bro has a lot of female fans commenting a minute after the video comes out, cool to see Zealand having such a diverse fanbase, that clone Zealandism could never!
Dude, I got a little revenge arch if you are interested, so you jump into Boreham Wood or Hemel Hempstead, both rivals of St. Albans, then you take them to them Prem and show those a**holes what they lost.
Dude either use the editor to get the job back (cuz no club would Fire you in real life) or become their executioner and poach their best players till they drop back😂😂
Actually Zealand I got sacked by Atletico Mineiro I was trying to get them back into the Copa Libertadores then stupidly made a promise to the board that we’d win our next Sudamericana game which we drew and progressed in the competition but that wasn’t enough for the board
Brazilian League is messed up with sackings sometimes, one time on FM20 or something my boyhood club Avai fired me for failing club expectations because I promised them the 2nd division title and only got promoted in 3rd place (tbf I was like 15 points behind the leader)
I feel inspired. When I am done with my current save, I am definitely trying a save where I leave all transfer and contract negotiations to a Director of Football. That sounds like such a huge challenge.
@@TheL0neWanderer1997 it does do that from my experience the transfers the ai does involve it making a squad for your primary tactic and the quality of player you sign depends on the club when i was at Brighton the dof kept signing wonderkids for cheap and flipping them for profit and then signing more till we got to a point where we were one of the best clubs in the world then he started signing players for marketing boosts and whenever someone was moved on AC milan we were already a top team when i joined so there transfers were mostly above 28 dudes at the prime of there careers for big marketing revenue and also free transfers and a few young high profile signings (and for some weird reason spanish players i literally had a social group of 12 spanish first team players in italy kinda wack) my liverpool side had a tycoon financial takeover and they spent big upwards of 200m almost every year for the 5 years i was there these guys would sign a high potential first team player regardless of price whenever someone better was available real madrid were in a dry spell when i joined with barcelona dominant so madrids signings were u23 players who be squad players and improve the team and even when replacing players they would sign like 25-26 years who were not super expensive the ai actually builds the teams really well naturally based on primary tactics but sometimes you just go bro why are you spending a 100 m on this 33 year old or when they sell a hot prospect for every cheap but it makes it very fun during transfer windows cause its like your constantly looking at the news and hoping your dof hits the golden goose
You’d think that someone who has 5 straight CL with Hammarby wouldn’t mistake them for Hammarby TFF, given that they are literary the B-team of the club. The T in TFF stands for ”talent”.
I actually love the idea of letting the football director or gm make the transfers for you and manage what they give you or take away from you. I would definitely try this out!
Heya Moizt here Most fun part about the save was looking at the players you got and players that were signed by the GM or players leaving and figuring out a solution and trying different tactical setups I used like a 4-4-2 in early Malaysia and used a 433 in my title winning team Then in politecnitica lasi used a 4-4-2 cause we had a lot of good strikers In fiorentina I stuck with the same tactic Did it again at Brighton for a year before we sold our best two strikers and the next best one wasn’t really a finisher so used a 4-2-3-1 where goals would be coming out wide Ac Milan brought me a lot of FB who were basically CB so I started using IFBs I used to shift between a 4-3-3 a 4-2-3-1 and a 5-3-2 based on oppositions and who we signed or sold My next foray was Liverpool where our strikers were kinda bad so I just went yep DLF on support same 4-3-3 you saw at Milan but with hard working midfield IFB and IWB and inside forwards And those years had a lot of 0-0 and 1-0 The next job was Real Madrid Great strikers again so I start with a 4-4-2 but the gm kept signing midfielders (Attaxking and defensive and Center mids) so I shifted to a 4-4-2 diamond then he basically kept signing strikers who would be better off in attacking midfield so we started using a 4-1-2-2-1 but then the game had sorta started taking forever to load so I started a new save and it sorta replaced the file and like the last file I could find was 3rd year in Milan I added a few google drive pics in my submission and shared with your mod if you curious how the football world looked in 2050
I had such a blast managing Septemvri. The rating here wasn't important to me just had so much fun. Also the player who got the assist for Ljubic in the UCL final is also a former Septemvri player.
I’m working with family’s local town team from the 3rd division, Balkan Botevgrad, right now and I’ve got them competing for European spots. Even finished 2nd last season. How the hell do you overcome ludogorets?
@@sashoradoulov3504 I didn't find it that hard tbh Levski won the league before I did. Ludogorets are just consistent as soon as I opened my scouting up and found players like Ljubic I just had to convince them to stay as long as I could doing things like offering new contracts to them every window. I actually wasted the money I got from selling him. I never let anyone leave on a free when I knew I couldn't keep them I got as much as I could sold high and never really spent more than £20M on anyone.
Once the squad was at that level I was developing as many players as I could in the league and winning anyway and always had the best team available for every big game.
I can relate to the St Albans save. I got promoted to the championship with Mansfield town. Out of nowhere expected mid table. I got sacked for finishing 18th. Bear in mind the highest they ever finished in their existence is 21st in the Championship. No freaking way I would have been sacked IRL.
