Fallen giant save ideas
Former champions and big clubs that lost their way. Rebuild them and bring the glory days back. 187 save ideas, difficulty from 3 to 10 out of 10. 83 are playable in the base game.
- Churchill Brothers FC
Indian Super LeagueChurchill Brothers won two Indian league titles, dropped out of the top flight and eventually returned after a bizarre licence deal involving Jamshedpur. Turn their…
- Iraklis
Super League GreeceFounded in 1908, Iraklis are one of Thessaloniki's great historic clubs and won the Greek Cup in 1976. Financial and licensing problems repeatedly destroyed their league…
- Puebla
Liga MXPuebla were Mexican champions, cup winners and CONCACAF champions around their late-1980s and early-1990s peak. They have spent decades nowhere near that level - restore…
- Rubin Kazan
Russian Premier LeagueRubin beat Guardiola's Barcelona at the Camp Nou in 2009 while defending back-to-back Russian league titles. They've never got close to that level in Europe again…
- Standard Liège
Belgian Pro LeagueStandard won ten Belgian titles and lost the 1982 Cup Winners' Cup final to Barcelona. Their last championship came in 2009, with financial trouble following in recent…
- Wisła Kraków
EkstraklasaFourteen-time Polish champions Wisła spent four years outside the Ekstraklasa before finally returning for 2026/27. Their city now contains three top-flight clubs…
- 12 de Octubre (Itauguá)
División Intermedia (2027 promoted)12 de Octubre won the 2002 Clausura, then lost the overall Paraguayan championship final to Libertad. After dropping into the third tier, they earned promotion to the…
- Accra Great Olympics
Division One LeagueGreat Olympics won the Ghanaian league in 1970 and 1974, but decades of relegations have left them behind Accra rivals Hearts of Oak. Bring one of the city's historic…
- Admira Wacker
Austrian 2. LigaAdmira have nine Austrian titles but haven't won the league since 1966. Mergers, relocations and relegations have left the former Vienna power in the second tier. Put…
- Africa Sports d'Abidjan
Ligue 2 Côte d'IvoireAfrica Sports are one of Ivory Coast's great historic clubs and two-time African Cup Winners' Cup champions, yet by 2025/26 they were playing in Ligue 2 while rivals…
- Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya
Iraq Stars LeagueIraq’s Air Force club won three consecutive AFC Cups between 2016 and 2018. Rebuild that continental machine and aim for success at the highest level of Asian football.
- Alga Bishkek
Kyrgyz Premier LeagueFounded as Zenit Frunze in 1947, Alga came closer than any Kyrgyz club to reaching the Soviet top flight. They later won titles after independence, disappeared…
- Ards
NIFL ChampionshipArds won the Irish League in 1958 and beat Standard Liège in Europe in 1973. They've spent decades without a permanent home in their own town after losing Castlereagh…
- Avenir Beggen
Division of HonourAvenir Beggen won six Luxembourg league titles and seven cups before slipping into the lower divisions. Their last title was in 1994. Take one of the country's forgotten…
- Avenues United
SVG Premier DivisionFour-time champions who won three titles in succession before suffering a disastrous 2025/26 season: no wins in 18 matches and relegation with four points. The rebuild…
- Blue Eagles
Super League of MalawiBlue Eagles were founded by the Malawi Police Service and have won domestic cups without ever becoming league champions. After relegation in 2023 they immediately fought…
- Bursaspor
TFF 1. LigBursaspor broke the Istanbul monopoly to become Turkish champions in 2010, then financial collapse sent them crashing all the way to the fourth tier. Their huge support…
- Busan IPark
K League 2Busan were Asian club champions in 1986 and have four Korean league titles, making them one of the country's great historic clubs. They have spent years stuck in K…
- CSM Reșița
Liga 2Reșița won the Romanian league in 1931 and took the cup in 1954 while playing in the second division. They have spent decades outside the top flight. Rebuild the…
- Cavalier FC
