Pick your team based on the fun factor (Picture: Sega)

Check out our list of the most exciting teams to take control of in Football Manager 2024, from top clubs to fixer-uppers.

Welcome features like late-blooming wonderkids and smarter AI makes Football Manager 2024 more unpredictable and saves you time faffing around with the more mundane tasks.

That means more time for the really fun stuff, like playing games and finding young prospects for your team, like the 35 wonderkids we indentified recently.

Before that, however, you need a team, a club you can sink your teeth into. So here are some teams to manage with fun in mind, from top clubs, to fixer-uppers, to mid-sized teams, and lower league clubs.

The best teams to manage in FM24
Let’s start at the top of the football pyramid, with some of the most exciting teams with the biggest bank accounts…

Barcelona is buckets worth of fun for one reason: its young players.

The squad is full of some of the best young players in the world, with huge ability and potential, such as Pedri (20), Ansu Fati (20, on loan at Brighton), Alejandro Balde (19), Gavi (18), and Lamine Yamal (15).

Barcelona’s youth intake is also great, so more wonderkids will likely regenerate as your save progresses. That’s exactly what you need as you start with a transfer budget of only £2.1 million and £3.35 million for wages.

The young talent pool sets you up great to develop a post-Messi era and dominate world football ag...