Not FM but LMA Manager 2007 on the PS2 I took the job at Gil Vicente of the Liga del Honra in Portugal Over 20 years won 61 trophies including 11 European Cups! Set some crazy records like scoring 176 goals in 30 league games and one of my players scored 93 that season! For the whole entire career I didn’t buy a single player as I much prefer to stay out the transfer market and bring youth players through the academy
Never sent my save in, but I started as Tipton Town who are in the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One - in 2063 we finally won the Prem & champions league. 63 years at one club. That included a ~10 year spell in the VNN where we just couldn't progress.
@@shahir1395 it's the only save I played, played it essentially every day. It got to a point where I did instant result matches cos otherwise it takes forever.
Loves football manager, knows every flag, Tampa Bay Lightning fan. Theres not too much crossover between the three but im honoured i share the middle segment of that Venn Diagram with you Z!
My craziest save was my local team in the Spanish 7th division. My other crazy save is playing Barcelona with only homegrown players. This may not sound crazy, but I manually sold every non-homegrown player, surprisingly not getting sacked, but winning League and Cup. (Yes, I brought Messi back)
@Some123- I honestly did just 2 seasons, winning both 7th and 6th divisions. Stopped bc I wasn't enjoying it, maybe could take it back some day, with more focus on delegating. See, we destroyed every team because I gave amateur contracts to a full squad of free 4th-5th division quality players, while my rivals barely got around 5 players
Oh My Goodness!!! I made a Zealand video. Z I have to say, I got hooked on FM due to your videos....they are so helpful and engaging it makes me feel I should be able to do it. I've tried a HSV save multiple times and this is the first time I've been able to make it. I'm in UCL now and got knocked out in the Knockout playoff which is better than I thought I would do. My recruitment isn't always the best and I need to figure out how to find good wonderkids but otherwise it has been a blast.
one thing about this is i wish you would look at players performances, some player having a messi like season, or a CB scoring 30 goals can tell a story.
Proudest save for me personally was in FM10, winning the Champions League with Ajax. Just one that meant a lot to me personally really. Some great saves in this vid, respect to all involved.
If I'd seen the initial post I'd have submitted my FM23 save, started unemployed, took Dulwich Hamlet to the Prem, eventually winning the CL with them in 2042ish (it was a while ago, ha!) Fun video, cool to see what other folks do for a challenge!
Im a Hammarby IF supporter. I rarely see Hammarby talked about outside of sweden. So when I saw the thumbnail, I immediately grabbed some popcorn and pressed play on this banger vid
Hey Zealand, love the content and appreciate the awareness you bring to the game. Not sure where you can submit saves but I just won a quadruple in ‘33/‘34 with Brighton after a little over 10 seasons (UCL, EFL, FA, EPL). Not sure if that’s very impressive in the grand scheme of fm (I’m on mobile 💀) since you have a lot to work with in that club but I have some cool players and thought it would be cool if you could give them a look
I'm playing FM18 atm, first manager game ive played since LMA. Playing as Swindon and so far i had 2 glorious years and got consecutive 1st place in League 2 and 1, despite epxecting to finish mid table in L2 and fight relegation in L1, but i went top in L1 after 3/4 games and i never left the top spot. It did get a bit shaky at the end of the Season and beat QPR by 1 point. Now in the championship and its not going well. Lost 6 of the 8 matches, and whats most infurating every game has been a tight afair. I was getting destroyed by Watford 5 -0 by the end of the first half, but got a goal early on the 2nd half, thought that was all i was getting and then in the 75th minute my team managed to rattle in another 3 belters and hit the cross bar 5 times, each ended in one of those chaotic scrambles for the ball, but never managed to get that equaliser, It took all my self control to not be screaming at 3am when i was playing it. I'm hoping i can atleast beat the bottom 8 teams each time and hopefully that is enough to keep me up for this year and then i can rebuild my squad with players that are up to the standard of the Championship. Then claw my way up till i get the championship and on to the prem. Think its gonna be a tall order for me to do it
I'm doing the same as the St.Albans run with Blyth. I've gone back to back trophies with them from the very start (2023/2024 Vanarama North and 2024/2025 Vanarama National) and now sit in league 2 in my third season near the top of the league around 6 games in(not anything crazy) with a squad payroll of just around 1 mil. Not sure how the run will continue as I've come to see how difficult it is to reconfigure your squad after rising up the leagues so quickly. You want to keep players who helped you dominate the lower leagues but they are simply not good enough in the next level with little future growth expected. It is worth keeping them around because they have respectable wages, sub level stats, and help with chemistry but at some point you have to let them go for the sake of growing the club. Typically, I have to move around a 1/3 of the team to remain a contender in the league.
Zealand you would be proud, i signed a chinese 3rd choice RB for £43k loaned him out for a season then was offered £30 million the season he returned. Also in the same season signed a CM for £50k from ivory coast who was on £650 a week, he was in his last year of contact and wanted £65k a week, i barely used him so i have just sold him for £32 million
Dude that was successful with delegating transfers and contracts is super impressive. I'd love to start a "Realistic" journey man save where everything is delegated beyond manager's control maybe except training and matches.
