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#867485 FM26 Real Name Fix v5.0 - for FM26.3.1 [26/05/2026] - USE THE WORKAROUND IN THE FIRST POST IF SOME CLUB NAME CHANGES AREN'T WORKING
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Is there a csv available of all the clubs with changed names?

#867461 Assistance With Extracting Data From FM Editor
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First 50k batch of players complete. On to the next 450,000. 😢

#867194 Assistance With Extracting Data From FM Editor
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Some of these default youth ratings make absolutely no sense.

 

Why is India 86?

NationYouth Ratings
Brazil163
France155
Germany155
Spain145
Italy144
Argentina140
England135
Portugal134
Netherlands132
Egypt125
Turkey124
Nigeria120
Mexico120
Belgium120
Russia118
Colombia117
Japan112
Iran110
South Korea110
United States110
Ukraine110
Ivory Coast105
Qatar105
Saudi Arabia105
Iraq103
Algeria102
Democratic Republic of Congo101
Cameroon100
Serbia100
Ghana99
Croatia98
United Arab Emirates97
Peru97
South Africa95
Czechia94
Greece94
Poland94
Ecuador94
Chile93
Denmark91
Romania91
Jordan90
Switzerland90
Australia90
Paraguay90
Uruguay90
Sweden88
New Zealand88
India86
Thailand86
Morocco85
Lebanon85
Syria85
North Korea84
Israel84
Republic of Ireland83
Scotland83
Tunisia82
Bahrain82
Norway82
Senegal80
Tanzania80
Austria79
Northern Ireland79
Slovakia79
Bosnia and Herzegovina78
Slovenia78
Angola75
Kuwait75
Finland75
Sudan74
Cyprus74
Mali73
Bulgaria72
North Macedonia71
Wales71
Venezuela71
Burkina Faso70
Oman70
Vietnam70
Honduras68
Hungary68
Iceland67
Costa Rica66
Albania65
Georgia65
Guinea64
Mozambique64
Togo64
Latvia63
Belarus62
Estonia62
Zambia61
China PR60
Kosovo60
Montenegro60
Uganda59
Haiti59
Jamaica59
Lithuania59
Bolivia59
Guatemala58
Trinidad and Tobago57
Indonesia56
Benin55
Kenya55
Uzbekistan55
Yemen55
El Salvador55
Canada54
Ethiopia51
Malawi51
Cuba51
Palestine51
Congo50
Maldives50
Myanmar50
Gabon49
The Gambia49
Panama49
Guadeloupe48
Hong Kong (China PR)47
Kazakhstan47
Suriname47
Cape Verde Islands46
Libya46
Moldova46
Martinique46
Zimbabwe44
Azerbaijan43
Botswana42
Rwanda42
Faroe Islands42
Liechtenstein42
Malta42
Armenia41
Burundi40
Solomon Islands40
French Guiana40
Namibia39
Tahiti39
Pakistan37
Tajikistan37
Guyana37
Bangladesh36
Turkmenistan36
Andorra36
Fiji36
Malaysia35
Singapore35
Curaçao35
Luxembourg35
Dominican Republic35
Gibraltar35
Barbados34
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines34
Papua New Guinea34
New Caledonia34
Vanuatu33
Liberia32
Niger31
Philippines30
Antigua and Barbuda30
Puerto Rico30
Sierra Leone29
San Marino29
Equatorial Guinea28
Madagascar28
Bermuda28
Saint Lucia28
Saint Kitts and Nevis28
Chad26
Grenada26
Lesotho25
Mauritania25
Mauritius21
Seychelles21
Aruba20
Saint BarthĂŠlemy20
Afghanistan19
Guinea-Bissau18
Nicaragua18
Central African Republic17
Kyrgyzstan17
Sri Lanka16
Cayman Islands16
Belize15
Dominica15
Mongolia15
Bonaire15
Eswatini14
Chinese Taipei (China PR)14
Samoa14
Nepal13
The Bahamas11
British Virgin Islands10
Sint Maarten10
Saint Martin10
Somalia9
Turks and Caicos Islands9
Cambodia8
Cook Islands8
Tonga8
Eritrea8
Anguilla8
Montserrat8
US Virgin Islands8
Djibouti7
SĂŁo TomĂŠ and PrĂ­ncipe7
Laos7
RĂŠunion7
Mayotte7
Comoros7
Zanzibar7
South Sudan7
Brunei Darussalam6
Guam6
Macau (China PR)5
American Samoa5
Saint Pierre and Miquelon5
East Timor5
Tuvalu5
Bhutan4
Wallis and Futuna Islands3
Micronesia2
Kiribati1
Northern Mariana Islands1
Commonwealth of Soviet States0
Czechoslovakia0
East Germany0
Soviet Union0
West Germany0
Tamil Indian0
Zaire0
Pays Basque0
Great Britain0
South Yemen0
Crimea0
United Kingdom0
SEA Chinese0
Singh Indian0
Borneo Malay0
West Malay0
South Vietnam0
Burma0
Monaco0
Upper Volta0
United Arab Republic0
Ireland (Pre-1922)0
Yugoslavia0
Netherlands Antilles0
#867189 Assistance With Extracting Data From FM Editor
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If people want specific attributes included for different data types from the extracted data let me know and I'll try my best to get it.

