Breaking Down The Entire FC24 Youth Academy System! 

A couple FIFAs ago I got 3 80+ potential CBs from Hungary and Moldova along with 2 CDMs from New Zealand.. They were all 6'5/6'6 and had over 70 pace. It was impossible to score on them and they scored from a corner almost every game. They were so good I played a 3-2-1-4. That was a special save

I try to keep it semi-realistic by only accepting players of a specific minimum value, the higher the division the higher the minimum value.

I just wish they added more nations for us to scout

Adding a few things. 1-don’t always reject 15yr olds with a mediocre overall and a not a crazy high potential. Keep ur scout on em an extra month or so and some of them will turn into little beasts. 2-these little 15 yr old beasts who now are in ur academy have an extra year to develop. Take a look at their attributes. For example if he’s a 5 foot 6 cm then you’d be better off a lm or rm, or if he’s a LS and you use wingers , convert him into a winger. That takes me to 3- get then trained in a couple positions but don’t stop there! For example if he’s a rwb then train him a spell at inverted, then attacking wing back, then support. If you’ve got great coaches you’ll get thier overall way up by doing this and Obvuisly if u get him at 15 , the longer you’ll have to do this. 4- develop and sell the kids that don’t fit into ur system. It’s career mode, it’s ur job to generate money for the club.

Got a cm from Brazil who (when finally promoted to first team) was 93-94 potential. Had a couple of those this year toi

think i once had a CAM from the Czech Republic scouted with the Technically Gifted type in a FIFA 19 save that was one of the best players i ever had

I love it that you play with Preußen Münster

I've gone to the Baltics and founds loads of wingers, attacking mids, goalies and midfielders. Lithuania for goalkeepers, all of them seem to have play styles. Happy with the system I use since I'm getting 3-4 1m plus valued players every month. Got about 20 loaned youth players, about 7 or 8 can get onto my bench when they're back, so 1 more season for them and I can start integrating them into the first team

Im currently doing a youth academy Lecco Calcio rebuild, just started season 3 these two japanese wingers i got have been performing phenomenal

Argentina for playmakers. Brazil for technical players. Never failed me.

One thing that’s never discussed is the diminishing returns on scouting. You can not just keep scouting the the big 9 and get platinum players. What’s the best way to get around that if you are playing multiple (5-6+) seasons?

Haven’t played 24 much yet. But setting up for my next content cm in the first month with a 5* 5* I got four CBs: 50 ovr 71-94 pot, 64 over 69-94 pot, 61 over 69-94 pot, and 53ovr 67-93 pot (all from Norway). Have never gotten a single month like that before in any fifa

I usually scout youth players in Scandinavia - Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway. I always get a lot amazing players with the potential of 89-94 in this region. Haven't been too successfull in Africa for some reason. I also get some great youth players from USA though.

I have found so much success with loans this year, growth of 3-5 in my team but 10-15 and even more when sent on loan. I sent some of my starting players on loan for half a season and saw a 7 overall growth

You mentioned in the video that you think loans can increase overall more than game time and morale combined, but that it's a little inconsistent. Here's how I believe it works, which might help explain some of the inconsistency. I believe that there is a natural arc to a players overall that has them achieving certain benchmarks by certain ages, eventually peaking at their max potential. If a player has a potential of 94, then at age 17 they should be at X OVR, at age 18 they should be at Y OVR, at age 19 they should be at Z OVR, etc... If it helps, I like to think of it the same way we talk about child development, where there's an expected "reading level" for students of each grade. But for a few different reasons, sometimes a player isn't where they should be on that arc. The two most common ones are injury (which not only stops development, but puts it in reverse) and low Youth Academy starting numbers. A lot of YA players (I would argue most) have OVR numbers that are significantly below the expected "reading level" they're supposed to have obtained by their current age. Regardless of their potential, they will never catch up, because like you said, all the game time, morale, and coaches can only do so much in a single year. Loans put players back on track. It's not that some players randomly get a huge +12 OVR boost and others randomly get a +2; it's that the game just puts them where they're supposed to be on the curve. In a recent save, I wound up with a bunch of YA left backs who all had similar potential and were the same age. One of them was a 63, a couple were 68, one was a 70. They all went out on loan, and they all came back at 71 OVR. Then I looked at the ST who had gone on loan - 71. And the CF who had gone on loan - 71. If you were 19 years old and you just finished a loan spell, you were 71 OVR. I mentioned injuries. I had a created player (so a potential of 99) who suffered serious injury after serious injury. He went from an 86 to an 83, and lost pretty much a full year of progression, plus the three points of regression. I sent him out for a loan and called him back immediately - 91. This put him right back in front of my other created player, who was slightly younger and had always been about half a point behind in development (until the injuries to the older player). My experience is purely anecdotal and I don't have data to back this up, but it's pretty easy to test, and I encourage you to do so if you're interested. I don't know if there is a cap (For example, I don't know if a created player at 30 OVR would still come back as a 91 after a loan), and I don't know how it handles players who are ahead of the expected curve (I somehow doubt that creating a 16-year-old with max stats and sending him on loan would result in a regressed player), but it wouldn't be too difficult to find out. It becomes slightly more complicated because of the "Loan Glitch", which alters potential, and thus will also alter the progression to reach that new potential. And I don't know if there are any other variables that I haven't considered. But the details aren't really important. The key takeaway is that loans aren't about speeding up development so much as about resetting a player to where they're supposed to be given their current age and potential. It's a catch-up mechanism. So my advice is to send every YA player out for a loan as soon as you get them, and also to loan out players who have missed several months due to injury (it's especially helpful if they're injured in the first half of the season and you can loan them in January, because you can undo the damage before their dynamic potential takes a hit). Get them set to where they're supposed to be, and then develop them from there.

