Hard FM27 saves
Tough saves for patient managers, rated 7 or 8 out of 10. 108 save ideas, difficulty from 7 to 8 out of 10. 23 are playable in the base game.
- 1860 Munich
Regionalliga Bayern1860 Munich won the Bundesliga in 1965/66 - before Bayern Munich had ever been German champions - but in 2026/27 they are down in Regionalliga Bayern. That makes the…
- AC ChievoVerona
Serie DChievo went from a neighbourhood club to Champions League qualifying before going bust. Former captain Sergio Pellissier helped bring the name and badge back into…
- Altay
TFF 3. LigAltay are one of İzmir's historic giants, have won the Turkish Cup twice and spent decades in the top flight. A five-year transfer ban and financial crisis helped send…
- AltınorduTFF 2. Lig
Altınordu produced Çağlar Söyüncü and Cengiz Ünder through an academy built around Turkish players. For years they refused to use foreign players at all. Commit to that…
- Arsenal de Sarandí
Primera B MetropolitanaCopa Sudamericana winners in 2007, Argentine champions in 2012 and Supercopa winners later that year. They are now down in the third-tier Primera B Metropolitana. Take a…
- Bangu
Campeonato Carioca Série ABangu were a penalty shootout away from winning the 1985 Brasileirão, then spent the following decades drifting out of the national elite. In 2026 they played only the…
- Berchem Sport
National Division 2Berchem Sport finished second in Belgium three seasons running from 1949 to 1951, losing out to Anderlecht every time. They have never won the league and are now in the…
- Berwick Rangers
Lowland League EastBerwick-upon-Tweed is in England, but Berwick Rangers have always played in the Scottish system. They dropped out of the SPFL in 2019 and now play in the fifth-tier…
- Brechin City
Lowland League EastBrechin went through the entire 2017/18 Scottish Championship season without a win, finishing with four points. A few years later they were out of the SPFL altogether…
- CD Badajoz
Tercera FederaciónThe original Badajoz went bust after more than a century and supporters had to start again. The revived club is back in the fifth tier. Take Extremadura's border-city…
- Carlisle UnitedNational League
Carlisle were top of the English First Division in August 1974 after winning their opening three games. They finished bottom that same season and have never returned to…
- ChesterfieldLeague Two
Chesterfield were denied a place in the 1997 FA Cup final after Jonathan Howard's shot against Middlesbrough crossed the line but wasn't given. They lost the semi-final…
- Club Atlético AtlasPrimera C
Atlas became a cult favourite through the documentary series Atlas, la otra pasión, which followed players balancing football with ordinary jobs. After decades at the…
- Coronel Bolognesi
Copa Perú / district leaguesCoronel Bolognesi won the 2007 Clausura and played Libertadores football from the border city of Tacna. Financial problems later drove them into the local amateur…
- DSV Leoben
Landesliga SteiermarkDSV Leoben reached the 2024 Austrian Cup semi-finals as a second-tier side. Financial problems then sent them into the Styrian regional leagues. Sort out the finances…
- Deportivo MunicipalCopa Perú / amateur regional
Four-time Peruvian champions Deportivo Municipal haven't won the league since 1950. Years of financial trouble took them out of professional football, with exclusion…
- Eendracht Aalst LedeNational Division 2
Aalst knocked Levski Sofia out of the 1995 UEFA Cup before facing Roma. After the old club collapsed, a new project with Lede kept the football identity going. Rebuild…
- El-Kanemi Warriors
Nigeria National LeagueEl-Kanemi Warriors were relegated from Nigeria's top flight and then won the national cup in the same summer, earning a place in African competition. Try to win a…
- EskişehirsporTFF 3. Lig
Eskişehirspor were the first great Anatolian challengers to Istanbul's clubs, finishing Turkish league runners-up three times around the turn of the 1970s. Decades later…
- FCU 1948 Craiova
Liga 4 (county)FCU Craiova played in the Romanian top flight in 2024 but financial and licensing problems have sent them down to Liga 4. Their dispute with Universitatea Craiova makes…
- Honda FC
Japan Football LeagueHonda's works team have been strong enough for professional football but historically chose not to join the J.League because doing so would change what the club is. A…
- Jeanne d'Arc de Dakar
