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FM16: Seventeen years with AB

This is the last part of my FM16 AB save. You were able to read the last season summary and story about regen Nichlas Meyer in recent time and this part is about club changes during the long seventeen years with the club. 

We started as a semi-professional club and ended as the best Danish club and part of the Champions League knockout stages.

It all started in 2015 when I took charge of this club. We were a semi-professional club in the third Danish tier. We have won promotion straight in the first season from the 2. division to the NordicBet Liga.

We stayed in NordicBet Liga for another three seasons before promotion to the Superliga. We finished 7th in the two first seasons in the top flight, second in the third season and we won our first league title in the fourth season in Superliga. There were another nine league titles in the next nine years...

Finances

When 2015/2016 started club had a balance of about -£200K. During the last seventeen years, we made a big step forward as we had more than £100M. We had no money for transfers at the start and we had more than £150M before the last season.

Staff

At the start of this save we had three coaches including a goalkeeping coach and fitness coach and one assistant manager. The coaching team was bigger and bigger during the save including the reserve and U19 team.

Before the last season, we had 24 coaches for Senior Squad, 5 coaches for the Reserve squad and 14 for the U19 team.

The most famous coaches during the years were Cesc Fabregas, Dennis Bergkamp, Michu, Thomas Sorensen, Lasse Schöne, Miroslav Klose, Jon Dal Thomasson, Kasper Schmeichel, Urby Emanuelson or Magnus Wolf Eikrem...

There were also two coaches - Nicolai Hogh and Rasmus Hansen. These two players were in the squad at the start of the save and I signed them as a coach after their retirement.

Save stats, league history and records

I think it's not needed to write many words about it. The most important thing is that we won ten league titles in a row and 11 domestic cup trophies overall. We were also twice in the Champions League Semifinal and once in the Europa League Final where we lost on penalties.

During the last three seasons of this save we were unbeaten and we finished this save with 131 matches without losing. It was from 13th October 2028 until 9th May 2032. We also have a record of 84 wins in a row.

During the 2024/2025 season, we were able to keep 11 clean sheets in a row and we had 108 points from 36 matches in two seasons in a row.

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My stats

Same as players or coaches there was progress by myself during the save. I started with the low attributes and finished with some "20".

Memorable players & icons

There were many players during this save about I could write many words. As I wrote Nichlas Meyer was my most favourite player.

I also want to mention Alexander Tved Hansen. This midfielder came to our club in 2019, became captain for more than ten years and played more than around more than 300 matches.

Sergei Eremenko were a great player as I wrote earlier and one of the legends is also defender Lars Sorensen who was in our club for ten years and he provided many important assists.

I can't forget about Thomas Randrup who was in our club from 2016 same as Nichlas Meyer or Martin Hansen who has voted European Golden Boy twice. Goalkeeper William Thorhauge was also a great servant for many years despite he was no our no.1 he was patient and reliable.

Players who were in the club for many years had to play the last match of this save in the starting XI. (rounded) It was the emotional end of save especially when Nichlas Meyer scored the winner and Lars Sorensen was PoM...

FM16 is over for me and I want to thank you for your support here and on Twitter. It was a very good choice as I really enjoyed this save.