The FIFA Teams with IRL Transfer Policies

In FIFA Career Mode, it's common to impose self-restrictions to add excitement to your gaming experience. Whether you're signing youth players, homegrown talent, or even bald players, these restrictions can make the game mode more interesting. But what if you want to go beyond and emulate real-life transfer policies? In this video, we've uncovered 5 teams on FIFA 24 with intriguing transfer policies that you can use for your next save.
For years, Athletic Bilbao was the most well-known team with signing restrictions, exclusively recruiting players from the Basque region of Spain. We'll show you how to recreate this unique challenge in your Career Mode. Thanks to the sofifa community, you can access shortlists of Basque players and academy players to help assemble your squad. This can be a rewarding and challenging experience, and you might even attempt to rebuild the Spanish national side using only Basque players.
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[@chantetm4405]

With Nordsjaelland, they have an agreement with the Right To Dream Academy, which is partially funded by an Egyptian millionaire. That's why Nordsjaelland have so many incredibly talented West African players come through their ranks, like Simon Adingra, Mohammed Kudus, Lasso Coulibaly, Adamo Nagalo, and Mohamed Diomande. You could absolutely do something like that as part of a create-a-club save

[@Hi-man184]

Really good idea

[@TheDeadlyTikka]

I did a Nordsjaelland career mode (they even commented on my YT Video!) It was probably my favourite career mode ever. Using almost exclusively Youth Squad players from West Africa and Norway while trying to push for European glory. To make it harder I would sell players whenever bigger European teams came in for them like they do in real life.@@Hi-man184

[@homersimpson6585]

honestly the thing that annoys me the most with fc24 when you see ahtletic bilbao signing someone who isn't eligible to play for the club, I really do hope one day that changes

[@hardbassmonkey]

I did a Dynamo Dresden save for 10 seasons where I predominantly signed German, Czech and eastern european players.

[@Mongo42089]

Same, except I did "Total Communist Football" and signed from only post-Soviet states/communist countries (Germany included) with Checherov as manager. Super fun save.

[@leafstorm3306]

​@@Mongo42089i do hope you payed your players all the same otherwise its not truly communist 😂

[@tempejkl]

@@leafstorm3306not what communism is.

[@leafstorm3306]

@@tempejkl that was a freakin joke, chill

[@notfunny007]

​@@leafstorm3306look who you're talking to

[@devanteporter6981]

Fm23 has Bilbao’s transfer restriction but incompetent EAFC24 doesn’t. It’s so stupid when Bilbao signs Harry McGuire. Fix your game EA seriously

[@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740]

FM is just better

[@Rossoneri939]

Probably a mod for that out there

[@DoDoAirplane]

You could do a whole video on Bilbao, on how to manage the basque policy, like not signing many players directly from rivals Sociedad and also mentioning what youth player names would count as basque names. Also, could mention players that are of different nationality but were born in Bilbao. I was lenient with my signings and allowed a couple of different nationality players to play, pretending these youth prospects were born in Basque Country. Also HUGE edit: Basque heritage doesn’t really count. Higuain for example reportedly has Basque heritage but his signing was ruled out by the club officials. It’s either born in Basque Country (the guy might not even be Spanish!) OR play for some other Basque Country club youth teams. There are not many on fifa: Sociedad, Osasuna, Eibar and Deportivo Alaves. If you find that a good regen has spawned in one of those clubs you can actually sign him.

[@Manpro107]

I'm pretty sure they are allowed to sign players from Real Sociedad. They signed Inigo Martinez from Real Sociedad

[@xBatboys4]

@@Manpro107He said not many players, read again

[@wrestler-kickboxer2524]

@@Manpro107Maybe on Fifa you can’t because it doesn’t let you sign from rivals. Even though you can sell

[@DoDoAirplane]

@@wrestler-kickboxer2524 you can buy from rivals if you don’t use strict negotiations (absolutely shouldn’t use this)

[@hessen5498]

Everything with X is Basque💀

[@vyevd8]

i've actually done something like this in fifa 22 and it was really fun

[@andredetoni897]

Fun fact, the team I support also has a signing restriction policy: they're only allowed to sign awful players!

[@Bananasaj8]

Man united fan??

[@andredetoni897]

@@Bananasaj8 nah, a Brazilian team called Coritiba

[@Junkosei100]

Clermont Foot could be too easy since a lot of good free agents are not being picked up by the CPU teams. May have to restrict which free agents to sign for your team. Don't want to make the team too overpowered due to free agents.

