So You Just Got Promoted in FM...

Promotion is one of the greatest achievements in Football Manager. It is also a cause of much FM-induced stress. Promotion is a challenging thing to survive, or it could be FM’s version of a victory lap if your team is good enough. The trick is managing your finances, dynamics and tactics to give yourself a chance, all while using all Football Manager has to offer to inform your decision making.

Informed decisions are really the key to surviving FM promotion. You have to figure out how much work is to be done with transfers and how much you can stick with your squad. Then, the little tweaks that help maximize what your team can do at the next level. It’s hard to explain in text. The video makes it easier to understand!

Sincerely,
FM Senpai

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[notsharpmd]

Someone who's never watched a Llaneros stream: "How did he get promoted?"
Me, who's watched almost every Llaneros stream: "Ummmm... not really sure. He hit continue for a while and suddenly realized he was in a different league."

[IxCoLTzxI]

Lost the serie B playoff final with Venezia last night before bed. Wake up to this. THANKS FOR REMINDING ME ZEELAND.

[Cdagoat]

The worst part about promotion is when it messes up the wage demands of the players and they want 3 times as much even though you cant afford it

[YannMiro]

Got Mirko Topic on loan (without paying his wages) in my Greek Superleague 2 save. Totally bossed the league, got promoted and helped us finish 5th in our first season in charge. Halfway through 3rd season, Topic being a squad player back in Vojvodina, and I need a MC because the one I got wasn't that great and I needed a little bit of extra depth. Jan 1st 2022 midnight, pop champagnes for the new year, then call Vojvodina straight away to see if he's available.

"Vojvodina would require no wage contribution or monthly fee to allow Mirko Topic to go on loan"

Is an elephant heavy? HE'S COMING BACK BABY

[KingEddo]

Ok, so I'm not sure how this happened but here we go.

I'm playing as York City, a fairly local-ish team to me. I got into management with bare experience "this is the first FM game I've owned" and the first season of complete trial and error, I got sacked. Tried again and scraped a playoff win in the National League North.

The season following we lost our first game but won the title with just the one loss, a semi-permanent 433 formation with 1 striker and 2 strikers just off as support, A very solid defence and a midfield which bossed games.

The season after and were back in the Football League, League Two brought the very little challenge, I won a consecutive title this time completely undefeated, only losing the cups.
I was able to bring in a few free players who solved my goal-scoring problem, I finished the season with 122 goals in all comps.

Now I was in League One, I really thought that this was gonna get tough. I brought in some new players, including Aaron Morley from Rochdale who proved to be a masterstroke, getting 6 goals and 16 assists as I won the title for a 3 season running in the final day, beating Charlton and Oxford to it, proving everyone, including myself, wrong.

Now its the present day and I'm in the Championship, beyond my wildest dreams I'm with some of the biggest clubs in the country and one of the best leagues in the world. And I'm just a small city club from North Yorkshire, currently, 12 games in and I'm bouncing around the playoffs.


I really have no idea how I managed to get here but I must say, it feels good.

[andreafresca]

Yeah, in Italy there's at least one team every season that gets promoted out of nowhere and that goes straight back down the year after, never to be seen again😂 Great video btw

[randallbestrcb]

Something I would recommend is taking stock of contract situations prior to being promoted. If you're able to install relegation salary decreases and remove fat promotion salary increases, that can have a noticeable affect on your upcoming wage budget.

[ethanlondon]

That intro just summarized Norwich’s existence

[fusedj]

this video would’ve been useful if my Romanian side didn’t concede in the 120+3 min in the promotion playoff game :(

[jordan-kzrx]

When I reached the Prem, I overhauled my entire team at the cost of all my team cohesion. I think the best move would be to sign 1 Wonder kid, 1 league level Important Player, get cheap loans and just bite the bullet on bad value contract renewals for core members, until the second transfer window at least. But I couldn't resist shopping so I cleaned house and got as many scouting gems as I could afford which put my team into the most volatile state its ever been in. I was worried that salary demands would lock me into bad contracts, but in retrospect its probably equal or better overall value than transferring out those roles to new players. Just because team cohesion is a pain to rebuild and you have so much money anyway, you can always pick up upgrades on a whim. Anyway a number of squads in the Prem are so bad that relegation doesn't really seem like a threat regardless of how smoothly I played the promotion. FM2020 is very forgiving...last year my team said fighting to stay up was unrealistic and we ended up winning the playoffs. Who knew praising training could take a football team so far. Also, never knew about senior affiliates thanks m8

[josephnewmanhopkins]

Hey Zealand! I used to live and work in the city Llaneros are from, met my wife there - went to see them play a few times too. Very open stadium, hot as hell!

[CrazyLulus]

Reminds me of my Triestina save were I went from Serie C straight to Serie A and then got completely destroyed until I managed to safe me so narrowly in the last three marches and even got 15th. So always believe in it!!

[mrkibbles]

Currently 10 years in the future with Cheltenham in England. Battled from 4th tier up to the 1st through playoffs with each promotion. 5th year in the Prem and defending champion of both English Cups. Your videos have given me plenty of motivation to keep going. Also great to learn from a fellow American!

[vonhautten]

Yo i just got macclesfield town promoted to the premier league just by loaning player from manchester united and liverpool for 6 season straight lol

[Roscododger]

Put the second channel on Featured Channels Zealand/Reece!

[maxiking]

I have 0€ transfer budget and 16k€ a weekly salary budget in german tier 3 while other teams pay 10k a week for a single player. It is rough..

[fhslfzy]

Wow after a whole season and relegation and he still hadn't dried

[DRock]

Your intros are always top notch Zealand.

[kevineames]

As person who lives in a timezone, where your stream starts at 1am, I'm pretty keen for this new channel.

[RankerKanelGamingVN]

I can see Zealand really had fun doing the Intro