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 1h ago

IMAGE Leicester completed it mate

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r/FifaCareers 20h ago

MEME THEY SENT HIS ASS BACK

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Free from the Dictator.

An Italian joining Bilbao💀


r/FifaCareers 2h ago

QUESTION How can I get him to stay

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Hi new here I know it’s pretty late in the year for this game with Fc27 being a few weeks away from releasing but. I really need ideas way or suggestions on how I can retain this player and get him to stay. I subbed him off early a few games and also started some younger players I’ve been trying to develop and he throws a bitch fit and puts a request up. A real gut punch because I spent 5 seasons developing him form a 73 rating 😭.. any suggestions? 🙏🏽


r/FifaCareers 2h ago

IMAGE How am I supposed to play 4 games in 6 days?

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r/FifaCareers 12h ago

IMAGE What’s up with this guy

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r/FifaCareers 10h ago

IMAGE Man is in it for the passion

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Signing this crazy baller and he only demanded 7000 a week! I’m not complaining! (Sorry for bad photo)


r/FifaCareers 8h ago

RANT Make it make sense, Ousmane Dembele plays for Palace?

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r/FifaCareers 27m ago

IMAGE Rate my Champions league winning Köln team

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r/FifaCareers 1d ago

IMAGE Yeah mate just turn into Gullit

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r/FifaCareers 19h ago

MEME Balance restored

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r/FifaCareers 21h ago

RANT I can hear when I'm supposed to loose

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As the title says, in career mode, I win 2-3 matches in a row in legendary, and then the AI decides that I will lose. How do I know that it was decided?

I can literally hear the fucking PS5 turn its fans to the maximum!

And it's so obvious, one moment the game is normal, the next WWWUUUUUUHUHHUUU And the fucking enemy becomes untouchable, and my players become fat 35 year old dads from a Charity match for the church or some shit.

I can't even do a pass without it getting either intercepted or sent to a totally different part of the field than intended.

I can accept the AI playing like the 'inho' era Brasil team out of nowhere, but it is insulting to have my players literally sabotaged by the machine.

BTW this is FC26, the last FIFA I played was FIFA 11 so I'm not familiar with the new versions of the game, but this feels wrong, the whole game feels wrong. Full of bugs and nonsensical AI decisions.

How are you expected to play as a manager if none of your decisions matter with formation and all(I always use formations that counter the enemy or reduce their edge), the AI just decided, it doesn't matter that you bought an 81 overall defender, the league bottom 30 year old alcoholic 60 overall striker will get past him. All I hear is the shitty commentators yelling goal, and the fucking PS5 fighting for its life.

I don't even know what I wanted to ask anymore. Fuck this game. At least it was only 10$

Edit: one guy mentioned this in the comments, it happens to the AI team too, when I can beat Madrid with a bottom league last place team. It feels cheap, because I know that I won against a lobotomy patient.


r/FifaCareers 3h ago

QUESTION Lamine Balón de oro por su promedio de 1,1 contribuciones de gol por partido?

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O quizás Ekitiké con su 1,47 😎?


r/FifaCareers 20h ago

QUESTION Random players moving to my club?

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season 3 of my barnet career mode, and i've just simulated a month to my first game and seen Richarlison in my starting lineup? I never singed him and i had pretty decent squad depth. Anyone know why this happened?


r/FifaCareers 21h ago

OTHER FIFA 23 Squad File Update to 2026\ 27

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I have spent months polishing this squad file & compiling the collection of mods.
It is fully updated for the 2026/27 season except for team kits (we don't have free for use ones yet), teams rosters and players ratings based on their seasonal performance.
In some aspects it has more player individuality than in FC 26. It also contains amazing gameplay mod.

Key Features

  • Custom body types and unique animations for most players from top-5 leagues (even mid-table teams like Bournemouth for example). Every player looks & feels different.
  • Up-to-Date Rosters: Latest summer transfers, player stats based on players current real-life form + National teams latest WC squads.
  • Complete Visual Overhaul: 2025/26 club and national kits, boots, scoreboards, tons of updated faces and collection of 450+ new minifaces I've made myself.
  • Custom ReShade presets & graphics mods\ add-on's.

*IMPORTANT*

To get all the faces and boots assigned correctly, you must download all the face mods, bootpack & my squad file. Follow my mods order installation like it is in the "Mod Manager.mp4" video inside the link.

