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PC: 11.2.1
Football Manager 2011 Patch 11.2.1
We are pleased to announce that the Football Manager 2011 Patch 11.2.1 is now available to download.
If you’ve downloaded the previous patch (11.1.0), (11.1.1) & (11.2.0) we still highly recommend that you download the new patch (11.2.1) to experience the most up-to-date and best Football Manager 2011 experience.
If you haven’t downloaded the previous patch (11.2.0) please be aware that by downloading the new patch (11.2.1) you will automatically get all of the previous changes / fixes from previous patches, so there is no need to download 11.1.0 and 11.1.1 – just download the latest version 11.2.1.
Steam purchasers or any boxed copy users who have registered their game through Steam DO NOT need to download this patch as you will automatically be playing the most up-to-date version of Football Manager 2011 due to the automatic updates that Steam provide.
Please note, there are separate patches for retail copies of the game and digital download versions (not including Steam). Please make sure you download the version that is correct for your copy of the game, if you’re unsure please visit the
FAQ section of the SI Forums.
Download the patch here
PC: 11.2.0
Football Manager 2011 Patch (11.2.0 patch)
We are pleased to announce that the Football Manager 2011 Patch 11.2.0 is now available to download.
If you’ve downloaded the previous patch (11.1.0) & (11.1.1) we still highly recommend that you download the new patch (11.2.0) to experience the most up-to-date and best Football Manager 2011 experience.
If you haven’t downloaded the previous patch (11.1.1) please be aware that by downloading the new patch (11.2.0) you will automatically get all of the previous changes / fixes from previous patches, so there is no need to download 11.1.0 and 11.1.1 – just download the latest version 11.1.1.
Steam purchasers or any boxed copy users who have registered their game through Steam DO NOT need to download this patch as you will automatically be playing the most up-to-date version of Football Manager 2011 due to the automatic updates that Steam provide.
Please note, there are separate patches for retail copies of the game and digital download versions (not including Steam). Please make sure you download the version that is correct for your copy of the game, if you’re unsure please visit the
FAQ section of the SI Forums.
Download the patch here
*PLEASE NOTE*
We're aware of an issue with attempting to load up older save games with the Polish leagues loaded - your save game will not load in 11.2.
This is something as said we're aware of and are looking into. If you wish to continue your game and have this league in your save, please do not patch up at this stage.
Thanks.
Here is the complete change list for Patch 11.2.0
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Football Manager 2011 v11.2.0
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Crash Fixes
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- Fixed pre-match attendance news item crash on load.
- Fixed crash on start of matchday if a human manager has a touchline ban and has no players picked currently.
- Fixed a potential award crash with custom leagues.
- Fixed crash when processing retirements when a staff has no nation set.
- Fixed crash when processing retirements when a player has no club.
- Fixed a potential crash after a player is removed from a shortlist.
Match
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- Fixed assistant feedback on players being played out of position when using wingbacks.
- Fixed issue where replay of last disallowed goal in last 5 minutes of match shows the whole last 5 minutes.
- Fixed issue with one goalkeeper kick from hands animation not playing correctly.
- Fixed issue with players fading out at the end of a highlight when another highlight starts immediately after.
- Fixed issue where match would sometimes freeze until the user goes to a pitch view or changes screen.
- Physio and stretcher bearer colours improved.
Finances
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- Added extra restrictions on fees, bonuses and clauses for Israeli 19-21 year olds to reflect their wage cap.
- Adjustment for English lower league finances.
- Adjustment to Spainish lower league expenditure
- Increased chance of AI teams improving stadia.
- Fixed discrepency in wage amounts that can be offered.
General
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- Tweaked attendances in later stage cup competition matches played at neutral stadiums.
- Adjusted the effects of setting a player to "Rest" training schedule.
- Adjusted second nationalities to ensure foreign newgens don't require work permits when created.
- Improved code to select city of birth for foreign newgens.
- Adjusted Swedish attendances especially for rivalry matches.
- Renamed "Movement" individual training to "Off the Ball" to match the player profile attribute naming.
- Fixed bug where starting squad numbers are not set correctly for certain teams.
- when a coach leaves a human team, only the coaching categories left without a coach get assigned a new coach without affecting other assignments.
- When a specialist (GK or fitness) coach joins a human team, he is automatically assigned to the two related categories rather than one.
- For consistency, vacant national team positions will now appear in the job centre, even if the human cannot apply for them.
- Fixed training ground injuries potentially being inflicted by a co-owned player who is not currently at the club.
- Adjusted non-player progression.
- Improved game performance when processing retirements on game update days when database has a very large number of players.
- Bosman transfers can now be registered after the transfer window closes (for nations which allow this)
- Adjusted learning rates of match preparation when using similar tactics.
- Stopped human teams in some leagues getting the same referee for every match.
- Agents now retire at the end of season for the league they work in rather than on the 1st of January.
- When players retire they get removed from their agents client list.
- Added "Throwing" individual training for goalkeepers and re-arranged the sorting order of the dropdown to better match player profile attributes.
- Stopped teams transfer listing the whole team when the team is relegated.
- Fixed issue where player got an additional 3 match ban for being sent off for 2 yellow cards.
Conversations
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- Danger man comments no longer always pick out the same player for each game.
- The correct topics are now displayed if you go to chat with a player if you are both a club and international manager.
- Reduced the time between able to chat to players about tutoring.
- Added an option for the user to back out of tutoring conversations if the player reacts badly.
