FM But Promotion Is 100% RANDOM!

[@Keithluke04]

seeing Erith and Belvedere make it to the prem and then come 8th and probably above Tottenham has made my day

[@BFHdovid]

Haven't watched the video but that makes me laugh considering they are my local team!

[@Keithluke04]

@@BFHdovid I grew up around there so it makes me happy

[@SnoobleNooble]

Snap lads.. fuming how he said Erith though…

[@DynoKea]

4:45 Can only imagine the scenes as Berkhamsted take on local rivals Berkhamsted Comrades in the Premier League

[@laticrourke3173]

You beat me to it with this comment

[@Secondyellowcard]

Berkhamsted police never knew what hit them 😂

[@sixknights2312]

One thing I can point out is that the random clubs in Germany are quite close to each other. Ihrhove and Westrhauderfehn are located 10 km from each other in east Frisia (a region with

[@sixknights2312]

I believe that East Frisia never had a team in the first three German divisions btw. This is absolute madness.

[@JUmAHQ]

@@sixknights2312they actually did have a team in the inaugural season of the 3. Liga in the form of Kickers Emden

[@LargeSlime]

Awesome seeing Penicuik in Europe multiple times! I used to play for their youth team. Penicuik vs Musselburgh athletic is a match I’ve played in so its cool to see it being a top flight match.

[@samuello3201]

Hollands and Blair being technically my local side and being in the prem has made my day, this is incredible

[@gamingbosses8710]

Same!

[@MJMilz14]

My eyes instantly spotted Plymouth Parkway winning the Conference League at 29.55, who I go and watch regularly, and have a friend who plays for them. My local non-league side a couple of minutes up the road from me, who in real life have built from the 10th tier to the 7th tier in under 5 years, and will be aiming to reach the National League South over the next couple of seasons.

[@Mr_Nook123]

btw to put a timestamp (e.g 1:00) use a :

[@atkireacts8380]

You have the most creative experiments around, proper game breaking stuff, love it

[@Secondyellowcard]

Thanks mate, that's super nice!

[@JayTeeEN]

I love these videos. These videos are some of the most creative in the FM community. Also nice you go all the way and do a tutorial and make the database easily avaliable.

[@Secondyellowcard]

Thanks mate, that's so nice! We wanted to use these videos as a chance to get more people into the mad stuff that can be done with the advanced editor as well as staring at the chaos :)

[@shakhtardfc1]

27:54, im not going crazy, I heard "my girlfriends boyfriend plays for them"?

[@necrozmatic1]

It’s so surreal that I know multiple people who play for Yaxley and they made a Europa League final 😂

[@TheRoonie222]

With regards to, "imagine being your team's top scorer at two," I remember I did an indoor soccer camp. I was my team's top scorer, as the goalkeeper. Had around four throughout the tournament during the last couple days. We managed a single tie over eight games.

[@Secondyellowcard]

Love the way you buried the goalkeeper part in there as if that isn't absolutely wild!

[@justsomedude168]

23:09 anstey nomads scoring their first goal of the season in march against eventual champions man utd is the most fm thing ever

[@llSuperSnivyll]

8:50 I'm just making an assumption from the similarities between Portuguese and Spanish, but Rabo de Peixe can be translated as either "Fish Tail" or "Fish Butt". That can explain the logo.

[@yvltc]

That's exactly what Rabo de Peixe means. It's already a funny place name and it's even funnier because no one understands a single word of the Portuguese spoken in Rabo de Peixe.

[@marcellmate425]

I love you for wearing an MTK kit (The club I support) Earned a sub.

[@rob_latham]

Ewyas Harold is a village near me in Herefordshire. They're an absolutely tiny team playing in local county leagues, so the fact that they stayed up is baffling!

