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10th July 2025The Belgian league is continuing to rise in stature and the Jupiler Pro League is up to 8th in the European rankings. Whilst our good performance in the Champions League last year has seen Antwerp rise to 27th, meaning we are now the hi...
END OF SEASON 2024/25 REVIEWIn the end the league was won easily...in fact it couldn't have been any easier as we dominated the competition for most of the season! The Croky Cup was also retained this year and again we never really looked in doubt in...
2nd June 2025Jupiler Pro League - Championship GroupMatchday 34Massive win in terms of the title race! Absolutely massive! It leaves us a maximum of 2 wins away from winning our 3rd straight league title. However, things could be wrapped up sooner if...
20th April 2025Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 28It can't be underestimated just how good a win this was! USG came into this game 3rd in the table and on a 13 game unbeaten run, so to absolutely batter them the way we did was superb! Champions LeagueRound...
12th March 2025Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 23Club Brugge are still officially rated as the number 1 side in Belgium, but if results like this keep happening, they won't be for too much longer. An excellent result for us! There is no denying we struggl...
5th February 2025Croky CupQuarter FinalA good performance and a solid victory which sees us into the semi final of the Croky Cup. Fabian Rieder was unreal in central midfield today, controlling the game throughout, and deserved his goal at the end. J...
12th January 2025Transfer News: We kick off this update with a new signing. The window is not open yet, but Arthur is able to join as he was a free agent. And what a great player for us to pick up on a freebie as well. I'm not exactly in dire need of anym...
1st December 2024Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 12Five goals, five different goalscorers, easy win, great day out for the fans!One thing that is important as we continue to try to grow the stature of Antwerp FC is to build our worldwide reputation and that ca...
6th October 2024Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 6After losing back to back games, it was imperative that we got the win here at all costs! I have no idea what this award is, but I won it! A bit of Wikipedia was in order to find out what I had just wo...
29th August 2024Pro League SupercupFinalJust as we did last year, we kick off the season by winning the Supercup. An easy victory over Anderlecht who were only there by default anyway after we completed the league and cup double last season! A nice start!...
16th July 2024After our run in Europe that took us to the Europa League Final last year, I fully expect it to have put some of Europe's bigger clubs on high alert around some of our players and expect to receive numerous offers for key members of my squad...
END OF SEASON 2023/24 REVIEWAnother superb season of domestic football saw us complete the treble as we lift the Jupiler Pro League and Croky Cup trophies, along with the Supercup too! Boom!In Europe, we did ourselves no shame at all in finishing 3rd in o...
1st June 2024Jupiler Pro League - Championship GroupMatchday 38Over the last 3 games of the season, with the title already wrapped up, it would just be about managing the player fitness and sharpness in the squad, ready for the Europa League Final at the...
17th May 2024We go into our first Croky Cup Final under my management as slight favourites to lift the trophy! But previous games against OH Leuven suggest this could go either way!Croky Cup Final - Lineups Croky CupFinalAfter an uninspiring first ha...
2nd May 2024Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 29It was 1st vs 2nd here and even though we suffered the sending off of Gaston Avila right on half time, we still went on to win this one with relative ease and I think Charleroi will be ****** that they couldn't off...
22nd March 2024Europa LeagueKnock Out Play Off Round 1st LegI said before that I felt Olympiakos were very beatable opposition for us and we will go out to Greece with a relatively commanding lead for the 2nd leg that should be enough to see us into the n...
18th February 2024Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 20A very tight game that could have swung either way. Both sides took a point in the end and that was probably fair. Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 21It's easy to see why Sint-Truiden are bottom of the league....
21st January 2024Our first taste of the Croky Cup this season will be against RWDM. It's the same team we drew last year in the 7th round and played out an incredible 5-4 win against them....the fans might be hoping for just as entertaining a game, but I...
12th December 2023Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 11Absolute dog ****! We lose at home to the side at the bottom of the league who came into this game losing all 10 of their prior games! Failure to score again is what costs us after having 20 shots on goal wit...
10th October 2023Champions LeagueChampions Path Playoff 2nd LegWith a 4-0 lead from the first leg, I heavily rotated the side for this one and although we weren't anywhere near full strength, we still won in Romania as well and it will be Champions League...
28th August 2023Transfer News: I don't need to improve multiple areas of the squad now, but I did need a player that can play down the right wing. I've turned to Shakhtar's Marian Shved as the replacement for Calvin Stengs who was here on loan last season...
24th July 2023It wasn't exactly a clearout this Summer as a few players are released from the club, but not many. The most notable name is Koji Miyoshi who played 18 times for me last season, but only managed 2 assists and an average rating of 6.68. ...
End of Season 2022/23 ReviewWell I could only dream of a league title in my first season in charge of the club and we pulled it off! Now we just have to try to defend it and it's worth noting that Antwerp have never won back to back titles. It would...
