Like every data-driven application the sections in FootballManager are linked between each others – so import / export contains raw data. Aber was heisst das genau?

Well, for example, if you export a game from Football Manager that contains the following information:

• Home: Team A
• Away: Team B
• Location: Stadium N
• Kickoff: 2020-05-10 15:00
• ...

Then you will receive an Excel with the following content:

As you can see, you can't see much here - the reason is that the import / export function is meant for a backup - the individual cells do not contain the effective value but the respective ID of the other tables. In our case here, ID 1 is team A, ID 2 is team B in the team table. If we export the teams as well, we might understand the whole thing a bit better. This is what Excel looks like for the teams when we export Team A and Team B via Football Manager:

This structure runs through the entire component and can also be found for locations, players, sponsors etc.