Sports Interactive has released a new blog post detailing some of the core Football Manager series features that won’t be in Football Manager 25, and if you’re a fan of Create-a-Club or Touchline Shouts, you’re out of luck.
In the post, SI studio director Miles Jacobson says that the decision to cut certain features was made based on player numbers collected from Football Manager 24 player data.
The first, and biggest, feature that will be missing from Football Manager 25 is Touchline Shouts, which “won’t be back for the foreseeable future”. Jacobson says he’s “never been happy” with the shout system, but that they might make a return in the future “if and when we can do them properly”.
The bespoke social media screen and Data Chalkboard features will also be missing from FM25, and perhaps most devastatingly, Create-a-Club is gone as well.
Jacobson acknowledges that 5% of Football Manager players used the Create-a-Club feature, but also said that this percentage “has been steadily declining”, and so it’ll be skipping a year while SI improves it for Football Manager 26.
Other features and modes that won’t be included in Football Manager 25 include Versus and Challenge (the latter of which was predominantly a console and mobile feature). The Fantasy Draft mode won’t be available at launch, but will be added in a future update.
Happily, it’s not all about cut features. Football Manager 24‘s menus are getting an overhaul in FM25, with the new menus using something SI is calling a “tile and card” system.
The system will display tiles of information that have multiple different states, while cards contain more information that elaborates on what you’re looking at in tiles.
A number of other major UI and UX changes are also coming in Football Manager 25, alongside the series’ first partnership with the Premier League and more. It’s well worth reading Jacobson and SI’s full post for the complete lowdown.
We don’t have a Football Manager 25 release date yet, but Jacobson says Sports Interactive and Sega will reveal the date in early September. Stay tuned for that and more.
