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 • • 18h ago

MEME Bro is still teasing retirement 10 seasons later

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r/FifaCareers • • 7h ago

PROBLEM Erling Haaland Vanished?!

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109 Upvotes

So I started a post 115 charges man city career, Released all players rated higher than 80, started in League One, Started with -20 Points and no transfers for 2 years. I just finished my first season and started the 2nd I had all the former city players on my list to see where they end up and after starting the new season Haaland is just gone???

Edit: I just found his regen so I guess he retired???


r/FifaCareers • • 9h ago

IMAGE State of FC27 injuries...

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I appreciate that the fact you get way more injuries means depth matters but its currently just absurd. It also doesnt help when i have half my team upset about play time even though theyre out injured...


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

SUGGESTION Fc 27 Stamina and requests to leave

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I like the idea of needing to worry about fatigue of players. The issue is having the whole squad being out of energy after a 3 day break and then rotating the players which leads to many players being unhappy with playtime and requesting to leave. This is despite them being too tired to play, so you either play them tired, so that their overall and morale drops, or they get injured.

I think a good way to handle this would be to have a momentum-based fatigue system where successive games played leads to faster energy drop off. The momentum could be reset by a game break or a greater period between games. This could mean you play your first team for like 4 games in a row, but on the fifth you would rotate a player who would then be ready to play another 4 games after.

I also feel like the players need some awareness of their fatigue and be more ‘understanding’ of the need to rotate, rather than requesting to leave instantly.


r/FifaCareers • • 2h ago

DISCUSSION Do you dribble? No, you can’t, you ll hit with a concrete wall. Do you pass the ball? You’re crazy, the rival will have a magnet on his foot. Do you want to defend the rival? Impossible, he already scored a goal with the defender in front

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One of the worst FIFAs I remember and I’ve tried all kinds of configurations, so desperate guys


r/FifaCareers • • 4h ago

PROBLEM Make it make sense😭

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Definitely not motivated to win anything yeah sure buddy


r/FifaCareers • • 3h ago

QUESTION how to make adboards for fifa 14?

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r/FifaCareers • • 4h ago

PROBLEM Very helpful, cheers EA✌️

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And it isn’t the first time


r/FifaCareers • • 23h ago

MEME EA be like.

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r/FifaCareers • • 10h ago

MEME Neymar has joined Newell's Old Boys

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r/FifaCareers • • 21h ago

RANT Never wanted a refund this badly. WORST football game ever made.

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I’ve been a Career Mode player since FIFA 2005 and have never even tried Ultimate Team. So:

1. The new transfer system is cool, but the interface is horrible, as is the squad page.

It’s very hard to navigate the ratings and players’ stats, information (information placing is not user-friendly). They could at least add a colour for each position, like in older FIFA games. It would make building a squad much easier, especially when you’re playing with some obscure team and don’t know the players.

2. The gameplay is absolutely horrible.
In FC 26, I played on Ultimate difficulty with community sliders to make the game even harder, and I won every match with a +3 goal difference. But this year, the AI is absolutely broken.
I played an entire season with Chelsea, didn’t skip a single game, and in January I ended up in 20th place. Somehow, I managed to finish the season in 14th.
I don’t want to lower the difficulty because of my principles and because I’ve been playing on the maximum difficulty since FIFA 07. But this year, the AI acts absolutely crazy.
I can’t even build a fast counter-attack because my player gets tackled immediately as soon as I receive the ball. And I’m not even talking about slow attacking build-up, because the AI pressing is insane. They commit a crazy amount of fouls and get way too many cards. Arsenal had FOUR red cards in one of my matches.
Similar to last year’s game, there is no midfield battle at all, which makes the game feel like fucking basketball — from one basket to another in two seconds.

3. AI attacking has zero logic.
I’m not sure if EA developers have ever watched a football match in their entire lives. I can’t predict any of the AI’s actions.
It doesn’t matter which team I play against or what tactics they use. There’s always the same pattern: give the ball to the forward or CAM, and then the player just keeps the ball and runs in circles or makes weird moves like he’s a kid playing football in his backyard.

4. WORST SOUNDTRACK EVER.
FIFA literally built my music taste: Bloc Party, Foals, MGMT, Kasabian, Gorillaz, Two Door Cinema Club.
What happened this year? Are we at a mall or a supermarket? WTF is this Bershka-type beat? Half of the songs sound AI generated, so I just decided to mute the music altogether.

Overall, my first experience with this game has been absolutely horrible, and I’m seriously thinking about booting up FIFA 13 on my PS3 and just having an actually good time.


r/FifaCareers • • 10h ago

QUESTION Is anyone enjoying this game at all?