Lower Senegalese division - verifyJeanne d'Arc won ten Senegalese championships and reached the 2004 African Champions League semi-finals. They have since dropped away from the country's top level…
- Juan AurichLiga 3
Juan Aurich beat Alianza Lima on penalties to win the Peruvian championship in 2011. Financial and licensing problems later sent the Chiclayo club down the divisions…
- KDV Tomsk
Russian Second League Division BA company better known for crisps, chocolate and biscuits has launched a football club in Tomsk after the city's old professional side disappeared. They've already…
- KF Fjallabyggð
3. deild karlaLeiftur, the predecessor to KF Fjallabyggð, played Hamburger SV and Anderlecht in Europe during the 1990s. The modern merged club represents two small fishing towns and…
- KSK BeverenBelgian provincial leagues - verify
KSK Beveren won Belgian titles in 1979 and 1984, but the historic club eventually disappeared from senior football. Supporters preserved the old registration and brought…
- KV Diksmuide-OostendeNational Division 2
KV Oostende played in Europe in 2017 before going bankrupt in 2024. A club from Diksmuide moved to Ostend and adopted a new identity to keep senior football alive in the…
- Karabük İdman YurduTFF 3. Lig
The old Karabükspor faced Saint-Étienne in Europe in 2014 before financial collapse ended the club in 2023. Karabük İdman Yurdu now carry the city's hopes in the lower…
- Kickers OffenbachRegionalliga Südwest
Kickers Offenbach became the first club from outside the Bundesliga to win the DFB-Pokal when they lifted it in 1970. They have also been German runners-up twice, yet…
- Mayo FC
FAI National LeagueMayo only played their first senior national-league match in 2026. County football is still dominated by the Gaelic game, so there's almost no senior football history to…
- Metalist Kharkiv
Ukrainian First LeagueThe old Metalist reached the Europa League quarter-finals in 2012 and finished second in Ukraine a year later before financial collapse ended the club in 2016. The…
- Nîmes Olympique
National 1Nîmes finished runners-up in France three seasons running from 1958 to 1960, then did it again in 1972. They have also lost three French Cup finals. Four near misses and…
- Panachaiki FC
Gamma EthnikiPanachaiki were the first Greek club from outside the main football centres to qualify for Europe, back in 1973. Patras has never had a league champion. Get the city…
- Paraná ClubeCampeonato Paranaense 1st Division (2027)
Paraná were only formed in 1989 but quickly became one of southern Brazil's biggest success stories, reaching Série A and the Copa Libertadores. The collapse was just as…
- PiacenzaSerie D
Piacenza spent much of the 1990s in Serie A while famously leaning heavily on Italian players rather than importing stars. They are now in Serie D. Make the identity the…
- PortuguesaCampeonato Brasileiro Série D
Portuguesa were relegated from Brazil's Série A in 2013 after losing four points for fielding an ineligible player, triggering a collapse few historic clubs recover…
- Queen of the SouthScottish League One
Queen of the South reached the 2008 Scottish Cup final after an absurd 4-3 semi-final win, then played European football despite losing to Rangers. They're now in the…
- Reggina 1914Serie D
Reggina were in Serie B in 2023 before financial trouble put them back in the fourth tier. They once spent nine seasons in Serie A. Get them there again, bring back the…
- Remo Stars FCNigeria National League
Remo Stars won their first Nigerian league title in 2025 and were relegated the following season. Their academy has helped build the club, but now the first job is…
- SC BastiaLigue 3
Bastia reached the 1978 UEFA Cup final before decades of financial trouble sent them down the leagues. They're back in France's third tier. Put Corsica back on the…
- SS TarantoEccellenza
Taranto is one of the biggest Italian cities never to have seen its team in Serie A. Another financial collapse has left the city's successor club in the fifth tier. End…
- Salgueiros
Campeonato de PortugalSalgueiros finished sixth in Portugal in 1990/91 and played in the UEFA Cup the following season, giving Porto a third top-flight club alongside FC Porto and Boavista…
- Scunthorpe UnitedNational League
Scunthorpe were playing in the Championship in 2011, but ownership problems and repeated relegations sent them into the National League North by 2023. They finally won…
- Southend UnitedNational League
