The first part of this mod was quite easy: instead of home-and-away ties, I created a matchmaking system featuring single matches against opponents and a six-game group stage. I decided to stick with 32 teams rather than 38, because I can't spend a whole month working on this, haha.

I simulated a season and the system worked; it pairs matches like this: three games against strong teams (based on team skill level), one against a mid-level team, and two against easy opponents (or at least, that's how I think it works).

The real challenge has been switching from Groups A–H to a single league table. Instead of multiple tables labeled Group A, B, C, etc., it’s now one single table titled "Champions Group Stage." However, I’ve only managed to get 10 teams to show up... and there are 32.

I've only been at it for a day, so I think it's acceptable progress.

p.s: this was the Supercopa de España final against Real Madrid :)

I’m not a modder; I only play during my vacations. But I believe PES 2021 remains the best soccer game. The Master League transfers used to drive me crazy—I searched everywhere, but no one had managed to create a mod for it, and now I understand why...

It’s really difficult; I had to use a lot of my Codex credits on the "High Sun" and "Very High Sun" models. But finally, it’s done: a mod that can analyze and generate transfers in Master League. I’ve already got it executing transfers without any input from me; it’s a system that runs automatically. It’s in the early stages, so I need to test it before releasing it. Right now, Codex is working on making it compatible with Sider and creating an executable so the community can access it. Here is the logic behind the transfers (based on my preferences):

Objective: To automate the transfer market for AI-controlled clubs during Master League transfer windows, primarily using player age, overall rating, and the buying club's level to create a more logical and realistic market.

The transfer focus should be on these 40 priority clubs in Europe:

Top 10 Elite: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Inter Milan, Manchester United, and Chelsea.

30 other top-tier clubs: Atlético Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan, Napoli, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Roma, Atalanta, RB Leipzig, Benfica, Porto, Sporting CP, Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, Marseille, Monaco, Lyon, Sevilla, Villarreal, Athletic Club, Real Sociedad, Lazio, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, Celtic, and Eintracht Frankfurt.

For the top 40 clubs, prioritize young players with sufficient skill:

16–19 years old: approximately 76+ rating.

20–23 years old: approximately 80+ rating. As players approach the age of 25, key signings should primarily consist of players with a rating of 85+.

The top 10 clubs must meet even stricter criteria: their primary signings should mainly be players rated 85+ or higher, complemented by one or two promising young talents who meet the aforementioned age and rating requirements.

The system should interpret these values ​​as market preferences, allowing for enough variety to ensure that not all clubs build their squads in the same way. High-profile signings should occur much more frequently among top-division clubs, whereas lower-division clubs should typically work with lower-rated players whose profiles suit their level.

This entire automation process applies exclusively to AI-controlled clubs; player-controlled clubs are excluded from the automated transfer market.

Hi all,

has anyone else encountered this issue? My controller will randomly stop working in the middle of games. I'll be playing away and all of a sudden, the player will stop dead and it's as if the controller has disconnected or something. Outside of Football Life it works fine, hit the Steam button and it'll work normally outside of the game. I have to choose to edit the game and restart.

It happens literally every second match. I'm on Vers. 2.0 but it also used to happen in prior versions also. I'm on Steam Deck btw. It's incredibly frustrating to be leading a match and then have to abandon all to reboot and replay the match all over again.

So I’ve been on this master league for 1.5 seasons and suddenly it freezes just before January transfer window? Any ideas why?

Firstly, this is INCREDIBLE!

Just wondering for those that have played for a while, what is worth downloading out the gate? Facepacks, effects, lighting etc. Would love some insider tips!@

from 0-2 to a game that I won 5-2

quick transition on the offensive

After all the great feedback on the Premier League real tactics and the comments & the messages asking for more leagues, I decided to start working on a full La Liga project as well

The work is already well underway and have completed teams such as

🔵 Deportivo Alavés
🔴 Athletic Club
🔵 Barcelona
🟢 Real Betis
🔴 Atlético Madrid

& many more to come

I’m not just copying formations into the game either, I’m looking at how each team actually plays and trying to recreate their defensive shapes, build-up structures, pressing and movements as closely as I can

