Football Manager 2024: The last of its kind

In a totally unexpected announcement today, Sports Interactive revealed a number of very important things about Football Manager 2024 and Football Manager 2025 as well.

We'll be focusing on FM24 in this news article.

Football Manager 2024 will be the 20th game of the Football Manager series (since SI partnered with Sega and left the CM series with Eidos) and will be the last of its kind.

It’s the closing of this chapter of SI's history, but that doesn't mean it's going to be the last FM game of course. Besides, FM25 has already been confirmed.

What to expect from FM24

You can expect a host of improvements, big and small, both in new features and revamps to existing areas of the game.

The developers are working on FM24 with the idea that it will be the most complete version of Football Manager to date.

FM24 key new feature

The FM24 features were confirmed and fully designed earlier than previous releases.

This makes more time to finesse the new features, fix known issues and catch any new ones that may crop up.

However, that doesn’t mean that they’re going to announce those features significantly earlier. Maybe a little earlier than before.

As a sneak preview, Miles Jacobson (SI studio director) has revealed one particular feature that will make it onto FM24.

It's one of the most requested features over the last 20 years – and that’s the ability to transfer saved games from one version of FM to the next.

That is HUGE. It means you’ll be able to bring your FM23 career into FM24 across all platforms.

So when you first launch Football Manager 2024, you'll be given the option to continue your FM23 story, picking up exactly where you left off - powered with the new features and revamps that FM24 will introduce.

And it’s not only for this year’s version of the game that this feature will be active. It’s also the plan to bring saved games from FM24 into FM25, despite the big changes coming for FM25.

This is especially good for those playing via Game Pass and Apple Arcade who would lose access to their career shortly after the new game is released. You’ll be now able to seamlessly move from FM23 to FM24 on those platforms.

And the best part? This won’t be the only long-time requested feature update coming to FM24!