Football Manager 25 delayed again

Football Manager 25 has been delayed until March next year to enable developers the time required to “deliver the best possible experience” for users.

It’s the second time the game’s launch has been put back as it undergoes a major overhaul.

FM admin explained in a blog which read: “After careful consideration, Sports Interactive have made the tough decision to further delay the release of Football Manager 25.

“Following discussions with SEGA, our licensors and partners, we have agreed the best course of action is to delay the launch until March 2025. Specific platform release dates will follow once confirmed. In our last development update in September, we explained that we needed to push FM25’s original release back to give ourselves more time to deliver the best possible experience for this first instalment in a new era of Football Manager.

We have made the tough decision to delay the release of Football Manager 25 until March 2025.

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— Football Manager (@FootballManager) October 10, 2024

“This additional time has not been sufficient to ensure the game quality and experience meets your expectations and our very high standards.

“In the previous blog we explained that it has been a difficult development cycle for the studio. Many things have been moving slower than we had predicted – despite everyone in the team working at an incredible pace to try and get everything done.

“Timelines were already tight and, as rightly pointed out by many of your recent comments, we were simply rushing too much and in danger of compromising our usual standards. This has put an enormous amount of pressure on everyone working across the studio, who are all passionately committed to delivering the best game possible.

“FM25 is the biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation. We simply cannot compromise the delivery of this crucial juncture in Football Manager’s history by rushing to release it in November.

“We are intensely aware that this will be massively disappointing for you. We share that disappointment and are extremely sorry.”