Youth academy

🧒 Once per in-game month, your academy generates an intake of new youth players. The size and quality of the intake depends on three things: facilities_rating (the physical academy infrastructure), youth_coaching_rating (the coaching staff you have assigned to the youth setup), and your country's youth talent pool quality (some countries naturally produce stronger youth than others). A high-rated academy in Brazil or France will outproduce a low-rated academy in San Marino by an order of magnitude.

Intake reports arrive as inbox messages on the 1st of each month with a list of new players, their positions, age (typically 15-17), preliminary star ratings and a recommendation flag. You can immediately scout them in depth for a sharper potential read. Promising youth (3-star current ability or 4-star potential) should be promoted to the senior squad shell or loaned out to lower-tier clubs for game time. Unpromising youth (below 2-star potential) can be released to save on the youth wage bill or kept as squad-padding.