The Football Director 25 was canceled after the creators in the game, Sports Interactive, admitted that the planned “technical and visual progress” will not be ready in time.
The FM series is the most popular football managers simulation game, and fans were eagerly awaiting the 2025 version, but a series of setbacks was over and over again.
SI confirmed today that they have run out of time.
Sports interactive regret to inform us that we made the difficult decision to cancel the football manager 25.
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Footballmanager Director February 7, 2025
In a statement, they said: “Sports interactive regret for reporting that, after an intense interior discussion and carefully looking at Sega, we made a difficult decision to cancel the football manager 25 and turn our focus into the next version.
“We know that this will be a great disappointment, especially given that the date of the release has already moved twice, and you expected impatiently the first disclosure of the game.
“We have always been proud to provide the best value for the money games that bring you countless hours of enjoyment, and this feels that it deserves every moment and every penny you spend. With the launch of the FM25, we started creating the largest technical and visual progress in the series for one generation, and put the building blocks for a new era.
“Due to a variety of challenges that we were open yet, and a lot of unexpected, we have not now achieved what we started doing in sufficient areas of the game, despite the tremendous efforts of our team. Every decision was taken to delay the issue with the aim of making the game closer to the required level But as we approach the critical monuments at the end of the year, it became unambiguously clear that we will not achieve the desired standard, even with the modified timetable.
“We could press FM25 in its current state, and we put things down at the bottom of the line – but this is not the right thing to do. We were also ready to overcome the March version, as it would expect late in the football season to expect the players to buy another game. Later in the year.
Si says they still hope to meet the deadline for the release of FM26.