[@somedude3614]

Like no Mexican ones

[@waynecarter2169]

I did one in FIFA 23 where i input Wrexham into League Two then created my own team to have them as rivals, with my transfer policy being to only sign English or Welsh players and only scouted in England and Wales for my youth academy too.

[@bazardousmaterial6579]

Dusseldorf in Germany is home to over 40,000 Japanese people living there, they even have a holiday celebrating the two countries, but i always thought a Japan Dusseldorf rebuild would be super fun, they already have class players such as Ao Tanaka, Takashi Uchino, Shinta Appelkamp, and a couple more in the academy

[@itsBRANDZ]

Great video! Love this content! For you journeyman out there a good save is the A-league. They are only allowed 5 foreign players in a squad of 23 players total. Most players are signed to one year deals too so it makes it harder to keep them. But youth contract players don't count so you can add any player who is a not "prospect" to the total. Try win the A-league and win the AFC Champions league. 🎉 Good luck.

[@rockthahouse1]

You also can't sign a player directly from another A-League club.

[@itsBRANDZ]

@@rockthahouse1 yes this is correct, I forgot to add that 😂 just have to wait for their contracts to expire and become free agents. Players like borello,fornaroli, maclaren are all free after the first season

[@TheBlueAndWhiteGashead]

You can also do a Hull city using their Turkish preference policy, I did that and it was quite the fun career mode

[@Samouraii]

In FIFA 23 I've merged the Greek and Turkish leagues and I'm doing Panathaikos using only Greek Turkish and Cypriot players. Fun save

[@patogames5099]

If you play in the A-League, you can't buy a player from another A-League club. There is also a salary cap, and a foreign player rule. MLS also has a salary cap, and marquee player rule. When playing in the EPL, you could enforce your own "home grown" player rule, and the 25 man squad registration.

[@joshehman2010]

Did a Stockport County save with only players who have played for or been in the academy of teams in the Greater Manchester area. Makes you do some surprising research on youth players that have been forgotten from City and United, as well as a wealth of players who have been on loan at teams like Bolton and Wigan. You can also do the same type of RTG with Salford but Stockport have the keeper kit in the base game

[@Dunkelzeitgeist]

Sofifa legend El norte mentioned, love that dude

[@hemantsangwan3609]

A fun save idea , randomize your managers country and sign players only from the manager's country and the club country. Increase the budget you can spend on 1 player every year by 20% starting from 15 mil.

[@ashooaway]

Thank you for using my club in the thumbnail. Cheers

[@martinsloan3972]

I’m obsessed right now with repeating Jock stein’s success 1967 European campaign, which he won 9as far as I understand) with players who were all born within 30 miles of Glasgow.

[@robinberkealmasulu5894]

Altınordu are actually in the third tier the league's name is the 2nd league but it is actually the third division

[@aramp]

great video

[@BALHAM69]

Hello and welcome to my new comment 😮 Yea, i did the basque region signings type before 😊

[@kabullets19]

There is a team in Germany called Türkgücü München that was in FIFA 22, as they were in the German 3rd tier, and this club has a preference towards Turkish German and Turkish players.

[@Dee_dk]

Excelsior in The Netherlands is known to rarely, if ever, spend money on incoming transfers. They also often make use of their youth academy, and used to have a working relationship with Feyenoord - they often loaned or 'bought' young talents and out of favor players from them.

[@cymrurygbi4462]

You should start doing some FM saves on the channel as well

[@lnrdbl]

I only use players with real faces, can't help it

[@kernostwinsisters6281]

Same

[@johnnymancspice]

Ditto. Venturing into very good likeness arena recently. Also can’t have a greyed out 2d face 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@AngelSanchez-xc5ue]

CHIVAS GUADALAJARA Have signed Mexican born or of ancestry for over a century and they have one of most titles no one gives them credit which is really hard career mode you can be of Mexican origin but born in the US chivas will sign or any race but have a tie to Mexico but they have to play for Mexican National team 😊

[@CaelanDafydd]

Players you could sign for a Welsh speaking player save; Wayne Hennessey, Gethin Jones, Ryan Astley, MJ Williams, Ben Cabango, Ben Davies, Aaron Ramsey, Joe Allen, Rubin Colwill, Wes Burns - these are all fully fluent Then you can stretch it to some players who may have passable command of Welsh due to doing some of their education in Welsh - Rhys Norrington-Davies, Harry Wilson, Danny Ward, Tom Bradshaw Then bring the rest through the youth academy!

