News FMM26 Feature Set Announced

[Kahuna]

1 minute ago, Marc Vaughan said:

Oh just to mention as I don't 'think' it's been stated clearly ... when you get a job offer now if the club is open to the idea you can now ask to remain at your current club until the end of the season and start the new role then.

Obviously it being FM, if you choose to do this it has consequences - the media and your players will react to your decision and it may well affect how the rest of your season plays out ... if things go well then your present board might even ask your opinion of who should become their next manager, do badly and they'll simply slam the door behind you

Yes yes yes! I think Dan mentioned this earlier in one of his comments, and believe me, it's a freaking huge development (apologies for the language) for the mobile franchise! 

Cheers!

[Marc Vaughan]

5 minutes ago, Kahuna said:

I hope in the future, we get the ability to multi-select. For example, friendly arrangements are tedious because we can only pick one by one. The same for players scouting or shortlisting. 

I think it would make the gameplay faster (what mobile is all about) for users if we can multi-select (maybe 3 friendlies at a time, 3/5 players at a time). 

Yeah I can understand that - rather than 'multi-select' which (imho) can be a bit fiddly on mobile I'd like to move towards something like how you can easily transfer/loan list lots of players at once in the detailed view on your squad ... you still have to click on each button to action the listing, but its FAR quicker than popping up the dialog for each one.

5 minutes ago, Kahuna said:

Once again, I appreciate your dedication and availability to the users. Thank you.

Much appreciated

(and apologies for not being around much the last few months, but as you can see we've been busy )

Edited November 1 by Marc Vaughan

[onur92]

We still have unanswered questions, Marc.

[leedsunited87]

Really actually looking forward to this on Tues! Can understand why the team didn't want to give to much away, I might start with men/womens and start in Sweden hopefully it's like the Danish league where there's a few Leagues in Sweden. Would love to start in say the Swedish 3rd division 

[Rafa Agatha Afkar]

Is it possible to train the German and Japanese national teams and is there any transfer news for example Fabrizio Romano? 

[MJShill]

Amazing, this will be my go to game of this season I reckon. One question, I saw that the womens teams were added for Sweden (and be assured I will look to win many a Champions League with Hammarby) but are the Men´s swedish leagues (Allsvenskan/Super Ettan) going to be in FMM26? 

[MJShill]

Never mind, jsut re-read the entire release statement. Buzzing for the release

 

[DanEnglish]

2 hours ago, onur92 said:

We still have unanswered questions, Marc.

Haha - I feel it’s a bit rude to say that. 

Marc’s got loads of currently-unanswered questions across the sites he participates on - remember he does have a game to release + upcoming updates to plan / develop. He engages with us because he wants to (or at least he thinks it useful to), not because he has to. Let’s be grateful for any answers we do get 👍 

[Marc Vaughan]

2 hours ago, onur92 said:

We still have unanswered questions, Marc.

That is normal - I too have unanswered questions, why are we here, why does tea taste better when my wife makes it etc.?

(more seriously I'll try and answer as many questions as I can, but will miss some at times, apologies I'm not perfect and my main job is designing/coding the game not doing PR/talking to people so sometimes I'll be off doing other things and skip a post)

Edited November 1 by Marc Vaughan

[Marc Vaughan]

1 hour ago, MJShill said:

Amazing, this will be my go to game of this season I reckon. One question, I saw that the womens teams were added for Sweden (and be assured I will look to win many a Champions League with Hammarby) but are the Men´s swedish leagues (Allsvenskan/Super Ettan) going to be in FMM26? 

Yes the Swedish men's leagues are included

[onur92]

1 hour ago, DanEnglish said:

Haha - I feel it’s a bit rude to say that. 

Marc’s got loads of currently-unanswered questions across the sites he participates on - remember he does have a game to release + upcoming updates to plan / develop. He engages with us because he wants to (or at least he thinks it useful to), not because he has to. Let’s be grateful for any answers we do get 👍 

You’re absolutely right, but as a manager who’s been waiting for the game for two years, I can get a bit impatient sometimes — I definitely don’t mean anything bad 😊😊

[Sasha]

Excellent news, @Marc Vaughan! Especially the international management, as I read that this aspect of the game was threatened. It’s one of my favourite, and it will remain so for the 27th edition in a row! 
 

What I expect the most is consistency, as you had two years to develop, and experienced yourself a career. 
 

the small things, apart the one you already fixed, are

- aging of players, they tend to retire too soon instead of going to lower divisions/abroad. 

- regens and name editing trigger odd names like Piotr Mbala, five-stars striker for Liechtenstein. Or Hidetoshi O’Hara, promising Georgian defender. 

