Update 6: Career, Academy and Locker Room
This is our biggest update yet, and it includes many of your suggestions.
Economy & Club
- Clearer budget: manual adjustments update instantly, and your cash reserves now count towards the season's budget.
- Top-level academy: you can now maintain it when you have the funds, and the same goes for your coaching staff.
- Facilities: built levels are never lost. If funding falls short, they perform one level lower until you pay for them again.
- Academy promotions: youth players no longer join the first team on their own; they move to the reserve team and you decide when to sign them.
- Squad size: first-team squads are capped at 20 players, with reserve players not counting.
Match & Competition
- Back to the match: leave the court mid-game and you return exactly where you left off.
- Playoffs: simulate without leaving the playoff screen.
- Pending events: they must be resolved before playing the next round.
- Two-game weeks: more rest for your squad.
- Standings: tie-breakers now follow FIBA rules.
- 2D match: fixes and more natural game flow.
Coaching Career
- Your career: a dedicated screen with your attribute sheet, an unveiling when you sign, the option to resign or ask to leave, press questions about job offers, career goals and Coach of the Year.
- Coaching staff: they now have a relationship with you, egos and ambitions of their own.
- Team talks: before the game and at half-time, choosing tone and message.
Locker Room
- Face of the team: choose who leads the team; some players thrive under that pressure, others struggle.
- Unhappy players: the locker room now carries more weight.
- Player rivalries: they only arise from what happens in your save.
- Training roles: each player can have one, and personalities evolve over time.
Youth & National Teams
- Youth with identity: each country has its own youth profile.
- Youth competitions: between countries and continents.
- Showcase: standing out with the U16 national team raises a player's value.
- Player cards: new designs for U16, U22 and professionals.
- Faces: 172 new ones, with more variety of styles.
- Naturalisation: offer a player citizenship, with a six-month process and a per-club limit.
- National teams: coaches with their own names and criteria, editable in the editor.
- Optional insurance and an unpaid-wages tribunal.
Market & World
- Revamped transfer market: transfer list, ins and outs, and scouting.
- Offers: they arrive more naturally without flooding your inbox.
- New competition: Africa League (BAL), available in new games.
Atmosphere
- Commentator: over 400 new lines (intros, starting line-ups, endings and key moments), in English and Spanish.
- Music: a new main theme, and music now fades out during matches so the arena and the commentator can take over.
- Transitions: smoother between screens.
Compatibility
Your saved games still work. The Africa League only appears when you start a new game.
Thanks for playing and for all your feedback!