Data Update Home Thread

This is a great QoL update, thank you.

I had to wrestle the ui for like an hour but yeah I think I got it lol. I think I'm gonna leave attribute updates for everyone else from now on.

I'm sure this is how Skynet started… 🤔

Footygamer my beloved

There is no name you need to know, just whatever it's called when you download i.e. “Cut-Out Player Faces Megapack - New Players for FM26”

Your question doesn't really make sense so you're probably making some simple mistake but i'm afraid it's impossible to guess what you're doing.

It should just be as simple as:

• Download the megapack
• Unzip the megapack
• Move the folder to /graphics
• Download the new faces
• Unzip the new faces
• Move the folder to /graphics

If you're doing anything else it's wrong.

You don't need to touch config.xml files

The names of the folders do not matter.

Can you help explain what issue you're having with the attributes? I've never been very good at UI/UX so it probably is a nightmare, but it's really difficult for me to improve it without any feedback, so an explanation of what you were trying to do, what you expected, what happened instead etc would be really helpful.

Does the free FM26 database update work on FM24? and are the attributes up to date as of the beginning of FM26?

Alright so maybe it's just me, Idk, but whenever you update an attribute either from the team page (Man Utd for example) or from your own “attribute updates” screen on your profile, it saves that update in one big giant list; mine for Shea Lacey is like a mile long at this point. The problem is that whenever you add a new update, it resubmits all your old updates, seemingly at random. For example, I tried to add Diego Leon to the game back in like May last year or something, I don't remember exactly lol, with a CA of 88, now every time I try and update a new attribute for someone entirely different, it resubmits that one, and cause there's no delete button I have to resumbit a new attribute update that's the same as the old one or just pray no one activates it.

The real annoying part is that if I fix Diego Leon, for example, then Ayden Heaven gets resubmitted when I go to submit Diego Leon's. The only way I can somewhat “fix” this is by going through every single instance of a saved update on my profile and blanking them out (or making them all the same) apart from the one I want to change/resubmit, which is why it takes like an hour lol.

 

Shea, for example, if I changed someone else's attributes, then seemingly one of these gets picked to resubmit. I mean, shit, just look at his profile lol, it's all me doing the same two updates tryna correct myself.

Idk how you fix this tbh, maybe make it so you can alter a player's CA and PA on their profile instead of the team page? 

Thanks alot @Spidersox (TV)  i'm going to work on this!

Came across an odd issue with the FM24 DB update. All the newly added players are English for some reason. Not sure what has caused that to happen as the only other files in my editior folder are the ones that correct the licences (ie; Germany, the Milan clubs, Man Utd, etc)

Anyone else come across this or know how to fix it?

UPDATE: Redownloaded the latest version and that seems to have corrected whatever was wrong

There was a temporary bug with that weeks/months ago, I assume that's what you were referring to?

Apologies if this is in the wrong place. 

I've downloaded the latest Data Update (free) and everything working great however if I want to make further updates in the editor which file do I need to use?  I like to update the Sunderland squad as a lot of our players attributes are out of date.  It's a bit of a weird one as I support Sunderland but I wont' be actually managing them in game, however if possible I would still like to make a few changes like adding Jocelin Ta Bi, updating Noah Sadiki's attributes etc

Thanks

There's no need to edit our files, just create new files, otherwise you won't be able to update our files later.

All files are loaded alphanumerically so, so long as your files appear below ours yours will take precident and you won't have to redo them in the future.

Hello! 

I would like to ask something a bit amateurish here. I wanted to update data for FM26 with enhanced update but on the payment page and details it is stating that this is “An update for Football Manager 2024 with the latest squad, updated player abilities and club finances.” Is it normal (as in updates both 24 and 26) or am I clicking something wrong?

That is just going to be an oversight in the text on that particular page.

I can definitively confirm that there are Data Updates for both FM24 and FM26 (separate downloads) and that there is a free and enhanced version maintained for each game.

Subscribing to the Enhanced Data Update grants access to both versions for the duration of your subscription (an initial 12 months).

Why does keeping up the data up to dated based on submitted changes takes so long? Most of the time, waiting the data update to be fully completed but it never happens. Telling the people “It will be updated in every 20 minute" is not correct.

Hi I download the data update for fm24 and I am missing players like Bernal

Hi I download the data update for fm24 and I am missing players like Bernal

Nemanja Đeković's (2000106375) loan doesn't show up in-game

https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/person/2000106375

Hello everyone, this may seem naive but it is my first time using the data update and I tried to look in this thread for some info but couldn't find any

I just downloaded the free data update for FM24 and I had some questions
Is it possible to play the game with the date of 2026? The “newest” date available for me was january of 2024 (I play as River in Argentina)

 

I don't disagree that the queue - overall - at the moment is large. The particular situation is that it consists mostly of a large number of newly-created players, primarily submitted by two community members in a short space of time, both of whom I have reached out to and let know that moderating those submissions will take some time.

