“Football Manager 25” Has Been Cancelled

SEGA and Sports Interactive has announced that “Football Manager 25” has been cancelled. The scrapping will impact all versions of the game, including “Football Manager 25 Touch” on Nintendo Switch.

Rather than moving forward with the game, the company will now focus on Football Manager 26 instead. The cancellation follows on from the game’s release date being delayed twice.

In a statement explaining the decision, they indicated today was the earliest they could issue a statement, a title they had ” set out to create the biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation, laying the building blocks for a new era.”

This marks the first time the long-running sports series has skipped a year entirely since it began in 2004. They continue in their statement:

“As 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. Whilst many areas of the game have hit our targets, the overarching player experience and interface is not where we need it to be.

As extensive evaluation has demonstrated, including consumer playtesting, we have clear validation for the new direction of the game and are getting close – however, we’re too far away from the standards you deserve.

We could have pressed on, released FM25 in its current state, and fixed things down the line – but that’s not the right thing to do. Through the cancellation, every effort is now focused on ensuring that our next release achieves our goal and hits the quality level we all expect. We will update you on how we are progressing with that as soon as we are able to do so.

Sports Interactive has also indicated there won’t be any “Football Manager 24” update with 2024/25 season data due to it diverting “critical resources away from the development of the next release which requires our full focus”. Discussions are underway on the possibility of extending its FM24 agreements on subscription services like Xbox Game Pass.

Source: Nintendo Everything, IGN

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