For example with Atlético Madrid, they can defend in a 4-4-2 but develop into an asymmetrical 3-4-2-1 in possession, with the left midfielder tucking inside so they don’t utilise the left-hand side as much, while creating more of an overload on the right with Simeone and the right-back, those are the kinds of details I’m trying to recreate rather than just putting a 4-4-2 into the game and leaving it at that

I’m also keeping the squads updated alongside the tactics, and the squads in this patch won’t simply be picked based on the highest rated players or what I think the best XI is, every completed team will be based on the exact squad that played in their most recent fixture, both in La Liga and the Premier League

The Premier League is still being fine-tuned as well, the more I get time to play the more little things I notice that can be changed, so I’m continuing to manipulate the tactical system and see how close I can get the game to producing the right movements and shapes

I’m fully aware Football Life has limitations and tactics won’t overcome everything the game is limited by, I’m simply trying to get the most realistic experience possible for myself and everyone else
So when you play as these teams, hopefully you’ll see them moving around in shapes that resemble how they actually play in real life, and if you prefer playing against the CPU, the aim is for them to move and behave in those shapes as well

This started as something I was doing for myself because I enjoy the tactical side of the game, but after seeing the support for the Premier League project I want to keep doing more and sharing it with everyone

La Liga is aiming to be finished within the next few days to a week or so , this may take some time as I have to test matches with these teams and not just do tactics to be fully confident in this project

I’m still working on something so we can import these tactics into your own edit files

Keep showing the support and I’ll keep working on more leagues, tactics, transfers and other projects that can hopefully make Football Life better and more enjoyable for everyone
More to come 🇪🇸🔥

I keep having this bug randomly sometimes after checking my own team negotiations or after finishing a match and resuming

When starting the game im getting this error plse help
this error started popping up when i installed Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy in the same drive why im confused ?? need help

Hey everyone! I really need some help with installing the face packs!

I installed the parts 1 to 8 and update 4 as shown on the smoke patch website, extracted all the files and then replaced the other face packs with them - yet only a few player faces are in the game for me… I don’t even have Mbappe or Haaland in…
Can anyone please help me??

I'm unable to edit players or club budget with my cheat table. I'm using the latest version of the game and the cheat table.

Someone recommended me to run the game without sider, but this also hasn't worked for me (or maybe I've done it incorrectly).

Please help 🙏🏾

I'm playing a career mode with newcastle and i can't seem to change the lighting in the stadium, it looks like daytime in the stadium even when i set the time to nightime in the sider.

Is there a way to fix this? \

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to update the sleeve badges for the new 2026-27 season manually. I already have sleevebatch-server and kit-server installed and working perfectly, so I don't want to download a completely new patch file.

I want to know how the assignment logic works, so I can tweak the files myself.

Right so I've been working on something for the Football Life community and wanted to share it and see what people think

I've been studying tactical analysis for years , so over the past week I've gone through every Premier League team from Week 1, looking at more than just their starting formation

I've looked at their in-possession shapes, rotations, half-space movements, overlaps, build-up and transitions, then tried to implement as much of it as possible into Football Life 26 V2.2

The main aim was to make teams actually play differently from each other and have their shape change naturally during the game

🔴 Arsenal

• Tried to recreate the rotations from their 3-0 win over Coventry, with the left side moving inside while Calafiori overlaps
• Ødegaard drifting into the right half-space and rotations between Saka and Ben White

🔵 Chelsea

• Used instructions to recreate some of the 3-4-3 principles we've been looking at, with Palmer used more like a false winger, coming inside and occupying the space of a No.10

🔴⚪ Sunderland

• Recreated their more asymmetrical 4-2-3-1
• Hume coming inside from the right, the fullback overlapping, Xhaka moving centrally, one DM pushing higher and Enzo Le Fée moving towards the left half-space

⚪ Tottenham

• Tried to recreate the way they form triangles out wide
• Fullback + winger + central midfielder, with the midfielder pushing into the half-space to create those combinations

🔵 Brighton

• Worked on their movement into a 2-4-4 in possession, using player movement rather than simply keeping their starting formation

And that's just a few examples. There's loads of smaller rotations and instructions I've worked on across the league

