Soccer Supervisor 26 has acquired a large bug-fixing replace. The primary patch following the sport’s launch addresses among the crucial points not too long ago raised by followers, although further issues proceed to plague Football Manager 26.
Following a year-long hiatus, Sports activities Interactive’s well-liked sports activities sim franchise returned on November 4, when Football Manager 26 debuted on PC and consoles, in addition to cell gadgets. The launch didn’t go easily, with the sport instantly review-bombed throughout a number of platforms. Followers cited UI points, lacking options, bugs, and a basic lack of polish as key issues affecting their expertise. As of this writing, the sport sits at over 3,000 “Overwhelmingly Unfavourable” Steam opinions, in addition to 1.83- and a couple of.1-star rankings on the PlayStation and Xbox/Microsoft Shops, respectively.
Because the Football Manager 26 review bombing campaign continues, the sports activities sim has now acquired its first post-launch replace on November 5. Recognized by model quantity 26.0.4, the patch addresses a large breadth of technical points, together with some that followers have been complaining about since launch, akin to UI wonkiness and participant coaching bugs. The replace is at present solely out there on Steam, as a part of the sport’s public beta department.
The non-exhaustive changelog that Sports activities Interactive shared alongside the brand new beta construct lists 66 gadgets. Amongst them are fixes for numerous UI points, akin to overlapping textual content and different misaligned components. The patch notes additionally point out “substantial” progress on stability, together with crash fixes. Quite a few translation errors have been addressed, with the replace additionally introducing further fixes for bugs inflicting matches to freeze firstly of the second half in single-player Profession mode. Whereas this explicit difficulty was first recognized through the Football Manager 26 beta in late October, the newest changelog suggests it has now been decreased however not absolutely resolved, as there’s a couple of potential cause matches can freeze.
The 26.0.4 replace additionally introduces a number of new FM26 options, together with a choice choice for customizing attribute colours and 1.5x match pace highlights. It addresses numerous scouting and substitution bugs, together with UI points on the Particular person Coaching Focus and Squad Planner screens, amongst others.
FM26 is the primary sequence entry to ditch Sports Interactive’s Match Engine that powered Football Manager games for about 17 years in favor of Unity. In consequence, many followers have been anticipating it to be buggier than ordinary, merely on account of not having the advantage of years’ value of incremental updates to construct upon. Nonetheless, the continuing assessment bombing suggests the sport’s day-one state has fallen brief even of these lowered shopper expectations. Sports activities Interactive is anticipated to proceed releasing common updates to shine the expertise within the coming months, although it stays to be seen whether or not these efforts can be sufficient to enhance Soccer Supervisor 26‘s person opinions.
- Substantial crash and stability fixes.
- Quite a few string translation fixes.
- Quite a few textual content overlaps and misalignment fixes.
- Quite a few tile/card polish.
- Additional fixes to Matches Freezing at begin of the second half in Single-Participant Profession
- Added a choice to show off/alter the pace of UI transitions between screens
- Change to default colouring of attributes to make them extra distinguishable.
- Added choice choice to permit customers to customize attribute colors.
- Added 1.5x Match Pace throughout highlights and 4x Match Pace between highlights
- Manually scouting a participant will now accurately delegate an applicable scout.
- Newgen portraits will now seem throughout match broadcast graphics.
- Mounted difficulty stopping subs processing that have been made at halftime through the techniques display screen.
- Mounted difficulty the place white match ball could be utilized in snowy climate.
- Set piece attributes are actually seen when setting Set Piece/Penalty takers.
- Tactic Familiarity will now accurately progress over time inside Match Day > Ways.
- Mounted difficulty inflicting World Golden Ball award to be skewed in the direction of South American gamers.
- Textual content scaling choice choice will now be saved after exiting the sport.
- Mounted difficulty stopping person from closing Fixtures & Outcomes popup post-match.
