Everything we know about FM25 - Football Manager 2025 Release Date and Features

The release date has been announced as November 26th 2024 and an RRP of £44.99 with a 10% discount for Pre Orders

They've also showcased a new logo and pink branding

That logo is… something 

5 New Screenshots

Player Profiles

Choose your club screen

Squad Dashboard

First preview of the newgen faces in the new Unity engine for FM25

looks highly uninspiring

if a “Highlight” is the new name of 25, not 2025 then that says a lot

the newgen of young Amario looks nothing like him, apart from the obvious

New “Channel Forward” Role

• The new role called “Channel Forward” has been confirmed in one of the screenshots

Well obviously, they're not going to magically generate an accurate face of a real player they don't have a face for.

I assume the fact that he has a face at all is a bug of some sort.

Price Comparison

Head over the the dedicated FM25 Price Comparison blog for a list of prices.

Best Prices

GBP £36.89

EUR €49.19

USD $49.19

AUD $73.75

They could make a better job than that, SI don’t seem to have taken onboard any of the communities work on Newgens faces

I'm not really sure what you expect.

• Building there own AI to generate faces would be a huge undertaking for a company with no expertise in that area.
• Using a public offering that the community uses will come with a variety of licensing issues.
• I can't fathom how they would get an AI generated photo to look the same as a player on the pitch, that would be absurdly complex and not something i've seen available anywhere. No doubt they want the skin tone, hair style and other features to match.

What exactly do you expect them to take onboard from the communities efforts?

I will certainly not pre-order the game. I don't buy things with my eyes half open, especially at this stage of my life. I will wait to see the "final" product, although, in reality, things are always corrected on the fly and later too... It's still too early to make a decision, though.

looks woeful lol

lets see what the changes are 

and what can still be be edited data/graphics

interesting they still are saying it will be save game compatible..so your save from 24 can be used in 25

what happens if you are have an international save?

That's a good point indeed…

There are issues with anything outside of ‘personal use’ with AI. SI will likely need an expensive licence. It's staggeringly obvious, or should be, that SI can't just rinse an AI for 500000 faces, nor can it use an AI freely within game to generate on the fly without either a licence or their own model. 

i havent suggested the use of AI

i simply expect that they could provide a more realistic generic image of a young bloke with african heritage

just looks like a cartoon

You referred to 

SI don’t seem to have taken onboard any of the communities work on Newgens faces

Which has almost entirely been done using AI. So, were SI to ‘take onboard’ any of the ‘communities work’ it would involve use of an AI image generator.

Perhaps you didn't realise the community was using AI image gen?

The SI model does look cartoony, I agree. Sadly for the reasons I previously stated, they are unlikely to provide realism akin to the communities work without an AI, and that will involve licensing in one way or another.

Looks like something out of Word 98. Almost as if SI paid no attention to current logo design trends.

Dynamic Minimalism, Glassmorphism, Symbolic Logos & Metaphoric Storytelling, Playing with Typography, Geometric Shapes, Gradient and Bioluminescent Color Spaces all ignored in favour of something that looks like it was created alongside Clippy.

 

Statement from Miles Jacobson in regards the purpose and future of the roadmap

Each time we make an announcement, the next announcement date unlocks. So once the Introduction to Women’s Football content goes live, the next announcement, and the date for the next announcement, will be known. But it doesn’t end there the Roadmap is going to be a living thing. It’s not just about gameplay announcements, it’s also going to be about the games themselves. I’ve spoken in the blogs previously about how our content updates in the future aren’t all going to be just patches for existing content so new content going into future updates will also be announced via the Roadmap when #FM25 is released so you’ll know what’s coming. Some of these will be small, some will be big. And with the Roadmap being live, some things may move around.

Not worded that well, but it seems to suggest new features post release rather than just patches post release. Which has already been alluded to elsewhere.

I'm hoping the TBC on the marketing push isn't because they actually don't know when they'll do that and more to just get used to only knowing the next date and not knowing any other dates until that first date has past.

So this leaves me wondering whether a Ryzen AI 9 365 with 880M iGPU is going to be sufficient. I've been lining up laptop replacements and putting it off to see what FM25 specs are like (ignoring the fact the game might be a minimum viable product like CM03/04)

I don't want to have to sit at the desk to play FM, but I recall FM23/24 looking a tad rough on a 780M or Intel Iris Xe and lagging like hell at 60FPS in games.

https://community.sports-interactive.com/bugtracker/football-manager-2024-early-access-bugs-tracker/editor/pre-game-editor/clubs-are-not-getting-relegated-from-ffp-r19450/ 

Is there anything to suggest this has been addressed as it has been broken for a couple of years 

Hope they sort goal line technology not seen one given in FM 24 even though there as been loads I’ve seen. 

Nothing to suggest it has. The game has some questionable finances. I've seen huge clubs relegated and lose absolutely no sponsorship despite languishing in the 2nd tier for years - that's broken as all hell.

yes there are a few major issues with the game 

its why you need an in game editor you can remove sponsorship/impose sanctions like point deductions and transfer bans that the game should be doing but isnt

More leaks this time from Slovenian retailers:

The expanded Data Hub offers deeper insight into statistics and performance, allowing you to analyze every aspect of your team's game.

New tactical insights allow you to fine-tune your strategy, giving you an edge over your opponents.

An improved scouting and transfer system gives you more control over discovering and bringing in new talent. With personalized scouting reports and advanced player analysis tools, it's now easier than ever to build the team of your dreams.

More advanced AI managers are now more intelligent and responsive, providing more challenging and dynamic gameplay.

For the first time, cross-play allows you to compete with your friends regardless of which platform they play on.

Thanks to @KrvakForLife 

Is this the truth about adding the Arabic language? 

If it is real and not a mistake, it is amazing🔥

Yeah, but I've a feeling people are saying the sanctions don't occur even when added with Editor?

I confess to adding a salary cap or max wage to all the major leagues in the past, which doesn't work either, you just end up with loads of free transfers because AI clubs can't manage squads or finance effectively.

You referred to 

SI don’t seem to have taken onboard any of the communities work on Newgens faces

Which has almost entirely been done using AI. So, were SI to ‘take onboard’ any of the ‘communities work’ it would involve use of an AI image generator.

Perhaps you didn't realise the community was using AI image gen?

The SI model does look cartoony, I agree. Sadly for the reasons I previously stated, they are unlikely to provide realism akin to the communities work without an AI, and that will involve licensing in one way or another.

Either way, they've got too much on their plate to improve that now. I don't understand the point of complaining about one of so many shoddy features when the community does a better job anyway. It's a non issue.