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Football Manager Scouting Regions & Nations Youth Rating

Written by Espen on March 10, 2021
Last Updated April 9, 2021

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Football Manager Scouting regions and nations youth ranking

Rating the Quality of Nations Newgen Production Within the Scouting Regions

Be more strategic in your hunt for the best ‘newgens’ in Football Manager by using the knowledge about the different Football Manager scouting regions and its nations’ youth rating to your advantage.

Discover which nations and regions with a higher probability of generating quality ‘newgens’ and become more purposeful with scouting in Football Manager.

Take scouting for newgens to the next level, as we arrange the valuable nations to scout!

READ MORE | Football Manager guide to youth intakes

Using the Football Manager Scouting Regions To Decide Your Order of Nations to Scout

Throughout the last scouting guides I’ve released, I’ve preached the importance of being strategic and methodical in your search for players. I’ve talked about how you should set up scouting assignments, why increasing scouting knowledge is beneficial and how you can find hidden gems and future wonderkids by tracing down quality newgens generated at youth intakes.

Today I want to put attention to the different Football Manager scouting regions and how you can sort the world regions into areas that are necessary to gain higher scouting knowledge of, and areas that are less valuable in your search for future world-class players.

In fact, the list of scouting regions can be a valuable tool when trying to decide which nations or regions in Football Manager to scout. It helps you to prioritize certain countries and world regions when setting up scouting assignments as you’ll get a better picture of where it’s most useful to scout!

By including each nations’ youth ratings and game importance to the different scouting regions in Football Manager you’ll be given a more structured approach to scouting since they affect the production of newgens at youth intakes, and their quality.

As a result, it increases the chance you’ll be able to find more quality newgens generated in your save, in nations higher up the list with a better youth rating and game importance than in a lower one.

Do you want to understand which nations to scout to find future wonderkids of the highest quality? Then, our list of the Football Manager scouting regions and their nations will come in handy!

How the Nations’ Youth Rating may affect Youth Intakes?

The youth rating is a static number within the Football Manager editor which ranges from 0 to 200. The score affects how likely a specific nation can produce an average amount of quality newgens. By that I mean; Juniors with a potential ability to become world-class players, their reputation and their average levels of current abilities coming through in the nation as a whole. Basically, a nation with a higher youth rating will see a larger pool of Juniors being generated with more players of greater standards.

In other words, the youth rating determines the maximum quality of Juniors produced within a nation, along with the overall quantity.

A nation with better youth rating will over time produce newgens of a higher standard than a nation with a lower level. For instance, it’s a much bigger chance of finding quality newgens in Brazil compared to the Caymen Islands. Not only because of the cultural differences but also how many plays football in that country compared to the total population, which is replicated in Football Manager as the game importance.

You can then use this knowledge of where it is most likely that the best juniors will be produced to set up more focused scouting assignments. In fact, you increase your probability of finding better newgens by scouting nations with excellent youth ratings compared to spending resources and time in nations with poor youth ratings.

This list helps you to be more strategic when setting up scouting assignments and assigning scouts to further improve your club’s scouting knowledge in the areas of the world most beneficial to you!

How to understand Game Importance?

A nation’s Game Importance describes how important football is in that country relative to the population. It takes into account the football culture within each nation and the number of active members playing the sport. The game importance will also somehow link to the nation’s infrastructure, economy, and population which affects their overall abilities to produce great footballers.

Obviously, football is hugely important for Germany, compared to Canada where the national sport is ice hockey. Similarly, football is more important in Holland compared to Qatar which has no prior football history to talk about.

How to use the list of scouting regions to your benefit?

The result is those nations with a relatively huge population, high game importance, and excellent youth ratings will produce a higher average number of quality newgens. For instance, nations at the higher end of the scale will be more likely to produce players with higher reputation, better current and potential abilities compared to one at the lower end.

Regardless, it is not a definite matter that a nation on top of the list will constantly produce the best newgens, as each club’s reputation, youth facilities, Junior Coaching and youth recruitment will affect it as well. Then, the quality of the person in charge of handling youth intakes must be taken into account as well.