I’m doing exactly this, making it as realistic by delegating what would be delegated in real life. I manage individual training but schedule training is managed by the AM, set pieces all done by the set piece coach, transfers by the DoF and scouting by the chief scout. I just work on tactics and stuff like that
I would LOVE for you to do a save like that last one Zealand. No signing players (including LOANS!!!) and just playing with what the DoF signs for you.
i need to send in my FC Ingolstadt save where i set myself the challenge of only using a 4-4-2 the whole save. i'm 13 seasons in and it took me 5 seasons to get to the Bundesliga and 10 to finally dethrone Bayern... and after seasons of coming 2nd and 3rd it felt so good. i've now got 3 back to back titles and a champions league going for my second champions league. it's so hard to stay consistent with this team because they're so bad at generating revenue so my budget is like a lower mid table team every year.
@notouriosdja when my team was weaker than the teams around me I'd run two on support CWBs with two BPDs in the middle on defend then have the two IW on AT out wide with two CDMs on defend with the strikers being on AF and DLF attack with a low defensive line. But now my team is actually good I'm running two WBs on at with sit narrower, tackle harder and mark tighter on then 2 BPD on defend still with tackle harder and mark tighter on them two wingers on at with tackle harder on with a MEZ on support with tackle harder and a BWM on support with mark harder and tackle harder on and strikers are still AF at and DLF at except the AF is on tackle harder with a higher defensive line to really complete it. And with the 2nd tactic I've been absolutely mopping up the league and champions league winning every game 2-6 nil key is working the ball up the wings and keeping the passing short.
Heck i'm gonna call it, that first Hammarby saves is fishy, 5 UCL back to back with Swedish club after 10 years ? dude's either used editor and not telling or using saves and repeat to win matches, which is okay if you wanted to play that way you want to play but not okay if you're lying and send it to Zealand and not telling the whole truth.
Agreed something is not right on that save, hate to call a fellow swede out but I think zealand should look into the early history of that save for oddities.
Yeah, something smells fishy... for instance, the Swedish Allsvenskan has a restriction of 8 foreign players in the match day squad, but this guy has at least 19 foreign players in the squad, meaning that a whole starting eleven must be left outside each match day. Sure, there are ways around this restriction, but it does look a bit suspicious. Then we have the salary structure where squad players make 5 times more than star players? Maybe this is the secret sauce, getting players to accept less playing time by giving them good PL-salaries, but for me it looks like begging for trouble.. but maybe it's just me not being good enough in the interpersonal relationships with the players on my saves, who knows?
yeah im doing a similar save in norway and im near enough 2050 (although im only using free signings) but i find it hard to believe 5 in a row. 10 years in I was still looking to get my first national title
I regularly bring the small clubs into multiple UCL wins in a row starting around 2028 using future installment cheesing, but it's especially hard with the leagues that don't allow you to sell players for much.
I am the Hammarby guy! Yes, gotta admit I did not develop enough Swedish talent, but honestly there werent many outstanding players to go to. But I am thankful that my save was included Z!! Up Hammarby!
When I tried a similar save with Norkkoping, after 7-8 seasons, I was good enough to challenge for UCL. But the season break before the knock-out rounds made it difficult because player and team form was "reset", fitness levels had to be built up again under a tight time frame. How did you manage this? Also, when you kept winning 5-0 and 6-0 vs shite swedish teams, did your struggle suddenly whenever a tough UCL game was next? I found that winning 12-15 games in a row made it harder to also win in europe -- coz FM will "try to end" your streak when a tough opponent comes. e.g. after my star striker scores 27 goals in 20 league games, he WON'T score anymore in the latter rounds of the UCL. Your achievement is WAY harder than any journeyman save. Not sure why zealand have u a 7.5.
I went BATE in Belarus and won the Champions League using only Belarusian players. Was really hard as you regularly had to rebuild as it was hard to hold on to your best players. I also won the Champions League using Annan Athletic.
that last save is the same as a save i did just i didnt sign players and i could only stay in a country for 1 season. i won a trophy at every club i was at but one, once i win a trophy in that country i close the league down. one of the most fun saves i ever did
Wishing Id seen this on the discord, I have a Chelmsford save that would put that St Albans save to shame. From season 1 I Went all the way from Vanarama National League to the Prem with back to back promotions, qualified for UEFA Cup first season, won UEFA cup second season, won the Prem and Champions League in 3rd season, then won all 5 major trophies in 4th season. Only time I used the editor was to change the name and PA of a 16 year old goalie, making him my son and putting him in a contract gulag so he couldnt leave me. Best save Ive had in more than 3 decades of CM/FM
my craziest save is in FM22, i managed a club in Iceland, and within three season i "accidentally" brought them to UCL knock out round (where i lost ofc) by the way i survived a groupstage with ac milan, liverpool, and real madrid
my best one is where i got feyenoord to 45 leaque titles in a row and total 20 ucls (8 in a r ow) we had a swedish lw from the academy which i played for hile whole carrer (Won 4 balldonors) and over 1000 ga in his career
I went unbeaten the whole season in 2037/38 . I don't even know what I did differently, I was playing the same 442 I have been playing since forever. No new players too .