[@Dseraph1808]

Shoutout to Rabo de Peixe for appearing! They are a team from the Azores island in Portugal and they are literally the poorest city in the whole country They are notorious for a real life story, which inspired a hit Netflix series. In 2001, a ship transporting 500kg of cocaine with 85% purity, capsized and the drugs washed ashore in the little island of Rabo de Peixe. Official reports say it was 500kg but locals say that is an absurd underestimation and it was well over a ton of cocaine, all washed ashore on Rabo de Peixe. The locals, who mostly consisted of fishermen and their families who never left that island their whole lives, had no idea what cocaine was so when all those drugs washed ashore, they started taking it home, kilos and kilos of it. They started using it as flour to fry fish, they used it as sugar to sweeten coffee and cakes and drinks, they gave it to children if theh were feeling sick. They had no idea what it was, let alone the devastating effects it has. When reports of this incident and what was going on there got to mainland Portugal, obviously the police and coast guard stepped in and aprehended what they could and attempted to inform the population of what it was and that they should not consume it. Obviously by that point it was too late as many locals were already addicted to the substance and the damage was done. What was already the poorest town in Portugal became even worse as it seemed like the whole town were in one way or another affected. Some overdosed and died, others were addicted and when they couldn't get anymore they suffered serious health problems from withdrawal, kids who were given it at a young age had developmental issues and basically a majority of the town under the influence of cocaine stopped working which is extremely dangerous when you are already living in the poorest place in Portugal. The effects are still felt today, 22 years later.

[@not.really.weirdest]

Disgusting story. I feel bad for them

[@andrewb.3076]

Stumbled upon this old video randomly, when I saw TomFM's video of the same concept in FM24... I went on to search if there happened to be anyone with a save file from such a database and then found this video. Seems like a cool thing to play with and start a save with when the regular save ideas run out a bit... I still got FM23 on my desktop so I might just do that 🙂

[@tambo_5195]

im from armadale in scotland and its absolutely mental to see such a small town club be in the top flight, loved this video

[@scpjack7856]

Only familiar with a couple of surprise teams here. Squires Gate are from Blackpool and play in the Northwest Counties Leagues, not sure what league Parkgate are but they are from a small town on the Wirral known for its ice cream parlours.

[@ChipThompsonArseCrayonGaming]

You always have the best FM experiments on KZbin, this was awesome!

[@jente050]

18:18 be quick 1887,one of the oldest clubs in holland, 1 xeredivisie winners in 1920. Youth teams have a great connection with FC Groningen. Also, arjen robben is a youth coach now

[@abzznizzy4359]

Cool video and concept! For more chaos and Idea cold be half the teams in top flight leagues get relegated, then half random teams come up, instead of just the 3 every season!

[@Secondyellowcard]

We did consider that, but i thought it'd be a little too close to Tom and Luke's videos where half the league is relegated :)

[@infernocfc9038]

Shoutout Rabo de Peixe for having a team that literally means Fish Tail with that horrendous badge. This was amazing fun!!!

[@Jpedrolive]

Its literaly the poorest place in Portugal and now has a Netflix series about it!

[@Cavaloesfera]

More like Fish Ass xD

[@AshleyMilner19831]

Well I most certainly enjoyed that video…fascinating stuff 🤘🏻

[@truepach8437]

Love the concept and randomness off this would be interested if you could do one where the relegation spots in each league where increased to something like 30% of the league

[@wotintarnation8388]

Rabo de Peixe winning the 2050/51 title is something that catched my mind - Yes, they are from a town in Sao Miguel island within the Azores and the reason the town's name that way is that their economy is literally based on fishing... And also the whole place smells like fish.

[@CJApps87]

Loved this! Great job Matt

[@soratonin]

13:40 I may be wrong, but it appears that RCS Florennois are a 9th-tier side, which is the absolute lowest tier in Belgium

[@simonpaine2953]

One of the best FM videos I have seen thank you for this lol

[@Nigel4]

I’d love to see a database where players are sent back to their last club (Haaland to Dortmund, Andy Robertson to Hull, Grealish to Villa etc). It would be a huge task to do it for every player but maybe every team in English League or the big 5 leagues

[@robertperring4194]

