Download database – updated November 12, 2022
I am currently in the process of updating the player database and addressing the known duplicate players (mostly in USL Championship/League One, MLS Next Pro, and to a lesser extent MLS) at this time. This is a time consuming process and I have spent almost all the free time since the release of FM 23 addressing this and not even close of finishing.
This is a player only database update. Its pointless of making playable leagues when you constantly have to verify the database whenever you edit it. If you want to create playable leagues – you are free of downloading the files and editing them yourself as long you do not upload this database on any other medium.
Below are some of the screenshots of the database
The first two screenshots show one of several immigrant clubs in the United States System. These are real clubs based in actual USA cities – and all of them have a simple club culture – they only recruit players from certain ethic background. Almost every nation will be represented – with the exception being the major nations.
Colleges will be represented as this is the more realistic way that the MLS Superdraft is done in real life. All NCAA Division 1 colleges will be in the game and eventually all rosters will be included. (This will take a very long time because it takes about 6 hours to do one team and there are over 200 clubs in NCAA D1.) Some of the Junior Colleges, NAIA, and Division 2 and 3 powerhouses will be included but due to over 1000 colleges in the United States this will not be feasible to include them all.
If a player has “PH” next to their name, it is a created player in the database that had signed professional terms but has not yet been added by Football Manager. This will be common with the NISA teams. Other leagues will happen if the player had signed professional contracts after September 1, 2022.
In addition, this screenshot shows a basic layout of the entire German pyramid that goes all the way to Level 14 and has already been organized. Not all the teams have been added and placed in their league at this time, especially that almost all teams in Level 7 and below have to be manually added. Starting at Level 7, the German league structure is done on a state level but not all states do it and the promotion/relegation setups will vary. Some states only go down to Level 10 but a few go all the way down to Level 14.
As mentioned earlier, most of the players in the NISA league had to be manually added. Fortunately, the league provides the roster numbers, date of births, and Transfermarkt details the positions of most of the players. The same is the case for all Arena Futsal teams in the USA, Major Indoor Soccer League is good about providing basic information and clubs are required to detail contract lengths.
Contracts
Almost every player at USL Championship, USL League One, MLS Next Pro, and NISA are on contracts that are only for one year. The contracts will be set to December 31 of the year it is due to the manner that game runs future contracts. USA Arena Futsal contracts traditionally expire on June 30 due to the league going into two calendar years (they play in the winter) – these will also be set to December of the year that the player has a contract expires.
A player that plays both for Major Indoor Soccer League (Arena Futsal) and a USL/NISA team will have their Arena Futsal contract take priority and THEY WILL BE LOANED to their outdoor club with terms that the loan cannot be terminated but the player is always available to play for parent club. US Soccer allows players to do this in real life as they treat outdoor contracts and futsal contracts separate – its up to those two clubs to decide when the player is available for which club and when.
Below is a sample of such a player. Williamson has a professional contract with Harrisburg Heat in the Major Indoor Soccer League that is due to expire in 2023. He signed a professional outdoor contract with Flower City Union earlier in 2022 that is only for that season. This example shows futsal contract taking priority and the player being loaned.
Clubs in leagues that allow players to join on amateur contracts (almost always restricted to players under a certain age) will have their players manually added to their separate youth teams and added to their applicable club via a loan that will expire on July 31 (the night before the college soccer transfer window officially opens). These contracts allow domestic player get professional minutes while keeping NCAA eligibility.
College soccer has their main transfer window from August 1 through August 31 where NCAA allows new players to be registered for clubs and compliance checks are made. The secondary transfer window starts either the second or third Monday of January and goes through the end of that month that only allows players to transfer from one college to another college. In real life the college teams player their games from mid August through November (postseason goes through mid December) and then after a holiday break, teams resume in mid January and play only friendlies until mid April when their season ends. Players can only go on loans to amateur or semi professional clubs from their college teams from May 1 through July 31 and this is why the NPSL/USL League Two clubs only run a short season in real life. UPSL and regional amateur leagues (such as the New York City based Cosmopolitan League) tend to run on a season that starts in September and end in May and are often packed with either high school age players, or packed with players that have exhausted collegiate eligibility – and most of the clubs run on hybrid contract systems. All youth soccer leagues (MLS Next, US Youth League, ECNL) run on a August through May schedule and players cannot be older than league age 19 (for the 2022/2023 season the players cannot have a 2003 birth year unless they are still in high school or had a graduation year of 2022 and taking a gap year).
Virtually every college recruits foreign players – sometimes from the major academies. Some will recruit from the lower divisions of the pyramid. Because the college soccer system has no limit for international players and USA allows players to play for amateur clubs on a student visa, the trend called soccer immigration is a real deal. About 75% of the international players that go to USA for college soccer stay in the states after graduation because most of them end up with a green card – which not only allows them to obtain driver licenses and jobs – it allows them to be counted as a domestic player. A few of them end up getting naturalized and even feature for the USMNT. There are also loopholes in federal laws that allow a player to become eligible – the most notable example was in the 1998 World Cup when a player based in Germany called David Regis married a US Citizen that was stationed at the Rhine Military Base run by the US Army. John Brooks is another similar example except both parents were stationed in Germany due to military related reasons. US Air Force has a base in Frankfurt. Had he not been cap tied by Austria, Christian Fuchs would have been another example of this loophole – all of his kids were born in NYC to a Romanian immigrant mother who was naturalized and he had dated while playing for Schalke and later got married soon after the transfer to Leicester. Some of these loopholes have since been closed up in recent years by Congress and FIFA laws had been updated after the 1998 World Cup but it is still possible for a player to become eligible solely by marriage and/or children.
Some of those USMNT players get naturalized the hard way by waiting the 5 consecutive years and passing the written examination, such as Preki (who did it through Arena Futsal which was a common pathway to national team caps in the 1980s and even the early 1990s), Dom Dywer, and Julian Gressel (who got naturalized too late to be considered for the 2022 World Cup – and played a position that the team had zero depth due to injuries and lack of numbers in the top flight).
Final provided screenshot is a player who has full college playing experience added. These players will be updated with their college stats as they update contracts and change teams.
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