Wish i could say My Guiseley save was my best ever. Tho still have not won PL, FA-cup or CL despite 42 seasons 😂🎉 in. Tho half the team is Yorkshire born and bread, so still pretty proud. Also use very weird tactics in that save Probably Sevilla is my best save finally win Champions League, I would love to share in the next one of this.
I think The Netherlands and Portugal are so difficult to beat because every single team in each league produces good talents and players. Very good infrastructures at mid table clubs etc.
Now i'm curious... Is some kind of 'reverse run' possible where you take an established club, and then get as low as possible WITHOUT getting sacked? Or are you automatically fired if you get relegated?
I feel like once you topple teams like PSG/Bayern they always fall apart, dunno if its a dynamics thing with the AI or the managers losing the board as they're auto expected to win
Was playing as Breda in dutch 2nd divison. Promoted first year, spent the next 8 years trying to beat Ajax and PSV. 2030 first Eredivise title, 2032 first champions league title, 2034 won every trophy including the club world cup in the same season, losing only one champions league game in the entire season. First Ballon d'Or player was brought in when he was 17 and won it when he turned 24. Still playing on the save in 2036 but it's getting boring.
"This is their first year with Brighton, they finished 12th but won the FA Cup" Me in my network save with Crystal Palace finishing 12th and losing 4-1 to Spurs in the FA Cup Final 😢
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?
My best one will probably be with Man Utd by winning the league for 10 seasons in a row starting from the second season(first season got 3rd) also winning ucl 7 times. While my hardest one must be with Yeovil Town i had back to back promotions and it only took me 3 years i the prem to win it and the following season i won ucl
OH, the only club he didn't win shit it was with us (Atlético-MG) lol. And we juts lost the Libertadores final to another Brazilian team. What a nice day to live!!
i don’t do scouting transfers or contracts either, but i like setting up a tactic and having the DOF build a team for that tactic, usually have some early struggles but the DOF team building is actually pretty solid and feels a bit more of a natural team build up
Where do i send my save for a save your save? I really need help for my team Lyn FK that I took from the third teir of Norwegian football to the top, losing my first season in top flight Norwegian football by one goal, and in my second season now where I just can’t hack it as I could in my first season😭
bro has a lot of female fans commenting a minute after the video comes out, cool to see Zealand having such a diverse fanbase, that clone Zealandism could never!
😂😂😂😂
Apparently his videos are "not just a spectacle, they are a real journey of knowledge and discovery."
😭
He’s a ladies man, what can you say…
Women can't resist the forhead
Bro turned Hammarby IF into Hammarby WHEN
loool
That is Hammarby TFF, not Hammarby IF
Hammarby 💚🤍
More like Hammarby WTF
Lmao yep
I was the one who submitted the St Albans save, i'm still waiting for them to sack their manager lmao
Do it for the ppl
Gotta use that editor 😜 you would never have been sacked!
Dude, I got a little revenge arch if you are interested, so you jump into Boreham Wood or Hemel Hempstead, both rivals of St. Albans, then you take them to them Prem and show those a**holes what they lost.
100% agree you should take over a rival club and stick it to St Albans
Dude either use the editor to get the job back (cuz no club would Fire you in real life) or become their executioner and poach their best players till they drop back😂😂
Actually Zealand I got sacked by Atletico Mineiro I was trying to get them back into the Copa Libertadores then stupidly made a promise to the board that we’d win our next Sudamericana game which we drew and progressed in the competition but that wasn’t enough for the board
Sorry bro tough luck 😅
Brazilian League is messed up with sackings sometimes, one time on FM20 or something my boyhood club Avai fired me for failing club expectations because I promised them the 2nd division title and only got promoted in 3rd place (tbf I was like 15 points behind the leader)
In that Guingamp first Ligue 1 season, they finished 2nd but were nearly closer to relegation than the title 😭😭😭
and Nantes got relegated but qualified for the Europa League 💀💀
Lmao the disparity between PSG and the rest of the league is insane
I feel inspired. When I am done with my current save, I am definitely trying a save where I leave all transfer and contract negotiations to a Director of Football. That sounds like such a huge challenge.
It's ..... Frustrating to say the least
Such a cool concept. I wonder how the AI works for it. Will it attempt to recruit players based on a tactic you have been using i wonder.
@@TheL0neWanderer1997 it does do that from my experience the transfers the ai does involve it making a squad for your primary tactic and the quality of player you sign depends on the club
when i was at Brighton the dof kept signing wonderkids for cheap and flipping them for profit and then signing more till we got to a point where we were one of the best clubs in the world then he started signing players for marketing boosts and whenever someone was moved on
AC milan we were already a top team when i joined so there transfers were mostly above 28 dudes at the prime of there careers for big marketing revenue and also free transfers and a few young high profile signings
(and for some weird reason spanish players i literally had a social group of 12 spanish first team players in italy kinda wack)
my liverpool side had a tycoon financial takeover and they spent big upwards of 200m almost every year for the 5 years i was there these guys would sign a high potential first team player regardless of price whenever someone better was available
real madrid were in a dry spell when i joined with barcelona dominant so madrids signings were u23 players who be squad players and improve the team and even when replacing players they would sign like 25-26 years who were not super expensive
the ai actually builds the teams really well naturally based on primary tactics but sometimes you just go bro why are you spending a 100 m on this 33 year old or when they sell a hot prospect for every cheap but it makes it very fun during transfer windows cause its like your constantly looking at the news and hoping your dof hits the golden goose
That sounds so cool.
