v0.3.0 - Counter-Attack

From v0.2.0 to v0.3.0, FMMatchLens has gained more ways to analyze matches, with a particular focus on smoother archive replay, a more useful Tactical Board, and richer player profiles.

You can now explore a wider range of match events and attacking moves on the Tactical Board, analyze positional heatmaps for individual players, view more detailed player information, and replay archives more smoothly.

✨ Highlights

A More Complete Tactical Board

The Tactical Board can now display more match events and lets you filter them by category.

All currently supported events are listed below:

• Shooting: Goals, Shots on target saved, Shots off target, Shots hitting the woodwork, Blocked shots
• Distribution: Completed passes, Incomplete passes, Key passes, Completed crosses, Incomplete crosses
• Defending: Tackles won, Tackles lost, Aerial duels won, Aerial duels lost, Interceptions, Clearances, Defensive blocks
• Possession: Completed dribbles, Possession won, Possession lost, Specific touch points
• Discipline: Fouls committed, Fouls suffered, Offsides
• Goalkeeping: Saves held, Saves parried

The Tactical Board also includes the following improvements:

• View the actual movement paths of passes, shots, and other events
• Select a shot to see the complete attacking move that led to it
• Compare how often each team attacks down the left, through the center, or down the right
• Press T to enter Focus Mode and expand the Tactical Board across the entire central dashboard and restore

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More Powerful Player Heatmaps

Heatmaps now offer more ways to explore player and team movement:

• View the full match, either half, or the most recent 15 minutes
• Switch between the home and away teams
• View a whole-team heatmap or select an individual player
• Show all activity, in-possession activity, or out-of-possession activity
• Open a player's individual heatmap directly from the formation view

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Smoother Match Replay

.fmlens archives now load, play, and seek more smoothly.

The main improvements include:

• Faster response when dragging the timeline
• Faster replay updates for xG, Momentum, tactical events, and heatmaps

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Richer Player Profiles

Player profile cards can now display more information:

• Age, Date of birth, Nationality or region, National or regional flag
• Body type, Height
• Guide value, Wage
• Senior international appearances/goals, Youth international appearances/goals
• Physical condition, Match sharpness

More Reliable Match and Player Identification

FMMatchLens can now identify active matches and players more reliably:

• Supports human-versus-AI matches, human-versus-human matches
• Displays information about the home and away managers
• Reduces missing data at the beginning of a match

Better Team Colors

The dashboard now chooses more suitable home and away colors from each club's badge.

Light and dark themes choose colors separately, making the two teams easier to distinguish and reducing cases where a team color blends into the background.

📦 Archive Compatibility

v0.3.0 uses .fmlens archive format 2.4 and continues to support archives created by v0.2.x.

Older archives can still be replayed normally, but player information that was not recorded at the time will remain unavailable. Details such as date of birth, nationality, body type, guide value, and international records will only appear in matches recorded after upgrading the plugin.

⬆️ Upgrade Instructions

Download and update both of the following packages:

• FMMatchLens-plugin-v0.3.0.zip
• FMMatchLens-dashboard-v0.3.0.zip

Extract the plugin archive into the Football Manager 2026 game root and allow it to overwrite the existing FMMatchLens files.

It is recommended to extract the new dashboard into a separate directory so that its assets files are not mixed with files from an older version.

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.3.0