Football Manager 25 has been delayed until March 2025

Football Manager 25 has been delayed by four months.

Sega and Sports Interactive have announced that the game will now release in March 2025, instead of its planned November 26 release date.

“After careful consideration, Sports Interactive have made the tough decision to further delay the release of Football Manager 25,” a statement from the developer says.

“Following discussions with Sega, our licensors and partners, we have agreed the best course of action is to delay the launch until March 2025. Specific platform release dates will follow once confirmed.”

The game is set to be one of the most notable updates in the series’ history, mainly down to the inclusion of women’s football for the first time and Sports Interactive’s decision to implement an entirely new graphics system using the Unity engine, a move it previously said would mark “the starting point for the studio’s next 20 years”.

However, it now says this transition has taken longer than expected, hence the need to push the game’s release date back so far.

“In our last Development Update in September, we explained that we needed to push FM25’s original release back to give ourselves more time to deliver the best possible experience for this first instalment in a new era of Football Manager,” it explained.

“This additional time has not been sufficient to ensure the game quality and experience meets your expectations and our very high standards.

“In the previous blog we explained that it has been a difficult development cycle for the studio. 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.

“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.”