Thanks for the video, super clear 👌👌👌👌

is there any mods that allow you to scout in nations that aren’t already in the game like el salvador

Hello, something caught my attention. What needs to be done in order for the players coming out of the infrastructure to have plus skills? There were no plus skills in the youth players I have released so far, so we can also call it plus perk?

Can you get plus playstyles? I haven't seen one from a developed player

I’m on a Man Utd save where I’m sending scouts on 3 month tours, taking 4 or 5 years to do a complete world tour tour. The biggest surprise so far is that Estonia has produced a 15 year old GK who’s 65 rated with platinum potential. On a previous Save, India produced players who were eventually good enough for Real Madrid and Inter Milan.

In addition sharpness plays a big role when you send a player on loan. I have noticed that a full sharpness youngster can grow up to +11 on a loan.

Nice Video thanks. Can you do a Video about Traits in Career Mode?

i didnt know the country mattered, ive only been scouting in asia for my entire new save...no wonder i have so many wingers

So question to anyone that knows. When u get a player on your scout report and scout them for 3 months and they stay in a 79-94. But once u sign them they drop like to a 79-85. How do u keep them up to stay closer to that 90 range?

For some reason, I always seem to find a 91-94 potential GK from the USA. I've also found very good Centre Backs in the USA too. My personal list for best places to look for various positions.... ST/CF - Norway / Spain CAM - Brazil/Argentina/England LW/RW - Mexico / Scotland / Japan CDM - England / Germany / USA RB/LB - Germany / Greece CB - Greece / Germany / USA GK - USA / France

Quick Question how do you have Bruiser + while all of my players keep getting chip shot +?

Does anybody else get the same problem as me. Im desperate for a cm and a st. Everytime i scout for that specific postion the players i sign fit more in cam and winger. This happens for litteraly every single player i sign so i have a team with 10+ wingers and cams and 1 striker and 2 cm.

Can we get random a playstyle+ from youth academy?

Loan out youth players are the best way to boost their OVR. I always set a 2 year loan contract to see how much they can boost on the first season. If they “fail”, i’ll just recall them back and sell for good money. 2-4 million for sure.

Question: Is the quality of players increased if you choose to set your objectives to very high or critical for youth development?

No mentions on playstyle and PS + ?

How to do successful stick plays in Player career?

So for development, having good match ratings impact players growth right? Do you have any idea how the match rating system works on FC 24? Is there an algorithm to it? And what impacts it the most? Been on my mind some time lately

How much game time should they get if you don’t want to loan them?

What do you think about the game ratings this year? It seems to me that it is way more difficult to obtain high ratings

In FIFA 23, I only use 1 star scout to limit the amount of pulls. The problem is that the free agent is litterally stacked with youngsters over 80 overall which makes the game very unrealistic. Is it similar in FIFA 24 ?

I loaned out a youth player I didn’t know what to do with, 62 rated right winger , +13 he came back 75 rated and another player got a +9 as a left back, what makes players get that insane loan growth or is it random

i love career mode but i cant do it without real faces, real stadium and at least 3 uniforms. SO even teams like Schalke and Hamburg are hard for me cuz they only have two kits.

