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 ๐ฅ - 2 points - Avoid relegation anyway
Silver๐ฅ - 3 points - Don't finish bottom and avoid relegation via the playoffs
Gold ๐ฅ - 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 ๐ฅ - 5 points
Silver๐ฅ - 3 points
Bronze ๐ฅ - 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 โRoughly 2 weeks before full release dateโ 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 โLoad Gameโ and click โbrowseโ 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 โLoad Gameโ. 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 โ~/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/gamesโ
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 โSort It Out SI Challengeโ. You cannot retire and create a new manager.
However if you find being called โMr Challengeโ annoying then you can set a nickname to give yourself a new name.
- Click โClub Infoโ in the sidebar
- Right click on โSort It Out SI Challengeโ
- 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)
# | Manager | Medal | Points | GD | Status |
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1 | ๐ฅ | 44 | 30 |
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2 | ๐ฅ | 37 | 11 |
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3 | ๐ฅ | 37 | 8 |
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4 | ๐ฅ | 33 | 14 |
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5 | ๐ฅ | 31 | 12 |
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6 | 8 | -22 |
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7 | 6 | -42 |
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8 | 1 | -42 |
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9 | ๐ฅ | 65 | 49 |
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10 | ๐ฅ | 44 | 30 |
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Comments
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Jamie Aubrey
He's not finished, he's only 15
FingFangFoom
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
This is absolutely impossible. On my 4th try I won only ONE match, the rest I lost every match.
Kalle Kutt
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
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.
Footygamer
The points for the championship series are counted yes and of course you've already got gold by surviving relegation.
Anton Tan
Here We Goโฆ
Hossam
good work
can you share your tactics, I want to have a look on it
Kalle Kutt
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 ๐ ๐
Kalle Kutt
Oh nice one. Gotta resert to copying now? Have to be the most low-life submission I've ever seen. LMAO
Footygamer
Sorry ๐
Hossam
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
finally (at 11th try or so)โฆ ๐ฉ
Kalle Kutt
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
anyone can say anythingโฆ have a nice time