The football manager 25 was canceled after the creators of the game, Sports Interactive, admitted that the planned “technical and visual progress” would not be ready in time.
The FM series is the world’s most popular football manager game, and the fans were looking forward to the 2025 version, but it had repeatedly delayed a number of setbacks.
And Si confirmed today that the time had broken out.
Sport interactive regret to inform that we have made the difficult decision to terminate the football manager 25.
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– Football manager (@football manager) February 7, 2025
In an explanation, they said: “Sport interactive regret to communicate that after extensive internal discussion and careful consideration of Sega, we made the difficult decision to terminate the football manager 25 and to shift our focus on the next publication.
“We know that this will be a great disappointment, especially in view of the publication date that has already dealt twice, and you have excitedly awaited the first unveiling of gameplay.
“We are always proud to deliver the best price -performance ratio that bring you countless hours of pleasure that are worth every moment and every cent that you spend. With the start of FM25 we wanted to create the greatest technical and visual progress of the series for a generation and lay the building blocks for a new era.
“Due to a variety of challenges that we have opened so far, and much more unforeseen, we have not currently managed to play in enough play areas of the game, despite the phenomenal efforts of our team. Any decision to delay the publication was made to bring the game closer to the desired level, but when we approached critical milestones at the turn of the year, it became unmistakably clear that we would not achieve the required standard itself With the adapted timeline.
“We would have continued, release FM25 in its current state and repair things all over the line – but that’s not the right thing. We were also not ready to go beyond publication in March, as it would be too late in the football season to expect the players to buy another game later in the year. “
Si say you are still confident that you will meet the deadline for the publication of FM26.
