Firstly his regen guide has been updated for Football Manager 2019 and you can find it here:

https://dictatethegame.com/2018/11/07/football-manager-2019-guides-youth-development/

Enjoy!

Many football manager players will spend countless hours searching the obscure leagues for the perfect regens and young players. As part of this guide I will be showing you how to speed up that process, find better players and look in some surprising places.

This is actually something I made back in 2015, highlighting my favourite players from that years edition, the different between the real players and regens if fairly noticeable.

For those unaware, in football manager players will naturally retire due to old age in game. To compensate for this players are brought into each clubs youth academy on certain days each season. In older versions of the game the date was fixed but in later editions the date seems to fluctuate each year, for most European clubs its around early March. The players brought in are often referred to as ‘Regens’ or ‘Newgens’ due to their computer image.

Regen Guide – Countries:

Many players know that FM doesn’t just randomly give smaller countries good players, in fact each country is given a “Youth Rating” score which seems to affect the quality of the regens produced by this country. The value of the youth rating does not seem to change over time in game, as a result it implies that these scores are fixed. Here are all the teams that have scores over 100, for example the max score is 200 and the minimum is 0.

Malcolm, Lucas Lima and Luan, 3 Brazilian Prospects https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/5-players-brazil-your-club-7157377

Country Youth Rating (0-200) Brazil 163 Germany 155 Italy 144 Spain 140 France 140 Argentina 140 Egypt 138 Turkey 124 Holland 122 England 120 Mexico 120 Nigeria 120 Russia 118 Colombia 117 Portugal 114 Japan 112 Belgium 110 South Korea 110 U.S.A. 110 Jordan 107

This should show you some countries that you should definitely be scouting, the higher up this list the better. It comes with some surprising results too, for instance England are lower on the list than Egypt and Turkey, and Nigeria and Mexico are higher than Portugal. The reason that this isn’t a list of how good the players are is because another factor is in play: the quality of the clubs in the country, which leads me nicely on!

Regen Guide – Clubs :

For this part of the guide it will be explaining different levels of each stat affecting youth prospects. In the next part of this guide I will look into exactly how each stat affects the players.

In the editor I have done a lot of my research so far, for each club there are four scores that I think affect how good the players are:

Youth Facilities

Youth Facilities Comment in game 1-3 Poor 4-5 Basic 6-7 Below Average 8-9 Adequate 10-11 Average 12-13 Good 14-15 Great 16-17 Excellent 18-19 Superb 00:00 State of the Art

Manchester Cities “State of the art” facilities

https://www.goalprofits.com/the-11-best-youth-academies-in-world-football-from-la-masia-to-la-fabrica/

List of teams with State of the Art Youth Facilities Nation FC Red Bull Salzburg Austria Man Utd England Tottenham England Chlesea England Man City England Burton England SLB Portugal Krasnodar Russia Barcelona Spain Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine List of teams with Superb Youth Facilities Nation Vélez Argentina Melbourne City Australia KRC Genk Belgium Standard Belgium Anderlecht Belgium Everton England Southampton England Brighton England Middlesbrough England Leverkusen Germany Bayern Germany Hoffenheim Germany RBL Germany Dortmund Germany München Lions Germany AZ Holland Ajax Holland Feyenoord Holland Roma Italy Juventus Italy Pachuca Mexico Sporting Portugal FCP Portugal Ajax CT South Africa Real Madrid Spain Basel Switzerland Philadelphia USA LA Galaxy USA Toronto FC USA Sporting Kansas City USA Shakhtar Ukraine Metalist Ukraine

Youth Importance

Youth importance has been harder to exactly pin down what it does, however I’m hoping that more on Youth importance will be revealed in my experiments in the next post. Also I think that this is the only stat which cannot be improved in the same way as facilities, recruitment and coaching as all can be improved via board requests.

Youth Coaching

Youth Coaching Comment in game 1-2 Minimal 3-5 Fairly Basic 6-9 Average 10-13 Adequate 14-16 Good 17-19 Excellent 20 Exceptional

Ajax have produced some incredible players over the past few decades https://playerscout.co.uk/football-academies/dutch-football-academies/ajax-academy/

List of teams with Exceptional Junior coaching Nation Ajax Holland List of teams with Excellent Junior Coaching Nation FC Red Bull Salazburg Austria BATE Belarus Hajduk Croatia Dinamo Croatia Brøndby IF Denmark Man Utd England Chelsea England AZ Holland PSV Holland Feyenoord Holland Maccabi Tel-Aviv Israel Sporting Portugal SLB Portugal Leiria Portugal FCP Portugal Braga Portugal Barcelona Spain R. Madrid Spain Malmö FF Sweden Basel Switzerland

Youth Recruitment

The wording in game for youth recruitment seems to be affected by youth importance but the general trend is:

“No youth recruitment -> Limited youth recruitment -> Basic youth recruitment -> Fairly Basic youth recruitment -> Average youth recruitment -> Above Average youth recruitment -> Established youth recruitment -> Well Established youth recruitment ->Extensive youth recruitment.”

List of teams with Extensive youth recruitment Nation River Argentina Vélez Argentina Boca Argentina Anderlecht Belgium SAN Brazil SPO Brazil Brøndby IF Denmark FC Midtyjlland Denmark Leverkusen Germany Stuttgart Germany Olympiakos Greece PAOK Greece Ajax Holland Roma Italy Atlanta Italy Chivas Mexico Pumas Morelos Mexico Sporting Portugal SLB Portugal Partizan Serbia Red Star Serbia Barcelona Spain A. Bilbao Spain Basel Switzerland

A lot of popular teams appear on these lists but some fly under the radar and could be producing your next top talents. Would definitely check out teams in the less popular leagues because they’re likely to be convinced to join your club. I hope you enjoyed this regen guide! Stay tuned for more.