HOW TO BUILD A NATION!

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[@ghgf23hh3]

As a hungarian mtk fan you have no idea how much it means to me that a non-hungarian knows the club and decide to play with it. Havent played any videogames for ages but looking forward watching your playthrough. Best of wishes :)

[@sanyasalanki1154]

Mtk has fans?

[@studyeye]

@@sanyasalanki1154 how original

[@R3RS2024]

​@@sanyasalanki1154like 6 in total 😂

[@ido_2312]

This club has always been my first choice, if I want to rebuild Hungary. Because it has decent facilities, a fairly new small stadium, domestic sleeping giant, affiliation with Liverpool and a reputation for producing national team players. You can see that many HGC of the Hungarian national team are currently from MTK

[@norbi524]

​@@sanyasalanki1154szia sanya

[@jacobrochester5674]

People don’t realise how important MTK are to football. Going to be a class save.

[@jordza2k11]

thats the issue with modern younger fans, most don't know the history past like watching clips of Jay-Jay Okocha doing rainbow flicks, I know they're the nucleus tactically (Budapest Honved gave the players) for the Mighty Magyars that did what Hungary recently did to England but back in the 50s and got a World Cup final from it

[@paulclarke8505]

FM 2037: The AI gets smarter and Matt's Building a Nation save comes to an end after a message from the board: "We don't pay you to improve other teams. You're sacked!"

[@mattyboy442]

Aberdeen signed 2 players from MTK Budapest this season and both have been sensational for us. Miovski has already hit double figures in the league and Ramadani has been solid in the defensive midfield role

[@zoommonkey]

Hats off for doing these types of saves. These seem like the coolest and probably most challenging thing you can do in FM. Been a huge fan of this idea and I literally tell everyone I know who plays FM about your channel. Keep it up, and awesome work. BIG FAN!

[@Connorsea]

Definitely cool but not the hardest!

[@spencbb1]

Going through a few videos on the channel, and there is some superb content here, from this video, to scouting videos and more. Been playing FM for 15 years, and there were things I didn't even realise and know about, so thank you!

[@thomaslancaster3283]

My save last year was with Dorog, loved the badge. Lived in budapest for a couple months over summer and travelled an hour to see the stadium. Big love for hungarian football.

[@alant8140]

Looking forward to this Matt! Best of luck with it. I did a 25 season save w/ Honved in Hungary on FM20 - I didn't bring the rest of the league with me to glory though, which does make the league boring after a while.

[@nicklasbille]

My one Christmas wish is getting Loving Caliber - You Keep Telling Lies back as the intro music.

[@joaodiniz7207]

i did a ujpest save where i became champion like 8 times in 9 (then got bored because never passed the group stage of the CL, but fehervar and puskas akademia did an hungarian conference league final with puskas winning - so i was able to scale their championship a bit too.) MTK was the best club in terms of youth facilities - the only hungarians i purchased were from them. so yeah its an excellent club to start with, plus it also has some european history.

[@daweedhal]

I am so excited that you chose Hungary and MTK! Good luck Matt! /A Ferencváros fan/

[@TshepoChang]

This is actually really great advice for something similar that I am trying. Although my save would probably take a lot longer as I am trying to build a nation (league and national team) for South Africa. It's gonna be difficult because the only way to improve reputation is with the club world cup because even if we had a bunch of wins within Africa, we will hit diminishing returns when we are 15-20 years into winning all the African comps. The other issue is that since it is a poor country, we would have to sell players to get the finances for facilities, which is a pain because we get paid 1M Euros for players that end up having values of 5M as soon as they arrive in Europe. I saw another video of a guy loading in a bunch of Brazilian players into the database to increase money, so I might do that in conjunction with the advice given here.

[@coyootje]

Looking forward to see how you do in Hungary this year Matt! I tried to do something similar in FM22 but I couldn't manage to get much higher then place six or seven on the coefficient table before getting bored and giving up.

[@Secondyellowcard]

Around 6th-7th there is often a stall phase due to how much is required to make progress, however if you push through a couple of seasons of stasis you find there is a second wind and suddenly you start making progress again :)

[@barts.8336]

FINALLY ;-) looking forward extremely!