#867188 Assistance With Extracting Data From FM Editor
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By dpendao 31 January 2026 - 23:23 PM UTC 

Hi, FM 24 or 26. How do you do it.? 
What app do you use…?

 

FM26.

You need to download the FM editor and I can give instruction on how to extract the data.

#867161 Assistance With Extracting Data From FM Editor
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I have a method to extract data from the FM Editor but wanted to know if anyone wants to help out because the method I am using takes a lot of computer processing power so is quite time consuming.

 

As of yet I have extracted

 

  • Cities
  • Regions
  • Languages
  • Continents
  • Currencies
  • Stadiums
  • Nations
  • National Teams
  • Clubs (Men)
  • Weather

 

I am working on Competitions currently and almost finished but I already know People is going to take a long time.

 

Once I have exported all data from the editor I plan to publish it in a free to download repository.

 

#866208 Yorkshire as a Nation with Men's and Women's League System
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By Pav17 04 January 2026 - 14:09 PM UTC 

Great stuff. Started to do one myself yesterday but hit a brick wall. Wanted to have Yorkshire as a nation so can do a basque type save without having say a yorkshire super league etc. I've done everything but it is reverting back to East Germany - who I went over. Any ideas how to overcome that. Without starting again. Or maybe something you can do with your database as an add on without all the super leagues etc as you seem to know what you are doing!

 

I made something similar to this for FM24. You need to use a team named Bermuda Hogges and set the based nation to newly created nation you want to restrict transfers to.

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By mons 10 November 2025 - 17:22 PM UTC 

Excellent - a new moniker. Hadn't been given one of them for a while. Really helps to strengthen your argument, that 👍

 

Whatever makes you feel good about yourself I suppose.

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By mons 10 November 2025 - 13:44 PM UTC 

You do seem to be finding a bit hard, though, going by the amount of toys you've thrown out of your pram 😉

Just because I'm the only one to say it to you doesn't mean I'm the only one to think it.

You have a serious case of mall cop syndrome. 

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By Lebohang Mokoena 10 November 2025 - 08:29 AM UTC 

Correcting mistakes ≠ dismissive and rude. Follow the rules. 

 

Being dismissive and rude makes you dismissive and rude.

It's not hard to not be a cunt.

 

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By Lebohang Mokoena 10 November 2025 - 08:08 AM UTC 

No. the player already has a good cut. 

 

Guess you're not up to it.

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By Lebohang Mokoena 10 November 2025 - 08:01 AM UTC 

@renskay Please, read the guidelines https://sortitoutsi.net/content/360/guide-to-cutting-and-assorted-hints-tips-and-assistance to submit good cuts and avoid things like this: 

 

Also, the quality is very bad, if you can't find a good source, then don't cut a bad one instead 🙂 

 

Go ahead.

