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On July 11th 2021 at Wembley Stadium, London, England the Euro 2020 final took place between England and Italy. Italy won. England fans still aren’t over it. As Euro 2024 approached a series of suspicious accidents have begun to plague Italy’s famous defence. Dimarco "slipped" - although no one saw it happen - Udogie fell ill after eating some questionable pasta at a Wetherspoon in Tottenham Hale, while Bastoni and Buongiorno were mysteriously mauled by a pack of British Bulldogs. One by one, every Italian defender has been ruled out of the European Championships.
Fearing for his own safety, head coach Luciano Spalletti resigned, leaving the role open for a new manager to step up. And that’s where you come in. Your job? Guide a defenseless Italian side to their second Euros win in three years. That’s right: every Italian defender in the world is injured. You’ll need all your tactical ingenuity to find a solution. Will Moise Kean step up as a makeshift centre-back? Could wingers fill in as wing-backs? Or will you take the bold route of fielding ball-playing midfielders as centre-backs, embracing the ultimate form of tiki-taka?
Share your tactical masterplan in the comments, and don’t forget to submit your results once you’re done.
If you do you'll be added to our FM24 Challenges Leaderboard with a chance to win a copy of FM25.
Gold 🥇 - 5 points - Win Euro 2024 without conceding
Silver🥈 - 3 points - Win Euro 2024 conceded 3 or less
Bronze 🥉 - 2 points - Win Euro 2024
How it works
Every week we will release a new FM24 Challenge.
Each challenge is designed to be quick to play. Usually half a season or less.
Complete the challenge to score points and be in with a chance to win prizes.
You do not have to complete the challenge that week. Each challenge will remain open until FM25 BETA is released.
All you have to do is play FM for a few hours and then submit a few screenshots of how you got on. Easy right?
Point Scoring
The scoring system works the same as the Olympics. You have the chance to win Gold, Silver or Bronze. Fail to make it to Europe? You won't get a medal and will score 0 points.
Gold 🥇 - 5 points - Win Euro 2024 without conceding
Silver🥈 - 3 points - Win Euro 2024 conceded 3 or less
Bronze 🥉 - 2 points - Win Euro 2024
These points will take you on to the Overall Leaderboard. Each week we will release a new FM24 Challenge giving you more chances to win Gold, Silver and Bronze and total up your overall points.
Each Challenge has its own leaderboard. Since lots of people will inevitably win gold there are a series of tie breakers to decide your position.
Tie Breakers
- Total Points won (including FA Cup 3 for win, 1 draw, 0 for loss)
- Distance in FA Cup
- Total Games Won
- Total Goal Difference
- Total Goals Scored
- Total Chances Created
- Total Average Possession
God help me if we actually get to Total Average Possession as a tie breaker, i'll make something else up at the time.
Prizes
Overall Winner = A copy of Football Manager 2025
Weekly Challenge Winner = Premium Membership
The winner will be chosen before the FM25 BETA is released so the winner can play FM25 straight away. We do not know the date for this yet. If the date is given as something vague like “Roughly 2 weeks before full release date” we will conservatively announce the winner the Saturday before 2 weeks. I know this is vague but we will get given an official announcement by SI soon and this text will be updated and made clearer.
Rules
- You must use the manager already in the save file. You cannot create a new manager. This so that all managers have the same attributes and experience.
- You cannot use the in game editor.
- You cannot create any new managers.
- You cannot save before a match and then reload.
- You cannot use Genie Scout or FMRTE.
How to install
The download is a .fm file which is an FM Save Game.
Option 1) When you open FM and click “Load Game” and click “browse” in the top right hand corner. Then find where you saved the file, probably your downloads folder.
Option 2) Move the file to your default saved game folder, it should then appear when clicking “Load Game”. The location is:
Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2022/editor data
Mac: /Users/<yourname>/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/games
On mac you may find it easier to Open Finder > Click Go in the toolbar > Go to folder > Paste this “~/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/games”
Youtube / Twitch Creators
If you run a YouTube or a Twitch feel free to drop a comment letting us know what time you're streaming or linking to your video. We'll give a shout out on Twitter as well. Also feel free to send me a PM on here or DM on here with any other queries.
Changing Your Manager Name
The manager is called “Sort It Out SI Challenge”. You cannot retire and create a new manager.
However if you find being called “Mr Challenge” annoying then you can set a nickname to give yourself a new name.
- Click “Club Info” in the sidebar
- Right click on “Sort It Out SI Challenge”
- Navigate to Misc > Set Nickname
How to submit results
You must submit the following information. Where screenshots are required you must upload an image.
Do not take a photo on your phone. You can take screenshots in FM by clicking FM > Print Screen or by following instructions for Windows or Mac.