- Conversation about a player disliking a team-mate no longer ends without the player giving a response.
- Allowed more players to be tutored.
- Disabled transfer listing conversations for co-owned players.
- Disabled conversations that shouldn't be available if the player is away from the club on loan e.g. place in reserves.
- Improved the conversation flow for when players are unhappy about not wanting to leave the club.
- Players who agree to a contract termination now don't then wish to chat about been unhappy about the contract termination.
- When a player has agreed to a contract termination or go on the transfer list they no longer say they are looking forward to more positive talks in the future.
- If you make a promise to give a player a chance in the first team during the off season or near the end of a season they only expect the promise to be fufilled the following season.
- Improved players morale reactions to conversations.
Interface
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- Fixed issue where selecting 'Accept All Loan Offers' and then changing asking price of a player would result in 'No instructions' being incorrect selected
- Added missing 'Tactical Knowledge' column to Mental Attributes view on a team's staff screen.
- Fixed issue with dates being disabled wrongly when arranging tours.
- Fixed Winning a youth competition not being displayed in a player's history achievements.
- Fixed training news item not linking to the correct sub-tab
- Fixed [Home] key not selecting the top news item when it jumps back to the top of inbox
- Fixed incorrect date in greyed out widget for Amateur player contracts
- Enabled editing of custom training schedules in player profile training levels section.
- Selling team proposals should not appear in the selling team's transfer centre until the buying team has actually made an offer.
- Fixed issue where friendly proposal can be rejected but stays on the fixtures screen.
- Fixed custom views having "Custom: " prefixed after matches.
- Fixed custom views not being kept when creating one and immediately using quick flicks to change the team.
News
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- Fixed player being described as not playing well last term when he did.
- Fixed news item referring to the player's contract club when a player vows to help his team "currently under-performing in the league" when they aren't.
- Teams should receive the appropriate "New [league] season draws near" news item for the division they will be playing in next season.
- Fixed code in news headline about player feeling they are been forced out due to their wage.
- Fixed news item refering to a player having problems settling in a country using the wrong nation.
- Improved occurence and content of fans' view of match news.
- Ensure team can renew loan deal before adding button to news item.
- Players who aren't playing games are no longer picked out as danger men.
- Fixed matchday round-up news wrongly stating 'x goals were not enough' in rare circumstances.
Press Conference
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- Stopped 'injury hits team hard' question, despite finishing the season.
Network
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- Player nicknames now get used in the match on network clients.
- Fixed issue where a match might get stuck if a manager has a player sent off, confirms without making changes and has another manager who is watching the match.
- Removed code from conversation strings on the interaction screen when playing a network game.
Backroom Advice
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- Action button for squad status changes advice for B team players now work correctly.
- Conversation based advice is no longer generated if the user has already spoke to the player on the same day.
- Correct player is linked when chatting about tutoring.
- Stoped inappropriate advice being generated for co-owned players who aren't at the club e.g. tutoring.
- Scouts who are away on assignments will no longer offer you scouting recommendations.
Board Requests
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- Fixed the incorrect completetion date been shown for the relaying of the pitch on the board request progress screen.
- Removed inappropriate second conversation phase options for the new contract and give more time requests.
- Transfer income percentage no longer drops so soon after the request has been approved.
- When rejecting a contract offer you have requested you no longer keep getting offered a new contract each day.
- User can no longer request to improve the teams training and youth facilities if an upgrade is already in progress.
- The planning end date is correctly updated when further times is needed when the board is planning on building a new stadium.
Player Happiness
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- Improved AI managers handling of unhappy players.
- The reason the player is unhappy is now displayed for players who aren't at the managers club.
- Reduced the number of players reacting to feeling a teammate has been treated unfairly.
- Spaced out players getting unhappy about the club under achieving.
- Stopped players saying they don't want to be transfer list in a conversation and then request to be transfer listed afterwards.
- Players unhappy at B teams underachieving no longer want to talk with the A team manager about this issue.
- Players who are transfer listed by request now request to come of the transfer list once the unhappiness is removed.
- Players who have been promised first team football no longer claim the promise has being broken and request a transfer listed when they have been played regularly.
- when a player is transfer listed the player can no longer be unhappy about not being transfer listed.
Confidence
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- Fixed confidence news item post-match stating fans went home in a bouyant mood after being knocked out by a late equaliser (away goals).
Social Networking
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- Improved upload progress for YouTube videos to make progress on state of upload clearer
- Removed in game hang when uploading a video so can now cancel while video is uploading easier
Editor
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- Fixed Portuguese end of season date for when divisions are added to the nation.
- Fixed an issue with duplicating people.
- Champion playoffs now work correctly for lower divisions.
- Fixed some issues with adding new levels for Hong Kong.
- Playoff stages for custom reserve/youth competitions are now shown in the Stages menu in the game.
- Fixed bug where homegrown rules for a competition were being ignored.
Competitions
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- Fixed League Cup press conference/news item describing teams having got through the Preliminary round.
- Fixed bug where team is asked if they want to participate in a reserve league which doesn't exist.
- Fixed the competition rules screen to display the adjusted money for a position/macth prize instead of the default value as this varies
going though the years in the game based on the league reputation.
International
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- Swapped 2015 and 2019 Copa America hosts.
- Fixed Great Britain hosting Olympics again in 2020, so soon after 2012.
- Fixed issues with South American U20 international teams not picking enough players for matches.
