another like 17 years for them up upgrade it as I think you can only get a new one every 25 years so I got fed up đ
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Chemie Leipzig. Took me 11 seasons from the regional division to a UCL win in our first season in that competition. I have no idea how we won that, we shouldn't have been in the final.
First of all congratulations! How are the other leipzig based teams (RB and Lok) performing in your save?
Lok finally managed to be promoted into Liga 3 after 16 seasons. BW Leipzig and Inter Leipzig play in the 5th division against each other, BW Leipzig is my affiliate. And RB Leipzig won the Bundesliga once, but after Chemie Leipzig did. Interesting side note, I not only won the Bundesliga before RB Leipzig, but also the Champions League before PSG.
My man, just won the UCL with Chemie Leipzig as well in 2031. What made you pick them if I may ask?
Not my team but the AI/Sean Dyche made Everton multiple champions league winners in my previous save file, 4 in a row!
I think if Sean Dyche won 4 straight CLs in real life the world would be complete.
Technically speaking he should have a shot at it. I mean if Kompany goes to Bayern after getting them relegated, then Dyche should go to Barca, Madrid or Juventus after he got them into Europe after finishing 7th đ¤ˇââď¸
You don t get jobs based solely on performamces in real life. Connections are also very important.
Red Star Merhl Belair - who reside in the Fourth Tier of Luxembourg irl. They were the lowest placed team in the pyramid and that had a badge in the pack I was using, and their website had a "history" section that was a word document detailing season by season rundowns from years gone by, which immediately piqued my interest. I'll be honest, it should have taken a lot more than 18 seasons, but we got an unbelievable draw, beating Lazio in the semi final for example, and managed to avoid Real Madrid/Manchester City.
That is crazy, I actually played for that club. Always wanted to make a save with them
Alloa Athletic in 2032 (fm23) so what's that, 9years? Should have taken longer tbh but got very lucky with the draws and the only major team I had to get past was Bayern, which we managed on penalties
not too obscure but when i saw a team with a zebra on their badge in the german third division i knew what i had to do. took me 12 seasons to win ucl and germany
Duisburg?! I chose to play a career with them on Fifa based on that badge haha
yesssss
Til. Great looking kit too, very rugby like with the horizontal stripes
sucks they got relegated this season
Annan Athletic, back on FM12. Probably easier due to the fact the challenge I was doing only allowed me to load the Scottish league. If I recall correctly, my keeper was Loris Karius.
Salford City, 9 seasons, got very lucky with the run in the season we won it, actually won the champions league a season before our first premier league win.
Banbridge, 3rd tier of Northern Irish football. I think it took me around 17 seasons. The top tier was a real stumbling block trying to get my team to even qualify to start getting funds for good prospects.
Probably San giovanni from San Marino. It took me a lot longer than normal mind you.
Basingstoke Town. Never won the PL, but the Stoke have more CLs than Man City without the 115 charges
Oh man, I also played with Basingstoke and went from Vanarama South to the Prem but then lost the save files 
i once spent the night in a bush there
I've spent many a night in many a bush there. War memorial?
Motherwell. 3. Don't ask for an explanation, I can't give one. We went on a crazy run. Best I can say is that in the Scottish League, you can get some pretty unrealistic players to sign.
Antwerp almost always FMs but the most proud i was in FM 11, 15 years.
Nice, Iâve just started one with SK Beveren and thatâs what led me to ask the question. Iâm quite enjoying Belgium so far.
yeah but after a while i get sick of the play offs in the top division. Btw do you inow there are 2 SK Beverens ? like the club, love the stadion also actualy.
I donât mind the play offs, I did a Cercle Brugge career mode a few years ago so was already familiar with it. I did see that there were 2 Beveren clubs and they merged a few years back, is that what you meant?
no , so the original went bankrupt and a part of it merged with another division 2 club and aded there new to the club. Creating waasland beveren, i think they droped waasland know bit not sure. Whe see fusions of clubs as a bad thing in general here ( except for fusion clubs) so a part of the original beveren Supps started from the lowest level posible again with SK Beveren.
