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Here we go again! 5th edition of the most popular database for FM is released! This year with another expanded version that will include even more legendary clubs and players. With this update you will have an opportunity to play and manage 4500 legends spread all over the world in their respective teams. All of the major and many minor leagues are filled with clubs which possess their all-time greats and are under the guidance of some the managers , coaches and chairmans who ever graced the game. Winning anything in this update is a success, as many clubs and national teams have some of the best talent that ever appeared in history of football. Italian, English, German, Spanish and French clubs are strongest competitors. And not just the major ones. There are teams from Holland, Belgium, Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary or from Portugal who have good chances of winning the Champions League as much as the teams who are coming from the stronger leagues. This is like a Football Manager hard mode! The players who are coming from the oldest eras of football are older than the ones who are appeared later and therefore are closer to their peak and reaching their full potential. And don’t worry the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo & Mbappe still exist, but are a younger versions of themselves and are relocated to their parent clubs. Because of that your task as a manager is even more challenging as it’s up to you to develop them into world-class players they are today and if you succeed to make them a part of your squad. This is a thrilling update which can bring any Football Manager fan into an ecstatic state of nostalgia with no doubt that they will enjoy the game even more and find it refreshing and challenging like never before. Also were done and facepack for all players, which will further give the game interesting. UPDATES: 1. 500 new legends including filled squads of Piacenza, Cesena, Como, Luchese, Pro Vercelli, SK Jugoslavija, Asante Kotoko, Atvidaberg, Pristina, QPR, Sheff Wed, Valladolid, Rosenborg. Added legends like Friday, Hislop, Schillaci, Ganz, Cuccureddu, Ferri, Salenko, Fresi, Immel, Jose Mari, Nihat, Povlsen, Negrete, Rufai, Lerby... 2. The values and wages of the players have been corrected to a more reasonable level. Maximum wage in top 5 leagues are 120k p/w, and max. value are 70 mil. euros. 3. The participants of european cups have been changed so in the first season there would play clubs that deserve it by tradition and successes through history. Champions League (Real, Barca, Atletico, Valencia, Juve, Inter, Milan, Torino, Man.Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Leeds, Marseille, Saint-Etienne, Monaco, Bayern, Gladbach, HSV, Dortmund, Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord, Brugge, Anderlecht, Sparta, Slavia, Ferencvaros, MTK, Steaua, Levski, Hajduk, Crvena Zvezda, Partizan, Grasshoppers, Servette, Rapid Wien, Austria Wien, Legia, Gotteborg, Celtic, Rangers, Slovan...) Europa League (Antwerp, Mechelen, Standard, Dukla, Vejle, Frem, Reims, Kaiserslautern, Koln, Schalke, Honved, Ujpest, Napoli, Roma, Lazio, Gornik, Craiova, Torpedo M, Aberdeen, Dundee Utd, OFK Beograd, Vojvodina, La Coruna, Athletic, Sevilla...) 4. Nation club coefficients and world rankings were also corrected in line with historical successes. The man behind the whole project is David Salapura from Serbia. Also, this year I wanted to thank Andrea Mattaliano and Marcolmo, for helping me to complete facepack and with creating this new legends. DOWNLOAD PREVIEW: Installation Instructions: 1. Extract the contents of the .zip file using the default zip utility of your OS or get a free tool such as 7-zip. 2. Move the extracted "Return of the legends 2020.fmf" file to the following location: Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2020 / editor data Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist. 3. To install the facepack, move the folder "Legends facepack" to your graphics folder: Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2020 / graphics / facepacks Create the "graphics" and "facepacks" folders if they don't exist. Go to Preferences screen and then into the Interface tab. Click on "Clear cache" and then "Reload skin". Now you can see pictures of all legends. 4. Open FM 2020 and start a new save-game with 20.4.0 update and only this database selected, not other databases and transfer updates. IMPORTANT: When creating a new save-game, you have to be patient because the process of loading game database takes from 1 to 7 hours, depending on PC performances. The problem is due to the conversion of the database from the previous series and a lot of data, which is not possible to fix it. 5. To load shortlist with all legends and managers move the extracted "Legends shortlist.fmf" and "Managers shortlist" files to the following location: Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2020 / shortlists Enjoy and share your impressions!