You’d think that someone who has 5 straight CL with Hammarby wouldn’t mistake them for Hammarby TFF, given that they are literary the B-team of the club. The T in TFF stands for ”talent”.
Plot twist it was always the TTF team that won the UCLs
I actually love the idea of letting the football director or gm make the transfers for you and manage what they give you or take away from you. I would definitely try this out!
Heya Moizt here
Most fun part about the save was looking at the players you got and players that were signed by the GM or players leaving and figuring out a solution and trying different tactical setups
I used like a 4-4-2 in early Malaysia and used a 433 in my title winning team
Then in politecnitica lasi used a 4-4-2 cause we had a lot of good strikers
In fiorentina I stuck with the same tactic
Did it again at Brighton for a year before we sold our best two strikers and the next best one wasn’t really a finisher so used a 4-2-3-1 where goals would be coming out wide
Ac Milan brought me a lot of FB who were basically CB so I started using IFBs I used to shift between a 4-3-3 a 4-2-3-1 and a 5-3-2 based on oppositions and who we signed or sold
My next foray was Liverpool where our strikers were kinda bad so I just went yep DLF on support same 4-3-3 you saw at Milan but with hard working midfield IFB and IWB and inside forwards
And those years had a lot of 0-0 and 1-0
The next job was Real Madrid
Great strikers again so I start with a 4-4-2 but the gm kept signing midfielders (Attaxking and defensive and Center mids) so I shifted to a 4-4-2 diamond then he basically kept signing strikers who would be better off in attacking midfield so we started using a 4-1-2-2-1 but then the game had sorta started taking forever to load so I started a new save and it sorta replaced the file and like the last file I could find was 3rd year in Milan
I added a few google drive pics in my submission and shared with your mod if you curious how the football world looked in 2050
that sounds insane I gonna try this myself now inspired
12:19 Nantes with the Europa League relegation nice
I had such a blast managing Septemvri. The rating here wasn't important to me just had so much fun. Also the player who got the assist for Ljubic in the UCL final is also a former Septemvri player.
I’m working with family’s local town team from the 3rd division, Balkan Botevgrad, right now and I’ve got them competing for European spots. Even finished 2nd last season. How the hell do you overcome ludogorets?
Bless you good sir👌🏾
@@sashoradoulov3504 I didn't find it that hard tbh Levski won the league before I did. Ludogorets are just consistent as soon as I opened my scouting up and found players like Ljubic I just had to convince them to stay as long as I could doing things like offering new contracts to them every window. I actually wasted the money I got from selling him. I never let anyone leave on a free when I knew I couldn't keep them I got as much as I could sold high and never really spent more than £20M on anyone.
Once the squad was at that level I was developing as many players as I could in the league and winning anyway and always had the best team available for every big game.
@@sashoradoulov3504 Pray they go bust and you don't
I can relate to the St Albans save. I got promoted to the championship with Mansfield town. Out of nowhere expected mid table. I got sacked for finishing 18th. Bear in mind the highest they ever finished in their existence is 21st in the Championship.
No freaking way I would have been sacked IRL.
Not FM but LMA Manager 2007 on the PS2
I took the job at Gil Vicente of the Liga del Honra in Portugal
Over 20 years won 61 trophies including 11 European Cups!
Set some crazy records like scoring 176 goals in 30 league games and one of my players scored 93 that season!
For the whole entire career I didn’t buy a single player as I much prefer to stay out the transfer market and bring youth players through the academy
Never sent my save in, but I started as Tipton Town who are in the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One - in 2063 we finally won the Prem & champions league. 63 years at one club. That included a ~10 year spell in the VNN where we just couldn't progress.
That’s awesome dedication dude
i'm sorry 63 years???????
that's crazy. how long have you been playing one save?
@@shahir1395 it's the only save I played, played it essentially every day. It got to a point where I did instant result matches cos otherwise it takes forever.
Oh yeah, the endless talents of Sweden and Mexico that can turn Hammarby into the undisputed kings of Europe in less than ten years
Loves football manager, knows every flag, Tampa Bay Lightning fan. Theres not too much crossover between the three but im honoured i share the middle segment of that Venn Diagram with you Z!
My craziest save was my local team in the Spanish 7th division.
My other crazy save is playing Barcelona with only homegrown players. This may not sound crazy, but I manually sold every non-homegrown player, surprisingly not getting sacked, but winning League and Cup. (Yes, I brought Messi back)
What did you achieve on the first one?
@Some123- I honestly did just 2 seasons, winning both 7th and 6th divisions. Stopped bc I wasn't enjoying it, maybe could take it back some day, with more focus on delegating.