- Fixed some team expectation issues with the Gold Cup.
- Added Russia to host the World Cup 2018.
Africa
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- Removed Congo DR from the list of potential host of the African Nations Cup 2015 and 2017 as they withdrew in the real world.
- African Youth Championship 2011 new schedule.
Asia
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- Fixed foreigners rule in the AFC Cup (Confederation Cup in the game).
Europe
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- Fixed issue with wrong coefficients being displayed on European Champions Cup group draw.
South America
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- Copa America got rid about the golden goal in the knockout stages
- Copa America pots for the draw have been adjusted to the new draw system based on the FIFA World Ranking
Argentina
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- Argentine Premier Calender table now sorted by total points and not average points.
Austria
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- Fixed incorrect match rule being displayed on the Rules screen for the Austrian First Division.
Belarus
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- If Belarus does not qualify for international tournament then national league matches should be scheduled during said tournament period
- Stopped Russians being eligible for Belarussian player of the year award.
Belgium
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- Venue of the Belgian Super Cup should be that of current Belgian First Division champions.
- Semifinal dates for the Belgian Cup have been moved to avoid clashes with international weeks.
Brazil
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- Sao Paulo State Championship format change.
- Minas Gerais State Championship format change.
- Updated prize money for final position in the Brazilian First Division.
- Adjusted Brazilian Bahia State Championship tv money
Chile
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- Chilean First Division B South Zone teams now get 3/2/1/0 points when starting the Final Phase.
- Fixed schedule for the Chilean Cup.
- Ammended the disciplinary system which now reflects the real world one.
Croatia
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- Croatian First Division restructure now postponed until 2012/2013 season.
- Fixed lack of winter break in Croatian First Division after league restructure.
- Fixed Croatian Cup only being played over one leg when between NK Dinamo and NK Zagreb.
Denmark
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- Number of relegations/promotions between First and Second Division dropped from 3 to 2 from season 2012/12 as it will happen in the real world.
- Altered Danish reserve leagues scheduling.
Finland
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- Fixed duplicate transfer window.
France
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- Added the 6th Round in the cup involving the National Championship teams earlier in the competition
- National Championship schedule updated
- Ligue 2 winter kick off time updated
Germany
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- Free transfers can now be registered outside a window now.
Greece
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- Added a match rule for Greek national B (max 5 foreigners players allowed)
- Tweaked Superleague euro competition playoff dates so that there are enough dates to handle more than 4 teams involved and matches are played mostly on Sunday and Wednesday.
- Stopped playoff goals counting to the top goalscorer award in the Greek National B Division.
- Fixed Greek Cup final so that it takes place after the last of the Super League.
- Added extra income of 238k Euro to each club that participates in Greek National B Division.
- Tweaked Greek Superleague TV Revenues.
- Fixed the way table points are rounded when starting the European places playoff.
Holland
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- Fixed some issues with the European playoffs.
- Fixed some issues with the Dutch lower league system.
Hungary
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- Trialist should only ever be able to play in Hungarian League cup matches.
- Hungarian competitions schedule has been updated to be more realistic.
- Hungarian Cup new format is now supported in the game (extra early round).
Iceland
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- Updated and improved the schedule of all the Icelandic competitions we have in the game.
- Removed non-EU players limit for Icelandic competitions.
India
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- New schedule and venue for the Indian Super Cup.
- Super Cup now uses winning team from recent Federations Cup, not the previous season's.
Israel
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- New date for Quarter Final draw and fixtures for the First Division Toto Cup
- Post split league fixtures now correct.
- No Israeli trialist permitted in Premier and National Toto Cup match squad.
Italy
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- Some teams suffered a points deduction due to financial issue as happened in the real world in Serie A, Serie B, C1 and C2
- C1 playoff final is now correctly playing an extra time in case the two teams in the final are equal at the end of the two legs
- Serie B squad registration rules are now ammended (there was a small issue with them)
- Serie A Saturday match have moved to 6pm instead of 6.30pm as it is in the real world
- 1 non EU player per year rule is now applied to Jul to Jul and not Jan to Dec.
- Signing a player on loan then on a transfer doesn't count as 2 non-EU players signed in one season.
- Improved TV dates distribution for Italian Serie A when Continental Cup matches are played during the week.
- Improved Italian Cup Semifinals schedule to cope with Champions League in a better way.
Mexico
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- Fixed fixture venues in Mexican Promotion League.
- Fixed maximum number of foreign players in Mexican Promotion League.
Norway
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- Fixed the issue in which the contracts where expiring too early in some season having the players released before the last league match.
- Fixed an issue where teams weren't always playing on the 16th of May as they should.
Poland
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- Fixed Polish reserve and youth Leauge issues.
Russia
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- Schedule for Russian Premier has been updated avoiding clashes with the international weeks
Scotland
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- Dundee suffered a 25 pts deduction
Serbia
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- Added the possibility to register unlimited under 20 players to the squad outside the squad size limit for the Serbian Super League
- Fixed loan options
- Fixed some draw rules for Serbian Cup early rounds
Singapore
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- New schedule for the League Cup.
- New schedule for Singapore S-league.
- Fixed the teams that take part in Singapore Cup.
- Fixed Singapore league start and end month
Spain
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- Right TV dates are now displayed for the midweek matches.
- Fixed issue with players being suspended for 1 match after receiving 2 yellow cards in different matches.
South Korea
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- Fixed players with a low number of league appearances being selected in the K-League All Star squad.