Hello, FM fans! I've been using my self-isolation productively and have re-created the Busby Babes. They replace 2020's Man Utd in-game and it's a fairly accurate recreation of the side at the end of 1956-57, the team's last full season before the Munich disaster. I'm really excited to share this because United's history is a big part of the myth around the club and creating this side makes me feel like I'm bringing them back to life in some small way. I've had to take some liberties along the way, but here's an idea of what I was going for... The club has a full compliment of staff, directors and players from the first team down to the U18's. There's no "W-M" in football now, so I've gone for a default 5-4-1 which sacrifices an AMC for the sake of an extra DC, but feel free to use whatever tactic you want. Some player positions don't really translate into the modern game, so for some I've opted to give them either more defensive or a more attacking set of attributes, and for others I've allowed them to have more positions on the pitch and versatility. Included some players/staff at the club who weren't strictly there on 1st July 1957 such as Harry Gregg and Jack Crompton, but it makes sense to add them in from the start for the sake of gameplay. Some staff roles are combined as clubs seemed to have been run by about 10 people back in the day, unlike now. Edited histories of competitions such as the English Premier League, Champions League, etc, in order to give the side more historical context. Players and staff have full histories as far as I know them from my research. Attributes etc are my own opinion. I'm a United fan, so I've probably romanticised a little, but when Bobby Charlton is telling you Duncan Edwards is the only player who made him feel inferior, then he's just got to be a God-tier player. Club records, affiliates, rivals and legends have been edited, although some of them don't register in the game. I'm not sure why, must be a quirk of the editor, but I'm afraid you'll have to suspend your disbelief for some of them. Download here! The Busby Babes.fmf If you don't know, put this file in your "editor data" folder located at "Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2020\editor data" Potential issues: The owner of the club tends to retire in the 1st season and it's a bit of pot luck as to who takes over. If you leave the AI to run United, Busby sometimes spends like a maniac. I've reduced United's budget to combat this as well as messing with his tendencies, but just so you know! Man Utd, I mean the real one. At first, I released all of the players/staff on frees, but it didn't have the right feel. Instead, they're a fake team with no division called "Man Red" with a 90 year transfer embargo. It wasn't perfect, but it works. I've defaulted "staff responsibilities" to roughly what they would've been back then, so you will likely want to alter these if you take over, depending on how you like to play FM. This database is best paired with 2 custom "edt" files that will allow the addition of real-life youth players to come through the club's youth intakes in the following 5-6 years, as well as a more realistic board takeover (although for the takeover, it's hit and miss as to whether it works). be_a_newgen.edt future_chairmen.edt Place these files into "Steam\steamapps\common\Football Manager 2020\data\database\db\2040\edt\permanent". If it asks you to over-write the existing files there, say yes. (you might want to back them up first) Enjoy! If you have any feedback, good or bad, please let me know below. Edit 31-Mar: Added 4 players; Ivan Beswick, Bobby Allen, Bryce Fulton and Peter Jones, and amended Jackie Hennessy's position following a chat with Tony Parks, also amended Albert Scanlon in line with a comment in this thread. 1-Apr: Updated Duncan Edwards's leadership attribute, slightly altered his position and improved Jackie Blanchflower's ability as an AMR