BFA Senior LeagueCavalier won four Bahamian championships between 1997 and 2001. In 2025/26 they finished bottom with one victory and 99 goals conceded in 15 matches. You could hardly…
- Chabab Mohammédia
Botola 2Chabab Mohammédia won the Moroccan championship in 1980. In 2024/25 they finished bottom with just four points and not a single win in 30 matches. Take a former champion…
- Chornomorets Odesa
Ukrainian Premier LeagueChornomorets reached the 2014 Europa League knockouts before losing narrowly to Lyon. Relegated in 2025, they won promotion back to Ukraine's top flight for 2026/27…
- Colón de Santa Fe
Primera NacionalColón waited 116 years to win a major trophy, then lifted the 2021 Copa de la Liga. Two years later they were relegated. Get Santa Fe's fallen cup winners back into the…
- CrusadersNIFL Premiership
Crusaders won three titles between 2015 and 2018, but only survived the 2025/26 relegation play-off on penalties against Annagh United. Take the Belfast club from the…
- Deportivo CapiatáDivisión Intermedia
Deportivo Capiatá shocked Boca Juniors 1-0 at La Bombonera in the 2014 Sudamericana before going out on penalties. They're now in Paraguay's second division. Bring…
- Emirates Club
UAE First DivisionEmirates Club brought Andrés Iniesta to Ras Al Khaimah in 2023, only to be relegated the following year. They're now in the second division. Build a team that can win…
- Esbjerg
Danish 1st DivisionEsbjerg have five Danish league titles and were regular European qualifiers in the 2000s, before ownership turmoil and relegations dumped them into the third tier in…
- Etar Veliko Tarnovo
Bulgarian Second LeagueThe Etar name reached the summit of Bulgarian football with the 1990/91 title and a European Cup campaign the following season. Today's Etar are in the second tier after…
- FC Bihor OradeaLiga 2
The old FC Bihor collapsed in 2016. Their replacement made it back to Romania's second tier and reached the 2026 promotion play-offs, but a licensing problem blocked the…
- FC Blau-Weiß LinzAustrian 2. Liga
Blau-Weiß Linz were formed by supporters after FC Linz's identity disappeared in a merger with LASK in 1997. They made it to the Bundesliga before relegation in 2026…
- FC Twente
EredivisieTwente broke the Dutch establishment to win the Eredivisie in 2010, then financial mismanagement eventually contributed to relegation eight years later. They bounced…
- FK TransINVEST
A LygaFounded in 2021, TransINVEST won the 2023 Lithuanian Cup while in the second division and qualified for Europe. Promotion, relegation and another comeback followed. Turn…
- First Vienna FCAustrian 2. Liga
Founded in 1894, First Vienna are Austria's oldest club, have six league titles and wear a badge inspired by the Isle of Man. Their last championship came in 1955. Get…
- Floridsdorfer ACAustrian 2. Liga
Floridsdorfer AC won Austria's league in 1918 and also won a cup final that was never officially recognised. They're now in the second division. Take the forgotten…
- Girona FC
Segunda DivisiónGirona went from a first-ever Champions League campaign in 2024 to relegation two years later. Their links to City Football Group make this an unusual rebuild. Get back…
- GlenavonNIFL Championship
Glenavon became the first Irish League champions from outside Belfast in 1952. In 2025/26 they lost their opening 11 games and were relegated after 21 years in the…
- Godoy CruzPrimera Nacional
Seventeen straight seasons in Argentina's top flight ended with relegation in 2025. Godoy Cruz are back in Primera Nacional after years as an established Primera…
- Gorica
2. SNLGorica won three consecutive Slovenian titles from 2004 to 2006 and four overall, making them the clearest old rival to the country's modern giants. They are now in 2…
- Grazer AKAustrian Bundesliga
Grazer AK won the Austrian double in 2004 before collapsing financially and restarting in the eighth tier in 2013. Six promotions took them back to the Bundesliga by…
- Harland & Wolff WeldersNIFL Championship
Founded by workers at Belfast's famous shipyard, the Welders began with a collection among employees and grew into a senior football club. Take a team tied to the yard…