This is beyond genius. I am in the 23/24 season I am Malmesbury Victoria (who knew???). With 10 more games to go I am 4 points off of European qualification. I started with a budget of £35 million with a bunch of amateurs and spent £135 million. Chasetown (???), one of the other promoted teams sits at the bottom on 0 pts and minus 180 goal difference. Surprise candidate for relegation, Newcastle. This is the save I'm taking through to FM24. This is the save that will keep on giving. Thank you 😊

[@Andy_038]

Tayport from Scotland are like 15 minutes away from where I live, they play in the 6th tier of Scotland, seeing them in the top flight is mental

[@DansBoringChannel]

Thorne Colliery are from near Doncaster, been to one of their matches in the 11th tier and the attendance then was, I think, 45. So I am a big fan of their Europa League adventure.

[@zjwalen8686]

Stord IL from Norway won 1 title that is in the home town where my family came from before they came to usa back in 1901 I still have some family there I'm currently playing them but trying to play that all free agent signings have to be from south east asia

[@claytoification7033]

Dudley Sports! I love the fact their nickname is "The Piemen" because there's a locally famous restaurant in Dudley called "Mad O'Rourke's Pie Factory" - could be named after them?!

[@jmrutter1427]

had a look through, in England, Gloucester came 20th in the EPL with 1 point, scoring 1 goal all season, conceding 121... unfortunately the goal wasn't against a "big 6" side. and again in the EPL, the lowest points tally to stay up was 27 pts, achieved by Berkhamsted, in the 2024/25 season that you looked at towards the start of the video...

[@carlosdg1445]

Toledo is not just a place in Ohio, but a quite important city in Spain (mainly centuries ago; currently is has barely 80k people) whose name was, indeed, used to name the city in America. Maybe if the US city would have been called "New Toledo" this would have been more intuitive ^^' There are lots of places in America named after Spanish places, and some of them are now even bigger than the place their name was taken from: Guadalajara, Cartagena, Mérida, Medellín...

[@gui18bif]

I saw around 3 local teams in the Portuguese league, very random because I live in the middle of nowhere in Portugal and didnt even know those were in the game 😂 literally play againist them in the Sunday League and I reckon I won againist one of them

[@macario8836]

My local team IRL, C. A. Gândaras appears at 9:07 as having 3 consecutive League titles... they currently are in portuguese 4th or 5th tier! By the way, Gândaras is located in Lousã, a village in the middle region of Portugal.

[@BCXaviPickle]

Top goal scorer in a prem season was Dixie dean for Everton and he was an Everton legend

[@Alex58399]

Somewhere in a parallel universe, Histon Town have won the champions league and Tottenham have won a trophy

[@nickwhitehouse9347]

Dudley Sports are local to me they play in the 10th tier I believe possibly the 9th

[@sonvr7187]

I play for Barton rovers youth team. Crazy to see our little village club in the prem

[@leemonaghan5185]

amazing again Matt

[@realamc4639]

'My girlfriend's boyfriend plays for them' that was a slow burner hahhahaha

[@jeffreyvanvliet9721]

Antibarbari that finished third behind Ajax and Feyenoord in 2095, are a student team from Rotterdam that one of my best friends currently plays in the first team for, so that was funny to see!

[@Loffacius_XVI]

Hahahah, this is great. The team that got relegated as 18th in the Netherlands (Elim) in the simulation is my local team.

[@chelsea_fan1285]

My closest non league team is Havant and Waterlooville so I hope to see them randomly appear

[@blakeos1063]

Big up the sutton common rovers. my family side winning 2 europa leagues! You love to see it

[@macario8836]

My local team IRL, C. A. Gândaras appears at 9:07 as having 3 consecutive League titles... they currently are in portuguese 4th or 5th tier! By the way, Gândaras is located in Lousã, a village in the middle region of Portugal, and has around 2k people. I played a save with them in FM20.

