Where Are Football Manager 26 Save Files Located?
Football Manager 26 stores saves in Documents under Sports Interactive, with tactics, graphics, and skins beside the games folder.
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FM26 follows the series tradition: everything personal lives in Documents under Sports Interactive, in a folder named for the exact title. Saves sit in the games subfolder. Tactics, views, skins, facepacks, and editor files sit in named siblings next to it.
This release is picky about paths. Non English characters anywhere in the folder tree hide saves from the loader, and OneDrive redirected Documents splits reads from writes. The Steam launch flag for a custom user data location is the sanctioned escape hatch.
Where Football Manager 26 stores this, by platform
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 26\games
Saves in games, tactics in tactics, graphics in graphics. Keep the exact Football Manager 26 folder name or imports from older titles misfire.
~/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 26/games
Same Sports Interactive layout under the hidden Library. Open it through Finder Go with Option held, since Library hides by default.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move FM26 to a new PC?
Copy the whole Football Manager 26 folder from Documents. The games subfolder holds saves, while tactics, skins, and graphics travel in sibling folders.
The game cannot see my saves. How do I redirect the folder?
Add the user data location flag with your path in Steam launch options and move the files there. Non English characters in the path break save detection.
Saves exist on disk but not in game. Where are they?
Check for a second Documents tree, including OneDrive Documents. FM26 writes to one path and reads another when folders redirect, which looks like missing saves.
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