Welcome to the Ultimate Legends 1880 - 2018! * Accurate ratings and statistics due to extensive research and testing, every player is correctly coded, no stats are left to the computer to generate so you don't get lots of players with inaccurate ratings for vital statistics. Every single legend and star is tested prior to release to ensure they play exactly like their real life counterparts. * No Duplicate Players as the whole database has been checked and re-checked to ensure no duplication's at all. * The whole game is re-coded from top to bottom and the ratings system has been changed significantly so please do not compare FM18 player ratings to the player ratings in the Ultimate Legends game. No player is released into the game until fully researched and fully tested. Significant Modern players have also been re-coded to bring them into line with their legendary counterparts in terms of the new player ratings system. Brexit has been removed & NO FOREGROUND SUGAR DADDIES * Full Squads for all major teams throughout the world and you can check them all out in the opening pages. These squads may still be updated up until the point of release. After release new squads and players will continue to be updated accordingly to ensure this legends game continually improves and maintains its very high standards.

Why is all player and non-player history is lost after setting a deceased (!) person as a retired person? Take for instance Johan Cruijff. Obviously this great worldwideknown player died a few years ago and is set as "retired person". Al his playing and non-playing history like international apps/goal/award/trophees/clubs he played for is lost! That's such a shame! Why isn't there an (database editor) option to set a person as status "deceased" with a decease-date but will keep all player history intact. This way the person is "clickable" at clublegends for instance and details will show. If someone agrees with this please upvote this topic. I'd like to get an official respond of the SI-team to hear if something like this is possible, please.

Description Super 11's is a multi file database that will add 11 players from a nation or legendary players from across a clubs history. TEAMS Wolves All Stars DOWNLOADS You can use the below 'Game file' for a direct download of the file or pop over to Steam and look at my Workshop to subscribe Game File Facepack for Cut Out Player Faces Megapack from sortitoutsi.net All Players If you want to select individual players from the above teams, you can use the download link below and choose who you want. Game Files Facepack < Click here to join my Discord Server

[FM19] Legends database https://www.facebook.com/Football-Manager-2019-Legends-1924016597676836/

Travel back to 1978 with Pelé, Cruyff, George Best, Beckenbauer, Eusébio, Gerd Muller, Bobby Moore, Hugo Sánchez, and more. Classic NASL rules include 6 points for a win, tied games going to OT & penalties (sadly not from 35 yards), and "best 2 out of 3" playoffs. DOWNLOAD GRAPHICS If the above link doesn't work: NASL, Players, Continental comps | Steam workshop link *change your game language to English (US) for full effect* Screenshots:

Okay guys, so I was thinking to upload about this issue from many days but didn't get time for it. In the last season when I got promoted from Skybet Championship as Barnsley, other Premier Division clubs released the players as usual but the players were unusual. One of them was luis Suarez, a 22 year old one and other was Thomas Muller, again a 22 year old one and their stats and playing position also matches the original players(not exactly). Thomas muller isn't that great but Suarez really is. Here are the attributes screenshot of two players. Is it a bug or something and where can I find more of these duplicates as they are cheap enough for Barnsley