- Mounted difficulty inflicting Participant Database to return incorrect outcomes if person switched between Curiosity Ranges
- Mounted difficulty forcing person to vacation previous Finish of Season Staff Assembly
- Workers Tasks has been made extra accessible and simpler to find.
- Deciding on any carousel choice in addition to the primary on the ‘Membership Workers’ now takes you to the right view
- Profession Stats will now not show GK columns for outfield gamers
- Mounted difficulty stopping customers to progress via UCL Squad Registration regardless of right variety of Homegrown gamers included.
- Appropriate pronouns will now be used inside ‘Ask Agent About Availability’ dialog.
- Psychological Attributes will now show accurately when set inside the Workers Database device.
- Mounted difficulty the place there was no solution to inform which golf equipment have been promoted/relegated through Season Preview
- Membership badges are actually proven on the Media Dream Eleven
- Again navigational directional arrow shortcut now useful throughout playing cards/instruments
- Total begin/till dates inside Membership > Funds > Money owed & Loans will now not show 01/01/1900.
- Mounted difficulty the place Squad Numbers could be lacking if making a single substitution.
- Harm icon now higher displayed on contrasting pink kits.
- Person can now choose ‘None’ as an choice for Particular person Coaching.
- Person can now take away beforehand set Particular person Coaching Focus.
- Profession > Managerial Vacancies will now show each males’s and ladies’s groups.
- Mounted difficulty the place participant would reject the personal asking worth that they themselves had set.
- Mounted difficulty stopping person from persevering with if loanee was injured on worldwide obligation.
- Supervisor Creation > Equipment will now accurately mirror color adjustments.
- Supervisor Creation > Mounted wrinkles slider not making use of
- Supervisor apparel decisions will now save accurately.
- Mounted difficulty the place take away button was not displaying in Squad Planner
- Mounted Person with the ability to promote instalments inside clauses device
- Membership Header in Welcome Pack will now show the right data.
- Person can now solely mortgage switch instalments from the purpose they took over, not from actual world transfers that occurred pre-game begin date.
- Refined 2025 squad registration guidelines for the NWSL.
- “Exit Talks” button now features accurately inside Contract Negotiations.
- Reworked Match Momentum Graph to raised present groups with darkish colouring.
- Opposition group will now be highlighted in Europa/Convention League pre match league tables.
- Winners will now show inside Competitions Card.
- Person is now all the time taken again to portal after utilizing instantaneous consequence for a pleasant match
- Pink card icon will now accurately show for every respective group inside the Scorebar of males’s Champions League matches.
- Mounted spacing of the combination rating inside the Scorebar of males’s Champions League matches.
- Area bar can now be used to interrupt vacation or processing.
- Mounted difficulty the place “Find Similar Player To…” inside Participant Database wouldn’t filter out right outcomes.
- Fixture tile on Portal will now accurately replace post-match.
- The “Scouting Finished” message headline will now show the identify of the participant.
- The “Intermediary Suggestion” headline will now show the identify of the participant.
- Mounted difficulty inflicting the Attributes Graph inside Progress Report to not show graph strains.
- Added a Depart button to Proceed panel so spectators of a web-based match can depart throughout halftime.
- Mounted inconsistency of groups being chosen by default through ‘Fast Begin’
- Mounted “non-EU” rule in Serie A that was stopping sure gamers being registered in sport regardless of being registered in actual life.
- Unmanageable divisions will now not show inside Superior Recreation Setup.
- Improved in-game tooltips, resolving points with textual content wrapping and show location logic
- Tooltip has been readded to First Staff > Type to show numeric ranking.
- Modified the color styling on First Staff > Place Selectors to make sure the place selectors mirror the group choice accurately
- Mounted difficulty stopping Medical Centre > Season Abstract desk from loading regardless of having injured participant.
- Launched
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November 4, 2025
- ESRB
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E For Everybody / Gentle Language, In-Recreation Purchases
- Developer(s)
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Sports activities Interactive