- Fixed K-League top goalscorer award (from a new game or new season).
- Upgraded the FA Cup format and schedule.
- Fixed K-League foreigners rule.
- All Star Cup no longer played.
United States
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- Senior players now count correctly towards the roster rules.
- User can now only offer the appropriate minimum wages for MLS contract types on the contract offer screen.
Wales
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- Spread the fixtures for every single match day in the Welsh Premier league
Assets
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Portugal
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- Added 2D and 3D kit images for Liga ZON Sagres and Liga Orangina teams
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Football Manager 2011 v11.1.0
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Crash Fixes
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- Fixed possible crash when removing condition from player search filter dialog.
- Fixed launching from Windows Media Centre in fullscreen
- Fixed crash when generating award news items
Match
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- Fixed framerate glitch when the commentry bar changes colour
- Fixed issue where teams were wearing European kits in domestic matches.
- Fixed player motivation showing up as "complacent" when trailing in matches.
- Fixed a possible match divergence for matches going into extra time.
- Fixed missed shots that stayed on the pitch from showing up as blocked shots on the match analysis screen.
- Adjusted some of the pass tracking on the match analysis screen.
- Fixed issue where the start of first highlight is missed when user watches all goals/highlights.
- Fixed mac only player shirt corruption when switching between highmediumlow detail during a 3d match.
- Improved framerate of 3d match for older graphics cards running 3d in low detail.
- Fixed dynamic weather system which could often result in too much rainfall during match when not forecast.
- Fixed dynamic sounds not playing during the match when watching in "commentary only" mode.
- Fixed a bug where user confirms tactics without making a change, he can now make future tactics changes without any problems.
- Closing down player instruction now defaults to 'team' for certain positions when using classic tactics.
- Fixed issue with defensive line instruction changing when user set tactical roles for players when using classic tactics.
General
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- Fixed issue where players were getting preferred squad numbers instead of starting squad numbers in the first season.
- Fixed assistant manager feedback during matches about opponents outnumbering our players in defense/midfield/attack.
- Fixed text for PPM training in player profile training section from clipping.
- Fixed an assert on training screen coach assignments when no coaches at the club.
- Fixed player/non-player not accepting mutual termination when manager first joins as promised.
- National and continental reputation database filters for creating a new game were including too many players.
- Games played in position now doesn't include data for when players do not play long enough to get a rating.
- Stopped players being sent out from parent clubs when it is not possible for the loan to go through.
- Fixed starting days to gain nationality being calculated wrongly for some players in countries with the continuous living in nation requirement, requires new game.
- Fixed startup movie rendering off the bottom of the screen.
- Fixed some of the data (ppm trained, days injured) appearing corrupt on the player profile training section when no physios available at the club.
- Fixed wrong string being displayed in the affiliated clubs screen for clubs with access to other club training facilities.
- Prevented first team coaching assignments from being re-adjusted if only the youth team was missing assignments when hiring/firing staff.
- Improved weather with particular regard to reducing snowfall at higher temperatures.
- Fixed issue when applying for a vacant B team job.
- Fixed "Cannot run game failed to set up graphics". If this message persists you can do one of the following. Install the full Direct-X SDK or install shader emulation software such as Swiftshader.
- Fixed possible corruption of human training info when resigning from a club/nation when managing both club and a nation at the same time.
- Fixed bug where B team manager buys a player who is then unavailable to play in matches even though registered.
Finances
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- Adjusted manager wage requests when being hired from non-managerial roles.
- Adjusted chairman club loans.
- Adjusted non-football costs for lower league clubs.
- Fixed transfer clause news item link sending manager to wrong screen.
- Fixed too little ground rent being paid.
- Adjusted criteria for semi-pro clubs turning pro.
- Adjusted non-football costs for Premier league clubs.
- Adjusted South Korea ticket prices, wages.
Interface
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- Human preferred formation on profile panel now defaults to 4-4-2 if the human's formation can't be calculated.
- Fixed a problem where the same string was displayed twice in the pre match analisys before a Cup Final.
- Fixed row selection changing automatically when accepting an offer in the Transfer Offer Centre.
- Fixed right side panel in tactics changing to player instructions automatically when dragging a player selection and scrolling in the left side squad list panel.
- Fixed Player Comparison panel not being translated properly when changing in-game language.
- Fixed some issues with live league table, latest scores and goal updates not working correctly on the competition screen.
- Fixed issue where the player happiness panel may not update until the game continues.
- Team record defeat records are now displayed 0-10 instead of 10-0.
- Fixed being able to click on players to take you to their profile in the Set Piece Creator.
- Custom views on squad panels now works across human and AI teams (not separate for each of the two).
- User can now not use the Past Positions tab to view the drawn groups just before the draw has been displayed.
- Fixed bug where fixtures in a group would not show underneath the group table.
- Auto team selection now doesn't pick players who are co-owned and away at the other team.
- Squad filters sometimes would be of incorrect team type and show no players for the team (mainly reserves/U23).
- Fixed a bug where goals of the season don't get shown properly.
- Fixed player training screen to not show first team match preparation workload for youth players.
- Fixed sort order when sorted by picked status (Pkd) on tactics after clicking "Undo Last" would not updating correctly.
- Fixed sort order on quad panels not updating correctly when using the top button bar to change team selection/positions.
