The long-awaited Football Manager 26 Mobile Winter Transfer Update (v26.2.0) is now officially available for download on both Apple App Store and Google Play.
This update includes January transfer window changes, Current Ability (CA) and Potential Ability (PA) updates, thousands of player and staff data edits, and several technical and gameplay improvements.
The update should download and install automatically via the App Store or Play Store. If you experience any issues during installation, it is recommended to follow the official update instructions provided by the developers.
FM26 Mobile (26.2) Changelist (Non-exhaustive)
Crash and Technical Issues
- Fixed an issue which could potentially lead to crashes on player and tactics action menu
- Fixed a crash after continuing which could occasionally occur on the 14th of June 2035
- Fixed a rare crash on the bookmark page
- Fixed a rare crash on pre/post-match hub
- Fixed various issues when importing a FMM24 save game involving a national team
- Fixed a rare crash during startup flow
Database
- Updated the database to reflect the January Transfer Window
- Updated various licensed assets
- Fixed various localisation issues
Match
- Tweaked Central Midfielder role to get forward a little more on non-defensive mentalities
- Tweaked Defensive Midfielder and Anchor roles to utilise a touch more freedom when appropriate
- Encouraged wingers to run towards byline a little more often unless the early crosses instruction is set
- Deep Lying Playmakers and liberos will now try more longer-range passes
- Tweaked Central Midfielders to be a little more interested in closing down the opposition in relevant situations
- Made Advanced Playmakers a little keener to play through balls and a little less keen to shoot
- Sightly reduced effect of yellow cards on ratings
User Interface
- Fixed issue where staff search may not display interested staff until “Interested Only” toggle is re-enabled
- The assists column in ‘Loan Progress’ can now be sorted
- Fixed the button text cut-off and icon overlap on the job offer page
- Fixed a text cut off on staff search in some languages
- Fixed an issue where swiping on import career screen would sometimes show a blank screen
- Tiredness info no longer cuts off in the medical centre
- Increased the visibility of poor form effects on players visible attributes
- Navigation of players through quick flicks menu has improved
- Players without a club can no longer display illogically as loan listed
Gameplay
- Increased transfer budget cap to £850m
- Encouraged larger clubs to be slightly more aggressive with purchasing
- Ensured that clubs that made a huge transfer profit during a season don’t have that money randomly taken away from them during a season update
- Made it easier for human clubs to loan out players
- Made clubs a bit more prone to consider transfer listing players when they need a sale due to financial regulations
- Fixed an issue that could cause player to appear in two squads at once
- Fixed an issue where points deductions were not correctly taken into account when evaluating manager’s performance
- Fixed an issue in existing saves where a player sometimes would be wrongly unable to be called up
- Fixed an issue where user would sometimes be unable to send scouts on assignments in certain regions
- Players now develop in line with the growth that is shown post-match
- Tweaked training so that light training reduces jadedness more effectively
- Fixed an issue where player with future transfer arranged at end of contract could leave without joining new club
- Reduced the effect of long unbeaten runs on pressure felt by players
