(Chucks water bottle).
After extensive delays, popular annual football management sim Football Manager has seen its 2025 edition cancelled. There will not be a 2024/25 season roster update for the 2024 edition of the game, either, as resources continue to be focused on the next edition of the game, FM26.
Per an announcement from developer Sports Interactive:
Sports Interactive regret to inform that, following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration with SEGA, we have made the difficult decision to cancel Football Manager 25. pic.twitter.com/tLRbq8305K
— Football Manager (@FootballManager) February 7, 2025
In the announcement, SI cited “a variety of challenges that we’ve been open about to date, and many more unforeseen” as reasons why the current state of the game is “not where we need it to be.”
FM25 was slated to be the first edition of the game to switch to a completely new engine, Unity, which was originally planned for FM22 or FM23, although COVID-era pandemic disruptions contributed to early delays.
Normally, FM is released around November of each year, but FM25 was initially delayed, first until November and subsequently until March. Further delays would have pushed the release too late into the 2024/25 season — not that March was early to begin with.
That means FM24 — made available for free for a period five months ago — and the 2023/24 edition of the Bayern Munich roster will be the most recent way to play armchair Bayern manager for the time being.
So if you want to continue adventures of the Slim Reaper Thomas Juppel — swashbuckling treble-winning back-three coaching Bavarian menace — then FM24 is where it’s at.
Can he do it in a rainy night in Bavaria?
Please refer to BFW staffer and resident táctico Cyler for some proper FM24 tips and tactics.
Looking for some thoughts on Bayern Munich’s insane schedule this month, discussion on Harry Kane’s release clause, and Bayern’s handling of its young players? Awesome, then check out the Bavarian Podcast Works — Weekend Warm-up Show on Patreon, Spotify, or below:
