The 5 Toughest (and Most Interesting) Starts on FIFA 23 

In the Istanbulspor there’s a cdm that if you convert to a cam will go up 12 ratings called Vefa Temel

İstanbul is not the capital city bro its Ankara😉😊

I got sacked by Leece but I was 1st in serie B now I'm at finn harps in the Irish league with hardly any budget I managed al nassr before being appointed as Leece boss al nassr for 2 and a half seasons Leece boss December 2025 -April 2026 now finn harps boss currently 7th In the league

In Fifa 22 I simulated a British championship, for a project I did. It would go to far to fully explain how it worked, all that’s important is that every British team was part of it at some stage and could have won it. Well in the end not one of the many world class teams but Ross County won in the final against Manchester United, the odds of that happening must have been so low

I've just found this a few days after starting a Winterthur save completely by chance (Randomised the league and club). Within 2 seasons I've got a 4th place finish and one Schweizer Pokal (Swiss FA Cup) and then a 2nd place finish. I signed loads of free agents and some known high-potential players for low prices. Still getting hammered in Europe though, and by the stupid objectives.

I had a Ross County save in FIFA 20. 8 UEFA champions league titles and counting. Troy Parrott at 99 ovr was a huge part of it. I am currently managing Millwall in the premier league in the 2032-33 season. So much fun

Started a Volendam career today, (got some extra time today as my work had to close early due to a power cut :) ), would reccomend any Eredvisie career mode. Wow i just saw he used Volendam without realising, INSANE. I also have an English scout as they have 3 Players from England.

Ankara is the capital not istanbul

Love this video! Probably one of my favorite

My only rule to pick a team for career mode is choosing the worst rated team doesn’t matter the league, so I’ve done some saves that you mention 😅

I've had a lot of fun with my Como save. In real life they have Dennis Wise as the president, so I bring in old Chelsea players, and loan in young players from there as well. They also start off with Fabregas, which is fun. Kits look great too.

Another one is Gillingham Fc on Base save. The club is agining and has short contracts. They got taken over in december so they signed 10 new players in the jan tansfer window, so make sure you play on the inital squads and not current.

the turkish fifa youtuber GRKN started his career mode playthrough with istanbulspor. he is doing a journeyman career (which is still continuing) but started and sticked with istanbulspor for three seasons.

Great video, fun suggestions, as always, thanks for all your hard work and creativity. I’m intending to do an SPL save with create-a-club Greenock Morton. It’s not remote, and there are nearly 70 clubs in the Scottish football system within daily commuting distance of Greenock. However, I think it could well be that this means most of the money floating around football goes to other clubs before it gets to Morton. Any decent player who rocks up at Morton and developes into something much better can go elsewhere when the offers come in for them. I did consider Ross County and Santa Clara when I was looking for a club that was geographically remote, but I went for Tomso, which must be the most northerly club in fifa as it’s the only club inside the arctic circle. That was a fun save, but short lived because I couldn’t get comfortable with each season starting March, while the European season was more normally scheduled. But I also couldn’t personally justify bringing in 85 rated players, so there was great fun in finding players I don’t normally get a chance to sign. The most famous player I signed was Toby Aldeweireld, and he was free. I think I’ll try the Santa Clara save, it sounds really interesting and fun. I was looking to do a save with South American players only, but I have my doubts about the fun factor of playing in north or South America, largely due to lack of access to better competitions with bigger clubs. Santa Clara seems like the perfect compromise. Speaking of remote clubs, has anyone tried a save with a remote club? If so, how remote was it? How did you get on with it?

C.S Maritimo is in the same situation with Santa Clara, they are both a club located in a small island. Even though this one is more closer to Africa than Santa Clara. They are both fighting in the relegation battle this season too

One of the ideas that I have and wanted to do for a long time is full 11 with the academy players 94 potential but valued under 200k

Not as difficult as Sole of them but I think a Hamburg SV Save is very interesting

Won the Scottish premiership and the confrence league with Ross County on Fifa 22 last year, by just signing all of my local team talents. And i think Tromsø could be an interesting save, as I think they are most northren team on FIFA, and you could try to get them to win the Norwegian league again, and get them into the, Champions or Europa league

I find the new fifa’s career mode a bit boring now, I’ve spent over 150 hours on different saves, so now I’m going back to fifa 15, because everything was so in-depth then. You could request funds from the board, you can’t give yourself a higher budget or restart matches, the prize money at the end of the season is a lot lower, everything is just so much harder, but it feels a lot more like a career mode.

Just started a new career with Canada captain Atiba Hutchinson. Retired from playing career at the start of season one and started managing istanbulspor with a view to building a squad with young Canadian and Turkish players. Very difficult. I want to build the Canadian talent and manage Canada to a World Cup triumph but the Canada player pool on FIFA 23 is very small and the vast majority of players are impossible to sign right now because they’ve just recently joined their club and won’t move again some low rating players have also rejected a loan move lol. Also, the very low budget at Istanbulspor makes it difficult for me to sign a decent youth scout and get players that way. I’ve managed to sign four players now and I think that I’m just going to have to get through the first season with what I have. With the cash I earn in season one I will hopefully be able to sign a good youth scout and young players next season and push on from there.

