A Billion Dreams: FM23 build a nation(India)

We are now in the 10th season of Ryntih. For the first time we are in Continental Football and I completed the Continental A License at the end of the previous season. So it was time to go the distance and ask for the Continental Pro License.

We have a transfer budget of 40m and a wage budget of 6.5m per month. With the reductions in squad size we have got our wage bill down to 5.1m at the end of season 9. We have managed to convince the board to get the training facilities up and it costs us 55m. This means our finances are down to 1m and we are in net debt of 16m at the moment. This is a big moment in this journey, we need to decide whether to push for glory and risk financial ruin or keep the steady growth that we have managed over the past 9 seasons. Thankfully the ISL stayed at 21st Place, meaning our TV revenue is intact at 87m.



We made only a couple of transfers, Pramod Saha has been a regular in the league and with a relegation release clause of 2.5m, we swooped on him. He provides crucial cover for Mamod and can play in the midfield too. The 2nd name in the list is Mendes, whom we lost to a free transfer in our first season in ISL. Bringing him back at 4m is expensive but I like to bring the boy back home where he belongs.


On transfer deadline day I managed to sign Mohammed Singh, a player in our radar since June and at 6m he is one of our most expensive signings. The media now predicts us to finish 2nd with 3-1 to win the league.

It was a busy start to the season with us losing 1-2 to Churchill Brothers. We had our group fixtures in the AFC Confederations cup which we finished 2nd with 14 points of 6 games. We were unbeaten in the group but Bengaluru finished top on goal difference and we were knocked out.

@veedmania https://www.mediafire.com/file/f5gkvvxzdxljpgn/India+D3+and+Cups.fmf/file
Thanks to @thewes for his work on making the file better.

End of Nikhil Yumnum era:

Nikhil Yumnum took over the club when we were down in the 2nd Div of I League back in season 3. He was an ambitious chairman who helped us reach one of the top clubs in India. He leaves behind a legacy that will be hard to replicate. Thank You Nikhil for your support and guidance.

In came the consortium with Rohit Gonsalves at the head. His team came in with a 15m investment taking us up from a negative 12m balance to 3m in the positive. He also managed to restructure our debt into a new bank loan of 15.5m for 10 years. This means we now pay only 140k/m instead of the 430k/m we used to pay. This is excellent news for the club and we hope Rohit keeps us pushing forward.

We didnt lose a single game in the league as we ended December top of the table with 23 points from 10 games(7 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss)


Schedule:


Squad:

2022-12-12 15:46#290983 iamslowdeath : @veedmania https://www.mediafire.com/file/f5gkvvxzdxljpgn/India+D3+and+Cups.fmf/file
Thanks to @thewes for his work on making the file better.

Hi, after a lot of searches I came across this forum for Indian Pyramid in FM23. I have tried loading into the game, it works fine. However there is only one problem.

Mumbai Kenkre is not in i-League 2nd Division, it's in the Hero I-League (thus making the tally to 12 teams) I tried doing it in the pre-game editor, but I am getting an error when I try to verify the rules.

Can you please fix that?

Thanks in advance. And big ups for yours and @thewes for this work.

2023-01-03 07:37#291325 manesarthak :

2022-12-12 15:46#290983 iamslowdeath : @veedmania https://www.mediafire.com/file/f5gkvvxzdxljpgn/India+D3+and+Cups.fmf/file
Thanks to @thewes for his work on making the file better.

Hi, after a lot of searches I came across this forum for Indian Pyramid in FM23. I have tried loading into the game, it works fine. However there is only one problem.

Mumbai Kenkre is not in i-League 2nd Division, it's in the Hero I-League (thus making the tally to 12 teams) I tried doing it in the pre-game editor, but I am getting an error when I try to verify the rules.

Can you please fix that?

Thanks in advance. And big ups for yours and @thewes for this work.

Here are the files for your ready reference that I was working on, but when i tried to run them with your fmf i got an error in my pre game editor.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/5s0o7a9f3elh4sj/FM23_SarthakMane_Fix_-_i-League_Club_Name_Changes.fmf/file
Have set real club names for i-League teams

https://www.mediafire.com/file/tiz7fz3i524yfpj/FM23_SarthakMane_Fix_-_Mumbai_Kenkre.fmf/file
Made changes to kit colors and Competition - as per real life, also added Nam, Ralte and Ben Ibrahim to the squad as they were missing in the original database

Can you integrate these changes in your "India+D3+and+Cups.fmf" file?

Thanks agian!

Some nice work going on with impressive back to back promotions and now the steady growth towards the top of the league! Nice to see you qualifying for continental football and still doing well in the league. Excited to see where this goes!

Sorry for the late reply @manesarthak. I was travelling and didnt have time to do FM. I will try to look into ur files soon if you are still interested.
@NTBGaming thanks for your kind words.

End of Season 10 update:

In the new year we continued in the same vein as we won 5 games on the trot in the league along with wins in the Super Cup and the Durand Cup. Back to back draws against Kerela and Goa started to get me a bit worried but a 5-1 trashing of Odisha in the League and a 3-1 win in the Super Cup semifinal saw us go to the Durand Cup final in full confidence. However with 4 players out on International duty we lost the final 2-1 to Guwahati. This is our 3rd final loss in Durand Cup in 4 years. We still need to turn up on big games.

We ended up winning the league with 47 points of 20 games with only 1 loss that came on opening day.
In the playoffs we had Bengaluru up first and we killed the contest in 1st leg winning 4-1 away. Playing a rotated side in the 2nd leg saw us lose 1-2 but we qualified on aggregate setting up the final against Guwahati.
The first leg away at Guwahati had Mamod suspended but we held on to a 0-0 draw. In the home leg we won 2-0 courtsey of Mamod's 2 goals giving us the ISL playoffs for the first time in our history.



The Super Cup final was our 3rd game against Guwahati in the week and we did the double winning 3-2 in extra time.



We have also got our Continental Pro License, thus completing the coaching badges.


With the money coming in, we have invested in the youth facilities.

10 Seasons Journey Recap

We have now completed 10 seasons with Rynith and its time for a recap of the story so far.
Starting life in the 3rd tier of Indian Football and predicted to finish dead last by the media and the board back in 2022, Rynith has come a long way since then. We steadily improved in the 3rd tier, before promoting to the I League in our 5th season and then winning it in the 1st time of asking, thereby making it to the Indian Super League.

ISL was tough, but the club showed steady progress over the seasons and finally won the league in its 10th season. The club is growing and we are excited to be part of this journey. Facilities wise we have our own stadium, 1.5 star Training facility and 1 star Youth facility. Getting better facilites will be the next big step for the club.

The supporters have grown from about a 100 followers to 23.8k in the last 10 years, also increasing our season ticket holders to over 150. Reputation wise we are now the 6th biggest club in the country.


On a personal front, we have now completed our coaching badges with Contental Pro License coming at the end of season 10.

India

As a build a nation save though, it is still a long way to go. The national team has not improved at all and has actually gone down in the rankings to 114.


In terms of Asian Coefficients the country is at 17th and has 1 spot in the AFC champions league, 1 spot in the AFC Confederations Group stage and 1 spot in the AFC Confederations Playoff.

Future Plans

The next 5 years are crucial for the journey, as we strive to make Rynith into the top club in the country and hopefully get the nation coefficient up. Also we need to improve the league ranking to get more money into football in India.

National team is much more harder to improve, and we will try to keep things moving but its one area where we wont have much control. So its going to be wait and watch kind of a scenario in this front. It will probably be at the end of season 15 we will be in a position to make any sort of decision as to how we make the national team progress.