FM24 Player and Staff Updates

@mikaelacat You can submit the changes: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/contribute

Hey guys, these staff are not in the DB, can we create them somehow?

Manager of Bosnia - Sergej Barbarez → https://www.transfermarkt.com/sergej-barbarez/profil/trainer/8649

Manager of Burkina Faso - Brama Traoré → https://www.transfermarkt.com/brama-traore/profil/trainer/126999

Manager of Saudi Arabia - Hervé Renard → https://www.transfermarkt.com/herve-renard/profil/trainer/6480

that can only be used for transfers, contracts or changes to existing people, not CA, adding staff/players, changing club info, adding affiliations etc.

although maybe im wrong and i just have no idea how to do it 😅

also another thing to Arka: our average attendance last season was 5100 (despite a boycott lasting half a season) and this season it's 6500 thus far, our attendance needs to be improved from 4000 to at least 6000

My mistake. I thought the staff you referred to already existed in the game.

non-exhaustive list of who is missing (i just went through most of arkas staff) -
-Marcin Moruś (performance analyst)
-Marcin Ostrowski (chief doctor) 
-Paweł Bednarczyk (he's like… the manager of the team? like doing stuff like preparing training camps, equipment etc. idk what that role translates to in fm)
-Tomasz Plaskaty* (he is in the game, but hes the assistent to the prior, idk what to call that)
-Paweł Bień (part of club administration)
-Tomasz Majchrowicz (part of club administration)
- Marcin Gruchała (majority owner)
-Łukasz Kowalski (reserve team manager/head coach)
-Rafał Kamiński (2nd team and u19 physio)
-Jakub Schwarz (2nd team and u19 physio)
-Dariusz Pasieka (no longer in the game, director of academy (head of youth development??))
- Przemysław Pek (2nd team assistant)
-maciej cieślik* (in the game he is the reseave team head coach when in reality he is the head coach of u17s??? idk how to even represent that since the official polish database doesn't have the u17 league…)

im gonna try at some point later to go through arkas youth teams like this, because there are some youngsters where i have no idea who they are and then some who clearly exist but arent somehow in the game

Hervé Renard is actually in the DB

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager/person/6200572/herve-renard

he is not visible in the game tho, can you find him in your game? :/

Right, it appears on FM23, but SI removed him and he not appears on FM 24, sorry. 

Players missing from Arka Gdynia

1st team:
- Konrad Krzebietke (17yo, GK, high potential (-6 or -7) https://www.transfermarkt.com/konrad-krzebietke/profil/spieler/1300431, https://www.arka.gdynia.pl/index.php?typ=zawodnik_jesien2024&id=111820 )
- Kamil Górecki (19yo, CB, already quite decent (didnt look out of place in the games where he played in the first team, second team regular), probably also -6 or -65 potential, has pro contract https://www.transfermarkt.pl/kamil-gorecki/profil/spieler/1056395 https://www.arka.gdynia.pl/index.php?typ=zawodnik_wiosna2025&id=111818 https://www.arka.gdynia.pl/news,25079-kamil-gorecki-podpisal-kontrakt-z-arka.html )
- Miłosz Kaczmarek (17yo, DM, probably -6 to - 7 potential, https://www.transfermarkt.pl/milosz-kaczmarek/profil/spieler/1270355 )

2nd team:
i highlighted those who are already in the database, source: https://www.arka.gdynia.pl/index.php?typ=druzyna_2_jesien2024&id=17&sezon=19
Goalkeepers: Kasjan Semmerling(2005), Miłosz Lewandowski(2006) 
Defenders: Maksymilian Kierznikowicz (2006), Wojciech Zacharewicz (2006), Antoni Pawlicki (2007), Medard Kotowicz (2006), Dawid Mandziuk (2007), Olaf Matuszewski (2007), Mateusz Kozłowski (2005), Jakub Branicki (2005), Mateusz Bień (2007), Kimi Szwajcer (2006), Kacper Serkowski (2006) 
Midfielders: Artur Łyszkiewicz- Dustet (2004), Nikodem Gozdecki (2006), Aleksander Piasecki (2007), Marcus da Silva (1984), Kacper Raczyński (2006), Wiktor Wrzeszcz (2007), Olaf Gohlike (2006), Filip Kowalski (2006), Mateusz Krause (2004), Szymon Sielczak (2007), Adrian Jurkiewicz (2005), Kajetan Pysz (2006), Marcel Gnabasik (2005), Kamil Rusnak (2005) 
Forwards: Dominik Pikulik (2006), Marcel Stenka (2006)
team results: http://www.90minut.pl/liga/1/liga13642.html
Adrian Jurkiewicz, Mateusz Kozłowski and Dominik Pikulik were highlighted to be standout players. (and Stenka should've been nominated too i think) ( https://arka.gdynia.pl/news,25326-podsumowanie-roku-mlodziezy.html )
Because there is no data on V Liga football, i compiled a table of how many minutes each of them played (+goals) from match reports. This, combined with age, quality of the team (not in opta analyst but estimating off of the lowest available teams and results in the league should be like 42 power ranking probably) etc. should give a rough idea of how much CA and PA they should have

