FM24 Match Physics Mod: Lower Leagues

With FM Tweak Lower Leagues, success isn’t given – it’s earned.
This mod slows the game down, making every match a real test of resilience, defensive organization, and sheer determination; just like in real-life lower divisions.

Slower, More Physical Gameplay
Forget silky one-touch football. In the lower leagues, it’s all about hard tackles, scrappy duels, and relentless effort.

Fewer Goals, Tighter Matches
With less technical brilliance on display, matches are more defensive and cagey, where set pieces, mistakes, and moments of individual grit make all the difference. Every goal must be earned, and when you do find the net, it feels truly deserved.

Authentic Lower-League Experience
No more flawless tiki-taka or overpowered tactics. This mod forces you to grind out results, making promotions feel like true achievements.

For Hardcore FM Players
If you love the challenge of battling for every point and building a team of warriors, this mod will immerse you in the real struggles of lower-division football.

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.

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.