I hope you have as much fun playing this DB as I have had making it. I wanted to share this for FM23 as a sort of celebration of the 70th anniversary of the 1952-53 season. Unfortunately it's taken far longer than I anticipated, but better late than never!
This started as a personal endeavor as I wanted to relive a very different time in football.
A time when Hungary were the dominant team in the world (potentially the best national team ever). A time when money was not as much of a driving factor for success. A time when footballers grew up through unbelievable hardship such as the Great Depression and some even fought in World War II.
There are a lot of incredible personal stories that produced some of the greatest footballers of all time during this era.
- Have you ever dreamed of taking over the Budapest Honved to play with Ferenc Puskás, Sandor Kocsis, József Bozsik, and Gyula Grosics?
- Or maybe, you'd like to try your luck winning the Champions League with a Stade de Reims side including the likes of Raymond Kopa, Bram Appel, and Roger Marche that came up short in real life?
- Perhaps you'd like to take control of a Kaiserslautern team that possessed a legendary Fritz Walter and his brother Ottmar Walter?
- Or maybe you're out to prove that Garrincha really could and should have been considered the GOAT by managing Botafogo.
This database includes nearly 10,000 created players from the era and 18 playable leagues within 13 nations.
Not everything is perfect, I definitely took a lot of liberties and there are a few bugs, but hopefully it's realistic enough to transplant you back in time.
Installation instructions
1. Move the downloaded file to your "games" folder:Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2023/games
2. Open Football Manager 2023 and load this save game to start playing.
Note: I do not plan on making any edits to this db, but if time permits (I have FT onsite job and 1 year old twins) I do hope to come out with a revamped version of the db in FM24.
Anyone who plays this db and finds any issues please let me know in the comments so I can try to address them in the future. In the next edition, I would love to add a couple more leagues, more players (specifically the next generation of players) to fill out teams, improve position assignments and have more accurate players stats, as well as add real managers to teams.The feature that I’d most like to add is player photos, which if anyone would like to help out with I’d be eternally grateful.
Anyway, stay tuned and if anything hopefully this new db will help tie you over until FM24 is released.
Thank you all!
Discussion: 1952-53 Retro Database for FM23
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2# This save give you error after December. In evrytime one date in the game. You just broken this save and uploaded.
3# - Disable Attribute Masking !!! You played with masked but evryone here not known what you creating in this database. And i not need masking !!!
*Notes so far - Duncan Edwards, although young, is positioned as ML - his old position of 'wing-back' is a redundant position now, probably better to make them ML/CM or ML/DM - as I don't think it'll work that well with the in-game computer generated formations
- I'd be ramping Nat Lofthouses Strength right up!