Football Manager 2019: 10 Challenging Teams You Must Consider Managing

6. Bayer Leverkusen

The German league is the big new addition to Football Manager 2019 with the licencing coming into play and that's good news for fans of one of the biggest European leagues out there. It's also good for fans of realism and the German youth system's famed ability for nurturing talents.

Unfortunately for anyone other than Bayern Munich fans, it's also a league dominated by a true giant, which is why breaking that strangle-hold right now is the biggest challenge you can tackle. Step forward Bayer Leverkusen, one of the most intriguing teams in Europe.

They have good youth prospects like Julian Brandt, Leon Bailey and Kai Havertz and if they can be nurtured, they could be world-beaters. And Munich-beaters, more importantly.