- Hearts of OakGhana Premier League
Hearts of Oak won the CAF Champions League in 2000 and were one of Africa's strongest sides around that period. Restore Accra's giants, dominate Ghana again and build a…
- Helsingborgs IF
SuperettanHelsingborg were Swedish champions in 2011 and were still playing Champions League qualifiers the following year. They have since bounced between divisions and are back…
- Irtysh Pavlodar
Kazakhstan Premier LeagueIrtysh won five Kazakh championships and even reached the Asian Club Championship semi-finals in 2001 before financial problems forced them to withdraw from the league…
- KV MechelenBelgian Pro League
Mechelen beat Ajax to win the 1988 Cup Winners' Cup and then defeated PSV in the Super Cup. No Belgian club has won a major European trophy since. After years of…
- Kénitra ACBotola 2
Kénitra won four Moroccan championships, including consecutive titles in 1981 and 1982. They haven't been champions since and have slipped into the second division. Take…
- Le Mans FC
Ligue 1Le Mans were a Ligue 1 club in 2010 before financial collapse sent them as low as the sixth tier. After years rebuilding, back-to-back promotions have returned them to…
- Mainstay Goldstar FC
GFF Elite LeagueMainstay became the first club from Guyana’s Essequibo region to reach the Elite League. Their first season was brutal: no wins, 10 goals scored and 205 conceded in 18…
- Mouloudia OujdaBotola 2
Mouloudia Oujda won four of the first six Moroccan Throne Cups and added a league title in 1975. They now play in the second tier. Restore one of the country's original…
- Moyola ParkNIFL Championship
Moyola Park won the first Irish Cup in 1881, beating Cliftonville in the final. They won promotion to the second tier for 2026/27 after years outside senior football…
- Muangthong United
Thai League 2Muangthong won four Thai league titles and went unbeaten through their 2012 championship campaign. Relegation in 2026 ended 17 consecutive seasons in the top flight. Get…
- NK Karlovac 1919
SuperSport Prva NLKarlovac climbed from the third tier to Croatia's top flight with back-to-back promotions and finished sixth in each of their first two seasons there, before financial…
- Neuchâtel Xamax
Swiss Challenge LeagueBack-to-back Swiss champions in the 1980s, UEFA Cup quarter-finalists twice and capable of beating Real Madrid and Bayern Munich at home. Bankruptcy in 2012 forced the…
- Newry City AFCNIFL Championship
Newry City's original club was wound up in 2012. Supporters started again and climbed from local football to the Premiership in five seasons, before further relegations…
- Oțelul GalațiSuperLiga
Oțelul were Romanian champions in 2011 and faced Manchester United in the Champions League that autumn. They went bankrupt five years later, and supporters had to start…
- PSIS Semarang
Championship (Liga 2)PSIS won national titles in 1987 and 1999, but were relegated straight after the second triumph. Another relegation arrived in 2025. Get Semarang back up, build a side…
- Parma
Serie AParma went bankrupt in 2015, restarted in Serie D and became the first Italian club to earn three consecutive promotions back toward the top. They are now established in…
- Persiraja Banda AcehChampionship (Liga 2)
Persiraja beat Persipura to win the Indonesian championship in 1980. They haven't come close to repeating it and now play in the second division. Build around players…
- Persis SoloChampionship (Liga 2)
Persis helped found Indonesian football's governing association and won seven early national championships. They've fallen into the second division again after…
- Polonia BytomI liga
Polonia Bytom were Polish champions in 1954 and 1962 and once regularly represented the country in Europe. Decades of decline eventually dumped them into the regional…
- PortadownNIFL Premiership
Portadown won four Irish League titles between 1990 and 2002, including a double in 1991. Relegations and off-field trouble have since interrupted that success. Rebuild…
- Quảng Ninh FC