[@isaacjones5687]

Nathan Broadhead, Neco Williams, Mark Harris, Owen Beck and Dylan Levitt all have some Welsh speaking ability also

[@CaelanDafydd]

@@isaacjones5687 What's your evidence for this? Never heard it suggested that any of them have any considerable skills in Welsh

[@BallersNxt]

I’m doing a journey man rn and decided to hit a already horrible old baryen team I joined with a transfer ban I feel like it’s gonna be even more fun

[@DequanClarke]

About to finish my Dublin Dons save on 23 where I only signed Irish or Northern Irish players or players with Irish parents etc

[@genkai4021]

Currently doing a HamKam career with Nordic players

[@imMxrage]

Sint-Truiden in the belgian pro league is a team that buys a lot of Japanese players with currently 9 of them in its squad

[@Tevo_Sixteen]

My favourite career mode in years was in fifa 23 I signed only players named Traore, starting in league 2, I could keep anyone who started at the club I chose but I could only sign youth players/ regens or real players if their name was Traore I tried it for FC 24 and got sacked after first season cos I was getting 0 youth players come through named Traore, was still enjoyable though

[@Standard____]

Sint Truiden in Belgium like to sign Japanese players due to their current Japanese ownership. They also have a few incredible young talents (I’ll leave the rest up to you but Delorge and Steuckers are insane in my save) What you should do is aim to bring in 1 or 2 Japanese players from worse leagues every season and you can only search in Japan and Belgium with youth scouts that have a maximum of 6 stars each

[@will-bp9gz]

It's good to find out interesting facts about a club , and play career mode with this fact in mind. For example, Liverpool have never won the league without a Scottish player in the team. Or mybe Rangers not signing catholic players.

[@Mv_.12]

Career idea! Choose one of the Big Six teams in the Premier League. Make all the 80 or higher rated players free agents and put the team in the Championship and make them one of the best teams in the world again. Love the videos❤

[@DynastyUK]

I do this, but I just wish the commentary could reflect it. Really takes away the fun role playing of it.

[@202true]

London Fc in fifa 23 I use the Jordan jerseys , one of the logos with a lion and start to get english players and ex players from any team in London I sometimes take other lower league London teams under my wing with trades and loans I try to get at least one superstar as soon as possible and I make sure to never weaken the opps .. so I end up with a real challenge to win the prem and in the CL it's usually one other english team , juve and Barca that keep things competitive

[@abhay6230]

I remember when last time u19 wc held in India . Most of the indians where first team players of indian arrows

[@jonvassenden9389]

SK Brann in Norway have a pretty strict transfer-philosophy where they have a priority-list of what players should be signed: 1. Local, homegrown players (this includes bringing back former academy players, which there Are quite a lot of) 2. Other Norwegian or Norwegian-speaking players 3. Players from Denmark or sweden, who will be able to communicate with the rest of the squad in their native languages 4. Players from the rest of Europe 5. Rest of the world I think it makes for a fun challenge, as there are few cheap, takented Norwegian players in the game. It could also be fun to try creating a team consisting of only players born in Bergen or Hordaland, which would be every Brann-fans wet dream

[@BurningJonas]

Maybe a SC Freiburg carreer mode is interesting. Being one of the last real clubs in top division football, they need to make profit from their transfers…

[@MaddysVideos2005]

in FIFA 23 I relegated man united to league 2 an did a northumbria rebuild, where I only used and signed players from the north of england

[@umangasharma]

what was the camera settings in liv vs everton

[@evanmorgan327]

Wow congrats with over 50k likes!

[@johnoneill5444]

Where are the shortlist, can’t find them

[@melting.pot.records1617]

I was trying to do a welsh only swansea. But i changed it to celtic countries. So with england it is only the region of cornwall. And for france its britanny

[@Danc0704]

Making Everton UK players only as Sean dyche did that at Burnley

[@danonck]

There's this team in Kraków, Poland - Cracovia that only seems to sign past it, old Slovakians, lol

[@jankokol9817]

I am currently doing a "Youth vs. Experience" run where my team cannot have players of or over the age of 25 (have to either sell or release them) and I can only sign players that are 20 or younger. My main goal is to go from League Two to winning the Premier League and Champions League.

[@noahling3964]

The Leonardi DiCaprio career mode

[@DynastyUK]

Hey, is there a mod that not only adds Icons, but has them start with youth academy ratings? E.G Pele is 70 Rated at age 15/16. But potential of 95. Also, I know we get "regens", but how do we ensure their stats grow like the real ratings of the player? not just reach their potential. E.g David Beckham has best freekick, instead of becoming more like someone else.

[@mirko6363]

Can i with clermon use swap players

[@roddyscott9498]

another idea is only signing players that have played for your club IRL.

