Due to complications with shifting the entire game over to the Unity engine, Football Manager have confirmed that a major feature that many players had asked for has been removed from the 2025 edition of the game.
The challenges encountered in the development process led to a decision around game content and it's been decided that International management will not be a playable mode in FM25.
The game's development team have confirmed that the official announcement of FM25 will now take place towards the end of September, with the gameplay focus period following afterwards.
The developers chose to allocate the resources to other key areas instead of the International management module because it wouldn't be possible to deliver what they were originally planning in terms of quality without delaying the game release further.
No International Management In Football Manager 2025
On Wednesday, Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson announced that players will not be able to manage International teams in FM25, as had previously been the plan.
In a statement published on the Football Manager website, Jacobson explained:
The challenges we’ve encountered in the development process over the last couple of months have led us to make another difficult decision around game content: international management will not be a playable mode in FM25, FM25 Console or FM25 Touch.
Coming off the back of a summer of tournament football and with this week even being an international break, we’ve looked really hard at international management in FM and determined that what we were planning to deliver wouldn’t reach our initial quality threshold.
So, rather than delay FM25 even further, we’ve paused work on that area of the game and allocated those resources to other key areas.
It's not all bad news however, he also insisted that international management has not been permanently scrapped from the game, and will return in a "much more feature-rich way" in FM26.