But by combining the knowledge of the best youth academies in Football Manager with the ‘best’ newgen nations you can prioritize your scouting activities to certain areas of the world. For instance, by focusing your attention on valuable nations to scout at, at the youth intake dates.

Table of Content

  • South America East
  • Central Europe
  • UK & Ireland
  • Eastern Europe
  • North America
  • North Africa
  • South Europe
  • Scandinavia
  • South America West
  • Western Africa
  • East Asia
  • Middle East
  • Central Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Southeast Asia
  • South Asia
  • Central America
  • Oceania
  • Caribbean
  • East Africa
  • Central Asia

Complete list of the Worlds Scouting Regions

In each of the different scouting regions below, the nations are sorted from best to worst according to their youth rating. If nations have the same amount of stars, the better one will still be above the worse one.

Updated for Football Manager 2021.

South America (East)

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
BrazilVery Important
ArgentinaVery Important
UruguayVery Important
ParaguayVery Important
GuyanaUnimportant
SurinamImportant
French GuianaCompletely Useless

Central Europe

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
GermanyVery Important
ItalyVery Important
FranceVery Important
SpainVery Important
HollandVery Important
PortugalVery Important
BelgiumVery Important
SwitzerlandImportant
AustriaVery Important
LiechtensteinCompletely Useless
AndorraCompletely Useless
LuxembourgCompletely Useless
San MarinoCompletely Useless

UK & Ireland

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
EnglandVery Important
ScotlandVery Important
IrelandImportant
Northern IrelandImportant
WalesImportant
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Eastern Europe

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
RussiaImportant
SerbiaVery Important
CroatiaVery Important
UkraineImportant
PolandImportant
Czech Rep.Important
RomaniaVery Important
SlovakiaImportant
SloveniaImportant
Bosnia & HerzegovinaVery Important
BulgariaVery Important
HungaryVery Important
GeorgiaVery Important
AlbaniaVery Important
North MacedoniaImportant
LatviaImportant
BelarusImportant
EstoniaImportant
MontenegroImportant
LithuaniaImportant
MoldovaUnimportant
AzerbeijanUnimportant
ArmeniaImportant
KosovoImportant

North America

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
MexicoVery Important
U.S.A.Unimportant
CanadaUnimportant
St. Pierre & MiquelonUnimportant

North Africa

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
EgyptVery Important
AlgeriaVery Important
MoroccoVery Important
TunisiaVery Important
SudanVery Important
LibyaVery Important

South Europe

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
TurkeyVery Important
GreeceVery Important
CyprusVery Important
MaltaUnimportant
GibraltarImportant

Scandinavia

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
DenmarkVery Important
SwedenVery Important
NorwayVery Important
FinlandImportant
IcelandVery Important
Faroe IslandsVery Important

South America West

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
ColombiaVery Important
PeruVery Important
EcuadorVery Important
ChileVery Important
VenezuelaImportant
BoliviaVery Important

Western Africa

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
NigeriaUnimportant
Ivory CoastVery Important
GhanaVery Important
SenegalVery Important
MaliVery Important
Burkina FasoVery Important
GuineaVery Important
TogoVery Important
BeninVery Important
GambiaImportant
Cape VerdeUnimportant
LiberiaImportant
NigerImportant
Sierra LeoneVery Important
MauritaniaImportant
Guinea-BissauVery Important

East Asia

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
JapanVery Important
South KoreaImportant
North KoreaUnimportant
ChinaVery Important
Hong KongCompletely Useless
MongoliaCompletely Useless
Chinese TaipeiCompletely Useless
GuamCompletely Useless
Macau (China PR)Completely Useless
Northern MarianaCompletely Useless

Middle East

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
JordanUnimportant
IraqUnimportant
IranVery Important
IsraelImportant
Saudi ArabiaUnimportant
SyriaVery Important
BahrainCompletely Useless
KuwaitUnimportant
OmanCompletely Useless
LebanonCompletely Useless
U.A.E.Completely Useless
YemenCompletely Useless
PalestineUnimportant
QatarCompletely Useless

