Fully Explaining the New FC25 Youth Academy System!

It seems like almost everything’s changed in career mode this year, the menus are different, you can change tons of new settings and of course, about an extra 50 nations we can scout for our academies. But, has player development changed at all? That’s what I’m going to find out today.
In the past there were 4 areas of career mode that would impact how fast a player develops.
Loans were one of the most broken ways to grow a player, but development plans, morale and game time actually all changed how fast a young player would develop. Every year the balance between these seems to change, so it’s important to know how it works this year.
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[@NamelessOden]

my favourite new Youth Academy feature is players having no dribbling, heading accuracy, or goalkeeper diving 😅

[@dwanealexis]

I needed this patched like yesterday lol

[@猫也扯乎]

there's one solution to dribbling problem, don't scout forward or back position for young players, scout midfielders for youth academy, they still have some problems in heading, but dribbling would be normal. then turn them into other position, because they are midfielders, it's pretty easy to turn them to other position.

[@NamelessOden]

@@猫也扯乎 pretty easy unless you want to turn someone into a CB... 😅

[@neilmccullagh3021]

8 for diving for keepers and 23 dribbling for wingers

[@n_other_1604]

11 defending for CBs etc😒

[@paulinho4637]

Hey guys, the youth tournament is very good, it shortens the time that they need for their current development plan. One of my talents needed 17 weeks before the youth game vs Watford, then after the game it was only 15 weeks and after the final match (which I lost), it was like 12 or 11 weeks.

[@Mattjonesll]

I can’t believe they still haven’t let us customise the youth players like you can my player.

[@Lilleh__]

Would be nice so that you can change the kit name of players so players w/ the same last name have different kit names.

[@cyyyyyyyyy.]

i usually do this with live editor, its really fun to do

[@justarandomguybro]

​@@cyyyyyyyyy. If only we had live editor on console

[@MW92.]

Why would you want to do that. Just make a player and add him to a club before your save start.

[@kellbagz563]

@@MW92.maybe because it would be fun

[@Bobbytheman98]

It doesn’t make sense to have 13 to 14 year olds in the game for YA if the whole career mode only goes to 15 seasons. It would be awesome to be like Madden and have decades to grow legends and a dynasty

[@GavLever]

It does though when you consider the new gens do the same. But I do agree 15 seasons is abit crap

[@MrKJ444]

@@GavLever modders might be able to fix that

[@RespecTheLevYT]

It makes sense for EDP tho...

[@NoNo-rl2lc]

The biggest change for me apart from the stat bugs is the rarity of elite prospects. It felt far too easy to get 94 max pot in previous years

[@GavLever]

Saw in a Facebook group a guy who's got a full team and subs bench full of them so it's doable I guess

[@Ninonidas]

The youth tournaments do matter 1: They affect the match xp stat in the youth development plans which seems to make them grow faster once it is good or very good 2: It seems that every match played takes some weeks off the current development plan, I have had several players go up in overall at the end of the game.

[@Jackdm2049]

Waiting so long for a patch

[@scottcrowder22]

They gotta update the stats. How can w GK have 8 diving, a winger having 20 dribbling. Makes no sense.

[@CherryBakewell21]

the lower league loan route is still the king though, I loaned out a 17 year old 63 ovr left winger and by January, he shot up to 77 ovr, the only negative is that because dribbling as a stat is bugged atm, it was 20+ less than everything else in his overrall dribbling rating.

[@MisterRhinoMan]

I absolutely love how i cant just scout a country, i have to choose a position instead of just giving me random players from the country i want them from

[@niciasdorcent2652]

is it just me or when I win the youth academy tournaments my players don’t go up much even after a few months

[@mikester4896]

I find that the potential drops for some of my players after winning tournaments, I'm not sure if this is just because of how youth development works in career mode anyway though

[@ChristianSanchez-z7h]

@@mikester4896same thing happened to me

[@juanagudelo409]

It doesn't matter if you win the tournament. It all comes down to their average rating per game. If all of your players are always rated at 8 per game... their highest potential will be in their 80s.

[@niciasdorcent2652]

@@juanagudelo409 I’m pretty sure I have some players that usually get an 8 rating

[@Srgabbyo7]

The fact some countries have only 1 surname is throwing me off so much, and it doesn't seem like a bug (like the low diving and dribbling) but just pure laziness. Just fix it, edit the damn txt file and insert some surname, ea. The faces are terrible, they promised progressive aging faces but nothing, they look like 13 year olds at 30.