V.League 2 - verifyThan Quảng Ninh won Vietnam's cup in 2016 before unpaid wages brought the original professional team to an end in 2021. A new Quảng Ninh project reached the second…
- Saint Michel United
Seychelles Premier LeagueSaint Michel have 13 league titles and were a regular name in African qualifying during their dominant years. By 2025/26 they were fighting through a relegation…
- San LorenzoArgentine Primera División
San Lorenzo won the Libertadores in 2014, but by 2026 they were dealing with huge debts, dozens of legal cases and unpaid wages. Fix the finances without gutting the…
- Schwarz-Weiß BregenzAustrian 2. Liga
The original Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz collapsed in 2005 after playing Bundesliga football. A successor reclaimed the historic name and is now in Austria's second division…
- Sfax Railway Sport
Ligue Professionnelle 2Founded by railway workers, Sfax Railway Sport shocked Tunisia by winning the 1968 league title and nearly completed the double. They're now in the second tier, while CS…
- Shakhter KaragandyKazakhstan First League
The Miners won back-to-back Kazakh titles in 2011 and 2012, then beat Celtic 2-0 in the first leg of a Champions League play-off in 2013 before becoming Kazakhstan’s…
- SivassporTFF 1. Lig
Sivasspor came close to winning the Turkish title in 2009 and finally lifted their first major cup in 2022. Relegation followed in 2025. Return to the Süper Lig and…
- Sol de AméricaDivisión Intermedia
Sol de América broke Paraguay's established order with league titles in 1986 and 1991. They're now back in the second tier after relegation in 2024. Restore one of the…
- Sport Operário e Benfica
São Tomé and Príncipe ChampionshipOperários swept everything in 2025, winning the Príncipe championship, national championship, cup and super cup. The challenge is not rebuilding them. It is turning a…
- TB Tvøroyri
1. deildFounded in 1892, TB are the oldest club in the Faroes and have seven championships, but their last was in 1987. Relegated in 2025, they're now in the second division…
- Team Bangladesh
Palau Soccer League / custom DBFounded around Palau’s Bangladeshi community for the inaugural national league in 2004, Team Bangladesh became the competition’s most successful documented side with…
- Transvaal
Suriname Major LeagueTransvaal are two-time CONCACAF champions, winning the region's biggest club competition in 1973 and 1981. No Surinamese club has managed anything comparable in the…
- Unión Minas
Liga 2Unión Minas played top-flight football almost 4,300 metres above sea level in Cerro de Pasco. The miners disappeared from the professional game before winning the 2025…
- Vestri Ísafjörður
1. deild karlaVestri managed to win the Icelandic Cup and get relegated in the same season. They're based in the remote Westfjords, a long way from most of their opponents. Get them…
- Vllaznia Shkodër
Kategoria SuperioreAlbania’s oldest club were founded in 1919 and have nine league titles, but none since 2001. More than two decades without a championship gives you a proper fallen giant…
- Waterford FC
League of Ireland Premier DivisionWaterford won six Irish league titles in eight seasons from 1965 to 1973, then went more than half a century without another. Bring back that level of dominance and see…
- Étoile du SahelLigue Professionnelle 1
Étoile du Sahel won the 2007 African Champions League in Cairo and finished fourth at that year's Club World Cup. Financial trouble has since made life harder. Restore…
- Čelik Zenica
Premier League of Bosnia and HerzegovinaČelik won the first three championships of independent Bosnia but financial problems eventually sent one of the country's best-supported clubs into the lower leagues…
- İstanbulsporTFF 1. Lig
İstanbulspor were founded by pupils and teachers at Istanbul High School, with colours tied to the school's First World War history. They have spent years overshadowed…
- Al Hilal Omdurman
Sudanese top flightAl Hilal are one of Sudan's biggest clubs but have never won Africa's top club competition, losing finals in 1987 and 1992. Turn one of the continent's great nearly…
- BATE Borisov
