FC Halifax - Blue Square to Europe

What a fantastic season! Final day win against plymouth done you wonders! best of luck in the playoffs!

Yes I know! definitely what we needed, finish the season in style with a 4-0 win and it can hopefully push us through the play-offs!

Great work, will be keeping a close eye on this as it's my hometown club and I remember going and watching week in, week out as a young lad in the old incarnation of the club, most notably the season where they were promoted to the football league.

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After managing to make the play-off's we had a semi final tie against third place Leyton Orient, the away leg went reasonably successful, we failed to score but also managed to keep them out so a victory at home would be enough to take us to Wembley. We bought in Nathan Baker on loan until the end of the season and he has been outstanding, starting every game since his arrival.





Jordan Keegan was the hero in the second leg, 15 minutes before the end of the game he bagged two goals in three minutes.



A tough game against Rotherham stood between us and the Championship, Nathan Eccleston and Patrick Bamford have formed a great partnership in the second half of the campaign keeping Noble out the side and proved to be the deciding factor in the game both finding the net before Danny Green got Rotherham a consolation in added time. It's a great effort from the players, I really didn't expect another promotion and can now hopefully build a strong championship side over a couple of seasons before finally making it to the premiership!









Patrick Bamford's efforts were rewarded with the npower League One player of the season award!

Top work in the playoffs buddy! Lets see how the championship treats you, well done

well done chap

Even with our fine form in previous seasons the latest promotion was one even I hadn't anticipated so it was clear a number of changes needed to be made. Pre-season has gone very well, winning four of the five matches and the only loss coming against Premier League opposition.



I bought in a couple of youngsters, Shane Kavanagh cost £8,000 from Shamrock Rovers and is currently the only player I have spent any money on this summer, making it another successful transfer period. Matthew Johnston is another player with potential joining on a free, he'll be a back-up central defender this season.





Now are the more key acquisitions of the summer, Milos Veljkovic has signed on a free after his Torquay United contract expired, he played the entire season in League Two last campaign but my defensive coach says he's a decent Championship centre back.



I've been after another right winger for the past couple of seasons and Franck Songo'o is hopefully going to step up, he spent last season in League One but I'm hoping he's going to be good enough as he was the best available.



While the strike force is pretty strong I wanted someone who was definitely upto Championship level and opted to sign Brett Pitman on a free after his Bristol City contract expired, he's been in the Championship for the last six seasons so I'm hoping he can form a good partnership with Bamford, as well as Noble and Eccleston contributing.



While Matt Watson was the leading central midfielder last season, I wasn't 100% sure he'd make the step up so have bought in Ian Black who's spent the last four season playing in the Third, Second, First and Premier League of Scottish Football with Rangers.



Sam Minihan wasn't good enough for the Championship so I let him go to Shamrock Rovers and got £90,000 from the deal, over 10 times more than I've spent on transfers this summer, and bought in Jordan Fauque, who's spent the majority of his career in Ligue 2 but is far better than any right back I've had available to me.



I needed some back up players after some of the summer releases and have bought in Richard Lee as the second choice keeper and Jose Fonte as fourth choice striker after deciding Ryan Noble or Nathan Eccleston will be leaving.





Finally here are the summer departures, most were out of contract and knew if we were promoted they wouldn't be good enough, their departures left me a big chunk in the wage bill available for the new arrivals.

What graphics are you using mate?

Liking the skin, face and logos

Just read through this well done in reaching the Championship ! Trying it myself with FC United and getting stuck into the BSP, hopefully I can follow your lead up the divisions.

What a great achievement! 4 back-to-back promotions! Have a feeling the Championship might get a little bit tougher for you, but looks like you've made some good signings, so who knows! Great run in the cups as well, best of luck with the upcoming season.

Great start to your career, I too am playing with FC Halifax. I got promoted in the first two seasons and also used some of the same players as you.
I am really struggling in League two though. What sort of team tactics do you use? I see you have 4-4-2 and saw what type of player you used in each. What team instructions do you use?
Short direct long
counter etc? Id love to see that.

On another note its annoying that the game has removed all the previous history of Halifax Town from the clubs information page and have only included the History since its reform!?

Cheers Craig