Four clubs that find themselves in the third league of their respective nations football competitions, but also they are the clubs with great fanbase which can give you a boost in your FM20 save.
Football is about fans. And for me, so should Football Manager… virtual fans, anyway. I always enjoyed taking charge of clubs with great support, but with shabby performances in recent years, and taking them to the top, bringing joy to thousands of people who will chant my name at every game.At least that’s how I imagine things.
So without further ado, here are 4 clubs with great support which I’m looking forward to climb the football ladder with. For this article we have considered clubs from the third leagues of England, Spain, Italy and Germany.
1. FC Magdeburg – German 3. Liga
The only East German club to win an European Cup, the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1974, 1. FC Magdeburg has fallen on hard times since the German Reunification in 1990. This political change saw the former East German giants become a yoyo club between the third and fourth levels of the German league system. They managed to get to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time in in 2018-2019 season, but they got relegated again to the German 3. Liga.
Magdeburg plays in the 25.500-seater MDCC-Arena, in which they had the 6th best attendance record in the 2. Bundesliga last season. Clearly the people of Magdeburg deserve a better football club, will you accept this FM20 challenge and bring Bundesliga football in the capital of Saxony-Anhalt for the first time?
2. Salamanca CF – Spanish Segunda Division B
Once an established La Liga side, with 12 seasons in the Spanish top flight, UD Salamanca was liquidated due to unpaid debts in 2013, 90 years after its foundation. The club was reformed as CF Salmantino in the same year and became Salamanca CF in 2018, after acquiring rights to the name and logo of the old club. Since the 2015-2016 season, in which the club was playing in the 6th division of the Spanish league system, Salamanca has won 3 back to back promotions.
This means they will start the 2019-2020 in the Segunda B and thus making them playable in FM20. Ironically, another club in the Segunda B, Unionistas de Salamanca, claims the continuation of the old UDS, but they don’t have the rights to the old clubs name, logo and history, and they don’t play in the main stadium of the city, the 17.000-seater Helmántico Stadium, home to Salamanca CF.
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3. SSC Bari – Italian Serie C.
Having spent most of their history in Serie A and Serie B, recent years have been tough on Bari, who plays their home games in the huge Stadio San Nicola (58.000 capacity). After 2 bankruptcies shook the club in 2014 and 2018, Bari was refounded in the 2018-2019 season by Aurelio De Laurentiis, who you might know as the Napoli owner.
Yes, Napoli and Bari now share the same owner, even though officially Aurelio’s son, Luigi, is chairman of Bari. In their first season after being reestablished by De Laurentiis, Bari won the Serie D and gained promotion to Serie C, from where it’s up to you to take them back to the Serie A and challenge Napoli as the best club in Southern Italy.
4. Coventry City – English League One.
Since their relegation from the Premier League in the 2000-2001 season, after 34 consecutive seasons in the top English flight, Coventry City has been on a slow but certain decline, culminating with the 2017-2018 season, when they played in League 2.
They won back promotion in League 1, where you will also find them in FM20, at the start of the 2019-2020 season. Can you reverse the Sky Blues’ fortunes and bring back Premier League football in Coventry?
