Football Manager 2024 Winter Update – Major Transfer Update to FM24 Incoming!

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Football Manager 2024 Winter Update - Major Transfer Update for FM24

Here’s everything you need to know about the Football Manager 2024 winter update. Get ready for the biggest patch for FM24 with all the latest new transfers from the January Transfer Window, bug fixes and game upgrades to make Football Manager 2024 even more engrossing.

The January transfer window has closed for Europe’s top leagues, and the Winter Transfer Window across the globe is reaching its final days, gamers of Football Manager are eagerly anticipating the biggest update to FM24. Here comes your chance to update Football Manager with all the latest up-to-date transfers and start a new save by picking a new team to manage from all the refreshed squads across the world of football.

So, if you have just purchased Football Manager 2024, or you haven’t for any reason not yet started your long-term save for FM24, wait for the updated Football Manager 2024 and take charge of a new-look team with all the up-to-date transfers!

Here’s everything you need to know about the Football Manager 2024 Winter Update, when the main data update is released and what changes the biggest patch to FM24 will incorporate.

Once it arrives, we will update the post with all the patch notes of the FM24 Winter Update so you can get the full picture of why you need to update Football Manager 2024 with the latest transfers, bug fixes and other subtle changes.

When is the Football Manager 2024 Winter Update released?

The coming official Main Data Update for Football Manager 2024 by Sports Interactive, aka the FM24 Winter Update, is subjected to be released at the end of February, or start of March.

For now, there’s no set date for the release of the Winter update, so everything will be nothing more than speculations. The Footall Manager representatives normally tell us players that it will be ready when it’s ready whenever they are asked about the release date of Main Data Update.

Last year, the main FM23 Winter Update arrived March 1st, 2023, with the final data update arriving four weeks later, March 29th 2023.

Similar to last year, we can anticipate the FM24 Winter Update be released in three different stages: the Main Data Update, the Final Data Update and a China Data Update – that is subjected much later in the cycle. For FM23, the latter arrived May 9th 2023.

What is featured in the FM24 Winter Update?

The main focus of the FM24 Winter update is to update the Football Manager database with all the latest transfers happened in the most recent January Transfer Window. This means that its primary focus will be on all the nations that shut down their Transfer window on February 2nd 2024.

You can anticipate millions of database changes to Football Manager 2024 within the Main Data Update, as you will experience all the latest changes to squads in the biggest European football leagues. For instance, you will get the most up-to-date squads of Brighton, Benfica and Bayern Münich, apart from more accurate player abilities and upgrades to players to replicate the most recent player performances across the top European tournaments and competitions.

One of the main features of the FM24 Winter Update is the changes to player’s current ability, potential and skills – meaning there’s a huge chance to spot new wonderkids for Football Manager 2024! Of course, will we take great measures to update our FM24 wonderkids list for the new winter update along with other player recommendations of players to sign on FM24.

Apart from upgraded players, transfers to managers, players and staff, the Main Data update includes a host of fixes and improvements to multiple areas of Football Manager 2024. From data updates that requires a new save to take advantage of, to more subtle game play changes, stability and crash fixes, the Main Data Update will be a welcome patch to fix annoying bugs within the match engine or tweaks to other areas of the game that dramatically reduces your experience with the game.

When the second data update, aka the Final Data Update arrives, it will include all the latest transfer activity from those winter transfer windows that ended in February, along with further gameplay fixes and improvements to the game.

For a full list of when the different transfer windows for each nation across the world closes, please visit Transfermarkt.com by clicking here.

Patch Notes of Football Manager 2024 Main Data Update

24.3 Changelist (including but not limited to):

Gameplay, UI and Technical

  • General stability and crash fixes
  • Fixed exploit where AI clubs accepted human manager’s transfer offers that were substantially lower than the player’s market value
  • Fixed issue where negative budgets were given to clubs even when they are performing well financially
  • Tweaks to how players are scouted that will ensure more Recommendations and Near Matches are generated in Recruitment Focuses
  • Tweaks to AI logic when evaluating whether to loan list young players
  • Managers now receive a wider range of offers when they offer players out for loan via the TransferRoom
  • Fixed issue where top clubs were signing too many centre-backs 
  • Improvements to the ESC Work Permit process 
  • Fixed issue where VAR is missing in the knockout stages in UEFA Europa League
  • Fixed issue where semi-pro training is set to unavailable as soon as the user modifies the schedule of a match week 
  • Some clauses that were previously inactive can now be bought or sold
  • Fixed issue where order of attributes in Training and player profile are different when the game is in certain languages 
  • Fixed issue where the Staff Responsibilities disappeared randomly
  • Fixed issue where Home Grown status progress wasn’t displaying in the player information screen
  • Fixed issue where players were able to play for First and Second teams during intra-squad friendly
  • Fixed issue where no rain and snow particles were shown in matches
  • Klopp and Xavi to leave their current clubs at the end of the 2023/24 season
  • Fixed issue where Spanish clubs were registering low squad sizes
  • Fixed an issue where Turkish clubs weren’t registering full squad on registration deadline day
  • 2024 UEFA Champions League knockout stage match ball updated

Competitions and Rulegroups*

  • Competition update for Hungary, Turkey, Brazil, Romania, Finland, China, Canada, USA, Colombia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland (Liechtensteiner Cup), continental competitions and more
  • Fixed issue where Trained in Nation players were not being counted in registration
  • [Austria] Fixed issue where players get unhappy during the Austrian winter break
  • [Asia] – fixed instances of teams playing in both continental club competitions at the same time
  • [Belgium] KV Oostende have a total of six points deduction
  • [Brazil] Major work on state championship scheduling in order to alleviate general fixture congestion
  • [China] Added bespoke early start date for users wanting to utilise the first transfer window in 2024
  • [England] Added text to squad registration screen to inform the user all loan players must be registered regardless of age in the Championship
  • [England] Added prize money for all rounds in the Carabao Cup
  • [France] Fixed issue where the Ligue 1 winter ball is used for the rest of the season following the winter start date
  • [Germany] Added a playoff for final league position in the Bundesliga in the event all other sorting rules are tied
  • [Japan] Fixed issue where youth players’ Home Grown status is not displaying correctly in Japan
  • [Singapore] Albirex Niigata now use regular league rules after converting to being a “local” club
  • [Turkey] Improvements to definition of the Turkic/TITP player rules in the Turkish Super League
  • [World] Fixed issue where the World Cup 2026 hosting nations don’t play their matches in their own nations

Database 24.2**

  • Over six million database changes since the initial release of FM 24***

Pre-Game Editor

  • Fixed issue where existing person names couldn’t be edited
  • Fixed issue where female non-players can’t be added to database
  • Fixed issue where there was no option for female in the gender search dropdown
  • Fixed issue where player transfers would not take effect in Real World mode
  • Gibraltar and Japan now appear as editable nations in the Current Nations list

Further changelists for FM24 Console (Xbox/PS5), FM24 Touch (Apple Arcade/Nintendo Switch™) and FM24 Mobile (Netflix) are also available. 

*For Competition specific changes to take effect a new game is required.
**New game is required to play with the latest database 24.2.
***Rosters for certain licensed leagues whose seasons run to the calendar year will only be reflective up until the end of the 2023 season and will not include incoming and outgoing transfers made for 2024.

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