Ahh got you, thatâs endeared the club to me even more. Thatâs pretty much the same story as AFC Wimbledon. They relocated to Milton Keynes (a city just outside London) and renamed the team MK Dons. then some of the supporters created AFC Wimbledon and started from the bottom of the pyramid and now they are in the same league as MK Dons and are massive rivals.
yeah i know that storry , i hope it will hapen with the Beverens to man.
Virtus Acquaviva from San Marino in FM23. Won a Europa League in 2031 and the first Champions League in 2036. Ended up winning two more in the next three years before moving to another club in San Marino. With Fiorentino I managed to win another Champions League in 2047 after losing 2046 final :) The career is still ongoing though so who knows when a third team from San Marino will win?
After youâve left the first two teams have they fallen off or stayed somewhat competitive in Europe?
Haven't left the second team yet, but I just lost an all Sammarinese Champions League final against Virtus. Virtus had some up and downs but always managed to reach at least the second turn of CL so they stayed pretty competitive. To ensure that they didn't fall off I built the best staff possible and best facilities, and renewed all the coaching staff before resigning to make sure that they didn't leave with me!
Thatâs so cool! Thanks for sharing
https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/s/BetoApAMgG This is definitely my best achievement to date still.
Thatâll take some topping, congrats
Nantes in 2 seasons on FM21 by complete mistake through using the instant result button. Had an easy group I topped, got another 2 easy draws to the semis against Porto (I think) and Lille, so youâd think thatâs a great run, tons of money and I expected to get dumped out there and thenâŚand then inexplicably beat Liverpool 4-1 on aggregate and then Real Madrid 3-2 in the final having been 3-0 up
MĂĄlaga CF From the Spanish 3rd division to a CL title in little under 5seasons(even surprised myself there). Interestingly I still had one guy from the OG team playing regularly and two other players in rotation(they got some serious young talentđŤĄ)
VĂkingur Gøta from Faroe Islands 2029/2030 UCL champs. fm24 https://preview.redd.it/xcqwhw4ufv4d1.png?width=955&format=png&auto=webp&s=1cc498bd0acd9e50e81aef75f18c02ae2c79c47e
What the heck â thatâs like six seasons in? Very impressive.
Honestly not that impressive. My goal is league wide success. Personal club success is meaningless. It will be a long build a nation save maybe even import to FM25 going for #1 League over England. TBH to start out I just sign the fastest players possible. Start in June when game starts. As soon as it hits July 1st. Move all money to world scouting packing and trial anyone with acc/pace range in 15s. Get the fastest that you can afford regardless of all other attributes and play a 424. Once players signed cancel scouting package. Think it costs like 30-40k for 1 month. Do that the following the July and repeat. Goal is to have an entire squad of minimum 15 acc/pace as quick as possible then focus on getting strikers and flanks to 17 acc/pace.. Age doesnt matter most players will only last 2 seasons at club. My goal is to start getting deep into Champions league as soon as possible for money and rep to keep getting faster players then eventually better players. And at some point i buy like 25 players age 18 to give me home grown in 3 seasons. Because you are basically playing Champions league with 17 players because you dont have enough home grown so you cant register 25. Those early seasons you gotta focus your bench on learning 4 positions each. IT is the only way you can get deep in Europe. Because suspensions and injuries you wont have enough players to cover the gaps if they cant cover 4 position each. So my strikers would also learn AML/AMR and DM. Centerbacks would learn left and right back and DM. DM would learn center left and right back. Think I won 2 ucl in a row then Real Madrid knocked me out in Quarters the next 2 seasons and I came back for 2 in a row after that. They also knocked me out in club world cup but I won the next one. Real Madrid cleaned up in 2032 signed a bunch of oldheads but i kid you not most of their starting squad had like 18 acc/pace except centerbacks. So I had no chance against them. But after 2 seasons their attributes plummeted cause they were all >35 years old. probably the oldest club i ever saw and amazing the players still had high physical attributes. They got mbpappe at 38 and he still had 18 and 19 for acc/pace for 2 seasons. He got to 40 and dropped off cliff was retired next season. We are now the #1 rep team in world. Faroe Islands Prem League went ranked from 144 to 75. Just got 10th coefficient for Europe which is huge for the league. Long Long Long way to go. The board just announced plans for new stadium but didnt give any info said they were looking for a spot so no size estimates. I was finally able to give 1 club in my nation 50 million last season and plan to give another club 50 million this season. The league hasnt hit 100 reputation points yet as the TV deal has not been automatically turned on. It turns on for leagues that dont have it enabled at 100 rep points. And it is usually worth like 20 to 40 million per club when it starts. Now I have to try and start a massive in nation and out of nation loan farms with an eye towards turning huge profit every season in meaningless player sales. As my long term goal is to give 6 clubs 50 million dollars every season.