[@TheMike91096]

It's weird as well because the YA names from Armenia are all Sarkesian but I've seen YA SCOUTS from Armenia with names other than that

[@Srgabbyo7]

@@TheMike91096 same for every country, i noticed a lot of italian and greek names from coaches, scouts and even social media that are not in the ya reports. Weird asl

[@doddesy]

I would change the amount of money it costs you to send a youth scout out for example 3 months in England costs £120 thousand but in Australia it’s £90 thousand for 9 months ? If you are doing a realistic RTG what league 2 club can afford £120 thousand for 3 months. So I think the country that you are managing in should the cheapest to scout.

[@dominikpuksic9912]

They should add the uefa youth league.

[@dwanealexis]

it is crazy to me that EA hasn't given the youth academy the ability to train play styles onto the youth players. They could have just let youth players come with no play styles and have each development plan have its own pool of playstyles that the player would possibly gain after progressing through the development plan

[@Ok-ze7rg]

I promoted a youth academy player halfway through the season and it said “potential to be special”. He played most games but next season it now says “showing great potential”. The game is still broken 🤦‍♂️

[@ThermaL666]

I hate that you still can’t loan players to specific regions and small stuff like seeing a players career stats

[@matthewippolito2187]

I think that AI teams use the youth academy now because I saw an 87 rated English left back on Ipswich and an 86 rated German GK on Real Valladolid with has potential to be special both in year 2

[@ethanirwin21]

Not sure if anyone realised, but last year the number of stars required for coaching increased based on the amount of playstyles you have in your team. I only noticed this through using the playstyle glitch

[@Onetimefob1]

But playtime heavily mattered last year?? I had this striker Sinclair Armstrong (absolute beast by the way) who had “showing great potential” from the start. After te first season (in which he had the contract role Rotation) he grew to “had potential to be special”. He had an insane first season. For the second season I gave him a Crucial role in his contract. I like to rotate however so he played about 70% of the matches. Just like the year before, and he had an even more insane season. He was however unhappy about his playtime as he had Crucial. After that second season he immediately dropped from “has potential to be special” to just “at the club since …”. So a MASSIVE drop off in potential.

[@xmyakaxxm]

I guess developing players into the player you want is more important than having high ratings. I always train the speed of my CBs and always make sure all my players have a least 4 star week foot and strikers to have 5 star week foot

[@FormalityBear]

Can you touch on if you have the time of course which countries come up with the best variety of names too or ones that don't. If you scout Kenya you only get players called Hassan. Which is really annoying. It's ideal to know before hand which countries have proper terminology in youth player names before starting a scouting report. Something I was hoping was going to be improved upon this year. Updated youth player names and double-barrel surnames would be a nice addition.

[@giuliomariomartena6308]

Huge disappointment from tournaments. I would expect it to at least give it some temporary boost but no. One does not actually have a reason to play them

[@micahpickus5142]

Initially it seemed like you had to keep players at your club the whole time for them to get a play style plus but today I had a guy come back from loan with a PS+…

[@leas719]

1. We need more different names!!! 2. We need better player models!!! 3. We need better stats that YA players aren’t useless 4. We need more atmosphere in the youth tournaments

[@SensesVI]

When you play players in the youth academy is says their Match XP has gone up. I'm not sure how exactly Match XP factors in to development though.

[@sparkonfire4909]

Awsome video! I have a silly question... Do tou think that by stimulating a few games on a save that you play with the team makes it unrealistic or it looses the point of the career?

[@francoispretorius2772]

Can you explain what you mean by when the academy restarting, my days just keep adding up and I have only played one match and got knocked out? Will there ever be a new Youth Tournament or is this broken? Thanks for the great content, keep it up... 👌🏼👌🏼

[@geomejia8946]

how about match xp doesn’t that also increase speed of development…that’s where Tournament comes in handy no? if a youth averaged 9/10 etc he’d develop a little faster then someone who didn’t participate right?

[@dwanealexis]

I played the youth tournaments and to me it does help them develop a bit faster because after winning the tournament one of my youth players did go from OVR 60 to 61 and upgraded his role to ++

[@geomejia8946]

@@dwanealexis that could be because since his exp, rating, and or form etc increase, if he had 2 weeks left to level up, he’d just skip those remaining weeks and grow🤷🏿‍♂️ seems like that’s how it SHOULD work but who REALLY knows 😂😅

[@dwanealexis]

@@geomejia8946 yip I feel as though some things are not working as they should because I have players playing every minute of every game yet match xp says poor 🤨

[@JohnDoe-ro1jw]

You should do more rigorous testing on player potentials

[@DavidVenters]

but and this is a big but and ive tested this if you pick coaches with just your tactical area so if you just pick coaches with just tika taka for instance the team plays better and your youth academy star you promoted plays better its not just about numbers

