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

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.

The Football Manager 2025 January debacle proves that Sports Interactive might need to skip a year to keep the series on track

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,

Sega and Sports Interactive have canceled Football Manager 25 across all platforms after what has been a difficult development. It’s the first time the long-running sports sim series has skipped a year entirely since it began in 2004.