Southend came frighteningly close to disappearing before a new ownership group finally completed its takeover in 2024. They then lost the 2025 National League play-off…
- Sportivo ItalianoPrimera B Metropolitana
Sportivo Italiano were founded by post-war Italian immigrants in Argentina and still wear that identity openly. Make it a full role-play save: only sign Argentine and…
- Stade de ReimsLigue 2
Reims lost European Cup finals to Real Madrid in both 1956 and 1959. Six French titles, Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine are quite a history to live up to. Get them out of…
- Stuttgarter KickersRegionalliga Südwest
Stuttgarter Kickers reached the 1987 DFB-Pokal final and have played Bundesliga football, but they now sit in the fourth-tier Regionalliga while VfB dominate the city…
- TP-47
KakkonenTP-47 come from Tornio on Finland's Swedish border, close to the Arctic Circle. They are playing in Kakkonen, outside FM's standard Finnish playable levels. Load a…
- Tasmania BerlinRegionalliga Nordost
The Tasmania name is inseparable from the infamous 1965/66 Bundesliga side that won twice, conceded 108 goals and became shorthand for a disastrous top-flight season…
- Thai Farmers Bank
Defunct / custom databaseOne for a custom database. Thai Farmers Bank won back-to-back Asian Club Championships in 1994 and 1995 and then ceased to exist. Bring one of Asia’s strangest lost…
- UD IbizaPrimera Federación
Ibiza's club raced from regional football into the second division before slipping back down. Take the island into La Liga for the first time and turn a place famous for…
- UE CornellàTercera Federación
Messi also owns Cornellà, who were in Spain's fifth tier when he bought them. Their academy has produced players such as David Raya. Take this small Catalan club up the…
- US Thionville LusitanosLigue 3
Thionville Lusitanos have climbed four divisions in five years and their Portuguese roots make for a decent squad-building rule. Keep the rise going, try recruiting only…
- USV Hercules
Derde DivisieFourth-tier amateurs Hercules knocked Ajax out of the Dutch Cup with a 93rd-minute winner in 2023. They've never reached professional football. Turn their one famous…
- Valour FC
Operations suspended / recreationWinnipeg's Valour FC were a founding Canadian Premier League club but never reached the play-offs and suspended operations in 2025. Bring the club back in a custom…
- Vitória de SetúbalCampeonato de Portugal
Vitória have played more than 70 seasons in Portugal's top flight and won three Portuguese Cups, but financial problems eventually cost them their national-league place…
- Vorskla PoltavaProfessional licence withdrawn / setup needed
Vorskla beat Shakhtar to win Ukraine's cup in 2009 and later played Europa League group football. Financial problems and licensing issues followed relegation in 2025…
- Wiener Sport-ClubRegionalliga Ost
Wiener Sport-Club were Austrian champions in 1958 and 1959 and once beat Juventus 7-0 in the European Cup. They now play in the third-tier Regionalliga Ost. Take a club…
- WorthingNational League
Former player George Dowell bought Worthing in 2015 using compensation from the accident that left him paralysed. He paid off debts, improved the club's facilities and…
- Xerez Deportivo FCTercera Federación
Xerez Deportivo were created by supporters in 2013 as Xerez CD unravelled financially after having reached La Liga only four years earlier. The fan-built club has spent…
- Yeovil TownNational League
Yeovil beat Brentford at Wembley to reach the Championship in 2013. Ten years later, they'd dropped to the sixth tier after four relegations in a decade. They're back in…
- Akhisarspor / Akhisar 1970 Spor KulübüAkhisar 1970 / local amateur football
Akhisarspor beat Fenerbahçe in the 2018 Turkish Cup final and Galatasaray in the Super Cup, then played in Europe. Financial collapse followed, and a separate Akhisar…
- Ars et Labor Ferrara (SPAL successor)Eccellenza
SPAL played in Serie A as recently as 2020 before collapsing financially and being replaced by a new club in Ferrara. That successor is stuck in Eccellenza. Five…
- Berwick RangersLowland League East
Berwick are an English club playing in the Scottish system and once knocked Rangers out of the Scottish Cup. They lost their SPFL place in 2019. Take them back into the…
- BordeauxRégional 1
Six-time French champions Bordeaux have fallen from Ligue 1 into Régional 1 after a financial crisis and exclusion from the national divisions. This is a genuine giant…