- Fixed match widgets not remembering positions
- Penalty shootout bar is now collapsable
- Fixed incorrect sub tabs showing during match
- Holiday dialog now remembers "Return from holdiay on date" setting
- Fixed "Take Control" button on team screen when adding a new manager
- Fixed some untranslated text on the Upload Highlights and Fixtures screens
- Fixed "Past Experience" not updating after resigning
- Fixed popup menus on the Team Settings - Scouting panel
- Fixed user being able to buy and sell other teams transfer clauses
- Fixed display of match time during extra-time
- Fixed tactic buttons not being set to disabled when changes are pending
- Fixed layouts of Hall of Fame panels
- Fixed wrong match view mode being set when selecting an incident in the Match Overview screen
- Tidied up the layout of match panels
News
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- Stopped over the top reaction to a B team winning a league.
- Reference talking point rather than highlight in matchday round-up when it's the losing team.
- Fixed news item predicting record attendance listing away following as being almost as big as the total attendance.
- Fixed rounding issue with Transfer Offer news item which occasionally stated that a transfer bid is slightly higher than offered.
- Fixed Champions Cup seedings news item referring to 2010/11, every season.
- FIxed code in news item about a player been unhappy about a transfer bid been refused.
- Fixed string announcing stadium will be packed when not anywhere near capacity.
- Ensure distance in stat analysis news uses distance preference settings.
- Fixed incorrect description of international players in 'players involved in national team' round-up e.g. 'fledgling international career'.
- Fixed code in news item about a player been unhappy at the sale of another player.
- Ensure appearances stat should only be displayed in news towards latter stages of season.
- Fixed 'Where Are They Now' News not displaying on request for unemployed humans.
- Stopped managers making incorrect comments based on the type of the last match.
- Fixed problem where player description would describe a club captain as his national team captain if he was currently in the squad.
- Give precedence to winning league over winning other competitions in team descriptions.
- Fixed headline describing teams as 'easing past' when it was closer than that.
- Manager to manager comments are now more varied.
- Managers no longer comment on an other managers recent appointment when they have been at the club for a long time.
- Fixed news item prompting to name an international squad for a double header against the same team repeating the team name twice.
- Fixed minor friendly recieving press coverage from high profile journal e.g. World soccer Magazine.
- Fixed shortlisted player being described as own team's youngster in contract expires soon news item.
- News item regarding dangerman reads better and "Respond to comment" is no longer shown.
- News item praising the manager for signing a recommended player now correctly comes from the player rather than the manager.
- Fixed string shown in title chasing news item message.
- News items about players been unhappy about actions at their parent club no longer incorrectly refering the team they are on loan at.
- Fixed problem where teams were being mixed up in a news item referring to byes through rounds in certain competitions.
- Fixed some strings where we want to refer to a talking point for the losing team in a match report without it being a highlight.
- Fixed some strings which weren't feminised.
- Fixed overall best eleven news item button taking you to the latest seasons best XI not the overall.
- Fixed occasional instance of wrong news being sent when a player completes learning a preferred move.
- Fixed popup action buttons sizing issues
Newgens and Player/Non-Player Progression
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- Adjusted long term goalkeeper agility and balance attributes.
- Adjusted code for filling in height and jumping attribute.
- Adjusted Brazilian common names for newgens.
- No extra youth players created at the start of the game for clubs without youth facilities.
- Adjusted second nationalities for Bosnian newgens.
- Finetuned jumping attribute in relation to player height.
- Finetuned non-player progression.
- Adjusted home grown status given to extra players generated at empty clubs and virtual players.
- Fixed some retirements of non-players that were happening right before the club season ended.
- Adjusted long term attribute development
- Adjusted newgens from inactive African nations
Subscriptions
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- Fixed user receiving several separate competition round-up news items when they are not subscribed.
- Fixed user receiving record news for reserve competitions when not subscribed to them.
- Fixed occasional instances of unsubscribe action being undone when player is automatically removed from shortlist.
- Stopped user being inundated with squad number reaction news when subscribed to competition.
Press Conferences
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- Fixed user questioned about toughness of away draw when due to nature of the cup round, the team would always be drawn away.
- Fixed being questioned about my inability to speak language when taking over a team where the majority of players can speak that language.
- Fixed press conference asking how disappointed I am with elimination after victory through play-offs.
- Fixed press conference option for player signed without work permit as he will be farmed out immediately.
- Improved main talking point selection.
- Fixed issue where play-off contenders were not being considered as promotion candidates.
- Fixed minutes being incorrectly totalled in press conference question about minutes since goalkeeper last conceded.
- Fixed press conference question not taking promotion into account when referencing past answer for choosing title winners.
- Fixed some questions displaying the wrong answer set.
Biography
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- Fixed problem with honours occasionally being duplicated if person had more than one job at same team.
- Will no longer mention appearances for players where that information does not exist.
Board Takeovers
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- Ensured person leading local businessman takeover is local.
International
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- Ensure AI managers don't demoralise players by withdrawing them before potential international debut.
- Fixed assistant recommending 26 man squad before naming a 23 man tournament squad.
- Ensure humans get report on players on international duty if they have other staff apart from assistant manager.
- Stopped young players taking up nationality because they think they can play for a nation they will never be good enough for.
- Stopped players (e.g. Almunia) taking up a nationality to play for a country that they will never be allowed to play for.
- Stopped very good players playing for non-fifa nations e.g. France / Guadelope.
- Fixed player call-up news item mentioning international competition that hasn't started yet.
- Ensure that news about international player retirements also gets delivered to their club manager.