Belarusian Premier LeagueFifteen league titles, including 13 in a row between 2006 and 2018, and five appearances in the Champions League group stage. BATE’s empire has since collapsed. Restore…
- Bahrain SC
Bahraini Second DivisionFive-time Bahraini champions whose last title came in 1989. They were relegated again in 2025/26, so you begin in the second tier trying to resurrect one of the…
- Barry Town United
Cymru PremierBarry dominated Wales in the 1990s and early 2000s, winning seven league titles and even beating Porto 3-1 at Jenner Park in 2001. Financial collapse then nearly wiped…
- Belshina BobruiskBelarusian Highest League
Belshina won the Belarusian title in 2001 and three national cups, but the years since have included repeated drops out of the top flight. They returned to the Highest…
- DC Motema Pembe
Linafoot Ligue 1DC Motema Pembe won the African Cup Winners' Cup in 1994 and remain one of Kinshasa's great clubs, yet local rivals Vita Club and TP Mazembe have carried far more…
- Deportivo La CoruñaLa Liga
Deportivo were Spanish champions in 2000 and Champions League semi-finalists in 2004, then collapsed as far as the third tier. They finally returned to La Liga for…
- FC Petržalka
Slovak 2. LigaAs Artmedia, they beat Celtic 5-0, eliminated Partizan and came from 2-0 down to beat reigning European champions Porto away during their extraordinary 2005/06 Champions…
- FK EkranasI Lyga
Seven post-independence league titles, including five in succession, before financial problems destroyed the original club. The name was revived in 2020 and they are now…
- Flamurtari VlorëKategoria e Parë
Flamurtari beat Barcelona 1-0 at home in the 1987 UEFA Cup before going out on away goals. Albania's 1991 champions have since endured relegations and financial…
- Gloria BistrițaLiga 2
Gloria spent 21 consecutive seasons in Romania's top flight and won the 1994 cup before the original club collapsed. A rebuilt football project reached Liga 2 in 2025…
- Heartland FC
Nigeria National LeagueHeartland have won five Nigerian titles but lost African Champions League finals in both 1988 and 2009. They're now in the second division. Win promotion, reclaim the…
- IndependienteArgentine Primera División
Seven Libertadores titles, more than anyone else, but not one since 1984. Financial instability has left Independiente a long way from the side that once ruled South…
- JS Kabylie
Algerian Ligue 1JS Kabylie are one of Algeria's great clubs: multiple African trophies, 14 league titles and three straight CAF Cup wins from 2000 to 2002. Restore a giant that has…
- Jorge Wilstermann
Copa Simón Bolívar / regional qualifyingWilstermann beat River Plate 3-0 in a 2017 Libertadores quarter-final before losing the return 8-0. Four recent Bolivian titles were followed by financial trouble and…
- Lobi Stars FCNigeria National League
Lobi Stars were Nigerian champions in 2018 and playing in the CAF Champions League the following season. Now they're back in the second tier. Bring one of Benue State's…
- Matsumoto Yamaga
J3 LeagueMatsumoto climbed from regional football to J1 in barely a decade, powered by crowds far bigger than their level suggested. They then fell just as dramatically and ended…
- Melbourne Knights
NPL VictoriaMelbourne Knights were built by Melbourne's Croatian community, won back-to-back national championships in the 1990s and helped launch Mark Viduka's career. They now…
- Montpellier HSCLigue 2
Montpellier beat PSG's new owners to the 2012 title with a team that started the season thinking about survival. They're back in the second division. Build another side…
- MálagaLa Liga
Málaga reached the Champions League quarter-finals in 2013 and were seconds from eliminating Dortmund, then financial decline eventually carried them into Spain's third…
- NancyLigue 2
Nancy gave Michel Platini his breakthrough and won the Coupe de France in 1978, but years of decline eventually pushed them into the third tier. They have fought their…
- Pakhtakor
Uzbekistan Super LeagueOne of Central Asia’s great historic clubs had to rebuild after the 1979 air disaster that killed much of their first-team squad. Pakhtakor subsequently became a major…
