reviews
Iplayed the soccer manager games for a while and this one is really good, I can see the effort put in to make this game great which is why I enjoy it alot. From sm24, they made this game more realistic, added more goals your players can score (bicycle kick,scorpion kick) and made it so that goalkeepers ACTUALLY make saves now and it's worth having a good keeper. The one BIG ISSUE for me is the game crashes. It crashes so often when I'm winning, Losing, A man down and it's so annoying please fix!
noname138471, the 15/10/2024
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This game is so bad as in worse than the previous version. First the home screen is so much about Manchester city(all blue with their players only,it's like we are forced to use their team to get wins. Secondly,it's the data packages,each one you try to chose is invalid(why put them there). The third is about the gaming experience as the game over freezes(match per match most so when things are going well). The worst thing is about user experience it's awful,everything is so small and compacted
noname33787, the 15/10/2024
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This game is extremely unoptimized and the menus are very clunky. Ive been playing this game for barely 3 weeks and I'm experiencing issues where whenever I'm playing a match, the game freezes or is in a state where the match time continues, but the players aren't moving. I literally had a game where my team scored 3 goals and it crashed.
noname848105, the 15/10/2024
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UI of the previous one was way better. When I'm trying to make a change players shuffle randomly. The colours and the letters in the game are weird and it's hard to read players positions. Animations are terrible. The game feels unfinished. On the other hand manager part of the game seems realistic enough. Research the opposing team, set up your tactics right and anything might happen. The bugs are annoying but I believe that this can be a great game if they finish it.
noname452793, the 15/10/2024
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This is my first time playing this soccer manager. I just have some few problems. 1. Please fix the gameplay, it just doesnt make sense. The keeper will randomly run away from the post so this make the opponent scores, it is quite annoying. 2. The game sometimes freeze so randomly till I need to leave the app and rejoin, it is mainly annoying when this happens during game going on especially when im winning a match. 3. It is annoying too when during the transfer bid, agent fee is high. Pls fix????
noname391565, the 15/10/2024
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Been playing since 2018. This game has so, so much potential - however, watching the games just *is not fun.* When a highlight ends in a goal, it takes roughly 12 seconds. When it doesn't, about 5 seconds. This means you are actively rooting for your players to do nothing with the ball and shrug after 8 seconds when you realise it must be a goal before it's scored, and rooting for opposition players to break through your defence to end the highlight quickly. Ruins all suspense and SM25 for me.
noname307940, the 15/10/2024
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So far so bad! The players' faces are gone, as well as the club badge, club name, stadium name and the crowd in the stadium. The simulation always goes blank before a game starts. I like the rearrangement of the home screen as well as the notifications for training and co. Been on this game since 2021 or so, this is the worst by a large margin. The scheduling isn't great, I played three matches in three days. It's in need of a serious overhaul .
noname144991, the 15/10/2024
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This game is very unpolished, this is a downgrade from sm24. What improved are the graphics, match engine, and transfers. But everything else downgraded, lots of bugs, and they still haven't added anything new to tactics or player roles, not even inverted wingback. Assists are given to the player who made the pass before instead of the player who actually assisted the goal
noname540241, the 15/10/2024
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This game is awful! I've tried multiple teams and it's impossible to get a win. Their trying to hard with chemistry and tactics. Any tactics you apply, they don't work and it goes against you everytime. But after you've messed around with tactics, the game then freezes and crashes mid game so you have to restart. If you've got patience and time to waste then give it ago. But if you want something that works and plays better, just stick to Football Manager.
noname219489, the 15/10/2024
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Was a fan of SM24 even though it wasn't perfect but we now have SM25. This time it has more bugs (hopefully will be fixed over time). More adverts and when I mean more you need to watch more but... instead of them being 30 seconds you now also get 60 second adverts. Also why are 90% goals scored headers? Not had a single freekick or penalty scored yet. The best bug so far is coming 2nd with more points than 1st. I took a screen shot just to show this unique (maybe Man City did buy the title).
