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Welcome to my FM26 career story, where we will be taking the smallest Welsh team in the English football pyramid, Merthyr Town, to the top of world football using only Welsh players.

This is a save concept I've completed twice, with Newport County in FM23 and Merthyr in FM24, but I really wanted to document it from the beginning this time around and in the evolved football landscape of 2025, two years on from when I first attempted it. The added challenge of acclimatising to the new layouts and features of FM26 should make this an interesting task as well.