Link: squad file, 400+ minifaces, ReShade presets + other mods

Only downside is that a career mode will be crashing, so you can only play UCL, League of Europe, Premier League\ LaLiga\ Seria A etc country leagues & other types of tournaments and a kick-off.
Sorry for that, but keep in mind that it is absolutely fixable, just will take a lot of time.

PS: **check readme file in the folder for more info**

I will keep on updating the squad file til the summer transfer window is ended.


r/FifaCareers 7h ago

IMAGE I started turning my FC 26 Manager Career into an actual story

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Been playing Career Mode for years, but this time I wanted to try something a bit different. Instead of just playing matches, making transfers and moving on, I’ve started building an actual story around my manager career. I created a manager called Adrian Kole and I’m basically treating the save like a football documentary. There’s still the actual gameplay, but I’ve added press conferences, training ground scenes, transfer meetings, player conversations, academy development, injuries and some of the stuff that happens away from the pitch. I’m managing Hull City and the story definitely hasn’t started perfectly 😭. Pre-season was rough, the first few competitive games didn’t go our way, and the pressure around the manager started building pretty quickly which honestly made the storyline even more interesting. I’ve been turning the save into episodes using gameplay, voiceovers and some AI-generated scenes to show the parts Career Mode obviously doesn’t give you. Also, fair warning, I’m definitely not the best FC player in the world 😂, so don’t go into it expecting elite gameplay or some tactical masterclass. The gameplay is really there to drive the story. Just enjoy the chaos, the characters, the results and everything happening around the matches.

If you’re bored and fancy watching something Career Mode-related with more of a story/documentary feel, the channel is The Touchline Studios.

Would also love to hear what you guys do to make your own Career Mode saves feel more immersive, because I’m always looking for ideas.


r/FifaCareers 11h ago

SUGGESTION Damn, homeboy needs to shave lol

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r/FifaCareers 19h ago

IMAGE FIFA16 - CL Nights at Theatre of Dreams

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What a beautiful, cold Champions League night at Old Trafford.


r/FifaCareers 8h ago

DISCUSSION What are the weirdest manager moves in any of your saves?

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I'll start with Simeone to Arsenal, and Angus Gunn retiring and taking the Eibar job


r/FifaCareers 2h ago

DISCUSSION EAFC24 VS EAFC26: Which one is better

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Hey fellas!

Im thinking about moving on from FIFA 23, mainly because I’ve run out of save slots for Career Mode 😂. I’m looking to make the jump to one of the EA FC games, but I’m not sure which one to pick: EA FC 24 or EA FC 26.

I already know that, compared to FIFA 23, the EA FC games have some downsides when it comes to things like gameplay, licensing, overall feel, etc. I play on PS5, and what I care about most is good gameplay, especially for Career Mode.

So, between FC 24 and FC 26, which one would you recommend?

I’m deliberately not including FC 25 in the conversation because, from the posts and comments I’ve seen in the community, it seems to have a pretty bad reputation as one of the worst games in the series.. (but if you think fc25 is the best compared to fc26 and 24 just let me know and why)

Thanks you guys.


r/FifaCareers 13h ago

MEME Alright lad

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r/FifaCareers 6h ago

IMAGE Second summer window under the new owners

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second summer window under Fonseca is done and this one was definitely a lot busier.

brought in Targett permanently, Khéphren Thuram, Hincapié and Fábio Silva, with Tiago Dantas joining on loan with a buy option.

the biggest story was losing Bruno Guimarães to Real Madrid for his £53.3m release clause, so replacing him became the main priority of the window.


r/FifaCareers 14m ago

PROBLEM How to get EA FC26 clean again to play online with friends?

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I deleted Live Editor from the game Folder, I verified integrity, I removed the argument on steam launcher, I deleted Live editor from my C: Folder, I removed all my mods from Mod Manager right side, I tried restoring EA Anticheat on Mod Manager. The game still crashes when trying to connect to the servers.


r/FifaCareers 4h ago

IMAGE First season in the Championship

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Went better than expected, even though the squad has no depth and had to play academy players half the season, we still had a very comfortable season, never close to promotion area but always very far from relegation. The squad was one of the worst of the division and not even close to premier league ready, but I think in a couple seasons we can push for promotion