Best Places to Scout in Football Manager
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- We did a video a week or so ago about the best clubs for producing those juicy football manager wonderkids we all crave, but what about the best areas to send your scouts to, to, ya know, find juicy wonderkids. We break out an aesthetically pleasing tier list to show how FM21 divides up every country into regions, then assess which regions are the best place to scout to maximize your wonderkid potential. Spoiler: I’m not telling you why Africa is in the thumbnail, but you should be scouting it.
This is my preferred way of scouting in Football Manager. Line up good scouts and embed them in a region until the end of their days in the scouting department. They learn the countries very well after a period of time, so wonderkids and hot prospects from that region pop up in your inbox as fast as possible, with the scout’s rating. Since FM18, it has led to some truly memorable runs through the champions league. The entire BATE team was built with this scouting method. Until FM really changes its methods, this will continue to be how I do things, with tiers of regions and loads of scouts.
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“Iraq is not expensive because basically everything’s already been levelled”
Lmao. That caught me off guard.
I know right 😂 for a second I thought, it's rich it's coming from an American hahaha
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These uploads are more consistent then Wonderkids from Colombia
I've been scouting South Europe looking for Spanish and Italian wonderkids for a long time... RIP
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For context I think the reason Australia is in SEA is that we play in the Asian champions league and are associated with the AFC not oceanic
I mean it makes sense, but then why is Israel in the Middle East and not South Europe, and why are Suriname/Guyana not in the Caribbean region following those rules. It feels like they can't decide what system they want to go with.
We lobbied the AFC to be part of the confederation as beating tonga 38-0 was not beneficial. It also made Asian confed stronger and allowed a guaranteed additional place in the WC. Made sense for us
@@evansmith2429 No I wasn't disputing which confederation Australia should be in, I think being in Asia makes sense. Just the way FM does scouting regions, keeping Australia in South East Asia like it's in the Asian confederation, but Israel being in the Middle East despite being in UEFA and Suriname/Guyana being in East South America despite being in Concacaf
That might also be a political/cultural thing. Even though Israel is part of UEFA theyre often considered part of the middle east in most instances, not being an EU member state, whereas Australia is in that weird place where its sometimes Asia, sometimes Oceania. For example being a part of ASEAN
honestly as a malaysian, i was thinking that sea region will be under the bad meat pie region because i have played a save under my hometown club and most of the players there are dogshit, also i forgot australia is part of sea...
update: it's on the me tier, makes sense since i signed quite a few good aussie players in my other save
Hey, I'm the guy who made the layout. :) I think I also sent it to you in a Discord DM at one point. Cool that you used it!
EDIT: FFS I realized I spelled Comoros wrong. xD
Thanks
Post that in the Discord. Very useful layout man, good job.
It’s really good, can I pay you to do other things like this
@@ZealandonYT Uh... sure, although I am not a professional graphic designer or anything. But if you're serious, we should have a chat on Discord or something. :)
Hey Lupus, this is awesome. Where can I find a copy of the layout?
Me: Wakes up.
Zealand: *Immediately posts a video about a topic I've been struggling with*
It's going to be a good weekend.
As a Zimbabwean I keep all Zimbabwean players loaded, meaning I have to sift through 180-200 Zimbabwean regens a season to find like 3 with championship potential, and maybe 2 potential premier league talent every 5 years. If I'm lucky I'll get the once in aa decade potential world class prospect.
North and West Africa are borderline cheat codes. Al Ahly, Asante Kotoko, Engubu Rangers, Assec Mimmosa and Zamalek are on par with Partizan and Zagreb at producing talent (OO not exactly but their cheaper so..)
Glad you did this one because I set my own scouting based on your video & apparently had multiple scouts scouring Malta and Cyprus thinking "South Europe" meant Spain, Portugal & Italy.
As someone who won the UCL with a Japanese and Korean strike partnership, in FM19, East Asia is a very good place to go.
Oceania: if this was rugby you'd all be drooling for our talent.
I was today-years old when I discovered that Portugal, Spain and Italy are not Southern Europe.
funny that in FIFA they are, I guess
What about the fact that Australia isn't in Oceania :')
@@RundasSlash it was a surprise for me too. But it kinda makes sense given his explanation
Can you do a video on the setting up of the database? I am aware of the advanced database options but I’m not too sure how to go about using them to my advantage
Absolutely brilliant content here mate. Concise and informative. Tip top fella!
I'm a Vietnamese player, I tried scouting Southeast Asia because I know that region in the game
And surprisingly, when I scouted my national team, I actually found a shining gem among the coals, a 17 year old Vietnamese wdk with 5* 175 PA. Holy hell, It took me just £ 10k to sign him, loan him a season in Spain and come back to my club, become the most important player for the national team and the club.
