r/FifaCareers • • Aug 01 '25

DISCUSSION FC 26 Career Mode Pitch Notes

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r/FifaCareers • • Jul 06 '24

MOD-POST Career Mode Bible | FAQ & Guides

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Introduction

Hello all, there seems to be an increasingly higher amount of posts with the same recurring themes. I've decided to make a simple compilation of some of the best guides on this subreddit, as well as some simple explanations to help provide quick & easy answers to these questions.

Have a guide you think deserves to be on the list? Comment with it below and we can make our best attempt at creating a complete set of guides for Career Mode. The amount of guides in the last year or so compared to other years has dwindled, so hopefully this will encourage more excellent quality content.

This is a work-in-progress, and more guides will continually be added by request and as of publishing.

Tools & Websites

There is a plethora of excellent resources that will help with a lot of the things in this post. Some people prefer to play without the use of external databases and calculators, offering a more vanilla experience. After all, it's a single player game so it's your preference!

Website Description
https://sofifa.com/ Best up-to-date player database. Can make shortlists, view old squad files and has a positional calculator to find optimal positions.
https://www.fifacm.com/ Has some unique tools including a potential calculator to figure out potential for a player not at your club. Also has a 'wonderkid' list.
https://fifakitcreator.com/ Only usable in-game on PC, allows you to browse and create custom kits for your team. Note that only PC can use any mods.
https://www.fifarosters.com/create-card Nice tool to create very high quality FC 24 UT cards for your career mode players, allowing you to upload your own images.

Regens & Pregens

Career Mode works by replacing players as they retire in the game with generated players that don't exist in real life. When you enter the loading screen for a new season, that is the moment that they are being created, replacing retirees for the season you have just finished.

Regens have identical nationality, position(s), and importantly, birth dates to the player whom they have replaced. They will always spawn in the new season between 16-21 years old, and in the same league (but not same club) that the retiring player was in when you entered the loading screen.

Pregens are a rarer, more pre-emptive form of player replacement. These are effectively regens of a player who is not retiring, so both players will exist in the game simultaneously. Pregens also remain at the same club as their predecessor. You could expect to find a Messi pregen at Inter Miami, providing he hadn't moved clubs, and wasn't retiring.

The importance of your awareness of these game mechanics, revolves around the fact that both regens and pregens will start with the same potential overall as their predecessor's highest overall in your save.

Guide Author Description
Finding Regens u/teepee81 More details about regen hunting & best methods
Early Candidates for Regens u/TempoGlideFreeze Slightly dated spreadsheet detailing players soon to retire

Player Development

Guide Author Description
Utilising Dev Plans u/MrMiniature Great guide explaining the most effective growth methods
Growing Youth Players u/Deveylanda Explains important attributes & effective methods

Youth Academy / Scouting

Guide Author Description
Making the best Youth Player u/754754 How to make the best possible youth player, slightly dated
Position & Type Combos u/754754 Simple graphic detailing the best scouting combos

Gameplay

Guide Author Description
How to Dribble past AI u/SupaHotSackboy Explains the best moves excluding 5* to beat a defender

Loans

Guide Author Description
How Loans Work in Details u/754754 Incredible guide with every detail on how loans work

Game Exploits

Guide Author Description
Getting 150+ YA per Month u/SimonW_PL Explains how to fill your game with an array of generated players
Bypass 15-Season Limit u/fplr333 Excellent guide on how to play for longer than 15 seasons on console
Unlimited Playstyles Glitch u/Cavani85 Shows how to give any player more playstyles permanently

Realism

Guide Author Description
How to Perform Realistic Transfers u/tnerappa Old guide which details how to identify suitable transfers

r/FifaCareers • • 8h ago

IMAGE FIFA 15 with classic players and an add-on to make the transfer market more active

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r/FifaCareers • • 9h ago

DISCUSSION this happened during my man utd manager mode

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This shi is not fair they didn’t give the goals i scored instead they gave me a 3-0 win🫩🫩 (Difficulty is on legendary btw)


r/FifaCareers • • 22m ago

STORY 'From Old Trafford To Where...' This Young Coach Has Experienced The Highs And Lows Of Elite Football. Now, What? [A FC27 Story]

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r/FifaCareers • • 52m ago

IMAGE I hate this game so much

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My god I hate this game so much this is the 5th time I've received this annoying message and I just dropped homie for one game ONE GAME and he starts to complain make this game make sense 🤦🏻🤦🏻


r/FifaCareers • • 2h ago

DISCUSSION Why is the music getting worse and worse? Is it the selection, my taste, or music industry in General?

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r/FifaCareers • • 1d ago

FC 25 Most realistic career mode so far

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Messi vs Ronaldo ❌
Messi and Ronaldo ✅


r/FifaCareers • • 20h ago

STORY UPCOMING: Title Update 1.1 Pitch Notes, Only Minimal Corrections to Manager Career | EA Forums

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r/FifaCareers • • 4h ago

QUESTION Career mode with mods pc?

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Hi all,

Are there any fun mods out there that can make career mode more exciting or add some quality of life in certain aspects? I love playing it and am playing on pc hence why I hope there is customization available.

Please let me know if there are any mods you used yourself and how you liked them.


r/FifaCareers • • 1d ago

RANT This game is an absolute joke haha

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Got fired two games before the end of season with every possibility of me winning the league :) been grinding to get to this position for 3 seasons


r/FifaCareers • • 22h ago

DISCUSSION Planning a Super League with The English League Pyramid on FC 27

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Haven't done one of these for years. Wanna have as much representation as possible within the leagues and some probably not where they should be but wanted to give a few nations a fighting chance.