[@liamsmusichistorybusesandg3890]

I’ve done a Raith Rovers create a club, where I could only sign Scottish players

[@thesmithersy]

Of course there were historical ones too like Rangers never signing any Catholic players or South China in Hong Kong only signing players with Chinese ethnicity. Or indeed until about 4 years ago, Queen's Park only playing amateur players.

[@wholewheatcracker3561]

On FIFA 23 I won the UCL in 2027 with an all black Crystal Palace team. I kinda got the idea when someone pointed out to me that they have mostly black players, are located in a part of London with a pretty large black population and, at the time of me doing it, had Patrick Viera as their manager. Along with good young black players Palace already has like Eze, Guehi, Olise and Doucoure, I signed players like Moukoko, Geertruida, Barcola, Gavin Bazunu, Amadou Onana, Khephren Thuram and Alejandro Balde. Kinda weird and different but it was pretty fun to me. I was imagining this whole scenario where the club embraced a more Afrocentric identity in the way they marketed themselves

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

What about Cardiff with the transfer embargo, only frees and loans xD

[@F12453]

Cuz it’s being lifted January 2024

[@JustK4Y1512]

You forgot UCD, the university team

[@BastiWeber]

Dream Career in Germany: Get SC Verl to promote to Bundesliga and win the CL only with free agents or loans

[@BastiWeber]

Istanbulspor or Kasimpasa only turkish players since they have the flag big in their logo

[@modtubegaming4144]

One save that i may do is an ac milan Italian only challenge It was a policy for all teams back them which was the reason for the birth of inter milan

[@ProphetMuhhamad]

This isn’t accurate at all to real life, but I sometimes do a Dinamo Zagreb team with only Croatians for fun

[@jrothweldo7]

Liverpool/Everton only local lads?

[@dennisgoatimer1079]

That's not a policy or preference for them but for any club local players only is interesting

[@tonysplattery]

Only vegan and vegetarian players allowed for Forest Green Rovers?

[@abdulrahmanalali51]

Hey George

[@roughwalkers]

I love mods

[@vakama4923]

5:10 I believe this club no longer exists

[@alinnegoita1212]

Fcsb from romania buys only romanian players or foreigners that are from the romanian league, and tries to make the best academy in the country

[@gabadur_]

basque is northeastern spain not northwestern.

[@CappyXS]

Celtic with only Irish and Scottish players could be fun

[@28hipster]

Celtic with players born with 27 miles of parkhead like the Lisbon lions is something I did in fifa 23

[@CappyXS]

@@28hipster were u successful?

[@CaelanDafydd]

Celtic also includes Wales too (*Edit, I just realised you meant Celtic and not Celtic haha)

[@christhildpaschelke4502]

FC Köln from Germany only sings players who speak German because the Manager doesn't speak english

[@joesoffetaylor9300]

Beitar Jerusalem

[@oke475]

No more fifa 23 videos?

[@mbkcsuad3516]

Why would he

[@oke475]

​@@mbkcsuad3516because there are still a lot of people in his discord who play fifa

[@Pizza78768]

ea sports fc 24 is a thing

[@RobertDoornbosF1]

​@@mbkcsuad3516tbf 99% of FC24 applies to FIFA 23 anyway

[@Jbkeditz]

​@@RobertDoornbosF1they are basically the same game if you think about it

[@MorizonPlays]

The current FC Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart doesn't speak English and therefore only signs players who can speak German

[@iamtrappedinabasement]

As a Danish speaker, hearing him pronounce FC Nordsjælland and FC Midtjylland was painful

[@LocalNoob_2]

i just started a celtic career mode in the premier league and saw a lot of their players are japanese out of all nations lol,can somebody explain why do they have a sister club in japan or smth?

[@scottcrowder22]

Basically it was when Ange was in charge. He used to coach over in Asia so when he was Celtic manager, he brought in a ton of Asian players. Celtic have continued it even after he’s left

[@LocalNoob_2]

@@scottcrowder22 oh yeah makes sense thanks for the info man

[@dennisgoatimer1079]

They've also set up training camps in Hiroshima Tokyo and Fukuoka. The Japanese market is great right now hence Villa's owners has made a partnership with Vissel Kobe. It's not the first (ZED FC was then Victoria at 49% stake reduced to 26% which does now come with a youth academy in Senegal which is owned by V Sports) and it's most certainly not the last as we're trying to set up a MLS club in Las Vegas all of places things are on the up.

[@il.mister]

WTF Does "IRL" mean ? As a non American i can't understand

[@devanteporter6981]

In Real Life

[@ninomiskulin9286]

I played 4 season with Werder Bremen and signed only german, austrian and swiss players. Had a blast my favourite save. Now im playing with palace signing players from england and france only