Here we go again! This year with another expanded version that will include even more legendary clubs and players. With this update you will have an opportunity to play and manage 3500 legends spread all over the world in their respective teams. All of the major and many minor leagues are filled with clubs which possess their all-time greats and are under the guidance of some the managers , coaches and chairmans who ever graced the game. Winning anything in this update is a success, as many clubs and national teams have some of the best talent that ever appeared in history of football. Italian, English, German, Spanish and French clubs are strongest competitors. And not just the major ones. There are teams from Holland, Belgium, Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary or from Portugal who have good chances of winning the Champions League as much as the teams who are coming from the stronger leagues. This is like a Football Manager hard mode! The players who are coming from the oldest eras of football are older than the ones who are appeared later and therefore are closer to their peak and reaching their full potential. And don’t worry the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo & Neymar still exist, but are a younger versions of themselves and are relocated to their parent clubs. Because of that your task as a manager is even more challenging as it’s up to you to develop them into world-class players they are today and if you succeed to make them a part of your squad. This is a thrilling update which can bring any Football Manager fan into an ecstatic state of nostalgia with no doubt that they will enjoy the game even more and find it refreshing and challenging like never before. Also were done and facepack for almost all players, which will further give the game interesting. UPDATES: 1. 400 new legends including filled squads of Pisa, Venezia, Brescia, Bari, Ascoli, Braunschweig, Coventry, Ipswich, Fulham, Man. City, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton, WBA, Beveren, Mechelen, Lokomotive Leipzig, Ferencvaros, Vasas, MTK, Dinamo Bucuresti, Steaua, Levski, Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, AEK, Galatasaray, Fenerbahche, Estudiantes LP, San Lorenzo, Racing Club, Fluminense, Cruzeiro, Vasco, Internacional. Added legends like Edmundo, Mokhtar Dahari, Babangida, Pumpido, Calimbay, Saravakos, Stefanescu, Moldovan, Arne Brustad, Tahamata, Cunningham, Alex James, Nwanko Kanu, Riedle, Kurt Jara, Ebbe Sand, Lauren, Haim Revivo, Gigi Meroni, Lentini, Istvan Nyers... 2. Added missing managers and chairmans to all clubs with at least few legends, and also added some famous assistant managers, coaches and other staff. (Berlusconi at Milan, Cragnotti at Lazio, Santiago Bernabeu at Real, Joan Gamper at Barca, Bernard Tapie at Marseille...) 3. The values and wages of the players have been corrected to a more reasonable level. Maximum wage in top 5 leagues are 120k p/w, and max. value are 70 mil. euros. 4. The participants of european cups have been changed so in the first season there would play clubs that deserve it by tradition and successes through history. Champions League (Real, Barca, Atletico, Valencia, Juve, Inter, Milan, Man.Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Marseille, Saint-Etienne, Monaco, Bayern, Gladbach, HSV, Dortmund, Ajax, PSV, Brugge, Anderlecht, Sparta, Slavia, Ferencvaros, Steaua, Dinamo Buc., Levski, Hajduk, Crvena Zvezda, Grasshoppers, Servette, Rapid Wien, Legia, Malmo, Celtic, Slovan...) Europa League (Antwerp, Mechelen, Standard, Dukla, Vejle, Frem, Reims, Kaiserslautern, Koln, Schalke, Honved, Ujpest, MTK, Torino, Napoli, Roma, Gornik, Craiova, Torpedo M, Aberdeen, Rangers, Dundee Utd, OFK Beograd, Partizan, Vojvodina, La Coruna...) 5. Nation club coefficients and world rankings were also corrected in line with historical successes. 6. Added a lot of media sources from bigger countries like Marca, France Football, Kicker, L'equipe, La gazzetta, Tuttosport, El grafico... The man behind the whole project is David Salapura from Serbia. DOWNLOAD Preview: FB page for more screenshots Installation Instructions: 1. Extract the contents of the .zip file using the default zip utility of your OS or get a free tool such as 7-zip. 2. Move the extracted "Return of the legends 2018.fmf" file to the following location: Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2018 / editor data Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist. 3. To install the facepack, move the folder "Legends facepack" to your graphics folder: Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2018 > graphics > facepacks Create the "graphics" and "facepacks" folders if they don't exist. Go to Preferences screen and then into the Interface tab. Click on "Clear cache" and then "Reload skin". Now you can see pictures of all legends. 4. Open FM 2018 and start a new save-game with 18.3.0 update and only this database selected, not other databases and transfer updates. IMPORTANT: When creating a new save-game, you have to be patient because the process of loading game database takes about 2 hours. The problem is due to the conversion of the database from the previous series and a lot of data, which is not possible to fix it. 5. To load shortlist with all legends move the extracted "Legends shortlist.fmf" file to the following location: Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2018 / shortlists Enjoy and share your impressions!

