The live match is rebuilt around the pitch. • Player cards stand on the grass, a real ball rolls between them, and the commentary names who is on it. • Offside is called, with flags on the pitch and in the match stats. • A simpler touchline: Pause, Subs, Shout and Speed, with animated substitutions. • Skip to full time from half-time, free for everyone. Also new • Manager Pass: a season-long reward track with free and Pro cosmetic rewards. • A cleaner Home screen: one Continue button, then only what needs your attention. • Rebuilt pack walkouts, and tear packs open with your finger. • Awards Night: the top 10 revealed card by card, winner last. • 11 new storylines, Derby Days and press questions that name your opponents. • Train a secondary position; swapping two players is now a true exchange with Undo. Plus more realistic results, clearer Youth Academy and Staff screens, easier-to-read text, and many fixes for saves, loans and pack purchases.

Continue Free is now easier to find on the Pro welcome screen, with a larger button. This update also expands player portraits and improves their appearance on player cards.

Build your squad with the refreshed Pack Store: permanent packs, rotating bonus-player offers, clearer pack contents and player ratings, and improved pack covers. Celebrate your greatest players in the Hall of Legends. This update also improves save reliability, purchase recovery, and the new-manager experience.

New season, new dynasty. Fresh App Store look, sharper touchline AI, and a handful of match-day fixes. Still no energy timers, no rest packs, no waiting — just football.

Every league is a real competition now. Rival clubs finally field their best available team, so league tables, promotion races and top-scorer charts mean exactly what they say — and the squad you build decides your results. NEW • Interactive penalty shootouts — swipe to aim, hold to power up and pick your takers, with a broadcast scoreboard and slow-mo decisive kicks. • Promotion playoffs are played out as real matches, and you play your own. • Foreign leagues are living competitions with their own squads, results and transfers. • Second-half substitutions and team talks take effect immediately. • A retirement retrospective closes out your career with your legacy score, every spell and every honour. • Rivalries, Game Plans and Mastery Ranks, with every competition in one place. • Trophy ceremonies and title celebrations for the moments that matter. IMPROVED • Matches look like football: realistic shots on target, close to ten corners a game, and keeper errors that count as real chances. • Clubs everywhere develop season after season, so the world grows and ages around you. • Lower leagues no longer rot over long saves — the pyramid keeps its shape across decades. • Upgrading the Medical Centre genuinely reduces the injuries you pick up in matches. • Match ratings feed development, morale and form, so performances shape how a player grows. • Yellow-card suspensions and minutes played are tracked across the season. • Every mentality is a real choice — all-out attack is no longer simply the best setting. • Club finances make sense: the top flight earns like the top flight, and home matchdays pay their way. • Around 35 MB smaller to download. FIXED • The title screen could hang with no Continue and no New Game after an update. • Half-time team talks wore off long before the final whistle. • Third place could be promoted automatically in four of Europe's biggest second tiers. • Season rollover faults that could promote and relegate the same club, or replay last season's playoff. • Manager contracts expiring a season early, and league moves losing career history. • A national-team squad screen that could freeze the week from advancing. • The live match event log auto-scrolling while you read it. • Purchases, restores and Dynasty Pro plans now load reliably, with a clear retry. Still no energy timers, no rest packs, no waiting — just football.

World Cup 2026 mode is live — take any of 50+ nations from the group stage to a penalty-shootout final. We've sharpened the AI on the touchline and squashed a handful of match-day bugs. Still no energy timers, no waiting — just soccer.

THE WORLD CUP UPDATE • THE DRAW — every World Cup run now opens with a group-stage draw ceremony. See your group, find your rivals, and start the journey. • GLORY — win it all and celebrate with a trophy lift, plus Golden Boot and Young Star awards on the result screen. • SHARE YOUR RUN — brag about your World Cup straight from the result screen. • REAL FLAGS — every nation now flies its real flag across match, dashboard, and result screens. • REDEEM CODES — enter a code in Settings to claim in-game rewards. Plus stability and polish improvements.

-NEW: • Getting Started checklist on the Dashboard for week 1 — tap any row for a step-by-step walkthrough and "Take me there" to jump to the screen. Toggle off in Settings. • Day-1 sponsor offer on new careers — a kit-sleeve deal sits in Finance from session 1, with a six-week review window. • Starter inbox nudges point you to Tactics and Scouting with the exact navigation path. • Negotiable sponsor offers. • Tactics page now leads with your Starting XI. • Dynasty Pro Annual and Lifetime plans, with localized pricing. • Live pity-count badge on the Dashboard so you always know how close you are to the next guarantee. • Premium Guarantee Tracker with three reward states. • App Store rating prompt after a Gold-or-better pack reveal. -CINEMATIC PACK OPENING: • Parallax starfield, idle float, top-seam tear, rarity aura, true 3D card flip. • Legendary walkouts in a full stadium environment with breath, OVR ticker, stat-tick reveal, and crescendo. • Walkout cards are tappable — start the cinematic on demand, or skip it with the skip pill. • Results screen ranks players best-first, shows a +OVR upgrade badge, and adds bulk Keep / bulk Sell. • Premium loading state with tier glow and pack-name reveal. -POLISH & UX: • Shared Liquid Glass LoadingOverlay and EmptyState across the app. • Transfer list reflow, notification badges, and training buttons polished. • Paywall CTA stays pinned. Apple-compliant disclosures and Restore Purchases. • League table rows keyboard-accessible and announce club names to VoiceOver. • Pack reveals announce each player to screen readers. • Modal close buttons meet Apple's 44pt hit-target. • Tactical preset Delete is a two-tap confirm. • Welcome tutorial has a Skip button. • Match Prep buttons sit above the home-indicator on notched iPhones. • Packs page shows the featured pack above the fold on 375 px phones. -PERFORMANCE: • First launch faster on cellular — the 2.5 MB player roster streams in the background instead of downloading up-front. • Club squad data lazy-loaded off the boot path. • Long campaigns stay lean — career timeline capped, stale records cleaned at season end. • Timer leaks across the Dashboard squashed. -FIXES: • Save persistence: 13 fields that silently reset on every reload now correctly persist (season finance, transfer history, tactical presets, negotiation cooldowns, Community Pack opt-in). • Smart Sub now picks genuine top-N swaps when your subs are limited, instead of falling back to the first valid option. • Continental Round of 16 will never pair clubs from the same group. • Continental ties take priority over league fixtures on the same week. • Penalty shootouts stop the moment the result is decided. AI shootouts use the same goalkeeper-weighted formula as yours. • Weekly objectives count every competition — friendlies, cup, continental, super cups. • Training streaks no longer reset on a brief mid-week focus swap. • Dressing-room contagion fires once per spell instead of every week. • Player development cards show the combined training + growth gain. • Loan counter-offers are tracked, deduped, and persisted properly. • Contract and transfer sliders no longer divide by zero on edge cases. • Mid-match Load / Reset Game safely abandons the in-flight match. • Pack quick-release and quick-sell respect the 22-player minimum squad. • Failed in-app purchases retry safely — Restore Purchases picks up entitlements that didn't grant. • Pack icon double-reveal fixed; summary is now scrollable with safe-area pins. • "Save Failed" warning actually fires when storage rejects a write. • German pyramid relegation count corrected. • Audit pass cleared critical and high-priority bugs across transfers, international competitions, and finance. • Rare ads-related launch crashes. • Loaded clubs from other divisions no longer wiped during cleanup. • iOS lifecycle hardening — 22 TestFlight crashes addressed. • iPad support re-enabled with iPhone-first sizing.