If you're wondering why lots of players are missing from the Japan leagues such as Gaku Shibasaki, Marcos Junior and Juan Mata it's because Japan is missing around 150 players in FM24 due to licensing reasons.
This file will add as many of those players as possible back in.
UPDATE 9th November: Fixes made to weights and removing duplicate players that SI have since added.
Also now available on Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3077525039
To install simply place in one of these two locations or follow these more detailed instructions
Mac: /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/editor data
Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/editor data
Added Players:
Albirex Niigata: Ganta Ganaha
Albirex Niigata: Haruto Tanaki
Albirex Niigata: Shota Uchiyama
Albirex Niigata: Wataru Yamakura
Albirex Niigata: Yamaguchi Shodai
Albirex Niigata: Yuta Sugiura
Avispa Fukuoka: Hibiki Horia
Avispa Fukuoka: Jin Tokishi
Avispa Fukuoka: Katsuki Nishimura
Cerezo Osaka: Aotani Soma
Cerezo Osaka: Kengo Furuyama
Cerezo Osaka: Kumpei Yamaoka
Cerezo Osaka: Motohiro Nakajima
Cerezo Osaka: Sojiro Shirahama
Ehime FC: Taiga Ishiura
Ehime FC: Takuto Kimura
Ehime FC: Yugo Masukake
Fagiano Okayama: Isa Sakamoto
Fagiano Okayama: Lee Jang-Oh
FC Gifu: Wataru Hashimoto
FC Imabari: Vinícius Araújo
FC Machida Zelvia: Shunta Araki
FC Osaka: Kazuya Mima
FC Osaka: Masaya Shibuya
FC Osaka: Yuki Yamada
FC Tokyo: Ayase Yoshida
FC Tokyo: Kaede Suzuki
FC Tokyo: Keita Oiji
FC Tokyo: Masataka Kobayashi
FC Tokyo: Tsubasa Watanabe
Fujieda MYFC: Kanta Nagata
Fujieda MYFC: Ren Asakura
Fukushima United FC: Satoru Nozue
Gamba Osaka: Akinori Ichikawa
Gamba Osaka: Aolin Zhang
Gamba Osaka: Futo Endo
Gamba Osaka: Haruta Yamaguchi
Gamba Osaka: Hyoga Tanaka
Gamba Osaka: Towa Osada
Gamba Osaka: Yuta Sasaki
Giravanz Kitakyushu: Ikechukwu Eboko
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo: Juo Iino
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo: Kanta Sakamoto
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo: Shuma Kido
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo: Shun Takagi
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo: Shutaro Ozawa
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo: Takeharu Kuboshima
Iwaki FC: Yoshihiro Shimoda
Iwaki FC: Yoshihito Kondo
Iwaki FC: Yuma Kato
Iwaki FC: Yuma Tsujioka
JEF United Chiba: Hisatoshi Nishido
JEF United Chiba: Kei Someya
JEF United Chiba: Mendes
JEF United Chiba: Ryota Kuboniwa
JEF United Chiba: Soshiro Tanida
Júbilo Iwata: Kyota Funahashi
Júbilo Iwata: Lee Kyung-Soo
Júbilo Iwata: Ri Kyongsu
Júbilo Iwata: Ryosuke Ito
Kashima Antlers: Gaku Shibasaki
Kashima Antlers: Keita Imai
Kashima Antlers: Mihiro Sato
Kashiwa Reysol: Taiga Oliver Harper
Kataller Toyama: Yoshiki Takahashi
Kawasaki Frontale: Bafétimbi Gomis
Kawasaki Frontale: Hinata Yamauchi
Kawasaki Frontale: Hinata Yamauchi
Kawasaki Frontale: Torataro Okazaki
Kyoto Sanga FC: Atsuki Sandanbata
Kyoto Sanga FC: Kazunari Kita
Kyoto Sanga FC: Mao Koyama
Kyoto Sanga FC: Rikuto Iida
Matsumoto Yamaga FC: Kazuma Yamaguchi
Matsumoto Yamaga FC: Leon Nozawa
Mito Hollyhock: Hayata Ishii
Mito Hollyhock: Soki Tokuno
Montedio Yamagata: Jo Soma
Montedio Yamagata: Toji Mitobe
Nagoya Grampus: Haruto Suzuki
Nagoya Grampus: Kyota Sakakibara
Nagoya Grampus: Ryoga Kida
Nagoya Grampus: Soma Ota
Oita Trinita: Shinichi Morimoto
Oita Trinita: Shunsuke Ono
Oita Trinita: Shuto Udo
Omiya Ardija: Haruhi Taneda
Omiya Ardija: Kazuhiko Asai
Omiya Ardija: Mark Isozaki
Omiya Ardija: Rion Ichihara
Renofa Yamaguchi FC: Hiro Mizuguchi
Roasso Kumamoto: Koya Fujii
Roasso Kumamoto: Neo Choffart
Roasso Kumamoto: Tetsuhiro Miyamoto
Sagan Tosu: Daichi Suzuki
Sagan Tosu: Keisuke Sakaiya
Sagan Tosu: Park Keon-Woo
Sagan Tosu: Shinya Nakano
Sagan Tosu: Shiva Tafari Nagasawa
Sagan Tosu: Shota Hino
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Hagumu Nakagawa
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Koshin Yamada
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Marcos Júnior
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Ryota Hatano
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Taishi Senba
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Yotaro Nakajima
Sanfrecce Hiroshima: Yuzu Kasagi
Shimizu S-Pulse: Fugetsu Kitamura
Shimizu S-Pulse: Jigen Tanaka
Shimizu S-Pulse: Kaiga Iwazaki
Shimizu S-Pulse: Naru Hoshito
Shimizu S-Pulse: Narumi Ota
Shimizu S-Pulse: Ryunosuke Yada
Shimizu S-Pulse: Sen Takagi
Shonan Bellmare: Hisatsugu Ishii
Tegevajaro Miyazaki: Junpei Tanaka
Tegevajaro Miyazaki: Kazuki Takahashi
Tegevajaro Miyazaki: Kazuma Nagata
Tegevajaro Miyazaki: Raiya Kinkawa
Thespakusatsu Gunma: Ryota Tagashira
Tokushima Vortis: Hayato Aoki
Tokushima Vortis: Yamato Kondo
Tokyo Verdy: Hidemasa Koda
Tokyo Verdy: Yuta Arai
Urawa Reds: Atsushi Inagaki
Urawa Reds: Jumpei Hayakawa
Urawa Reds: Yuto Ebashi
V-Varen Nagasaki: Luka Radotić
V-Varen Nagasaki: Malcolm Tsuyoshi Moyo
