FM25 Facts
As you might already know, Football Manager 2024 is the last of its kind.
The reason being Sports Interactive's June 2023 announcement revealing that FM25 will come with a full rewrite in the Unity game engine. That is one of the biggest changes in the history of the Football Manager franchise.
In a nutshell, Football Manager 2025 will come with a vastly improved UI, new tech for Newgens, new and more real-life animations, graphical upgrades everywhere (new graphics engine in particular) and the introduction of women's football. This is what SI promised.
Surely, the expectations are higher than any other iteration of the recent past because for the first time in decades FM 2025 is going to be a true sequel.
FM25 Wishlist
The urge to play FM2024 is slowly fading for some of us by now. We have had our long runs with a couple of teams and reached a point we don’t feel so attached to the game like a few months ago. It can happen to everyone sooner or later.
This is the point where we start thinking of the next arrangement in the FM series, which is of course Football Manager 2025. Anticipating new features we’d like to see, as well as improvements and fixes to various aspects of the game that have occasionally let us down before.
Jake put together a video on our channel, outlining 5 features he wants to see in the next Football Manager. Check it out.
The people at Sports Interactive do listen to their loyal community and always look out for any interesting suggestions they could integrate to the game. The point of this list is to sum up all the interesting suggestions our community has expressed.
And now, it's time for the list of Football Manager 2025 new features requested by the FM community. Please keep in the mind, the order is random.
The whole international management experience desperately needs a major overhaul.
The AI for Directors of Football requires improvement as this staff role tends to be inefficient or just plain useless. This also applies to other senior staff members, such as the Technical Director and the Loan Manager.
Offer a more realistic way of playing the game where you're not buying any players, but instead you will have meetings with the DoF at regular intervals where positions, tactics and player types will be required to fit the club's model.
A stadium and grounds editor could make a lot of people happy.
Sponsorships need rework. It would be nice being able to see your sponsors, get options to sign them, fulfil expectations, earn bonuses and so on.
Lower the occurrence of overpowered newgen wonderkids and give the older players a fighting chance, especially in terms of mental attributes.
Enhance the tutorial mode for newcomers that guides you through the basics of the game, transfers, contracts and matchday options.
Introduce postponements of games due to weather conditions to add the realism of fixture crunch. this could add a little extra spice to that end of season run-in.
Allow facilities to get upgraded by more than a single level, if your finances are sufficient.
Implement a dedicated module for AI managers where we can keep track of the whereabouts and relevant match data for the most reputable ones at least.
Have an option to become an interim manager and get the job or not based on your short-term results.
Youth and B teams could do with a revamp that will boost their importance and impact for the first team.
Be able to start your managing career lower, at the helm of a youth team or a B team and work your way up. This could be a nice touch for long-term saves.
Make the newgen faces photorealistic, as they remain cartoonish after more than a decade.
Get inspired from community-made skins to enhance the UI further and step away from the spreadsheet look and feel.
Chairman mode, because despite being considered out of scope, it's something several people try to replicate anyway.
Allow spending of your wages to speed up the process of acquiring manager badges, or arrange team meals that can boost morale.
Expand the interaction module (for both players and media) to be more original and less repetitive by utilizing GPT generative AIs.
Focus further on advanced stats and allow keeping them available / accessible for previous seasons.
More dynamic crowd sounds and fan chants where possible.
Introduce a harder mode in terms of difficulty for people who would opt for that. For example, being able to beat Real Madrid as Aberdeen within 5 years isn't something that'd happen in real life.
More competitive scouting. Some clubs have academies in other countries, so that could be a venue to explore.
Be able to save scouting assignments, so you don't have to key it all in again on a new save.
Tie in playing time and wage demands on the same screen. For example, offer a wonderkid 40K p/w for a rotation role or 25K p/w for an important role.
Be able to upgrade your facilities without it being tied to club reputation, as long as finances suffice.
Stop players from complaining about lack of playing time when they just recovered from a serious injury.
Knockout matches need to be classed as 2 different scores for team talk sake because it currently seems to be solely based on the aggregate score.
Fix occasions where players don't understand why you want to loan them out due to squad registration restrictions.
Add a first person dugout view from the manager's eyes.
Touchline shouts tend to lead to childish, unprofessional, or outright disrespectful reactions from players. There's no point if the game punishes you for using shouts most of the time.
Introduce post-match video review sessions with the players. Perhaps review clips of action involving the players and then select a decision about what you want to tell them to aid their improvement.
Data analysists giving better constructive feedback. For example, you concede from the edge of the box, I suggest dropping Joe slightly deep, or changing his role to that as it would close that gap, etc.
More staff role, such as nutritionists.
Boost the immersion in terms of keeping up with the world of football. Streamline player performance overview by competition and by nation.
Stop the nonsense of players getting annoyed when praising them.
Introduce a history list area where your can check on the top X players for a club in apps, goals, etc. For the seasons played in-game that is.
Allow the human manager to leave a club at end of contract without it being a resignation.
Better filtering on holiday mode when using the apply for manager jobs option.
Implement situational tactical instructions. For example, if you have two BBMs but one goes forward, the other stays and vice versa. If one goes forward, the winger on his side tucks in to cover. If both bomb forward, the full backs slot in.
Players shouldn't demand improved contracts after just a dozen games despite having years remaining on their current deals. It's unrealistic and it gets whole squad annoyed once you refuse to give them the contract.
What do YOU want to see in FM 2025?
There are 2 ways for you to make your own feature requests:
- Leave a comment here on this article
- Reply to the FM 25 Wishlist thread
We'll be updating this article regularly to include fresh feature requests, so make sure to check back often.
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