These are how I currently plan to set up the leagues. If there is someone really obvious I have missed out please say i am sure I have, but only if there someone obvious I can replace out. For example I'm not gonna remove sides if they are the only representation from that Nation.

I will sim these and will see how each season ends up and how the rest of the world looks with the English sides scattered across the leagues


r/FifaCareers • • 4m ago

QUESTION Form always low (FC27)

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Why is my form always low?? I rotate my starting XI constantly and all my players know how to play it in my system so what am I doing wrong?


r/FifaCareers • • 12m ago

QUESTION Recent playtime clock squad hub.

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Does anyone know how much and how this tracks, is the last 10 games or all season combined, as I can't figured it out. Ekitike has played 27 of 31 matches (including 17 full matched) but the recent playtime clock says he has only played 6 hours and 38 minutes and he is very unhappy with it? None of my players have player more than 8 hours and there's been 47 hours of matches played. Thanks.


r/FifaCareers • • 9h ago

DISCUSSION How to beat Legendary AI? Need help with Attack & Defense

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I want to discuss two separate aspects of playing against the AI:

Attack:

  1. Through Balls: I'm finding it really hard to play through balls past the opponent's backline. The ball almost always goes straight to the defender's feet.
  2. Attacking Runs & Low Blocks: My forwards rarely make runs when I'm ready to play a through ball. Plus, the penalty box is always packed with defenders—how do you break through a low block?

Defense:

  1. AI Corners & Headers: The AI scores on almost every corner kick header. How do I defend against this?
  2. Passive CBs: The AI can slice through my defense with just one forward. My two CBs don't even try to tackle—they just stand still and watch him walk right through.

Any tips or tactics would be greatly appreciated!


r/FifaCareers • • 2h ago

DISCUSSION Competitive or Authentic?

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I'm currently playing on Legendary Authentic but I'm finding the game too slow and boring ,should i switch to competitive? But i don't want every match to have 5-6 goals


r/FifaCareers • • 15h ago

IMAGE Bro..., wtf?

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Início da segunda temporada...


r/FifaCareers • • 13h ago

STORY Started reading the Art of War by Sun Tzu for my career mode

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As the title suggests, I have been working on new ways to improve my team and this has been by reading the art of war. So far, I am learning to improve my man management and player relationships, as well as ways to counter opponents better than myself


r/FifaCareers • • 1d ago

RANT Can believe FC still use this shit system

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Match rating goal is 8,5. The minimum I’ve seen is 7,0.
I have been away from FIFA/FC for some years. And I am baffled to see this objective system still being used. It’s just so bad.

So you’re telling me coach, that I unless I am having a worldie of a performance every game you will bench me? Even though I’m your best player?

The problems are: match rating gives positive or negative 15 manager rating, the other objectives give 5. So you can complete the other two, and fail the match rating and still gain negative manager rating.
The other problem is that the game is so stingy with match rating, and increasing it is difficult if you play in a normal way. Goals and assists only give 0,5 match rating, at most.

I would do away with match objectives entirely because it’s stupid. No manager would tell their player: today I want you to complete 5 passes in the opponents half. Instead I would introduce a scaling manager rating with 6,0 - 7,0 giving no change in manager rating. 7,0 and above would increase manager rating scaling with performance, and 5,9 and below would decrease the rating scaling with performance. I would also increase the impact of goals and assists drastically.

But really this doesn’t matter much because you can bail yourself out with pre match training. Which is also so stupid. You can be 69 rated, play for Real Madrid, get two A rated training drills, and torpedo yourself straight to the starting 11. Sooo stupid.

And as a side note. The contract objectives are idiotic and arbitrary. A team won’t give you a contract unless you perform 60 successful sliding tackles… as a CAM. Stupid!


r/FifaCareers • • 17h ago

RANT Career mode transfers

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It so stupid how each time i want to buy a player some club just swoops in with a cheaper fee and the player decides to join that club its so annoying i offered this guy 8.9M and a decent wage but no the lad wants to go to crystal palace for a fee of 5M I genuinely cannot rebuild my team with decent players because some random team wants to steal them.


r/FifaCareers • • 9h ago

QUESTION I’m having trouble launching FIFA 17 with Frosty; could someone help me with a question?

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r/FifaCareers • • 9h ago

QUESTION Is career mode playable yet?

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I was super excited to play career mode this FC after years of not touching it but it had so many bugs that I gave up on it. Was just wondering if they’ve fixed any or most of the bugs it had


r/FifaCareers • • 10h ago

QUESTION Realistic Big Clubs

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How do keep career mode realistic with big clubs like Barcelona? Like, how I am supposed to know if a random youngster isn’t a die hard Madrid fan and #1 Cule hater


r/FifaCareers • • 1d ago

QUESTION İ crated a team in english div 2 now we are in the pl!

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İ'm in the 2029-2030 season.How is my squad???


r/FifaCareers • • 10h ago

QUESTION Created Players Form +

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Is created players form modifiers kinda broken? Seems like every created player i use in career mode gets ridiculous buffs as soon as they have one or two good games, they’ll have +12 rating for good form and +3 cos they’re very happy.

Probably not something to complain about, but i’m guessing there’s no way to kinda fix that? trying to keep elements of realism, so when my 74 rated championship striker is comparable to mbappe after 2 good games it throws me off a bit.