See, we destroyed every team because I gave amateur contracts to a full squad of free 4th-5th division quality players, while my rivals barely got around 5 players
@@ChesterRGC same happened to me with a 5 division side from my country. If it’s not fan there isn’t a reason to keep it🤷🏻♂️
Oh My Goodness!!! I made a Zealand video. Z I have to say, I got hooked on FM due to your videos....they are so helpful and engaging it makes me feel I should be able to do it. I've tried a HSV save multiple times and this is the first time I've been able to make it. I'm in UCL now and got knocked out in the Knockout playoff which is better than I thought I would do. My recruitment isn't always the best and I need to figure out how to find good wonderkids but otherwise it has been a blast.
Zealand regarding the Swedish team- "Before it fell apart"
Dude, he lost in the finals of the Champions league 😆
Really big Bayern vibes. You didn't win absolutely everything? Sacked
When my two world meet... been following Zealand for years and live 10 minutes from St Albans FC how has this happened?
Trying to imagine Zealand doing the last save 🤯
Would be sick
one thing about this is i wish you would look at players performances, some player having a messi like season, or a CB scoring 30 goals can tell a story.
Proudest save for me personally was in FM10, winning the Champions League with Ajax. Just one that meant a lot to me personally really. Some great saves in this vid, respect to all involved.
If I'd seen the initial post I'd have submitted my FM23 save, started unemployed, took Dulwich Hamlet to the Prem, eventually winning the CL with them in 2042ish (it was a while ago, ha!)
Fun video, cool to see what other folks do for a challenge!
Up the Hamlet
now i want to see zealand playing fm without signing anybody, without scouting, etc.
Im a Hammarby IF supporter. I rarely see Hammarby talked about outside of sweden. So when I saw the thumbnail, I immediately grabbed some popcorn and pressed play on this banger vid
Hey Zealand, love the content and appreciate the awareness you bring to the game. Not sure where you can submit saves but I just won a quadruple in ‘33/‘34 with Brighton after a little over 10 seasons (UCL, EFL, FA, EPL). Not sure if that’s very impressive in the grand scheme of fm (I’m on mobile 💀) since you have a lot to work with in that club but I have some cool players and thought it would be cool if you could give them a look
That last save is something I need to try out for myself. Scouting players and staff is one of the things that takes up most of my time.
I'm playing FM18 atm, first manager game ive played since LMA. Playing as Swindon and so far i had 2 glorious years and got consecutive 1st place in League 2 and 1, despite epxecting to finish mid table in L2 and fight relegation in L1, but i went top in L1 after 3/4 games and i never left the top spot. It did get a bit shaky at the end of the Season and beat QPR by 1 point. Now in the championship and its not going well. Lost 6 of the 8 matches, and whats most infurating every game has been a tight afair. I was getting destroyed by Watford 5 -0 by the end of the first half, but got a goal early on the 2nd half, thought that was all i was getting and then in the 75th minute my team managed to rattle in another 3 belters and hit the cross bar 5 times, each ended in one of those chaotic scrambles for the ball, but never managed to get that equaliser,
It took all my self control to not be screaming at 3am when i was playing it. I'm hoping i can atleast beat the bottom 8 teams each time and hopefully that is enough to keep me up for this year and then i can rebuild my squad with players that are up to the standard of the Championship. Then claw my way up till i get the championship and on to the prem. Think its gonna be a tall order for me to do it
I'm doing the same as the St.Albans run with Blyth. I've gone back to back trophies with them from the very start (2023/2024 Vanarama North and 2024/2025 Vanarama National) and now sit in league 2 in my third season near the top of the league around 6 games in(not anything crazy) with a squad payroll of just around 1 mil. Not sure how the run will continue as I've come to see how difficult it is to reconfigure your squad after rising up the leagues so quickly. You want to keep players who helped you dominate the lower leagues but they are simply not good enough in the next level with little future growth expected. It is worth keeping them around because they have respectable wages, sub level stats, and help with chemistry but at some point you have to let them go for the sake of growing the club. Typically, I have to move around a 1/3 of the team to remain a contender in the league.
Zealand you would be proud, i signed a chinese 3rd choice RB for £43k loaned him out for a season then was offered £30 million the season he returned. Also in the same season signed a CM for £50k from ivory coast who was on £650 a week, he was in his last year of contact and wanted £65k a week, i barely used him so i have just sold him for £32 million
Zealand going on about the coefficient. Unless the guy is building the nation and other swedish clubs yeah that coefficient is so hard to grow
Yeah having one team do (really) well is not overcoming 3-4 English, Spanish, Italian etc teams that also do well for coefficients
Dude that was successful with delegating transfers and contracts is super impressive. I'd love to start a "Realistic" journey man save where everything is delegated beyond manager's control maybe except training and matches.
I’m doing exactly this, making it as realistic by delegating what would be delegated in real life. I manage individual training but schedule training is managed by the AM, set pieces all done by the set piece coach, transfers by the DoF and scouting by the chief scout. I just work on tactics and stuff like that
Those french ligue 1 are insane, 71 points and finish in 4th place???
I would LOVE for you to do a save like that last one Zealand. No signing players (including LOANS!!!) and just playing with what the DoF signs for you.
