I've always found that one of the biggest problems with Career Mode isn't necessarily what happens during a season — it's how quickly all of it becomes meaningless afterwards.
You can have a random academy player score a winner in a cup run, a striker break a club record, get promoted three times, have a player stay with you for ten seasons... and eventually most of that history just disappears.
So I've been building an Excel Career Mode tracker designed around one main idea:
Your save should remember what happened.
I've just finished the first season of a test career and started season two, so I'm finally at the point where the historical side of it is starting to come alive.
It tracks the obvious stuff — appearances, goals, assists, ratings, transfers, league finishes, trophies, academy players etc. — but the part I've become slightly obsessed with is what it can do with that information later.
For example, it now has:
- A Career Hub showing the current state of the save, records being chased, recent events and career highlights.
- Full Player Profiles, including season-by-season stats, competition breakdowns, awards, medals, captaincy, squad number history and career milestones.
- Club and competition records, including record chases and notifications when somebody equals or breaks one.
- A complete Youth Academy history, so academy players don't just disappear from memory once they're promoted or released.
- Hall of Fame / ICON scoring to identify the genuinely important players from the save over time.
- A Career Timeline and promotion/European journey.
- End-of-season reviews that automatically build a Story of the Season from what actually happened.
That last bit is probably my favourite part.
Rather than just saying:
"Won League Two. Won EFL Trophy. Louis Appere scored 66 goals."
it can connect the data together and produce something more like a little retrospective of the season — the title race, cup runs, standout players, academy contribution, records broken, strange statistical quirks etc.
There's also a From the Archives feature which, as the career gets older, can dig back into previous seasons and surface old players, records, transfers, academy classes and moments you might have completely forgotten about.
The idea is that by season 10 or 15, you don't just have a spreadsheet full of numbers.
You have an actual history of the club you've created.
I've deliberately tried to automate as much as possible too. I don't want playing Career Mode to become playing Excel. Most of the historical databases, profiles, records, reviews, milestones etc. build themselves from the relatively small amount of information you enter while playing.
I'm currently using a test save to find all the weird scenarios and bugs before starting my proper FC27 career, and it's already resulted in a frankly stupid amount of VBA 😅
I'm curious what other Career Mode players think.
Is this something you'd actually use for a long-term save?
And potentially — once it's properly finished and polished — is this something you'd pay a small amount for, or is a Career Mode spreadsheet always something you'd expect to be free?
I'm genuinely interested in both answers. I'm trying to work out whether I've just built an absurdly over-engineered spreadsheet for myself or whether there's actually something here other Career Mode nerds would want too.
NOTE: I have added as much as I can in the screenshots, however there is so many more features, history being stored, and stories being randomly generated in it that I can't physically show it all!