[@manuelalexandreluengoferre1484]

Aranjuez, the Runner up in the Europa League, is currently playing in "Regional Preferente", got last in Tercera RFEF, but they are looking strong, and may get promoted again

[@lightdeathguy9266]

4:15 Telford United is 15 minutes away from me. Non league team that got relegated from the National League North (6th tier of England) in the 22/23 season

[@GamerFlair]

I suspect the reason you get situations with sides that come up, quickly to well, win then get insta relegated is down to team's somewhat deciding how good another team is based on Rep. Essentially, the promoted teams plays really well as a counter attacking side when teams play super offensive against them because they are seen as total garbage. When they win the league, they get a massive reputation dump, most of the teams suddenly start playing far more defensive against them and they get destroyed because they don't have a sort of team able to break down solid defenses.

[@Blankthewalrus]

Chaddy are in Oldham, stadium is next to a fire station. Yet to go, but tempting now they have a UECL title to show off 👀

[@PushUpLone]

Clicked the video to see if my hometown team would Get into Eliteserien, and they got on to win it, while being one of 5 non Eliteserien teams to have won it!!!

[@Secondyellowcard]

That's bloody awesome!

[@pickerjo2000]

Bedfordshire representing in the Prem! lets go! Biggleswade and Barton with 20,000 & 5,000 people respectively

[@MafiaGuido]

As someone from Ohio, I was super thrilled when you got to La Liga, saw Toledo and mentioned Ohio.

[@Trivaldo99]

Gave this a like, primarily for the Cuxhaven joke

[@Calzook]

14:39 Penicuik went from losing 6-0 last week to coming third in the league

[@oFalKs]

Rabo de Peixe is such a funny name for a football club, lmfao. Literally "Fish tail"

[@hannibalandgreece]

I noticed AXMINSTER from way down in the devon premier league got promoted to the prem, and as i live about 5 miles away i got very excited. (also can we have both relegations and Promotions gets randomises)

[@KingRagnar]

Hook Norton is a village with a brewery. Hook Norton Ale. So the badge will be in relation to that.

[@oliver_sport_1767]

If you must know Hollands and Blair are a side local to me an I have played against there youth sides a couple of times

[@Jordi_Hammer]

19:12 had been waiting for one single NAC Breda stat all video. Its my local team from the second division, and they actually hold another record: The longest proffesional club name in history. NAC is an abbreviation for NOAD ADVENDO Combinatie, an NOAD and ADVENDO are abbreviations for Nooit Opgeven Altijd Doorzetten Aangenaam Door Vermaak En Nutttig Door Ontspanning, a total of 72 letters.

[@not.really.weirdest]

NAC did really well this season and finally back to the top tier! Incredible how they managed to win the play-offs while finishing 8th in the regular season

[@Jinxtheonee]

​@@not.really.weirdest they absolutely destroyed Roda and Excelsior in the playoffs too

[@hardycyber]

It would be interesting if it was only one or two of the spots that was randomly chosen and traditional promotion was still available

[@Slycxd]

I live about 10 mins away from stockton. Crazy to think of them winning the europa league.

[@malch7726]

FC Guegnon actually won the League Cup in 2000 against PSG. Today they are way lower in the league system, but not a complete unknown team in France.

[@Jinxtheonee]

They're currently a 5th tier club in the National 3 (1 division below Bordeaux)

[@jacobfuller4067]

I can’t believe I saw frimley green, a team who had a game called off because of a passed out junkie on the pitch, in the premier league. Wow what a life

[@ssbooth]

Astonishing achievement for Telford United to make it to the Prem considering "Telford United" have been defunct since 2004 and AFC Telford United are a completely different club. I love this database already 😎

[@ssbooth]

Cuxhaven 😂 What a database, thank you for this, it was very cool!

[@JustinRfc72]

Girvan in Scotland are a 9th tier team, my local, tiny stadium and never made the top 4 leagues

[@ruwardbol]

In the Netherlands it was nice to see ASWH in the Eredivisie they are from my home town

[@kwabz9346]

Come for the curiousity, stay for the shitty jokes. Good vid as always!