Vietnam and Thailand are the teams that was so powerful in the game fm20 supachock, muenta and other thai wonder kids always get an automatic transfer to jleague then get poach by mid table teams in top 5 leagues in europe on my save and vietnam always has a world class regen that end up playing in japan if you load jleague in fm20
Just been made Lokomotiv Moscow manager as my first stop in an unemployed save.
Uzbekistan, I'm coming for your wonderkids.
Just so you know there are 6 countries aside from Russia that count as Homegrown in the Russian league, and while Belarus, Kazakhstan and even Kyrgyzstan are included, Uzbekistan sadly is not, so the Uzbek wonderkids count towards you limit of 8 total foreign players. It's frustrating!
@@Plut0Rising thanks for the info! Still familiarising myself with the league rules. Just checked and it says Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are all non-foreign.
I'm at my 8 player limit but Corluka possibly leaving frees up a space for Jedvaj on a cheap deal. Croatian for Croatian. :)
Loved that emphasis on Iran!
The first time I saw Ashkan Dejagah on your UA-cam channel cover, I realized you are the main one on FM. King Zealand 👑
I’m managing the Iranian national team and I don’t know what nations to load up on my save
@@holdthisoak5767 load all the middle eastern countries plus the 6 top nations in Asia
@@sepehrjf I can’t. I’m on touch. I chose France, Germany and England cause German countries produce some Iranian players
Australia was in Oceania but we got so sick of having to qualify through a play off (all down to two games) against teams like Uruguay or Iran that the powers that be moved us into Asia. We would have made it to the finals more often pre 2006. Thanks for the video!
central america is severely underrated, especially if you're a second tier team. can't count the amount of times a random costa rican or honduran has gone on to be my best player
15:54 Yeah, I remember when Norway previously made it to an international competition... *The Euro 2000!* Good times.
I always scout central Asia because I'm from Kyrgyzstan but I guess I'm gonna stop now😔
I've never noticed before but Zealand really switches from Jim Halpert to Dwight Schrute from time to time
I wanted a video like this for ages and of course King Z pulls through
I found Mexico hugely underrated, can do bargains for around 7m.
Mexico is great. You can find a world class youngsters from Mexico almost every season. The problem is they become quite expensive fast. If you don't get them when they are 16-17 they cost around 20+M. Or even worse if it in the top Mexican teams.
Been scouting Oceania and wondering why the scout never went to Australia. 😭 Been playing CM/FM for 23 years and I know Australia completes in Asian Fed and I never made that connection. Thank you bacon overlord.
I can tell you now that some of my favorite players are from SA. Oswin Oppolis, Mahalambi, Reeve Frosler, Lyle Foster, Velabahyi , siyasi. The list goes on. I have won many trophies and cleaned up the cup of nations and CHAN with SA players. I love them. Shame the work permit restrictions don't allow more to come to the UK
I won the Europa League with Partisan Belgrade thanks to three south african wonderkids of a Club called sundowners or something like that, always find good guys there while no one from the usual powerhouses like Nigeria pops up😂
fr bro, even guys like costi christodoulou, rivaldo coetzee, teboho mokoena or cade erickson for example
Turkey is underrated. Both the bird and the league
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It's good to know what countries are included in the regions. I always thought Spain, Portugal and Italy were included in South Europe Region. No wonder my scouts never find anything there.
Low key, Iceland have produced some proper wonderkids in my saves. Bought a 16 year old new gen striker & was good enough to start in the Bundesliga instantly.
Sundowns in South Africa is absolute God tier for poaching young talent
Yes had about 3 top South African talents on FM19. Joel Hlela is now a Southampton legend
South Africa is actually ridiculous on fm20. Ive poached like 30 South African regens for auxerre, Khanyisile Mgwigwi and Nicholas Ramonyai are both 4.5* strikers in ligue 1. Almost everyone has a 1.3 mil release clause as well.
I manage Italian League and the only place I scout outside Central Europe is Eastern Europe, really cannot sign any South Americans despite the fact that 8 Argentines out of 10 should possess an Italian passport
Yeah I have a similar problem in La Liga (you can only have 3 non eu players) but a atleast it only takes 2 years to get Spanish nationality
That intro is just ✨
My Indian wonder kid goalie kept 21 clean sheets in his first pl season at Norwich, and psg bought out his 266 mil release clause the next year aged 17. India can be decent if you look hard enough
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That Ukraine Russia moment really aged well😂
Just commented that. Yikes
came back to this video to use for FM22, but the scouting region names have been changed.
obviously, what is now "Northern Europe" was Scandavia, but South America has been changed from "East" and "West" to "North" and "South"
potential for an update video?
not only an name change... data changed as well. Italy is now in South Europe according to the FM 22 Editor!
