Spending your whole budget on a star and finding out two seasons later that you have no right-back is an FM classic. AlexJV Scout was built to prevent that. It is a free FM26 tool that sorts your squad into tiers and shows each position’s gaps in advance, so you can plan signings in good time.
The app is by AlexJV, who publishes release notes in French and English, and the latest version is 1.6.0, from 17 August 2026.
What AlexJV Scout does
- Squad hierarchy. It splits players into starters, backups and successors for each position.
- Forward planning. It shows each position’s needs one to two seasons in advance.
- Dressing-room impact. It simulates how a signing affects your squad leaders before you bid.
- 1-100 ratings. Attributes are converted to a common scale, so players are quicker to compare.
What is new in version 1.6.0
The big change is that, on Windows, the app now reads FM26 data directly while the game runs, without installing anything in the game. It no longer needs BepInEx on Windows, which simplifies installation and removes the risk of the game crashing because of the plugin. According to the author, the reading was validated on every field, attribute and position, newgens included. If you had BepInEx from an earlier version, there is an option in Settings > General to remove it.
Version 1.6.0 also brought a macOS (Intel) build. On Mac, however, BepInEx is still required. On Apple Silicon Macs (M1 to M4), the app runs through Rosetta, but BepInEx has no version for those chips yet, so it does not work.
Download AlexJV Scout
The Windows installer is about 120 MB and comes straight from the author’s GitHub releases page, which also has the Mac version.
Download – AlexJV Scout 1.6.0 for Windows (FM26)
- First, download and run the installer.
- If Windows shows «Windows protected your PC», click «More info» and then «Run anyway». The app is not digitally signed.
- Open FM26 and load your save.
- In AlexJV Scout, click «Refresh data».
What you should know
Unlike other tools, AlexJV Scout’s code is not public: the GitHub page only has the installers. As with any unsigned program, run the installer through your antivirus before opening it. For help, the author has a Discord, and you can support the project on Ko-fi.
Credits
AlexJV Scout is by AlexJV. Releases are on the GitHub releases page. Looking for more tools? See our FM26 editors and tools.
The files are hosted by their original authors. FMPortugal only points to the official download page — all credit goes to their creators.