The moderation step is important because, without it, submissions that are incorrect or incomplete would make it into the available download and then the quality of the Data Update would suffer for everyone. As a team, we commit as much time as we can to ensuring all submissions are moderated as quickly as possible. I know that I, personally, contribute to that effort on a daily basis (in fact, multiple times per day) whenever possible. However, sometimes I am not able to volunteer my time every single day because - for example - right now I am on holiday and so have limited time. Sometimes if there's a combination of that sort of thing for multiple staff members, the queue can build up a little bit. Rest assured, it'll get tackled ASAP.

Despite there being a long, overall queue, submissions related to transfers are being moderated continuously and we're on top of that. In general terms, the Data Update is up to date and has not fallen behind. This is just my opinion, but I like to think that we keep on top of the submissions well and I think those that provide submissions regularly would hopefully agree.

It is also entirely correct that a new version is provided every 20 minutes and this has nothing to do with the length of the queue. All moderated submissions are included in the new version which is generated every 20 minutes, which includes transfers/contract updates, player ability submissions and newly-created players, as well as the dynamic player abilities that mean every save can be unique.

The FM24 Data Update is not designed to ‘roll forward’ the in-game start date to 2025/2026. Unfortunately, the game does not allow for this in any reasonable way whilst still keeping everything accurate and updated.

Instead, the FM24 Data Update takes an approach of ‘rolling forward’ everything else about the footballing world, but keeping the in-game start dates as they originally were. In summary, all players/people are aged to be two years older, all contracts are offset by two years to account for the passing of time and promotions/relegations/league structures are updated (not all leagues are done, but most playable nations are and those that are not yet are being worked on) accordingly. Thus, starting in January 2024 in-game is the equivalent of a January 2026 start. It is worth noting that Argentina is one of those nations that hasn't yet been updated, so the league structure/promotions/relegations won't reflect the 2026 season yet. It is on my list to tackle in the coming weeks and I will get to it as soon as I can.

There are members of our community who maintain separate ‘future start date' files which are designed to allow you to start from a later in-game date. I think they have pretty good coverage of which leagues are playable - though I don't believe it is all of them (I can't say I keep up with the progress, as it isn't something I use). Those future start date files can be paired with some parts of the Data Update, but not all (i.e. some of the files overlap). The forum threads have instructions, I'm pretty sure.

The zip download is refreshed every 20 minutes. 

Obviously humans can't be online 24/7 ensuring that every transfer is moderated 20 minutes after submission.

I downloaded the update last week. However when i went t play, there was no european football till 25/26 season, and all teams where already locked in to match real life. I simulated a season and regardless of who qualified etc, nothing changed, Has this been sorted?

Also, love the work you do!

You're the only person to report this issue, are you sure you're not mixing our files with files from other people?

No, i have no other files downloaded.

I will uninstall everything, re install and see.

Did seem strange, as have always used your downloads

how to correct player wages? specially new winter transfers are not showing correct salaries at their new clubs?

there is no such a field to update in edit form?

Only mods can set wages because there's too much back and forth arguing if we let people submit wages on individual submissions.

We generally let the game set a realistic default and only set custom wages when it's obviously wrong and causing an issue e.g. Kevin De Bruyne at Napoli the game was never setting a realistic wage.

If you can highlight specific issues that are occurring a mod can look into it.

thank you kind sir!

well mostly I play with Turkish Super League and I immediately observed that winter transfers are not showing the correct (last) values. I only checked the biggest transfers for instance;

Lookman > 2,3 M euro (salary from Atalanta)

Guendouzi > 1,6 M euro (salary from Lazio)

Guehi > 2,7 M euro (salary from C.Palace)

I already adjusted them manually for myself but I can also assist if needed

While it's absolutely clear to me that all of these players will be on significantly-improved wages following their transfers, I think the real and fundamental issue is being able to reference a reasonable source to put an accurate figure behind what it needs to change to.

If I look at Ademola Lookman as an example, I quickly find a source that suggests he's on £200,000 per week, whilst Google's AI summary puts the same player's salary at closer to £120,000 per week. I don't see either of these as particularly official - of course they're indicative, at best.

What should we do? Split the difference and estimate it in the middle? Go for the higher one/lower one? It's a similar story with any other player - the reported figures vary and, fundamentally, aren't official.

As a member of the staff team here, I'm in the pool of people happy to help and to do it - but it just needs a sensible/consistent approach, I think.