# Football Manager 26 FM26 Update (26.3) Out Now - Product: Football Manager 26 (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/football-manager-26) - Vendor: Sports Interactive - Date: 2026-03-30 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3551340/view/532127297744929438 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/football-manager-26/releases/2026-03-30-fm26-update-26.3-out-now What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — New full-screen Youth Setup Overview - **added** — Automatically open a must respond message preference option - **added** — Cash/Claused Transfers, Free Transfers, Part Exchange Transfers and Player Trials filters on the Transfer History card - **added** — Transfer Fees to the Career Stats tile - **added** — New Premier League match ball - **added** — Leicester City points deduction - **added** — RWDM Brussels points deduction - **changed** — More than 1 million database changes - **changed** — Updated transfers for China, Türkiye, the USA, and other select leagues - **changed** — Boca Juniors are now a licensed team - **changed** — Sort functionality restored for transfer value, ability and potential columns in Recruitment > Shortlist - **changed** — Attributes being trained now highlight in Orange within the Individual Training screen - **changed** — Fixtures and Result Report now remembers filters when leaving and returning - **changed** — Competition > Transfers card now remembers filters when leaving and returning - **changed** — Recruitment > Transfer History Card now remembers filters when leaving and returning - **changed** — Player attribute polygon graph remains visible while cycling through other players - **changed** — Team form now displays oldest to newest (left to right) in all game areas - **changed** — Staff not at the user's club no longer display 'unknown' personalities - **changed** — Goalkeepers are now only compared to other goalkeepers on the player comparison screen - **fixed** — Crash fixes and stability improvements - **fixed** — Keyboard shortcuts no longer activate when using the global search function - **fixed** — Navigation focus boxes no longer appear after using the global search function - **fixed** — Match Stats bars are now correctly equal when values are zero for both teams - **fixed** — Unable to view past seasons in Stages card for select competitions - **fixed** — Set Piece/Penalty taker lists now properly reflect the real-time current squad - **fixed** — Empty space appearing in Scout World Knowledge card - **fixed** — Tactical Analysis omitting certain players - **fixed** — Form indicators appearing inaccurately on the Competitions page - **fixed** — Partnership lines appearing misaligned on the Tactics screen when first opened - **fixed** — Passing Completed, Crosses Completed, and Clear-Cut Chances stats displaying incorrectly during match day - **fixed** — Grey players offered contracts displaying attributes over 20 - **fixed** — Approach to sign action not generating when the user's club exited a transfer embargo - **fixed** — Players kicking ball out of play straight from kick off - **fixed** — Offsides lines missing during replay for a goal disallowed by offside - **fixed** — Substitutes flickering on the 2D pitch tile - **fixed** — Verified rule files with a database not being valid with that same database in a new game setup - **fixed** — Non-playing history appearing blank for non-players with edited history FM26 Update (26.3) is now available on Steam, Epic, and Microsoft Store. This update introduces a new full-screen Youth Setup Overview, quality of life improvements to the User Interface, and Database changes from transfer windows including China, Türkiye, and the USA. * This update should take effect automatically but if you have any issues, please visit our dedicated (https://support.sega.com/hc/en-gb/articles/40392673567633-FM26-How-to-Install-and-Update). An update for FM26 Console on PlayStation and Xbox is also available, with the respective changelist available (https://community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic/600873-fm26-console-update-263-is-now-live/). FM26 Touch on Apple Arcade and FM26 Mobile will follow later this week. Today’s full changelist is available below. _*To experience the data and competition changes in this update, you will need to start a new career. While the game version is being updated to 26.3, the database version will remain named as 26.2._ _Rosters for certain licensed leagues whose seasons run to the calendar year will only be reflective up until the end of the 2025 season and will not include incoming and outgoing transfers made for 2026. _ ##### **FM26 (26.3) Changelist (Non-Exhaustive)** **Database** - More than 1 million Database changes - Updated Transfers for China, Türkiye, the USA, and other select leagues - Boca Juniors are now a licensed team **Technical Issues** - Crash fixes & stability improvements - Fixed an issue causing keyboard shortcuts to activate when using the global search function - Fixed an issue that would cause Navigation focus boxes to appear after using the global search function **User Interface (UI)** - Redesigned the Youth Setup Overview to be full screen - Sort functionality has been restored for transfer value, ability and potential columns in Recruitment > Shortlist - Attributes being trained now highlight in Orange within the Individual Training screen - The Fixtures and Result Report will remember your filters should you leave and return - The Competition > Transfers card will remember your filters should you leave and return - The Recruitment > Transfer History Card will remember your filters should you leave and return - If the player attribute polygon graph is selected, it will remain visible while cycling through other players - Match Stats bars are now correctly equal when values are zero for both teams - Added Transfer Fees to the Career Stats tile - Fixed an issue preventing the user to view past seasons in Stages card for select competitions - Set Piece/Penalty taker lists will now properly reflect the real-time current squad - Removed empty space appearing in Scout World Knowledge card - Viewing the Tactical Analysis no longer omits certain players incorrectly - Fixed an issue causing form indicators to sometimes appear inaccurately on the Competitions page - League tables which feature a ‘split’ now better display the split in teams - Tactics within the save folder now correctly display if attempting to overwrite them - Team form will now display oldest to newest (left to right) in all game areas - Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause Partnership lines to appear misaligned on the Tactics screen when first opened - Fixed an issue causing the Passing Completed, Crosses Completed, and Clear-Cut Chances stats to display incorrectly during the match day **Gameplay** - Staff not at the user’s club no longer display ‘unknown’ personalities - Added a ‘Automatically open a must respond message’ preference option - Added Cash/Claused Transfers, Free Transfers, Part Exchange Transfers and Player Trials filters when on the Transfer History card - Fixed an issue causing ‘Grey’ players that have been offered contracts to display attributes over 20 - Goalkeepers are now only compared to other goalkeepers on the player comparison screen - Club vision ambitions have been tweaked to prevent certain objectives bein _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3551340/view/532127297744929438]_