[@mikey2moo]

The no sacking and no scouting settings are great but literally everything else is worse than last year lol

[@hallabackatcha4829]

pretty sure youth matches increase match xp which makes your youth players upgrade faster in overall

[@WindyCityYG]

5th minute…. Why did you have to show everyone that glitch????? wtf man

[@lewisfrangiamore347]

Player faces do not change it’s been tested so many times 30 year old youth players still look 13 😂

[@jofieji5312]

Which is hilarious because all the goofballs complaining about 16 year olds with beards that looked 25 seemed so dumb to me. I didn’t care because I knew in 2-3 years their face would match their adult age. I thought it was the absolute least of all issues. Now yall complained and they over corrected and now they look like kids for ever no facial hair.

[@N1cklf]

Wish there was coaches for custom tactics

[@sparkonfire4909]

What is your opinion on not using development plans? On the last saves I have done I stopped using them because it looks like the players on my team increase ovr as the rest on other teams.

[@50LRXX]

I just want to know if anyone else has dealt with this but when I sign a goalkeeper to my academy they always have insanely low diving.

[@cagiesthread1032]

Any chance you could explain the reason terrible faces? 😅😅

[@LoganWilson-k8m]

When does a youth change into a senior?

[@__-dk8fh]

Why can’t we scout for any position 😭😭

[@jacobwatson309]

I think playing youth games affects their development based on how they played

[@kaidenhall2718]

I feel like i never had a player devolop more than 1 on loan on fc 24

[@RickyNic]

I don't know why, but i'm not surprised that the youth tournaments are useless 😅 there is another feature that i'm "doubtfull" about from a couple of years... has anyone ever seen a sell on clause that actually gives any profit in the following years? i still haven't...

[@gxd10edits85]

Can you do a video on the Saudi Pro League?

[@parag_jk]

who tf watches saudi pro league? Even people from Saudi don't watch their league

[@gxd10edits85]

@@parag_jk Me and plenty of other people?

[@parag_jk]

@@gxd10edits85 don't you have anything better to do with your time?

[@Casian291]

​@@parag_jk saudi people do watch their league

[@matv90]

These youth players looking like they're all related is killing me. Makes me not even want to focus at all on youth.

[@johnnyfreespeech5815]

Wait, the rush tournaments don’t help player development or potential? I f***ing knew it! What’s even the point? 💀

[@jorgemendoza4808]

Maybe endrik is buged should try someone different?

[@willwebb2218]

Me: 😢 My dog:💀 Everyone: I just lost my dooooog 😢

[@aidenbaker4274]

dead internet theory

[@meatypatte7125]

I would change the players faces to look less ugly. On a side what I like is I can now run a scenario with a lot more realism etc a club is bankrupt and has to sell all players above the age of 21

[@jp6085]

I would add relegation to the youth academy for players not ready for first team who you don’t want to loan out

[@testervee4110]

but what’s the gameplay like?

[@explos1ve15]

Sri Lanka mentioned again 🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🚙🚙🚙🚙🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🚙🚙🦅🦅🔥🔥🏁🏁

[@alessandros682]

Does anyone know if it is possible to have more then 7 players on the bench?

[@the_re_up]

So basically nothings changed 😂

[@steven-i6j]

I would change the players from looking like girls. stop them asking to be to be put in the first team when they are not ready. have goalkeepers diving much improved instead of always in the tens or lower, i know they grow fast when the get older but still it shouldnt be that low. having heading much improved.

[@RespecTheLevYT]

7:02 EDP445 wants to know your adress

[@PinkMilkkkkk]

6 seconds ago is mar

[@LR1507]

How have they managed to make the newgens look worse

[@foxarmy8729]

Anyone know the best sliders for career mode

[@nmyoutubeadress]

potential is a mess, it doesnt exist in real life. If it exists, Ribery and Kante would never be professional. They should instead make the overall of the player grow under 2 factors, player note per game, facing team overall. besides, sharpness and morale is a very good idea, and should get even more impacts in game.

[@gabdemetrio]

Do young players' faces age as the years go by or do they remain young-looking even as the years go by?

[@RoyMatzem]

Doesnt change

[@jiggavanperci]

Youth Goalkeepers?

[@Chadicus22]

In short. Yes.

[@RoughWalkers]

For PC Players .... Delete FC25 Install FC24 Install Fifers Realism mod Sorted 🤙🏼✌🏼

[@ronosullivan6068]

I think you have some video in your ads 😒

[@mmanewsswitzerland9729]

Fc zurich💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍

[@hrofc.]

0 views in 11 seconds? bro fell off

[@OtsileM]

🤡FACES