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Youth Academy Update

After observing the performance of the youth academy and promotions over time, it has become apparent that the youth academy has generated relatively poor quality youth promotions - both by setup and due to the ways that managers have engaged with the academy. The youth player environment has had a number of changes made to it which should now lead to better quality youths being scouted and promoted, and to better engagement with the youth system.

Major changes:

Youth quality

The average youth quality has increased as has the rate at which very high potential youths are found by scouts of all club sizes. As in real life, high-quality players are still quite rare and quality is not always immediately evident. Furthermore, the lowest quality youth players have been removed. Due to changes in the quality distribution of incoming youths, some youths in current academies have been updated to better reflect the new distribution - take a look at your youths to see if you can notice any changes.

Youth training

Changes have been made that allow for higher overall training in the academy. Promoting a player before they have fully developed in the academy will limit a player's senior potential but can still be attempted if required. Player ability increases will now happen across the week rather than only on Saturdays.

Promotion chances

As in real life, youths will not always accept a senior contract. Having played in an academy for a long time and infrequent promotion attempts at the club can greatly enhance a given youth's promotion chances. Every youth has a chance to promote, though patient managers are likely to have a much higher success rate than those who try to rush players into the first team. The manager needs to judge the progress of their youths and assess if they are ready for promotion, though players grow at different rates and at different times. Some players may be ready to promote earlier while other players would be stunted if they are promoted before they turn 18.

Scouting ranges

Scouts sent to find new youth talent can now search for 11-12 year olds, 13-14 year olds, 15-18 year olds, or without age restriction. This is designed to provide managers flexibility in more precisely determining what age youths they would like their scouting trips to aim for.


This set of updates is designed to improve the effectiveness of the academy, though it is expected to slowly affect the game over the coming seasons as new youths are scouted, trained, and promoted. We hope you are able to explore these changes and find the youth system more enjoyable and productive.

Future work in this area may be focused on adding additional value to youth coaches.

While the admin team has worked extensively to test these changes, there may certainly be bugs that arise. Please report any bugs you notice through support requests (Help > Support Requests). The admin team will continue to monitor the changes which may lead to future tweaks, if necessary.
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