[@danielhuddlestone1998]

I managed Djosgyor last year and loved it. Cultivated many legends from all over the world and managed to win the champions league in my tenth season!!!

[@nachoalvarez6997]

Great challenge, lots of luck! Did this on FM19 starting unemployed. Spent 5 seasons from up and downs in the 2nd tier with 3 teams until I managed to promote with Paksi + winning the national Cup in the same year. Won another 3 National Cups in a row and then moved to Videotom with whom I dominated national football with 5 leagues + cup titles and got to two finals in a row of the Europa League (lost both). All of this with 70% of the Squad being hungarian and with 50% of homegrown players. Later I led the NT into semifinals of the Euro Cup and to the Quarters of the World Cup. You should try to develop more the national football (players + NT) since it is also a big part of developing the football level of a Nation (which you didn't do in the last Building a Nation save).

[@Tranquilz0r]

Can’t wait for more from this save👍

[@liamwhiting8564]

Really interesting video. Thanks for explaining the best tips to build a nation. What happens if you pick a big club in a small country and don't build the league around you?

[@andrewmcclelland6397]

For the life of me I could not find a video explaining fully how building a nation actually works, so thank you mate

[@TheAmrumBoy]

This is gonna be so much fun!

[@holdmyheim]

Very good video ❤ love build a nations

[@ThePlayaJohn]

I've started a build a nation with FC Schaffhausen in the Swiss 2nd tier with just Austria and Switzerland loaded and the players loaded like you have setup with the MTK save

[@ziggywiggy5480]

I'm Hungary for this... Ill see myself out.

[@matplot6170]

I did something similar in FM19 with Maribor (Slovenia) and had 200-300 people on loan, not just to rival clubs, but also to make money with them. The club was profitable every month.

[@outforarip331]

Im in season my 8th season with a create a club in Norway and im 16th in the WR I was happy for a second when you said it took 26 seasons I thought I was on pace and got happy then I processed the fact it took 26 seasons 😅

[@RaienEafartaigh]

Hi mate looking forward to this! I’m hoping to do one myself however I can’t seem to get the database correct so that loaning out players isn’t a problem. Would you mind sharing your database for me? Cheers

[@brotherben6715]

If i want to do the build a nation challenge, which version of fm would you advice ? Fm23 has the monster CL format , im not sure if that is a good or a bad thing for increasing coefficient rapidly. Reading mixed opinions on fm23 being a step forward or step back. I have fm22 and fm21 as alternatives, fm22 has slower regen growth which I still dont quite like however.

[@TheRightDefender]

I got my own version of it. Building a nation by managing one-by-one all clubs in The league. You take first team, make them CL level in 3-8 years and change for the second team for another 3-8 years and then again. Made Iceland 6th league in Europe by 2046 ;)

[@Jordanpurpl333]

I played in Hungary as Vác FC in fm22, it's so much fun

[@user-hm5vi2he9l]

Enjoyed this, thinking of doing a save like this in FM24. Any suggestions for countries to do? Thinking I'll do Scotland to ease myself in but then want an interesting country, possibly Greece, Romania or Bulgaria?

[@Meliquiades1]

Can’t wait for the first season recap.

[@lostinbkk555]

Brilliant introduction in to building a nation for all FM players thank you SYC

[@jfmargolin1]

Thanks Matt! Will follow your progress on YT. Do you ever run into problems with the Board rating re so many low cost (assume most would be below market) loans? Does success overall cover over this Transfer rating?

