The Scouting Network is renowned for finding great talent on FM13, but we rarely get involved in the lower leagues. So I thought it may be nice to share my personal FM13 best young npower championship XI. I say ‘my’ because these are my personal favorites, the players I look to sign if ever I’m in the second tier.
All these players could make an instant impact at FM 2013 Championship level and then grow to be good in the Premier League. I tried to only include players that are interested in second tier teams and are also affordable. I also haven’t included anyone that I haven’t had an experience with in game.
FM13 best Championship players XI
Click any players name to see their profile, and click the last link to see each players profile from the future.
Age: 19
Club: Birmingham
1st season av. rating: 6.85
Asking price: 4.6 million
Click here for Profile from 2019 aged 26
Age: 21
Club: Burnley
1st season stats: 41 apps — 6 assists — 7.05 av. rating
Asking price: £5 million
Click here for Profile from 2018 aged 27
Age: 22
Club: Ipswich
1st season stats: 30 apps — 3 assists — 6.87 av. rating
Asking price: £4.7 million
Click here for profile from 2018 aged 28
Age: 21
Club: Wolves
1st season stats: 41 apps — 7.02 av. rating
Asking price: £3.7 million
Click here for profile from 2018 aged 27
Age: 17
Club: Botafogo
1st season stats: 8 apps — 7.06 av. rating
Asking price: £525K (Joins in January)
Click here for profile from 2016 aged 21
Age: 23
Club: BATE
1st season stats: 14 apps — 4 goals — 3 assists — 7.22 av. rating
Asking price: Free (joins in January)
Click here for profile from 2016 aged 27
Age: 17
Club: Flamengo
1st season stats: 38 apps — 4 goals -11 assists — 7.25 av. rating
Scored: 4 from 38 apps
Assists: 11 from 38 apps
Asking price: £875K
Click here for profile from 2019 aged 24
Age: 20
Club: Elfsborg
1st season stats: 36 apps — 10 goals — 3 assists — 7.14 av. rating
Asking price: £875K
Click here for profile from 2018 aged 26
Age: 17
Club: Derby
1st season stats: 32 apps — 7 goals — 9 assists — 7.38 av. rating
Asking price: £4 million
Click here for profile from 2019 aged 24
Age: 20
Club: Blackpool
1st season stats: 46 apps — 13 goals — 10 assists — 7.08 av. rating
Asking price: £6.5 million
Click here for profile from 2019 aged 27
Age: 16
Club: Derby
2nd season stats: 32 apps — 16 goals — 7.13 av. rating
Asking price: £3.5 million
Click here for profile from 2018 aged 21
Now for the overview, here’s the FM13 best championship XI and all their relevant details.
Bjørk Lange
8 января, 2013 at 11:22
Nice team there Darren. I maybe would have considered someone else instead of Doria, which I think is a bit overrated, even though he is very cheap. Nathan Redmond and Wilfried Zaha are players that might fit well for a bench. I currently have a Q.P.R save going, where especially Zaha has surprised me with some very good performances, so we might see a profile of him soon. :)
Darren Smith
8 января, 2013 at 11:46
Yeah I was too and throw over Doria but I’ve seen some good displays and there’s no arguing his performances for Barce in Johnny’s story. I was considering Cathcart but I thought it would be nice to have a younger cheaper option. Would be nice to see a fully developed Zaha as all I’ve seen is pretty woeful so far, which doesn’t seem accurate to his claimed RL potential.
Johnny Karp
8 января, 2013 at 12:34
Doria has been outstanding so far in my Barca save, made excellent progress and there’s still some room left for improvement.
dzunglv
9 января, 2013 at 02:48
Great squad there Darren,
However it’s a bit expensive I think. As a Championship team, the budget is not large enough. Maybe because I’m managing Leeds but really, I will find more helpful if there is a cheaper list.
However, I still can get everything from your cheap player list, Doria and Diskerud are wonderful in my save.
And another choice for ST, loan Sanogo on first season and during the winter transfer window, offer him a contract. Bang! Get him for free!
Darren Smith
9 января, 2013 at 11:50
The point of this post wasn’t to show a squad of players you can buy all together as Championship budgets would make the XI an impossible task to assemble. The point is just to show affordable individuals, which for most teams they are if you use the monthly investments feature.
Edses
9 января, 2013 at 09:50
Would be interesting to see when you bring these eleven in one squad (using the editor or so) if you can manage an instant promotion, and how well you fare in the EPL (with or without strengthening your squad even further).
Darren Smith
9 января, 2013 at 11:51
Well I had what I would class as a lesser XI with Blackpool, bar maybe Bennett’s inexperience upfront and gained top spot so I think you should get promotion with a good tactic.
Ben Earl
10 января, 2013 at 17:39
Nice team I have just joined Fulham in need of relegation save and we r without a goal scorer is there anyone who’s young but will still score goals ?
Darren Smith
10 января, 2013 at 18:55
For that I would suggest looking here https://footballmanagerstory.com/scout/2012/10/football-manager-2013-best-wonderkids-list/ and using the search option just above the table typing in ‘ST’ to see all the options.
Nick
11 января, 2013 at 12:32
i have hiljemark at leeds and he has been one of the best center mids in the league.in april at the minute and has 17 assists and 5 goals so far.
had to pay a bit over the price her because there was 3 other teams after him
Darren Smith
11 января, 2013 at 17:47
He is an excellent player, even did reasonably well first season in my Newcastle side.
priim
11 января, 2013 at 13:00
nice team, im 4 seasons in as arsenal (going pretty well), iv opted for the Wenger route and gone for youth with the odd splash of experience…anyway, the majority of my reserves and under 18 are those players…bennet, adryan will hughes… iv had Zaha for nearly 3 years… a tbh… he’s crap… iv loaned him out and he just seems to be going backwards… all my other players are pushing for the first team, but he honestly seems poor… anyway, thats my opinion…. he’s a waste…
Darren Smith
11 января, 2013 at 17:48
Yeah I have been a little disappointed by Zaha TBH, not one single save has seen him develop (all CPU management but still.)
andy
11 января, 2013 at 13:19
Bressan for free?
