The Hardest Saves In Football Manager

If you play FM you already like pain, but here I’m going to teach you how to turn that pain up to 11. The true gluttons for punishment trying to pull of the hardest saves in that Football Manager has to offer. If you keep the editor on I’ve heard it’s a lot easier.

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[MrEjwheeler]

Win the Champions League as Stevenage, but every player has to have a variation of "Steve" in their name.

[maky_brown]

I am currently on the 20 level English league marathon with Stafford Argyle and also started as a Sunday league player with no coaching badges at 19 years old.
I'm currently in the Vanarama National League South/North after 15 years. All these without no in-game editor or edit at all.
AND it's never boring

[adzter]

For FM25, the double Hexagon Challenge the men's and women's version of each, if you want add in both Club World Cups.

[Tobiusx]

"Win with a team of only Strikers" Bros doing the Blue Lock Challenge

[justjazz]

speaking as someone who has (successfully) done the FC Vaduz challenge - you do not have to win the competitions in consecutive order. it is possible for the Liechtensteiner Cup/Liechtenstein's coefficient to rise to where the cup automatically qualifies for the Europa League. In fact, there was one year where we won the Europa League, and somehow Vaduz and Eschen/Mauren qualified for the CL

[Tucktt]

I've managed to qualify for the World Cup with Cuba and Fiji. Beating New Zealand 3-1 away with Fiji to qualify has been my favourite moment in FM for years.

[krishnasadhanaofficial]

Suddenly thought of this whilst watching - the Pentagon Challenge, but with university teams. So basically you’re only allowed to play with university teams from each confederation and win their Champions League. CONCACAF’s gonna be a cakewalk with either UANL or UNAM but things will start to get challenging in Europe - you’ll only get to manage teams such as Cardiff Metropolitan University or Universitatea Craiova etc. And don’t get me started on the other confederations 😅

[louistyrer]

The Athletic Bilbao ‘challenge’ has been the only save I enjoy every year for about 8 years, it broke my normal enjoyment of the game. I now only enjoy playing as Athletic Bilbao, I try to do other saves but they are boring, sign a bunch of players for millions, dominate, move on to a better club etc…boring. Also Bilbao have an incredible youth academy so it’s always great to fall in love with your generational regens.

[_girltype]

been in my no badges / no experience / octagon* challenge era in my current save and i've been having an absolute blast, been through new zealand, tunisia, egypt, south korea, MLS, and currently boca juniors and senegal national boss. i wouldn't say it's been _hard_ per se but definitely a great antidote to just sticking at one club and building a wonderkid super team
*it was a hexagon challenge until national teams started blowing up my inbox for interviews

[dalicieux]

In my Lille save in FM22, I think it was Club Franciscain that made to the quarter finals of the Coupe de France. I even googled it to see if they'd play in Europe if they won and didn't find any answer. If I had drawn them I probably would have thrown the match just to see what happens.

[cfcfan]

Change the in-game language to match the country you’re in and do every press conference yourself. Suddenly «It’s all greek to me» gets a whole new meaning 😅 Makes for an interesting save where tactics might not be the main problem.

[DGAMINGEN]

11:30 Should be noted that these overseas territories are part of France in a similar way to Alaska. French Guyana can vote for the French president, has 2 seats in the French parliament (despite their size they only have 500k people) and stuff like that. You would also call Hawaii a part of the US.

[johnaarson]

In my opinion, the hardest possible save has to be picking up an amateur team from the lowest division from some place like Vanuatu or Samoa (OFC), Bhutan, Macao, Mongolia (AFC), or similar countries in Asia or Oceania, winning the continental champions league AND then winning the Club World Cup. I have been trying it and still haven't managed to complete it. I don't know if it's actually possible. Right now I'm creating a Macau DB and I'll try again with FC Porto (MAC) - an amateur club from Macau with the same name as Portugal's Porto, but absolutely no ties to the portuguese team.

[bogus]

The San Marino Challenge can be made even harder by playing as a club in the Sammarinese Division instead of the Italian League system. This adds the challenge of building the nation and league rep high enough that good players want to play for your club. Also if you play through the Italian Leagues, its slightly easier as the club will gain rep much faster when winning any competition in that system compared to the Sammarinese competitions.

[BassyBoy]

I'm happy to have completed the second hardest challenge ❤
I did it with CSC de Cayenne in French Guiana! We won the UCL after many years. It was the toughest, but most rewarding save I've ever completed :D

[tryker]

The Vaduz save is actually a lot easier now because you only need a decent conference league run to qualify for the champions league on the new coefficient rules since there’s only one club in Europe for Liechtenstein your coefficient is only divided by 1

[PikachuCS]

As someone from Hong Kong, I'd also like to point out that the HK U23 team no longer exists. It only ever won 3? games in competition in its several years of existence. So uh.... have fun! I'm tempted to try it, to be frank.

[adzter]

The Chertanovo Moscow save. You physically can't buy or loan anyone.

[Kiwi-npxc]

I guess #3 would be made even HARDER by choosing another club from Liechtenstein that's not Vaduz🤔

[ChesterRGC]

5:00 I was doing a save with a 7th Spanish division team and I can confirm it was super boring at first, once I got players we just won everything until 4th division. Those players were actually 4th division level.