@@jemrtnsn4913 yeah, I noticed this myself after I'd posted this using the Scouting knowledge tab
every video, the intro got me. thanks Z!
This is very accurate of when to scout the best players in the world for Football Manager ever.
12:20 I got a guy called Kisto Yates and he has won ballon d'or 3 times and he's like 26 , also he is the all time int'l goalscorer
P.s. he had like 50 goals Internationally till he was 20
I agree with all bar 1 and that's Scandinavia, for the same reason you gave on South America West - Players are cheap! It's a top tier region, always has been, 17 year old Zlatan for under a million anyone?
Turkey won the world cup 10 years into my save, for some odd reason they have an amazing golden generation
For a country that religiously loves football we have been underperforming for long while now. But we have some exciting names coming up recently. Let's see where they can lead us🙂
@@yakuphanakyldz5987 the same goes also for Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece.
I think the political and economical problems made those countries stall in terms of football, cuz the talent is there just not discovered.
I like this guy, makes the vids fun! And appreciate his tactics etc
Zealand is calling the Syracuse Men's soccer game at 2:00 PM EST today 3/20/21. If you want to hear, path on my phone in the states is ESPN>Watch>Sports >Soccer>NC VS Syracuse. Go Cuse!
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Feel like I as often as I find a Colombian wonderkid, find one in South Africa. Often there is a 17 year old playing for Orlando Pirates or Kazer chiefs with caps for the national team. Often they are amazing talents. In fm 19 I found a fullback who became the best in the world for my Boston United team in fm 20 I found a CD for my Wisla Krakow team who I sold to Man City for a nice profit. He even came out as gay.
Also Peter Odemwingie are born in Uzbekistan. Just wanted to put that out there.
Thank you for your correct pronunciation of Iran ☺️👍
Really enjoy the scouting videos Zealand keep it up
Love your videos zealand, they help me so much in my save
Zealand my man, how about a video on how to find reincarnated players? I just stumbled on a Ronaldinho Gaúcho in my save and it was awesome. There's almost no videos about that on YT. It would be nice
same position and similar attribute? Wow that's awesome
@@faizmukti117 Can play as LW, AM and Striker. The attributes were a little bit low (all around 15~17) because he was not well trained I guess, but his potential was 5* and 87 rating (I play with Liverpool so 87 is amazing). Too bad I only found him when he was 27 years old, too old for me to buy.
@@Nosceteipsum166 I found a guy named Renato Gaúcho that was also from Grêmio, played RW and was really skilled just like the old player on FM 20.
We should play a drink game, 1 tequila shot every time Zealand says "rock solid'
Me: Clicks UA-cam
'New Zealand Video'
LEZGO
Costa rica is amazing! In my sunderland save I just won the prem with 3 costa ricans who I picked up for less than 10mil combined
Brilliant video ! Spain, Portugal and Italy not being in Southern Europe is also a surprise to me anno 2021 FeelsBadMan
Best channel bro
do a video on how YOU set up your save's database
If you are a mid-size or smaller team then South Africa has some great bargains. I signed some great players on great bargains for teams like Saint-Etienne, Hibs, Sunderland, Partizan Belgrade etc... If you are an elite team you wont find much but mid-size and smaller teams is great
Also, Croatia and Serbia are by far the best countries to scout IMHO. Cheap players and constantly producing top talent
It's always worth to check the Russian Club Krasnodar's youth team. Always have a wonderkid every season. Other teams worth to be checked too, the usual Russian powerhouses.
"Guinea-Bissau for some reason produces a lot of good players".
Well, it does. Most of them were raised in Portugal and played in the Portuguese national team though.
FM REALLY needs to add a feature that allows you to save scouting assignments, its so insanely annoying
This must be one of the few videos on UA-cam where a call for Indian's to assemble went unnoticed.
Let me fix that.
11:23 - A good summary of South Asian football
11:35 - Because I like Sunil Chhetri
I have not played the newer games but in 2015 it was argentina most definitely, Brazilians sold the same guy for 25 m, eurepeans sold for 50-60 m , while Argentinians sold him for 5m
8:32 I bought a wonder-kid from Kazakstan that has 4.5-5 star rated potential
I hope they add the Bosnian league, I am waiting since 2014. You have Croatia Serbia you can add Bosnia
My number 1 FM hack is scouting the lower leagues in the US. In particular IMG academy and US development academy will guarantee me 2 or 3 absolute studs I can sign on a free
Thanks so much for this..... really useful stuff to learn. Not sure if it'll help me with my save managing some Finnish minnows I can't pronounce, but may be very useful for my Milan stream save!
