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Steam News17 August 202510mo ago

Hotfix 1.8.1

Hi everyone, 1.8.1 is a small hotfix that fixes some softlock issues that made progressing to the next week in the game impossible. Fix for switching to a new team and using the manual lineup of your players.

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fixed1.8.1 is a small hotfix that fixes some softlock issues that made progressing to the next week in the game impossible.
fixedFix for switching to a new team and using the manual lineup of your players. Sometimes you could not reach the next week after a match
fixedFix for never-ending cheering players, in case you set the match speed during a celebration to ultra-fast or result only
fixedFix for savegames that were created when a goal was scored. You could not continue to the next week (well, yeah... you can't come up with those funny cases when testing :D)
fixedFix for invisible team names or shirts
addedEspecially the last point is not amusing, because I missed assigning team colors to the new international teams. In such a case, the game will assume black as the missing color. I did not want to alter the team files, just in case you have already edited some of those; those changes would have been gone by updating

Boeckham's Football Manager changes

fixed1.8.1 is a small hotfix that fixes some softlock issues that made progressing to the next week in the game impossible.
fixedFix for switching to a new team and using the manual lineup of your players. Sometimes you could not reach the next week after a match
fixedFix for never-ending cheering players, in case you set the match speed during a celebration to ultra-fast or result only
fixedFix for savegames that were created when a goal was scored. You could not continue to the next week (well, yeah... you can't come up with those funny cases when testing :D)
fixedFix for invisible team names or shirts

Hi everyone,

1.8.1 is a small hotfix that fixes some softlock issues that made progressing to the next week in the game impossible.

  • Fix for switching to a new team and using the manual lineup of your players. Sometimes you could not reach the next week after a match

  • Fix for never-ending cheering players, in case you set the match speed during a celebration to ultra-fast or result only

  • Fix for savegames that were created when a goal was scored. You could not continue to the next week (well, yeah... you can't come up with those funny cases when testing :D)

  • Fix for invisible team names or shirts

Especially the last point is not amusing, because I missed assigning team colors to the new international teams. In such a case, the game will assume black as the missing color. I did not want to alter the team files, just in case you have already edited some of those; those changes would have been gone by updating

Sorry for the bugs, and thank you for reporting them!

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Steam News / 17 August 2025

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