Football Manager 25 Touch coming to Switch

September 30:Another year means another Football Manager game, and today SEGA and Sports Interactive officially announced Football Manager 25 Touch. The game is coming to Switch on November 26, 2024.

Here’s what’s been shared thus far:

The future starts with Football Manager 25. After two decades of innovation, this is year one of a new legacy.

Here’s a taste of what’s in store…

Every career begins with a choice. When it comes to selecting a club, the newly-licensed Premier League raises your immersion to new levels. Compete in the world’s biggest league or break new ground as Women’s Football makes its series debut, seamlessly joining the men’s game. One world, one ecosystem.

With this influx of star power, Football Manager 25 has more playable leagues and nations than ever before. The biggest player database in football gaming has been propelled to new heights.

Flex your tactical prowess or uncover your style as you go, unlocking the joy of watching your team play football how you want it to be played. Whatever Matchday throws at you, feel the passion of every passage of play with our switch to the Unity engine—Football Manager‘s biggest technical and visual advancement for a generation. These are the new foundations for our new era of football management.

A slicker, smarter user interface delivers key info when you need it, empowering you to delve deeper to gain the edge on your rivals. New, real-life volumetric player animations and enhanced graphical fidelity elevate the Matchday experience. Get ready to leave your reality behind and live your game.

Uncover this new era of management that takes you to the very heart of football and unlocks passion that no other game can rival.

A trailer announcing Football Manager 25 Touch for Switch can be found below.

Announcement Trailer

Those looking for additional Switch news can head on over here.

October 10: Despite the announcement happening just over a week ago, Football Manager 2025 has been delayed to March 2025. Ultimately the team is opting against rushing the game out. The full statement is attached below.

After careful consideration, Sports Interactive have made the tough decision to further delay the release of Football Manager 25. 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.

In our last Development Update in September, we explained that we needed to push Football Manager 25‘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. 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.

Football Manager 25 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. Of course, this is not where any of us expected to be seven weeks out from our release but, in the spirit of our studio values, we always consider the bigger picture—and the bigger picture here is that we need this additional time to deliver a game that we can all be proud of.

For the large numbers of you who have already pre-ordered the game, we thank you very much for your trust and support. Given the delay, however, should you wish to claim a refund, please contact your retailer. Something you noted as missing from our announcement on September 30 was mention of Advanced Access on PC and Mac. We can confirm Advanced Access will be available ahead of the new release date and, when we are confident on how long that period will be, we will update you at the first opportunity. The new gameplay reveal will also now move to the end of January 2025.

We are intensely aware that this will be massively disappointing for you. We share that disappointment and are extremely sorry.

Thank you for reading and your patience. It means the world to us as we continue to work on creating a new era for Football Manager.