Donât believe a word of this to be honest
https://preview.redd.it/rtuk6manfv4d1.png?width=955&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f496b21a6d63edf689a45f84b59637b07b78c68 if you say so. i mean your username fits trolling
I ainât reading allat, happy for you or sorry that happened
That a nice project and you engineered ways to make it possible. Makes me wanna do it too.
Yeah it's fun if you want long tedious saves. I've don't several build a nation's. But highest I got was #4. Not enough real life time
Amazing, I love taking terrible teams in lower leagues to the top. But taking a bad nation to the top sounds like a treat.
It's fun but it usually the only save I do all year. Because it does take a lot of time. But I've started to holiday from to match ignoring all the emails and it soerds up the process tremendously
Toulouse FC in my 8th season
I just did something wild and if it wasn't myself i'd scream SAVE SCUMMING. Started a save with Rosenborg on a Scandinavian Super League Database. After winning the league in season 2 i qualified for the UCL for the 1st time. Barely scraped into the playoffs as 22nd place and got the most Mickey Mouse run i've ever seen. Porto in the playoffs, Galatasaray RO16, RB Leipzig Quarters. Then Bayern in the Semis where i SOMEHOW win 3:0 at home with 2 goals in 90+2 and 90+4. Lost 2:1 in Munich. Final was against...Napoli lol. They were th3 far better team and lead 1:0, in the 93rd!!! minute i get a penalty and score. Won the final on penalties. By far the most fairy tale run i've ever had or seen.
Hemel Hempstead
Udinese, FM 12, first season.
âŚ.erm, Lyon? Can you tell I donât really do Road to Glory saves? đ
Not that obscure - Plymouth Argyle. Took 8 or 9 seasons.
Hitchin Town, 7th tier English side. Took me like 17 seasons
How do you even get promoted to PL with a team that low? I can get up to league 2 max and never any further. I am awful at the game but do you have any tips
No oneâs saying itâs easy. Just be patient, as you saw it took me 17 seasons. Iâm not amazing at the game either but I do have good ball knowledge so I knew who to sign which helps. Utilise loans from young players at top clubâs youth academy. For instance in like national league/league 2 you should be going for prem u21 players so check their youth squads. In deep non league try sign league1/league2 reserve/u21 players for free loans at the end of the transfer window. This is my first ever fm so im new to the series but my mates play which helps. Maybe watch some YouTube vids to help with things if thatâs what you like. Itâs really good and worth it so just keep dedicated and itâll work for you. Feel free to ask questions if you want.
Thank you! Yeah Iâm very new to this and only play on my phone (I donât have a laptop at the moment, swear they always break on me!) but Iâm having fun so who cares
lol I use my school laptop itâs slow but as you say, the game is still fun
My advice would generally be to worry less about getting young players to develop, but only focusing on getting players that can get you promoted. So try to utilize loans as much as possible, and don't worry about signing older players that won't stay with you for long. (You can worry about that once you reach the pl)
Brondby in 3 years
Wow, how did you manage that?