- Borussia NeunkirchenOberliga Rheinland-Pfalz/Saar
Borussia Neunkirchen played Bundesliga football in the 1960s and were one of Saarland's major clubs before the region vanished from Germany's elite. They now play in the…
- Brora RangersHighland League
Brora, from a Highland village of around 1,000 people, knocked Hearts out of the Scottish Cup in 2021. They've come close to breaking into the SPFL too. Complete the…
- Buckie ThistleHighland League
Stephen King took an interest in Buckie Thistle and even included the club in one of his books. The Highland League side have a rather more ordinary football record…
- Caledonian BravesLowland League West
Caledonian Braves have attracted thousands of small investors from around the world despite starting in Scotland's fifth tier. See if a supporter-backed project with no…
- CasaleEccellenza Piemonte-Valle d'Aosta
Casale won the Italian championship in 1914, making a small Piedmont town one of the most unlikely champions in Serie A history. More than a century later they are…
- Chester FCNational League North
Chester City was wound up in 2010 and supporters immediately created Chester FC in its place. The club play in the English pyramid despite their stadium sitting just…
- Clydebank FCLowland League West
The old Clydebank lost its senior-league identity in 2002 when its registration was used to create Airdrie United. Supporters formed a new Clydebank and started again in…
- Cray WanderersIsthmian League Premier Division
Founded in 1860 by railway workers, Cray Wanderers are London's oldest surviving football club. They've never played in the Football League, and only recently ended…
- DarlingtonNational League North
Darlington spent generations in the Football League before financial collapse forced a supporter-led rebuild far down the pyramid. The club is now fan-owned, with the…
- DenizlisporTurkish amateur / regional leagues
Denizlispor knocked Lyon out of the 2002/03 UEFA Cup before losing to José Mourinho's Porto. They've since fallen out of Turkish professional football. Start in the…
- Dorking WanderersNational League South
Dorking Wanderers were founded by a group of mates in 1999 and climbed from park football all the way to the National League. They are a modern non-league phenomenon…
- FBK Kaunas
Defunct / club recreationFBK Kaunas won eight Lithuanian titles and knocked Rangers out of Champions League qualifying in 2008. Financial collapse later ended the club. Recreate the former…
- FC Chertanovo MoscowRussian Second League Division B
Chertanovo got within one place of Russia's top flight while using players developed in their own academy. They're now down in the fourth tier. Keep the academy-only…
- FC DniproDefunct / club recreation
Dnipro reached the 2015 Europa League final after knocking out Napoli, Ajax and Club Brugge. Financial problems later destroyed the club. Recreate the historic side from…
- FC Halifax TownNational League
Halifax Town went bust in 2008 and the successor club rebuilt from three divisions lower. They have already made it back to the National League; only one promotion now…
- FC Lovech (former Litex Lovech)
No active senior leagueLitex Lovech won four Bulgarian titles, including their first immediately after promotion in 1997/98, but the project unravelled after the club's 2015 expulsion from the…
- FC MulhouseRégional 1 Grand Est
Mulhouse were founded in 1893 when Alsace was part of the German Empire, making them one of the strangest old clubs in French football. They were also members of the…
- FC Zestafoni
Regionuli LigaZestafoni won back-to-back Georgian championships in 2011 and 2012 before collapsing down into regional football. A fifth-tier club with two recent national titles makes…
- FK Atlantas KlaipėdaInactive / club recreation
Atlantas won two Lithuanian Cups and played in Europe before financial problems and match-fixing allegations brought their professional era to an end. Restore Klaipėda's…
- FK Mogren Budva
Defunct / club recreationMogren won Montenegrin titles in 2009 and 2011 before financial collapse destroyed the club. Recreate the old Budva champions in a custom database and take the resort…
- FK Ventspils
Inactive / club recreationVentspils won six Latvian titles and became the country's first Europa League group-stage club in 2009. Financial problems ended their professional era in 2021. Recreate…
- Forest Green RoversNational League
Forest Green rose from non-league to League One in 2022, with their vegan menu and environmental policies attracting attention far beyond football. Back-to-back…