What is the view of having regens alongside legends coming through - I suppose it makes things easier to search for - but when you see the work done by people such as Fenech I doubt if all the killer players from the past would be easy to spot. Great way too of finding out about the players that didnt have the benefit of TV

70 Legendary Managers Added - In Depth Sample: See spoiler for list Any information found on the internet was used to complete as full and accurate a picture of each coach's style as possible. - Every manager has a unique personality: From correct birthdate, birthplace, hair/skin color, languages spoken...to liked clubs, disliked clubs, rivalries, controversial or calm, adaptability, and career plans...they all have been given attributes to act similar to their real life counterparts. - Preferred formations and play style: If I could find it, their formations and play styles have been added as close as possible. What types of roles they liked as well. - Tendencies: If possible, I added tendencies, such as counterattacking, target man...if they often wore suits or tracksuits, if they roamed the touch line or sat quietly...etc. - Every manager has a club: The club they won the most titles with or spent the longest time with was used. If that was taken already, the 2nd best club was used, and so on. If no club was available, a random club was chosen from the league they managed in. - Current real-life managers have been replaced, of course. Either they are Assistant Managers on a 1-year contract, or been sent back to a previous club they managed. - Managers who are icons for a club were given long contracts: For example, Bob Paisley's contract for Liverpool is until 2040. - For long-term saves, all managers are around 50 or under - 20 rated attributes: Determination, Tactical Knowledge, Squad Rotation and all the Training-related attributes are 20. This is to make great managers, and to help(slightly) the poor player development and rotation AI clubs have. - National Teams: If they managed a national team, that was added if possible Better AI Managers Overall Besides the new managers, ones already in-game have been modified. For 130 CA+ managers: - Given a 20pt CA/PA increase - Coaching abilities increased also, relative to their CA - Tactical Knowledge increased, to 14 or greater, relative to CA - Coaching style from Not Set to General - Use of Subs is no longer less than 11 - Squad Rotation is 20 - Tendency to fit players to preferred tactic, no longer higher than 14 For 160 CA+ managers: - Added missing ethnicity, hair, skin info For 100 -120 CA managers: - Added preference to be Assistant Manager to 10 Questions Remaining: 1. There has long been an issue of unrealistic manager appointments. Would adding career plans help? For example, a Polish 160 CA manager hired in Italy. Would giving him a career plan to manage in Poland reduce that? 2. High quality managers without a job Would it be better to reduce their reputation so they are more willing to work in top leagues? Remove career plans? Or give them a tendency to work in lower leagues? 3. There is a new non-tactical attribute: Versatility Does anyone know what that refers to? 4. Formation variety is poor. Would anyone like it if there was more variety? For example, checking all 130+ CA managers: 179 prefer 4-4-2, 157 prefer 4-1-2-3 DM Wide, 155 prefer 4-2-3-1 Wide, and 83 prefer 4-2-3-1 DM Wide. Would adding variety make the AI dumber? Or are there other OP formations the managers could use to make them better? Input and Testing Welcomed: Having only used Google to know what these managers were like, someone with more knowledge can point out errors, or supply information as to their tendencies. Someone with great knowledge of FM's tactical side could see if a better formation should be chosen, or play style changed, etc... Of course, testing is needed: to see how the managers play, if changes need to be made, crashes happen, or simply if a mistake/typo/wrong info is found. File: 70 Legendary Managers Facepack: 70 Legendary Managers.zip Thanks for reading!