- Persipura JayapuraLiga 2
Four-time Indonesian champions and the first Indonesian club to reach an AFC Cup semi-final, famously beating holders Kuwait SC 6-1 along the way in 2014. By 2026/27…
- Polonia WarsawI liga
Polonia were Polish champions in 2000 and regular European qualifiers before financial disaster in 2013 dumped them from the top flight to the fifth tier. They have…
- Rapid BucureștiSuperLiga
Rapid's railway workers won three Romanian titles and reached the UEFA Cup quarter-finals in 2006. Bankruptcy forced a restart in the lower leagues in 2016, but they're…
- Real MurciaPrimera Federación
Real Murcia have spent 18 seasons in La Liga but have not been back since 2008. One of Spain's biggest cities has watched its main club spend years in the lower…
- Real ZaragozaPrimera Federación
Six-time Copa del Rey winners and 1995 European Cup Winners' Cup champions, Zaragoza have now fallen into Primera Federación after years outside La Liga. One of Spain's…
- Rotor VolgogradRussian First League
Rotor knocked Manchester United out of the 1995 UEFA Cup despite Peter Schmeichel scoring a late equaliser at Old Trafford. They twice finished runners-up in Russia…
- Ruch ChorzówI liga
Ruch have 14 Polish league titles, placing them among the most successful clubs in the country's history, but the last came in 1989. Financial collapse later dragged…
- Schalke 04
BundesligaSeven-time German champions Schalke have one of Europe's biggest fanbases and a 62,000-capacity stadium, yet spent three consecutive seasons in 2. Bundesliga. They are…
- Skënderbeu KorçëKategoria Superiore
Skënderbeu won six consecutive Albanian titles and became the country's first Europa League group-stage club. A long UEFA ban over match-fixing allegations was followed…
- Slavia MozyrBelarusian Highest League
Slavia Mozyr won the Belarusian title in 1996 and 2000 and reached Champions League qualifying, but their second championship remains their last. More than a quarter of…
- Sony de Elá Nguema
Equatorial Guinea second tierSony are comfortably Equatorial Guinea’s most successful league club, with 16 championships, including eight in a row from 1984 to 1991. They were relegated in 2025/26…
- Sporting Clube de Bafatá
Guinea-Bissau second tierBafatá were one of the first clubs to seriously disrupt the dominance of teams from Bissau, winning national titles in 1987 and 2008. They were relegated in 2024 and…
- Stade d'AbidjanLigue 1 Côte d'Ivoire
Stade d'Abidjan won Africa's premier club competition in 1965, only the second edition of the tournament. Restore one of the continent's original champions and drag a…
- Sunderland
Premier LeagueBack in the Premier League and back in Europe after more than half a century, Sunderland's 2026/27 campaign gives you a sleeping giant with momentum. Turn their first…
- Suwon Samsung BluewingsK League 2
Suwon won four Korean titles and back-to-back Asian club championships in 2001 and 2002. In 2023 they were relegated for the first time in club history and have remained…
- Tampere United
YkkönenTampere United are three-time Finnish champions who were relegated to the lowest tier of Finnish football in 2011. After a long journey back, the club are now on the…
- Union Douala
Elite OneUnion Douala were African champions in 1979 and won the Cup Winners' Cup two years later. Cameroon has produced much bigger modern names since, while Union's continental…
- União de Leiria
Liga Portugal 2José Mourinho managed União de Leiria before Porto, and the club was a regular top-flight and European name during the early 2000s. Financial collapse eventually sent…
- Valencia CFLa Liga
Valencia lost successive Champions League finals in 2000 and 2001 before winning two league titles under Benítez. They've been a shadow of that side for years. Rebuild…
- Vardar
Macedonian First Football LeagueVardar are North Macedonia's record champions and became the country's first club to reach a major UEFA group stage in 2017. Financial problems later sent them out of…
