San Diego FC - MLS Expansion Team
Updated Transfers - 25/2/2025
Scheduled to join MLS for the 2025 season but with this file you will be able to manage them straight away.
Includes added graphics, teams, players, staff, nation, cities, regions, stadiums, etc.
Update: 25/2/2025
- 500+ new players
- All MLS 2025 Superdraft players added
- A LOT of US Youth Prospects added
- Added a few missing high potential youth players (e.g. Juma Bah)
- MLS players updated PA and CA (based on 2024 season and market value changes on transfermarkt)
- USMNT player's given CA boost based on performance
- Some high performing players for the 2024/25 season have been given a CA boost
- Player faces added
- Club graphics added
- MLS league reputation boost (source)
- Paul Pogba added back into FM
- New clubs (mainly academy clubs)
- Added cities
- Player contract fix (DP players for all MLS clubs given correct contract type and salary)
- MLS Next Pro Teams updated (added Chattanooga and Carolina Core)
- NYCFC New Stadium name update (now called Etihad Park)
- LA Galaxy II renamed to Ventura County
- San Jose II renamed to The Town FC
- NCAA D1 Teams Added
- Added teams to USL leagues up to date with 2025 season.
San Diego FC's Mohamed Mansour and Tom Vernon also own FC Nordsjaelland in Demark, Right to Dream in Ghana, Egypt and San Diego as well as a second division team FC Masar in Egypt.
San Diego have ambitions to be the "Ajax of the MLS" with an emphasis on their youth academy.
The club have also announced a partnership with Tijuana Xolos across the border in Mexico to take advantage of San Diego's unique location just 30 minutes from the Mexico border.
Due to these connections the club will see a wide range of nationalities come through the academy.
An optional file has been included that will bring Kevin De Bruyne to San Diego in the Summer transfer window of the 2023 season in FM.
Discussion: San Diego FC - MLS Expansion Team & MLS Update
40 comments have been posted so far.
You're using a different mod because this one does not do any of what you just said.
Americans are hilarious!
When loading your game have you selected the mods from this download in this advanced settings
You obviously don't know anything about the MLS or football in general if you're calling Riqui Puig "a random player from the MLS".
No increase in CA or PA was done accidentally or randomly. I've researched the performances over the course of the 2024 season and given players a necessary increase based on their actual performances and the fact that the MLS is an underrated league within FM (currently in real life it's listed in-between the championship and the Belgian league in terms of quality but in FM it's much lower).
This game is currently over a year out of date with player rankings so upgrades are needed.
Jeremie Frimpong and Lookman being rated below a high rated MLS player are the fault of the game being out of date, not the MLS player being overrated. (which I why I actaully upgraded the CA of multiple players to bring the game more up to date but there are several mods which also do this).
The logo pack issue? I have not touched anything to do with the premier league so you're literally just spewing nonsense now.
What I did do? I created 200+ US NCAA D1 College teams and provided logos for each of them.
There is an option for you to not use the mod.
I adjusted the MLS rankings in line with opta stats current rankings of the world leagues where the MLS sits currently between the Championship and the Belgian league. (see here)
With regards to the players I adjusted, it's my opinion that the MLS is actually underrated in FM so players have been given a bump to that of players of a similar level league in Europe.
Only players who had break out seasons have been adjusted and some have been downgraded on performance.
We've had a year's difference in terms of player progress and a lot of players who had break out years in 2024 were rated barely high enough to play in the vanarama national league.
Nothing I changed in this mod was randomly determined and thought has been put into every decision I've made into making this.
I am adding to this mod constantly and it is very rude to leave comments like you are doing considering the amount of effort I've made.
I never said my opinion was worth more then his, this isn't arrogance it's honesty.
Are you honestly also this delusional?? You realise he made every American and MLS player 10x better then they actually are? He made a random player from the MLS better then the likes of Jeremie Frimpong & Ademola Lookman, these are ballon d'or candidates lmao.
How am I supposed to benefit from this mod if he entirely ruined it? Also, the logo pack, what is that about? Why do Premier League clubs have random logos?? Horrible mod.
Why are you being so rude to someone who made something that your benefiting from? Also the assumption that your opinion is worth more than his is crazy arrogant.
Thanks Renskay! Super excited to be able to play San Diego!
Hahahah
Americans and MLS players that have way to high current/potential abilities & incredibly inaccurate coefficients. I would like to thank you for the laughs that gave me!
Then you are probably using a file which creates wonderkids that are not yet in the game.
I've added a lot of players into the game and spent a lot of time to give each of them detail.
For the moment the lower leagues are just cosmetic.
In future I might be able to release a version with lower leagues attached to this database but if you do want to play in the lower the leagues of the USA the best option is to use TheModelCitizen's expanded database.
If you are using a transfer update file that is not the one included with this file you will experience this issue.
Since San Diego do not exist in the base version of FM, when people update transfers to San Diego they just release the players. When these change are selected the overlap on top of the changes made in the file used to create San Diego and it releases all the players.
For this reason I have included a modified version of sortioutsi's Data Update file that includes all global transfers but has been modified to not release San Diego's players as well as adjusting some MLS specific player contract details.
When you load up your game you will need to select both.
000_San Diego FC (MLS Start)
002_sortitoutsi.net FM24 Data Update (San Diego Transfers Fix)
DO NOT use any other file that adjusts transfers apart from this one.
The version of San Diego where you could build your own squad was on my initial release of this database when San Diego only had 6 players on their roster.
They've made quite a few interesting signings since then and now have a competitive team for MLS. On opening day they already managed to beat the reigning title holders LA Galaxy.
https://youtu.be/8xX2TJB-h-U?si=tGfWhceWqpKqG5jy
The majority of newgens will now be USA-Mexican dual nationals (due to San Diego being a very Mexican city) with other newgens appearing from regions RTD scouts in West Africa and Egypt with the odd couple newgens from neighbouring cities in the US and across the border in Tijuana.
Since RTD scouts almost the entirety of west Africa and has more than just Ghanaian players come through their ranks this feels like it's more accurate to how the model could work in real life.
I also didn't like that my newgens were appearing as Just American with no second nationality (even when they had Spanish names) because it's more than likely most of the players coming through RTD San Diego will be Hispanic of some sort, but mostly Mexican obviously.
The latest update should resolve this.
In this case a solution to fix the problem could be to comment out the line of code in the confix.xml file of your alternative graphics pack that includes the other logo for Chivas USA
Would you be able to provide some screenshots of what your game looks like and how your files are organised?
You could send me a PM here or message my discord renskay_
If all else fails you can also try to look for the Chivas logo in your other graphics pack and edit the config file of that pack so it does not make any changes.
You'd need to do this for the normal and icon configs.
You can just comment out the lines of code that include the UID for Chivas (UID - 980542)
if you're unfamiliar with code you can easily comment out a section without altering it by using <!-- (Commented Section Here) -->
This should look like this in your config file.
Thanks for reply and trying to help with this...
So, i followed your original instructions with this and just to check...(and I've kind of learnt all this stuff via YouTube and helpful people - like yourself)
From download I opened SD00 and in that is two files: editor File and Graphics.
I DIDNT open them, just copy and pasted into FM24 editor file and Graphics. So that is literally everything that's in those files copied and pasted over. Is that ok? Is that correct. Just copy the whole file over. Only things I stopped was the fantasy part as I didn't want that. I have done the usual with clear cache and reload. Like I mentioned, EVERYTHING else is spot on, all updated perfectly. I have even deleted and uploaded again to see if there was an issue there?
Thanks again for taking the time to read, reply and help. Appreciate your busy