Football Manager 2018

  • Database 18.1.0
  • Build 1810
  • Game starts 1 Jul 2017
People464,921
Players342,757
Staff113,566
Clubs62,378
Cities48,066
Stadiums35,772
Awards2,748
Derbies1,044

Highest current ability

Highest reputation clubs

Highest reputation competitions

What changed since FM18 18.0.0

  • 342,757 players (was 342,790)
  • 263 new
  • 296 gone
  • 697 of 315,014 changed ability

Biggest risers

André SødlundSandefjord Fotball55 → 106+51
Darragh NooneBray Wanderers23 → 65+42
Cieran DunneFalkirk44 → 78+34
Shoya NakajimaPortimonense Sporting Clube95 → 128+33
Jordan ArcherChester35 → 66+31
Israa HamwiahAl-Malikiya Club66 → 96+30
Devarn GreenTranmere Rovers40 → 70+30
Jordan PonticelliCoventry City40 → 70+30
Michael MurilloSan Francisco FC84 → 114+30
Zac McEachranOxford City20 → 50+30

Biggest fallers

Tevin ShakespeareRugby Town69 → 30-39
John PykettBromsgrove Sporting68 → 35-33
Andy Parrish81 → 54-27
James McPakeDundee105 → 80-25
Grant HoltKing's Lynn Town95 → 73-22
Kieron CathlineEnfield Town50 → 30-20
Larnell ColeTranmere Rovers98 → 78-20
Enoch AndohWhitehawk75 → 55-20
Sebastian MalkowskiFrickley Athletic70 → 51-19
Jamie McGowanGreenock Morton75 → 57-18

Best new players

Tom StarkeBayern124
Ibrahim AlmaAl-Ittihad Aleppo110
Omar MidaniHatta Sports Club110
Steed MalbranqueMonts d'Or Azergues Foot109
Osama OmariAl-Wahda (SYR)108
Ahmad AshkarAl-Jaish (SYR)108
Momen NajiAl-Jaish (SYR)108
Hussein JwayedAl-Zawra'a Sports Club105
Khaled Al MobayedAl-Quwa Al-Jawiya105
Kim Min-JaeJeonbuk Hyundai Motors105

Computed by the site from the two builds’ stored current ability (players in both builds with an ability on the 1–200 scale).

Where the managers are from

First-team managers (the editor’s job 5) by main nationality, counted by the site.

Reading the numbers

  • Figures are shown as this build of the game database stores them. A dash means the build does not record the value; zero is a real stored zero.
  • Players often have attributes missing: the game generates those when a new game starts, so they are not in the database.
  • Ability is on FM’s 1–200 scale. A negative potential is a range code (e.g. −75), shown as its range.
  • Anything marked calc is calculated by fm-reader from the stored data (values, ratings, best roles, stars). Figures described as the site’s own (strength, best eleven, set-piece scores, similar players) are this site’s calculations.
  • Names are real names; where the game ships a licensing name, pages say “Shown in game as …”.
  • Money is stored in pounds; pick a currency in the header to convert it in your browser.

About this database

Game
Football Manager 2018
Database version
18.1.0
Build
1810
Game start date
1 Jul 2017
Export schema
2.0.0
Exported
8 Nov 2026

Known data issues in this build

  • people.contract_type_id: MLS and A-League contract types are not decoded for this game; those players show the base type, e.g. Full Time (issue 0716)
  • real_* name columns: no Real Name Fix was given to this export, so names the database itself fakes (e.g. Real Hispalis for Real Betis) keep real_* NULL; only names faked by the game's shipped licensing files have their real name (issue 0726)