[@Secondyellowcard]

I find that they sometimes rate the transfers quite low, but i usually find enough talent that they don't complain too much. Especially as it often gets offset by winning domestic trophies and stuff like that

[@ETDesigns]

my first fm save is Puskas Akademia and in 2026 we've won the Hungarian Double and now in the ucl properly - hoping to win UCL and then i'll do a build a nation save just like this. thanks for the tips. Hungary is good fun

[@zoltanbotos2759]

I play with them every year, even went to a Puskas Akademia stadion tour from the UK😂

[@ETDesigns]

@@zoltanbotos2759 haha no way, i just wanted a new type of save and i thought this would be a lot of fun and im in 2027 and its been great so far

[@zoltanbotos2759]

@@ETDesigns I’m from Hungary just live in UK so easier for me tbf. And I play with them because everyone hate them in Hungary😃 perfect save

[@kisslevente3982]

I live nearby the stadium, might attend a game when the league restarts

[@icetraydemartini3963]

Great video. I am a FM noob. I feel like building the league will help me in my goal of building a small national team into a strong team. I assume the local players will get better playing against better talent. Fun idea I never thought of to build a league. Thanks for the video.

[@Secondyellowcard]

You'd think that'd be the case right? Sadly FM doesn't have that feature set despite promoting it as a feature for FM22. The national team may improve due to players taking on a different nationality and declaring for your nation. There may also be some slightly increases in quality due to other teams improving their youth facilities but sadly there are very few changes on the national team level :(

[@Sledgehammer003]

This is really good information - You should maybe retitle this as some sort of Building A nation - guide because tbh even as a lifetime player of 30 years of FM this vid has good info in it!

[@ReggaeBoyGaming]

I have a db with jamaica red stripe league might try it with them

[@stockportlad8560]

MATT'S BACK!!! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Get your guns Capybaras!

[@Captain_Eyeball]

Tried doing this with Fiji, was back on FM15 and I still have the save file. I've re-done it on FM22 and it's so so tough!

[@lowencraft1404]

I have tried twice. First time I did it with Larisa in Greece but quit because I got battered once I got promoted. 2nd was with Veilje in Denmark but I actually can't remember why I quit. Maybe I should pick it back up.

[@dummezilla8389]

Good luck Matt ! tried this one already and i was fired in the first season

[@Chickenburito964]

My father is an old MTK player Who started his carrer there and I little bit suprised you choosed This club

[@chargehardsdg1674]

greetings from the san marinese league :D

[@mattwood086]

The goat is back 😍

[@ALEXLAD94]

Cheers for this, super interesting vid. Dying at the idea 1) one team having an army of 100 players out on loan and 2) some poor bloke being out on loan for their entire career

[@Secondyellowcard]

We had a guy last year on loan for 16 years, guy was a club legend at a club he wasn't even being paid by lol

[@jordza2k11]

I'm doing a similar save but in a fantasy nation based on Latvia with 0 rules, but starting from stone dead last in coefficients AND not starting top flight for myself so good luck Matt on this hope you do better than I probably will but I can add one extra thing to tick off, do NOT allow them to play v parent club as that may be cheeky but its a legitimate rule in many loan deals and you'll notice the league gets easy real fast

[@Secondyellowcard]

The parent club issue was massive for us in Ireland last year, even when we tried to insert clauses to let players play against us, clubs seemed to take it out lol. For this save i've edited the league rules to force it, thus making the league harder for us and more competitive :)

[@jordza2k11]

@@Secondyellowcard yeah that would be the only way to get it otherwise you’d find your save will be too easy too fast

[@dannytilley4878]

As the years go by with loans being restricted. What will the plan be to counter this. Could you possibly do something for a video to maybe explain.

[@robertmandrila5954]

Still happy it’s a decent team would have loved Romania as we need a serious rebuild

[@robertmandrila5954]

Love Hungary though still brothers basically 🇷🇴 ❤️🇭🇺

[@legrandepatrontheplaneteat6241]

Attilla tried to get his country up the coefficient ranking but he never managed to get them higher than a 5th spot. Getting only 2 teams directly in the Group Stage of the Champions League

[@arduano7872]

I am back into FM since FM2018. Never heard of a 'Build a Nation' save before. Seems a great way to play the game besides a Journeyman save. However, I feel the Loan Farm system explained in this video is quite gamey/cheesy.

