All national teams. Is it possible?

Hello guys,

Is it possible to activate all national teams manager positions? (FM 2014) What I would like is to play a globe-trotter, managing all kinds of mostly small national teams.

Thanks

Unfortunately you can't make all national teams playable in-game. A nation needs to have a certain amount of players in the database (I believe it is about 100) to be playable, a lot of small nations don't have that many.

Then there is the issue of loading players, loading the amount of players that would be required to make all possible national teams playable in-game would make the game run very slowly and you would be at risk of bugs, crashes and corrupted saves.

The good thing is that most of the real minnows like Andorra, the Faroe Islands and the Oceanian national teams tend to have a small number of players, so you can load many of them at the start. When it comes to slightly larger national teams you will be forced to pick between them though, as many of them have several thousand players each in the database and with established giants like England, Italy or Brazil they'll have more than 10,000 players each in the DB, making it very easy to exceed the recommended limit for your system.

Thanks Franck.
Is it correct that I don't need to load the actual leagues from the countries (or maybe load them as view only)? That would cut back the processing time I guess. I am only interested in playing the national teams this time around.
So I would only load in the advanced options all the players from all the countries (or leave out some big ones if performance will be an issue). Would this work?

so I've loaded all players (from the advanced options, by continents). 333000 players.
it turns out you can chose from 183 countries. some of them are not even part of FIFA, like Gibraltar.

I can pretty much guarantee you that you're going to have a crash at some point with that many players loaded.

And Gibraltar became UEFA members about a year ago. Will take part in the Euro 2016 qualifiers.

yeah, read about Gibraltar
...it's moving way to slowly anyway for any practical play, takes around 1 min, maybe less, for a day without anything to pass. it was more of an experiment really.