{"id":43947,"date":"2025-02-07T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=43947"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T08:23:45","slug":"football-manager-25-is-cancelled-but-this-does-not-spell-the-end-for-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/football-manager-25-is-cancelled-but-this-does-not-spell-the-end-for-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Manager 25 is cancelled, but this does not spell the end for the series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sega and Sports Interactive announced Football Manager 25\u2019s cancellation on February 7. The game was originally due to launch in November last year, before being postponed to March 2025. Now it has been cancelled, with Sports Interactive shifting their attention towards making a brand-new game in the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting out in 1992 with Championship Manager on the Atari ST and Amiga, Football Manager is a long-running series of simulation games. As the title suggests, the player takes on the role of a manager who must lead their soccer team to victory. The strategic game lets you oversee all aspects of your team including player transfers and training. The series has remained popular in part due to its realism, many real-life clubs and players have been included.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Football Manager 25 | The New Era | #FM25 Official Announce Trailer\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ob06By9TFOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Football Manager 25 was to be the first in the series to use Unity, in what was described as \u201cFM\u2019s biggest technical and visual advancement for a generation.\u201d It would have boasted a slicker and smarter UI. New additions would have included Women\u2019s soccer as well as up-to-date Premier League teams and enhanced player realism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"516\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43882-001.jpeg\" alt=\"Football Manager 25\" class=\"wp-image-43885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43882-001.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43882-001-380x218.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43882-001-768x440.jpeg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, to meet both developer aims and user expectations regarding quality, the game was delayed until March 2025. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballmanager.com\/news\/development-update-football-manager-25-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sports Interactive\u2019s statement<\/a> on the game\u2019s cancellation, a variety of challenges, some unforeseen, made it impossible for the dev team to achieve what they wanted within the timeframe, despite their best efforts. \u201cAs we approached critical milestones at the turn of the year, it became unmistakably clear that we would not achieve the standard required, even with the adjusted timeline.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43947-001.jpg\" alt=\"Football Manager 25 UI in development\" class=\"wp-image-43955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43947-001.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43947-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250207-43947-001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After internal discussions with Sega, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/segas-forecast-for-the-year-is-a-mix-of-ups-and-downs-as-sonic-and-metaphor-refantazio-triumph-and-football-manager-2025-gets-cancelled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the decision was made to cancel the game<\/a>, however, this was only made public today due to the need for stakeholder compliance. Preorders of the game will be refunded.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sports Interactive mention that although they managed to achieve many things with Football Manager 25, the overarching player experience and interface did not meet their expectations. Although they could have released the game anyway and patched it later, they decided against this.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delaying Football Manager 25 any further would have been too late in the soccer season, so instead, Sports Interactive has decided to take what they have learned and pour it into their next game. They won\u2019t be updating Football Manager 24 with new content, but are in negotiations to extend licensing and platform agreements with the aim of making sure players can continue to enjoy the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Based on the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/footballmanager-20250207-327647\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese\u00a0article<\/a><em>\u00a0by Hideaki Fujiwara (original article\u2019s publication date:\u00a02025-02-07 12:46<em style=\"font-size: revert; color: var(--theme-text-color); font-family: var(--theme-font-family); font-weight: var(--theme-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--theme-letter-spacing); text-transform: var(--theme-text-transform);\"><em>\u00a0JST)\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, it was revealed that Football Manager 25 has been cancelled, however developer Sports Interactive is now hard at work on a new game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":43957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-43947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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