Football Manager 25 pushed back to March 2025
In a statement, the developer explained that Football Manager 25 will now launch in March 2025 and not on November 26, 2024, as previously announced.
Sports Interactive says despite pushing the game’s original September release date back to November, this “additional time has not been sufficient to ensure the game quality and experience meets your expectations and our very high standards.” The developer says it has been a “difficult development cycle for the studio” and that “many things have been moving slower than we had predicted – despite everyone in the team working at an incredible pace to try and get everything done.”
The studio added: “Timelines were already tight and, as rightly pointed out by many of your recent comments, we were simply rushing too much and in danger of compromising our usual standards. This has put an enormous amount of pressure on everyone working across the studio, who are all passionately committed to delivering the best game possible. FM25 is the biggest technical and visual advancement in the series for a generation. We simply cannot compromise the delivery of this crucial juncture in Football Manager’s history by rushing to release it in November.
“Of course, this is not where any of us expected to be seven weeks out from our release but, in the spirit of our studio values, we always consider the bigger picture – and the bigger picture here is that we need this additional time to deliver a game that we can all be proud of.”
Two versions of Football Manager 25 will join Game Pass on launch in March, the full-fat Football Manager 25 for PC and a console-optimized version, Football Manager 25 Console for Xbox console and PC.