What new feature do you most want to see in Football Manager 2026?

Better match experience. More realistic match graphics with proper commentary and more immersive crowd sounds.

Sponsorship negotiations

Ability for players to pick up cards for things like time wasting, diving and dissent depending on certain attributes

Director of Football mode

More realistic youth management, with fictional schools and very young regens getting signed from these schools by the manager or head of academy, with multiple youth teams and leagues, with there being competition between clubs for players before they are even recruited in the first place.

Possibility of clubs actually going out of business every so often, though very rare.

Actual drama like scandals and crowd trouble and betting charges.

More info into who the chairmen and directors are, with detailed preferences and tendencies, with the possibility of crazy owners ruining clubs and doing mental things.

PSR so transfer fees are written down over contract duration and for each player to have a ‘PSR book value’

A good international mode. With trainings for players during the international games. Possibility to speak to international players.

AI integration, more Youth Academy options

There needs to be more drama. Crowd trouble. Flares thrown into changing rooms. Alarms set off in hotels before games. UEFA fines for political Tifos. AI generated questions in press conference and typed rather than selected responses.

Press conferences to be improved

Something you actually use your manager wages for

Make playing defensively functional

Out of possession roles

Better animations

Sign all trialists with one click after they’ve agreed, rather than one by one. Or put them in a list for you to confirm which ones you want to sign.

Stadium builder - so pick how the stadium looks and when expanding how many seats etc. Sick of it being expanded by 4 seats it taking 14526 years and costing 200k per seat.

Advanced youth development - more options for better chances at getting higher rated youth players.

Ranked Versus mode. You get matched against another person, you get teams of roughly equal ability (or the same team) and play a 1v1 against each other.

Stadium view before every match for more realistic feel of playing in an iconic ground

Option to continue after retiring as a DoF/Club owner

Option to search scouts w/World Knowledge.

Competitive online play

I'd like the player prices to actually be realistic. I'm so tired of seeing players in my club worth 50m suddenly become worth 300m when they sign for another higher rep team. It doesn't even make sense because when I have 5 star rep my players are never worth thet much.

Audio commentary

Your star player not getting irritated after resting him for 3 consecutive unimportant matches

Start as U19 coach’. Become a top club coach one day or stay as a youth coach and constantly create new stars for your club. Another idea I've had in mind for a while is to start as a real manager. Example: Choose Alonso and start with Leverkusen.

More fluid tactics in order to apply Relationism properly

The press conferences questions needs an update. Tired of answering same sets of questions all the time

Players not getting upset because you’ve praised them. Imagine Mo Salah handing in a transfer request because Arne Slot kept telling him he was doing well in matches in real life

An option in the pre game editor to put stuff into clubs like can only sign players from this or that region just like athletic Bilbao

AI generated faces for regens

Integrating AI into it - all discussions with players/press to be driven by it. Either adhoc answers or create own presets

Analytics to compare over top 5 leagues.

Include more realism for newgens that you'd be scared to do with real players, e.g. long bans, scandal.

Have the ability to manage the U21's and U18's as well as first team

I want youth teams to be playable so you can move up through the ranks

Off ball movement instructions for individual players (more sophisticated than "move into channels" or whatever)

Scuffles on the touch line with opposition managers and players like Mourinho

More tactic freedom and much more detailed tactic creating If I want my team to defend in 4-4-2 shape but then transfer to some wild 3atb system with so much fluidity I want to be able to create that

Make AI news articles and press conferences, use ai to make teams buy more realistic players. Update the visuals of the game, and fix the bug where you can know a goal is offisde even if it goals to var because the lino has his flag up. Get licence for the prem make youth players

Fairness/Realism in transfer fees. Not rejecting over £150m from my club, then accepting a £50m bid from another..

Bring the arrows back in tactics and not make all the chats the same. Use AI it'll be way more fun. Options of skipping the press without consequences also. Because it's so repetitive

Difficulty setting

A wider set of celebrations. They’re all the same. Score a thundercunt from 30 yards, run and stand in front of fans. 90th minute winner, run and stand in front of fans. Title winning goal, run and stand in front of fans. Give me some shirt off, knee slide, acrobatics

I want to spend money, thats it. Maybe buy a Home, car etc.

What new feature do you most want to see in Football Manager 2026?

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