Data Update Home Thread

I was getting French youngsters, around 16-18 years old as free agents who should still be at there clubs. I had numerous other files plus the real fixtures/results loaded aswel though, so could be any of them. I think what was happening though with the game dates being changed, it was releasing players who possibly didn't have a contract expiry date. Im going to stick with FM26 anyway & if nobody else has reported it, then its possibly one of the other files I have.

Mats Hummels is still in the game (FM24), how can we fix it? @Footygamer 

How to edit the player position?

How to edit player history?

@Sajmy to update player histories just make sure they have external profiles linked you can do that here: http://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/profiles 

does the data update for fm24 includes promotions and relegations ? Wolves and Burnley in the championship Etc ?

It does, in general terms, include promotions/relegations - however, it doesn't yet include the structure for any nation for 2026/27 because 2025/26 hasn't finished yet.

We update the files as quickly as time allows, but only after the full completion of the season.

Ahh great thank you! I’ll check back on Sunday after the final prem games and give it a download

Just to manage your expectations - I think it is unlikely they’ll be updated on Sunday. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee they won’t be done that fast. Other Playoff Finals further down the divisions don’t take place until after that, for example.

Separately to that, I am working on a file that will extend the playable leagues a fair few divisions further down. Some of these constitutions get finalised/confirmed a bit later, too.

Start of June is a reasonable estimate. Of course we prioritise England as we know it is popular. But we will also be working on a whole host of other nations so I’m just advising patience/caution on when to expect things done.

Yeah I appreciate that mate thank you, I completely understand. When starting a new save with say Leicester would the players AI recognise they’re now in league one and request to leave because they’ve been relegated ? 

Hi, 

Sorry to be a pain but is there a start date to select when setting up a new game (FM26) to have Arsenal as Champions and Wolves, Burnley and West Ham going down etc. Sorry if it's obvious.

Cheers

Not yet. We will publish progress on league updates in the following thread as we manage to get them done:

https://sortitoutsi.net/content/76916/202627-league-updates-fm24-fm26

Best to keep track of everything through there. Updates will be released for FM24 and FM26 to reflect the 2026/27 season.

Hello.

 I found that some or most clubs in Ukraine League 1 have their players messed up. For example, Minaj FC only has 1 player available, while the rest are fake/generated from the game for placeholder only. Another example is a player from the club (as captain) is belong to another club in a different league. Is that possible to be fixed?

Thanks

Sullivan has finally gone! Can you update it so he’s no longer chairman of West Ham asap please or make it so he will sell, it would be nice not to have to see his face on the game anymore 😂😂 COYI 😁

I've moved this comment to one of our other discussion threads - as it doesn't really pertain directly to the 2026/27 nation/league updates where your original post landed.

In any case, David Sullivan is a person who can be edited through the website's submission system and, I can see, that his removal from West Ham has already been submitted/approved: https://sortitoutsi.net/football-manager-data-update/person/4000667. Our community tend to be pretty quick in recognising and submitting changes, especially high-profile ones. So the next instance of the Data Update available (overnight tonight on the free tier or already on the paid tier) to you will have him released.

I have noticed Amir Ibragimov has become duplicated on recent updates for me. Other added wonderkids are not duplicating 

I can see why this is (sort of). It's a mix-up with the linking between created and official instances of players. This means the created version of Amir Ibragimov is being created in both FM24 and FM26 (whereas it should be FM24 only).

@Footygamer - can you purge any links from created players to 2000392429 (which is the official instance of Amir Ibragimov), please? I will then link 2100060712 (the active, created instance of the same player) to it. I get an error when trying to assign this link as it flags that “FM ID 2000392429 is already assigned to: Gazi Ibragimov”.

I picked up on a couple of anomalies during some testing of the contract change…

Players who have had their data manually changed to “set for release” to reflect their real-life status have actually now got an “extra year” on their in-game contract.

Examples include, but not limited to:

Dan Neil (Sunderland)

Dan Barlaser (Boro)

Jacob Brown (Luton)

Callum Wright (Plymouth?)

There are others I am sure - I believe anyone with the status “exploring options at end of contract” need releasing. I suspect it's because we're in the period just prior to actual contracts expiring and the in-game date not being 2026 at start.

Maybe there's a mass correction that can be applied?

Thanks

@thehet - I moved your comment to the general thread, just FYI.

It will be because the number of years it offsets put the contract end date to a date that has passed in-game when you start. You’re right that it’s because we‘re in the specific period we are, now, where we have ‘rolled forward to next season’ prior to 1st July. We do this because the community mostly want the transfers done earlier. But I think we don’t explicitly ‘release’ those players who are set to leave. I don’t know why - perhaps to avoid reversing the status on the players that end up staying after all. Perhaps just an oversight. Perhaps some other reason.

@Footygamer - thoughts on releasing all players that are ‘set to leave’, to avoid them having the first in-game season at the club they are about to leave (in real-life)? Alternatively, we can also just tolerate it and ‘wait it out’ - as their futures get resolved, submissions will take care of wherever they should be.