The-Tetradecagon-Challenge 2016

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The uber challenge

Ok, first of all, I downloaded all the extra playable countries from here:
Football Manager 2016 New Playable World Leagues Megapack by Claassen | Passion4FM

Out of his 80 updates, I learned than I shouldn't pick more than 69 or else the game will crash.

My first choice is Oceania. So I picked all of the now 10 playable nations from Oceania as playable. Total player count? 2,890...

As lowest active leagues, I picked the lowest I could get from each nation. Database size is small. Hopefully this will be a fast moving save.

The game started in American Samoa in July 2015.
 
Badges - no no

Then I created myself. Born in 1990 (that's a lie, but I wanted to be a young manager so I could have a long save :)

Swedish nationality, and speaking Swedish, English, german and Greek, all true. Can't believe my favourite team, the obscure Moheda IF was chooseable!!

I started unemployed.

Coach badges? None. That's realistic.
Past playing experience? Sunday League Footballer. That's also true.
 
My first job

Next up is finding a job. As I started unemployed, I went to my profile, ticked "Apply for any job" and went on holiday indefinately.

Oups, that was fast! After one day (1) I got an interview offer from Dunedin Tech, a New Zealand Regional side. But they only have 9 players? Nahhh... I am really up for a challenge, but 9 players only, nah. Hmmm.

I got nothing to loose, so I attended the interview anyway. Well, my wage budget was set £0 and they refused to get a parent club. Never mind, I failed this interview :).

Ok, off to holiday again.

Alright, after 2 weeks of holiday, I was called up to an interview with Nadroga FC, a Fiji team. Sounds fun! The interview went fine, and 3 days later I had my first job! My wage is a staggering £0...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/64/Nadroga_FC_Logo.png
 
Players

Ok, next game in 2 days and I only have 7 players, including an injured GK.

No problem, as all players are ametuers, they don't have any wages. So I signed 6 new goalkeepers :P. And 5 new central defenders. And as I don't have any DL, I signed 3 of them. Also signed 4 AMR and 4 strikers.

I have no scouts, so no clue about their stats...

However, as my new players won't come until the season is over, I have to fill my first game with grey players...
 
Sounds great! Why don't you at some screenshots and post in stories?
 
Players

Ok, never done this before, but I have signed a massive amount of players. In two weeks time (for the new season) I have signed 16 new players! This will be fun...
 
Screenies

I don't know how to paste screenshots, that's why! How is it done? :)
 
Odds

Ok, now I am looking forward to my full season as manager. 8 teams in Fiji top division. My chance of winning? The bookies say 1-500. Ouch!!!
 
Bad bad

I simply don't have enough players. No regens yet, and I have no youth players. I can't play 11 players in the correct positions as I have around 13-15 players in total, minus the injured and banned... I dont have any ML and no full backs either.

So, after half of the season, I am bottom last, with 5 points after 7 matches. A full season is just 14 games. Can I survive?
 
Regens?

Still no regens? We are in April, and the regen should have come Feb 23rd? Strange...

I am still 8th (out of 8), but are somewhat closer to the 7th team now. And my next game is against Nadi, the seventh placed team!

And I won it! 4-0 away! Awesome.

And suddenly I am up to 5th place :)
 
Survival

I survived :) Ended up at 6th place, 15 points from 14 games.

Also, I have signed 23 players. Most ever for me during a single season.

Oh, and the directors are angry at me as I said I would consider taking over a somehwhat higher rep team in Fiji. Maybe they will fire me? What do I know.
 
Final

And I am in my first final! The awesomely named "Battle Of The Giants" tournament final awaits me. Can I be victourius? Opponent? Lautoka, who finished 5th in the league. I finished 6th.
 
Regens

Finally got my regens. Bit late though, August 10th 2016? Strange.

No obvious wonderkids. Good to have a full U-20 squad at least!
 
Winner again

And I won my second cup of the season. Something called "Fijian Interdistrict Championship". Against the well named team "Ba". Bla bla against Ba Ba!
 
New season

Ok, time for season 2 (2016-17). Last year I was tipped 500-1 to win the title, and now I am tipped 3-1?!!! That's an improvement to speak of...

Anyhow, I won the first trophy of the season: "Fijian Champions versus Champions". That actually counts as a trophy from the season of 2015-2016, which meant I won a trouble last year :)
 
Alright, so how am I doing in my first full season?

Not too bad :). A full season consist of 14 games. After 12 games, I have won 10 and lost 1 and drew 1. Actually, won 8 on the trout.

Now there are just two games left, and I only need 2 point to secure the league win. Go Nadroga go!

And I won! Nadroga FC are the champions for the first time since 1993. Not bad.

Now we qualified for the Oceania Champions League, which is the whole idea of this tale.
 
To post SS just click manage attachments and include pics. Also I would recommend making the story with pictures in Microsoft Word and then copy paste post.
 
Ok, now for the second season. It's not going well... I don't actually know why, as I have a better team than last season.

10 out of 14 games played, and I am at 4th place, 3 points behind the leader.

Anyhow, first off is the Oceania Champions League! My first ever meeting with a foreign club.
First game is against A.S. Tefana, a semi-professional team from Tahiti.

Let's go!
 
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