Welcome to Classic FM a project to keep the original version of Football Manager alive forever. This is more than just a temporary update while we wait for FM25. This is a project to keep this old generation of FM updated every year for the next 20 years or more.
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This is the best Data Update available for Football Manager 2024 giving you the following:
Unlike the official version which only updates twice a year, i'm going to keep this up to date more regularly. I will aim for daily, but realistically I won't achieve 365 days a year because of real life.
But I can promise whenever you start a new save the update will never be more than a few weeks old.
On top of just updating the basics i've added new feature that I wish was in the game by default Dynamic Abilities and Dynamic Budgets
People won't always agree with how i've updated players ability and clubs finances. For instance Cole Palmer was rated 140 in 24/25, but what should he be now 160? 165? 170? and what should a teams transfer budget be? Does anyone know the true state of any clubs finances?
To solve this i've implemented a system to let every save be unique with every player's ability and every clubs finances changing between each save whilst still staying within a realistic range (it's not totally random).
If you always play with the same team you'll discover that sometimes you have a transfer budget of £60m other times £90m and everything inbetween. Whilst with players like Rashford sometimes he will hit the peaks of 22/23 other times he won't and this will vary alot more across games than usual.
But this is optional. If you want to play with fixed data in every save like the default game, you can do that too.
This project is still in its early stages and there hasn't been enough time to launch all the features I want to. In the long run I think £10 a year is a pretty reasonable price but for now it's £5.
If you sign up now for £5, as a thank you for the early support, you will be locked in to that price, that means it will always be £5 every year forever. If you wait till it's £10 then it'll be £10 forever.
The goals I have for future versions include:
(Coming Soon) I think the price is very reasonable. However football is a global game and not everyone is in the same position to be able to afford it. That's why i'm going to be giving it away to people that help contribute to the project.
Over time this website will grow with more information and downloads. For now you can check the brand new r/classicfm Subreddit or the forum topic at Sort It Out SI.
Lots of reasons. In the short term FM25 has been delayed so we all need to keep FM24 up to date if we want to play with the latest squads, this includes updating player abilities, ages, contract dates and club budgets which most free and simpler updates don't do.
In the long term FM25 will bring alot of changes that not everyone will like. Even if they do like the changes, it's still nice to go play the old games for nostalgia.
This isn't a unique idea, it's already happened before, CM01/02 is an old generation of Championship Manager that people still play regularly over at https://champman0102.net/. I want to replicate this longetivity and it's best to start now while as many people are still invested in FM24 as possible.
This is just speculation, but after Sports Interactive were sued by Man Utd they began to crack down on community efforts to mod the games. They've also gone all out in buying licenses over the past few years when previously they've been more than happy to leave this up to the modding community. While everyone is excited that Unity will make the game more easily moddable for skinners, i'm concerned that it will be less moddable when it comes to adding unlicensed content. FM24 could be the last of its kind in that respect. We won't know if this is true until after FM25 is released. But again, it seems best to get started sooner rather than later.
For detailed instructions including screenshots check this written guide
The simple instructions are just place the files in this location:
Mac: /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/editor data
Windows: Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2024/editor data
Make sure the files are directly in that folder and not in sub folders e.g.
GOOD: editor data/filename.fmf
BAD: editor data/Some Folder/filename.fmf
Then just start a new save.