All the winners in Top 120's history!

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Here you should be able to see the entire season history for each club in Top 120.

You can also see which teams have finished 1st and last (and everywhere in between) most often.

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SEASON 10 - PRE SEASON REVIEW (Division 2)

I picked up Nice in season 9 after the season had started but still managed to steer them to 3rd position and a play off spot. Unfortunately we lost our play off semi final and therefore did not gain promotion

In the close season I noticed Ander Barrenetxea (86) 21yo available external and so I couldn’t resist bringing him to Nice. 

THE CHAIRMAN AND I BELIEVE THAT A REASONABLE TARGET FOR US THIS SEASON WILL BE TO “MOUNT A SERIOUS TITLE CHALLENGE”

I will continue to follow the player rises before I look at our “best 18” and to fill some gaps. 

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HOW AM I DOING

Season 9 - to pick them up 2nd to bottom and finish 3rd was a good season

Season 10 - 

MY FIRST JOURNEY IN “(TOP120) ”(Season 9 -Present)

(Previously in TOP100 with Besiktas & Manchester United)

OGC NICE FC

Season 9 - League position 3rd (division 2) W6, D7, L3 and 25 points 

Squad value £273.8M

Chairman’s Target (finish top half) PLAY OFFS✅

OGC NICE  FC

SEASON 9 - (Division 2 - League position 3rd)

I took over NICE after 7 games and W1, D4, L2 and 7 points. The squad value was £273.8M + £1.1M cash and they had 12 Senior players and 19 youths. Their “very best starting 11” was at 91, but the loss of a single player would reduce this to “90”. It was an unbalanced squad and a couple of players were needed to improve their prospects.

I have managed to achieve W3, D3, L1 and 12 points, and Nice now sit in 4th spot with W4, D7, L3 and 19 points. We are 4 points away from auto promotion but with only 4 games left to play. I will be happy to remain in the play off positions with a chance of gaining promotion.

Well, the season ended and we finished in 3rd place with W6, D7, L5 and 25 points. We rested some players in our final game in order to maintain fitness for our play off match/es.

Unfortunately we had two key defenders missing from the play off semi and I expected the match to be very close. The stats were close and the game looked fairly equal but at 2-2 it was looking at going to penalties when Griezeman(89) scored the winner.

HOW AM I DOING

Season 9 - to pick them up 2nd to bottom and finish 3rd was a good season

OGC NICE FC

Season 9 - League position 4th (division 2) W4, D7, L3 and 19 points (4 left)

Squad value £273.8M

Chairman’s Target (finish top half)

OGC NICE  FC

SEASON 9 - (Division 2 - League position th)

I took over NICE after 7 games and W1, D4, L2 and 7 points. The squad value was £273.8M + £1.1M cash and they had 12 Senior players and 19 youths. Their “very best starting 11” was at 91, but the loss of a single player would reduce this to “90”. It was an unbalanced squad and a couple of players were needed to improve their prospects.

I have managed to achieve W3, D3, L1 and 12 points, and Nice now sit in 4th spot with W4, D7, L3 and 19 points. We are 4 points away from auto promotion but with only 4 games left to play. I will be happy to remain in the play off positions with a chance of gaining promotion.

The 2nd season of Top120 has ended with titles for Dan Wallace (Division 1) and Dan Innes (Division 2)

As stated on the Top120 newsfeed we have an unexpected 5th opening for a Top120 manager - but Dan, Dan and me are undecided and disagree on who - so here is an opportunity - below is the team - first team and youth team - also the contract (calculated on how that side compares to others in next season divisions). The team is Chievo Verona - a side that has risen through the ranks during their time in Top100.

We want a message - whatsapp, messenger, PM in game that answers the following

Message to me Stephen Beddows, Dan Payne (DP91) or Dan Wallace

(1) Why should we pick you for that role?

(2) Tell us about your work in Top 120 - achievements - decisions etc

(3) What are your current thoughts on that club? What would your priorities be?

(4) How would you contribute to the wider Top100 community?

So, after 5 league games and 2 rounds of the cup we are effectively 1/4 of the way through the first T120 season.