V-Varen Nagasaki: Matheus Jesus
Vanraure Hachinohe FC: Riku Yamauchi
Vanraure Hachinohe FC: Shunsuke Ebata
Ventforet Kofu: Taiju Ichinose
Vissel Kobe: Bálint Vécsei
Vissel Kobe: Juan Mata
Vissel Kobe: Shunta Hirohata
Vissel Kobe: Taiga Kameda
Y.S.C.C. Yokohama: Junpei Sakamoto
Y.S.C.C. Yokohama: Rikuto Hashimoto
Y.S.C.C. Yokohama: Seiya Nikaido
Yokohama F Marinos: Daisuke Funaki
Yokohama F Marinos: Manato Yoshida
Yokohama F Marinos: Shunta Ikeda
Yokohama FC: Haru Kiyokawa
Yokohama FC: Yutaro Nishikata
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johnloch
I've finished all J1 and several J2 teams at the moment. Aim to complete about half of the J2 teams by the end of next week so can release a beta verison for using J-League as a background league.
loklokno123
Thanks for the ETA.
asapas
Grateful for what you are doing johnlock!!! People like you are the reason I personally enjoy playing games like FM!! Utmost respect!!!
johnloch
Giving you guys a heads up: version 1.0 of my work should be ready some time tomorrow.
Filippo Garrone
@Footygamer does the update affects this mod?
asapas
Great! Will this include all Japanese teams from Masuda League?
johnloch
As promised, I have released the first version of my work. Please move to here for details and download.
AiZaK
johnloch add Paul Pogba in the next update please
mons
I wasn't aware Pogba had transferred to Japan 😕
AiZaK
No, Pogba is not in J-League but S.I. “lose” this footballer in his DB, so all the people we are going to add this Japan DB, and if someone adds Pogba we have different IDs, but if he is added in this pack all the people we must to have the same ID, no??
Sorry for my poor english jajaja
mons
The UID of a created player will never be fixed, and it will depend entirely on what other editor data files you have in place, and even their filenames. So it makes no difference if Pogba is in this file or another file, because the UID will not be the same anyway 😕
Kostas_Panachaiki
johnloch add in the next update and 3 others players that missing
Erverson Luís dos Santos Alves FC OSAKA
Vinícius Vasconcelos Araújo FC IMABARI
Ademilson Braga Bispo Junior FC Machida Zelvia
Blanc2k
Will this fix get further updated?
fmarinos112
Can you add Num Tea Hee to yokohama F marinos?
Jorgen
Do we still need this file if you use the Susie Live Update?
fosi
even with this new db update a fix will be necessary. for example Ola Solbakken is not in Urawa Reds squad
PrinceEgypt
Juan Mata is duplicated at Kobe since new update. Any reason for that I may have missed?
fosi
this is because Juan Mata is present in db 24.3. the rosters of the Japanese teams are not updated to January 31st like all the other teams, just as in 24.1 they were not updated to November 6th, but to a previous period. In fact, Ola Solbakken is not present in the Urawa squad.
this fix works for db 24.1, another fix is needed for 24.3
The terms of the agreement with the J-League for the use of the official license are limiting and very very annoying.
johnloch
If someone can post a list of the missing players in J-League for 24.3, I may give a go if that list is not long. This time I'll pass the non-players as that is very time consuming given those are very inaccurate/incompleted even after the update.
fosi
in a few weeks it seems that a new official update will be released with the February transfers, even if it is unlikely and they will not be updated with all those of the other nations, perhaps the Japanese squads will also be further updated, in my opinion it is better to wait for that update for a new fix, to avoid doing unnecessary work
fosi
@johnloch
forget my previous message, they confirmed that even with the next update the Japanese db will remain updated on November 17, 2023 due to licensing issues
johnloch
This is hilarious. One can start a new J-League season with last year squad.
In this sense what I can do most is to add the players missing in the 24.4 update but in no way that can be used as a playable league setup.
dpendao
Hi, can I use this to fix 24.3? Best regards
johnloch
I think so, but you need to add players that are removed from 24.2 and remove players that are duplicated in 24.3 (haven't check that yet but based on past experience there may be a few around).
dpendao
Do you will make an update for 24.3?
johnloch
It depends. If there's a list of missing players in 24.3 then may work on that.
zyf66623
In 24.30 I use any transfer patch that doesn't seem to be able to properly represent the real new season transfers, is it also restricted by default?
fosi
as far as I know, there should be no other limitations, simply the database of Japanese teams will be updated as of 11/17/23 P.S. If you find any patches let me know 😉
zyf66623
The original database doesn't want to discuss, after the Japanese 7th division patch that is easy to find on FMSCOUT was added, no transfer patch can reflect the real team situation, do you know why bro
opbckyo
Hisatsugu Ishii is ST, not CB