Post issues with problems relating to year modification here

Hi, can I use both year files (+1 AND +2 ages/contract lenghts) at the same time or should I stick to one?

The +1 file does nothing, it's a blank file put there to overide the old file because asking thousands of people to delete a file was unlikely to be heard by everyone.

In hindsight maybe the name should have been kept but that would still lead to the same number of questions haha.

Oh yeah, I missed the explanation on that, sorry 🙂 . I was thinking that there would be an issue between the two, because some youth players in my Sunderland save are still the age they would be in 2023 (e.g. Ben Metcalf and Jaydon Jones are 16 even though they should be 18 with the +2 file). Is there any reason to this?

Love the work, appreciate it a lot and makes FM exciting again.

I'm running into an issue with the +2 file however - it seems like contracts are not updated for a decent amount of players compared with no file. For example, I'm playing with Genoa and players like Frendrup and Vasquez have correct contract expiry dates with no file - 2028 in real life, 2026 in game. With the +2 file however, the players are older but both contracts end in 2024 (end of first season). Looking at the player search this seems to be the case for other clubs as well - getting about 30% more “Contract expiring in 1 year” players in the +2 file than no file comparing the two saves with equivalent search filters (~40k players vs 30k players).

Any fixes I can do in the short term? Or just wait for an update? Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I used FMRTE (already had it) to add 2 years to everyone except for the added players, which should work when using no file.

Sorry i'm struggling to grasp exactly what you're saying @wille300 

Morten Frendrup has a contract ending in 2026 as per the site.

Why are you saying it should be 2028? Has he signed a new contract in real life? In that case that change needs to be made, you can read how to do so here

If i've misunderstood can you please explain a little more clearly

Hi Wonder if you can i help just updated database to latest update now all the leagues have reverted back to 23/24 season i.e. Luton in premier league. Thank you in advance. Thanks for all your great work

All the leagues haven't reverted back and i'm not 100% sure what you're referring to there @Andrew Ryan ?

I would guess you've installed the data update incorrectly.

Oh i see i have always done the same way. First download update. Extracted it to a new folder on desktop. Deleted old editor data. Then dragged the new editor dater folder straight into sports interactive, Football Manager. I have just downloaded August 6th update and it is still the same. I am sorry to be a pain

Apologies I could have been more clear.

What I meant is that Frendrup has a contract ending in 2028 in real life per Transfermarkt - i.e ending 3 years from now (2025). His contract in the Data Update correctly ends in 2026 - 3 years from 2023 which is the FM24 start date. All good so far.

What I had an issue with is that when using the +2 Contracts and Age file, the correct contract lengths seem to have been overridden, meaning that a lot more contracts were ending after one season than they should (for example Frendrup) even though the Sortitoutsi data seems to be correct. Therefore I'm thinking the +2 file might be bugged? 

I tried installing it twice with the same issue, but might be a mistake on my part. Got it working anyways with my workaround so no big deal, and no one else has flagged it so could be fine.

@wille300 I think you may be misunderstanding. When you refer to the Data Update I assume you are talking about the pages that you can browse on this website not the file that you have downloaded.

This sentence is false: “Frendrup has a contract until 2028 on transfer markt, on the sortitoutsi website (this link) he has a contract that correctly ends in 2026”

The website should reflect real life, therefore Frendrup should have a contract until 2028 on the website if he has a contract until 2028 in real life.

If the website shows 2026 then his contract in the downloaded file will be 2024.

Therefore a submission needs to be made to update his contract to 2028, which will then make it 2026 in the downloaded file.

As you can see from the link, no submission has been made, it clearly says “No submissions or comments for Morten Frendrup found.”

Can you have a go at making this submission so you see what I mean? Instructions on how to do so are here: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/contribute 

Hey @Footygamer I was on the search of the forums and I im looking at the points @wille300 is saying. 

I've been playing a lot of older saves recently and started a new one with Rangers earlier (downloaded the latest daily update). I think wille is right in what he says, there seems to be an issue with the +2 year contract/age fmf. 

Ive taken a couple of pics which I will attach. The player im using is Joe Rothwell, he signed for Rangers this summer and signed a 3 year deal until 2028. When you load the game using the +2 file he has a contract that runs from 2020 until 2024, meaning when the game starts in 2023 he ultimately is contract for 1 year only. If you start a game with the +2 disabled he has a contract from 2023 until 2028 meaning a 5 year deal. 

There's actually a number of players in the Rangers squad that signed this summer that only have 1 year deals in the game. Lyall Cameron, Oliver Antman, Djeidi Gassama. Theres a number of players in the Rangers team where there contract end dates are wrong with the +2 file used. Igamane for example in real life has 4 years left on his deal at the moment, in game he only has 2. 

Edit, Just looked again and Max Aarons signed a 12 month loan this summer, with the +2 he has a loan from 2023 until 2026 Nassar Djiga, Mikey Moore and Jayden Meghoma are the same all 3 have what is 3 year loan deals.

I hope I was picking the poster up correctly. 

Hello, can i have the +1 year and contracts only? i play brazilian league, but i can't seem to be able to download any old update before 6 of july of this year, is there something i can do?

Some legends' names do not appear, they are hidden with the new update.