[@elikennedy7511]

Did this with Puskás Akadémia last year, by far the most rewarding save I've ever done

[@JonteeHDs]

Hey! Do you think this kind of save would work in Sweden? Love the idea and great video!💪

[@Secondyellowcard]

Sweden has similar rules to Norway so it can definitely be done as the some of the top clubs can really perform in Europe. However be very careful with Sweden, there was a bug last year meant that deeper into saves. AI controlled Swedish clubs would sign too many foreign players and thus would be unable to field benches due to match-day rules. If they've fixed that for this year then it'll be fine, but i've yet to see evidence that they have :(

[@JonteeHDs]

@@Secondyellowcard Oh yes, thank you for the answer!!

[@tomlennox5555]

But they now have a Champions League draw ceremony so you should ignore that bug.

[@paulschilder3605]

I think even with the new rule it can be possible, since u21 and homw grown players are excluded from that rule (afaik)

[@dorcohen86]

Before this video I started a build a nation save with fenerbahce in turkey. So obviously the advice about picking a small team doesn't apply for me. But do you think turkey is a good or even just possible destination, with all its rules? Thanks for the great advice here!

[@NegaRenGenX2gay2lift]

you can just sell any of the players you have aquirred out of country to some of your league's top half teams. and loan out your young international players to the lower table teams. as long you dont sell or loan outside of Turkey's top flight. it should be fine. when you pick a big team in general. scout the NXGN list EVERY SEASON and poach anyone you deem fit for squad usage or loan farming. i would also check u21, u20, etc national squads, especially when there is a u20 world cup or conintenential compeititions. i dont know how strict Turkey's visa rules so take into account of that. this is just my experence playing AFC Wimbeldon. for the entire time i was just trying to survive by scouting old veterans and under used players. i started to look for the future players once my club was solidiied being a top half team and we began to look for young international players that can get work visas. so thats when i began to poach NXGN listed players and the ussual U20 or U19 players. my best player was an american i poached from FC Dallas named Cho Jin-woong and he was in the under 21 national squads. got him to lift the PL and Champions league trophy. pretty much became a national hero in the world cup beating Brazil in the 2034 world cup quarter finals. the AI is really good setting up national squads so dont ignore it. scout them ASAP

[@moviessporttributes2312]

Will league price money change over time in fm 23 ?

[@theblasvader]

Can I do this for the USA? Does it even work, can't find coefficient points.

[@studyeye]

A couple pronunciation tips: the authentic pronunciation of MTK is more like "em-tey-kah" And your pronunciation of Ferencváros was pretty good, but the "c" in there is pronounced like a "tz" Looking forward to following this, should be a fun save

[@KingFahtah]

I wanted to do this with Liechtenstein but...

[@ezdienmuhamad9544]

interesting. Want try this and make indonesia national team better.

[@mufarisfa3939]

26 SEASONS??!! count me in

[@centurionprodigy5157]

We now know where sbozolai(?) will end his professional days

[@jamiehatton4366]

Where did you find the kits for Merkantil Bank Liga, I’ve started a save with Pécsi but could only find the NB1?

[@Secondyellowcard]

These kits were custom made for me by Kitbasher. This is a link to the pack i'm using www.mediafire.com/file/zczudirg281oc2k/Hungary+1+(v2).rar/file

[@raggionice]

GIDEON!!!!!!!!

[@JoshuaBrady91]

What are the most relaxed leagues to try? Leagues where they dont have these foreign player rules etc...

[@noobgonebad9860]

Motherfucker, this is exactly what I needed. I have tried building Scotland x2, Norway, Sweden and now this year Sweden again. Best ever was Sweden into 5th league in the world

[@olahusby3267]

Great lets go to Hungary

[@robbryant321]

Will there be any more of these?

[@Secondyellowcard]

I've made one of them every season so far :)

[@MultiChillidog]

Matt, do you have a direct link to this save on discord channel? I don't do social media, and just signed up to your discord to get this save file. But being "internet illiterate" don't know where to look on your discord channel to find this save file. Please help

[@Secondyellowcard]

No problem mate, the save can be downloaded here www.mediafire.com/file/udcsliqpfsw0mb1/Building_A_Nation_-_MTK.fm/file

[@MultiChillidog]

@@Secondyellowcard Thanks so much!!! once downloaded, I put this in "documents -> Sports Interactive -> FM23 -> games" folder. correct? and then just select this saved game when starting the game? (Catching up on this save in twitch, right now 😀)

[@Secondyellowcard]

Yes indeed! Once it's in the folder, just load it as if it was one of your own saves :)

[@vikkiroxx]

The most important club in football history.

