FM Custom Database History:
v2.4 January 2018
I'm back after a 4 year break from FM.
v2.4 Is a Full Club Names database for FM 18 and continues the work first began back in 2010 (as detailed below)...
v1.18 April 2014
Full Club Names and colour contrast issues edited for the following leagues...
Full Club Names and colour contrast issues edited for the following leagues...
v2.4 January 2018
I'm back after a 4 year break from FM.
v2.4 Is a Full Club Names database for FM 18 and continues the work first began back in 2010 (as detailed below)...
v1.18 April 2014
- Full Club Names and colour contrast issues edited for clubs with reputations 4200 - 5000 that usually qualify for the World Club Cup.
Full Club Names and colour contrast issues edited for the following leagues...
- Every English club.
- Top 4 divisions from Scotland.
- Top 3 divisions from Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Spain.
- Top 2 divisions from every remaining European nation.
- Top 2 divisions from every remaining South American nation.
- Top 2 divisions from every nation listed below in the previous v1.16 update.
- - additionally all 926 Brazilian clubs now have full names entered.
Full Club Names and colour contrast issues edited for the following leagues...
- Top 2 divisions from all 54 European Nations.
- Top 2 divisions from South America.
- Top 2 divisions from USA, Mexico.
- Top 2 divisions from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea.
- Top division from Australia, Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia.
- Activated Level 7, 8, 9 (England).
- Added FA Vase.
- Updated kit and text colours for top two divisions in all European default nations.
- Update kit and text colours for Scotland, and top two divisions from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain.
- Merged v1.07 with FM 14 DB
- Returned to using the v1.07 database in preparation for FM14.
- Added affiliates to School Association teams.
- Set School Association kits.
- Created School Leagues for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
- Created Academy Leagues for several different nations in an attempt to stimulate AI player development.
- Added 28 County & Senior Cups.
- Removed level 9 teams from the Regional League Cups.
- Added play-offs to the Regional 1st Divisions.
- Added 7 new teams, with their cities & stadiums, to the inactive Kent Invicta League (for County Cup purposes).
- Merged v1.05 with SI FM13 database and ironed out all the compatibility issues.
- Rebuilt English Nation Rules: England down to level 9 now playable for FM13.
- Entered the co-ordinates data for all 803 English clubs' cities and stadiums.
- Fine tuned regional boundaries for leagues at level 7, 8, and 9.
- Added more variety to lower league pitch conditions and stadium status' - more (poorer) clubs now play on poor quality pitches in decrepit stadiums.
- Added more variety to some European clubs pitch conditions and stadiums - clubs from the poorer European nations now play in stadiums and on pitches that reflect their economic status.
- Fixed a further 600 world-wide kit & text colour contrast issues - making that over 2,000 in total now.
- Updated all promotion & relegation issues from last season for level 9.
- Amended over 1,200 world-wide club TEXT colours to white - to avoid annoying colour contrast clashes on the match scoreboard.
- Updated English lower league clubs data - all clubs now have stadiums and home cities/towns.
- Updated level 9 (England) competition histories.
- Renamed most world-wide league and cup competition names from the default SI names to the correct season 2012/2013 competition names.
- Merged v1.02 with English level 14 GE database and ironed out all the compatibility issues.
- Rebuilt the Golden Eagles database, removing levels 10 to 14, fixed the league and cup fixtures bug, rebuilt the league structure, made over 80,000 additional edits; including updating kits, stadiums, cities, and grammatical & spelling mistakes.
- Merged v1.01 with SI FM12 database and ironed out all the compatibility issues.
- Finished off entering full club names for teams in most other countries' top divisions.
- Entered full club names for the majority of European 2nd divisions.
- Modified editor .xml files to allow more characters in club naming fields.
- Entered full club names for teams in 51 European premier divisions, including most teams in UK & Ireland.