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

http://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.

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.

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 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 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.”

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.