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Whoever had the bundesliga save, that league win was awesome.
mixing Mexican ultimate talent with Swedish average player is like having a fine dinning taco at Ikea
i need to send in my FC Ingolstadt save where i set myself the challenge of only using a 4-4-2 the whole save. i'm 13 seasons in and it took me 5 seasons to get to the Bundesliga and 10 to finally dethrone Bayern... and after seasons of coming 2nd and 3rd it felt so good. i've now got 3 back to back titles and a champions league going for my second champions league. it's so hard to stay consistent with this team because they're so bad at generating revenue so my budget is like a lower mid table team every year.
what is the 4-4-2? player roles and instructions i mean
@notouriosdja when my team was weaker than the teams around me I'd run two on support CWBs with two BPDs in the middle on defend then have the two IW on AT out wide with two CDMs on defend with the strikers being on AF and DLF attack with a low defensive line. But now my team is actually good I'm running two WBs on at with sit narrower, tackle harder and mark tighter on then 2 BPD on defend still with tackle harder and mark tighter on them two wingers on at with tackle harder on with a MEZ on support with tackle harder and a BWM on support with mark harder and tackle harder on and strikers are still AF at and DLF at except the AF is on tackle harder with a higher defensive line to really complete it. And with the 2nd tactic I've been absolutely mopping up the league and champions league winning every game 2-6 nil key is working the ball up the wings and keeping the passing short.
@@JakeMcaulay ok cheers
Heck i'm gonna call it, that first Hammarby saves is fishy, 5 UCL back to back with Swedish club after 10 years ? dude's either used editor and not telling or using saves and repeat to win matches, which is okay if you wanted to play that way you want to play but not okay if you're lying and send it to Zealand and not telling the whole truth.
Agreed something is not right on that save, hate to call a fellow swede out but I think zealand should look into the early history of that save for oddities.
Yeah, something smells fishy... for instance, the Swedish Allsvenskan has a restriction of 8 foreign players in the match day squad, but this guy has at least 19 foreign players in the squad, meaning that a whole starting eleven must be left outside each match day. Sure, there are ways around this restriction, but it does look a bit suspicious.
Then we have the salary structure where squad players make 5 times more than star players? Maybe this is the secret sauce, getting players to accept less playing time by giving them good PL-salaries, but for me it looks like begging for trouble.. but maybe it's just me not being good enough in the interpersonal relationships with the players on my saves, who knows?
yeah im doing a similar save in norway and im near enough 2050 (although im only using free signings) but i find it hard to believe 5 in a row. 10 years in I was still looking to get my first national title
I regularly bring the small clubs into multiple UCL wins in a row starting around 2028 using future installment cheesing, but it's especially hard with the leagues that don't allow you to sell players for much.
Or, is very good
I am the Hammarby guy! Yes, gotta admit I did not develop enough Swedish talent, but honestly there werent many outstanding players to go to. But I am thankful that my save was included Z!! Up Hammarby!
When I tried a similar save with Norkkoping, after 7-8 seasons, I was good enough to challenge for UCL. But the season break before the knock-out rounds made it difficult because player and team form was "reset", fitness levels had to be built up again under a tight time frame. How did you manage this?
Also, when you kept winning 5-0 and 6-0 vs shite swedish teams, did your struggle suddenly whenever a tough UCL game was next? I found that winning 12-15 games in a row made it harder to also win in europe -- coz FM will "try to end" your streak when a tough opponent comes. e.g. after my star striker scores 27 goals in 20 league games, he WON'T score anymore in the latter rounds of the UCL.
Your achievement is WAY harder than any journeyman save. Not sure why zealand have u a 7.5.
I went BATE in Belarus and won the Champions League using only Belarusian players. Was really hard as you regularly had to rebuild as it was hard to hold on to your best players.
I also won the Champions League using Annan Athletic.
That last manager-only save was very cool. 🏆
Jet Lee Botero is a strong player name.
It was his actual name too. Physical beast from Colombia. Loved that man.
that last save is the same as a save i did just i didnt sign players and i could only stay in a country for 1 season. i won a trophy at every club i was at but one, once i win a trophy in that country i close the league down. one of the most fun saves i ever did
Wishing Id seen this on the discord, I have a Chelmsford save that would put that St Albans save to shame.
From season 1 I Went all the way from Vanarama National League to the Prem with back to back promotions, qualified for UEFA Cup first season, won UEFA cup second season, won the Prem and Champions League in 3rd season, then won all 5 major trophies in 4th season.
Only time I used the editor was to change the name and PA of a 16 year old goalie, making him my son and putting him in a contract gulag so he couldnt leave me.
Best save Ive had in more than 3 decades of CM/FM
forehead-man lowkey locking in after delayed fm25
Finally another one of these kind of videos 🔥🔥😊
my craziest save is in FM22, i managed a club in Iceland, and within three season i "accidentally" brought them to UCL knock out round (where i lost ofc)
by the way i survived a groupstage with ac milan, liverpool, and real madrid
my best one is where i got feyenoord to 45 leaque titles in a row and total 20 ucls (8 in a r ow)
we had a swedish lw from the academy which i played for hile whole carrer (Won 4 balldonors) and over 1000 ga in his career
In that first save, I just wonder how much the Editor was used to "build" a team and win 5CLs in a row....just saying
I went unbeaten the whole season in 2037/38 . I don't even know what I did differently, I was playing the same 442 I have been playing since forever. No new players too .
