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Soccer Manager 2025 – Out Now!

Football fans around the world are celebrating as Soccer Manager 2025, the latest iteration of the popular mobile football simulation series, has officially been released. Soccer Manager 2025 marks the tenth year of the critically acclaimed series from Invincibles Studio, played by over 75 million users, and promises to bring a whole new level of matchday action to screens worldwide.
The Soccer Manager series allows players to take charge of their favourite elite football clubs and manage them from match to match, season to season. The game features everything from 3D simulated matches to transfers and an in-depth tactics system. Users can also build up their facilities off the pitch and manage every aspect of their football club in this realistic & immersive management experience.
Soccer Manager 2025 is the best looking & feeling game in the series yet. With extensive focus on the new 3D Match Motion engine, an all-new, sleek user interface, and a huge number of performance optimisations, SM25 continues on its journey to becoming the best mobile football management experience on the market. Development has been shaped by the game’s dedicated community, with feedback taken by the developers at every stage to deliver on the priorities of the players.
Key to the game’s strength, Soccer Manager 2025’s match engine is powered by Invincibles Studio’s brand new Match Motion technology. The Match Motion system brings a new level of visual detail to the matchday experience, combining upgraded player models, over 300 new animations, and countless other improvements to bring your tactics to life at your fingertips like never before. This system is a top-tier match engine and will power Invincibles Studio’s titles for years to come.
Soccer Manager 2025’s realism & authenticity is also reinforced by the officially licensed content in-game. Licenses from Manchester City and the German Bundesliga bring official badges and kits into the game. There are also over 25,000 FIFPRO-licensed players in the game from across the world, bringing the leagues to life.

Soccer Manager 2025 is now available worldwide on Android and iOS. For a limited time, new users can receive in-game bonuses & exclusive cosmetics just through downloading the game. With its new features, sleek appearance, and commitment to delivering the best possible football management experience, Soccer Manager 2025 is set to raise the bar for the series and can be downloaded via this link.

Soccer Manager 2024 now available free on Android and iOS

The latest release in the world-renowned Soccer Manager game series, Soccer Manager 2024, is now available to download and play free for Android and iOS devices.

With over 60 million players since the company was established in 2004, Invincibles Studios’ Soccer Manager series has become a critically-acclaimed benchmark in the football management game genre. Soccer Manager 2024 establishes a new level of accuracy, immersion, and excitement for the series with the addition of groundbreaking new features and enhancement of existing core elements.

Soccer Manager 2024 players can take control at one of over 900 clubs in 54 leagues across 36 countries around the world. FIFPRO-licenced football players with accurate attributes can be bought, sold, and managed on a path to success. Along with transfers, players can choose training, tactics & formations for their team, as well as developing club facilities as they progress.

New this year, international teams can also be managed in major qualifiers and tournaments against the best international teams across the continent and indeed the world. Stunning match and environment visuals are available to enjoy, with player likenesses and animations never having looked so good!

If Soccer Manager fans want to truly prove their management credentials, then they can forge their own legend by creating a completely new club and starting at the bottom. By proving their management genius, players can succeed in ascending to the very top leagues and competitions with superstars they have bought, or wonderkids they have talent-spotted and grown into world-leading professionals.

“Soccer Manager 2024 is the ultimate mobile football management game, with unrivalled accuracy, immersion, and enjoyment,” said Invincibles Studio CEO, Chris Gore. “This new release in the Soccer Manager series offers a myriad of new gameplay features for our community, and welcomes every new player due to its accessible, easy-to-understand tutorials. This is the best Soccer Manager game ever released on mobile.”

Following the recent announcement of a multi-year licencing agreement with Manchester City, Soccer Manager 2024 features existing multi-year worldwide agreements with partners including but not limited to, the Deutsche Fußball Liga, our continued ambassador partnership with manager Mikel Arteta, and our wide-ranging FIFPRO player licence.

Ireland’s ‘RoboÉireann’ Robot Soccer Team wins international RoboCup Challenge Shield

Ireland’s Robot Soccer team, RoboÉireann from Maynooth University, are Challenge Shield winners in the RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League, an international robotics competition held in Bordeaux, France.

Scoring 67-2 across nine matches, RoboÉireann overcame teams from Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, USA, Australia, and Brazil to secure victory.  (35 second clip of RoboCup Semi-Final RoboÉireann V Dutch Nao below. 

RoboCup is an international research initiative to advance intelligent autonomous robotics into the middle of the 21st century.

Robot soccer is played by teams of five or seven robots each comprising a goalie and outfield players. There are human referees and just like real soccer there is a kick-off, goals, fouls, a sin-bin and eventual send-offs for persistent fouls, and penalty kicks.

The winning team comprises staff and students from the Departments of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Maynooth University and competes in an innovative game where all competitors use identical humanoid robot hardware but develop software so that the robots play soccer autonomously. RoboÉireann have competed in European and International RoboCup events since 2009.

To achieve this level of autonomy, teams must develop software, create advanced machine learning and AI and efficient real-time systems, so that the robots can understand their surroundings, make decisions, and collaborate in dynamic environments without human intervention or remote control.

Students gain industry-ready skills in robotics, AI, software, and teamwork with applications in autonomous robotics, assistive technologies for independent living, manufacturing, agriculture, and emergency/disaster area operations, amongst others.

Commenting on the team’s success, Dr Rudi Villing, team coach and lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering, said: “RoboCup is an invaluable practical environment for students to learn about the challenges of creating intelligent humanoid robots, to research and develop solutions, and to develop industrially relevant skills. The competitive element is a key motivator for them and is unlike anything else. Our great result in this competition builds on our Open Challenge win in the RoboCup 2011 world championship and third place finish in the RoboCup German Open Replacement Event 2022.”

Team RoboÉireann are Aidan Colgan, Shauna Recto, James Petri, Heather Bruen, Andy Lee Mitchell, Dr Ralf Bierig and Dr Rudi Villing.

National Women’s Soccer League Now Available In EA Sports FIFA 23

EA SPORTS furthered its commitment to women’s football with the addition of the American National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) now available in EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23. Fans across the globe can now experience a more authentic representation of women’s football with all 12 NWSL teams and all players available within Kick Off, Tournament Mode, Head to
Head season / Co-op Seasons and Online Friendlies. Also available in-game will be four NWSL stadiums, along with authentic kits, starheads, trophies and celebrations.

Earlier this month, EA SPORTS announced partnerships with the NWSL and NWSLPA, which continued its ongoing commitment to elevate and authentically represent the women’s game. This new integration provides content to sports and gaming fans the opportunity to engage more with their favourite players and clubs beyond matchday.

The 2023 NWSL season is slated to kick off on Saturday, March 25, with opening weekend for the league’s 11th campaign seeing all 12 teams in action. Both the regular season and the 2023 UKG NWSL Challenge Cup will appear across CBS Sports platforms, including The CBS Television Network, CBS Sports Network and Paramount+. FIFA 23 is developed by EA Vancouver and EA Romania and is available now on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

To learn more about the latest news for FIFA 23, please visit
https://www.ea.com/games/fifa/fifa-23.