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.
% (330 votes)
Sponsorship negotiations
% (374 votes)
Ability for players to pick up cards for things like time wasting, diving and dissent depending on certain attributes
% (315 votes)
Director of Football mode
% (293 votes)
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.
% (318 votes)
Possibility of clubs actually going out of business every so often, though very rare.
% (272 votes)
Actual drama like scandals and crowd trouble and betting charges.
% (344 votes)
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.
% (310 votes)
PSR so transfer fees are written down over contract duration and for each player to have a ‘PSR book value’
% (149 votes)
A good international mode. With trainings for players during the international games. Possibility to speak to international players.
% (305 votes)
AI integration, more Youth Academy options
% (288 votes)
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.
% (285 votes)
Press conferences to be improved
% (345 votes)
Something you actually use your manager wages for
% (318 votes)
Make playing defensively functional
% (333 votes)
Out of possession roles
% (308 votes)
Better animations
% (234 votes)
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.
% (155 votes)
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.
% (351 votes)
Advanced youth development - more options for better chances at getting higher rated youth players.
% (297 votes)
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.
% (70 votes)
Stadium view before every match for more realistic feel of playing in an iconic ground
% (232 votes)
Option to continue after retiring as a DoF/Club owner
% (258 votes)
Option to search scouts w/World Knowledge.
% (184 votes)
Competitive online play
% (80 votes)
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.
% (331 votes)
Audio commentary
% (146 votes)
Your star player not getting irritated after resting him for 3 consecutive unimportant matches
% (285 votes)
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.
% (270 votes)
More fluid tactics in order to apply Relationism properly
% (218 votes)
The press conferences questions needs an update. Tired of answering same sets of questions all the time
% (305 votes)
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
% (316 votes)
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
% (198 votes)
AI generated faces for regens
% (298 votes)
Integrating AI into it - all discussions with players/press to be driven by it. Either adhoc answers or create own presets
% (201 votes)
Analytics to compare over top 5 leagues.
% (186 votes)
Include more realism for newgens that you'd be scared to do with real players, e.g. long bans, scandal.
% (190 votes)
Have the ability to manage the U21's and U18's as well as first team
% (193 votes)
I want youth teams to be playable so you can move up through the ranks
% (214 votes)
Off ball movement instructions for individual players (more sophisticated than "move into channels" or whatever)
% (219 votes)
Scuffles on the touch line with opposition managers and players like Mourinho
% (181 votes)
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
% (262 votes)
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
% (228 votes)
Fairness/Realism in transfer fees. Not rejecting over £150m from my club, then accepting a £50m bid from another..
% (347 votes)
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
% (127 votes)
Difficulty setting
% (108 votes)
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
% (279 votes)
I want to spend money, thats it. Maybe buy a Home, car etc.
% (245 votes)
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