-database used to be too small. Now we have row of useless players. 
Some nations like Paraguay are filled with players, whereas Bolivia or Kazakhstan have none. Also, I’d like so much to have a button to fine-tune how many players I want in the game.

-languages spoken are messy. 

-players with multiple passports tend to prefer better-ranked nations. Why not, but aged 25 or more they usually switch to their 2-d best nationality.
 

-why do foreign big clubs stay without managers? Even it their leagues aren’t loaded, they could nonetheless sign them.

-why do regens from certain nationalities pop up in a small pool of countries, and almost never in their native one? And why do they systematically have dual citizenship? In one of my saves Georgia got stripped of its best players, all choosing France. It happens in Rugby only!

Cant wait for Tuesday! 

 

[Marc Vaughan]

1 hour ago, Sasha said:

- aging of players, they tend to retire too soon instead of going to lower divisions/abroad. 

The way this works generally in the game is that a LOT depends on circumstances in this regard - first off the most important thing for a player to not retire is that they're still actively playing and doing alright, the longer this goes on the longer a player will play for.

In addition to this each player has an ambition/drive and an apdaptability personality characteristic, those affect the likelihood of a player retiring and when it might occur. 

A player who has limited drive and adaptability is less likely to play on after they're released at an older age unless other teams are showing fairly quick interest.

1 hour ago, Sasha said:

- regens and name editing trigger odd names like Piotr Mbala, five-stars striker for Liechtenstein. Or Hidetoshi O’Hara, promising Georgian defender. 

We work on this side of things continually - as the database grows in size this sort of thing improves, howeverI would say that there are in real-life some names which would be considered unrealistic because of immigration and suchlike.

1 hour ago, Sasha said:

-database used to be too small. Now we have row of useless players. 
Some nations like Paraguay are filled with players, whereas Bolivia or Kazakhstan have none. Also, I’d like so much to have a button to fine-tune how many players I want in the game.

I'm afraid that is unlikely to happen in all honesty - what people want differs hugely and having that sort of granular control isn't something I'm likely to spend the time building a UI for.

(at some point however if I've time in the future I might implement a simple 'text' based file to allow you to include and exclude specific people from the game which I think would give you what you want without taking huge amounts of development time and confusing more casual players - which is my primary concern)

1 hour ago, Sasha said:

-languages spoken are messy. 

Can you elaborate more about this?

1 hour ago, Sasha said:

-players with multiple passports tend to prefer better-ranked nations. Why not, but aged 25 or more they usually switch to their 2-d best nationality.

This should be more common in FMM26, it might also be worth mentioning that if you're managing a nation you can talk to players yourself not and try and persuade them to accept a call up to your nation.

 

[Sasha]

I’m always impressed by the amount of time you spend reading us all.

Thanks for the answers, and very encouraging ones! 
 

Languages: 

Taking Cagliari’s rooster in 2024.

Radunovic (GK) and Obert have good skills in English, despite never having played in an English-speaking country.

Shomurodov (Striker) is fluent in Kazakh and Tajik, but he comes from Uzbekistan a country which don’t have them as official nor huge minority language.

 

other example: Alexandru Maxim, Romania, speaks seven languages. Unlikely, not only because he never worked in France or Italy -but languages are listed-, also because seven languages is a very special skill a lot of students can never achieve. 
Generally speaking, English is too often listed; and one season in Turkey or in Portugal shouldn’t give you Turkish or Portuguese listed. 
Acquiring new languages is, in the opposite, very well coded.

But I once had Gianluca Lapadula, Italian-born Peruvian player, with breaking news “he is now fluent in Italian!” His father must be proud of him.

Again, those are small details, and they don’t irritate me very much. But I like consistency in this unique game. (Reason why I always buy the Editor.)

And finally, much support to you and the staff around you! I know that posting in the main forum is also of some help and support, I’ll try to post there again from time to time!

Edited November 1 by Sasha

[Marc Vaughan]

1 hour ago, Sasha said:

But I once had Gianluca Lapadula, Italian-born Peruvian player, with breaking news “he is now fluent in Italian!” His father must be proud of him.

With the language side of things our researchers input the informationw here they know it and we have a 'base nationality' for players - I combine with this the player history to create as accurate as possible a profile for a players language capabilities as possible when the game begins (and evolve it appropriately as play goes on).

This isn't always 100% accurate because the game doesn't know for sure if someone has learnt speciifc languages that are possible wihtin a country or not.

To give a real-world example close to the one you mention - one of my kids has Cuban heritage but has never lived in that country and moved to England when they were very young, in the game whether they speak Spanish competently would be down to a probability. In reality she does speak it pretty well, but not fully fluently ... however if she hadn't moved back to the US with me (where she was more able to connect with her Cuban roots and family) and we'd remained in the UK it would have been far less likely that she'd have had any Spanish language skills at all (so in essence what I'm trying to indicate is that without detailed knowledge about the people involved it could go either way and its easy to rationalise why or why not someone might speak a language).