- Ensure user can set friendly instructions for own player when he is called up as a replacement in international squad.
Team Talks
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- Enabled "Encourage" team talk option when leading only by two goals (will be enabled in ME version 903).
- Fixed bug where assistant manager team talk setting wasn't being applied immediately after going to a team talk.
- Fixed full time team talk assistant feedback not being stored for players who were subbed during the match but got a team talk at the end.
Backroom Advice
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- No longer advised to scout other nations if the club can only sign basque players.
- Fixed advice been displayed suggesting the team needs 4 points from one game to achieve their target.
- Fixed advice been displayed suggesting the team needs -1 point to achieve their target.
- No longer advised to drop players due to bad form when they are in good form.
Interaction
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- User now controls introducing the tutee in tutoring conversations rather than them appearing on their own.
- Tutoring completion news item is no longer randomly selected.
- Ensure that news reaches the human when managers comment on people at the human's team.
- Players who agree to come out of international retirement now come out of international retirement.
- Unhappinesses are now always removed when the conversation has a positive outcome.
- The happiness category is now correctly disabled once you've already had a happiness related chat.
- Decreased the effect on morale having conversations have.
- Fixed bug where players who wanted to become non-players were not doing so following a recommendation by the manager.
- Cut down on the amount of tutoring the AI teams setup.
- News item When a player agrees to mutually terminate their contract in a conversation is now always sent.
- Improved the recent form and last game conversation flow.
- Added an option to conversations to let the user leave the conversation once it has reached the second stage.
- Added better descriptions for the linked people on the interaction screens.
- Stopped players who don't want to leave the club accepting mutual contract terminations.
Player Happiness
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- Fixed players incorrectly thinking a promise to improve man management has failed.
- Made players more likely to agree leave of absence or promise to bring in a friend when they are struggling to settle at the club.
- Players now get unhappy if they are left out of the league squads for the season.
- Increased the likelihood of players backing down in conversations.
- Decreased the amount of players getting unhappy about settling in the area.
- Player no longer get unhappy about been placed in the reserves if they are banned.
- Players no longer request to be transfer listed if they are unhappy about not wanting to leave the club.
- Stopped players becoming unhappy at the same time.
- Players no longer get unhappy about their squad status changing when the manager hasn't changed it.
- Stopped players getting unhappy at been left out of the league squad if they are unavailable.
- Stopped players who are out on loan becoming unhappy about being placed in the reserves.
Board Requests
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- Board no longer incorrectly reject buidling a new stadium for financial reasons if the club has money available in the bank.
- No longer abled to make board requests to alter the current stadium once a new stadium is already planned.
- Stopped the board agreeing to purchase players that they cannot afford.
Social Networking
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- Goal uploads now have differing titles and descriptions
- Stopped potential jump to match overview panel while uploading a clip
- Prevented use of keyboard shortcuts during upload process
- Fixed issue where uploads would fail if team name contained '&' symbol
- Fixed issue where having multiple managers in hot seat game where a manager wasn't logged in to Twitter could lead to them posting to another managers Twitter feed
- Movie recording no longer getting cut short if user left full screen mode while encoding video
- Players no longer occasionaly glide at start of new clip during match highlight package
- Fixed crash uploading individual goal from match that went to a penalty shoot out
- Stopped camera angle selected getting stuck after using view goal option from the upload panel
- Increased the time out on YouTube uploads which should cut down on issues being seen with uploads failing
Foreign Languages
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- Nicknames not showing correctly in club background news in foreign languages. e.g. Torino - Toro.
Quick Match
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- Stopped physical teams overperforming.
Awards
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- Fixed Swedish Referees Association Manager of the Year from being given to managers outside of the premier division.
- Improved manager of the year award selection, by increasing the value of qualifying for champions league unexpectedly etc.
- Stopped a manager undeservedly winning manager of the month if he moved clubs during that month.
Editor
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- Non player's preferred formation is now displayed correctly.
- Fixed some issues with custom continental competitions which use a lot of teams.
- Fixed issue with continental cups being setup too early.
- Fixed problem with Champions League/Europa League not updating properly if custom continental cups are added with different season start days.
- Fixed some issues when adding custom lower divisions to a nation
- Can now use more than 200 nations for custom continental competitions.
- International friendlies for nations are now sorted by date.
- Fixed bug with custom division playoffs where a losing team from a lower division would be relegated from the lower division instead of remain in the lower division.
- Can now delete derbies from the editor.
- Fixed problem where Championship playoff wasn't picking teams properly from a group stage.
- Club Youth Setup, Youth Academy and Youth Recruitment fields can be be assigned a -1 value to stop clubs producing youth players.
- Fixed issue where loan rules for one division were being used by all divisions.
- Stopped created teams with no captain or vice-captain set, defaulting to having Sandy Martens displayed as captain.
- Loan rules for a parent competition now work for sub-divisions.
- Championship playoffs across sub-divisions now work correctly.
Transfers/Contracts
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- Encouraged more internal transfers.
- Fixed obscure issue whereby a player would accept an offer but then reject a slightly better offer.
- Stopped all hotseat managers from getting wants improved contract news item (when player isn't thiers).
- Made a change to help movement of higher earning players when offered to clubs.
- Slowed down number of transfer decision by managers in minor divisions
- Got turkish teams to adhere to the foreigner rule.
- Made a change to help prevent teams from signing backup players and then fail to register them.
- Enabled agent offers of free transfer players outside of transfer window.
