Partnerships, News Feed & Facility Rental Update

major update

Football Academy Manager · published · build 26308247

Partner Clubs

  • New Partnerships section on the Academy page.

  • Each half-season, transfer clubs look for partners and set requirements based on their prestige.

  • Improve your relation with a partner to unlock benefits.

  • Modding: transfer clubs' financial strength can now be set in the Editor.

Latest News

  • New news feed on the dashboard. Click a story to jump to the player, club or page it's about.

  • Covers academy, transfer and league news, plus career updates on players you sold.

  • Turn news categories on or off in the new News Feed tab in the profile settings.

Facility Rental

  • Rent out your facilities during the breaks for extra income.

  • Community Hire: local groups rent your facilities for a week in June or the winter break.

  • Club Camp: clubs ask to train at your academy in July or the winter break. It pays more and earns prestige, but your players train less effectively while the camp runs.

  • Rental Appeal: a new facility score. Clubs only consider academies scoring 40 or more.

  • Visiting clubs may bid for your players after their camp. A failed move can unsettle the player.

  • One rental per break. Switching academy cancels planned rentals.

  • Rental income shows in your finances, and rental events appear in your inbox and the news.

Awards & History

  • New awards: Player of the Month and Team of the Season.

  • New Team of the Week tab on the Leagues page.

  • League history and player awards history added.

  • Career overview now shows Player of the Match awards and goalkeeper clean sheets.

Improvements

Interface

  • Continue and Next match day are now in the sidebar, so you can advance time from any page.

  • Save, Save As and Settings moved into a gear menu in the sidebar, next to a separate exit icon.

  • Inbox reworked, with messages showing more relevant information.

  • Sponsors moved to the Finance page.

  • Many UI designs reworked.

Settings

  • New currency settings.

  • Choose which messages stop the simulation.

Scouting & Players

  • New scouting filters: minimum ability and minimum potential.

  • Add all filtered players to your watchlist at once.

  • The last market analysis date shows next to a player's value. It turns yellow after 6 months and red after 12.

  • Market analysis messages show how much a player's value has changed.

  • The negotiation window shows the player's last rejected offer.

Staff

  • Compare staff candidates with your current staff in the same role.

  • You get a warning when a staff member on a course is near their maximum potential.

  • Wonderstaff who can reach 100 in their attributes appear more often.

Training & Youth Camps

  • New Auto-assign button for training focus points.

  • Grade youth camp players from their profile or by right-clicking them in the camp list.

  • Youth camp injuries can now end a player's career.

Performance

  • Optimized match simulation.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the staff manager's personality not affecting extra staff slots.

  • Fixed players with expiring contracts being proposed for market demands.

  • Fixed players being proposed endlessly through the market demands widget.

  • Fixed youth camp rules staying active after the head scout was unassigned.

  • Fixed some dropdowns not showing on Linux.