Obviously if you have better knowledge then editing things (and possibly providing that information to our resarchers so you don't have to do it in future?) will give you a more realistic game in that aspect.

If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the approximation then obviously feel free to suggest them (at present each country has a list of languages which are associated with it, the likely fluency and the percentage of population who speak that language).

Edited November 1 by Marc Vaughan

[onur92]

Adding the languages spoken by each player really excites me, but there are also a few other things I’d love to see — like in the PC version, where clubs and managers have all their trophies listed, as well as club legends and favorite personnel. Being able to become one of them is honestly one of the features I’d most love to see added to the mobile version.

[Rafa Agatha Afkar]

What is the size of this football manager 26 mobile game? 

[Elvolante]

22 hours ago, Marc Vaughan said:

Yeah I can understand that - rather than 'multi-select' which (imho) can be a bit fiddly on mobile I'd like to move towards something like how you can easily transfer/loan list lots of players at once in the detailed view on your squad ... you still have to click on each button to action the listing, but its FAR quicker than popping up the dialog for each one.

You can change the view to transfer status to quickly place players on transfer or loan lists. We need multiple selection for scouting and other areas of the game, because it would be much easier to multi-select the players we want to scout rather than having to open each player profile and then click scout player. You do it 30+ times at a go and it starts to feel monotonous 

[Elvolante]

12 hours ago, onur92 said:

Adding the languages spoken by each player really excites me, but there are also a few other things I’d love to see — like in the PC version, where clubs and managers have all their trophies listed, as well as club legends and favorite personnel. Being able to become one of them is honestly one of the features I’d most love to see added to the mobile version.

We need to be able to search for managers and they need to have a background history like players already, that shows where they were, how many games they managed, how many won and how many lost. They should also have a title page.

Clubs should also have a background history showing streaks, records, legends and the like.

Leagues should also have a records page like a more improved awards page with history.

It would add to the depth/realism of the game world.

[MikeF]

Excellent updates and I really appreciate the engagement with us all here @Marc Vaughan  

I’ll be there on launch day. Just apologise to my new job…

[sahil7]

On 01/11/2025 at 08:55, DanEnglish said:

I guess you’ve only looked at the social media posts? Not the actual blog post at the top?

Heres my list of best features added:

• women’s football (which we knew about)
• men’s Swedish league
• two new languages
• two new player roles (wish for more)
• finance regulations + penalties 🔥
• select your own affiliate 🔥
• new holidaying options
• negotiate start new job at end-season 🔥
• star in a documentary
• better international mgmt 🔥

Plus there’s the forward save compatibility (with FMM24 saves), all the new licensing + faces, the new World Cup challenges, the improved AI squad building + tactics, and probably more stuff you’ll discover later on …

… do you still think it’s just FMM24 plus women’s football … ?

oh no i did go through the full blog post too, not just the social media one. my main concern was that the list of features initially felt (at least from the outside) more like quality of life improvements rather than completely new mechanics that change how we play. but credit where it’s due, the more @Marc Vaughan has explained things here and elsewhere, the more interesting the features sound. really excited now, and like i said before, i’d love to be proven wrong about my skepticism. just a fan hoping for a better game every year :)

[Nickoleo2453]

WE GOT WCB, IFB , A REVAMPED LIBERO, AND LOW BLOCK.

WHO CALLED SANTA😭

@Marc Vaughan in future editions or updates, can we please get with a new role in dm role like volante or bbm at dm or a Wide playmaker in the MR/L , I've never seen a wide midfielder since I've started playing, they're either DW, W , IW , if the WM can be more highlighted I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

thank you for the work you do.

[Marc Vaughan]

12 minutes ago, Nickoleo2453 said:

 in future editions or updates, can we please get with a new role in dm role like volante or bbm at dm or a Wide playmaker in the MR/L , I've never seen a wide midfielder since I've started playing, they're either DW, W , IW , if the WM can be more highlighted I'd greatly appreciate it.

I try and expand the tactics and add roles each year - I'm sure something new will sneak into either an update or future version again at some point (no promises as to which, but I do listen to feedback ).

