Have you been browsing around your FM Save and seen a team having literally the worst season ever, worse even than Derby in 07/08? Well I did, FC Honka in Finland. Bottom after 9 games without a win, without a point, without scoring a single goal.

 

But this to single them out is a little unfair, in real life Honka FC went bust and took over their reserve teams position in the 4th tier. The reason for their dismal performance in FM is the horrendous financial situation the club found themselves in, meaning they're left with only 11 players (including 2 goalkeepers!) and are reliant on greyed out fake players. Still, how many of you have ever tried managing such a team? That's why we thought it would still make a fun challenge even if real life has long since moved on.

 

Points Scoring

Bronze 🥉 - 2 points - Avoid relegation anyway

Silver🥈 - 3 points - Don't finish bottom and avoid relegation via the playoffs

Gold 🥇 - 5 points - Avoid the relegation playoffs

 

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

  • 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 2024/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.

 

League Fixtures

Click schedule in the sidebar then scroll down so the most recent results are visible

Cup Fixtures

Click schedule in the sidebar then click filter and show only the Suomen Cup

League Table

The full a league table including GF and GA

Manager Attributes

Manager Attributes (Home > Profile > Attributes tab)

Manager Overview

Manager History Overview (Home > My History > Overview)

Submit Your Results
# Manager Medal Points GD Status
1 🥇 65 30
2 🥇 44 11
3 🥈 37 -8
4 🥈 33 -5
5 🥈 31 -7
6 8 -41
7 6 -61
8 1 -61
9 🥈 37 -11
10 🥇 44 11
Comments
Jamie Aubrey
7 years ago
10 hours ago
59

He's not finished, he's only 15

FingFangFoom Stats P W D L GF GA GD Pts
🥈 Overall
Rank #3
29 11 4 14 38 46 -8 37
Finnish Premier League
9th Position
27 10 4 13 36 45 -9 34
Finnish Cup
6th Round
2 1 0 1 2 1 1 3
FingFangFoom
4 years ago
55 minutes ago
8

One of the most frustrating teams (challenges) to manage (take on). Just one big group of recalcitrant whiners. Almost always a hair-dryer treatment at half-time.

 

Shouts

Demand More > Berate > Demand More > Berate > Focus > Demand More > Berate

 

 

Socretino
9 years ago
12 hours ago
24

This is absolutely impossible. On my 4th try I won only ONE match, the rest I lost every match.

Kalle Kutt
4 years ago
11 hours ago
67
Premium

So, the thing is. I just got through to the Championship series. Is that included in the challenge or not? 

I have survived relegation, and it was really close towards the end. Not a lot of points in it from 2nd to 11th. Never seen a closer table before. If I had won the final game I would have finished above HJK.

Kalle Kutt Stats P W D L GF GA GD Pts
🥇 Overall
Rank #2
29 13 5 11 70 59 11 44
Finnish Premier League
2nd Position
27 12 5 10 66 56 10 41
Finnish Cup
6th Round
2 1 0 1 4 3 1 3
Kalle Kutt
4 years ago
11 hours ago
67
Premium

What a crazy challenge. Until I could literally fix all the gaps in the squad with free players it was just so difficult. Had a decent start and then everything just clicked. Had a few set-backs and games where we just didn't look good enough. To be fair, we aren't. We just got the results with us. It was very close towards the split and it was literally a 5 point diff from Europe to Relegation. Never seen a table so close before. We fought hard and played some excellent football near the end. Really happy with it! Somehow qualified for Europe next season. No clue how we even did that after dropping 5 points in 6 games. Just proved how close everything was. 

 

As always, happy to post the save file if anyone wants it. 

Time spent and amount of saves. 
Footygamer
18 years ago
3 hours ago
98,179

The points for the championship series are counted yes and of course you've already got gold by surviving relegation.

Anton Tan Stats P W D L GF GA GD Pts
🥇 Overall
Rank #10
29 13 5 11 70 59 11 44
Finnish Premier League
1st Position
27 12 5 10 66 56 10 41
Finnish Cup
6th Round
2 1 0 1 4 3 1 3
Anton Tan
2 months ago
19 hours ago
0
Banned
Hossam
14 years ago
11 minutes ago
42
By Kalle Kutt 13 November 2024 - 20:37 PM UTC 

What a crazy challenge. Until I could literally fix all the gaps in the squad with free players it was just so difficult. Had a decent start and then everything just clicked. Had a few set-backs and games where we just didn't look good enough. To be fair, we aren't. We just got the results with us. It was very close towards the split and it was literally a 5 point diff from Europe to Relegation. Never seen a table so close before. We fought hard and played some excellent football near the end. Really happy with it! Somehow qualified for Europe next season. No clue how we even did that after dropping 5 points in 6 games. Just proved how close everything was. 

 

As always, happy to post the save file if anyone wants it. 

Time spent and amount of saves. 

 

good work
can you share your tactics, I want to have a look on it
 

Kalle Kutt
4 years ago
11 hours ago
67
Premium
By Hossam 16 November 2024 - 16:34 PM UTC 

good work
can you share your tactics, I want to have a look on it
 

I mean it is the same tactic I've used for the previous challenges. Just go through my recent submissions. Oh and btw, I don't save scum like you 😉 🙂

 

Kalle Kutt
4 years ago
11 hours ago
67
Premium
By Anton Tan 16 November 2024 - 03:49 AM UTC 

Here We Go…

 

Oh nice one. Gotta resert to copying now? Have to be the most low-life submission I've ever seen. LMAO

Footygamer
18 years ago
3 hours ago
98,179
By FingFangFoom 11 November 2024 - 15:12 PM UTC 

One of the most frustrating teams (challenges) to manage (take on). Just one big group of recalcitrant whiners. Almost always a hair-dryer treatment at half-time.

 

Shouts

Demand More > Berate > Demand More > Berate > Focus > Demand More > Berate

 

Sorry 😅

Hossam
14 years ago
11 minutes ago
42
By Kalle Kutt 17 November 2024 - 09:50 AM UTC 

I mean it is the same tactic I've used for the previous challenges. Just go through my recent submissions. Oh and btw, I don't save scum like you 😉 🙂

 

I didn't accuse you of anything just asked to see your tactics, but here you are accusing me of saving scum !!
respect others and who may be older than you is something you have to look for !!

Socretino Stats P W D L GF GA GD Pts
🥈 Overall
Rank #9
28 11 4 13 43 54 -11 37
Finnish Premier League
7th Position
27 11 4 12 43 53 -10 37
Finnish Cup
5th Round
1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
Socretino
9 years ago
12 hours ago
24

finally (at 11th try or so)… 😩

 

Kalle Kutt
4 years ago
11 hours ago
67
Premium
By Hossam 18 November 2024 - 11:24 AM UTC 

I didn't accuse you of anything just asked to see your tactics, but here you are accusing me of saving scum !!
respect others and who may be older than you is something you have to look for !!

Well, you have save scum in the past so everything you do from here on is just going to be tainted by that. In terms of my tactic. You can find it at all the other submissions I've done so far (after Italy). Since I haven't really changed much from last time, I didn't bother posting the same pic again.

 

Hossam
14 years ago
11 minutes ago
42
By Kalle Kutt 18 November 2024 - 17:10 PM UTC 

Well, you have save scum in the past so everything you do from here on is just going to be tainted by that. In terms of my tactic. You can find it at all the other submissions I've done so far (after Italy). Since I haven't really changed much from last time, I didn't bother posting the same pic again.

 

anyone can say anything… have a nice time

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