Central Africa

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
DR CongoVery Important
CameroonVery Important
GabonVery Important
CongoVery Important
Equatorial GuineaCompletely Useless
ChadCompletely Useless
Central African RepublicUnimportant
Sao Tome & PrincipeCompletely Useless

Southern Africa

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
South AfricaVery Important
AngolaVery Important
MozambiqueVery Important
ZambiaVery Important
MalawiImportant
ZimbabweVery Important
BotswanaUnimportant
NamibiaUnimportant
MadagascarCompletely Useless
LesothoUnimportant
MauritiusCompletely Useless
SeychellesCompletely Useless
EswatiniCompletely Useless
ComorosUnimportant

Southeast Asia

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
AustraliaImportant
ThailandImportant
VietnamImportant
IndonesiaImportant
MyanmarUnimportant
MalaysiaUnimportant
SingaporeCompletely Useless
PhilippinesCompletely Useless
CambodiaImportant
LaosCompletely Useless
BruneiCompletely Useless
East TimorUnimportant

South Asia

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
IndiaUnimportant
MaldivesCompletely Useless
PakistanCompletely Useless
BangladeshCompletely Useless
AfghanistanUnimportant
Sri LankaCompletely Useless
NepalCompletely Useless
BhutanUnimportant
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Central America

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
HondurasImportant
Costa RicaVery Important
GuatemalaImportant
El SalvadoreVery Important
PanamaCompletely Useless
NicaraguaCompletely Useless
BelizeCompletely Useless

Oceania

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
New ZealandUnimportant
Solomon IslandsUnimportant
TahitiUnimportant
FijiUnimportant
Papua New GuineaUnimportant
VanuatuCompletely Useless
New CaledoniaImportant
SamoaCompletely Useless
Cook IslandsCompletely Useless
TongaCompletely Useless
American SamoaCompletely Useless
TuvaluCompletely Useless
Wallis & Futuna IslandsUnimportant
KiribatiCompletely Useless
MicronesiaCompletely Useless

Caribbean

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
JamaicaVery Important
Trinidad & TobagoImportant
CubaUnimportant
HaitiVery Important
GuadeloupeImportant
Saint Vincent &
the Grenadines
Important
BarbadosCompletely Useless
MartiniqueImportant
BermudaUnimportant
St Kitts & NevisUnimportant
Saint LuciaCompletely Useless
GrenadaUnimportant
CuracaoCompletely Useless
Saint BarthélemyUnimportant
Puerto RicoUnimportant
Antigua & BarbudaImportant
Dominican RepublicUnimportant
Cayman IslandsImportant
Sint MaartenCompletely Useless
BahamasCompletely Useless
St MartinCompletely Useless
DominicaImportant
Turks & CaicosUnimportant
British Virgin IslandsUnimportant
AnguillaUnimportant
ArubaCompletely Useless
US Virgin IslandsCompletely Useless
MontserratUnimportant
BonaireImportant

East Africa

NationYouth RatingGame Importance
UgandaVery Important
TanzaniaVery Important
EthiopiaCompletely Useless
KenyaImportant
RwandaImportant
BurundiUnimportant
SomaliaUnimportant
EritreaCompletely Useless
DjiboutiCompletely Useless
MayotteUnimportant
ReunionCompletely Useless
South SudanVery Important
ZanzibarImportant

Central Asia

NationLevel of Youth RatingGame Importance
UzbekistanImportant
KazakhstanUnimportant
TajikistanUnimportant
TurkmenistanUnimportant
KyrgyzstanUnimportant

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Written by Espen

Owner of Passion4FM since 2012. Football Manager content creator with a special love for tactics, wonderkids and player development. Also passionate about cooking and running. FC Barcelona and Tottenham supporter for over 20 years.
Website: https://www.passion4fm.com/

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