Football Manager 26
Football Manager 26 is the edition before Football Manager 27. Dynamic critic averages, user-review totals and series player counts are omitted: this review could not independently reproduce those figures from accessible primary pages.
The interface is the scar. FM27's entire clearer-navigation dive exists because of it. If you still enjoy FM26, nothing on this site tells you to delete it. The preview of the new game is free on PC until 3 November 2026, which is a better test than a trailer.
FM26 Touch did launch on Nintendo Switch on 4 December 2025. That fact stops people claiming the series has never been on Nintendo. FM27 has not announced a Switch version. Owning the Switch Touch game does not upgrade you to FM27.
Starting budgets published for FM26 stay on FM26. The save-import conversation is on its own page. A season database labelled 26/27 is usually a patch for this game or for FM24, and it is not the new release.
Is FM26 worth buying in October 2026?
It is the previous released edition. Current critic and Steam figures were not independently verified here. The FM27 preview lets you compare the announced changes before buying.
Did FM26 come to Switch?
The Touch edition did, on 4 December 2025.
What was the Metacritic score?
No independently verified current figure is supplied here.