German goalkeeepers are insane if you have a 5 star judgement, I got 3 72 ovr gk

Found a Japanese ST with 90-94 potential he’s only 15 and is currently rated 60

How tf do you get playstyle + on career mode I never got one

In some previous versions of Fifa, people would occasionally find certain specific countries (unlikely ones) that produced a disproportionately larger percentage of high quality players at a certain position. In FIFA 22, for example (which is the version I'm still on), searching for wingers in Estonia consistently produces better results than anything I've seen anywhere else. Beyond the region suggestions you listed, are you aware of any random aberrations like that?

Hey, whenever I go to the scouting map, certain options like the entirety of Africa and Brazil are not visible. Is there any way I can make these places scoutable?

How do you get your goalkeeper to move,I press button y but nothing happens makes a mockery of matches

One thing I’ve noticed…is sometimes depending on how good you’re player did if you loan out in January and recall them after saving they might come back +3 or more, same as at the beginning of the next season….when a player loses potential for example for no reason, I’ll send him on loan for example garnacho, recall him and his Value goes up a bit and potential as well….ive recalled a academy player and came back +7, changing positions sometimes will do this too…and even leaving a academy player on loan can increase 7+ for example…it’s a bit weird and inconsistent how it works so this video isn’t much help from what we already knew

Idk how but last year someone in my youth team had 92-94 potential only happened once tho

In my experience in FC24, the best goalkeepers are in Italy, they also have very good centre backs and Spain too, centre backs i mean.

Hi, bro how did you see the playstyles when your players in youth academy? I can't!

That player from the thumbnail looks exactly like S2Gs Dave Rooney

I’ve found some of my best young defenders in Germany. Every month or 2 I get one worth at least 1 million

Ok so if I would find: LB/RB and LWB/RWB, where should I look?

brazil for goalkeeper, czech republic, hungary, croatia for the rest. france, england, netherlands, spain always fail me :(

I like career mode but having to do all this research and actually playing a save feels like such a chore : /

How are you getting 17 year olds with play style +

Some in summary: 1. Morale 2. Loan, if you can’t promise consistent game time) 3. Right coaches Yes?

what are your sliders tho?

How do I get playstyles + on youth players I never get that

I think my favourite player scouted this year is a Romanian cb, started as a striker but basically, can do a job literally anywhere. I do wish search terms were better, finding a tall, strong striker or a quality CDM is so irritating compared to a halfway decent winger

8:00 never a yellow!

Paraguay are good for wingers and cam

In FIFA23 I always get OP keepers from austria

I don't use the coach system because it's just too OP and makes CM far too easy (even not using it getting the boosts it's still very easy). Same with the training, it's just very gimmicky and isn't realistic at all

it doesn't matter what country you scout

i never got a platinum player

From my experience Germany is good for GKs

I hav get gud talangs from Slovenien

I’ve found Spain has the best defenders

It's too bad they can't be bothered to fix all the countries with broken name pools, it's been this way since FIFA 23. Go try to scout the Ukraine, every one is named Kovalenko, Shevchenko or Shevchuk, I know that the name pool for the Ukraine is small, but it's bigger than 3 names. the Netherlands, all of the Slavic countries and all of the arabic language countries are broken as well, with the Slavic and Dutch name pools being some 7 or 8 names each, and with the arabic name pools mixing first and surnames. People have been complaining on the bug report fourm for the past 2 years, and EA hasn't done a thing, it's really ruined career mode for me, as when you have a save and it's later on, it's crappy that all the generated players that have populated teams all seem to be related to each other.

I ignore potential, i just sign players over 500k value and then play em, see how good they are, sorta "realistic" if you will

Anyone else feel like 24 has just got nothing in the youth scouting department. Like not only getting rid of the high potential player boost, but cannot seem to grt any decent youth players AT all

No point in youth academies. start of every new season loads for wonder kids are free agents Free transfers are the most important thing in career mode

Pretty easy to get OP players. Just buy pretty cheap 5 star scouts. EA don’t care

Title Rename: Get good with kids

i dont develop i just play lol

6:33 - hang on! How can a person, named Denis Dyakov be Russian? Dyakov is a Bulgarian surname! Not every name that ends at -ov is Russian! When will the people in the Western world understand the differences?