Football Manager 2024 doesn’t have in-game cheats you can activate by pressing key combinations or inputting codes. However, Football Manager 2024 has a big pre-game editor with which you can alter many aspects of FM24. This editor enables you to edit clubs and players and even create new competitions. You can set cheats in FM24 by changing a club’s starting budget or increasing attribute ratings for your players with the Football Manager 2024 editor. This is how you can set those cheats with the FM24 editor.
Read also: 9 Football Manager 2024 Tips for Beginners
Download and Install the Pre-Game Editor
The FM24 Pre-Game Editor comes included with the Football Manager 2024 game. However, it’s a separate package you must download and install with Epic Games or Steam. To do so, go into the Library tab of Epic Games or Steam. Click on the Pre-Game Editor image to install it in Epic Games. If you’re a Steam user, select Football Manager 2024 Editor in the Library sidebar and click Install.
Give Yourself a Massive Starting Budget
You can now set some cheats for a club with the FM24 editor installed. The best way to cheat is to set a massive transfer budget for a selected club. For example, how does a 300 million transfer budget sound to you? This is how you can set a big transfer budget for a new Football Manager 2024 career game.
- Open the FM24 editor from Steam or Epic Games.
- Select a Database option on the drop-down menu that appears and click OK.
- Click Clubs on the editor’s sidebar.
- Press the Add condition button and select Name.
The Add Condition button
- Input the name of a club to edit in the condition text box. For an example, enter Watford to find that club.
- Select the Watford record found and click the Edit button.
The club search box
- Click in the Reputation box on the Details tab and delete the value there.
- Input a 10000 replacement value in the Reputation box. That’s the maximum reputation value required to set a higher budget.
The Reputation box
- Click the Finances tab.
- Select the Foreground option on the Rich Benefactor drop-down menu.
- Click in the Balance box, erase the current value, and enter a 400,000,000 million figure.
- Input 300,000,000 in the Transfer Budget value box.
The Balance and Benefactor settings
- Click File and select Save Editor Data As.
- Enter Watford or an alternative name for your editor data and click Save.
- Close the FM24 editor.
- Start the Football Manager 2024 game.
- Press the Start a New Game button.
- Select the Career option.
- Click the Database drop-down menu.
- Select the Watford or other editor data file you saved.
The editor data files selection
- Click the Confirm button.
- Press the Choose Game Mode option.
- Next, choose preferred options for your new game to get it started. You must select to play with Watford or whatever club you applied your editing to with the FM24 editor.
Select Scouting in Football Manager 2024 to see your club’s new starting budget. If you follow the example above, you’ll have a 300 million transfer budget to sign new players for Watford. The club’s overall balance will be about 400 million.
Watford with a 300 million transfer budget
Of course, you can set a much higher transfer budget for a club than 300 million if you wish. However, you’ll need to go back and edit the data with the editor, save it, and start a new career game to load it in. There doesn’t appear to be any option within Football Manager 2024’s in-game menu to load editor data after starting a career game. Correct me if I’m wrong though!
Increase Players’ Attribute Ratings
Setting new attribute ratings for players is another good way to cheat with the FM24 editor. You can create super players in your team by increasing their attribute ratings. These are the steps for increasing a player’s attribute ratings with the editor.
- Bring up the FM24 editor and go through steps one to six above to select a club for editing. For this example, select Watford again to edit one of their player’s attributes.
- Click Staff and Players to expand that category.
- Select Players to view the squad for the selected club.
- Next, select Morris, James in the Watford squad and click Edit.
The player list for a club
- Click Player Data to expand that category. You will now see four attribute subcategories to select for editing attribute ratings.
- Select Technical Attributes to view them.
- Click in the attribute boxes to delete the current values and input new ratings. Note that 20 is the highest value you can input for any single attribute.
The technical attribute value boxes
- Adjust the physical and mental attributes of the player by selecting those subcategories and input values for them.
- Go through steps 13 to 23 above to save and load the editor data for Watford or other club.
Look at the attribute ratings for James Morris or other players you’ve edited with the FM24 editor tool. The player will now have whatever attribute ratings you’ve set with the editor. Increasing the attribute ratings for players like this is an even easier way to create a pretty awesome team with the FM24 editor than setting a huge transfer budget.
A player with edited technical attributes
There are many other ways you can alter clubs in Football Manager 2024 with the FM24 editor. However, the best way to cheat is to set a massive transfer budget and very high attribute ratings for a selected club and its players as outlined above. Or you can utilize that tool to bankrupt clubs in your division and ruin their teams by lowering players’ attribute ratings.
