Updated version: Os Melhores Desafios de “Sleeping Giants” para o FM 2027
The 5 Best European Challenges don't grab you enough? Want to 'complicate things' and start in a league you barely know, but at a club with history whose fans will idolise you for your achievements? See our picks below to start a save at a team in a Liga Sul-Americana and so start your career in Football Manager 2020!
BRAGANTINO
Série B (Second Division): BRAZIL
With a big investment from Red Bull in the club from the city of Bragança Paulista, it is expected to be another success story among the clubs largely controlled by this Austrian company! However, money isn't everything when it comes to success. With your managerial skills, take Bragantino to the top of Brazilian football and be idolised by the fans when you, one day, win the Libertadores!
DANUBIO
Campeonato Uruguayo (Primeira Liga) - URUGUAI
The Uruguayan league is one of the strangest in South America: in 111 seasons top flight titles, two clubs shared 94 titles as champions between them: Peñarol (48) and Nacional (46), leaving just 17 titles shared among another half dozen clubs. Danubio is one of those teams, having won 4 titles, the last in 2013/2014. Your big task? End the dominance of these two Uruguayan giants for good and establish a new dominance in the country: Danubio. Finally, achieve international glory and win the Libertadores, as rivals have done before Peñarol and Nacional.
COLO-COLO
Liga Chilena (Primeira Liga) - CHILE
A name any football fan will recognise! Colo-Colo is a historic Chilean club, founded in 1925, that has won the Chilean league 31 ocasiões, além de one Libertadores, in 1991. In a balanced league, with Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica always hot on your heels (get ready for an intense league!), it is in the Libertadores that your big goal lies: bringing back a title that has eluded the fans for almost 30 years!
AMÉRICA DE CALI
Primera A (First Division): COLOMBIA
With terceiro Colombian club with the most titles, América de Cali might look like a dominant force in that country, but it hasn't been in recent years. Having last won the league in 2008, Atlético Nacional and Millonarios have been the ones getting the better of this Cali club. On top of that, nunca has managed to win a Libertadores, so this is the ideal challenge to start in Colombia: restore América de Cali in domestic competitions and bring, once and for all!, a Libertadores to the club's trophy cabinet!
SPORT BOYS
Liga 1 (First Division): PERU
For last, we left what we consider to be the hardest but very challenging! Close to 100 years of existence and despite being a regular presence in Liga 1, it has never established itself as a local superpower, in a league dominated by Universitario, Alianza Lima and Sporting Cristal. It last won Liga 1 in 1984. Never having made a dent in CONMEBOL competitions, Sport Boys is the hardest but also most exciting challenge you can take on in South America!
End the current dominance in Peru, make Sport Boys a local force and build a team that can stand up to the big teams from other leagues when you face them in the Libertadores.
