FM26 England Lower Leagues to Level 8

As always, this will be the biggest English database available to play for Football Manager 2026. The largest database on Football Manager is back for another installment.

You can manage a club 8 leagues down the English football pyramid. By the time you reach Premier League, all real players would be probably retired and you'd be in a fantastic football world filled with newgens.

This England Level 8 database for FM26 includes real structure and rules, as well as all the cups. It's complete down to level 8 so far, with the plan being to reach level 20. A Gargantuan task no doubt.

Released: 9 November 2025 (Level 8)

English Playable Leagues after enabling the E20 database

1. Premier League
   
2. Championship
   
3. League 1
   
4. League 2
   
5. Conference Premier
   
6. • Conference North
   • Conference South
   
   
7. • Isthmian Premier
   • Southern League South Division
   • Southern League Central Division
   • Northern Premier
   
   
8. • Isthmian Division 1 North
   • Isthmian Division 1 South East
   • Isthmian Division 1 South Central
   • Southern League Division 1 Central
   • Southern League Division 1 South
   • Northern Premier Division 1 East
   • Northern Premier Division 1 West

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How to unlock England Level 8 in FM 2026

1. Move the downloaded E20 - England Level 8.fmf file to:
   \Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2026\editor data\
   Create folder "editor data" if it doesn't exist already.


2. Open Football Manager 2026 and start a new career, In the top right of the screen, under "Database", make sure this file is selected.


3. It is recommended that you select "Add players to playable teams" from the Advanced Options box when selecting your leagues, otherwise 99% teams will have greyed out players however this slows down the game speed. If left unticked the game runs faster however there are less players to pick from in-game.


4. Also make sure to load all players from England using the Advanced... Database Size options.

Note: Despite his best efforts there will be some strange club movements into leagues not in their region, unfortunately the game itself isn't clever enough to stop this.

Credits

This database is created by Dan and I'm sharing it here with his kind permission.
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