CĂĄdiz, 5 seasons. Almost relegated them in 2029/30, then qualified to UECL by getting 6th on the next season, in 2031/32 we won the Conference League against Aston Villa i think, and placed 3rd in the league. In 2032/33, we were runners-up to Real Madrid in both the League and the Cup, and reached the Round of 16 in UCL, being knocked 4-3 on aggregate to Man United. In the following season, we placed 4th in the league, got eliminated in the Cup's quarterfinals to Real Sociedad, but we managed to get 1st place in the UCL league stage. After beating Lyon (4-1), we were drawn against Real Madrid. First game at home, 2-1 for them. Second game, a player of theirs is sent off and we win 5-0. Then Barcelona, we won the first game 2-1 in Nuev(Ăssim)o Mirandilla, and were losing 2-0 when my CB Luca Bello scored at the last minute and then on extra time to qualify us to the final. But then Ansu Fati scored on the last minute of ET. Still, we won on pens after Bello scored again (these were the only goals he scored in his entire CĂĄdiz run). We won the finale against Bayern 2-1 and CĂĄdiz is officially a champion of europe before AtlĂŠtico
I'm not sure if this is the worst/ most obscure team, but I won the UCL with Stoke City in 2032 on FM21
Nobody could do it on a cold and rainy night in Stoke
Some impressive stuff here. And I was feeling pleased with myself taking Bradford City from League 2 to PL in 16 seasons in FM21. Very much doubt I'll be winning the Champions League although probably more chance than winning the PL.
Paris FC in FM21, took 8 years, and it was a total fluke. We were 2nd best in France (lost the league to PSG by 5 points that year), had favorable draws until the QF, where we inexplicably hung 4 goals on Liverpool in the home leg. For some reason Hertha BSC made it to the semi final and they weren't very good at all - mid-table in the Bundesliga - and we scraped past them on penalties at home. In the final against Inter we were total outsiders according to the bookmakers and Inter were dominating the first 30 minutes, shots on goal, hitting the woodwork, the whole shebang, and we were just somehow hanging on. Then their DM decided to try and end my winger's career with what can only be described as a dropkick and got sent off. In the second half we managed 2 shots and one of them went in, 1-0 and that was that. Inter out-XGd us, 3 to 0.3. Took another two years before we could unseat PSG to win Ligue 1, went to the CL final that year too, only to lose to Inter.
Nice, I did a career mode with Paris FC on fifa 19 and was constantly battling with PSG. It was a lot of fun
Had a friend in US that played on their futsal team until pandemic. This sounds fun.
It took me 21 years to win the Champions League with Llangefni Town out of the northern Welsh 2nd tier. I even started an academy trained player named Craig Evans in the midfield.
Rugby Town in 34/35. Got to Prem in 32/33 and finished mid table but won the FA Cup. Finished mid table again but won the Europa in 33/34. Then in 34/35 just escaped relegation by 4 points but won the CL beating RB Leipzig (with a favourable draw). Was a weird season, also won the Carabao.
Hednesford Town, won it in 2054/55, 2055/56 and 2056/57.
Lowestoft Town. How many seasons did it take? Let just say my in game generated son had started and retired from playing football before this happened.
Blyth Spartans, took about 10 seasons. Once I also reached the final and lost with Odense (3rd season), Lech PoznaĹ (6th season), Hajduk Split (7th season).
Nice! I'm currently in my 7th league season with Blyth, should be able to get promoted soon to league one! I hope I can take a leaf out of your book haha
I guess I haven't really caused an upset, but I was close to taking Feyenoord to the UCL title in FM23. It was the first season at the club for me in my journeyman save (28/29?) and we got some lucky draws, but we did beat the likes of PSG. How? Idk, luck and counter-attacking. We were close to beating Bayern in the finals too, but that match ended 3-1 to them
Scunthorpe, boreham wood and alloa in a few fms. Also once won it back to back with a full academy 25 man squad as fulham.
Torquay United - 9 Seasons
Javor from serbia. Took me 7 seasons, starting from the 2nd division
Conwy in Wales, took 15/16 years and I also beat a more obscure club (West Ham) in the final.