Hughes a mcl at amr? surely Zaha should be there.
Feel you missed a trick missing out the likes of
Ruben Yttergard Jenssen,
Strandberg,
Okore,
Diskerud,
Sean Murray.
etc
Darren Smith
11 января, 2013 at 17:50
Bressan can be bought for free and joins in January, if you check the game you will see, and as mentioned in the post I have only shown players I know can be bought in the Championship and that I have actually managed as well…as for Zaha, he’s a bit of a waste IMO, but I’d love to see someone show some proof otherwise as he shouldn’t be as bad as in all my saves.
Jeff
11 января, 2013 at 14:06
did you use a specific training programme to get the later stats?
Darren Smith
11 января, 2013 at 17:52
All the later stats are taken from future saves where the CPU was manager, so I couldn’t answer that one I’m afraid.
Craig
11 января, 2013 at 16:08
Signed both Butland, Bressan and Adryan for Newcastle in first season — now in 2017/18 and all never made it out of the reserves so sold on…. much better players out there.
Darren Smith
11 января, 2013 at 17:55
This is a ‘CHAMPIONSHIP’ XI as mentioned many, many times within the post. I really don’t see how you could find better young players that would join the Championship!
Ben Mann
11 января, 2013 at 19:20
I havea Leeds save and can not for the life of me sign Butland from Birmingham any suggestions
Darren Smith
11 января, 2013 at 19:22
If he doesn’t want to move there’s nothing you can do I’m afraid.
David Curran
12 января, 2013 at 10:12
I have Hiljemark at Chelsea and he does a fantastic job for me so I think you’re under-selling him by putting him in a championship squad :p
Darren Smith
12 января, 2013 at 10:39
We also have him in our wonder kid and cheap players list with 4.5 and 5 star ratings respectively. He’ll just go anywhere with reason :)
Pual
16 января, 2013 at 22:42
Hi. Can anyone give me the name of skin with photo of Mason Bennett. I’D BE GRATEFULL.
Darren Smith
17 января, 2013 at 11:45
Sorry its not my image, not sure who’s it is either as its from someone else profile.
Jonathan Carver
27 января, 2013 at 13:14
Hey mate, its called Carbon and can be downloaded here.
http://www.fm-base.co.uk/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=7094
Andy Harris
22 января, 2013 at 16:44
Kapino
Solly
Strandberg
Okore
Dragovic
Bannan
Scabbald
Diskerud
Mate Simao
Ruben Yttergard Jenssen
and my all time favourite player for lower leagues:
Damian Boudjemaa.. 60k for a top class AMC/IF.
Darren Smith
22 января, 2013 at 18:32
Thanks for all the recommendations, I’m sure this will help a fair few gamers.
Jordan Fernandes
4 февраля, 2013 at 23:44
Play Zaha on the right as a inside forward with support duty and he’ll boss it did for me in my arsenal career
Darren Smith
5 февраля, 2013 at 11:48
Thanks for the info.
Gavin
19 февраля, 2013 at 17:06
Did u have all of these with Blackpool first season? How did u afford that?! I thought they get like 2 m?
Darren Smith
19 февраля, 2013 at 18:40
No I just signed some of them with Blackpool, I got Hiljemark and Adryan in the summer, then used the £10 million extra you get in the winter to sign the likes of Will Hughes, Doria, Bressan and Batth, not to mention money recouped from player sales and the fact I got em on monthly installments to stretch my budget a little.
Gaurav Chaddah
20 февраля, 2013 at 00:19
Great work here Darren, I knew about some of these before hand but not all of them, I went and tried to get some in a Blackpool saving but wasn’t enjoying it… With Monaco now and bar Bennet and Cresswell got all of these and looks like they’re going to get me up, really helped :)
Darren Smith
20 февраля, 2013 at 11:55
Glad it helped mate.
Kane
24 февраля, 2013 at 17:52
does the club you start at make a massive difference because i have the money for them with my Barnsley squad but once it gets to the contract negotiation stage they dont want to talk
Darren Smith
24 февраля, 2013 at 17:57
Of course it does, if the team aren’t high enough profile then that will effect whether the player wants to move or not.
COOL GUY
18 июня, 2013 at 06:45
great squad. how about mathias zimmerman? he is a right back
Darren Smith
18 июня, 2013 at 12:01
Not visible in our test save.
Scott
30 июля, 2013 at 21:47
Hi something ive struggled to understand is how do people get away with getting players o zero up front but monthly installments? I can have say 1m balance, offer nothing up front and pay the asking price in monthly installments but then once deal agreed, the purchase takes my 1m cash even though ive offered nothing up front and the deal goes through. Some people tell me this shouldnt happen, can you let me know what I’m doig wrong?
Darren Smith
30 июля, 2013 at 22:29
Usually the board will take some of the fee off your budget depending on the size of the offer and how many deals you have done this way…it also varies on the clubs finances, it’s irrelevant how much time you have to pay the money if your finances are poor, the board will just stop you spending more money.
daz
5 августа, 2013 at 12:33
boudjemaa is brilliant for 60k i got him as a squad player for southampton and hes very good
Darren Smith
5 августа, 2013 at 18:43
Thanks for the info.