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FM24 Match Physics Mod: FM Tweak

The FM Tweak ME Mod is designed to elevate your Football Manager 2024 experience by refining the match engine for greater realism, balance, and tactical depth.

By on Feb 22, 2025   22596 views   24 comments
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Downloads: 4069 / Size: 1.3 MB / Added: 2025-02-22
Football Manager 2024 Mods - FM24 Match Physics Mod: FM Tweak
With this custom Football Manager 2024 Match Engine physics mod, every match feels more like real football; strategic, dynamic, and unpredictable. Whether you’re a tactical mastermind or a casual player, this mod will transform the way you experience Football Manager 2024.

More Realistic Matches
Adjusted the in-game physics to make player movements, ball dynamics, and match flow feel more natural than ever.

Authentic Results & Stats
Say goodbye to unrealistic scorelines! These tweaks ensure that match statistics and results align much more closely with real-life football.

Tactical Diversity
A wider range of tactical approaches are viable, rewarding creativity and adaptability rather than forcing managers into the same overpowered meta gegen tactics.

Revitalized Midfield Play
Central players, like Attacking Midfielders and Box-to-Box players regain their importance.

A community effort for an even better ME mod

A group of people actively conversing on reddit about the gameplay changes caused by these mods formed a team coordinated by Head_Championship917 aiming to create the best simatch file we can possibly have. You can join their discord server to share your feedback in an organised way to improve this further.
Discord: FM TWEAK
We all love FM, and with FM25 cancelled there's a need for this kind of community work to fresh things up. The FM TWEAK team launched a dedicated website where they're presenting the results of their work, by providing different 'flavours' of ME files.

Please note that any simatch file modded by the community is not supported by Sports Interactive. Therefore you should report any match engine issues you come across to the developers only if you are using the official simatch file.

How to install the match physics mod on FM24

  1. Back up your original simatch.fmf file. This is really important. Make a copy of it in some other directory and remember where it is. If something screws up, you can always go back to it.
  2. Locate your data directory. This exists whether you run the game on Windows, Mac, or Linux through Proton. It is not the same directory that your graphics and editor data files go in. You'll know you've found the right directory because it will be called "data" and will have a bunch of FMF files - simatch.fmf, simatchshared.fmf, simatchviewer.fmf and so on.
  3. Copy this version of simatch.fmf over the existing one in that directory. You don't need to use the Resource Archiver tool unless you are trying to combine this with other patches that impact simatch.fmf (such as the MetzFM sound pack).
  4. Share feedback on how this version works. Once you get it working, play some games and let everyone know how this works. Let's get some community feedback going and see if we can turn FM24 into the game it should have been all along.

Donations

If you wish to support the FM TWEAK team, you can donate using the link below.
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Credits

This version of simatch.fmf was created by the FM TWEAK team.
Website @fmtweakupdates
Thanks to Head_Championship917, FrancescoMuja and EvensenFM for their communication and for making it possible to share these physics mods here.

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Downloads: 4069 / Size: 1.3 MB / Added: 2025-02-22
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Discussion: FM24 Match Physics Mod: FM Tweak

24 comments have been posted so far.

  • Leeds-1919's avatar
    explained on the Metz site
  • Deanpunk's avatar
    Can someone pls explain how to link this to the sound pack. It doesn't work
  • gregb41352's avatar
    How do you set up the sound pack to synch with the game? Sent them an email but the customer support is lacking.
  • DAZS8's avatar
    @Cam1ner

    Sent you a message, enjoy
  • Cam1ner's avatar
    Can someone combine this ME mod with Metz soundpack for the people using game pass as we don't have access to the resource archiver
  • jeff44's avatar
    @Hanz Cagarion
    go on to MetzFM Sound Pack website it tells you there
  • Hanz Cagarion's avatar
    How to combine this ME with MetzFM Sound Pack?
  • jeff44's avatar
    got this combined with MetzFM sound pack
    its working well. keep up the good work stam
  • Ti Ago's avatar
    That's not true @papp0u27 , they're humble guys
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  • papp0u27's avatar
    the developers and 'coders' of this project are rude, sudden and just a joke of a group of ppl. go on their discord and see how they all talk to each other; like a bunch of self privileged clowns; just because they made some backyard mod, they think they can treat others without respect. stay away from these frauds.
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  • ginobili20's avatar
    Thanks @drewjs66
  • DrewJS66's avatar
    Anyone having issues with the game crashing on start up rename the file to just simatch.fmf rather than fusion. it fixes the issue.
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  • bluekot64's avatar
    can anyone help plz i have the fm24 archiver ,where do i go from there
  • ginobili20's avatar
    And why my game crash when i start? I put the file in Steam/steamapps/data replacing the original one. What should I do?
  • phnompenhandy's avatar
    @ginobili - you mean YOUR game doesn't work. Plenty of us are using it with no problem.
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  • ginobili20's avatar
    The game doesnt work with this file.
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  • Cam1ner's avatar
    Awesome work guys, is it possible for someone to merge this with Metz audio lack for the people using the game pass as game pass users don't have access to the resource archiver unfortunately
  • Stam's avatar
    @proton6: This ME mod doesn't include an EXE file. I assume you're referring to the Match Engine Manager tool, which we haven't added yet as a downloadable due to false positive issues the FM TWEAK team is aware of and working on fixing.
  • proton6's avatar
    Having issues with Virus detection on this download ? Being blocked because of Maleware . I did put an exception to allow download but my AVG keeps moving the EXE file to quaranteen ? Maybe the distributor needs to check the files
  • CountVronsky's avatar
    Josiiy23, we have thousands of people in our discord server constantly testing and playing with our mod. You can check all of that info in our discord server.

    Nicolas_om, yes we can say "goodbye to unrealistic scorelines!" because we've done hundreds of hours of testing in major leagues, in less known leagues, to make sure that the scorelines are consistent with real life data.
    Give it a go and see for yourself. Cheers
  • Josiiy23's avatar
    Someone already tested?
  • nicolas_om's avatar
    "Say goodbye to unrealistic scorelines!"

    this is so funny)))
  • Omiskass's avatar
    Yes it's compatible
  • Shaunessy1983's avatar
    Save game compatable or new game only?
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