[Marc Vaughan]

55 minutes ago, sahil7 said:

oh no i did go through the full blog post too, not just the social media one. my main concern was that the list of features initially felt (at least from the outside) more like quality of life improvements rather than completely new mechanics that change how we play. but credit where it’s due, the more @Marc Vaughan has explained things here and elsewhere, the more interesting the features sound. really excited now, and like i said before, i’d love to be proven wrong about my skepticism. just a fan hoping for a better game every year

Just to mention (and this might be strange) - but I don't take offense to anyone being critical of the game or wanting more, yes I work rather hard helping to make it (as my long-suffering family ) ... but equally getting honest feedback keeps me on my toes and stops me getting cocky, so its not a bad thing imho

[saccsasca]

1 hour ago, Marc Vaughan said:

Just to mention (and this might be strange) - but I don't take offense to anyone being critical of the game or wanting more, yes I work rather hard helping to make it (as my long-suffering family ) ... but equally getting honest feedback keeps me on my toes and stops me getting cocky, so its not a bad thing imho

Uh, sorry for asking, but has dribbling improved this year?

 

In my opinion, dribbling has become way more apparent in the current world of football and more utilised, so I’m wondering by if we will be able to see higher volume of dribbles per game?

 

[Elvolante]

2 hours ago, Nickoleo2453 said:

WE GOT WCB, IFB , A REVAMPED LIBERO, AND LOW BLOCK.

WHO CALLED SANTA😭

@Marc Vaughan in future editions or updates, can we please get with a new role in dm role like volante or bbm at dm or a Wide playmaker in the MR/L , I've never seen a wide midfielder since I've started playing, they're either DW, W , IW , if the WM can be more highlighted I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

thank you for the work you do.

We seriously need a wide playmaker. Especially now with Villareal and Athletico madrid using them in a 4-4-2.

We also need a CM who runs the channels like how DeBruyne did it and for a 5-3-2 system. A wide centre midfielder but he runs channels when he can.

[Arczik]

Elvolante, that right. 

Edited Sunday at 12:24 by Arczik

[Elvolante]

18 hours ago, Marc Vaughan said:

With the language side of things our researchers input the informationw here they know it and we have a 'base nationality' for players - I combine with this the player history to create as accurate as possible a profile for a players language capabilities as possible when the game begins (and evolve it appropriately as play goes on).

This isn't always 100% accurate because the game doesn't know for sure if someone has learnt speciifc languages that are possible wihtin a country or not.

To give a real-world example close to the one you mention - one of my kids has Cuban heritage but has never lived in that country and moved to England when they were very young, in the game whether they speak Spanish competently would be down to a probability. In reality she does speak it pretty well, but not fully fluently ... however if she hadn't moved back to the US with me (where she was more able to connect with her Cuban roots and family) and we'd remained in the UK it would have been far less likely that she'd have had any Spanish language skills at all (so in essence what I'm trying to indicate is that without detailed knowledge about the people involved it could go either way and its easy to rationalise why or why not someone might speak a language).

Obviously if you have better knowledge then editing things (and possibly providing that information to our resarchers so you don't have to do it in future?) will give you a more realistic game in that aspect.

If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the approximation then obviously feel free to suggest them (at present each country has a list of languages which are associated with it, the likely fluency and the percentage of population who speak that language).

For Nigerians, your name usually tells the language you speak but I see Nigerian players(mostly regens) who bear Yoruba names having only Hausa and English for spoken languages or having a mix of a Yoruba and Igbo names having Hausa and English for spoken languages.

Maybe it's because they use the percent of a country who speaks a certain language to randomly distribute instead of names.

[Marc Vaughan]

31 minutes ago, Elvolante said:

We seriously need a wide playmaker. Especially now with Villareal and Athletico madrid using them in a 4-4-2.

I think that's fair and I'll consider adding that in the future.

31 minutes ago, Elvolante said:

We also need a CM who runs the channels like how DeBruyne did it and for a 5-3-2 system. A wide centre midfielder but he runs channels when he can.

Just to mention 'likes to run the channels' is a preferred move that some players have in the game, its more a mentality that a player needs to have - certain positions will encourage it (obviously) but a player being a natural at it is something that someone either has or doesn't ... DeBruyne was a special players.

(if you look on a players positions page then you'll see which 'preferred moves' they have)

[Marc Vaughan]

3 minutes ago, Elvolante said:

For Nigerians, your name usually tells the language you speak but I see Nigerian players(mostly regens) who bear Yoruba names having only Hausa and English for spoken languages or having a mix of a Yoruba and Igbo names having Hausa and English for spoken languages.

Maybe it's because they use the percent of a country who speaks a certain language to randomly distribute instead of names.

That would require a level of granularity that unfortunately we don't have at present the 'names' can be assigned to a nation - but we don't have the details of specific breakdowns for that side of things and those direct connections to languages in the game at present.

If you want to contact the relevant reseacher and talk to them about that side of things and encourage them to help us add that information into the game I'd be happy to implement it (but I'm afraid my knowledge of such things is somewhat limited).