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Jão Andrade
Only the Data Update in Football Manager 26 is having problems.
The problem lies in the contracts; they're reducing the duration of all contracts by one year, including loans and transfers.
This applies to both the beginning and end of the contract, across all types of contracts.
Example:
Everything looks fine on the website, but in the game, it's a year behind.
ah!lan
@Footygamer Any idea why this happens? I'm having the same problem. Or is it intentional?
M.C
I'm pretty sure this is deliberate/by-design and was implemented from 1st June 2026 onwards, as - from a data point of view - we start to consider that the start of the ‘next season’. This happens every year, for context.
In FM26, we've reached the point where there needs to be a one-year offset; whilst in FM24 we're now at a three-year offset.
Right now, I'm confident that any submission that is approved will automatically have the contract dates offset by one year (in FM26 Data Update) so that things align against the in-game start date, in anticipation of the ‘first season’ being 2026/27 in Europe. I do appreciate Brazil (and other nations) are on a different cycle, in terms of when their league starts/ends. What we do not have yet is a corresponding file that does the same offset for players without submissions, but that will be added very soon to level everything out.