@LBOW6 if you see that there are mass problems like this please let me know and then wait for me to take a look without trying to fix them via submissions yourself.

Hugo Viana already has Director of Football in the Pre Game Editor.

When you make a submission you're not updating the sites data, the FM26 profiles on the site will still be wrong (as you can see with Viana here), you're creating a file for the data update saying that we need to create xml/fmf to change that data in the pre game editor which is wrong, because the data is right in the pre game editor, it's just wrong on our website.

The only way to get it fixed is to ask me to fix the import scripts and do another import. If the scripts aren't updated it'll just keep being wrong again in the future.

I realise it's confusing and apologies for that, definitely not trying to criticise and I appreciate your attempts at trying to fix it 🙏

@Bielsa is a legend can you be careful answering questions incorrectly? As far as I can tell SI haven't made a mistake here, the sites data is wrong. If i've misunderstood can you please try and explain in more detail so I understand.

@Footygamer OK - I have only noticed it for Premier League DoFs, I don’t know if this is a wider issue?

#855578 FM26 JFA Japan Level 10 Pyramid, U-18, U-15(16) and University Pyramid

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@Footygamer Great work. Are any additional players added?

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This has since been updated and it is advised to re-download for each SI patch!

#855465 Missing directors of football

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On FM26 I’ve changed most of the director of footballs role in the data update now.

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By LBOW6 14 November 2025 - 19:38 PM UTC

Does this have to be re-applied after every patch? @BassyBoyYT

Does anyone know about this?

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I need to check if this is SI missing or not. I think he signed for Chelsea back in February. @Footygamer

#853168 FM26 Speedster - Football Manager 26 Patch to make the UI go as fast as it should!

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Does this have to be re-applied after every patch? @BassyBoyYT

#852662 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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Do I have to redownload this after yesterdays patch?

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By Bryan Cheetham 12 November 2025 - 17:14 PM UTC

This is incorrect, he's been made the women's manager?

Yes - I believe the intial change I submitted makes him women’s team manager? @Footygamer

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Here is another weird issue.

How can we set this non-player to a women’s international role in the editor? @Footygamer

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By Footygamer 12 November 2025 - 06:36 AM UTC

Yes the non player roles being wrong is a known issue thats already been posted above and i've been working the last few days to fix it. It should be fixed in the next couple of hours.

Ahh! Apologies for the misunderstanding!

Are we close to seeing the full data update released?

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@Footygamer Here is another good example of what I mentioned previously about how a staff members club role is being displayed incorrectly.

I just wanted to update his national role and his club role is set to the first role ‘chairman’ as default. There is no way to manually check his role.

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By Footygamer 10 November 2025 - 06:19 AM UTC

Sorry I still don't understand.

As far as I can tell you've only submitted that he is manager of Thailand with no club details submitted.

Possibly that's a bug and he has a club role and you submitted that but I can't see that and unless you tell me in more detail what you submitted it's impossible for me to investigate.

Please can you try and be very explicit in detailing what you've done and what you expect to happen that isn't happening.

For example…

I have just gone to update Jamie Hedges…

He had no changes previously….

He was appearing as a player/physio…

His default role is not a player/physio in the game…

It looks like some persons default roles are not displaying correctly on here.

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By Footygamer 10 November 2025 - 06:19 AM UTC

Sorry I still don't understand.

As far as I can tell you've only submitted that he is manager of Thailand with no club details submitted.

Possibly that's a bug and he has a club role and you submitted that but I can't see that and unless you tell me in more detail what you submitted it's impossible for me to investigate.

Please can you try and be very explicit in detailing what you've done and what you expect to happen that isn't happening.

@Footygamer Can you see the attachments in my last message?

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By Footygamer 10 November 2025 - 02:00 AM UTC

Sorry I don't understand what the glitch is you're describing, can you describe in more detail?

Also just to be clear there is a bug right now around 20,000 non players are appearing as free agents when they should have contracts.

@Footygamer Admittedly I submit all my changes on my mobile. But please see current status of this chap when I try and make changes. His current role and club role aren’t aligned.

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@P174 He is first team manager of Thailand now?

@Footygamer Seems to be a glitch when coming back to make changes to new changes.

#851180 Submissions paused due to the release of FM26

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By Footygamer 09 November 2025 - 10:18 AM UTC

It doesn't make any difference to the download

Thanks - understood. Were you able to cross check any SI Missing changes?

#851144 Submissions paused due to the release of FM26

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By Footygamer 09 November 2025 - 08:52 AM UTC

There's currently an issue with thousands of non players appearing as unemployed when they shouldn't be e.g. Omar Berrada

I'm working on a fix. Please don't submit these as changes.

Understood. Would you say it’s better off holding off of downloading and waiting for your fix? I assume data update won’t be live today? @Footygamer

#850892 Submissions paused due to the release of FM26

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@Footygamer I’m going to assume there is no way to ‘activate’ old persons in the new file? I was looking to see if Martin O’Neill would be active in FM26.

#850655 Submissions paused due to the release of FM26

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By Footygamer 08 November 2025 - 01:44 AM UTC

Please hold off on resubmission i'll run some automated checks to find things that SI missed.

Sorry I was hoping i'd get that done today but it seems I likely won't now.

Also fyi @LBOW6

I’m sure you may have noticed but the default club role appears as the same for each person. See below! @Footygamer

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By M.C 07 November 2025 - 14:43 PM UTC

On the first question - the Data Update was paused on 21st October 2025 (I'm pretty sure), so I would take that as a cut-off date. Anything from that date onwards is worth a lookup and re-submission.

Thanks.

I have been making a list of some of the obscure changes I’m aware of so can update early next weeks

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By Footygamer 28 October 2025 - 22:46 PM UTC

Just to set expectations and avoid disappointment editing will definitely not be opened on November 4th. November 11th is a more realistic target date.

This is both personal and technical.

(1) I'm in Australia for a wedding this weekend and then will be jet lagged.

(2) It's taking longer than expected to get all the data out and site updated this year with the introduction of women's.

(3) They keep updating the game and it's not clear what will be updated after November 4th.

@Footygamer Thank you! Do we understand when the cut off date was for the main database , I like to cross reference any updates and be prepared to submit early when we go live?

Also, are there any new roles we need to add this year? I recall we had to add Set Piece Coach to the update last yr?