After making the major decision of skipping a year, Football Manager is back.
Sports Interactive and Sega have announced this year’s entry to the long-running football management strategy game: Football Manager 26.
Football Manager 26 will see improved graphics on match days, changes to the UI, full Premier League license and more. The game will also now run on the Unity game engine.
Football Manager 25, which supposed to release last year, was cancelled due to setbacks of transitioning into the new game engine, ending a 20-year streak of annual releases from the game series started in 2005.
The first teaser seems to show off the new-and-improved match day visuals, which compared to the ones seen in Football Manager 24, is night and day. But don’t expect EA Sports FC quality visuals of course.
However, do expect to see EA Sports FC logos in FM 26—they come together as part of the Premier League license deal. This is the football game equivalent of seeing a Gran Turismo-branded race car in Assetto Corsa Competizione.
Gameplay of the new match day experience will be revealed soon.
No release date has been announced for Football Manager 26 just yet. But it’s likely to release within this year.