The aim of this challenge is, instead of taking control of a club/nation like you may normally do so; instead you will begin the game unemployed and your reputation should be set as Sunday league footballer. To become employed, you will need to apply for a job and accept a contract, this is more than likely to be from a non-league/lower league side. You will need to load up leagues from the following countries in Europe: England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany.

The aim is then to work your way up the divisions until you are managing one of the biggest clubs in Europe, those being the teams listed below:

England
Arsenal
Chelsea
Manchester City
Manchester United

France
Lyon
Marseille

Germany
Bayern Munich
Bayer Leverkusen
Wolfsburg

Italy
AC Milan
Inter Milan
Juventus
Roma

Spain
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Sevilla
Valencia

Once manager of one those clubs, you have successfully completed the Unemployment Challenge!

Screenshots of your career will need to be uploaded for proof that the challenge has been completed legitimately and that you haven't taken control over any clubs.

Most is Copy-Pasted from another thread about the challenge, but it's all general stuff.

Thanks for this Dan, looks a good challenge mate! GL to all those taking part, I will at some point

Is there more rules, like having to load down to BSS/BSN for example.

Can we use the Level 8 Database?

It is advised to load down that low, otherwise you won't be able to get a job, you're allowed to load as far down as you want and as many leagues/countries as you like.

Dan wrote:

It is advised to load down that low, otherwise you won't be able to get a job, you're allowed to load as far down as you want and as many leagues/countries as you like.

Woohoo,

Bulgaria here we come !!!

I will definitely take part in this, I may even start tomorrow!

I will have ago once im done with my newport game,

Ok,

I have started this.

I have loaded the following leagues

England,
Spain,
Italy,
France,
Germany,
Bulgaria
USA
Hungary
Belarus

These are the jobs available on starting



Applied to all, lets see what happens

Good luck, Posh.

I'm looking forward to your updates

I got offered 6 jobs

Didcot
Banbury
Croydon
Chesham
Windsor & Eton
Bermuda Hogges

Who to take ???

I delayed Windsor for a week and rejected all the others in the hope's that I would get more offers.

But it came down to accepting the offer from Windsor & Eton

I have a small transfer budget and some flexibility with the Salaries so that give me chance to delve into some transfer activity.




Now, lets see what kind of staff we have here.

Croydon

I started this challenge and it took me 5 hours real time, 219 game days to finally get a contract with Skarp from the Norwegian second division group 4.

Damn very long time surprised you stuck at it that long. Well Done

People from my little island don't give up that easily lol.

It was boring after a few months though. I will probably won't wait that long again

haha well done mate. I wish I had that patience lol

Well I am plodding along with my game, amongst doing a gazillion other things.

I am unbeaten in the league and just recorded a little bit of a "cupset" against Woking.

Got a draw away from home to earn the replay.




Then brought them back to Stag Meadow for the win after extra time.




My players are knackered after all that and look who finally joined the team, none other than Willy Robert and he bags 4 goals in 2 games.

Awsome work mate i still havnt started mine but i will over the next coming weeks

I'm going to start the challenge now, should be great fun

Manchester United here I come


*Update*

Well, after using Posh's excellent database, I applied for all the managerial vacancies :



I wonder if any of them will accept me

*further update*

Well, out of all the replies I chose Cadbury Athletic, who, amazingly, have offered me a £0 contract on zero years. LOL.

Well my little FA cup run is still going well, knocked out Burgess Hill and then Chesham to advance to the First Round proper, was hoping for a nice payday against a L1 side but got a home game against Cambridge.

Still, there is a good chance that I can get by them and continue the run.

I got 12,500 for beating Chesham, that pays my players wages for 6 months so not too shabby.

Good stuff so far lads, and Posh you're doing quite well at Windsor

Keep it up and I may add mine over the weekend.

This is my friendly matches, last game was with my new striker, he scored 2 goals.



This is my squad so far, I still have 1k US dollars under budget.



This is the new striker I got who scored 2 goals in the last game.

After starting the challenge I soon got offered quite a few jobs from the low Norweigan sides and I started my career with Gjovik FF. Their team was made up of youth players around 17 and were all horrible so I moved every player into the B Team and started from scratch.

I had around £6k p/w left of a £7k p/w wage budget and players were available for around £100 p/w so I had room for the players.

Here are my transfers:

22 players in total

Here's the player I'm most looking forward to see playing, although I have a bunch of quality players:

Got a decent squad there mate

Should do well.