[@Mattyyttam1]

Just started a San Marino build a nation, God help me.

[@TheMetab0lic]

I'm doing Norway from the 3rd tier. It's building a Nation but I have another goal.... Sign Haaland before he retires!

[@lucascolohan8764]

When is this save and Newcastle blue star starting

[@callumhayes7502]

Months yet he said (blue star)

[@asvpbrvn]

is it possible to do a building a nation in any other confederation like CONCACAF, Africa or Asia?

[@thetabbyguy921]

CONCACAF dosen't have a coefficient based champions league, Asia does though so you can do a North Korea save if you so wish.

[@MaddFLuz]

Will this be uploaded to yt?

[@Secondyellowcard]

The vods will be on the 2nd channel in full and the season recaps will be on the main channel, much like they were last year :)

[@slimo3600]

My best build a nation is taking Northern Ireland to number 3 won 8 champions leagues with Warrenpoint

[@caltblake6112]

hi matt

[@ungface]

Dont coefficients disapear a few years into the game after the new CL format comes out?

[@thetabbyguy921]

No, the new CL format will still have coefficients.

[@demirhanmurat]

Could you please share the Skin you use? Thanks!

[@Secondyellowcard]

Sure thing www.mediafire.com/folder/kxim8w96s6dnv/Sas23 I've got a video coming out about it soon!

[@demirhanmurat]

@@Secondyellowcard Thanks!

[@georgeclarkmusic]

why is my staff accepting loan offers from teams outside of the nation i have selected on the development list?

[@Secondyellowcard]

That's odd, sometimes the Staff Responsibilities > Transfers > Offer To Clubs, section can give you a clue as to why, this needs to match the settings you use in the dev list. It's really annoying that you have to set it all twice but that seems to help

[@georgeclarkmusic]

@@Secondyellowcard ah I didn't think of that! Thanks man I'll have a gander! Haven't really used the different dev/unwanted lists before but I'm trying a building a nation in Denmark at the moment so best to give it a go!

[@mervyngilmore6568]

cant find the database in discord ?

[@Secondyellowcard]

No worries! I've popped it on Mediafire too www.mediafire.com/file/qqywkgvlqgm3srt/MTK+DB+Final.fmf/file

[@mervyngilmore6568]

@@Secondyellowcard thanks

[@Steveck072]

Algorithm ultras

[@DTF17]

Up the Algorithm Ultras!

[@LiavZz1]

next time do it in israel much more interesting

[@user-xe7rk3te8i]

go finland

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

I love how football manager naively thinks the league rankings are based on talent and not money.

[@danielsmith411]

I really don't like these type of saves as their just incredibly unrealistic. As a manager of a side, you don't want your domestic rivals to be strong and challenging you, as this provides more competition to winning the league.

[@thetabbyguy921]

Personally I just prefer to move to other clubs later in the save and try to compete with the monstrosity I've created, feels more realistic and satisfying this way.

[@danielsmith411]

@@thetabbyguy921 fair enough that its satisfying and challenging, but its definitely not realistic is it. If a manager is at a dominant team, that don't leave to take over a weaker team.

[@thetabbyguy921]

@@danielsmith411 that's why I don't do it immediately, I leave at end of contract and then wait a year or two before picking a new job, that way I also get to see how the club is sustaining itself without me around but also it just looks like I just wanted a break from the game.

[@KargoolElvalie]

I dont like twich feed.. i want youtube vids :(

[@Britonbear]

No it would not be fine for a fascist nation to have the best football in Europe.

[@rem116]

😐

[@callumhayes7502]

Calm down Karen it's a video game.

[@jb0609]

snowflake