- Fixed match highest earner increases not being activated following a transfer.
- Allowed user to re-enter contract negotiations following an adjustments in budgets.
- Fixed news item stating player was due monthly installments from a transfer deal.
- Stopped user being able to offer wage after x appearances to former players.
- Fixed player rejecting contract offer due to not getting enough appearance bonus when he was offered what he requested.
- Fixed issue where minimum fee release clauses were not being setup correctly at the start of the game.
- Ensured players who are good enough to be first team regulars get stated as such in the loan offer news item.
- Toned down the initial agent demands regarding very large contract offers.
- Made it harder to bribe players with high signing on fees instead of giving them decent wages.
Confidence
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- Fixed confidence issue whereby board would think the manager was underperforming even though they were doing exactly as asked in the league.
- Fixed issue where if a player was sold for an extremely large amount, the baord could state you didn't recieve enough money for him.
Network Game
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- Move matches to Sat or Wed option now works for leagues which have real-life fixtures defined.
- Fixed issue where code may show up in press conference news items on the client.
Competitions
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- Improved neutral stadium selection for custom continental competitions.
- Fixed issue where national team squad numbers were not being restricted correctly.
- Fixed the pre match news for domestic cups which wasn't taking into account fixed draws when mentioning possible rivals to face in the next round
- Before saying that the fate is in hands for a team, the code is now checking how many fixtures to go there are, and, when it's just one, is displaying a different string
- Fixed issue where player loaned out before squad registration still is included in the count of players selected.
- Pre match analysis are now showing an additional string with extra info when available (team score requirements).
- Pre match analysis strings are now taking into account the goal difference gap between two teams before saying things like "Team A can overtake Team B after next match".
- Pre match analysis new feature: some new strings are into the game (not sure if they gonna be translated) displaying the minumum number of points a team needs to secure a fate from the next fixtures.
- Fixed a situation where a team would play twice on one day.
- Teams now don't arrange friendlies for dates where they are set to play in European competitions.
- Fixed issue where a player might not be classed as home-grown when he is.
- 16/17 year old youth players don't get given 15-21 homegrown status at the start of the game if they have no history entries.
- Fixed some issues with the European Club Rankings news item.
Miscellaneous
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- Updated game credits.
- Added some missing tooltips.
International
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- Host nation always plays in first World Cup match.
- European Championships 24 team schedule starting from 2016 extended a few days to cope with the extra games.
- French players now banned for international friendlies as well as competitive matches.
Africa
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- African Nations Cup host for 2015 and 2017 is now coming from the three nations which placed bids in the real life for these two competitions.
- African Champions League and Super Cup have now their schedule updated.
- African Confederation Cup has its format and its schedule updated.
- African Super Cup Past winners have been ammended and the years stored updated to the current game format.
Argentina
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- Premier Division calendar table at start of game now filled out with Closing table standings from 2009/10 season.
- Argentine teams now play friendlies in mid season break.
- Average points column now added to Argentine Calendar table.
Asia
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- Asian Champions League scheduling has been updated.
Austria
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- Fixed number of matches in the Austrian First Division.
Belgium
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- Fixed Belgium super cup attendance.
Brazil
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- Bahia State Championship now has 2 relegated teams.
China
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- FA Cup and Super League clashes with International matches are now fixed.
Denmark
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- Fixed issue with a player getting a two match ban due to automatic red card ban. A red card leads to a minimum of 15 points, meaning they would get a match ban anyway.
- Danish Superliga now doesn't use Non-EU players on pitch rule.
England
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- Fixed Community Shield sub rule, should be 6 from 7 subs.
- Updated Blue Square Premier TV money.
- League Cup First Round draw is working properly now, avoiding teams from the North to play teams from the South.
- New scheduling for the Championship, League One and League Two finals, which is now alternating between odd and even years too.
Europe
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- Fixed 2011 Euro Cup final venue.
Holland
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- Dutch Cup winner doesn't take part in end of season European playoffs now.
Hungary
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- Maximum of 8 B teams can enter the Second division in one season.
- Maximum of 4 Over-22 players (1 goalkeeper + 3 other players) can be named in the match squad in any B team.
India
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- Updated Durand Cup participants and fixture schedule.
- Updated First Division schedule.
Italy
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- Serie C teams can now renew non-EU player contracts.
Israel
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- New scheduling for Israelian Premier and National Toto Cups
- Removed the second leg Israelian Premier and National Toto Cups in the quarter finals.
- Updated Israeli Toto Cup's group stage draw rules.
Poland
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- Fixed disciplinary rules for First Division (2nd tier).
Portugal
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- Set the right host for the League Cup final in 2010/11, 2011/12 and 2012/13.
Rep. Ireland
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- Re-format of the Irish League Cup.
Scotland
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- Loan players in the SPL cannot play against their parent club.
- Fixed Scottish Premier League Saturday 3pm matches being shown to be on TV.
- Fixed teams in the Scottish Football League notbeing able to register free transfers they make after the closing of the registration period.
Spain
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- Spanish teams can now freely sign any Spanish based player during January transfer window.
Sweden
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- Changed Swedish youth contract maximum age to 19 instead of 18.
Switzerland
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- Bans from Swiss Challenge League now cover league matches and not cup matches.
United States
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- AI teams now always register their new signings
Uruguay
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- Uruguayan Second Professional Division format change.
