{"id":400426,"date":"2025-09-05T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400426\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:37:16","slug":"football-manager-26-unveils-new-match-engine-with-huge-graphical-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400426\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Manager 26 Unveils New Match Engine With Huge Graphical Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve been following the whole story around Football Manager 26<\/a><\/strong> for quite some time now – last year’s game was ultimately cancelled because of issues transitioning to the Unity engine, but 26 will definitely be going ahead this year.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason for the cancellation was because they wanted to do something ambitious with the next entry in the series, and that’s become evident today with a first look at the new match engine. While the players seem to move in a similar way to Football Manager 24<\/a>, the visuals are significantly heightened compared to that game.<\/p>\n

For reference, here’s a look at FM24 next to FM26:<\/p>\n

\"Football<\/a>\"Football<\/a>Images: Football Manager 2024, Football Manager 2026<\/p>\n

They’re clearly going for something different here, and we’re excited to see how it lands in just a few months’ time. There’s no release date for Football Manager 26 yet, but we’re expecting one to be announced in the near future.<\/p>\n

For those who haven’t been keeping up, the CEO of Sports Interactive did an interview with the BBC<\/a> recently talking about why Football Manager 25 was cancelled, very honestly (and refreshingly!) mentioning that it wasn’t in a good state and he didn’t feel good about releasing it to the public knowing that it was only a 7\/10 game at best.<\/p>\n

That definitely raises the expectations for Football Manager 26 though, so we’re hoping for great things – and fingers crossed it’ll be another Xbox Game Pass<\/a> \/ PC Game Pass release like all the other ones have been in recent years.<\/p>\n

What do you think of this new Football Manager match engine? Tell us in the comments below.<\/p>\n

\"Fraser<\/p>\n

Fraser is the News Editor at Pure Xbox, where he spends his time reporting on the biggest stories in the world of Xbox and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Pure Xbox on YouTube30k We’ve been following the whole story around Football Manager…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[138198,53,16,15,289],"class_list":{"0":"post-400426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-football-manager-26","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-xbox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115152672822440102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}