Genie Scout features for Football Manager

01General · Positional · Role Rating

Ratings

Three ratings for every player in your save, each today and at his peak. They turn attributes into one number per job, so a defender and a winger can be read on the same scale.

General Rating at every position group, from goalkeeper to striker.
Positional Rating at each position on the pitch, left, centre and right.
Role Rating for every FM role at a position, in possession and out of possession.
Best Rating and Best Pot Rating as columns in the player lists, and as filters on the ribbon.
The Rating Editor changes how each rating weighs the attributes.

Joshua Kimmich's General Rating page: Goalkeeper 46.3%, Sweeper 83.4%, Centre Back 78.1%, Full Back 89.5%, Wing Back 85.0%, Defensive Midfielder 88.0%, Midfielder 89.7%, Attacking Midfielder 83.7%, Winger 90.1%, Fast Striker 86.3%, Target Striker 82.9%. — Fig. 1.1General Rating at every position, Joshua Kimmich: green across the outfield

Joshua Kimmich's Role Rating page at central midfield: in possession from Attacking Midfielder 87.4% to Central Midfielder 92.3%, out of possession from Screening Central Midfielder 87.5% to Central Midfielder 91.4%. — Fig. 1.2Role Rating at central midfield, in and out of possession, Joshua Kimmich

Joshua Kimmich's Positional Rating page: Defender (Left) 85.4%, Defender (Right) 88.9%, Defensive Midfielder 88.0%, Midfielder (Left) 85.9%, Midfielder (Centre) 89.1%, Midfielder (Right) 85.9%, Attacking Midfielder (Left) 84.5%, Attacking Midfielder (Right) 84.5%. — Fig. 1.3Positional Rating at each position, Joshua Kimmich: Defender (Right) 88.9%, Midfielder (Centre) 89.1%, Defensive Midfielder 88.0%

02Potential · Progress Rate · Probability of Development

Potential and development

Tick Show potential attributes on a profile and every attribute moves to its projected value at his peak. The projection comes from his potential, his age and how attributes grow in each position, so his Peak Ability can sit below his Potential Ability.

Progress Rateg: how fast he is developing, in stars.
Probability of Developmentg: how likely he is to reach his potential, weighing things such as Professionalism, Ambition and your club's training facilities.
Top Players Listsg: the best and the most promising players, for the world, a continent, a country or a division.

Fig. 2.1Franco Mastantuono's Player Profile, Show potential attributes off

Fig. 2.2The same profile, ticked: Peak Ability 181 and his best rating at his potential, 92.3% (W)

Franco Mastantuono's Ability block today: Current Ability 127, Potential Ability 181, Progress Rate four and a half stars, Probability Of Development 42.9%, with Ambition 14 and Professionalism 14 under Mental Traits. — Fig. 2.3Ability, Progress Rate and Probability of Development g

Players Top Lists, the best players in the world: the top 15 by rating, from Harry Kane 97.5% (FS) and Mohamed Salah 95.5% (W), with the average rating and the number of world-class players. — Fig. 2.4Top Players Lists: the best players in the world in this save g

03Player Profile

The Player Profile, page by page

What matters about a player, on one profile: hidden attributes, Mental Traits, contract details, release clauses, relations, injuries, and an estimated Sale Value.

Profile, Transfer, Positions, the three rating pages and Genie's Report, a scout's summary in words.
GS STATSg and History, how he developed elsewhere and in your save.
Step through the list with the arrow keys, add him to My Shortlist, compare him, or find players like him.
The camera button saves a picture of the page.

Fig. 3.1Profile: every attribute, the hidden ones included, ability and Mental Traits, Vinícius Júnior

Fig. 3.2Transfer: contract, squad status and relations

Fig. 3.3Genie's Report

Fig. 3.4Positions: familiarity at each position, and his feet, Joshua Kimmich

04PlayersStaffClubsSearch

Search

Three lists hold every player, member of staff and club in your save. Type a name and the list narrows as you type; set the ribbon's filters and it narrows again.