- GNK Šibenik
1. ŽNL Šibensko-kninskaHNK Šibenik were a Croatian top-flight club in 2024/25, then relegation, debt and licensing failure pushed the old entity out of the national pyramid. A new legal…
- Gretna 2008Lowland League West
The original Gretna went from English non-league to the Scottish Premiership, a Scottish Cup final and Europe at absurd speed - then collapsed. Gretna 2008 is the…
- HerefordNational League North
Hereford United was wound up in 2014 and its supporter-backed successor had to restart near the bottom of non-league. The club has already fought back to National League…
- JoinvilleCampeonato Catarinense Série B
Joinville won Série C in 2011, Série B in 2014 and were in Brazil's Série A in 2015. Eleven years later, their 50th-anniversary season ended with relegation to the…
- MacclesfieldNational League North
The old Macclesfield Town collapsed in 2020; the phoenix club has flown through the pyramid and in 2026 became the first sixth-tier side ever to knock the reigning FA…
- MarineNational League North
In January 2021, eighth-tier Marine hosted José Mourinho's Tottenham in the FA Cup at their tiny Rossett Park ground. Fans couldn't attend because of Covid restrictions…
- NK ZagrebZagreb amateur leagues
NK Zagreb remain the only club outside Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split and Rijeka to have won the Croatian league, doing it in 2002. They are now playing amateur football in…
- Nankatsu SCJapanese regional / lower league
Nankatsu is the fictional club from Captain Tsubasa made real, with creator Yoichi Takahashi involved in the project. Take one of football's strangest real-life…
- Puerto Rico Islanders
Defunct - custom setupPuerto Rico Islanders reached the semi-finals of the 2008/09 CONCACAF Champions League and even beat Cruz Azul 2-0 in the first leg before losing on penalties. The club…
- SC Dnipro-1Defunct / club recreation
Dnipro-1 were founded in 2017, finished Ukrainian league runners-up in 2022/23 and disappeared from professional competition in 2024. It's a meteoric rise and fall…
- SedanRégional 1 Grand Est
Sedan won two French Cups and were still a Ligue 1 club in the 2000s, but liquidation in 2023 forced them into regional football. They are now in Régional 1, miles from…
- Serbian White EaglesCanadian regional / amateur league - verify
Toronto's Serbian White Eagles played in the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1975, where a tie against Monterrey ended amid disorder. Recreate a Serbian-Canadian side capable…
- Skonto FCDefunct / club recreation
Skonto won 14 straight Latvian titles from 1991 to 2004 before the club collapsed financially and disappeared. Recreate one of Europe's most relentless domestic…
- TP Mazembe
Linafoot Ligue 1In 2010, Mazembe became the first club from outside Europe or South America to reach the Club World Cup final. They lost to Inter Milan. There is really only one…
- TamworthNational League
Fifth-tier Tamworth held Tottenham to 0-0 after 90 minutes in the 2025 FA Cup before eventually losing 3-0 in extra time. The Lambs came painfully close to one of the…
- Toronto CroatiaCanadian regional / amateur league - verify
Toronto Croatia's immigrant community helped turn Metros-Croatia into NASL champions in 1976, with Eusébio leading the attack. Rebuild a Croatian-Canadian football…
- Truro CityNational League South
No Cornish club has ever played in the Football League. Truro became the first from the county to reach the National League in 2025, but were relegated after just one…
- Wattenscheid 09Oberliga Westfalen
Wattenscheid spent four straight seasons in the Bundesliga from 1990 to 1994 and developed players including the Altıntop brothers before financial collapse pushed the…
- Wick AcademyHighland League
Wick Academy are based near the northern tip of mainland Scotland, so even ordinary away trips are a serious undertaking. Take Britain's northernmost senior club out of…
- WorkingtonNorthern Premier League Premier Division
Workington spent 26 years in the Football League and gave Bill Shankly one of his early managerial jobs before he became a Liverpool legend. They lost their league place…
- Znamya Truda Orekhovo-ZuyevoMoscow Oblast regional amateur league
Russia's oldest surviving football club was founded by English textile workers and reached the Soviet Cup final in 1962. It's now in regional amateur football. Take a…