Don’t apply for jobs, wait for offers to come in.Īthletic Bilbao are perhaps the most well-known and extreme example of keeping things close to home.Take the first job that is available or offered.This may not be quite as satisfying, but it can accelerate a manager’s progress up the divisions if continually working with the lowest wage budget in the league becomes a little too much of a chore. Managers must remain at the same club and can only move clubs if sacked, in which case they go back to the starting level of begin the challenge again.Īn alternative to the Dafuge Challenge is to follow the same path from the lower leagues to continental glory, but via several managerial positions, rather than staying with the same club throughout.
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Players can only be signed if the club can scout them, or if they are a free agent that can be invited for a trial.Premier League and Champions League in England). To complete the challenge, win the highest domestic league and continental competition (eg.Start at the lowest playable tier in your country of choice, perhaps even at a newly promoted side to that league (add additional leagues via the Steam Workshop to go even deeper down the rabbit hole).Start with no coaching badges and only Sunday league experience.This challenge establishes the ground rules to ensure the maximal level of difficulty and realism. The club development aspect can be one of the most rewarding experiences in the game, building up the club’s finances, developing their training and youth facilities, and turning their bumpy, waterlogged pitch on the local playing fields into a 50,000 all-seater surrounding a carpet of green. Many of us FM’ers enjoy testing our skills to the extreme, by taking over at a small, almost unknown club buried in the depths of the footballing pyramid, and turning them into a European super-power. This save makes for the ultimate one-club, rags-to-riches challenge. Optional: Expand the challenge to include the OFC Champions League (Oceania) via the Steam workshop.It makes most sense to start with one of the lower reputation competitions before building up the big two in Europe and South America. Win each confederation’s continental championship in all 5 continents available in the game (UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, AFC, CAF).Start unemployed with no coaching badges and only Sunday league experience.This challenge will take managers around the globe, managing lesser-known teams in new and unique leagues, and is a great way to learn about the football being played in countries we’d never normally think to visit on our FM22 saves. Europe’s Champions League, South America’s Copa Libertadores etc.). Starting out with nothing, players must rise up to the pinnacle of club football in all 5 playable continents, by winning each confederation’s continental club competition (eg. Even step 4 and some step 5 clubs mostly have some players and staff in the database.We begin with arguably the toughest challenge out there. It is worth pointing out, however, that most step 3 clubs are researched and have players and staff. A lot of people, like myself, hope that SI will do something about this in the future. I have a DDT file, which automatically loads players from all step 3 and 4 clubs at the beginning of a new game.Īt the moment, as the others have pointed out, there is no way to play as a club below step 2, which is a shame. This is what I tend to do when I start in the Blue Square South. You'd effectively have Isthmian PL clubs in the BSS but this would be one way of playing that division.ģ) You could just play as normally but load all players from step 3 (and step 4 if you want) clubs so that those clubs have players in the game. You have a few options, depending upon what exactly you want to do, as follows:ġ) You could use the editor to swap a step 3 club with a BSS or BSN club.Ģ) You could make a 'swap' file to swap all BSS clubs, for instance, with Isthmian Premier League clubs.