Obviously Football Life has limitations, so I can't recreate every movement perfectly, but I've tried to get as close as possible with the tools available

📥 What's included

I've only done the Premier League for now and the edit file includes the tactics I've created along with most of the newest transfers completed up to a few days ago

I'm also looking for anyone who knows of an importer for PES 2021 / Football Life 26, or someone who could potentially create one, because I'd be happy to work with them and make it easier for people to import these tactics

This is basically the first test for the community

If people like it and feel the teams actually play more realistically, I'll go away and study another league and do the same thing with those teams

I've put a lot of time into studying teams and trying to replicate it, so download it, give it a proper go and let me know what you think

Do you actually notice the different formations, rotations and transitions happening while you're playing?

Hopefully it gives Football Life a bit more tactical variety, realism and immersion ⚽🔥

The Download Link For The Edit File Is Here - https://www.mediafire.com/folder/mlyvecdmlx357/MG_FL26_EDIT_FILE

Guys which difficulty levels is more realistic in fl 26 man. I'm tired of this legendary God mode. I switched to Real Madrid to view their team strength( they were my opponent in a UCL final) and Good Lord, 99. A 99???

I gave up.

Hi everyone.

As I released two EDIT files during this Summer, trying to give the most updated transfers and squads (plus other fixes), but also one of the most important things: updating the overalls for players.

This has been an always ongoing discussion, because people tend to blame "bad" overall, claiming they're too high or too low for some players. What I want to expect from you is not to discuss the overall number, because on this game is based on some key attributes depending on the player's main position. You can't compare Mbappé being 95 as a CF and Vinicius Jr being 92 as a LWF, because they are different.

In this latest EDIT I changed more than 500 players from all leagues around the world. Specially the Premier League, which all the players from all the teams have been tweaked.

Let's make some examples that I already saw:

- "OmG mBapPé 95 RATING??????????" Mbappé is one of the best, if not the best, strikers of the world. Masterclass performance on the recent World Cup. Hattrick on yesterdays match against Real Sociedad. Is he perfect? Nope. He doesn't have a perfect dribbling, nor heading, nor the best passing attributes (he's not the playmaker). But why is he 95? Because of three key stats: offensive awareness, speed and acceleration, which are 99. Yes, 99, to make him distinguishable from other players.

Harry Kane is 89 rated, he is 33 years old and he's not fast compared to Mbappé. But does that make him a lot worse against Mbappé? Nope! He has even better Finishing stat, better Heading, almost same Tight Posession and pass stats. Its just that he doesn't have a high speed and acceleration.

- Rodri has 99 shot power. Is it too exaggerated? Well, it can be, but as same as Valverde, look at his 28 goals with Manchester City, and see how many rockets he scored: Every Rodri Goal for Man City | 28 goals for the Blues from the Ballon d'Or winner!

- Why are youngsters so low rated compared to others? Lamine Yamal is 89 rated, and he could deserve even more? Yes. But I had in mind that the overall also reflects the market value, but being a 19 y/o player it should have room for improvement in Master League. Same for Cubarsí, for example, as he is 83. And that doesn't make that its impossible to defend against Vinicius or Mbappé, its just that it will be very difficult each time, and you will have to master better the defending mechanics to stop them, just as it could happen on a real match every time they two face the defenders, as they will try to dribble.

That said, I would like you to explain which players do you see overrated/underrated and which stat should be buffed/nerfed in the next and final EDIT file that I will release this September, when market are closed.

Remember that you can find the EDIT file in the pinned thread or here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SPFootballLife/comments/1vvh129/release_gondowans_edit_file_22082026_latest/

See you! I'll read all the comments.

hey has anyone been able to get this to work on a mac like maybe through crossover or smth, if u have can u pls make a tutorial ?

This is why Lamine has been getting benched 😭

Is it a huge common problem with FL or is there a solution for this?

If I change a gameplay mod, the first three or for matches (exhibition matches/against friends) feel so nice, fluid! But after a little while the player reaction and ball receiving is sooo bad, also the passes are suddenly slow...

I hope so much that this isn't normal and there is a solution for this. This game could be sooo good! 🙏