U19's:
https://www.arka.gdynia.pl/index.php?typ=druzyna&id=18 team, again, highlighted those in database
Goalkeepers: Artur Chyb (2006), Adam Idziaszek (2007), Mateusz Derc (2007) 
Defenders: Igor Wiśniewski (2007), Filip Freiberg (2007), Antoni Elwart (2006), Volodymyr Wereszczak (2006), Kordian Wierciszewski (2007), Igor Dubiela (2007), Hubert Kozoduj (2006), Kajetan Trzyński (2007) 
Midfielders: Mateusz Stępień (2006), Jakub Klockowski (2007), Dawid Laszczyk (2006), Mateusz Niklasiński (2007), Marcel Bełz (2006), Artur Łyszkiewicz-Dustet (2006). Jakub Piotrowski (2006), Illia Kotow (2006), Martin Małkowski (2007), Jakub Wyszomierski (2007), Oskar Gnabasik (2007) 
Forwards: Bartosz Walczak (2006) Przemysław Zakrzewski (2007), Dawid Śmigielski (2007)
Transfermarkt stats: https://www.transfermarkt.pl/arka-gdynia-u19/leistungsdaten/verein/15483
Highlighted as top players were Jakub Wyszomierski, Volodymyr Vereshchak and Hubert Kozoduj

I don't think it makes much sense to add the u17's, but this is the team https://www.arka.gdynia.pl/index.php?typ=druzyna&id=19 (all not in the game). If you do add them, Szymon Tkaczyk, Eryk Urbański and Fabian Ziółkowski were highlighted as standout players.

It's also important to note which of these players were on the winter early training camp and the Turkey main winter training camp, as that will highlight the potential of these players that they are being taken to train with the first team. 

Camp in Poland: Krzebietke, Górecki, Sawicki, Jurkiewicz
Camp in Turkey: Krzebietke, Górecki, Sawicki, Jurkiewicz

Sawicki and Jurkiewicz were both highlighted as players of high potential both by the first team coach and academy staff recently, not sure what their original potential in the game was but it should be at least -6

Please reply to this once you add these players, i wanna do an Arka save soon 🙂

@Footygamer sorry for the ping but i really want to play with the updated Arka squad, can you please tell me how long the wait for these changes might be and if there is something that i can do to expedite the process? thanks 🙂

Today or tomorrow 🙂

Can someone please add Jakub Zawadzki https://www.transfermarkt.pl/jakub-zawadzki/profil/spieler/1211582

Não achei William José no Bahia tem alguma justificativa??

Does anyone know who is the youngest player in the original database and where was the cutoff for the youngest players? now that Arka is (or will soon be) updated, I want to make a spreadsheet of young players that need to be added at some point 🙂

Theres 1246 15 year old players in the game, pretty much impossible to find who the youngest is with just the editor. These are the youngest Arka or Arka II players:

I already wrote the list of Arka players to be added, i was thinking more of who is the youngest in terms of birth date to add younger players to other teams. for example, recently a 16yo debuted for current poland champions Jagiellonia and scored on his debut, but he surely isn’t in the database as he would have been 14 at the start of the previous season. i wanted to make a list of all such players who (after adding +1 age -1 contract) would need to be added as a potentially new wonderkid/young talent.

looking through the list of players in the database who are 15-16 at the start, pretty much anyone born in 2007 or earlier is unlikely to be in the game, with small exceptions, and there are like 3 players from 2008, so pretty much anyone goes for that birth year. for context, the jagiellonia player i was talking about was born 20 may 2008, so would be the youngest player in the original database

Can you add Will Reilly of Atlanta United? He is missing from this site

Is there a list of newly added players/wonderkids? I wonder if I can make a DDT for the new players

I'm a bit unsure where to write this, so I'm taking a risk here. Sorry if this is the wrong place, please point me to the correct one 🙂

Namely - a player who is in the newplayer file has changed the club - it is impossible to report the transfer by standard change notification.

I leave the information here: Gabriel Obekpa - on loan to Zimbru.

https://www.transfermarkt.pl/gabriel-obekpa/profil/spieler/1107994

Players missing:-

Mason Melia (St. Patrick's Athletic) https://www.transfermarkt.com/mason-melia/profil/spieler/1005766 joining Tottenham Hotspuron 1 Jan2026

Lucá Williams-Barnett (Tottenham Hotspur U18) https://www.transfermarkt.com/luca-williams-barnett/profil/spieler/1108475

Juma Bah aparece como propiedad del lens, cuando deberia ser propiedad del city, cedido en lens.

IIRC, the cutoff is  August 31th so it should be August 2009 for FM 26. If I'm right, players born on September 1st 2009 onwards will not be created for FM26

i have two James Overy's playing for Man Utd after starting a new game ….Both have identical date of births, but one is Australian and one is English…im guessing this is an error ? 

@Footygamer 

i download the file of. 24/2 ( I speak for that cause I start a season and I did not continue to download updates ) and Neymar jr was free player not in Santos . Can someone confirm the change now ?

@milenec11 he was changed at the end of January: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/person/19024412 

Are you sure you're not trying to use a future start date or similar file?

@Footygamer 1000% sure . 

@milenec11 I cannot see an issue, please screenshot BOTH your “editor data” folder and the list of checked files when starting a new save and use common sense to try and show the full file names if they don't fit by default.

Any chance Filipe Luis who is now the manager of Flamengo, coulde be added? he is doing a amazing job and he could had a high PA for a Manager, maybe going to europe quickly?

@Footygamer 
Guys, you have the wrong information for Aleksa Maras in Botev in the data base. It says that he is a goalkeeper but in fact he is a striker
Proof: https://www.transfermarkt.com/aleksa-maras/profil/spieler/878340
I see that u have 2 transfermarkt links for him, the first one is not him and i guess thats why its all messed up
Proof: https://prnt.sc/FEKY7vutrZBl