AFC Fylde, 10 I think - from national league. Took over mid season, next season back to back to back promotions then 3 grueling seasons in the championship, then only 3 in the prem and won the CL first time of asking. Never won the league. Man City.
Man City
I won it with Portlaoise FC. I had to use a league mod to make them a playable team basically like a division 10/11 team in UK. But with the complications of no one wanting to join my club and the ffp breakdown being broken, I regularly fail ffp because in irekand it's done on a yearly basis rather than a 3x yearly and I'm fully convinced that my transfer income doesn't offset the ffp. As I have around 1b in revenue and 1.5b in transfer spend. I basically do a club revitalise every year to 18 months blood first team regulars buy from corner of the world and farm them out to psg, Liverpool and real Madrid. Liverpool is my biggest player buyer think I've brought in over 400m in player sales from selling to them over 3 year period. I have editor enabled just for if issues arise with save, like on player had a transfer to lazio organised agreed to sell player and when I confirmed the sale player was released some how so had to resign to club and manually transfer to the club for the agreed fee. I have won the champions league twice, but won Conference League and Europa League back to back before winning Champions league. Did it over about 11 years.
AS Cannes, Start in the 5th tier of France in 2021 In 2035 I won the champions league working on a budget of 15m and player sales in my last season. This is the simple version as the long story is a very long one lol
Helmond Sport, 13 seasons in
Spennymoor Town, 11 seasons
This is giving me hope for my current spennymoor save
Not obscure, but worst, Hartlepool in 2032/33 season.
Auxerre in fm24. 11 seasons from League 2
I won a Champions League with Valmiera from Latvia, took me 13 seasons, had reached a Conference League final 5 seasons prior but lost.
King's Lynn Town from National League to Champions League. I think winning the Premier League took 12 seasons, but the Champions League took 17. RB Leipzig just kept doing a number on me
St. Joseph's
Esh Winning. I think it took me about a dozen seasons. I think the game is too England biased though cos I won it before I even came close to winning the premiership.
Alfreton Town, last year and it took 10 seasons. Got back to back promotions from vanarama north all the way to the premier league. Free transfers and youth academy prospects were on point in my 3-5-2 control possession
Tre Fiori in San Marino. Took me so long but can't remember how many seasons as it was years ago
Marseille FC Won 3 UCL back to back with them Ending PSG's ligue 1 domination too
Fairford Town - English 9th tier, 14 seasons.
SC Telstar from the Netherlands in a 8.200 seater stadium because the board refused to build a new stadium
Cardiff Draconians. They are an amateur Welsh team in real life, took me 25 seasons overall, over a year of playing time. Most of my team was South American by the end
Chesterfield and 8 I think
Taken Scarborough Athletic to 3 CL titles in 16 seasons, first title was after 12 seasons
Swansea and too long to admit đ
Royal fc mandel United on fm 23, got a borderline lukaku regen and signed as much Belgian 16 year olds as I could to try get the one or two who had world class pa, think it was the 7th or 8th season I got the ucl in
Wrexham. Three back to back promotion, two seasons in the championship, then 17th in the prem, 11t, 5th, 4th, then next season double prem champion. We somehow fmâed our way through inter lazio and real madrid in the final. Beljo scored one header in each game and thatâs it.
Us Lecce, in my third season. I was able to pick up some young half wonderkids and I'll be honest I save scrummed if there were any injuries over 3 months so it probably doesn't count haha
Leeds Utd, in fm12 (5 Season), Vitoria Guimaraes fm18 (6 or 7 seasons) and Dynamo Kiev in fm23 (6 Seasons), FM 24 I did win back to back over 3 seasons with FC Porto but there not that obscure (even all the other teams đ)
Not even close to being as obscure as most people's answer, but it was with Brighton, in my second season. Also won the league both seasons, and the FA-cup the second season. Tried out a tactic that obviously worked out really well.