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By mons 10 November 2025 - 07:46 AM UTC 

All 200+ cuts you posted had sources which weren't high enough quality to be 250x250? Hmm, I'm not sure I believe that. Especially when I already pinpointed one which was amply good enough to be in 250x250 since it had been cut in those dimensions, but which you posted in 180x180.

 

Condescension is warranted when you ignored the guidelines, and also ignored my final paragraph that:

 

There are also plenty of them without collars, cut poorly or cropped too far from the chin, or images which are simply not improvements on the current cuts. I'm afraid you've wasted a lot of time to little avail. Read the guidelines and ask for feedback next time.

 

You've done some great work with editor data files, but that doesn't give you reason to just ignore this forum's guidelines :s

You have not even examined the files I have uploaded and determined a judgement based on two or three images.

Do you want me to just upsize the images and make them degrade in quality even more?

 

Or AI upscale them so that look they “normal” like it seems a lot of people are doing.

 

Just because you're a moderator doesn't give you reason to be dismissive and rude to people who put in work voluntarily on your behalf.

 

 

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By mons 10 November 2025 - 06:16 AM UTC 

@renskay, the majority of these cuts could have easily been done in 250x250, so I'm rejecting the lot.

 

Instead of dumping a batch of images onto the forum, you should have checked the guidelines:

 

There are also plenty of them without collars, cut poorly or cropped too far from the chin, or images which are simply not improvements on the current cuts. I'm afraid you've wasted a lot of time to little avail. Read the guidelines and ask for feedback next time.

they are fine as they are. the original images are not high enough quality to be 250x250.

 

you don't need to be a condescending asshole.

 

once again…

 

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This pack uploaded with incorrect UIDs

#849059 Men's World Rankings - September 2025
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#848369 FM24 USA to D4 (now with San Diego FC)
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By okra23 13 October 2025 - 20:02 PM UTC 

I would be happy to help as well.  I have been making kits for my own teams using FM Kit Creator.  Would be willing to help make kit files for these league files.

Are you interested in helping me make kits?

 

#848365 FM24 USA to D4 (now with San Diego FC)
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By The Modelcitizen 16 October 2025 - 17:32 PM UTC 

Agreed, sucks they don't have the NCAA rights, you can even see when some younger players in the DB move from an MLS academy to a college in real life, they just remove them from the DB (or at least from the version we can see). They have that weird “US college system” extinct club for history entries but it's not applied consistently,

 

USL2 and NCAA have so much player (and even coach) overlap, it would be hard to replicate that properly, which is why I always see it as one or the other. Plus with USL2 already set up as part of the MLS draft, and some of the USL2 divisions (but not all) are hard-coded to produce newgens for that draft, NCAA would fit nicely over top of it. But we might be able to get creative and think of a way to have both

 

An Idea to get around the hardcoding regen issue of USL2 could be to rename the USL2 divisions so they become the NCAA conferences and then have USL2 as newly created leagues.

The fix to draft players in the MLS from newly created leagues is actually quite simple in the editor because in the draft settings you can add and remove leagues that the draft selection pulls from.

 

I think a big thing missing that you don't get from having college teams in the database just working in the background at the very least, is a reliable source of regen talent in the US from teams with good facilities.

Since the MLS only pulls draft picks from USL2 teams they are almost always unusable because the facilities of USL2 teams are probably worse than National league in England. In contrast to the colleges in real life that have facilities comparable to very high standard teams that would likely produce a lot more decent regens in your save.

Most of the time the draft is completely useless in FM and draft picks only good for a bargaining chip in trades.