Wish i could say My Guiseley save was my best ever. Tho still have not won PL, FA-cup or CL despite 42 seasons 😂🎉 in. Tho half the team is Yorkshire born and bread, so still pretty proud. Also use very weird tactics in that save
Probably Sevilla is my best save finally win Champions League, I would love to share in the next one of this.
I think The Netherlands and Portugal are so difficult to beat because every single team in each league produces good talents and players. Very good infrastructures at mid table clubs etc.
didn't use hammarby tff tho. got really hyped at first (that is their second team playing in the third tier of swedish football)
2:01
*insert clever FBI joke here* (I couldn't think of one)
As someone who lived in Sofia, v happy to see a septemvri save 🤣
Could you do a Network save using the rules of the final SYS?
YESSS
This was an awesome video, just good vibes all around!
Now i'm curious... Is some kind of 'reverse run' possible where you take an established club, and then get as low as possible WITHOUT getting sacked? Or are you automatically fired if you get relegated?
I feel like once you topple teams like PSG/Bayern they always fall apart, dunno if its a dynamics thing with the AI or the managers losing the board as they're auto expected to win
17:29 that is THE Aguero moment
Hammarby guy deffo did some editor gymnastics
Are you doing any more of these Videos? I have a south Shields save I'd like to send over.
Was playing as Breda in dutch 2nd divison. Promoted first year, spent the next 8 years trying to beat Ajax and PSV. 2030 first Eredivise title, 2032 first champions league title, 2034 won every trophy including the club world cup in the same season, losing only one champions league game in the entire season. First Ballon d'Or player was brought in when he was 17 and won it when he turned 24. Still playing on the save in 2036 but it's getting boring.
"This is their first year with Brighton, they finished 12th but won the FA Cup"
Me in my network save with Crystal Palace finishing 12th and losing 4-1 to Spurs in the FA Cup Final 😢
How do you get your save featured in these type of videos have a pretty mental save
Talk about getting FM'ed!!! sacked after taking Albins from vanarama to premier league 😂😂
hammarby tff is hammarby youth academy team also btw not even first team unless he does mean hammarby if
This always makes a good video idea when there's nothing else to do, Mr Zeeland?
Appreciate the detailed breakdown! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?
If anyone wants a long term save, try taking Ceuta, one of the Spanish Enclaves on the African Continent, up to La Liga. Good Luck
My best one will probably be with Man Utd by winning the league for 10 seasons in a row starting from the second season(first season got 3rd) also winning ucl 7 times. While my hardest one must be with Yeovil Town i had back to back promotions and it only took me 3 years i the prem to win it and the following season i won ucl
OH, the only club he didn't win shit it was with us (Atlético-MG) lol. And we juts lost the Libertadores final to another Brazilian team. What a nice day to live!!
I also know all the flags. Not entirely useless it’s a great subject for dinner dates
Hammarby was defo editor
Insane Save for me is a save without editor ! Also FM loves to FM a lot what i saw here would never happen without a RE-LOAD save or the editor....
i don’t do scouting transfers or contracts either, but i like setting up a tactic and having the DOF build a team for that tactic, usually have some early struggles but the DOF team building is actually pretty solid and feels a bit more of a natural team build up
17:02 St Pauli with 22GF and 20GA in 34 matches, were all those draws 0-0 or something? 😭😭😭
I love to play fm24 and watch you! 🎉
Damn, missed this. I ended up building the most cracked team on my 10 year save.
Where do i send my save for a save your save? I really need help for my team Lyn FK that I took from the third teir of Norwegian football to the top, losing my first season in top flight Norwegian football by one goal, and in my second season now where I just can’t hack it as I could in my first season😭
13:24 What happened to Monaco?
if I had known I would have sent my save with Cliftonville where I managed to win the Cl 2 times
9:30 Claudio Ranieri got sacked from Leicester after their miracle. Sad, but not necessarily
As a St.Albans fan I am proud 7:17
in theory that Guingamp save had a CL win too
tohanry my man ❤🔥
now my chaves save with 1 ucl and an invincible season doesn't seem impressive lmao
Did this man say 'Eightsh S Vee?' for HSV ? Thats criminal?
Time to do some nation building in the first save
So Zealand, time for you to do a run like the last one with no transfers and contract responsibilities/powers? 😂
I done sporting save wkn every thing in one season now on to the champions league
How did he manage to make sure he got wonderkids from mexico?
Hammarby 💜💜💜💜 my favorite club .. how an American falls in love with ⚽ because of Hammarby is a story
@4:25 Geogusser video series startting when?
why does your editor edit your head to make it look like a balloon
interesting pen you have there hammarby 😇
I love that Hamburger SV save... Nur der HSV!!!
That is Politehica Iași (starting with capital i) not lasi