[@Secondyellowcard]

These days i think the shitty jokes are 90% of the video 😂

[@bubgameslover1811]

4:33 never seen a football badge look exactly like my primary schools badge 😂😂

[@steven5232]

When I download this save file I can't wait to look up the story behind the Gary Neville stadium in Southampton 😂

[@Secondyellowcard]

If i had to guess, it's one the random stadiums that gets built for international tournaments. They are placed randomly and named after national team icons i believe. Still very odd though

[@LukeyTAC22]

Seeing the Anstey Nomads bit is jokes as my brother is currently the captain of them now 🤣🤣🤣

[@callumfrizzell1117]

I live near Dornoch, can’t believe they clinched a title and looks like rangers never won another after 2021 lol

[@Mr_jz_12]

Would be interesting to see this but a league/modded austrlian database with relagation/promotion added due to the salary cap.

[@Stan-dq2xx]

Wiemelhausen in Bundesliga is a lower tier team from Bochum and it actually has a third or forth team i play yearly in the Lowest local league.

[@joaomarques4030]

Rabo de peixe translates as a fish's ass, so that is a fish's tail. Also the town in which the series turn of the tides takes place

[@tom_m_tom_m]

the mighty waders in the prem what else would you expect

[@kevineames620]

What about a save where the top sides are "promoted" to the bottom tier?

[@DanDataa]

The 2nd spot in the la liga 79/80 season is my town's team

[@twilliamspro]

Imagine being at that united Game and witnessing the goal

[@Secondyellowcard]

I imagine even the United fans were cheering for that goal

[@albanbeci7645]

Kfc Meer in Belgium is in like the lowest or second lowest competition in Belgium. Even won against them a few times with my non league club!!

[@geoguessrnoob]

a little surprising to see rabo de peixe, a little village from the azores winning the championship!!!

[@Sam-bt5cj]

Never thought I’d see pagham in the Prem 😂

[@JinHun-n7b]

Huétor Vega (village near Granada) being 3rd wth 11k people is pretty cool.

[@macario8836]

Gândaras winning 3 portuguese leagues in a row with less than 2k people is hilarious!

[@stoppled]

0:25 thats a map of europe in 1914 before ww1

[@steakrapper]

Austria Hungary mentioned

[@danbrown784]

surprised Armadale thistle are in the top flight in Scotland would be mad to see rangers down in a wee parody minding town

[@JackB07]

I support parkway and argyle (plymouth)

[@markr77uk]

Brilliant 👍

[@BCR41G98]

Anstey, my local town doing us proud 🤣

[@adzter96]

Why do I want to start a save as a 2nd tier side just to see what all those matches and the randomness would be like

[@roiped]

13:30 The Belgian unanimous club actually eon the Europa League there

[@kian_de_gamer1638]

Can you also do this but the other way around? Instead of taking random teams from each division, actually play the league but randomize the league the teams are promoted to. So Leicester from the EPL can suddenly be relegated to the National League while Wrexham gets promoted to the Championship.

[@Secondyellowcard]

Unfortunately i'm not sure even the advanced editor will let you go as far as that, given the way this one had to be set up

[@BFHdovid]

FYI: Erith and Belvedere share stadiums with Welling United!

[@wirfs-m5f]

Genoa getting 0 points in 59/60 had me cracking up

[@bog2069]

0:25 why do you have a map from 1910?

[@maciejbala477]

Could this work in an international context as well? Like maybe start with the "European Super League" teams but have 3 relegation spots, chosen from the pool of literally every single team in existence which isn't in the Super League? Or, if it's an issue because of mixing nations in a league, maybe make a cup competition like that somehow? I'd love to see some obscure lower league amateur side from St. Vincent and the Grenadines become the biggest team in the world

[@Secondyellowcard]

It can sort of be done, but all the clubs would have to be moved to one nation for a league to work. We are however working on a massive cup one that can draw teams from all over the world randomly into like an 80 cup that has a group stage!

[@RyansRandomRants]

The Wolves joke got me lmaoo

[@FirstEmperorLeeTV]

Hook Norton are a tiny village about 10 miles from me lol