Can I Win the UCL Starting Unemployed in 10 Seasons?

[@JACatero]

Spurs beating Barca over two legs and then losing to RB Leipzig is the most Spursy thing ever.

[@sirbenedict2519]

[@Globallyhomeless]

Most believable

[@elianwilliams]

As a wise man once said: “it is the history of the Tottenham”

[@HolyMolyFC]

Steal from the rich give to the poor the spursy way

[@Khardi1047]

​@@elianwilliamsChellini 😂

[@marcus_mannebach]

I liked the Le Garrec Storyline. Would have been cool, if he scored you to the CL title.

[@alexgreen6481]

13:33 Of course Chelsea have a guy called Brighton. Taking buying Brighton players to a whole new level

[@TomFM]

It did make me chuckle!

[@alexgreen6481]

@ Loving the constant uploads. Keep up the great work 💪

[@cloverisfan818]

Imagine Brighton have a player called Chelsea

[@Unkown549]

The real question is can you take Woking from the Conference League to the Champions League in 6 seasons?

[@joshua_eardley]

Can you lol

[@ChappersDave]

In this case the question should be how do Woking qualify for the Conference League from the Vanarama?

[@joshua_eardley]

@@ChappersDavegood question thanks for taking my comment lightly hearted

[@TheAniSi]

Completed it mate

[@jw4015]

Stuff like that doesn’t go unnoticed

[@6emonx2]

We need a challenge that’s just casual, a real manager career mode. No objectives, just pure FM managing through the managerial career of Tom Kelsey to try and become the best manager in the world, better than pep or ancelloti. A dedicated series would be so fun to watch and you can ask for opinions from the comments as board members.

[@robinspiekman9916]

Agreed

[@octnovdec]

thats on his 2nd channel

[@lexxluey]

This is how I've always played FM 😅

[@duykhanghehe]

I think he did that but it either didn’t do well or he got bored or sth. I didn’t watch. It’s on the second channel

[@KennyE21]

im guessing yes. Having to single handedly defeat the entire EPL in the CL for your last season is absolutely perfect.

[@berbafan67]

It's refreshing to see someone "fail" a challenge, although you did pretty well. Quality video Tom!

[@EllenLambrix]

Spoiler alert!

[@berbafan67]

@@EllenLambrix Oops, sorry..

[@YungSosa_Baby]

Sebastian Nanasi, one of the best talents to come through the Malmö FF academy in the recent years 💙 hes tearing up the Ligue 1 irl atm

[@TomFM]

I didn't realise he was actually at Strasbourg! A legend in the making!

[@brownie62]

I’m was trying the same thing with my current save. But the journeyman turned into a one club save after I got Dartford from NLS to L2 in just 3 seasons. I’ve just begun Season seven. This year we’re really pushing for promotion to the prem after losing the playoff final last year. Wish me luck guys!

[@TomFM]

Good luck, sounds like you're done a great job!

[@Madsa86]

It would be fun to watch a series where you start from scraps and cant apply for better jobs. Only move teams when headhunted. How far can you get in 10-15 seasons :)

[@sean7412]

Added challenge would be you have to move teams when headhunted no matter what

[@Madsa86]

@@sean7412 both would be a fun watch

[@tomholland3806]

Been there done that and won the Champions league that way.

[@a1ias86]

This video actually made me play FM for the first time in 20 years, I've started a Journeyman career at South Shields, and we will see!

[@Krofna]

how's it going?

[@joaodiniz7207]

its always comfortable to know that this game is challenging for everyone. No matter how many hours and how well you move yourself tactically, there will always be stuff that we might not achieve and that is valid for a beginner or an experienced player. I think we need to see this and not only the big wins, because everyone can lose in FM, even the world champion. for something like this,my route probably wouldn't be england, perhaps a country with just two divisions like switzerland or czechia.

[@FinW.]

15:30 i love how luiz henrique i signed from brazil and was a saint for me at crystal palace finishing 2nd in 2025 and he’s casually just here playing your strasbourg… i love fm also additional note, i originally signed him to play on the right whilst we sold olise but i scrapped my tactic and made a beautiful front 3 and tweaking it and he was put on the bench due to him being somewhat capable of those roles, with us finishing high i brought in cunha who was much better at that role so henrique was sold and flipped for 60m+, what a hero

[@Anfon10]

I’m still waiting for you getting Lech Poznań job and get them the champions league. I’m counting on you Tom!