Fixtures
Click schedule in the sidebar
Game Status
The Game Status Screen (FM Logo > Game Status)
Manager Attributes
Manager Attributes (Home > Profile > Attributes tab)
Manager Overview
Manager History Overview (Home > My History > Overview)
| # | Manager | Medal | Points | GD | Status |
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| 1 | 🥇 | 21 | 18 |
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| 2 | 🥇 | 21 | 18 |
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| 3 | 🥇 | 21 | 12 |
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| 4 | 🥇 | 21 | 9 |
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| 5 | 🥇 | 19 | 15 |
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Kalle Kutt
2nd entry
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🥇 | 19 | 8 |
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| 7 | 🥈 | 30 | 14 |
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| 8 | 🥈 | 19 | 11 |
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| 9 | 🥈 | 19 | 9 |
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| 10 | 🥈 | 17 | 8 |
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| 11 | 🥉 | 21 | 21 |
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| 12 | 🥉 | 21 | 14 |
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| 13 | 🥉 | 19 | 12 |
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| 14 | 🥉 | 19 | 11 |
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| 15 | 🥉 | 19 | 10 |
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| 16 | 🥉 | 19 | 9 |
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| 17 | 🥉 | 18 | 11 |
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| 18 | 🥉 | 18 | 4 |
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| 19 | 🥉 | 17 | 7 |
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| 20 | 🥉 | 16 | 6 |
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| 21 | 🥉 | 16 | 6 |
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| 22 | 🥉 | 16 | 6 |
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| 23 | 🥉 | 16 | 5 |
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| 24 | 🥉 | 14 | 7 |
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| 25 | 🥉 | 12 | 1 |
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| 26 | 7 | 3 |
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| 27 | 3 | -2 |
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| 28 | 3 | -4 |
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| 29 | 0 | -7 |
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Kalle Kutt
3rd entry
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🥇 | 21 | 19 |
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| 31 | 3 | -4 |
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| 32 | 🥇 | 21 | 18 |
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| 33 | 🥇 | 21 | 18 |
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- Date Created
- 04 Oct 2024 13:58:16
- Date Updated
- 11 Oct 2024 13:20:55
- Last Comment
- 21 Nov 2024 15:08:54
Comments
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Kalle Kutt
Also, @Hossam ‘s , @ashtonwoodicon ’s and @snafyr 's results should be one draw since they all won on either extra time or p's as well for one game.
MeGaMaN-
Impossible to not concede without cheating
FMStrawzy
ah cheers, @Footygamer is et a draw too?
Kalle Kutt
@FMStrawzy
Also, is it possible to somehow get @Hossam ‘s save files for the 3 challenges so far. Just finding it very suspicious with the results he has had so far. Went unbeaten with Ipswich (that’s possible if lucky), but the most interesting one is unbeaten (with a gd of +35) with 12 matches. Just no. Would love to take a look at them to just see that everything on it is legit - cause it looks very cheety imo
FMStrawzy
check dm
Hossam
hello mate
you have your right to be suspicious of anything (not only my challenge results) but you have to be sure that the challenges team here took much time checking my challenge saves and it's ok with them
and about your ask for my saves your welcome, I hope @FMStrawzy sent it to you
I will wait for your opinion after having a look 😉
Hossam
of course it`s not a draw
FMStrawzy
Only took 6 goes haha. Hardest challenge I've ever done, 100% impossible to get gold imo
SanAndreas
This Hossam dude must cheat or have an OP tactic. He plays the challenges in half the time as anyone else, obvously holidaying his way through with an OP tactic. No respect
FMStrawzy
These were his tactics, can't see anything special about them
snafyr
XD
these challenges don't make sense if each of us is trying to find a way to play these teams, and the guy plays with tactics from the Internet, for me it's like he's cheating
pep
Well good luck with coming up with the weekly challenges till March 25 !!
Priboemi.id
This is my first time trying a crazy challenge like this (there's no way in real life Italy or any Nation be playing with no defenders),
Trying few things in 1 friendly match against Turkey to see how bad it is to play without any defs and yeah it's very bad. One thing I noticed is the opponents crossing will be my nightmare so I decided to push the line a bit to somehow reduce the damage from opponent's crossing and I guess it worked.
I got 7 point at the Group stage and finished #2. I almost got perfect 9 but England got a quick equalizer after we scored, and guess what it's the crossing from the left wing 😢
Unfortunately I got paired with France on the second stage. Things went better than I thought. I somehow manage to hold France 2-2 until mid game, until my main creator Veratti got injured. France got the late winner at 80' and that's it. My Italy's trash defenceless team's Journey end 😢
Kalle Kutt
@Footygamer Could it be possible to delete this one =)
https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-challenges/entry/172
Luke Sky
the hardest challenge of all
Anton Tan
Here We go..
Anton Tan
Here We Go
Dhavid
supernova123
yuhu
Kalle Kutt
Had to try it again. Told myself I wouldn't but I just wanted to get a perfect score hehe. Wanted to see if I could get rid of that silver medal as well (which is still listed despite getting a gold medal with a worse GD). Tried some stuff around and tried various tactics, both self-made and downloaded. What worked best was actually a variant of the 4-2-4, that have grown on me lately. With a few tactical tweaks we got off to a great start in the group stages and had a strong back-line. After going a goal up, we just sat back while also countering using the speed of Zaniolo and Berardi. Top stuff from our team.
Ukraine had a worldie of a tourney, coming in on a close 2nd, earning themselves a Silver medal.
Hopefully this replaces that silver medal hehe. Otherwise, time not well spent (damn I hated this challenge).