2025-11-04 16:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
Football Manager 26 is now live and playable across platforms*.FM26 (PC/Mac) is ready to download and play on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and Xbox Game Pass**. Those who’ve been playing the FM26 Advanced Access Beta on Steam and Epic can seamlessly continue their saves.Feel closer to every match-defining moment in Football Manager 26 Console, now available on both Xbox and PS5. FM26 Console is also available via Xbox Game Pass.Delivering effortless control and swift navigation across Apple devices, from iPhone and iPad through to Mac and Apple TV, Football Manager 26 Touch is
2025-10-23 19:33 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
It’s finally time to step into the dugout, with FM26 Advanced Access Beta now live and playable across Steam and the Epic Games Store.If you’ve pre-purchased from a SEGA-approved digital retailer, the FM26 Advanced Access Beta is now fully playable*. You can kick-off a single-player career or battle for bragging rights in an Online Career. As with previous editions, any progress made in Career mode can be carried forward to full release from 4 November.You can continue to pre-purchase FM26 with a 10% saving and gain entry to the Advanced Access Beta** until the game is fully launched.FM26 – Wh
2025-10-21 14:49 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
Deciding the sort of manager you want to be and the world you want to manage in are essential considerations at the start of every FM career.For Football Manager 26, we’ve refreshed the entire game setup and manager creation experience, enabling you to be unmistakably whoever you are, or whoever you want to be in the dugout and explore the most playable nations in series’ history.The full story is available on our website, here.
2025-10-17 14:09 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
Elevating authenticity to truly global heights, we’re delighted to have signed our first partnership with FIFA, football’s world governing body.The multi-year deal brings official licences for FIFA’s biggest competitions to the Football Manager series, including the FIFA World Cup 26™ held in Canada, Mexico and USA.The inclusion of officially branded and titled FIFA competitions will begin in FM26 with the FIFA World Cup™, FIFA Women’s World Cup™ and FIFA Club World Cup™. Announcing this partnership unlocks our ability to answer your questions – this licence coincides with the inclusion of a p
2025-10-08 12:12 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
Building your squad in the transfer market at the heart of every Football Manager career – the successful negotiations, the transfer deals you complete and the pathways you create for your wonderkids define your success.Recruitment is also an area of the footballing world that’s constantly evolving as clubs look for marginal gains on their rivals through whatever tools and date are available.For FM26 we’ve furthered our collaboration with our partners at TransferRoom to give you new, real-life inspired tools for incoming and outgoing deals while making the wider recruitment experience in-game
2025-10-02 13:29 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
In recent years, the language of football tactics has evolved dramatically. Managers, pundits and fans alike now dive deeper into analysis, with sharper insight into complex ideas like pressing triggers and rest defence. One concept that’s rapidly entered the mainstream is the distinction between in possession and out of possession formations - the way a team changes shape based on whether they have the ball or not.As the game itself has evolved, so has Football Manager. Behind the scenes, we’ve spent years working with leading experts in the football industry to bring one of the sport’s bigge
2025-09-25 15:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
Matchdays in Football Manager are where your dreams are realised. The highs of victory, the lows of defeat and the theatre of the big occasion – it’s why you play the game.In Football Manager 26, we’ve elevated every aspect of the Matchday experience. From on-pitch details to more authentic player movement, and from gameplay to the overall match experience and how you celebrate success, it’s all been upgraded.This is the future of football storytelling. You can read more about it, here.
2025-09-18 13:45 UTC · Community Announcements · Jimmy Wong
In 2021, we revealed our plan to introduce women’s football to Football Manager. Doing this properly meant more than just plugging in female leagues, it involved factoring in the unique rules, players and landscape of the women’s game.How will it all work in FM26? You can learn more, here.
2025-09-10 19:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Jimmy Wong
Whatever technology you’re interacting with, the user interface (UI) is essential to the quality of your experience. The clearer the layout of the screen, the easier it is for you to find and interact with what you want. Nowhere is that truer than a game like Football Manager - every line-up tweak, transfer negotiation and slice of dressing room drama shapes your season, and the UI is where you make it happen. In Football Manager 26, you’ll experience an entirely overhauled UI from day one. Our new visual identity brings a more intuitive way to explore and define every element of life in the
2025-09-10 16:49 UTC · Community Announcements · Jimmy Wong
Football Manager 26 is the legacy, redefined – and it launches globally from 4 November.Powered by the Unity engine for the first time, FM26 refreshes the managerial experience and sets the stage for you to define your football destiny.FM26 Console (Xbox/PS5) and FM26 Mobile* (Netflix) are also set to launch day one, with FM26 Touch (Nintendo Switch) scheduled to release digitally on 4 December. Further information on FM26’s availability on other platforms will be revealed in the coming weeks.Gameplay UpgradesFM26 is the next evolution of football storytelling.As we’ve already revealed, a reim
2024-06-25 14:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Jimmy Wong
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44613940/c8a39623f90115e53a7f5a187d985805755df6f3.jpg Inspired by this summer's festival of football? Test your managerial skills on the biggest stages in Football Manager 2024, now 50% off across platforms. The discount for FM24 (PC/Mac) and FM24 Console (Xbox) lasts until 6:00pm BST on Thursday, 11th July. The sale for FM24 Console (PS5) begins on Wednesday, 3rd July at 12:00 am local time in each region. The sale end-times for FM24 Console (PS5) and FM24 Touch (Nintendo Switch™) vary by platform and territory – full information is displayed in the table below. {STEAM_CLAN
2024-06-21 13:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44613940/3b7e23756d284ddf0566af777d9958fd406dd024.jpg In recent years, a trend has begun to emerge – the classical No.10 or advanced playmaker isn’t used in the same way anymore. Given the importance of collective pressing and counter-pressing in the modern game, many managers don’t quite feel comfortable deploying a free-floating midfielder behind their leading striker. However, this doesn’t mean that playmakers aren’t important – in fact, they’ve probably got a more important role than ever. The main difference now is that they tend to operate in different places on the pi
2024-06-14 10:32 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44613940/86e78556408626682ea6e291c9e4fd2270158a7f.jpg Having players who can perform two different jobs at the same time can be an absolute game-changer for your tactics in Football Manager 2024. Few player roles fit that bill better than the Complete Forward. Expected to lead the line but also link up with your team’s other attackers, the Complete Forward could be your top scorer or best playmaker in any given game. This makes them an ideal role to unlock your team’s full potential but also one that needs a special, well-rounded player to do it well. In this guide, Rock’s E
2024-06-10 12:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Jimmy Wong
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44613940/b9d79c03d8d66a15f4ae75ad305623827c3f55ee.jpg The Premier League, the pinnacle of domestic football, is defined by iconic on-pitch events and memories spanning more than three decades. Behind each memorable moment was a football manager… The same is true of every great Football Manager story. Now, thanks to a multi-year partnership, you’ll be able to create your own iconic Premier League moments and history in future editions of Football Manager. From the 2024/25 season, all 20 Premier League clubs will be fully licensed in future FM releases with official logos, kit
2024-06-07 14:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Kyle Brown
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44613940/5e0322675cb3d42ecce50676ba51d0d792ac5cf0.jpg Developing tactics and recreating the styles of football’s leading coaches is one of the most enjoyable aspects of playing Football Manager. In Football Manager 2024, you have more creative tools for expressing your tactical philosophy thanks to the player rotation changes that have been added.. These rotations see players take up a different position while in possession than they occupy while defending, such as an Inverted Full-Back tucking in as an additional central defender or Central Midfielders pushing forward to jo
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