The ribbon: rating and potential rating at any position, ability, age, nation, division, contract, Sale Value and wage.
Player Search: a range on every attribute, hidden ones and Mental Traits included, positional ratings today and at his peak, release clauses, real players or newgens. Searches can be saved.
Roles & Duties searchg and Search Potential Attributesg: search by role, and by an attribute's value at his peak.

The ribbon above the Players List: tabs Players List, Staff List and Clubs List; a Name box reading Search; Nation, Gender, Age, Division, EU and Within FM Pool; Current Rating and Potential Rating at Best Position, Current Ability and Potential Ability from 0 to 200; Contract, Sale Value and Wage. — Fig. 4.1The Players List ribbon

The Players List with estevao typed in the Name box: nine players left, from Estêvão of Chelsea, 80.2% (W) today and 92.4% (W) at his peak. — Fig. 4.2Search as you type: "estevao" finds Estêvão, accents or not

The Player Search dialog, General tab: positional rating ranges, gender, name, age, nation, region, EU, newgens, international caps and goals, division, current and potential ability, and reputation ranges, with Within FM Pool at the bottom. — Fig. 4.3Player Search, General

The Player Search dialog, Technical tab: a range from 0 to 20 on every technical and goalkeeping attribute, and the Potential Attributes tick that searches them at his peak. — Fig. 4.4Player Search, Technical, with the Potential Attributes tick g

05FM PoolMy Shortlist

FM Pool and My Shortlist

Filter FM's Recruitment › Player Database, for example by Player's interest, then press Ctrl+L: those players become your FM Pool, purple in every player list. Star the ones you want for My Shortlist, which travels to FM's Shortlists screen as a file, and back.

FM Pool holds the players FM was showing. Genie Scout does not judge who would join: FM does, through your filter.
Ctrl+L replaces the pool each time. Within FM Pool keeps Player Search, the Players List and Find Similar inside it.
My Shortlist holds the players you star. Save it as a file FM imports, or load a shortlist file, Genie Scout's own or one FM exported.
Both lists empty when you load another game; your saved file keeps your picks.

Football Manager 26, Recruitment, Player Database: 7641 Players Found (Filtered), Player's interest set to Transfer or loan, Interested, and three more filters in Edit Search (3). — Fig. 5.1FM 26: Recruitment › Player Database, Player's interest set to Interested, plus three more filters in Edit Search: 7641 players found

Genie Scout 26 FM Pool page: the tab FM Pool (7641), Load FM Pool and Save Shortlist, and the same players in purple. — Fig. 5.2Genie Scout's FM Pool page after Ctrl+L: FM Pool (7641)

A Similar Players tab for Bukayo Saka with Within FM Pool ticked: the candidates are limited to FM Pool, in purple, with Saka pinned above them as the reference. — Fig. 5.3Within FM Pool, one tick, on a Similar Players tab g

Football Manager 26, Recruitment Shortlist: the shortlist Saka replacements with 5 players, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Vinícius Júnior, Jude Bellingham and Takefusa Kubo. — Fig. 5.4FM 26's Shortlists screen, with a shortlist saved from Genie Scout loaded

06Find Similar PlayersgCompare Players

Find Similar and Compare

Find Similarg scores every player in your save against the one you choose, who scores 100, as he is today or at his peak. Compare puts two players side by side for the role you need.

Find Similar keeps the usual filters and Within FM Pool; goalkeepers are scored against goalkeepers, and up to eight searches stay open as tabs.
Compare has six pages: Overview, Attributes, Positions, General Rating, Positional Rating and Role Rating, with the same tick to see both at their peak.
Start a comparison from two rows in any list, from a profile's Compare With, or from a Similar Players score.

