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.