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The Aim To win your chosen countries' top division and win the Champions League with a previously unplayable club using only your academy as a way of acquiring new players. The Available Countries Any Country in Europe is eligible as long as you can get a previously unplayable side promoted from holidaying, for example Holland is no longer available as there is no longer any relegation from the 2nd tier. The Reset Dates France- 19th June Germany - 19th June Italy- 30th June Portugal- 30th June Spain - 9th July Russia - 19th June Turkey - 19th June Belgium- 30th June England - 24th June Scotland- 20th June (Save 1st May for choice of teams by reloading) The Database Only load the Nation your planning on managing in. Database size is optional (small, medium or large) Players Based in your nation Players from top clubs in europe (or everywhere) International players is optional If you're managing in England, you can also add 'players from regional premier divisions' No further customising of the database is allowed. Attribute masking should be enabled. 'Add key staff' and 'Add players to playable clubs' should be ticked Steps when getting started Add yourself as an unemployed manager. Call him holiday man if you want. Go on holiday until the reset date of your nation or the day before if your planning on reloading. Retire the manager Add a new manager with your chosen nationality and the lowest possible reputation and qualifications Choose the newly promoted club of your choice Rules for the Challenge No loans or transfers in are allowed but you can sell and loan players out. If you are sacked, sorry, you have to start again. No save game editors are allowed. only cosmetic database edits are allowed. (team/competition names/logos) No international management until completion of challenge. Signing backroom staff is allowed. Signing players on trial or signing/using grey players isn't allowed. Rules for this Thread Player naming is allowed if you wish to highlight youngsters coming through. 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. Screenshots for anything are encouraged. Progress of your club should be documented using this thread, I want to hear the story of your club all the way through. Please keep us updated, even if you are doing really badly. Season Update Youth Candidates All Tagged Players Attribute page Transfers (to prove that you havent signed any players) Squad League Table Anything else is optional. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scotland will be one of the hardest countries in this challenge, the facilities will hinder you, the finances will hinder you, and the fact you cant use greyed out players will hinder you as the squad generally come out small. It is a challenge though, after all. Theres not an official points system in place, but if people want we could put one in, in respect of titles win, promotions, and possibly even youngsters coming through get International caps/massive transfers/ awards etc.. I hope some people are willing to tackle this too, as it would be nice if someone from here done this, and I'll likely fail it. Link to original idea and thread - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/400466-ri916-s-FM15-Youth-Academy-Challenge?s=43c9b7de681df0bc6de34dc9ea6bd060