Similar Players for Bukayo Saka: Mohamed Salah 98.8, Raphinha 96.5, Phil Foden 95.9. — Fig. 6.1Find Similar Players, scored against Bukayo Saka as he is today g

Similar Players on Potential for Kevin De Bruyne with the age limit set to 21 and Sale Value up to 15 million: Ibrahim Mbaye first, then Daniel Barau and Orlando Sánchez. — Fig. 6.2On Potential: Kevin De Bruyne at his potential, against players aged 21 or younger with a Sale Value up to 15 million g

Compare Players, Overview, for Désiré Doué and Kenan Yıldız, both 20: Best Rating 85.7% (W) and 84.5% (W), Winger (IP) 84.9% and 79.9%, Current Ability 159 and 158, Potential Ability 171 and 167, Basic Wage £45,370 and £184,480 per week, the biggest differences for the role, reputation, personal details and Mental Traits. — Fig. 6.3Compare Players, Overview: Désiré Doué and Kenan Yıldız as a right winger. One point apart in ability, four in potential; on the right Doué rates five points higher, on a quarter of Yıldız's wage.

Compare Players, Role Rating, for Désiré Doué and Kenan Yıldız at right attacking midfield: in possession Winger 84.9% and 79.9%, Inside Winger 84.4% and 79.4%; out of possession Wide Outlet Winger 78.3% and 74.2%; familiarity 20 and 15. — Fig. 6.4Compare Players, Role Rating at right attacking midfield: Doué ahead in every role, by about four to five points; familiarity 20 and 15

07In-Game Scout g

In-Game Scout

Hover a player's (i) icon in Football Manager and his Genie Scout card appears over the game, hidden attributes included. Hold Shift and the card shows him at his projected peak; let go and he is back to today.

The card follows FM's interface size.
Under Shift every attribute, his ability and his best rating move to his peak; Potential Ability, Probability of Development, value and contract stay as they are.
One switch in Options turns it off.
PC through Steam or Xbox/PC Game Pass, not Console.

Football Manager 26, Arsenal's First Team squad screen, sorted by age: 22 players from Benjamin White and Gabriel down to Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri, each with his (i) icon. — Fig. 7.1In-Game Scout over Football Manager 26, Arsenal's first team. With Shift held, Myles Lewis-Skelly goes from Current Ability 145 to Peak Ability 178, and from a Best Rating of 77.7% to 87.9%. g

Fig. 7.1In-Game Scout over Football Manager 26, Arsenal's first team. With Shift held, Myles Lewis-Skelly goes from Current Ability 145 to Peak Ability 178, and from a Best Rating of 77.7% to 87.9%. g

08GS STATS g

GS STATS

How the same real player developed in other managers' careers, by age: his rating at each position, his attributes, ability, reputation and value, and what clubs paid for him. See at what age he reached his best in each position, and at what age his value peaks.

Built from snapshots that users who opted in shared from their own saves.
Real players only: newgens are new in every save.
Every page says how many games it is based on.

GS STATS Positional Rating page for Ayyoub Bouaddi of LOSC, 17, based on 400 games: by age from 17 to 37, the first point from this save and later ages from other careers; defensive midfielder rises from 75.4% to about 89% between 25 and 31, attacking midfielder centre from 67.5% to about 83%, centre back from 58.7% to about 69%. — Fig. 8.1Positional Rating by age: Ayyoub Bouaddi. The first point is this save; later ages come from 400 other careers, with defensive midfielder about 89% by 25 and attacking midfielder about 83%. g

GS STATS General Rating page for Myles Lewis-Skelly of Arsenal, 18, based on 450 games: by age from 18 to 38, the first point from this save and later ages from other careers; full back rises from 77.7% to about 88% in his mid-twenties and about 89% at 32, centre back from 67.4% to about 78%. — Fig. 8.2General Rating by age: Myles Lewis-Skelly. The first point is this save; later ages come from 450 other careers, with full back about 88% by his mid-twenties and centre back about 78%. g

09History points

History points

Your save's own record. Genie Scout snapshots every player, by hand or every 1, 3, 6 or 12 in-game months while it runs beside FM, and charts how each one actually changed, date by date.

Attributes, General and Positional Rating, ability, reputation and value, for any player in the save, your own squad included.
The record starts when you start it.