- VitesseEerste Divisie
Years of financial and ownership problems pushed Vitesse to the brink of disappearing from professional football. After fighting to retain their licence, they are…
- Wacker InnsbruckAustrian 2. Liga
Financial collapse forced Wacker Innsbruck to restart in the fifth tier in 2022. Three straight promotions have brought them back to Austria's second division, with LAFC…
- AO XanthiGamma Ethniki
Xanthi spent 31 straight seasons in Greece's top flight before the professional club disappeared and the amateur side had to start again locally. They're fighting back…
- Adana DemirsporTFF 2. Lig
Balotelli was playing European qualifiers with Adana Demirspor in 2023. By 2026, financial trouble, points deductions and relegation had sent the club into the third…
- Alania VladikavkazRussian Second League Division A
Alania broke Moscow's grip on Russian football by winning the 1995 league title, then lost 10-3 on aggregate to Rangers in the Champions League qualifiers. They're now…
- Alemannia Aachen3. Liga
Alemannia Aachen played Bundesliga and UEFA Cup football in the 2000s before financial trouble and relegations dumped them into the regional leagues. They are back in 3…
- Amkar PermRussian Second League Division A
Amkar spent fourteen seasons in Russia's Premier League before going bust in 2018. The club was revived with regional backing and is climbing again. Finish the recovery…
- B.93Danish 2nd Division
B.93 have nine Danish championships, a total that sounds absurd for a club now playing in the third tier. Most of that glory belongs to another footballing age. Take one…
- Beroe Stara ZagoraBulgarian Second League
Beroe are 1985/86 Bulgarian champions, four-time Balkans Cup winners and once beat Juventus 1-0 in European competition. In 2026 they were relegated to the second tier…
- Cobreloa
Primera B de ChileCobreloa reached back-to-back Copa Libertadores finals in 1981 and 1982 and lost both. They are now in Chile's second tier, so the route back starts with promotion…
- Curepipe Starlight SC
Mauritian third tierFour-time Mauritian champions who later collapsed all the way to the third tier. Take a club that won three consecutive championships from 2007 to 2009 back through the…
- Deportivo Quito
Segunda Categoría / Ascenso NacionalFive-time Ecuadorian champions Deportivo Quito are now fighting through the regional Segunda Categoría while carrying serious financial problems. This is a proper…
- FC TyumenRussian Second League Division A
Tyumen finished the 1998 Russian top-flight season with eight points, two wins and 89 goals conceded. They're in the third tier again. Return them to the Premier League…
- FK Pobeda PrilepMacedonian Third League
The historic Pobeda won Macedonian league titles in 2004 and 2007. The current Prilep side has fallen all the way to the regional third level. Few former champions in…
- Hamilton Academical
Scottish League TwoHamilton have endured points deductions, transfer restrictions and a frightening financial collapse. The job here is straightforward, even if the save won't be: keep the…
- Hércules CFPrimera Federación
Hércules have spent 20 seasons in La Liga and produced one of the great promoted-team shocks when they beat Pep Guardiola's Barcelona 2-0 at the Camp Nou in 2010. They…
- MKE AnkaragücüTFF 2. Lig
Ankaragücü won the Turkish Cup in 1981 while in the second division, but financial trouble and relegations have sent them to the third tier again. Restore one of…
- Mattersburger SV 2020Regionalliga Ost
SV Mattersburg collapsed in 2020 after a banking scandal. Supporters formed Mattersburger SV 2020 and have climbed back to the third tier. Take the phoenix side from the…
- PAS GianninaGamma Ethniki
Nicknamed the 'Ajax of Epirus' for their South American-influenced football in the 1970s, PAS Giannina have fallen to Greece's third tier. Rebuild around creative…
- Pro VercelliSerie C
Pro Vercelli won seven Italian championships before modern Serie A even existed, but have not played top-flight football since the 1930s. They now sit in Serie C. This…
- Rampla Juniors