[@DanEvansPotato]

Time limit challenges adds real stress for viewing.... love it

[@feva6774]

If you want to metagame it, I believe the best road to take is to take one Vanarama north/south team into the championship. That could be done in 6 seasons and you'll get attention from some great teams

[@TTarps]

100% the way its done, I've completed this challenge many times including on fm 24, the other best strategy is to manage in smaller European leagues. i.e Russia/Ukraine/Belgium/Switzerland/Austria. They have two to three leagues, the lower ones with poor reputation but the top leagues with decent reputation. You can build up your reputation by seasons 3-5 and look to move to a top European club with plenty of seasons left. Tom actually messed up by moving clubs so often imo.

[@nadl663]

This is my save basically every year on FM, I usually win the Champions League after about 7-8 seasons. I find it incredibly easy to end up at a top team in Europe after about 5 or 6 years because of the way progression with the coaching licenses works. The only thing that can delay you is a team that won't pay for you to get the next level of license, which only really happens with very small clubs early on. Usually once you are at a top team the Champions League is winnable within two or three years, although you can always get unlucky. I tried a single club save this year and found it way more challenging than the journeyman save. Even starting from a professional club in the third Bundesliga it took me 15 years, so around twice as long, to win the Champions League. I think the progression/coaching license system in FM could use an overhaul, because right now it's too easy to go from the worst clubs in the game to the top of Europe.

[@juliushardware7760]

I think this is the first time I've ever seen you fail a challenge. You did well though, I could never! Great vid Tom, keep it up.

[@ltlukas1013]

Looking like Neil from the Inbetweeners with that outfit 😂

[@chrisgapp1521]

I was thinking that 😂

[@TomFM]

Slanderous and libleous

[@proudcrabowner]

yet not untrue​@@TomFM

[@ashleywinsor9948]

More like Neil's dad

[@_girltype]

when you posed the question at the end of the video i had to check whether i'd actually done this in my journeyman save. my real sociedad beat PSG 4-2 in the 33/34 final - so the last possible opportunity, too!

[@gaffer2602]

Would that not be season 11? Unless you started in 24/25

[@BrendanP]

0:42 Not necessarily the same challenge, but I am being "ruthless" in my career too. Started with no coaching badges, and the longest I've stayed at a club so far is just 2 years. I want to keep moving and advancing upwards.

[@richminer1]

Very Interesting ad, Tom. I actually laughed and watched the whole thing.

[@TomFM]

Don't be like me, protect your Football Manager saves!

[@HectorOnDrums]

This FM story was amazing thanks. This Le Garrec / coach experience looks like Thierry Henry / Wenger story

[@jonathanguilherme1461]

24:47 is basically the World Champion tactic. It's sooo good

[@kenttimothy]

i wish you continued just to see how long youll actually take! felt so close to the end goal in this vid

[@ksachdev10]

This is one of the best series ever!! I wanna do this kind of content in m home country as well :)

[@ItsIsagi]

You game look so clean, how is that possible? The replays seem so satisfying.

[@fmcraziness]

I love your content coz of the transparency if it were a different content creator he wouldve won the UCL at the end. But the fact that u could show u came close. I love it bro keep on doing such content giving us the reality of FM especially for newcomers🎉

[@misterfreese3154]

WTf bro, im french from Quevilly, i was watching your video with no idea you will play with QRM 😂😂 you make them so good im so proud of you

[@djcoolas]

We need a challenge where you win the UCL while only buying players 30+ years old

[@JBS482]

I did a Preston North End any% run to the CL. It took so long, but my boy hood team after 14 seasons was able to finally bring football back home. I'd love to see just how quick you could make it happen. Getting any money was impossible in the championship, and I bounced between the prem and Championship for about 5 seasons before finally finding footing mid-table.

