Loading, searching, filtering and sorting used to crawl. Some filters took ten seconds or more on a full database. Not anymore.
The whole app was rebuilt around smarter indexing and parallel processing, so it now behaves the way a scout tool should: instantly.
And the one everyone's been waiting for; the In-Game Scout overlay works again on FM26.
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1.1 rewrites a lot under the hood, so it ships as a beta on purpose. Expect the odd rough edge. When you hit one, a Report Bug button is built right into the app.
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Live search
The Name box filters as you type across Players, Staff and Clubs; no Enter, no lag.
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FM26 let you take a national-team job with no club, and GS used to show you as unemployed, greying out My Team and returning no players in Filter By Squad. Both are fixed.
My Team now opens your national squad, and Filter By Squad lists any nation's sides (senior down to youth). Club careers are completely unaffected.
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Help > Report Bug opens a real form instead of a web page: describe it in any language, attach up to three screenshots (click, drag, or paste), and your setup - Scout & FM build, OS, hardware, loaded save - attaches itself, so a report is actionable with no back-and-forth.
That's exactly why 1.1 stays a beta, and why we'd rather validate it in the real world than pretend it's flawless.
So we wired the feedback loop into the app. Hit Help > Report Bug, describe what happened in any language, drop in a screenshot and your Scout & FM build, hardware, and loaded-save details attach themselves. No forum account, no back-and-forth.
Your reports are what turn this beta into a solid final.
The whole app was rebuilt around smarter indexing and parallel processing, so it now behaves the way a scout tool should: instantly.
And the one everyone's been waiting for; the In-Game Scout overlay works again on FM26.
1.1 rewrites a lot under the hood, so it ships as a beta on purpose. Expect the odd rough edge. When you hit one, a Report Bug button is built right into the app.
It's fast now.
These are rounded timings from a test PC. Your exact seconds depend on your hardware and save, so the multiplier is the real story. Search, filter and sort are measured on the full 567,103-player world; load times at two save sizes. Before is the old build; after is 1.1.|
~7× faster game load ~4 min → ~30 s · full world |
~25× faster name search ~4 s → ~0.2 s |
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~230× faster drop-down filters ~14 s → ~0.1 s |
Instant column sorting was ~15–25 s per click |
Live search
The Name box filters as you type across Players, Staff and Clubs; no Enter, no lag.
In-Game Scout is back.
Hover a player anywhere in Football Manager and a Genie Scout card pops up over the game with that player's full scouted profile. It had been dead since FM's engine change, now it's back on FM26.
- Appears when you settle on a player and hides the moment you move away, switching cleanly from one player to the next; just like FM's own tooltip.
- Hold Shift to flip between current and potential ability.
- Wears the club's colours and crest, with its attribute columns grouped exactly like the full player-profile screen; including the correct goalkeeper panel.
- Works on Steam and Xbox.
More that changed.
Smaller wins that make the day-to-day better, and one that FM26 forced.National Team Management
FM26 let you take a national-team job with no club, and GS used to show you as unemployed, greying out My Team and returning no players in Filter By Squad. Both are fixed.
My Team now opens your national squad, and Filter By Squad lists any nation's sides (senior down to youth). Club careers are completely unaffected.
Report a bug, in-app
Help > Report Bug opens a real form instead of a web page: describe it in any language, attach up to three screenshots (click, drag, or paste), and your setup - Scout & FM build, OS, hardware, loaded save - attaches itself, so a report is actionable with no back-and-forth.
Accurate in-game date
The in-game date GS shows now matches Football Manager exactly. The old value could run a few days ahead - now fixed on Steam, Xbox and Console.It's experimental, and that's the point.
A change this broad - much faster loading, a rebuilt search, a revived In-Game Scout - is going to have rough edges we haven't hit yet.That's exactly why 1.1 stays a beta, and why we'd rather validate it in the real world than pretend it's flawless.
So we wired the feedback loop into the app. Hit Help > Report Bug, describe what happened in any language, drop in a screenshot and your Scout & FM build, hardware, and loaded-save details attach themselves. No forum account, no back-and-forth.
Your reports are what turn this beta into a solid final.