OT, but I hope you read it: my understanding of personalities was that model citizens would never step back no matter the mentoring unit. Well, that's not the case: my model citizen just became resolute :-(
Great video Zealand, !!!!
I have found a world class regen in Asec Mimosas pretty much every single save that I have made
agreed. coton sport too
Great video!
Zealand puts Bad Meat Pie as lowest tier.
Doctor Benjy: Are you challenging me?
Sliding chhetri in his video.....
Smart
Good rating. South America West is a gold mine. Playing in France where you can sign as many Africans as you want I believe that West, North and Central are as important.
I started a new save a few weeks ago with Salford City and the aim was to try take them to the prem and mayb win the Champions League.. i selected a huge data base.. i have managed to get to the Prem in year 2026/2027... To my surprise the huge database produces a lot of unbelievable wonderkids who the teams in the Prem have been stockpiling on while i was languishing in the lower leagues.. i probably will get relegated on the first time of asking looking at my squad 🤣🤣🤣
When you look at this video as preparing for FM22 after two years pause from playing FM and regions in FM22 are completly changed :D
I use to scout per country... wish I could find a list of the better ones to scout. :p
You mention: Cameroon, Algeria, Tunisia, Marroco, Egypt, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Australia, (Central Europe), (Eastern Europe), Brasil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Equador, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela
Did I miss any country or should I exclude some??
Humam Tariq was killing the game in fm 15
Where can I find the drawing Zealand? Thanks! Amazing video as usual!
That Celtic callout was painful and unexpected. 1 star.
All the other content was great.
Thanks for acknowledging Sunil chhetri.
He is one of our our GOAT's.
Do look him up.
😁
Can we get a video on what you think the best database set up is. I really struggled with it at the start and my current save is missing a few nations I realised were good later on
There’s already a video on fm20 but it’s the exact same on fm21
watching from Zambia, nice to get a mention and a decent pronouciation
holy crap. I thought Portugal,Spain and Italy were in the Southern Europe region. I was only watching for the entertainment, and i learned something anyway...
True PA is impossible to predict. You are aiming for a range. It only works if your team is already strong. Otherwise you might have a 90-100 rated team in a 3rd division somewhere and good fn luck gauging true potential when some wunderkids will start with 70 CA with extremely unassuming attributes but when you look under the hood they turn out to be 140-160. Again like i said. Good fn luck estimating without an already strong first team.
I use an addon that makes it more dynamic than the vanilla. It is still similar but more spread out and less ''You get a messi every year from Brazil''
Camavinga was actually born in Angola, in a region next to DR Congo.
And "Fronse" stole that African talent boy. else they win nothing.
your content has turned my meh save into very compotent. Time to make Alfreton a league 1 team
Remember the times in fm, when you could be a club no matter where, fill your squad with Brazilians and win everything, including “Champions League”… that was nuts. Since then I’ve made a rule for myself, “no more than 3”.
I think they fixed it by making the Brazilians have bad personalities. They create cliques and shittalk their manager too much in my saves. I just buy them, loan them around and sell them for 60M once their contract is near to its end.
@@WERTYUIO821 Well that actually sounds pretty realistic at any rate 😂
Can confirm that Matías Arezo has absolutely terrible attitude.
I found a wonderkid in Colombia recently
LOVE the iceland shirt!
Did u really needed to do that to India !!!!!!
Good Content as always !!! Very informative !!!
15:41 don't aged very well 😂
lol
I love the colombian flag in the back, thanks bro.
Iran is already pretty much leveled, said american guy. Made my day ♥️
Australia also can go mad, even if they cant make it to the round of 16 in the world cup, but did a 100 million wing partnership, signed for absolutely nothing to their respective clubs.
Mexico has always been consistent for me
liking solely for the australia praise
I feel like everytime Zealand uploads his hairline recedes just a lil bit more. I for one no long have hair. Fml FM21
Uruguay and the Czech Republic have consistently produced incredible players for me across several FMs
There's a good reason when around league 1 or 2 that I go hunting for random Scandinavians. Cheap as chips and quality.
Togo so good he said it twice 😍
Huge alliance fan here! Thanks for giving my man fng some respect, he is the worst player in team but still.
Creative intros
turkey and greece have very potential players