[@TheKongFM]

Love the new graphics for your team sheet

[@JagPlayz12]

Tom you should take a team from either New Caledonia or Tahiti, and win the French cup with them

[@themassive5272]

Just started, currently in season #1 with the mighty St Albans

[@Rogermacanally]

when u do the graphic for wht formation and roles which is sick u should add ur most usd players for that club

[@vhs2085]

As a Strasbourg fan, great to see you manage the team for a bit, and join the ranks of all those frustrated by the current board 🙃

[@phineasvscoop]

that was bittersweet... we want you to conquer this challenge Tom!

[@CristianoDrumond-k5t]

I have an idea for a challenge. Start with a club, go all the way to the end of the contract. Leave, continue your career, however, from the moment you have a new club (2nd club in your career), every time your first team has the manager position open, it is mandatory you try to get the job back and take them to glory. And start the cycle again. Leave, new club, come back. You can call it the "Black sheep comeback".

[@e_eyster]

I still feel a good challenge would be Pentagon, but you are locked out of managing at any nation in the top half (round down for difficulty) of the regional coefficients. Win something like the UEFA Champions League with Slovenia, AFC with Malaysia, CONEMBOL with Uruguay, CONCACAF with Canada and CAF South Africa due to playable reasons.

[@imTJayx]

Tom dressed as Neil from the inbetweeners wasn’t on the bingo card this year

[@Onebadterran]

Could be fun to visit a longer save, where you have made lots of money, and then use that money to help smaller clubs get bigger. For example, if your career earnings are 70M, you are allowed to spend 1% of that to help improve a smaller club you are coaching, so 700k. And use your reputation, and your money, to push the club up the ladder.

[@leemog9640]

26:52 Liverpool 🤝 Champions League comebacks

[@pbsmoothie7281]

Nice vid. My best was 9 seasons and I got lucky. I got the Liverpool job in the 9th season and the squad was stacked. I just signed Alfonso Davies and won everything without doing anything special.

[@Alezandr]

As a Köln fan I was so excited when you took the job at my club in this video haha

[@PhantomOverlordX2]

Me hoping Tom takes over Auxerre, my fave French sid- oh god damn it lmao.

[@TomFM]

Sorry!

[@joel9848]

Love seeing Welling United in a YT video

[@gaffer2602]

That's me with Wealdstone, until they inevitably go down to NLS (or are projected to/look like they will)

[@MillwallH22]

My local club Welling, honestly think your interview is how they employed managers in the past.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Welling United were the nearest club to where I grew up, though Dartford weren't far away either.

[@robsmith8589]

Dunkirk (a) has always been a tricky fixture

[@TheFrol51]

I don't watch football at all, never cared for it. I've never played Football Manager either. But you are a great story teller and I've enjoyed this video quite a lot!

[@MatthewCooper-cs6xg]

Great vid mate. We need another go at this !

[@luckybenny83]

I love the loyalty between you and Sami Le Garrec

[@baseeeeeeee]

I'm sure I've done this on an old save, maybe FM 17... Started at Derry city, then won the Scottish cup with falkirk, replaced harry redknapp at Burnley before moving to Cagliari who were absolutely bankrolled and dominated Italian and European football for a couple of decades. I'm sure I left to take the Italy job before a few seasons at Real Madrid, short spells at Marseille and Everton, then a world cup cycle with Holland then Newcastle before a return to Cagliari to rebuild a fading squad.

[@n1ghtbl4d36]

I love the fact he went to Köln but sad he didnt take em all the way. Well.... it is what it is.

[@Rickus316]

I like that you didn’t cheat and reset lol like many other channels do (they think we don’t know lol)

[@FraseThatPlays]

Tom - you were speaking some truths that I have shouted at my FM saves with that statement about not having experience of fighting relegation because you are a winner 😂 Imagine a board member saying that to the likes of Guardiola, Klopp or Conte.

[@TomFM]

I love the idea of the Southampton board sitting down with Carlo Ancelotti and telling him he's not up to the task

[@ChappersDave]

@@TomFM that is probably the exact conversation the Leicester board will be having with Ruud van Nistelrooy

[@czynx3196]

15:46 i think that ref is Davide Cotê

[@readmore7180]

Just so much to do in fm it's taken the fun out of it imo. The last one I actually bought was 06/07 lol.

