Developer Sports Interactive and publisher SEGA have announced the cancelation of Football Manager 25. The game, which had previously been delayed twice and was set to release on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, Xbox One, Android and iOS in March 2025, will not be released on any systems.
Charging Ahead
Football Manager is a soccer simulation game series that has been around since 2004 as a spiritual successor to Eidos Interactive's Championship Manager. Back in the day, the series was called Worldwide Soccer Manager in North America, while Europe already had it using the same name. The name changed to be the same worldwide starting in the 2010 iteration.
Ever since Football Manager 2005, the series has had consistent yearly releases, just as usual for sports games. Generally, each of them would be released right before the next year starts, so players could get an updated entry that they could play alongside the real life tournaments. Unfortunately, the same didn't happen this time, and the company had to delay it to March 2025 before ultimately considering it impossible to release the game.
According to the development update post, Sports Interactive failed to reach the target quality level for...
