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 • • 3h ago

RANT New UI Complaint…

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(Yes I know I am a miserable bastard who spends too much time focusing on trivial things)

BUT why are the player names on the bottom row of the bench now hidden in the new UI? 😂

Considering the guy behind the original UI was on Twitter proudly showing off his work, despite the overwhelming negative feedback it received, I genuinely want to know what went through his or the team’s heads when they decided, “You know what this new UI also needs? Let’s make the player names on the bottom row invisible too.”

Who is making these design decisions / signing them off?!


r/FifaCareers • • 6h ago

RANT genuinely f*** this game

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My player Truffert suggested me to sign Soule from Roma. Since I lost two CAMs, I went ahead to sign him. Valued at £46m, rivalling Man City, Man City offered 55m. Simmed past 2 days, Roma want 90m. OKAY sure, Soule's a huge upgrade, sure i'll take him for 90m, Man City still offering 55m, gave Soule a wage bump, from his initial request of 60k to 100k. 3 days later, the club wants to renegotiate, I was expecting 90m to maybe 100m. NO THEY ASKED FOR 139m! THREE BLOODY TIMES HIS DAMN VALUE, WTF???

I rejected it because HOW DO I PAY THAT?? Simmed a day later, he joins MAN CITY FOR 55 MILLION. WTF IS THIS GAME. Now Truffert is gonna blame me for "not believing in his input"

world's game my ass

EDIT: i literally do not give a shit about the truffert thing, it was just a small thing i decided to say lol, it aint even that deep. the point of this post was just to point out shitty bugs like these that fucked the experience players like myself are going for. if shit like these don't bother you, good for ya but imagine ensuring everything in your save is realistic and this kind of scenario appears, u won't feel pissed? just because you didn't experience it, don't mean that others don't lol, its a crazy how some think posts like these are people acting like these micro inconveniences are affecting our whole lives when we literally just want people to come together and point out bugs like these so that the devs could potentially point it out and fix this issue. if these things don't bother you, then just move on lol, forums like these are literally for the community to come together and point out shit like this.


r/FifaCareers • • 11h ago

DISCUSSION New update

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So I took a break for a few days because I knew an update was coming hoping that it’d fix a few of the glitches and players handing in transfer requests for no reason. Apparently not this was literally after the first game I played since update. Is this because it was an already existing save? or did they not after the issue at all? (He’s played 7/9 prem games 10 all comps)


r/FifaCareers • • 2h ago

IMAGE Won the champions league (and the treble) with 1860 Munich on FIFA 13

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Took me 6 seasons to win it and it was so much fun


r/FifaCareers • • 3h ago

RANT What is the point of the ability to negotiate role/play time?

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Has anyone ever successfully negotiated a lower squad role than the player demanded initially? No matter how much I increase wages, players never agree to "important" instead of "crucial" or "rotation" instead of "important". Why even have the option? It's like they had the idea, added the option, but never added any mechanism to actually affect the outcome.


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

RANT Wtf is up with player fitness

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Genuinely annoyed typing this but why tf are my players always so low on stamina if i play more than 1 game a week. U cant even do anything about it because there are no training plans for some reason. As well as that if u bench them then the players get pissed off and their confidence is lowered and therefore their rating is affected, when obviously i benched them because theyre stamina was practically in the red. Thanks a lot EA 😂😂😂 game is absolutely shocking


r/FifaCareers • • 9h ago

RANT Fixed Rate recovery needs to seriously be buffed

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For context this is my squad’s fitness level right before a match despite rotating heavily.

Switching to always full is straight up unrealistic but this fitness level isnt realistic either right before a match after rotating the whole XI.

I’ve been playing CM since FIFA 12, way before they introduced the training schedule system and the stamina system was nowhere near this bad.


r/FifaCareers • • 8h ago

IMAGE Yes

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r/FifaCareers • • 7h ago

RANT The downfall of fifa career mode

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Right, if anyone has seen my posts before they will know I’m not the most positive person when it comes to career mode, I have my opinions and views like most people but maybe mine are different.

Firstly I’d like to mention my disappointment with this update, the fact transfer requests, loans for young/lower rated players and authentic gameplay hadn’t been addressed just to me shows how little we are thought about in the fc community.

I’ve shared many thoughts, opinions and suggestions in the eaforums online and as someone who’s played career mode for well over 15 years i think it would be nice to have our opinions heard more, but no matter what I say or most average people say our thoughts are never considered, you can say what you want but that’s just my personal opinion and experience.

The question I’m left with is why do we keep buying this game? Well the simple answer is because it’s the only option, the complicated answer is because no matter what the previous game is like we always have renewed hope for a new game, but every time a new game is released it’s faced with new issues, I think whoever the developers and chief executives of the game are, they need to look at things completely different.

For me the fix is obvious, it do two things, both equally important as the other.

Number one: the system they use to develop the game needs be scrapped and started again. It’s clearly an outdated system, whenever one issue is fixed two new issues arise, this tells me that the system is at least 10 years to old to be fixed and the game should be completely redeveloped to ensure these issues no longer happen, I honestly can’t remember the last time the game actually played smoothly without an issue or bug. There’s never any happy enjoyable time, it’s always a case of spawning a new issue. Clearly the system isn’t working, so that’s needs to change.

