![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!
Discussion: FM26 Men's League only - alpha v0.1 [testing]
37 comments have been posted so far.
Just ignore the woke crying babies.
”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.”
if true that the game load it even if you plan on play only men’s why would you not want to exclude it? It affects the loading times and processing speed!
IF YOU DON’t load the women leagues and choose men only. You already made the exclusion yourself. Does that make you sexist and hating women?
Weird how all of the people who cry about everything hurting their precious manhood call everyone else snowflakes, isn't it?
If you don't plan to play in the women divisions, it will literally just slow your game down and nothing else.
But I am thinking about doing the same with only women's football. But deleting all the male teams and players is really a lot of work.