[@christiannyamunda-gb6hs]

i can already tell this is gonna be a great video

[@mariusikan]

Incredible how a game from 2024 has physics same like 2004 games

[@netking767]

Thoroughly entertaining! Might send me back into FM soon

[@DanielHoughton-s3i]

Got to the Championship playoff final wih Ebbsfleet in 10 seasons Tom, fair to say I was just a little bit off!

[@danieljohnson1030]

who needs therapy when you can just get stoned and watch tomfm

[@SithLordLerg]

That transition into the Nord ad was class 😂😂

[@Duncansigurdsson]

Hey, just curious why you don't like having the polygon display on the player overview? For me it is a much quicker way to see the overall level of a player. Specifically in a video where things are moving quickly. Love your vids Tom.

[@mrinaltrivedi7959]

Coming so close is amazing! You should do another season

[@WallieTheRed]

Took me 4 with Oxford and then Fulham. Had my badges tho, I might try this challenge, I doubt I'll do it in 10 seasons

[@ChikaTC42]

sponsor transition was fantastic 😆

[@jeewa7114]

26:30 you got the anfield special 😭

[@franzivkovic4599]

Marvin Wattiau, the legend in everyones fm saves

[@chloweahri]

Just for your knowledge, don't call Quevilly-Rouen just Rouen as thats a different club and they are rivals 😅

[@anotora9362]

Hilarious segue into the ad, NordVPN got good value here

[@ncurtis4]

what on earth was the gk doing for liverpool at 26:27. Great vid. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@fadedhounds]

Collins at Barca was funny, wish we’d still got him.

[@pixelgamer7622]

35:40 Just Tchouamenie being Tchouamenie

[@MbappeGOATFootball2024]

26:52 made the 2019 comeback

[@aimanasrul6232]

I signed tristan abraham om a dag and red save and he was phenomenal for me. He became the top goalscorer for two seasons

[@TomFM]

Non-league legend, will look to sign him again in the future!

[@Siddiskongen]

This seams like an awesome challenge. What leagues did you load?

[@dimthegreek]

25:29 Prime Mudryk 2012 is becoming a reality😭🙏

[@NeurosiusM]

I love these kind of challenge videos!

[@benficademacaufan]

One of my favorites saves to do.

[@alexgehales]

Fun video. Great commentary

[@niibaahquao2893]

Tom fm huge fan of your videos bro

[@misterhamez]

writz and gyokeres at liverpool is insane

[@Duncansigurdsson]

That is epic, how do you play 10 years so quickly!? Ten years of my save has taken me 5 months!

[@ate1o]

Your jumper suits you, it looks nice.

[@brentton2]

Plot twist: in your 11th season, your RB Leipzig actually go and win the Champions League to make u regret ending your video at 10 seasons

[@joshjohnson9976]

Any longer series coming soon? Also, an experiment idea of a team full of siblings/relatives, can they get from league 2 to the prem?

[@jonathanstewart8106]

That transfer budget in Ligue 2 was wild.

[@stephenanakie3500]

Am shocked, 1st time have seen you not complete a challenge, was unlucky had to face city though on final match of the 10 years

[@TomFM]

City with a team of wonderkids!

[@stephenanakie3500]

@ must have missed that 1, which surprising, had thought had watched all your videos now, but must have somehow missed that

[@craiglindecamp9589]

lol 30:38 Sesko and Kroupi??? What is this my Benfica save?!?

[@robinriedl5784]

Honestly I respect you so much for making this video despite failing at the end. It shows that not all the time things go your way and you still battled to the very end! 💪

[@lootgeier9566]

On back foot during half time in the playoff finals in the season one, while having more shots anx X goals? Sure bro

[@gianlucashowstopper1697]

Hi Tom, what kind of Dayabasw should we select to try a challenge like this?

[@juliochabal6900]

As a French I'm really happy to see some French clubs!

[@benicvache1418]

Did you play all the matches or did you simulate them?

[@nhnh9136]

NO WAY, you are managing my club STRASBOURG !

[@takeyatime08]

was this guy on the Inbetweeners?

[@neptuneplanet5030]

Do a Sparta Praha rebulid, Please🙏🙏

[@manuhorgan]

My favorite save of this year was Unemployed to CL winner. My journey was Pontypridd > Shelbourne > Mantova > Norwich > Newcastle > Man City. Was a great save.