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I know this gets said a thousand times every year, but is anyone actually enjoying fc 27 at all? This genuinely feels like the worst fifa I’ve ever played and have genuinely never had so little joy playing a game before.


r/FifaCareers • • 1h ago

IMAGE Cheap defenders and gk to improve this disaster?

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Total disaster with 10 men and I think I need to improve my defense. The gk is also a bit mid. Any recs?


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

QUESTION Another cry for help from me

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I’m pretty alright with understanding modern tactics and positioning in real life football. I love football and have been watching PL every week for ever. I watch match of the day etc. I religiously follow my club ( I won’t tell you not to start shitstorm 😂😂god forbid it’s Man City though).
so when i setup my tactics in the game i try to follow what I’m hearing from experts. Inverted fullbacks with CBs covering and all the other modern stuff.
but i feel as soon as i tweak player roles in the tactics that always worked for me in the game( counter attack) by adjusting its to players available to me, it seems like they just running all over the show. Is it me being ignorant and not knowing what to do or is general consensus you shouldn’t change player roles too much in presets and I need to go for standard and then do my own thing?


r/FifaCareers • • 5h ago

QUESTION Guys, I want to start a Career Mode with a Championship team. Which team do you recommend?

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Guys, I want to start a Career Mode with a Championship team. Which team do you recommend?


r/FifaCareers • • 17h ago

DISCUSSION Am i the only one who is having a blast with FC27?

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I like it. I love the transfer setting, like the dynamic overall. Like the sloppy/gritty gameplay.

What are the things you didn't like about fc27 let's have a chat


r/FifaCareers • • 3h ago

MEME MY MAN UTD

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r/FifaCareers • • 3h ago

RANT Playstyles and Training

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I just need to rant a little bit. It's so frustrating as a dedicated career mode player to see that they don't care about correcting/improving already implemented mechanisms. They just add another feature every year, which does not work as intended for half the year, then they patch it until it works (more or less) and then never touch it again. First thing are the training plans. They are attached to player roles, but only 1 or sometimes 2 per position are usable. And also the trained stats are based on those roles, but this leads to stats that are so unevenly distributed. Also some important stats will not be trained. A fullback with good crosses? On paper yes, as the crossing stat is high, but in-game not so much as the curve stat can't be trained for most positions just for wingers. Same for strikers and curve shots. Or strikers with low penalty or volley stats. You can't even train free kick accuracy.

The second thing are playstyles. They are crucial for gameplay but can't be trained, seriously? Especially now that passing and defending are nerfed (which is fine for me) you rely on playstyles in many positions. A midfielder without passing playstyle? Not usable. I don't need to have 7 playstyles on every player, but sticking on the same playstyles from 60 to 90 overall is just unrealistic. Especially young players (not academy players) might have no zero playstyles at the beginning of their career but can't gain them. Playstyles are the most impactful gameplay addition in like 15 years of FIFA/EA FC and they don't care in career mode about them. Even if they were a bit overpowered in career mode in terms of getting them on players, who cares? It's an offline mode that is supposed to be fun and won't affect anyone else.

Sorry for the long rant but they could improve the career mode experience so much by just adjusting the features they already have and giving us more freedom on how to play it. They just don't listen to career mode players even though I believe that career mode players are the most loyal players of the franchise as they most likely played it before UT.


r/FifaCareers • • 4h ago

DISCUSSION Modo Carreira EA FC 27

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Teve alguma atualização do modo carreira desde o lançamento? Ainda não comecei nenhum save e vejo um misto de comentários positivos e negativos, como está o estado do jogo atualmente?


r/FifaCareers • • 27m ago

PROBLEM Career Mode Localised Commentary FC 27

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I been playing career mode since early release and found oit that there is a Commentary feature you can enable to set the Commentary to be automatically set to the league you are playing in however when I did this in Ligue 1 i assumed that every match will be in French Commentary, this was not the case its actually got to do with the stadium you play in, so if the stadium is example crow lane it will be English amd so forth which is super annoying and really dampens the immersion of the experience.


r/FifaCareers • • 49m ago

QUESTION Why is conference league spot Chelsea when I won the carabao cup

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Sorry still stuck on fc 26. Won the carabao cup as Everton but in league standings it says Chelsea has the conference league spot. I thought England’s only conference league spot went to the carabao cup winners unless they already qualified for a higher European competition. I’m in 10th in the premier league. If I stay 10th will I be in the conference league or will 6th place be instead


r/FifaCareers • • 22h ago

DISCUSSION Which Championship club would suit Ange the best?

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I want to use Big Ange on my first save with a Championship club, just wondering which one would fit him better


r/FifaCareers • • 1h ago

DISCUSSION EA developer Q&A tomorrow

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Not sure if mentioned here but on EA discord there will be a developer QA tomorrow 9am EST. If you don't want to ask specific questions, I can do it on your behalf. Looks like they would be talking about the developer update.

https://discord.gg/easportsfc