#848364 FM24 USA to D4 (now with San Diego FC)
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By Samirah 17 October 2025 - 00:44 AM UTC 

A few years back, I was working with UncleSam and Aljarov to try and put together a US College database that worked. Considering that at the time, I was a US National grade referee and NCAA referee, it was something that I would've liked to see happen. Then again, I am trying to re-add some individuals into the database as non-players because they are still coaches with some USL1 clubs (Richmond in particular as I used to be on staff before Rob Ukrop fully took over).

 

Not to mention, the college game is even MORE important for women's soccer, so it would be great there too.

 

If you would be open to it, maybe you could help with some advice when adding college teams.

I have a large dataset of nearly 2000 colleges across different conferences and divisions that I've been gathering information to fill out all the details relevant to the men's soccer programs for all the schools.

 

I'm happy enough with the data I have for now to get all the teams created. eventually I'll work on adding players and staff from school roster pages/transfermarkt but for the moment I'm working on 2d kits for D1 Schools.

 

I haven't bought fm26 yet so I don't know the ID numbers to assign to graphics but once I buy it I'll work on matching things up with graphics so it looks nice.

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Still working on this project.

 

I've collected the data to add all the NCAA and college teams then was able to import that into the FM editor.

At the moment I am working on a few kits for the NCAA D1.

 

I have a method to scrape the club roster pages so I can get the latest squads and staff.

 

#844307 San Diego FC - MLS Expansion Team & MLS Update (Updated Transfers 27/02/25) ~500 New Players Added w/ Graphics
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Congratulations to San Diego FC for finishing 1st place in the Western Conference.

Incredible first season.

#844136 FM24 USA to D4 (now with San Diego FC)
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By The Modelcitizen 16 October 2025 - 17:01 PM UTC 

Sounds tempting, let's reconnect when it comes out and we get a look at the editor. I'm based in Canada so the NCAA thing isn't as high on my radar (other than Division 2 team SFU based around here) but I know it's a big part of an ideal US database, maybe by dropping the USL2 completely (doesn't make a lot of sense to have both IMO). Can think about this some more

 

Sounds good!

 

I think it's a fun idea to add the college competitions because it's a bit of an oversight in the US football landscape for them to be missing since almost all American players come through the college system in some form.

 In adding the teams I've already noticed there's hundreds of college Stadiums and current college coaches in the current game database so maybe SI wanted to add the NCAA to the Database at one stage but ran into licensing issues.

 

To get the college teams in the existing structure within FM my idea was to put it as a division 5 tier just beneath the USL2 and that way the players from the college teams can transfer or maybe go on loan to USL2 teams like in real life.

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@themodelcitizen any interest in working together in making college divisions for the US ready for FM26?

I've collected data to add all the NCAA D1, D2, D3, NAIA, NJCAA D1 teams to the Database.

 

I'm working out the kinks to make sure all the teams are right and have the right details.

It may be a little tricky to implement the college rules into the game since it has a different calendar as well as the transfer rules.

 

Recreating just the NCAA will be a challenge on it's own but we could try to figure it out.

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By Footygamer 30 September 2025 - 16:00 PM UTC 

That's exactly what I was suggesting, for you to share one of the data sheets, not the final editor file.

 

 

I assume you are aware you can use File > Export to export XML. You can just add one history entry and the see then structure of the XML and recreate those XML files for each row from your datasheet.

 

I'm not sure what other “methods” I can provide. Like I said I have scripts to do it in bulk but they're tightly coupled to the sites CMS. All I could do is create a form for you to upload a CSV (or JSON or anything structured) that then creates the FMF.

 

Happy to answer any questions you have, but it's hard to offer advice with the vague information you've given so far I don't really understand what the blockers are.

 

Methods of adding history in bulk.

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By Footygamer 30 September 2025 - 14:40 PM UTC 

Feel free to upload an example, it would help alot with understanding what you're trying to do.

 

At the moment I'm just collecting data for clubs. So the only examples I'd have to show would be a datasheet. 

I'll begin adding the teams once I've got a good amount of data for the teams.

My first batch of teams to add will be in the USA after which I'll be able to share and you can get an idea of what I'm doing.

