If you don't know where to start your next Football Manager career, this video is going to help you.
We are diving into the world of youth ratings, registration rules and more details to determine where it's best to build a nation in the game.
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Surprised that Ireland didn't make it. IMO, it'd be my Number 1 for a Build a Nation. The only Work Permit Criteria is roughly a €300 p/w wage. There are no homegrown rules, no squad registration, and no rules on Non-EU players. I'm surprised Red Bull hasn't made a club there IRL, because it would be very easy to dominate the league and be a holding club for North / South American and African developing talents.
I made this little factor of "tiers" and "teams". Tiers gave little points (up to 10% of the total sum) depending on how many there are, same as teams in the top flight (more domestic competition to build), which was higher rated. Ireland lost there. Oh, and the Summer Season. It's very against my preferences. The fact a country didn't make it into top 10 doesn't make it a bad idea though.
@@Wojtinho I have a question about that, as a database creator on FM, isn't the idea that a nation having more teams is better for building a nation is flawed? E.g: England has a lot of clubs, but the reason they have a high coefficient is as much about a tight, small number of clubs taking part in European Competitions than historical dominance. Based on that idea, a nation with less clubs competing for European Spots is more likely to push the nation through coefficients if you can help the clubs around you, because there will be markedly less clubs in the picture for those spots.
@CTxCB What I had in mind is the long run. Say there is a 10 teams league (like Croatia) with 7 European Spots (essentially, top 4 league). Now you have 3 available slots for "other teams", 1 of them being relegated (in Croatia e.g.). I see a bigger amount of teams in a tier beneficial as it takes off the pressure from the managers who can focus on going far in Europa/Conference League without worrying about potentially going down.
I'm from Bursa, Turkey and for my first career in FM24 I selected Bursaspor. I have many saves in FM24 but my bursapor save has best youth players I've ever got. I won the UCL 2 times in a row at 10th season in game and I won 2 World Cups with Turkey using players from youth team. And suprisingly a real player named "Kerem Matişli" became my first choice goalkeeper for both Bursaspor and national team
For my fm24 save I picked Denmark, so I'm happy to see it on this list. I'm playing with the Amateur side Vejgaard BK, Its 2032 rn, I just played my first european matches (UECL against Basel, got killed). Denmark is great, the registration rules aren't that great, almost all of my youth players are from abroad however, the youth rating is alright but my clubs youth recruitment is awful, hopefully it'll get better. It's been a very fun (frustrating) save, the small size of the leagues make them all every competitive, and its been pretty difficult to stay in the top flight. (Spent 3 years in the 2nd flight before getting promoted, relegated, then promoted again and finishing 5th, my current season has been horrible but I'm hopeful it'll get better, and if I do get relegated again, I'm confident in bouncing back, it's been quite the fun league. Love FM so much, its too addicting.
Im in 2032/33 season with Lechia Gdansk from Poland so was amusing to see this video and that you're ranking Poland #1 :) It's been so much fun doing build a nation in Poland. The 3000 minutes of U22 players in a season is not a hard requirement, but even if you were to fail you'll only be fined ~£250k which by the point you don't have any domestic U22 players shouldn't be a problem to absorb. Highly recommended! For anyone interested in trying it, Lechia Gdansk starts in the 2nd tier, but has a fairly newly built 40k+ stadium and ok facilities so lots of room to grow. It's better to take a lower division side in build a nation so you have more big clubs available in the league that can start getting coefficient points in Europe as you unlock more slots.
i loved your methodology and video, my friend. i'm a hardcore old school player (since championship manager 2) and some lists like this makes things fresh.
That's awesome to hear! What were your recent saves and are you planning to start a new Build a Nation one after this video?
I think Gilbraltar is underated, it takes more time but low amount of games per season no transfer restrictions and after a while the squad registration changes only need 4 HGN players in squad
I chose wails and currently 12th in coafisance doing good in Newtown 2037 still cant beat Poland teams but did qualify for champions league
romania is a nice call also, kinda hard registration, but they make euro registration easy
They were close to making it into this list, it's registration rules that stopped them (max 4 non-eu is kinda low). Got some cool footballing traditions though (especially with a Champions League win), so worth a shout, too.
Im 12 seasons in my latvia save won everything with my club cfs and now im latvia managar took them to semi finals of euros ,trying to win wcup its easily 1 of the hardest saves ive done you cant sign any1 good for about 6 seasons so youth is the answer until u build ur rep up ,im looking at starting a new save not sure who to be
What can I say? I have a weakness for KZheadrs with great accents. You have earned a sub.
This is something I expected the least, but thanks :D
I always do Romania rebuild its very hard but very rewarding and Poland
Playing in Colombia .. haven’t thought about building the nation just wanted the 1st and copa 🧐.. new idea lol
Im playing with Willem 2 now won 2 cups won the second tier league title lost a conference league final Europa league semi Final and ucl ro16 and have not won a league lost 2 years in a row on the final matchday 😢
In all seriousness I hope someone makes another club in Liechtenstein soon so they can get more than one club in if they happen to do well (or even just for FM purposes, I don’t care!). It makes the Vaduz challenge exceptionally hard when there is only one Liechtenstein spot in perpetuity which means having to win the UECL, UEL, and UCL in successive seasons if you do wanna win it.
