FIFA & Football Manager

Licences & Football

There’s been plenty of huff and puff over the cancelled Football Manager 25 instalment, and understandable it was; but I think most people would sooner have had this over a poor Football Manager release. Now that Football Manager 2026 is approaching news continues to pop up. The latest is that Sports Interactive has worked out a licencing deal with FIFA for the brand. This means that we’ll be able to play international football with the FIFA World Cup banner. We won’t be able to do it a launch though, Sports Interactive has confirmed. An ‘international management module’ as part of an update to FM26 that will release later.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Playing though Lost Eidolons and Unicorn Overlord.