After last year's great success of this database, I decided to publish an expanded version that will include even more legendary clubs and players. If you ever wanted to see Paul Gasoigne, Hristo Stoichkov, Franz Beckenbauer, Zico, Marco van Basten, Duncan Edwards, Hugo Sanchez, Gabriel Batistuta all of them in one place and facing each other? Well, now you can. In Football Manager 2017 and with an update “Return Of The Legends for FM17”, you will have an opportunity to play and manage all of these stars and 3000 others spread all over the world in their respective teams. All of the major and many minor leagues are filled with clubs which possess their all-time greats and are under the guidance of some the managers who ever graced the game. Bob Paisley is in charge of Liverpool who has players such as Kevin Keegan, Alan Hansen, Kenny Dalglish & John Barnes amongst others. Sir Alex Ferguson is leading Manchester United with George Best, Bobby Charlton, Ryan Giggs & Eric Cantona and is up to you stop him for dominating the Premier League again. In addition, there are great generations of Leeds, London giants and "crazy gang" from Wimbledon. Or maybe you think you can do better than Helenio Herrera at Inter with the likes of Giacinto Facchetti, Ronaldo & Sandro Mazzola in your squad and win the battle for Scudetto against Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan and their formidable defense, against Juventus and their three-time Ballon d’Or winner Michel Platini and can you hold out against Fiorentina’s deadly duo – Baggio & Batistuta? Also, from the shadows seek a chance Grande Torino, Eriksson’s Lazio, Napoli with Maradona and Legendary Parma team. In new edition I include legendary Foggia team, led by Zdenek Zeman, and much more legends from lower italian clubs such as Triestina, Padova, Vicenza, Bari. Winning anything in this update is a success, as many clubs and national teams have some of the best talent that ever appeared in history of football. German, Spanish and French clubs are great competitors. And not just the major ones. There are teams from Holland, Belgium, Scotland, Russia, Ukraine, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary or from Portugal who have good chances of winning the Champions League as much as the teams who are coming from the stronger leagues. This year I added a lot of Asian and African legends, especially from Korea, Japan, Middle East, and some great legends of Fortuna Dusseldorf, Magdeburg, RW Essen, Achen, Mulhouse, Racing Club Paris, Las Palmas. The players who are coming from the oldest eras of football are older than the ones who are appeared later and therefore are closer to their peak and reaching their full potential. And don’t worry the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo & Neymar still exist, but are a younger versions of themselves and are relocated to their parent clubs. Because of that your task as a manager is even more challenging as it’s up to you to develop them into world-class players they are today and if you succeed to make them a part of your squad. This is a thrilling update which can bring any Football Manager fan into an ecstatic state of nostalgia with no doubt that they will enjoy the game even more and find it refreshing and challenging like never before. Also were done and facepack for almost all players, which will further give the game interesting. The man behind the whole project is David Salapura from Serbia. With a little help of some of his friends from Serbian FM Community after few months of work they created this update for every Football Manager fan to enjoy. I owe special thanks to Victor Kalma Srica, who helped me this year. DOWNLOAD Here is shortlist file with all legends. DOWNLOAD SHORTLIST For more screenshots you can visit my FB page: Preview Installation: 1. Move the downloaded - "Return of the legends by David-FM17.fmf" file to your editor data folder: Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > editor data Important: Create the "editor data" folder if it doesn't exist. 2. To install the facepack, move the folder "Legends facepack" to your graphics folder: Documents > Sports Interactive > Football Manager 2017 > graphics > facepacks Important: Create the "graphics" and "facepacks" folder if it doesn't exist. 3. Go to Preferences screen and then into the Interface tab. Click on "Clear cache" and then "Reload skin". Now you can see pictures of all legends. 4. Start a new career game with 17.3.0 update. From the editor data drop down menu choose the database "Return of the legends by David-FM17". Enjoy it!

Create a broader staff with a psychologist / motivator, a nutritionist, warehouseman, and press officer to increase the number of people interacting with the team and the players. Then create a team of old glorys over 35 or over 40 with their own championship, so to satisfy even old CM / FM players like me. The team of old glories only for the most prestigious teams. Hello

Hi does anyone have a link to download a Arsenal DB based on the 03/04 squad?? any help much appreciated

Hi all, Please take a look at my database for Man Utd Legends. More details + Screenshots here

Hi, Can you start an online game with friends using a legend players database? (All friends have the same database). Thank you in advance! Regards