There are actually more clubs in Liechtenstein, 6 more, all playing in lower divisions of Switzerland (4th to 7th tier). So it would be possible (although probably quite boring) to create a 7-team Liechtensteiner league in FM (and maybe make an 8th team up just to round the numbers :P). Now, changing the UEFA club competition rules to allow Liechtenstein to have more qualifiers, just like any other county, that would be quite a pain...
@@confusafs there are, but they need another one to qualify as a normal country would in coefficients etc. Would be great for them to get one purely just so that they’re not the exception! If Faroe Islands can do it…
I was thinking about doing an Iceland build a nation save but I'm scared to step up, do you think it could be an interesting nation?
Summer season and non-EU regulations will make it a challenge, but... if that's what you feel right about, go for it. How about you make a KZhead series out of it, too?
@@Wojtinho I'd do it but sadly I never did video editing and stuff so idk... But yeah I'd be tempted to do Iceland, suck for the summer season tho
Is the idea of build a nation to make a national team good or to improve the countries top league ranking?
You can go for either (or both). In this video, I went for "drag the nation to first in the UEFA coefficients" approach.
Ru polish or what how can u prounounce polish clubs so good
yes, I am
I combined Turkey and Greece for maximum chaos but they’ve made it to 4th in coefficients by 2032
In previous year I’ve done a Gornik save and it was the most fun I’ve had on a save in years.
I guess the derbies between Olympiakos and Fenerbahce were fun
I am doing Switzerland with a club called Aarau
Awesome choice. How is it going and how far are you getting in Europe?
Currently I am building a nation at the Faroe Islands
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i better save you the long term save, non playable leagues in fm dont get improved youth dynamic =(so you can play as much as you want but youth ratings won't rise
What's the point of building a nation when registration rules with homegrown players seem to be a talking point? Isn't that the point of such a save to go all out Bilbao in a country that is not England, Italy, or Spain, and not have the same Colombian wonderkids wear just a different jersey?
That depends if you take the national team into account (without the possibility of getting the players naturalised of course) Going full Bilbao is closer to a Youth Academy save - where the only new players are from youth intakes. I took Build a Nation as bit of a "just take the country to first in the coefficients" rather than building an academy of players (even if it comes very handy) I do make sure to put that YA element to some extent in my Opava save - but I still have the freedom of signing anyone I want. And I still haven't signed a Colombian lol.
Nah man, even though I'm ukrainian myself, and playing Chornomorets Odesa every year of fm, playing in Ukraine is pain in the ass, cuz you literally have no money from League spot or TV rights. It's actually easy to place 5-6th in the first season for every team possible, but unless you're making it to group stage of any euro competition you are poor af. so first few years it's just struggling, but after 4-5 years it's pretty easy to beat Shakhtar and Dynamo in League and praying to have a weak team in Champions League play-off to get in group for this CL cash :)
This is where Moneyball walks in. Have you got any young talents to move into TOP 7/8 leagues? I'm asking because this is where one usually positions themselves at the start of a BaN save. Get to find some talents whether that's through youth intake or lower league clubs. Make them move to bigger leagues. Money in. Then attack Europe.
@@Wojtinho that's a tricky situation with this actually. Usually you want best ukrainian youngsters to stay because of the limit of 4 ukrainians on the pitch, it's like 6-7 domestic players in starting squad/1st sub, that are good enough to the level that you're playing in European competitions. Others, sure can go, but usually not to 7-8 but higher ranked leagues like France or Spain. For sure if you have some wonderkid usually someone like Arsenal or Liverpool will come to take him at low (10-15mil) price
Real men do San Marino
True 100% Didn't include them though due to not being in the base game.
Serbia?
almost made it. Crashed out on squad rules though
Romania? Bulgaria?
ROU: was close, 4 non-EU and min 6 players trained in Romania put it behind though BUL: Not even close. Low Youth rating, max 5 non-EU in squad and min 15 people trained in Bulgaria.
@@Wojtinho youth rating is dynamic, but game importance isnt. Romania and Bulgaria game importance is very important, while hungary and ukraine is important
You're right about the dynamic youth rating. But it rises very... very slowly. In a rate of 1 or 2 points every 50 years, if not less. TomFM's experiment on flipping youth ratings gave a lot of info on that.
Scotland?
work permits, to put it shortly.
don’t know if it’s true but I’ve been told it’s easy to get work permits when you appeal once you are in the top tier
@@dre595 irl, not in Game xD
I went mad with you when you said the Danish teams. I hate them all. AC Horsens is a better choice.
I eliminated Horsens from the Danish Cup on Round of 16 in the Randers FC save (FM23). Have you played as them in the game? How was it?
@@Wojtinho It is because I live there