@jimbo22 can you please post your editor data folder and what files are checked when starting a new game. I cannot replicate this and I assume it must be some sort of installation error

I have the same issue as mentioned above. 

I think the situation is when we select both Changes.fmf (or whatever name) & +2 years & contract when starting a new game,

both the ages & contract length is overridden by +2 years & contract, rather than stick to Changes.fmf (which I think it supposed to work in this way)

However, i noticed in changes.fmf, the players got a wrong age but reflected new contract date. 

But in +2 years & contract, the ages are reflecting reality but the contracts are 2 years less than it supposed to be.

Basically I have selected all files available in your download package. And this part didn't work.

I now understand why…

because I have modified the existing change.fmf file & save as a new name.

When i start my game, i choose this new file instead of change.fmf, and the contract periods just messed up.

If i try to modify my change.fmf instead of saving a new one, all works fine..

i'm having a similar Issue with two Atalanta players , Lookman and Ederson . In real life their contract expires in 2027 so in game , starting at 2023 , should be 2025 . I have attached my editor folder and the editor files when i start the game . What am i doing wrong?

As a first step, can I please ask that you ensure you have downloaded and are using the latest Data Update?

From your screenshots, I believe you are using yesterday’s build which, unfortunately, contained a bug that caused the contracts to be incorrectly offset.

Replacing with today’s Data Update should resolve the problem across all players in the database.

Ok thank yo for the answer starting the match again with yesterday's build fixes Lookman contract whereas Ederson contract is still wrong . I searched it on the database and i noticed there was no modification submitted for him in the database . As a proof you can search on trasfermarkt  that he has a contract until 2027 in real life should i make a submission to modify his contract ?

Yes, please do make a submission - that is the basis for any changes that are made. So in simple terms, I think the new Data Update fixes the overall issue and, in Ederson's case, there is just a need for someone to submit that change with the relevant proof and that'll then get integrated.

I don't know if this is the right place but there is a problem with non-EU players in Serie A.

Basically Kilicsoy, who plays in Cagliari, can't be used in Serie A and appears as non-EU player unelegible for the Serie A unless i sold a non-EU player i have in the team.

Cagliari already has Luvumbo, Radunovic and Mina as non-EU players

That should be fixed indeed. Major issue in Italy.

I didn't see an option in the submission entry form for this: when I use the FM24 db update, Oscar Gloukh who just made a transfer from RB Salzburg this summer to Ajax, is available for loan (?) He just made the transfer and was never available for loan from Ajax. Is this something that can be changed in the database or does the game apply this loan setting itself? If this can be adjusted, I can make a submission for it, but I can only address it in the comments/proof section.

Also almost the complete Ajax board & staff is incorrect. There have been quite some changes over the last months at Ajax. However, several board members can't be found to be editted via the form. For example: Alex Kroes is not the chairman but is the Technical Director of Ajax.

I get this error when I try to look him up in the submission form search.

EDIT: when I open the FM24 editor (not the ingame editor) board members are also not shown. 
 

There is no option to control transfer status unfortunately - even in the PGE itself, I’m pretty sure.

This falls under the umbrella of ‘how the AI handle their squads’. Relative ability and reputation versus the rest of the squad are likely to be the overarching drivers behind how those players are perceived by the AI managers.

Is this error related to the FM26 vs the FM24 database linked to the searchbar for submissions?

Right now you can only edit people that are in FM26.

In order to add them to FM26 they have to be created manually in the editor and then added as an extra file.

This answers some of my suspicions, thanks FG. Assume this is the same as if wanting to remove someone (in FM24), if they aren't in FM26 then they will reappear back in the FM24 update if they were indeed in FM24.

Is there a plan to seperate the DB's at all? There are obviously lots of issues related to the data “merge”, staff probably the biggest.

Thanks

In addition to this, since I still play FM24 and all new player's I have added to Data update are also added to Fm24, which I love, but for a player like this: Enzo Molebe I can't get added to FM24:

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-2026/person/2000288922/enzo-molebe

He does look somehow created once in Data update:

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/new-person/2100050772

I only use the Contracts & Player attributes files at the moment, where most of time new players are created. He is officially in FM26 (So that may cause it to not be in the data update itself)

Sorry I think there is a misunderstanding.

(1) You add a player “John Doe”

(2) If the player does not have an FM ID he appears in both FM24 and FM26

(3) If the player does have an FM ID, then if the ID appears in FM24 he won't be added and if it appears in FM26 he won't be added.

There is no concept of “remove someone”, unless i've totally misunderstood what you mean and you're referring to retiring Jota or something.

In regards two separate DBs, that seems impossible to manage, there were 200,000 submissions between Jan 1st 2025 and Oct 1st 2025. Imagine if all 200,000 had to be done twice.

I'm open to suggestions if you had something else in mind, 

In regards the merge, it's just a problem of how many we had, 20,000 new players were submitted to FM24, it takes a really long time to check 20,000 players to see if they were also added to FM26 and even then there's bound to be mistakes.

We just need help, ideally the people who made submissions would come back and help.

Admittedly the UI for managing the new players is not great which is not helping.

But again I don't see how have a separate DB would make things any easier, it would just double the workload.

In regards the staff, that has nothing to do with merging, SI changed the way chairpeople are stored and it doesn't even work in FM26, so it's hard for us to make an update that gets it right if the original game isn't even right.