Reply FM2012
The FM2012 Classic Database for FM26 Mobile
Ever wanted to boot up FM26 Mobile (Netflix) and find yourself in July 2011? This free fan mod ports the complete FM2012 (PC) database onto the FM26 Mobile engine — the rosters, the loans, the league tables of the 2011-12 season.
Google Drive · The facepack is separate from the database. The game works fine without it.
What gets ported
- 170,000+ players and staff — 2011-12 clubs, attributes and contracts (birthdates shifted +14 years, so everyone plays at their 2012 age)
- League structures as they were in 2011-12 — Norwich and Swansea newly promoted, Bolton and Blackburn still in the Premier League
- 3,800+ loan deals — Adebayor at Spurs, Aquilani at Milan, Benayoun at Arsenal, Aubameyang out at Saint-Étienne
- Managers and coaching staff — Guardiola at Barcelona, Mourinho at Madrid, Ferguson at United
- Club reputations, favoured relationships and spoken languages as of 2012
- Wages and transfer fees revalued by the engine to modern levels
- Youth systems — prospects sit in the real B teams (Barcelona B, Real Madrid Castilla) waiting for a call-up
Faces of the era
Note: the player photos below come from a separate facepack. With the database alone, the game shows its own auto-generated faces.
- Messi and Ronaldo — both at their peak, going head to head in La Liga.
- Neymar — a 19-year-old at Santos, still years away from Europe.
- Falcao, Lewandowski and Hazard — at Atlético, Dortmund and Lille, just before the big moves.
- Courtois at 19, De Gea at 20, Oblak at 18 — today's best goalkeepers, right at the start.
Choosing a version
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
reply2012-classic.zip | Classic — FM2012's original ratings, untouched. Play with 2012 eyes. |
reply2012-history.zip | History — potential ability of players who made it big raised to their FM26 values. |
wonderkids | Sortable list of all 879 wonderkids (based on the History edition) |
reply2012-faces-lite.zip | Facepack (Lite) — period-correct player photos, 18,046 people · 323MB |
reply2012-faces.zip | Facepack (Full) — includes lower leagues and youth, 50,995 people · 906MB |
Install only one of the two. Want the authentic 2012 scouting experience? Classic. Enjoy knowing what happens next? History.
Install
- Install 3uTools on your PC and connect your iPhone (no jailbreak needed)
- Delete and reinstall FM26 Mobile on the phone (old saves stop working anyway)
- 3uTools → Apps → FM26 Mobile → Browse
- Open the
Documentsfolder — it is meant to be empty - Drag in the
db_archive_2623folder from the zip (76 files) - Launch the game → start a new career
The facepack installs differently: drop the replyfaces folder from its zip into a graphics folder, then hit Settings → User Interface → Reload Skin in game.
Step by step, both platforms, plus what to do when it doesn't work.
Known quirks
- New-game loading occasionally fails — restart the app and try again.
- Lower leagues that don't exist in FM2012 keep their FM26 squads, so a few 2025 players remain in the world. The major leagues and the transfer market are fully 2012.
- Leagues that FM26 Mobile ships unlicensed (Brazil among them) show clubs by short code — Santos appears as SAN.
- The game trims each AI club's squad when a career starts. A few unknown youth players at the very bottom of a list may be released or replaced by generated players — first-teamers and prospects are unaffected.
- Saves are not compatible between the two versions, nor with Reply FM2008.
- Install instructions are iPhone only for now — we haven't been able to verify an Android procedure.
Credits & legal
Built by extracting 170,000+ people from the original FM2012 database and converting them to the FM26 Mobile data format with a custom pipeline.
Free, unofficial fan project. Not affiliated with Sports Interactive, SEGA or Netflix.
Please only use this if you legally own both FM2012 and FM26 Mobile. Not for resale.
Built with some help from AI (Anthropic Claude).