How To Play FM25 With An EASY FM24 Mod!

Overview

This video explains how to use community-made Football Manager editor files to make FM24 feel like FM25. The goal is to apply real-life updates (instead of waiting months for FM25) so the game’s data feels more current.

In short: it’s about data/database accuracy and a “next-iteration feel,” not adding new FM25 features.

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What the mod/approach can (and can’t) do

• Can do:
  • Update player transfers
  • Update league/competition participant changes (e.g., promotions/relegations and correct league placements)
  • Include some extra database realism tweaks
• Can’t do:
  • Add future FM25-specific features/graphics
  • It’s focused on database realism, not new visuals or mechanics

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Main tool: “FM Transfer Update” (community-led)

A web page (FM Scout) where users submit real-world transfers for review and inclusion in repacks.

Key features

It covers both:

• Major transfers
• Smaller movements, including:
  • Free transfers
  • Players moving to different leagues/clubs
  • Broad coverage across leagues (example mentions include releases and moves to multiple teams/leagues)

The workflow:

• Users submit entries
• Submissions are reviewed
• Accepted transfers are included in future download versions

Download options (3 tiers)

1. Paid tier

   • Supports the team
   • No ads
   • Hall of Fame mention
   • Discord access
   • Fastest updates: download changes as they’re accepted (no waiting for scheduled repacks)

2. Free membership

   • Create an account for free
   • Receive a “daily” repack (not truly daily; example given: last repack was July 9)
   • Includes all transfers up to that date

3. Pro Data Pack option

   • Includes:
     • A transfer update
     • Extra FM24 realism items needed to better simulate an FM25-like league structure
   • Repacked monthly
     • Example: June 30 repack; next scheduled Aug 1
   • Suggested strategy:
     • Use the most recent transfers from the transfer-update site/daily repack (e.g., July 9)
     • Use the other realism/database pieces from the monthly Pro Data Pack

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How it’s applied in-game

• Download creates small files that you place into FM’s folder structure (specifically editor data).
• Changes apply to new saves only.

In FM24 (typical workflow)

• Start a new career
• Go to the Database selection option
• Select only the needed files
  • Files associated with “notorious Pro” are identifiable because his name is in brackets
• This video focuses on:
  • Promotions/relegations / correct league placements
  • Transfers
  • Optional: Wonder kids additions

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“Notorious Pro” / Pro Data Pack extras (league realism)

The Pro pack is described as a monthly repack that includes:

• Updated transfers
• Agent changes
• Changes to current/potential ability
• Adds extra leagues
• Critically: League positions
  • The main mechanism for moving teams into the correct tier

Example league outcomes mentioned:

• England
  • Teams like Ipswich, Leicester, Southampton placed into the Premier League tier
• Italy
  • Teams like Como, Palermo, and Sassuolo shown with updated tier outcomes (promoted/relegated)

Claims/intent:

• Designed to support earlier rebuild saves while waiting for FM25

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Concrete transfer examples cited (evidence)

The video provides examples meant to demonstrate that FM24’s data aligns with real life after applying updates, including:

• Amari Hutchinson
  • Updated from a loan at Ipswich to a permanent Ipswich transfer (matching real life)
• Chelsea
  • Players updated to squad status (example mentions include Chelsea Dubury Hall as moved)
• West Ham
  • Mattias Kilman referenced as their new center-back

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Tutorial-style steps (high level)

1. Download the transfer update (daily/free or paid) from the Transfer Update website.
2. Download the Pro Data Pack (monthly) from FM Scout / “notorious Pro” section.
3. Copy files into FM’s editor data folder:
   • If it doesn’t exist, create it.
4. Start a new save in FM24.
5. In Database options, enable the relevant notorious Pro files:
   • Promotions/relegations
   • Transfers
   • Optionally: Wonder kids
6. Confirm/run the save and verify:
   • Teams appear in updated leagues
   • Players appear with updated transfer/squad information

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Main sources / speakers

• FM Scout (channel/branding and hosting the guide resources)
• notorious Pro (creator/author of the Pro data pack and guide content)
• FM Transfer Update team / Transfer Update team (curators of community-submitted transfers)
• Video narrator/speaker (unnamed in subtitles; presents the method and steps)