Football Manager 25 postponed to 2025, a release date was announced just a week ago

On October 1, 2024, Sports Interactive and Sega announced that the football management simulation Football Manager would be released on November 25 and 26, 2024. But you could now forget this day again.

As both companies announced today, the publication has been postponed to 2025.

Football Manager 25: Release no earlier than March 2025

The new release month is now March 2025, an exact date is still pending.

As mentioned, the game was scheduled to be released on November 26th, 2024 for PC, PS5 and Xbox, according to recent plans, with a Switch version scheduled for December 3rd, 2024.

“After careful consideration, Sports Interactive has made the difficult decision to further delay the release of Football Manager 25,” the studio said in a statement.

“After discussions with Sega, our licensors and partners, we have agreed that it is best to delay the release until March 2025. Specific release dates for each platform will follow as they are confirmed.”

“In our last development update in September, we explained that we had to push back the original release of FM25 to give us more time to deliver the best possible experience for this first part of a new era of Football Manager.”

“This additional time was not enough to ensure that the game quality and experience met your expectations and our very high standards. In the last blog we explained that it was a difficult development cycle for the studio. Many things developed more slowly than we had predicted – even though everyone on the team worked at an incredible pace to get everything done.

“The timelines were already tight and, as many of your recent comments have rightly highlighted, we were simply in too much of a hurry and risked compromising our usual standards. This has put enormous pressure on everyone at the studio, who are all passionate about delivering the best game possible.

“FM25 is the biggest technical and visual evolution of the series in a generation. We cannot jeopardize the release of this important milestone in Football Manager history by rushing it into November. Of course, none of us expected to be at this point seven weeks before release, but in keeping with our studio values, we’re always thinking about the big picture – and the big picture here is that we need this extra time to make a game to deliver something we can all be proud of. “

“We would like to thank the many players who have already pre-ordered the game for their trust and support. However, if you wish to request a refund due to the delay, please contact your retailer.”

At the same time, it is pointed out that there will again be early access on PC and Mac. At the same time, the gameplay reveal has now been postponed to the end of January 2025.