FM24 Quality of Life Upgrades – Part Two

Match Preparation

For FM24, we’ve added a new Match Preparation tab to the Training section. This, and the Match Focus Session that lives there, are part of our continued attempts to mirror the way real clubs and managers do things.

Before each match you’ll receive a new inbox item that allows you to set one tactical focus and two set piece focuses in for your Match Focus Session.

When you click on the Tactical Preparation dropdown, options will appear for you to choose and, as you hover over, the description will change along with a suggestion from your staff about which of the opposition's tactical areas you want to study with your team.

Similarly, clicking on either of the Set Piece Preparation dropdowns will give you different options to choose from alongside staff recommendations on whether you should focus on presenting the opposition's attacking strengths, or highlighting their defensive vulnerabilities in the focus meeting.

Match Briefing Feedback Panel

We’ve also made a number of improvements to the visual experience for the pre-match briefing feedback panel, including:

• If your captain or vice-captain has a notable reaction, this will appear in your panel instead as the most important feedback piece
• When other reactions are hovered over, the other players in agreement will be listed individually, so you can see exactly who is reacting positively and negatively

Offer out on Loan via the Development Centre

The Development Centre now includes the option to assess your young talents and offer them out to clubs directly with the aim of boosting their chances of first-team football. To save you time, we’ve added a button next to the players that are recommended to be loaned out.

Player Swap Deals

When you’re in the middle of transfer negotiations and you’re looking to add a player to exchange, you are now able to select someone from a dropdown menu rather than needing to navigate to another screen and manually adding them from there by right-clicking.

Overview of Managers per Competition

A competition-based panel now outlines all the managers in your league. This also includes a ‘Duration at Team’ measure, so you can easily compare your length of service to your rivals.

Most League Title and Champions Stats

We’ve added some new inbox items that round up the teams with the most league titles in a division and deliver you the playing statistics of the team named champions.

Fantasy Draft Improvements

Fantasy Draft has received a number of quality of life improvements in FM24, including:

• The shortlist functionality during the Draft now shows all the players you have shortlisted instead of only those players who match the restrictions.
• Thankfully, a 'Skip Round' button has now been added.

Competition Rules

Every year our Rule Groups team make hundreds, if not thousands, of changes, to ensure that the league rules of every nation are up to date. Whether it’s changes to work permit rules, what separates teams on equal points, youth rules, or anything in-between, they work tirelessly to make sure things are right.

I’m not going to list all of the changes but I do want to show a bit about the level of detail that this team, alongside our worldwide team of more than 1,400 researchers, go into. Here are 10 examples of things that the rule groups team worked on for FM24.

1. Gibraltar is now a default playable nation, rather than a separate Steam Workshop download. That means that there are two new playable nations from the off this year with the previously announced addition of Japan’s top through leagues through the J. League licence.
2. New English work permit system changes – including telling the world what ESC actually means!
3. Large scale competition format changes (inc. North American national team and club team competitions, 2026 World Cup format, new Club World Cup format from 2025)
4. We’ve enabled a dynamic English youth system, whereby a club's youth team will now move up or down youth competition levels based on the club's youth rating.
5. Allow functionality for more than three nations to host a tournament.
6. In the Canadian Premier League, the end of season playoffs now has a dynamic format based on the teams adhering to the league rules that stipulate Under-21 players must play for a set number of minutes per season for their teams to be eligible for the playoffs.
7. We’ve standardised substitution and foreign players rules across a number of leagues, and also added some new rules to the Competition Rules screen, such as when prize money is paid out and which teams are ineligible for promotion.
8. In Argentina, there’s a new aggregate table for qualification to continental club competitions.
9. In Malaysia, we’ve implemented the new foreign player rule for the Super League.
10. In Turkey, we’ve implemented the dynamic drawing of teams for the 2. League Groups.

Just one more thing to talk about before I let you go and that’s game speed. You’d think given all the changes for FM24 – including new ways to play, upgrades to AI Squad Building, the inclusion of Intermediaries and TransferRoom, a visibly improved Match Engine – would require a lot of extra processing that would ultimately make the game slower, right?  

Well, after extensive soak testing in the last couple of weeks, I can reveal that FM24 is actually quicker than FM23 thanks to a bunch of optimisation work from our team.

That’s the end of the PC/Mac feature drops for FM24 – we hope that you’re as excited as we are for what’s going to be the last game of an era and our most complete edition to date.

Feature updates for FM24 Console and FM24 Mobile will arrive during the week commencing October 23rd, with FM24 Touch’s upgrades following in early November.

All that’s left for me to say is that I very much hope you enjoy FM24 when it’s released worldwide on November 6th - or circa two weeks earlier if you’ve pre-ordered from a participating digital retailer and will be playing the Early Access version.

Cheers,

Miles