Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer in the European Champions League with 140 goals. Nobody else is even close and those who are closest have either retired or are close to it. Ronaldo’s legacy as the top Champions League scorer is surely cemented for the next decade.

But that’s not enough for Cristiano, he’s gone to Saudi Arabia and is now featuring for Al-Nassr in the AFC Champions League where he finds himself languishing 173rd in the rankings with just 7 goals, 42 goals behind the leader Dejan Damjanović. 173 places??? Surely he’ll never make that up, that’s got to be too much… right?

But Ronaldo’s not alone, you are his new manager at Al-Nassr and it is your job to help him achieve exactly that. This is no longer a team game, this is all about the G.O.A.T. Your challenge is to not only win the AFC Champions League, but to make Cristiano the top all time goal scorer in the competition.

Lucky for you they haven’t done enough to qualify automatically so they have an extra preliminary round to play. Even luckier for you each leg of the AFC Champions League is two legged including the final. That gives you a total of 16 matches. A goal a game and he breaks into the top 10. But the top spot? You’ll need to pull out all the stops to get Ronaldo to average 2.18 goals per game.

And even LUCKIER? You have £75m to spend, or upto £282m if you convert all your wages into transfer budget (but you'll need those wages). Maybe it's not just about Ronaldo after all. Feel free to have some fun with the cash before the seasons starts.

Points Scoring

Bronze 🥉 - 2 points - Win and Ronaldo is top scorer

Silver🥈 - 3 points - Win and Ronaldo gets into the top 10 all time scorers (16 goals)

Gold 🥇 - 5 points - Win and Ronaldo becomes all time top scorer (35 goals)

Only AFC Champions League counts

For this challenge only the AFC Champions League counts. However it is played over an entire regular season. It is up to you if you decide to manage the team throughout the entire season or you can go on holiday or use an instant result button to get through the league fixtures more quickly.

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 create any new managers.
• You cannot save before a match and then reload.
• You must have at most one weekly auto save. More saves than this will be deemed suspicious.
• You cannot use the in game editor or any other editor.

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

Silver🥈 - 3 points

Bronze 🥉 - 2 points

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

• Ronaldo goals
• Total Points won (3 for win, 1 draw, 0 for loss)
• 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.

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.