4th June 2023Jupiler Pro League - Championship GroupMatchday 35We kick off the Championship Group with a comfortable win over the worst team in the group. With all due respect to Leuven, they look well out of their depth alongside us, Genk and Club Brugge...
22nd April 2023League Format: Now with only 18 teams in the league and effectively 4 matches left to play, it might look like we are just 1 win away from winning the title, but that isn't the case! What happens in Belgium is that the top 4 clubs go into a...
14th March 2023Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 26It was important to maintain our title challenge by getting straight back to winning ways here. And it was well deserved as well as we dominated the side sitting 17th in the table and staring relegation in the f...
5th February 2023 Transfer News: The January window is now open and the first player to leave is centre back Junior Pius. He hadn't made a single appearance for me all year, so it was only fair to let the lad leave to get some football. He joins OH L...
2nd January 2023Award: I picked up on just how good Calvin Stengs has been for us in the last update, but that has now been backed up further by the fact he has picked up the Player of the Month award for October.Our next fixture would be the big one. 1st...
31st October 2022 Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 11An easy win away at Charleroi in which Ricardo Gomes picked up another brace. He now has 6 goals in his opening 4 games for the club! Facilities: With the new board taking over, I decided to test th...
3rd October 2022Jupiler Pro LeagueMatchday 6For the third game in a row, we dominate proceedings but fail to score and this time we are punished by our opponents as we lose for the first time in the league. We've got real issues in terms of our finis...
20th August 2022My first competitive game in charge wouldn't be a domestic one. In fact, it would be a qualifier for the Europa Conference League and if I am to fulfil the board's expectations, it's one I must win to get us into the group stages of the co...
Squad & TacticsI have two goalkeepers in my team and neither of them are fantastic. They're not bad, but not great either. When you compare the two, there really isn't much to split them, but I am probably just about leaning towards Ortin De Wolf as m...
Royal Antwerp F.C So it would seem that my new football club have some history in Belgium. Established around 1880 as Antwerp Cricket Club by English students residing in Antwerp, 15 years before the creation of the Royal Belgium Football Assoc...
The Not So Special One - The Wheel Of FortuneAfter my Swansea save came to an end, I had no idea where to start my new game, so I thought the best people to ask would be the FM community. On the Football Manager Facebook group, I posted the below asking f...
Using the wheel of fortune to decide what club I should take over for a 1 club save, came out with Antwerp in Belgium!
So I have arrived in Toulouse, the capital of France's Southern Occitanie region, to take over the managerial role at the Ligue 1 football club that sits close to the Spanish border and just west of Montpellier. Toulouse is known as La Ville Rose (T...
Join me as I look to take Toulouse to the top of French and then European football!
December 2022 A preview of this season's youth intake suggests is will be a good one. There have been a few teams sniffing around my best player (Hellas Verona and Lille), Joao Teixeira for the past couple of weeks and with the Janauary tr...
October/November 2022 The first match of October saw us make it 3 wins in a row in the league as we beat Estoril. It was also our 3rd clean sheet in a row as well! We then made it 5 games unbeaten as we get a point away at Boavista...another side tha...
August/September 2022Pre Season... Joao Teixeira will be my first ever captain at the club. He's the best player in the team and has decent leadership attributes, so he was the most logical choice. My first and only permanent signing for the clu...
The squad I have available to me isn't the worst in the world, considering we are predicted to 16th of 18 in the league this season. Well not according to my assistant manager's star ratings anyway, which sometimes leave plenty to be desired. &...
New Manager At Chaves I've arrived in Portugal to take over as the new manager of Grupo Desportivo de Chaves, or GD Chaves for short, or just Chaves for even shorter. I will be the club's first ever English manager and only the second manager that is...
I will be taking over the reigns at G.D Chaves in the top tier of Portuguese football, looking to overhaul the sheer dominance of Sporting, Porto, Benfica and Braga as the countries top 4 EVERY season!
Episode 8 The season continues to go strongly for us at Cadiz and is it beyond the realms of possibility that we might just qualify for Europe?!
Episode 7 In this episode, I update you on our recent run of fixtures...which have been really tough, but hopefully the arrival of Moukoko is going to rejuvenize the side!
Episode 6 Our unbeaten start to the season has come to an end, which isn't ideal going into a match with league leaders, Real Madrid!
Episode 5 There's no denying that we have made an absolute flyer of a start to my first season in charge and some of the football we are playing is sensational to watch! But in this episode, we have a tough fixture against Valencia to play!
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Here's the three squad views I set up for my saves on Football Manager 2023. The three views focus on: * Squad selection * Transfers and Contracts * Key attributesYou can download these views here.... https://www.mediafire.com/file/07jwbvkmwp8xh62/Views.r...