Game Setup:
- Game: Football Manager 17
- Club: San Marino Calcio
- Disable player attribute masking
- Sports Director mode (a.k.a. the "Ralf Rangnick" ): I will manage the roster (transfers, contracts, staff) but for the most time i will go on holiday for the actual games so my assistant manager will have control over the season. I might take over at times for a few games but most of the first decade of this save I won't control the team line-ups and tactics.
- I aim to take control over the national team at a later point
- Loaded leagues: Italian Serie A-D & a huge number of players loaded from other leagues & continents

San Marino Calcio is a semi-professional club based in San Marino. Unlike other San Marinese clubs that play in a Sanmarinese league, San Marino Calcio (nicknamed "Titani" ) plays in the Italian league system and is currently in Serie D. Our target has to be to turn professional as soon as possible and a quick first promotion to Serie C is a key factor for any potential future success. Luckily, we're predicted to finish 2nd so with a few good transfers we look good for an immediate promotion.



The team finished the previous season 4th and has been in Serie C in 2005-2007 and in 2012-2015 which makes us arguably one of the bigger teams in our division. The best league finish in club history was a 10th place in 12/13.



For a fourth division team the facilities look solid with a 5,500 all-seater, average training facilities and adequate junior coaching but upgrading this set-up a lot will be one of our key focus points for the next decade in the hope of developing better Sanmarinese players. We will have to be a club that signs and develops young talents to make an impact due to not being attractive enough for star signings for quite some time. Good facilities will be important in that regard as well.



This is our team right now. It’s a young squad which is necessary in Serie D due to squad registration rules (more for that in the next update). The team looks already quite good but with the absolute will to promote to Serie C in the first season I will try to strengthen it as much as possible. I have a bit of wage budget left but I also intend to use loans to improve short-term. The screen suggests lots of potential but most of them are players who could only be well suited to Serie C in a couple of years so they likely will never be a real factor for us. One notable negative is the lack of Sanmarinese players. We have striker Mattia Stefanelli loaned out and a couple of Sanmarinese players in our youth teams but not a single Sanmarinese player is close to our first team. Only Stefanelli plays in the San Marino NT. This is something which hopefully looks a bit different within a decade.

Club Goals till 2099:

- Promote to Serie A
- Qualify for an European competition
- Win Italian Cup
- Win Serie A
- Win Champions League
- Win Serie A without non-Sanmarinese players
- Win Champions League without non-Sanmarinese players

jaxika wrote:
So, you are doing a San Marino Challenge? I cheer for you. I tried in fm 2016, but last only for 2033

Croatia14 wrote:
This is so lovely to see as a Story finally

World Ranking: 200th

We don't need to look at the world ranking to see how bad the national team has been but being tied with the Turks and Caicos Islands is probably the perfect description of being shit. A short look at some statistics show where the national team starts:



To call any Sanmarinese footballer a star is a bad joke in itself but these are the best footballers in our small country right now:



New San Marino Calcio manager Johnny Football didnt want to take control over the national team until it isnt the only question how many goals a country like Cyprus or Luxembourg will score against them so Pierangelo Manzaroli will stay manager for now.


- Qualify for a major tournament
- Win the European Championships
- Become the number 1 ranked national team in the world
- Win the World Cup

tsmoha wrote:
Funny to see a FM story just coming up when I decided to play FM17 after some years without playing! Already screw the idea though

Good luck. Will certainly stop by at some point.

Match Day squads
- There must be at least 4 U20 players in the first 11
- There must be at least 3 U19 players in the first 11
- There must be at least 1 U18 player in the first 11
- 9 subs named, at most 3 used
- Maximum of 8 loan players in match squad
Others
- Maximum of 2 Non-EU players
- Minimum wage for full time players: 17,500€ p/a

# Securing immediate promotion has to be key so we think short-term in player evaluation for now. If a player is 35 but will help us this season I'll not hesitate to sign him.
# The board gave us quite a bit of wage budget but our bank account is empty (-170k) and loan players are better and cheaper than most available players. Only a few key signings or very cheap role players will be signed permanently.
# We aim to save as much money as possible for facility upgrades.
# All of our players are on part-time contracts so the minimum wage isnt valid for us
# I don't like the look of our U18/U19/20 players so those spaces will mostly be filled with loan players
# We have an affliation with Cesena which will be used a lot to bring in loan players

Despite struggling to sell players because nobody was interested i had a few departures: i cancelled all incoming loans where we had to pay some wage. As mentioned in the previous update i looked to make quite a few additions to the squad. Lots of loanees were brought in and also a couple of free transfers. The roster was quite large but i prefered to give my assistant a squad with good depth and at least two players for each position so that he would not have to improvise too much in case of injuries and the loan player didnt cost anything. Also six loan players were only added in the winter to bolster our push for promotion which made the team look bigger than it was.


In this thread i'll only present some key players. For a more complete overview click on the link below:
Complete team overview