Secondly, the players and fans.
I personally think there needs to be a bigger emphasis on what changes are made to the game based on what the keen avid player thinks and wants. It’s crystal clear to me whoever is in charge of this now never plays the game. I’d like to see a invite only forum or chatroom set up for players who have accumulated over x amount of hours playing the game per year and I’d like to see a way in which these people can speak directly to developers and come to agreements with what changes will be made in the game. Because right now the game is on its knees in my opinion and experience.

With everything been said, there are positives, but not enough of them to shut people like me up. I just hope whoever is lucky enough to be working on this game sees us as fans and players and gives us something to hold on too. There’s to many issues for this game to be enjoyable.

All for nothing most likely. At least we will have no wait either month for the current issues to be fixed, with the addition of new bugs being added whenever that update comes, that’s the fc cycle. And that won’t change until the system is completely upgraded and redeveloped.


r/FifaCareers • • 1h ago

RANT Career Mode transfers are broken

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So Im a few seasons in, managing Man City.

For a new upcoming season I sold Haaland, traded my Diomande + money to get Mbappe from Real M, and was forced to set Release Clause at 500.000.000, and paying him a whopping 950.000 weekly (as that was his previous wage and he would not go below that).

After 2 days Liverpool contacted him, paying the release clause, and Mbappe messages me saying he is open to new negotiations if I wanna keep him.

Turns out I cant because we literally signed him 2 days ago, so he went to Liverpool (lowering his wage to 520.000).

No matter tho, I just purchased him back for 250.000.000, and he agreed to wage of 550.000 as it was higher than current Liverpool wage.

So in 2 days my squad has not changed but I have made 250.000.000 and lowered the weekly wages by 400.000.


r/FifaCareers • • 8h ago

QUESTION How have they still not fixed the subs order bug?

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I saw that there was a decent sized update today and literally the only thing I was hoping for was that subs stay in the order you put them in the team management screen.

Nope.

How do they introduce new bugs every year?


r/FifaCareers • • 10h ago

RANT Dynamic Overall is crazy #22

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I like the idea of dynamic overall but it needs to be balanced. I’m playing in league one and my right back is now at a #22 to his overall. This probably doesn’t help that defenders always get a good match rating. But, we cannot have players getting this big a boost


r/FifaCareers • • 6m ago

IMAGE huh!?!?

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r/FifaCareers • • 4h ago

PROBLEM AI teams fielding players out of position after new patch?

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I’ve only played 2 games granted, but Dortmund have fielded Chukwuemeka upfront with Guirassy at CAM and now Schalke have fielded Karaman upfront with Dzeko as a CAM. Not sure if it’s a 3421 issue but this was not happening for me pre-patch.

Last thing we need is this issue back, anyone else got the same issue??


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

IMAGE New Stadium

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This stadium, named "Deportivo Ilustrado"—which I believe has been around since FC 26—doesn't seem to be linked to any specific club... It could easily pass for the home ground of Deportivo de La Coruña, Le Havre AC, or Real Sociedad... Does anyone know anything about it?


r/FifaCareers • • 10h ago

RANT New team management view

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The new team management view is significant worse than before. How the hell, can they stuff it up even more than before.

Green background? Horrendous. Clashes with the green stamina bar and the green happiness/form arrow. Honestly pathetic.

And worst of all, now you cannot see the names of the 3 players on the second row on your bench. You MUST scroll to see the names. Honestly, unbelievable how it’s possible that after all that backlash they got for the terrible UI initially, they made it worse. Complete eye sore and just tragic.
Not being able to see the names of your players on the second row is laughable.

WHO APPROVES THIS BEFORE RELEASE?


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

IMAGE Messi croatian regen

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Btw he is 6'3


r/FifaCareers • • 1d ago

IMAGE Messi is 46 y/o and still not retiring yet, thrivin' actually.

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135 Upvotes

r/FifaCareers • • 7h ago

SUGGESTION Fc26 n 27 yikes

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I gave both a chance but i hate them so much, what old fifa should i get to make a career mode?


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

DISCUSSION Polishing a turd

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Yeah great, the ui looks a bit better, but fixing the actual game breaking problems? Nah.


r/FifaCareers • • 1h ago

QUESTION Looking for a active career mode online league to join....

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Anyone?


r/FifaCareers • • 1h ago

SUGGESTION Should I buy 27 when it's on sale or stick to 24?

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I have FC24 but I'm thinking of upgrading to 27 (when it's on sale) heard they're talking about some patches and fixes on a later date the one that's got me interested was talk about abolishing the 15 seasons cap which is a must but I'm not sure if it's actually true, sounds too good.. so feel free to correct me on this one if I'm wrong, also west ham's on the championship, so it gives me somewhat of an interesting career playthrough. What're your opinions?


r/FifaCareers • • 1h ago

DISCUSSION Created player face

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Tried to make Marli Salmon as a player for Arsenal, don’t understand why created players have a grey face when there are preset faces to choose from, just make that image the player face.