Football Manager 2017: 15 Essential Challenges You Need To Tackle
11. Get Portsmouth To Europe Again
The Challenge: Reserve Portsmouth's quite alarming slump and restore them to the big time and European qualification.
Portsmouth's fall from grace and to the lower leagues was as stunning (and no doubt depressing for fans) as their rise was under Harry Redknapp. They were the ultimate flash in the pan side, winning the FA Cup in 2008 and playing European football the year after, only for relegation to cruelly hit just a couple of years later. From there it was free-fall and they've not bounced back since.
Portsmouth are still remembered as a big club thanks to those years at the top (sorry Southampton fans) and they at least deserve someone to go in and give it the old college try. And taking the reigns at a club that is still so obviously wounded (managing only 6th in League Two last year) is the kind of meaty challenge all FM veterans should always look to get their teeth into.