Making all African national teams playable but with a twist 26.0.3

First of all, I wanna wish everyone here a happy New Year and Christmas(whether you celebrated it already or you're waiting for the 7th of January like me).

And now onto to the topic.

Since FM26 Mobile is the only platform where we have international management available, I decided to expand it a little bit. I'm aiming to make all 50+ African national teams playable. AFCON is currently being played so there's no better time to do this if you ask me. Additionaly, I've always wondered what the tournament would be like if all the players with African origin played for those national teams. So yes, apart from making new national teams playable I've also changed the nationalities of all players so they now represent a nation in Africa. At first, the idea was to only change nationalities of players that haven't made a debut for another national team and those who did, but were no longer in plans of that nation. In the end I decided to go for all, regardless of the number of caps.

So far, I've made 9 new nations playable as well as boost all countries with the players I thought would be of help to the teams. After doing all that some teams were playable but had shortage of players in some positions, especially GKs. As a result, I used the PC version and loaded all African players in the game and searched country by contry through a 3rd party app that's basically an editor(since I didn't buy the editor on Steam). The new players I added, which were not only GKs - when searching I also chose to make new players who had 100+CA on PC but were not present in the mobile database, as well as some who didn't have 100CA but pretty decent PA, got to replace Free Agents in mobile version who had no faces loaded. Certain players are present in the game but weren't loaded because of the leagues that i selected so I made sure to make most of them as well. The only thing I used was the ingame Editor and nothing else. I'm well aware of certain apps that exist but I'm not very good at using those so I just went along with a simple approach.

P.S. If you come across a player that I missed,use the editor to change the nation and please do tell me in the comments so I correct it in the my save,thank you.

Now, below I'll list every nation available and mention 2-3 players that are standouts.

Previously available nations that got new players:

🇩🇿 - benefitted a bit, mainly through Cherki and Akliouche(Monaco)

🇦🇴 - got considerably stronger, Camavinga and Rafa Leao driven

🇧🇫 - same as Algeria, Ouedraogo and Hien

🇨🇲 - same as Angola, but considering they already had a strong team, they're op now. 2nd best after Nigeria. Saliba, Ekitike, Tchouameni

🇨🇻 - same as Angola, Nuno Mendes, Hato and Renato Veiga lead the way

🇨🇩 - nation that benefited the most out of all(except maybe Nigeria). Arguably the 3rd best team now. Kolo Muani, Nkunku, Lukaku, Tielemans and many more

🇨🇬 - a bit stronger, Samba(Rennes) and Teze(Monaco)

🇰🇲 - same as Congo, Saïd(Lens) and Omari(HSV)

🇬🇦 - 95% the same, no notable additions

🇪🇬 - also no notable additions apart from washed El Shaarawy

🇬🇭 - same as Cameroon. Doku, Nico Williams, Kudus, Frimpong among others

🇬🇳 - got a few solid names and that's about it. Coman, Malick Fofana(Lyon)

🇬🇼 - same as Angola and C.Verde. Upamecano, Alejandro Balde, Fati, G.Quenda

🇨🇮 - got fairly stronger. Manu Kone, Doue, Guehi, Ake

🇲🇱 - didn't get as strong as I thought they will. Konate and Wesley Fofana only notable additions

🇲🇦 - got bunch of good young players, notably Yamal and Bouaddi(Lille)

🇳🇬 - all I'll say is, WC winners? Saka, Musiala, Olise, Madueke, Adeyemi, Eze and bunch of 20+M worth players. Very strong

🇸🇳 - didn't really get buffed, surprisingly. Leroy Sane, Ndoye, Onana(A.Villa)

🇸🇱 - you get a CB pairing of Rudiger and Chalobah. Daramy(Reims) other notable addition

🇿🇦 - 99% the same. Sandler(NEC)

🇬🇲 - a bit stronger - Oscar Bobb, Joe Gomez

🇹🇳 - apart from Ayari(Brighton), didn't get much stronger.

🇿🇼 - didn't get stronger immediately, but Trey Nyoni(LIV) and Mhueka(CHE) are both 17 with great potentials

Nations that are now playable:

🇧🇯 - you get Kounde and Atta(Udinese). Solid team

🇨🇫 - Solet and Zouma are your new CB pair. You add Kondogbia who's already there and you got yourself a solid team

🇰🇪 - if i selected Swedish league when making the save, Kenya would have mich more players, a mistake I noticed deep into making this so it was too late. You get Djed Spence, Mwene(Mainz). Wanyama is still out there as a FA too

🇲🇬 - weaker team, only notable addition is Raolisoa(Angers)

🇲🇷 - personal favorite and my biggest recommendation. You get the best player in the world, Ousmane Dembele and you have a very solid team actually, multiple players being worth over 2mil

🇲🇿 - no notable additions apart from Kenny Tete who joins Geny and Mandawa

🇸🇹 - they actually have a lot of players in Portuguese leagues so it's not a surprise they're here. Gedson Fernandes(S.Moscow) and Renato Sanches lead the way. Should be the lowest ranked team that's manageable now

🇹🇿 - not a great team but a fun challenge. Irankunda and Yussuf Poulsen are your stars

🇹🇬 - another recommendation of mine. You get Barcola, Gakpo, Emegha, Tolisso. What else could you ask for?

Lastly, I'll write some general information so you know what you're getting into:

-The leagues that you can manage in are England, Belgium, S.Africa, France and Portugal. These were selected simply beacuse they have the highest concentration of naturalized African players. I know it sucks that there's not Spain, Italy or Germany but it would've taken me so much more time had I gone for top5.

-Since I couldn't search players if I was unemployed, I made the save as a manager of Sierra Leone(no club)

-The start date of the save is 28th June, so if you want to manage in England you have a bit of time to try to get the job

-Manager name is Arsene Wenger with a continental reputation, no titles and no coaching badge

-Ingame Editor is of course turned on, financial regulations are set to harsh, attribute masking is turned off and there are no budgets in 1st transfer window(I set up all these this way beacuse the save was originally just going to be for myself and thats my setup whenever I start a new game except att.masking where I needed it to be off)

Last but not least, 2 of the most important notices;

-Values of all new/created players are low, so when searching for the players when you want to make the squad don't just look at the values of players, go position by position and check every player. I haven't created any players for the strongest nations(Nigeria,Algeria,Senegal,Egypt,Morocco,DR Congo,Cameroon,Ghana) so you don't have to worry about those. Only the smaller nations got them.

-I also made sure that each team has at least 3 GKs so you don't have to worry about that either.

I assume 90% of you know how to become manager of the team you want to manage,but for those who don't, simply use the editor to sack the current manager of the team and apply for the job. If someone else gets it, just repeat the process. With a continental reputation set up you should be able to get all jobs. If not, there's a HEX Editor guide on how to make yourself the manager on the site.

So, I plan to make other 20ish nations playable as well, but that's gonna take a while as some nations need more than 20+ new players and I don't currently have my laptop with me. Should be done by my Christmas(7th of Jan) tho. If there's enough interest in this save, when i finish setting up the rest of the nations I'll post the new save data file here in the comments or make a completely new post.

I do realise this is not hard to do if you have time, but I assume not everyone is crazy as I am nor has the free time like I currently do, so here it is if anyone is interested in trying. Or maybe I just spent almost 2 hours writing this post and everything for nothing. Once again happy holidays