Fortunes for Crvena Zvezda have been mixed. With the highest rated first 11 at the start of the season we expected to be in contention but mixed results see us sitting in 3rd and 6points off of the top, having played 5, won 3, lost 2:


Results:

D2 Table:

In both the games that we lost we were dominant in the stats (over 60% possession in both cases) and so I don't think there is any cause for concern performance wise at the moment, we just need to get some consistency going.

Stand out player by a mile has been Emile-Smith Rowe, with 2 goals and 8 assists in 5 games, with an average rating of 8.00. Yet no MOM awards!

Next up is a big game against 2nd place Real Betis, and a win there is going to be important to try and keep up with run-away leaders Palmeiras.


For the cup, we were lucky to have submitted our tactics before the SM glitch yesterday and our reserves did a decent job of seeing off Leipzig. We led the whole game only for them to pull level with an 88th minute penalty, so Pens were a nervous affair.
In the quarters we will face off against Palmeiras and it will be interesting to see how both teams approach this one, with both of us eyeing up promotion too.

In terms of the squad, our initial 40m investment has increased to a squad with a value of 51.3m, however we had hoped the brazil reviews might have gone through quicker and we still have 4 players pending a review (hurry up with Fluminense SM!)

We now have 26 players in the squad having brought in 3 new youngsters:
-16yr old Mathys Tel from Stade Rennais, who is now the youngest every player to play for them.
-19yr old Faustino Anjorin now at Lokomotiv Moscow from Chelsea
-19yr old Amar Dedic, playing at Wolfsberger AC on loan from Salzburg.

All 3 are players we would hope progress during the coming season and have potential for rises in the winter review.

So our current squad looks a bit like this:

Really enjoying the challenge at the moment. Its the first 'empty squad' gameworld I have been involved in but I think so far I am happy with the approach I took and am looking forward to seeing how the season progresses.

Late on Thursday 12th August Breaking news from the San Sebastian Stadium had seen manager Norman Little poached to the big GW 'Top 100' and the club was stunned after Norman had promised The Erreala the world.

After talks with the bigwigs at Top 120 Sociedad were quick to announce Stephen 'Noisy' Partington as the new manager and the fans were astounded they'd captured a manager who was in the Top 100 history books for various trophies and titles.

I was quick to analyse a squad that had began to be pieced together with signings from South America and we started the same way adding a few other Brazilians to the squad but by this time the big name youth talents were already snapped up so we had to get our notebook out and pick out players I'd picked as potential future stars.

Martinelli is our best player and he was a Norman capture but we have since complemented him with the likes of Bella Kotchup and Klimowicz from the Bundesliga a league we have good connections with.

Onto Matchday 1 and we opted to go for an attacking 4-2-4 against Wolves and it backfired spectacularly as we went down 4-2 in England despite taking an early 2-0 lead through De Paula and Alberto but Hickey seeing Red on 40mins killed it.

Sociedad have been drawn in Europe and the very next night Juventus rolled into town and turned our low rated team over 3-0 at the San Sebastian not the best of starts....

This prompted us back into the market and we spent 3m on Portuguese full back Nuno Tavares who looks promising at Arsenal and he slotted in straight away for suspended Hickey.

Matchday 2 last night saw us host Bologna and we played out a 1-1 draw with De Paula once again scoring the goal for the erreala.

Early days so far but we're enjoying the new challenge that we have.

Wolverhampton Wanderers faced Real Sociedad in their first Top 120 match at Molineux, the match ended 4-2 for the host. Josh Sargent was the star that night with his brace, as two more goals coming from Adil Aouchiche and Alexis Mac Allister sealed the win for Dayo's side. The Wolves was pretty much dominating the match.

From your point of view, it looks like an easy win, right? But wrong! Believe me it isn't.

It was a comeback actually, we were 2 goals down in just under 20 minutes. And guess what, those goals were creations of Yuri Alberto, an 80-rated Brazilian attacker, who scored a goal and an assist. In addition, my team was finally able to equalize after a red card for the Basque's side, smh…

Is it a bad sign? NO, of course not!

Why? Because scoring 4 after conceding two goals is no small feat, also we were able to keep a clean sheet in the last 70 minutes and more importantly, in the end, the victory was ours.

Yeah, we still need to improve, we still need to develop. But still, we believe in ourselves. #COYW