Good work Dan, should do quite well hopfully even though i havnt got a clue who have your players are, maybe none at all. But im sure your managerial skill will come through.

The season hasn't even started yet and I'm being linked to Bradford and Carlisle o_O My past reputation is Sunday League Footballer, so it's wierd.

Edit; Add Morecambe and Bury to the list, I may take one of these jobs if I'm offered them, I'm not sure yet.

Yeah I was linked with the Carlisle job too, I guess they are desperate for anybody at this point

Would be a step in the right direction in my opinion it might be that your an amazing transfer guru lol

Haha, excellent work so far Dan. Good luck in what your future holds.

Still plodding along slowly through my season, on an amazing cup run still and sitting 5th in the league.

Well, after a reasonably decent season, abysmal performance in both cups though, I have quit Cadbury Athletic for Coleshill, who are one league above Cadbury. I reached 2nd with Cadbury, and in my opinion, was the right time to go for the challenge.

Good work Narl, never heard of Coleshill town at all though lol, should be good to see how you do.

I have one. I'm Betis manager. I'm finishing first season and I'm first place with recreativo. Also I managed nottingham forest but I decided to move to Betis because has a better squad.
I will upload screens soon.

carbo wrote:

I have one. I'm Betis manager. I'm finishing first season and I'm first place with recreativo. Also I managed nottingham forest but I decided to move to Betis because has a better squad.
I will upload screens soon.

did you start unemployed ?

yes! and then all I've said.

Damn thats an amazing job to get being a sunday league player :O well done Carbo

So I am still plodding along with my game, up next was the FA Cup at home to Fulham.

Knowing I had no chance, I started the match at 4-2-3-1 defensive just to try and stop Fulham from scoring, and went to get some dinner, came back at half time and the game was 0-0

Surprised and now excited I made a couple of changes, one sub and switched my R/L mids.
On with the second half, I was losing possession really badly but restricting Fulham to long shots.

Getting down to the final mins and I am parking the bus, going for a draw and the dreams of a big gate at Fulham to fill my coffers.

When out of the blue Daniel Robinson my 22 yr old part timer (with a 5 attribute for long shots) rockets in a screamer past the bewildered Schwarzer.



Holding on in the final few to gain a historic win.

As you can see by the stats I should have been thrashed but that's why we love this funny old game of football.

I'm leaving Skarp. They just don't care about the sport anymore and I don't care for the club either. Wish me luck getting a new job, by the way 7 loses in a row making losing record is too much knowing you're players can do twice more than what they are doing.

Great works lads - excellent result there Posh

Great work Posh, amazing victory there and it will bring in some extra money which im sure your going to need.


Bad luck Sato you need a huge stick to whack the players with to make sure they are doing there all. Good luck getting a new job though

Niko wrote:

Great work Posh, amazing victory there and it will bring in some extra money which im sure your going to need.


Bad luck Sato you need a huge stick to whack the players with to make sure they are doing there all. Good luck getting a new job though

I got 68,000 quid for beating Fulham, my monthly wage bill is 2700 so its going to go a long way, now I can see if I can get a couple of better midfielders as my board said I can have a bigger wage/transfer budget.

This is my new team. I got hired mid season so even though the form is bad so far I won't be judge by it. Board is only judging me in maintaining the budget and the good players

Sato wrote:

This is my new team. I got hired mid season so even though the form is bad so far I won't be judge by it. Board is only judging me in maintaining the budget and the good players

Nice, there are some fantastic players in that Premier Division.

Good luck with this one.

Good luck sato hope you do well there never been to the irish league myself but i hope to one day

Nice job Sato - hope you do well, and get a good move out of it. I'm looking forward to hearing your updates.

Even though I'm kinda sad for giving up on Skarp it was the best move. They started to get morale back and I got a new job opportunity.

So my reward for beating Fulham is an away trip to Newcastle, should be assured of a nice big gate receipt for that one

First match for me on Dungannon and it was a 3-2 win on penalty shots.

Waaaaay Sato!!

You're managing in my local league


Now you'll get to see our great quality football, and I have to say, Dungannon Swifts are one of my favoured teams in the league, simply because of their name, it's too cool!


Apart from that, good luck

So I get some decent money to play with now, but still looking a freebies, and found this chap to bolster up my Right side of the field. Good stats for the SLP