Genie Scout's History, Physical & Hidden page for Endrick of Man City, 35, in one save: a chart by in-game date from 16.08.26 to 17.06.42 with two attributes plotted. Acceleration, in magenta, holds at 16 to 17 until 2037 and falls to 11; Versatility, in cyan, climbs from 10 to 19 by 2040. Step is 2 and Show current date is ticked. — Fig. 9.1Physical & Hidden: Endrick in an Arsenal save played on to June 2042, with a History point every six months and every third one plotted (Step 2). From August 2026 his Acceleration falls from 16 to 11 while his Versatility climbs from 10 to 19.

Genie Scout's History, Positional Rating page for Luca Williams-Barnett of Man City, 33, in the same save: a chart by in-game date from 16.08.26 to 17.06.42 with three positions plotted. Fast Striker (FS), in yellow, climbs from about 74% to its best in 2037 and is 87.1% today; attacking midfielder centre (AM C), in cyan, runs just below it and is 86.0%; Target Striker (TS), in green, climbs from about 64% and is 76.1%. — Fig. 9.2Positional Rating: Luca Williams-Barnett in the same save. As a Fast Striker (FS) he climbs from about 74% to his best in 2037 and eases off to 87.1% today, with attacking midfielder (AM C) just below and Target Striker (TS) about ten points lower.

10Staff ListClubs List

Staff and clubs

Build your backroom team. Every coach is rated in each of FM's nine coaching categories, so you can hire the specialist each area needs.

Every member of staff is also rated for every job, from Head Coach and Scout to Head of Youth Development and Performance Analyst, and Staff Search filters by coaching category, job, contract and ability.
The Clubs List shows every club's finances and facilities as numbers.
A club's best eleven for any formation, and its top five formations.
Any club's or national team's players and staff in one list.

Genie Scout Staff List sorted by SPC: columns Def Tact, Def Tech, Att Tact, Att Tech, Poss Tact, Poss Tech, Fit, Glk and SPC for each staff member. — Fig. 10.1Staff List, sorted by set-piece coaching (SPC)

The Clubs List sorted by Rating: Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City, Real Madrid, Paris SG and others with reputation, average age, balance, transfer budgets, wage budget, training facilities, youth facilities, junior coaching and youth recruitment as numbers from 12 to 20, stadium capacity, average attendance, Rating and Pot Rating. — Fig. 10.2Clubs List by rating: balance, transfer and wage budgets, and facilities as numbers (TF, YF, JC, YR)

Chelsea's Tactics page: the best eleven in a 4-2-3-1 Wide, from Filip Jörgensen in goal to João Pedro up front, rated 82.9%, and the Top 5 Formations, 4-2-3-1 Wide and 4-2-4 Standard at 82.9%. — Fig. 10.3Chelsea's best available eleven in a 4-2-3-1 Wide, with minimum condition set to 80%: rated 82.9%, and its top five formations

Chelsea's Information page: founded 1905, reputation, favoured and disliked personnel, rivals, Stamford Bridge, Training Facilities 20 / State of the art, Youth Facilities 20, Junior Coaching 19, Youth Recruitment 18. — Fig. 10.4A club's information page: facilities as a number and FM's words, 20 / State of the art

11Layouts · Graphics · Languages

Your way

Arrange the lists the way you read them, and keep it.

Columns and layouts: choose, order and sort the columns of every list; the arrangement is kept between sessions.
Your facepacks and kitsg on profiles and lists.
In your language: Genie Scout's own screens come in over twenty languages.

12Safe · Fast · Current

Safe, fast, current

Reads your running game and never changes your save. Genie Scout only reads; nothing is written back to FM.
Most loads finish in under 10 seconds. Source: GS 26 users, September 2026.
Updates itself when you start it.
Keeps up with Football Manager patches.
For Windows. Versions and compatibility are on the download page.

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Find Similar Players 06
In-Game Scout 07
GS STATS 08
Roles & Duties search 04
Search Potential Attributes 04
Probability of Development 02
Progress Rate 02
Top Players Lists: the best and the most promising 02
Your facepacks and kits 11
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