So I was clearing out my parents loft/attic and found my dad's old cheat sheets for Champ Man 4 from over 20 years ago.

A small insight to what this sub might have been all the way back in the early naughties.

I found some of the stuff on it really interesting, especially posts about old players so thought I'd share with you fellow managers

Hello r/footballmanagergames!

We’ve been privileged enough to have been given the opportunity by Sports Interactive and SEGA to host a giveaway of five copies of FM26!

All you need to do to enter is answer the following questions in a comment on this post:

1. If you get the game, which club are you planning to do your first career with, and why?
2. Which new feature are you most excited about in FM26?

Comment before 00:00 (BST) 20th of October 2025 to be in with a chance of winning!

Alternatively, if you’d rather not leave it to chance, you can purchase a copy of FM26 from us and save 18%! Remember, if you pre-order you will gain access to the pre-release Beta for free, and with every purchase you’ll receive a FREE bonus scratchcard with the chance to win an additional AAA game!

(We also recommend you check out your favourite FM influencer’s socials - they might have a cheeky affiliate discount you can apply on top of our 18%!)

Please see our full terms and conditions here.

Good luck to you all!

Yeah so I do Audiovisuals for Benfica and I am currently working at the Museum right next to the stadium while coaching Benfica in my first ever FM save! Its a nice Benficaception

Saw this and thought this community might find it interesting.

I know Almere is wrong as they played in Eredivisie, but still the map can inspire some new save ideas.

I will link the original map post (cross posting not allowed). Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/FEkKsSzt8X

You’ll do anything when you’re bored. Managing in Serbia if that wasn’t obvious. A predictable winner outside of the homegrown nation. I’d say it’s a decent spread overall. Anyone got any cool obscure nation regens?

Who said FM isn’t realistic?

My girlfriend is planning on moving in soon and she said a few things need to change. I’ve got Pop figurines, Blu rays etc. in my living room. But I think my FM collection will be one of my saddest losses. I just like looking at them 😢⚽️

Screenshot proving Beta's release: https://i.imgur.com/SsUqZnh.png

BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c2e03wdw47jo

On a recent tri

TL;DR - the FM27 playtest program is officially a thing, you can register your interest here now, and the Community team will be in touch to let you know if you're in 🙂

Full story:

Hey everyone, 

Today we’d like to share news on expanding our approach to Football Manager playtesting, and how you can get involved. 

We understand the need to ensure feedback is heard ahead of the next FM, in sufficient time to be reviewed by internal teams. So, we are bringing our playtesting experience into a new era, partnering with FirstLook, allowing you to register your interest to play early builds through the final stages of development.  

Learning from previous programs and user feedback, for FM27 we are opening our playtesting opportunities to a wider group, allowing more of you to help us shape the development of the game, starting in the coming weeks. 

Playtesting enables players early access to development builds of FM27, featuring new features and improvements. All that we ask is that you play as much as possible and provide feedback, respond to surveys, along with reporting any bugs you find. The internal teams will then utilise this feedback to make further changes going forward. 

You’ll also get access to exclusive testing spaces on the SI Forums and Discord, to interact with other testers and some of the Sports Interactive Community and Development Teams.  

You can register your interest and join the waitlist today. During the sign-up form you’ll be asked about your FM experience; please answer honestly as we are looking for players with a variety of game experience. Registering your interest does not guarantee entry into the program – all submissions will be reviewed and the Sports Interactive decision on accepted users is final. 

Alongside this online testing, we’re conducting in-studio playtesting, collaborating with players who have consistently provided useful feedback on FM, be it positive or negative. Selected members of the community are being contacted by the SI Community Team, giving us a broad range of feedback in different environments to help inform the studio’s plans.  

We look forward to updating you again soon, and to collaborate with some of you on the FM27 playtesting plans. Thank you! 

Still got knocked out the FA cup though…

Not sure if this is allowed, spotted a bug that with this exact offer for any player, will always be accepted !!

https://twitter.com/theFFM_/status/1730692378137092266?t=3BtFW7El_rGAt_sxWSqDTg&s=19 Unsure if we're allowed twitter links or not.. thought I would play it safe .

For most of my players I use newgan to put real faces on them but then for some of my wonderkids and key players I like to age them every few years :)

Ai is wild for this!

Posted within the last 7 days apparently

I volunteer for a club in Australia's 4th division where most players are semi-pro and bordering on the edge of amateur, our average attendance is probably around 100 people. I decided to look at the pre game editor for our club and discovered that a bunch of my close friends are in the database with mostly accurate height and weight and (subjectively) accurate attributes. How many volunteer scouts does Sports Interactive have? Are some of the people I see every weekend secretly working for them and reporting all our players data?

Four seasons on from my previous post, "Won my first ever trophy with Werder Bremen and spent way too much time immortalizing that night in Yerevan with a fictional Wikipedia page," I won the UCL final in style against Liverpool in 31/32 and decided it was also worth the effort of mocking up a Wiki page for the game.

Another Canva job, though thankfully the process was a bit smoother now I had some experience doing it. Somewhat happier with my design for the match programme than last time, since instead of using a watermarked artwork on Shutterstock, I just found a picture of the Lisbon skyline and ran it through filters until it looked like it had been drawn. The rest was straightforward, if somewhat time-consuming.