Primera División AmateurRampla won the Uruguayan championship in 1927, but fell to the third tier in 2025 amid serious financial problems. Restore one of Montevideo's old champions, get the…
- SK Vorwärts SteyrRegionalliga
Vorwärts Steyr spent eight straight seasons in Austria's top flight before bankruptcy in 1999. Another slide has taken them back into the third tier. Rebuild the…
- SM CaenLigue 3
Kylian Mbappé bought Caen in 2024 and they promptly ended up in the third tier. The obvious challenge is to rescue his investment, build a proper youth setup and…
- Salamanca UDSSegunda Federación
UD Salamanca spent 12 seasons in La Liga before disappearing in 2013. Salamanca CF UDS emerged in the aftermath and now play at the old club's Estadio Helmántico, with…
- Sheffield WednesdayLeague One
Four-time English champions who entered administration in October 2025 and finished the 2025/26 Championship season on zero points after an 18-point deduction. New…
- Sydney OlympicFootball NSW League One (2027)
Sydney Olympic were founded by Sydney's Greek community and won two National Soccer League championships. In 2026 the former national champions were relegated from NPL…
- TSC Bačka Topola
Serbian First LeagueTSC finished second in Serbia in 2022/23 and were playing West Ham, Freiburg and Olympiacos in Europe months later. By 2026/27 they had fallen into the second tier. Get…
- Trapani 1905Serie D
Trapani made the Serie B promotion play-off final in 2016, one game from reaching Serie A for the first time. Financial trouble has left them back in Serie D. Get a club…
- TriestinaSerie D - Girone C
Triestina once finished runners-up in Serie A but have spent more than 60 years outside Italy's top flight and are now in Serie D. Restore a historic border-city club…
- UC SampdoriaSerie B
Sampdoria won Serie A in 1991 and lost the 1992 European Cup final to Barcelona. They later came dangerously close to Serie C. Put a proper team back together in Genoa…
- WeymouthSouthern League South Division
Just over 4 years ago they were playing the likes of Wrexham and Notts County in the National League. Now after 3 relegations in 5 seasons, the 'Terras' have fallen to…
- 1860 MunichRegionalliga Bayern
1860 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…
- AltayTFF 3. Lig
Altay 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…
- Brechin CityLowland League East
Brechin 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…
- Coronel BolognesiCopa Perú / district leagues
Coronel 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 LeobenLandesliga Steiermark
DSV 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…
- El-Kanemi WarriorsNigeria National League
El-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…
- FCU 1948 CraiovaLiga 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Paraná Clube
Campeonato 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- SalgueirosCampeonato de Portugal
Salgueiros 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- FC Lovech (former Litex Lovech)No active senior league
Litex 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- AC AjaccioRégional 1
Ajaccio were in Ligue 1 in 2023 and ended up in regional football after a financial collapse. Rebuild them from the sixth tier, get the Corsican derby back on the…
- Be Quick 1887Eerste Klasse
Be Quick were Dutch champions in 1920, when they scored 101 goals in just 16 regional league matches. They're now playing sixth-tier amateur football. Rebuild a…
- Guangzhou FC
Outside professional pyramid / phoenix setupGuangzhou won eight Chinese league titles and two AFC Champions Leagues before debt problems saw them denied entry to professional football for 2025. Recreate one of…
- RNK Split2. ŽNL NSŽSD
RNK Split reached the Europa League play-off and Croatian Cup final in 2014/15. The fall since has been brutal: a winless 2025/26 league season relegated them again, and…
- São CaetanoCampeonato Paulista Série A4
São Caetano went from virtual obscurity to finishing runners-up in Brazil in 2000 and reaching the Copa Libertadores final in 2002. Two decades later they are in the…