A New Challenge

Admittedly, FM23 is getting a little….long in the tooth shall we say? A lot of us are playing just a couple of saves, a lot of us are playing a new save every week, or every day it seems (Shoutout to RDF! 🙂 ).

For me, the issue is, we know everything goin on the first 5-7 years of our saves. We know all the wonderkids, all the good players, in fact it’s sometimes harder to not sign a player in one save because you have used him in another. In some ways, FM23 has lost the ability to challenge us, so we impose some rules and restrictions on ourselves to make the game a bit more….fun, interesting, frustrating, maddening, etc.

So, as some of you may know, I have this spare laptop just…sitting here more often than not…

So I thought I would try and do something that would alleviate some of my issues with a new save in FM23. I started a new game with the following Countries enabled:

• England – 6 Leagues
• France – 3 Leagues
• Germany – 3 Leagues
• Italy – 3 Leagues
• Spain – 3 Leagues
• Chile – 2 Leagues
• South Korea – 2 Leagues

That gives us a database of about 66K players to start. I simmed ahead to 2025, then started the ‘eternal’ vacation to whenever, saving the game every 5 years.

It is now June 24th, 2050.

Not a lot has changed in some Leagues, in terms of who is winning what. But all the players, coaches and Scouts we know are retired, on onto a new career. Every player is a Newgen , even Kazu retired, he no longer in the database, and most of the coaches we know are reaching the end of their career.

I have not had an in depth look at the save, but I have gone thru the leagues, and here’s some of the things that caught my eye.

ENGLAND:

There was a 3 way draw for 1st place in the English Prem, with United winning on goal differential.
Palace, Ipswich and Leicester were relegated. Newcastle have yet to win the LEague. Everton has won it twice….

In the championship, 5th place Blackburn beat 3rd place wolves to join Bristol City ands Southampton in going up.
Oldham is back in the Championship. Derby, who just avoided relegation in the Championship, just had a tycoon takeover…

In League One, Wrexham wins promotion back to the Championship after a 1 year drop, their march to the Prem still on. Ryan Reynolds left in 2033, but they had a tycoon takeover in 2039.

Swansea has been relegated out of League 2, six years ago they were in the Championship.

FRANCE:

In Ligue 1, PSG has finished in 4th Place.
Until recently, it was Monaco and PSG fighting for 1st, this year OGC won it by 5.
Sochaux and Toulouse were relegated
In Ligue 2, Union Sportive Lusitanos Saint-Maur, who start the game in the 4th Tier, just missed the playoffs.
Nimes has fallen to the National.

GERMANY:

In the Bundesliga, Bayern has won, but the last 15 yerars have seen Gladbach and Hamburg win multiple titles.

A Former East German team has not won the League, yet.

ITALY:

In Serie A, Juve pipped Napoli by 3.
Lazio avoided relegation on goal differential.

In Serie B, Sampdoria beat Perugia on aggregate to get promoted back to Serie A, joining Sassuolo and Cagliari.
Genoa languishes in 12th place.
Empoli is in Serie C.

Spain:

Atletico Madrid won La Liga by 12, 3rd place Barca beat 4th place Bilbao by goal differential. Tenerife finished 7th, good enough for the UECL.
Getafe, Deportivo, Levante are in LiLiga Smartbank.

Portugal:

Santa Clara(!) won Liga Bwin by 4 (!) For the 5th time in a row (!) This makes me very happy 🙂
Porto, Sporting and Benfica are fighting for 2nd and 3rd.

World:

Man U has won 4 of the 5 last Champions Leagues.

In the Europa League, It’s been a lot of English teams winning, Brentford, Everton, Tottneham, Arsenal.

In the World Cup, England took it home in 2042, but failed to defend in 2046.

Arsenal’s Adam Piper and Chelsea’s Celio battle it out yearly for Worlds best player.

So, new players, new faces, new wonderkids. Old teams with the same goals, new teams with different goals (Swansea back to the Prem could be fun, or getting Wrexham over the hump), new fallen giants to restore to greatness.

With the save date, you should be able too add/remove any countries/Leagues you want, I believe all the European ones will load in 4 days.

So, if you are looking for a new challenge, or just want to rummage around, here’s the link:

https://www.mediafire.com/file_premium/6vfuujnid80emy1/APexton_-_50-100yrs_2050.06.24.fm/file

Have some fun with it, and keep my posted either in the comments here on on my twitter about what you are playing, or what you find.

And yes, there will be a 2125 version posted as well, probably this weekend, the laptops chugging along nicely.

Anyone else smell smoke?

Jellico