 

Something that's quite time consuming by hand is adding history for club, league and players so if you could provide methods of adding those it would make a lot of difference.

 

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By Footygamer 30 September 2025 - 14:40 PM UTC 

You have to be very careful with this, if you delete a player, the change the order in which they're loaded or combine with other files then the ID's will all change.

 

 

that's true.

I'm not assigning any graphics yet for this reason.

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By Footygamer 30 September 2025 - 14:04 PM UTC 

Position would just be parsing from the string available on the scraped websites right?

 

Club history is simple so long as you match up the ID's i've already updated hundreds of thousands here: https://sortitoutsi.net/content/74126/2526-player-history-update-for-fm24 

 

2nd nationality should also not be a problem?

 

Ethnicity, hair colour and skin tone, yeah I have no idea how to go about those, I haven't found any reliable sources.

 

Could you share more about the problems you're having with these details? Is it just matching the ID's?

 

I didn't realise you could add player history with scripts 

I added them all by hand when I added players haha

Which is why I am dreading adding players again right away.

 

I've downloaded the details for 6000 NCAA D1 players already and was intending to add that by the FM Editor Generator once all the clubs are made.

On the college roster pages they have all the players details and even season stats but not their ages, only their college year.

Some of them have a transfermarkt page so I was trying to cross reference their name to transfermarkt to find that but my script didn't work how I wanted.

 

For now I'm just getting as much teams sorted as I can.

For college soccer I've got data for 1800 clubs, 23,000 high schools which I can add with the details I've got and assign them to their correct conference.

I also have their logos saved by name so when they are imported into the game I can assign their UID. 

 

I'm not the most tech savvy with coding so I'm not sure I'm using the best methods.

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By Footygamer 30 September 2025 - 13:42 PM UTC 

What do you mean by “their detail” i'm not sure which attributes you're referring to?

 

I'm not sure what advise there would be to add, it's just a case of writing the XML, of course there is a huge amount of work mapping all the property ID's.

 

This site has all of that, but unfortunately it's all in PHP scripts which are very tightly coupled to the site's CMS, so it's not really shareable the way a small Python package would be.

 

But I would very much suggest allowing collaboration, with forms that anyone can submit to, rather than a forum thread where you would still have to do a huge amount of manual work to do.

 

I want to set something that up myself, obviously we already have 20,000 new players added, but new clubs, stadiums and competitions are a little more tricky.

 

Either way we should definitely try and collaborate on this.

 

Are you also interested in women's football? I believe there will be a huge amount of work to do to add all the women's leagues as well

 

Details would be ethnicity, hair colour, skin tone, 2nd nationality, playing attributes, position, club history, etc.

 

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By Footygamer 30 September 2025 - 09:20 AM UTC 

Hey can you give more information on how you're planning to go ahead with this?

 

It would probably be alot easier if multiple people are collaborating on it.


As you probably already know I already have extensive tools for doing this sort of thing in bulk e.g. generating every player from Greenland or Northern Cyprus based on data from TransferMarkt, SofaScore, FotMob etc

 

First I am going to make the teams themselves and after that I will generate the players if there is sufficient data available.

 

I've been collecting data for teams with python scripts then add that to a larger database which l'll eventually add in bulk to the editor and assign to their correct league.

I'm trying to make sure as much of it is accurate as possible.

 

Team data needed is:

  • Name 
  • Short name
  • Abbreviation
  • City
  • Primary Colour
  • Secondary Colour
  • Year Founded
  • Division
  • Stadium 
  • Stadium Coordinates
  • Stadium Capacity 
  • Head Coach
  • Logo png
  • Etc.

 

If you are able to share any advice for adding in bulk to the editor I'd appreciate it.

Players are relatively simple to add by name but what is time consuming is adding their detail which took me quite a while to achieve with my San Diego update so I will try to see if there are methods of making this quicker.

 

 

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I've discovered a new method to extract data from the FM editor so it will make updates much easier.