Popular video game "Football Manager" announced on Friday that its delayed 2025 edition has been cancelled as the "overarching player experience and interface is not where we need it to be."

The latest update in the popular Football Manager series has been cancelled, its makers have announced. Fans of the long-running video game began to speculate about its fate when an update due to be unveiled late last month did not arrive.

Football Manager 2025 has finally been scrapped after two previous delays, with Sports Interactive now set to focus on the 2026 release. FM25 had previously been teased as the biggest leap forward for the popular video game series,

Sega’s quarterly earnings revealed that after two delays, this year’s Football Manager isn’t coming: “Whilst many areas of the game have hit our targets, the overarching player experience and interface is not where we need it to be.

Sadly, you might have seen this news coming — Football Manager 2025 has been cancelled, following a number of delays, with Sports Interactive pushing their focus now to the 2026 edition of the game.

Original date for release was early November but had been pushed back twice; Sports Interactive have taken the decision to cancel Football Manager 25

Publisher SEGA and developer Sports Interactive have canceled Football Manager 25 to focus on its next Football Manager release. It was previously planned to launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series,

Sports Interactive has announced that the 2025 version of Football Manager, its popular football management video game series, has been cancelled. A statement from its British developer Sports Interactive said that “following extensive internal discussion and careful consideration” with licensor and partner Sega,