I done a Ross County save as Ross is my brothers name. Also it's a youth feeder brilliant save worth doing

I did an FC Dallas save and the only thing I did was pump youth academy players to Europe, so any European club that came I had to sell, it's fun trying to adhere to the MLS rules, but to also build up the US, Mexico, and any other Americas country. I did another with an MLS club going from Football League 2/German 3rd division going to the champions league final, but still using MLS roster and salary rules. The first 2 divisions are easy to get promoted b/c of the gap in quality, but past that is tough b/c the roster rules will force to rotate the squad and might compromise the the available players. It's fun managing the finances b/c certain players can't be signed due to their salary demands b/c you don't want to lose a DP or TAM spot.

As a Volendam local, it was obviously the first team I did a save on, and I definetly got spoiled there. Super fun.

Elche CF is a good start, trying not to get relegated in La Liga

I have rekindled my love for FC Schalke this new year. It’s more difficult than I thought because their budget is that of an EFL club 😮

SANTA CLARA is my club and I have a carrer mode for 7 seasons. I won 3 Liga Nos titles, 1 Europa League title, and 2 Champions league Titles. I had a europa league final in against Benfica and Gabriel Sliva is an absolute legend

Sounds like good ideas. Cup runs are kinda sad since there are only a few teams and you win it after playing 3 or 4 games. Any guides to make playing these teams enjoyable and possibly realistic?

Santa Clara is my hometown club

I have Ross county season tickets💪🏻mon the staggies💙❤️

I think a good idea for a fun career mode would be starting at an efl league 2 club like Salford and progress into the top flight of English and European football

Just for your information,İstanbul isn’t the capital city of Turkey,the capital city is Ankara.Btw great video as always,thanks.

Did the santa clara one. My goal was to beat benfica in the standings and win the national trophy but also win a international trophy (ucl, uecl, conference league). After 6 or 7 seasons I finally did it and even became first in the standings. It was a very fun save to do. Edit: didn't do it with only south americans tho

Gooo Santa Clara ❤️ I'm from the Azorean island's mate. I'm from the biggest Island where's Santa Clara is located São Miguel, congrats for the idea.

I've just started a Lyngby save. They're a danish club that have produced talents like Yussuf Poulsen and Emre Mor. IRL they are rock bottom of the Danish superliga

When you are using the GTN in career mode, does it make a diference if you tick the promising attribute when scouting for young players?

Volendam was very interesting

Winterthur is the one I’m doing now. Ltaief is a loanee 😢

I really like this 👍🍉🤣

I actually started off with Fifa 23 career mode with a save with FC Winterthur... Eventually, I got sacked in the 2nd or 3rd season as the club board thought I could win the f0cking league after the first season where I placed in the second half of the table lol

Most of the irish clubs dont have the budget or the aquad to be fair . I wish they would add more leagues though so we can do a proper RTG career . I.d love to take a national league north/south side to european glory . And i.d like to see more information though the seasons so you can look back at your achivements though the years . Biggest win .biggest loss .your season by season transfers .the leagues and cups you have won thoughtout your 15 year career .longest you have been at a club . Etc

Iam playing as my hometown club IFK Värnamo. This is the first time ever we are in Fifa and Iam having so much fun playing with my team in a realistic way

i’m doing a macedonian rtg super league and i 100% regret starting it 😅

on the istanbul saves, who is the white hair manager you used. it seems to have a scan face

Paris FC was tough for me. I tried to knock off the giants of PSG it’s a long process and money is an issue, signing players from France, African nations and Switzerland/Belgium. Youth I also stick to them main French speaking nations if possible

i don't play fifa anymore but i still enjoy your videos. its crazy how you can come up with so many videos on one mode

Volendam actually didnt get relegated irl

As a county fan please save us even if it’s just a game

Bro called istanbul the capital city

It’s no team Alexis Vega and the rest of the Mexico free agents can’t fix lol

It's 75 Ltaief and di giusto wouldn't be the best wingers with 75. Fassnacht is the best winger rating wise and arguably irl too.

Santa Clara is my howetown team

I wanted a hard save so I thought hmm why not make a half star team in the MLS shouldn't be that hard ... bruh I got sacked after 2 years kinda hard to win games with a brand new club of 50 rated players no defense at all and a 40 year old zlatan ibrahimovic as your only scoring option lol safe to say I started a new career mode in the 2nd english division I really want to do a road to glory save

Azoress, Vamosssss.

What the hell, I ended a career at Al Batin yesterday not knowing it was one of the toughest saves in career mode, we won the Asian Champions League in season 3. I bought several players for free, in season 3 they were José Sá, Tanganga, Aning, Trincão & Adama and I bought Wei Shihao and Eriksen, the rest were Saudi players since we can only have 7 foreigners in Saudi Arabia. Now I went to Ipswich Town FC

anyone see the 99 lb youth academy player at 3:44??

Hey guys, I get it but he’s not Stephen Fry he’s doing the best job he can for US lot so…

FC Volendam represent

The game is imbalanced essentially your striker gets 70% of your goals and develops the most

The toughest Career Mode starts: accomplish the objectives assigned to you by the board of directors. If not, you're getting sacked even though you're up in the table

just create your club, put half star, veteran squad, 1 mil budget, only 1 star youth scout and sign only youth players that you find,try to build a winning team , this is the hardest way....good luck

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The problem with these kind of saves is that there is no relegation. Makes it much less interesting

Fm miles clear

Istanbul isnt the Turkish capital, Ankara is but Istanbul is the biggest city

The Azores not even half way near Brazil but closer to Africa

All of these ideas would be so much better if the game wasn't scripted dogshit. It would be nice if for the first time in many many years you could actually play the game and get results based on your actual skill and inputs, rather than a predetermined script that makes games harder or easier than they should be based on the star rating of your team and your opponent.

Ankara is capital city of turkey.

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