noname655328, the 15/10/2024
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Good to see new game this year. Great experience overall except few problems. 1. Blackscreens when match starts. It's so annoying to reset the game everytime when this happens. 2. Bring back daily login rewards or provide different solutions for golds. I can't even do transfer bids anymore. 3. Fix the bug when doing substitution in match. Players name and position gets mixed and unable to change player role correctly 4. Lastly please schedule is so horrible. It's somehow worse than last year.
noname782584, the 15/10/2024
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Many annoying bugs. The most important one is that often when I am playing the match and highlights are set to extended, it starts to play the whole match so I need to forcley close the app to aviod watching the whole match (I never selected 'all' as an option for highlights). Also there are bugs when changing the tactics and making substitution - I still see the player who was substitutrd in player roles so I cant set a role for new player. Also, when I chage set piece taker during the match.
noname296850, the 15/10/2024
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this game sucks. SM24 version was better than this. there are matches that suddenly pass by themselves, without user's consent. In that game, my team lost because I couldn't set a strategy. The board confidence and fan confidence are very strange also, the team has played well and often wins, but it doesn't increase the board and fan confidence. They still want to sack me. Even though I have completed objective targets such as increasing the number of stadium capacities. that's so ridiculous
noname408367, the 15/10/2024
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Terrible experience. A complete downgrade from SM24. User experience is horrible. The theme from SM24 was nice and easy on the eyes. Substitutions are broken. The players substituted in are not showing up when I want to change player roles or instructions in the tactics. If it's a like for like replacement then fine, but what if I change the formation completely? Only the old players are showing up and I have zero control over the roles of the new players. The team overall rating is also broken.
noname668020, the 15/10/2024
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Nice gameplay, and graphics. However, the scheduling is not realistic. My EPL and Carabao cup fixtures are all back to back by 1 day, eg no day break in between. Also, I can have many shots on goal, but opponent just need 1 shot for me to lose 1-0 and it was a weak opponent. Good to keep SM2024 UI if possible. Overall it is an improvement from SM 2024, aesthetic wise.
noname867346, the 15/10/2024
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I decided for the first time to pay for this game. The 32$ budnle. I have been playing for 7 years. A great game by all means, but we need more! More content, a little bit more realism. Nothing BIG! But different types of sponsors, More managerial questions. The manager upgrading system needs to be more contentful! The ability to win manager od the year! Just small add ons that will make the adventure much more entertaining!
noname304323, the 15/10/2024
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Firstly, one of the impressive things are the updates in the team players which is really needed, coming up with new goal celebrations, entrance graphics has been upgraded. But I have issues with logos of teams disappearing after the first login, there is no daily login reward again, there are glitches in the game, selection of players that have just moved to first team from reserve is difficult because you won't see it reflecting in the first team board. It has been poor compared to sm24. thank
noname370229, the 15/10/2024
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The biggest downgrade from sm24, it's now a total pay to win game. No daily rewards, no manager points to upgrade, too expensive, way too many bugs, game auto saving sucks, it lags too much, needs a stonge internet connection, you don't get gold by anything but paying and it's necessary for making transfers. You play for 2 days and then have to unistall forever as you run out of gold and cannot practically play the game even if you only spent golf as transfer fee, let alone all the other things.
noname356154, the 15/10/2024
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I've played Soccer Manager on Android the last few years and I must say this 2025 edition is NOT as good as the older versions! It's buggy, bad UI design, many adds and an overall feeling a game rushed to meet a deadline. Maybe it gets patched later on, but right now it's below standard. Edit: now I've played some more and it just get worse. I adjusted my rating from 3 to 2 stars and decided to uninstall the game and just start up a new game in Soccer Manager 2024 instead.
noname774806, the 15/10/2024
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Not Good at all! First of all the names of some teams are spelled incorrectly, no faces on the players, it's almost impossible to score a goal, the badges are not correct. The only good things so far is I like that they added a playlist and they updated the champions league and the other European competitions league phase format and obviously the new players on each team's but that's not good enough. Hopefully they update it and clear those mistakes then it will be a good game.
noname774702, the 15/10/2024
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