Assets
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Nations
- New Myanmar flag
Denmark
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- Aab kit
- Brondby kits
- FC Copenhagen kits
- FC Midtjylland kits
- FC Nordsjaelland kits
- Horsens kits
- Lyngby kit
- Randers kit
Northern Ireland
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- Portadown player pictures
Portugal
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- Liga Zon Sagres logo
- Liga Orangina logo
- Arouca logo
- Fatima logo
- Moreirense logo
- Penafiel logo
Scotland
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- Hamilton Academical player pictures
- Inverness Caledonian Thistle player pictures
South Korea
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- National service teams now cannot terminate loan contracts.
- Transfer budget now not shown for national service teams.
Spain
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- Athletic Bilbao kits
- Zaragoza away kit
3D Assets
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-all outside scenes resized and tidied up
-street_floor_texture 3-7 added to clean up the changes to the outside scenes
-shopfront texture 1,3 & 4 removed as well as car texture
-river texture resized
-50,000 TO 10-20B side blocks updated (xsi scene files and sia files) with double polygons
-5-10A top stand , 10-20A,50,000a right stand, 0-5B roof and xsi file fixes
-updated all stadium meshes with double sided polygons where needed
PC: 11.1.1
Football Manager 2011 Patch 11.1.1
Football Manager 2011 Patch 11.1.1 Out Now
We are pleased to announce that the Football Manager 2010 Patch 11.1.1 is now available to download.
If you’ve downloaded the previous patch (11.1.0) we still highly recommend that you download the new patch (11.1.1) to experience the most up-to-date and best Football Manager 2011 experience.
If you haven’t downloaded the previous patch (11.1.0) please be aware that by downloading the new patch (11.1.1) you will automatically get all of the previous changes / fixes from previous patches, so there is no need to download 11.1.0 and 11.1.1 – just download the latest version 11.1.1.
Steam purchasers or any boxed copy users who have registered their game through Steam DO NOT need to download this patch as you will automatically be playing the most up-to-date version of Football Manager 2011 due to the automatic updates that Steam provide.
Please note, there are separate patches for retail copies of the game and digital download versions (not including Steam). Please make sure you download the version that is correct for your copy of the game, if you’re unsure please visit the FAQ section of the SI Forums.
If you’re in Russia you will see that you have specific patches for your game, please make sure that you download and update you game using these patches.
Finally, it is well highlighted, but please make sure you download the correct patch between PC & Mac versions.
If you try and download the incorrect version of the patch Football Manager 2011 should stop you from installing this and give you a message saying this is not the correct patch, but if you’re having any further issues please visit the FAQ section
DOWNLOAD THE PATCH HERE
The full fix list is as follows:
• 52096 - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/235264-Urgent-help-please-game-won-t-load-my-network-save
• 52077 - Cannot approach to sign players based in England with less than 6 months left on their contract as a foreign club's manager
• 52106 - New season in Greece not being scheduled. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/234374-New-season-wont-start!?p=6090478&viewfull=1#post6090478
• 52105 - The Top Division relegation wage decrease clauses are not being triggered at the end of a season after being relegated from the English Premier Division.
• 52053 - Danish users are complaining that their filters seem to screw up after a brief period of playing time, making the B-teams disappear. They are using the first patch - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/234918-B-squad-shows-up-empty-minor
• 52089 - Crash when managing a B Team and selecting to 'Change Squad Status' through Backroom Advice - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/234943-Deportivo-quot-B-quot-New-Players-and-Squad-Status-Crashes
• 52054 - Reported on the FM 11 Bugs Forum at http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/230992-Cutom-Views on patch 1. It appears that if you play a certain amount of matches at some point coming out of a match, the custom views created will all disappear.
• 52068 - Game becomes unresponsive when attempting to arrange international friendly in future years
• 51775 - Set piece instructions for delivery type not saved when using the set piece creator. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/230844-Freekicks-and-corners on the FM 11 Demo.
• 51675 - B teams not showing any players. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/228361-15101-Catastrophic-AI-Squad-Management-empty-reserve-squads-in-Germany! on FM 11.1.0 v153290.
• 52024 - Relegation Playoff makes game think all teams should be relegated
• 52026 - Coaches incorrectly gain other categories when a coach leaves
• 51988 - Selecting [Interact with Board] to buy a player causes you to lose your transfer budget if another team buys the player
• 51975 - FM11 Dark Skin - Board restrictions text cannot be seen on the Contract Offer screen
• 52069 - Competitions ranking panel is missing reputation column. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/234977-FM11-Competition-reputation-stars-have-possibly-disappeared.
• 52001 - Yellow card suspension rule is incorrect in Spain.
• 52019 - Random crash when playing the full match engine
• 51985 - French players with international bans are unable to play friendlies for their club.
• 51995 - Tim Cahill has jumping 14 in the DB, but it shows up as 11 in game. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/233759-Tim-Cahill
• 51754 - [MAC] Crash soaking with edited league - http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/229533-15186-Game-with-edited-league-crashes-on-16.-November
• 51945 - Players disappear from set piece assignments
• 52037 - Crash in when pre-match news item about record attendance. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/234058-Crash-dump-Bulgaria
• 51913 - Team-based widgets change when going from a home game to away game or vice versa
• 52060 - Blue Square North/South Playoffs not being scheduled at the end of the first season. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/234374-New-season-wont-start!
• 52055 - Squad Registration Action Button taking the User to the Squad screen. http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php/235244-Can-t-register-players-in-Scottish-League-2?p=6087261&viewfull=1#post6087261