Football Manager 2017: 15 Essential Challenges You Need To Tackle

The Challenge: Fight the weight of history and keep Spanish minnows CD Leganes in the top flight.

Having been founded in 1928, it took CD Leganes just shy of 90 years to gain promotion to the top flight of Spanish football, after spending the majority of their existence in the country's fourth tier. They face an almighty task staying in the same league as Real Madrid and Barcelona (though they haven't started badly at all) and it will take managers of serious guile and nous to do so.

Financially competing is basically out of the question at the start, so it's more a question of getting the most out of your existing players and playing the markets well. But that's precisely the kind of opportunity and challenge that brings out the best in FM veterans and the kind that brings the best bragging rights. Especially if you can nick a few points off the really big boys along the way.