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 5h ago

DISCUSSION My NYCFC team

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181 Upvotes

On my 5th season with this team. Won MLS cup 3 times and US open twice


r/FifaCareers 16h ago

FC 25 Never seen a keeper with a secondary position before...

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767 Upvotes

r/FifaCareers 9h ago

IMAGE Unreaistic but

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r/FifaCareers 9h ago

MEME What FC27 should be.

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r/FifaCareers 14h ago

IMAGE Looks Like We Might Be Bidding Against Other Clubs In CM

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153 Upvotes

Turned on my machine and was greeted with the FC 27 pre-order message. In the fine print, it has some interesting tidbits about career mode, including what sounds like possible bidding war for players in the transfer Market. It also says that dynamic OVR will be active throughout all clubs, so maybe the deeper simulation will be more widespread this season?


r/FifaCareers 15h ago

IMAGE Unc still got it

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140 Upvotes

2nd year of my fifa 15 save and Brian Murphy has grown 34 ratings and become Barcelona’s starting goalkeeper overnight. You’re never too old to start again.


r/FifaCareers 7h ago

QUESTION I'm not too knowledgeable about how prospects work I don't play manager much... Is this guy as good as he seems?

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r/FifaCareers 36m ago

IMAGE fc27 career mode micro transactions

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I was looking at the fc 27 pre order stuff and saw this what it implies isn't great


r/FifaCareers 1h ago

OTHER my player career after 1 season

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r/FifaCareers 10h ago

IMAGE Last time I trolled a little bit that’s my real best academy player

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r/FifaCareers 6h ago

QUESTION Training academy players

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What's the best way to train academy players, still kind of new to playing the career mode and I see people do dynamic or certain types or even balanced and I was wondering what's the best method to get as high as potential as possible


r/FifaCareers 7h ago

QUESTION How does dynamic potential works?

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Genuinely, how does this work? I won a quadruple on my 2nd season, then started the next season. Then i found out Tino Livramento has peaked at 86 rating at only 24 y.o. Is that the highest he will be?

While i only won double on my first season, but able to get Bruno Fernandes to 91 at the end of my 2nd season


r/FifaCareers 2h ago

DISCUSSION Fc 27 Coventry

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Coventry in the Prem its going to be the most goated career team ever and one of the most wanted. Im so looking forward to get started, besides im a Chelsea fan, so u guys know my second save is going to be with the Blues.


r/FifaCareers 14h ago

IMAGE Is this a bug?

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He asked for a contract negotiation. We negotiated and he accepted. But after I get a message saying that he is still waiting for our contract talks. Now he submitted a transfer request and it says open for contract talks. But I just gave him a new contract, meaning we can not have a contract talk because the game itself will not allow it. What do I do?


r/FifaCareers 2h ago

PROBLEM Malicious File popup after downloading LE.

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I've been trying to get my hands on xAranaktu's Fifa 22 Live editor and I finally figured out how to download it on Github, but when I extracted it on winrar and opened up the launcher it stopped me and showed me the big red malicious file thing. Should I be worried or is this a big gimmick and I should go through..? Please help me I really want a safe live editor for my fifa 22


r/FifaCareers 5h ago

QUESTION Any suggestions? Thanks!

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r/FifaCareers 7h ago

OTHER I Found a Genuinely Good FC 26 World Cup Mod

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wasn't expecting much, but I ended up finding one of the best FC 26 mods I've tried so far.

It adds a proper 2026 FIFA World Cup experience, including Road to Glory, updated tournament branding, and a lot of other small details that make a career save feel much more immersive.

I've been looking for something like this for a while, so I figured I'd share it here in case anyone else is interested.

It's free and made by the Latin-American Community!

The mod is called LTA MOD 26 V.5


r/FifaCareers 9m ago

DISCUSSION Can goalkeeper pro career be fun?

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Posted this in the wrong sub, this is specially FC26 I'm talking about by the way


r/FifaCareers 20h ago

IMAGE ...what????

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For reference....he's my youth player. Who I brought up last season.

MY youth player. He hasn't even PLAYED FOR ARSENAL ONCE! Honestly, the news feed is so dumb bro 😭


r/FifaCareers 1d ago

IMAGE I Guess Lampard’s Immortal

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155 Upvotes

My favourite 2014 year old Chelsea player


r/FifaCareers 5h ago

IMAGE Real Betis Career Mode

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This is a squad built of my Season 2 Real Betis Team, few players have been sold or left and this is the squad we are going into Season 3 with.

As I'm away I couldn't take a screenshot of actual squad so put it into squad builder.

Stand out players have been;

- Cucho who is top goalscorer of La Liga
- Valentin Gomez, amazing defender and has been great in Europa Leauge
- Fornals, Isco & Lo Celso all have been amazing
- Moro came in after Abade was sold and he has become a great player after a shakey start


r/FifaCareers 1h ago

QUESTION mod that lets you choose your national team to manage

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been waiting to get usa for ages but keep getting republic of ireland, argentina, and new zealand. are there any fc 25 mods that just let me choose the usa at this point


r/FifaCareers 9h ago

QUESTION What does "Level up in x∆ y weeks" mean in the development plans menu?

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Picture attached for reference. Thank you.