Manchester United. I'm joking, that would be impossible
SfB-Oure FA - 10 seasons
Swansea on FM14 second season. Had an insanely good first season and qualified for the UCL. Barely scraped out of the group stage and won every single playoff game off the away goal rule. Faced Real Madrid in the final. Won 4-1 after 3 extra time goals. Love you Michuâ¤ď¸
In fm 23 it took me 5 years to take as Monaco to the UCL final and I won it. My team got ripped apart the next season
Avellino brought them from Serie D to Serie A, won the Champions League in I think my 9th season, maybe 10th not quite sure as it was a few years ago
Bekescsaba in Hungary, fm 23 in 2035. At this point i given up hope after exiting in the last 16 every year for like 7 seasons in a row. In 2035 out of nowhere it just clicked and i went all the way
Rapid Bucharest - FM20, team in second division... won UCL in after 4 seasons.
Wow
Fc Koper from Slovenia. Took me 14 seasons and I won the Conference league In 7th season
Does PSG count?
I took Wrexham all the way to win it, it took me 15 years
LBS Lions from the 12th tier in England, 19 years.
Sheffield Wednesday in my 9th season. Was an absolute graft, but Iâll forever be grateful to Ricky Puig.
Sarpsborg in Norway, I ended up playing 30 seasons, won the champions league 3 times and the Europe league twice, took me 22 years to win my first champions league
Huddersfield in the 5th season. I'm currently trying to win with Shamrock Rovers.
FC Supernova from Latvia. Probably took the best part of 20 seasons.
Velez Mostar but took me about 26 seasons, spent 35 years with Feronikelli from Kosovo on FM22 got to final twice but lost both times. I occasionally circle back to the save to try and win it
Not the champions league but I won the europa with HK when they were in the Icelandic 2nd division in fm19 got bottle necked because I had a small data base so there wasnât a lot of regens to pick from took me about 15 years
Venezia second division to Sassuolo⌠not anything like that but 7 seasons was an accomplishment. Now loaning wonderkids to Barcelona.
Cork City. Lost the final in 2056, but won the first one in 2057. It's 2095 now. I've 16 UCL titles, 5 or 6 WCW, many 10+ Supercups or so, and many other titles. I need one more UCL to be the GOAT
Bonnyrigg rose about ten seasons I think. Ringmer 20-25 seasons. Nearer 20 as once in the prem it was quite quickly
With save scumming or without? Reckon most of these comments are with save scumming
Roskilde A Danish Amateur team in the 5th tier. 19 years to win European Cup. Think I got PSG in knockouts 4 years running so should've been quicker. Still one of my all time favourite games. And at 19 years by far the longest.
London Samurai. 15 seasons. Custom Database file to add the English lower leagues. Starting in the 8th tier so about 12 years were spent getting to the premier league (quite a few back-to-back promotions with 2 seasons in the Vanarama & 3 in the Championship iirc). The CL got a little bit broken in my save though, coefficient points weren't accumulating properly (i.e. full reset every season) so lots of terrible teams were getting into the CL. Saw some wild scorelines in the group stages, once won 26-0 against a very poor team from Czechia. The latter stages were still the usual suspects though so it didn't really taint the achievement too much.
FC BROMLEY, 10 SEASONS cause while being in Championship I got some rich mf from France and while I being the legend already he make the stadium new and NAMED IT AFTER HIM, bastard
York city. Won the champs league yet my stadium was tiny still as I had to wait another like 17 years for them up upgrade it as I think you can only get a new one every 25 years so I got fed up đ
AFC Telford or Mladost Apatin or Radnicki (SM) probably 10ish plus seasons for each. Just enough for those wonderkinds to start paying off.
York city on fm06 think I ended up winning the CL in about 23/24 beat Chelsea on penalties at Anfield
Carlisle United in FM 21. Don't remember how many seasons it took tho, but it was a nice journey
Guiseley did YAC took little over 25 seasons
Fk Metta in Latvia. Took like 20 seasons. They have a good youth system IRL, so i turned them into the Ajax of East Europe..fun save
Sc Cambuur in 29/30
Well done.
Thank you