Football Manager 25 Gets Huge Delay in Shock Move, Now Releasing Just Two Months Before the End of the Season

In a shock move for the popular sim, Sega is delaying Football Manager 25 until March 2025, putting its release barely two months before 2025's Champions League Final.

We have made the tough decision to delay the release of Football Manager 25 until March 2025.

Statement: https://t.co/zW7dRd1Lkp pic.twitter.com/UKPnz4l0Gb

— Football Manager (@FootballManager) October 10, 2024

Developer Sports Interactive and Sega released a statement calling it "tough decision" and saying that specific platform dates will follow once confirmed. The statement continued, "In our last Development Update in September, we explained that we needed to push FM25's original release back to give ourselves more time to deliver the best possible experience for this first installment 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."

The statement goes on to explain that it has been a "difficult development cycle" for Sports Interactive, and that things have been "moving slower than we had predicted." This led to concerns that the development team was "simply rushing too much and in danger of compromising our usual standards."

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