![Football Manager 2026 Database - FM26 Men's League only - alpha v0.1 [testing]](assets/downloads/fm26/fm26-mens-only-leagues.png)
- Disclaimer -
This is an alpha and everything women related is new (I'm a gamer after all). Jokes aside, I have no idea how that will impact the game long term. Your saves might corrupt. I need alpha testers now, to figure out, if this has any value at all. Please join the Discord toreport bugs. Thank you so much!
I'd like to clarify, This isn’t about gender or exclusion — it’s purely a technical performance tweak.
Football Manager 26 automatically loads women’s competitions and players, even if you’re playing a men’s-only career. That adds thousands of extra entries to the database and can impact loading times and processing speed.
This mod simply removes unused data to improve performance.
If you enjoy playing with women’s leagues, this mod is not for you — it’s meant for people who focus on men’s saves and want faster load times.
- What is this dataset about? -
- removed All women’s clubs and players
- removed Women’s competitions
- removed Women’s awards
The idea is to make loading times faster and reduce the overall database size - perfect if you only want to play men’s football saves.
- But you can disable them...-
Can you really? My tests showed, that the game still loaded female players and competitions. Also, if you add for example top European players through advanced options, women will be loaded. Here is my setup, but it will still happen, even if you don't activate those settings regardless.
Setup
Setup with reputational players
Search for women competition
Women team
Female players
- Downsides and Bugs -
- UI when creating the game still shows the female team, even though it doesn't exist
- no idea about long term consequences
- staff members are now without jobs and free to hire
- Female national teams can’t be fully removed; UI may still reference them.
- How to load the file -
Download the file.
[Windows, don't know for other OS] Go do your documents folder and look for Sports Interactive. Most likely located in:
C:\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\editor data
And drop the file in there. Start the game.
Start new Career -> You will have in the top right corner something called database. Click it.
Tick the box next to my dataset. Newly added files are activated by default.
That's it
- Can I support you? -
If you want to tip me money, I have a Patreon site , where I upload face packs and write guides. If you support me there, I might be able to continue to work on FM Datasets. As a paying Subscriber, you will have early Alpha and Beta access to my datasets. Also, you will be able to play the full versions, before it will be public. You can also play older versions.
Thank you!
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Discussion: FM26 Men's League only - alpha v0.1 [testing]
37 comments have been posted so far.
So what happens now, when you use the custom Dataset option and load all players with high continental reputation and national team players? You will get sooo many players you can't interact with.
I updated the page and provided some screenshots. I still don't know if my dataset is actually working and improves game speed. So any feedback is greatly appreciated.
the women bit is no longer an issue for me, the game is sooooo bad I have reverted to FM24
Yeah, it seems that i didn't got your point. Mea culpa brother.
Your wording could have been a bit clearer though lol
It's weird to see people complain about an optional files and calling others misogynistic pigs for not being interested in female football
you clearly missed the point and context of my post, i assume your grasp of the queens is not the best.
i was not talking about the loading times, but the people moaning about supporting the female game and calling out the OP
womens football is pointless imo
My wife and daughter are both females(always best to check these days) and they both said the same thing “grow up it’s a fucking game”
use the file / don’t use the file, but ffs it’s a game
Apply that very same logic to yourself:
it's a game, so why do u felt the need to tell about that to your family?
How is it immature to not want useless loading times for leagues we are not interested in?
Following your own logic: is someone racist or need to grow up if he never selects a specific league?
No, of course not so why is it different here?
use the file / don’t use the file, but ffs it’s a game
It's a free world
I would like to do a similar database without men. Problem is, the editor is crazy slow. I have to delete 385000 players. I'm already on it for multiple hours. Pretty sure the editor crashed.
Here are my answer's to some of you:
"such a deductive way of using time, instead of creating leagues that are not in the game..." - Do it yourself. Creating a functional league is extremely complicated and challenging in the editor.
"If you feel this threatened by women playing in the game, you need to adjust your manhood because you are very weak as men if that is why you are doing this. I am disgusted that this was even made, upgrade your PC, they told us two years ago to make them faster." - Wtf? I don't even understand half of the things you said. Why are you so focused on genitals? If you have that much money to spend, feel free to donate me some. I'd love to upgrade my computer.
"FM Scout ... Please ban this download its sexist and just plain stupid " - Well I am pretty sure I have already addressed this, but would you be so kind and explain why it's stupid?
"This is litteraly sexism. " - This isn’t about gender or exclusion — it’s purely a technical performance tweak. FM is running poorly with too many leagues and players. I want to improve that.
To anybody who says things like woke or wants to insult other people: woke is a word created by the far right to undermine the political discourse. Other opinions have often a lot of truth too it. People who want this mod gone, mean it well. They want to help women to get better rights in society.
Again, my goal here is a performance update and I have a problem with SI how they implemented women into the game.
Guess I pissed everybody off now. Have a good evening, morning or nice day wherever you come from.
some absolute weapons around
You cleary are the one with issue my friend.
You seem to get very offended by the smallest of issues, a game !! the very definition of a Snowflake in my opinion my dear.
Now run along and demonstrate about something that matters.
Also....very well put in the previous comment bvelow.
If you feel this threatened by women playing in the game, you need to adjust your manhood because you are very weak as men if that is why you are doing this. I am disgusted that this was even made, upgrade your PC, they told us two years ago to make them faster.
We have the choice to not load countries we are not interested in right? so how is it different here?
I don't care about women football, not interested at all, the same way you don't care about EAU or colombia league.
Nothing to do with sexism or racism...
It's also painfully ironic to read your rant, calling everyone sexist and fragile men when you criticize others calling you a woke snowflake
They call you sexist from providing a solution for a faster game.
Do they pick south african league? uruguay? are they racist for doing so?