With Football Manager 25 officially off the table, FM24 is now the last release until at least November 2025. So, if you’re in need of a new challenge, you won’t be able to rely on a fresh new version to shake things up. Instead, it’s time to get creative and find new ways to keep your saves engaging until FM26 arrives.

If you’ve fallen into a routine of signing the same wonderkids, winning the same leagues, and playing the same tactics, then this is the perfect opportunity to push yourself out of your comfort zone. These challenges will test your adaptability, force you to rethink squad building, and make every save feel like a completely fresh experience.

Managerial Wanderlust

Some managers build dynasties. You? You’re just passing through. In this challenge, you must change clubs every season—no matter how well (or badly) things are going.

Key Aims:

  • Change Club Every Season: No matter how far you’ve taken your team, you must move on at the end of each campaign.

  • Adjust to New Surroundings: New leagues, new budgets, and a new boardroom full of people eager to sack you.


This challenge forces you to make the most of the short term. Just as you’re getting settled, you have to pack up and start over—again and again.

Loan Army

Forget big-money transfers—you’re living on borrowed time. Every signing must be a loan, meaning long-term squad planning is out the window.

Key Aims:

  • Sign Only Loan Players: No permanent transfers. Every signing needs to make an instant impact.

  • Plan for Squad Instability: That star striker carrying your team? He’s getting recalled in January. Do you have a Plan B?


This challenge turns every transfer window into a high-pressure puzzle. One wrong call, and you could be lining up at the job centre.

Squad Shuffle

Your best players won’t like this one. No player can start more than two games in a row, forcing constant rotation. Every game is a tactical experiment—whether you like it or not.

Key Aims:

  • Rotate Your Starting XI: No player can start more than two consecutive matches.

  • Utilise the Entire Squad: That benchwarmer you only kept for homegrown quotas? He’s about to be a regular starter.


This challenge forces you to use your entire squad, ensuring every player has a role—even if you’d rather they didn’t.

One Season, One Nationality

Each season, you can only sign players from one nationality. Once you’ve picked a country, you can’t use it again in future seasons.

Key Aims:

  • Limit Transfers to One Nationality Per Season: All new signings must be from the same nation.

  • Explore Recruitment Focuses: You’ll need to scout different leagues and regions to find the best players available.


One season, your signings might be built around Spanish flair. The next, it could be a team of towering Norwegians. Every year brings a new transfer identity—and new challenges.

No New Contracts

If a player turns 23 and his contract is running out, that’s it—no new deal. Your challenge is to sell at the right time and never lose players for free.

Key Aims:

  • No Contract Renewals: No new contracts for players aged 23 or older. Tie your best young players down early, or lose them.

  • Maximise Player Sales: Your top talents need to be sold at the right time to maximise funds.


This challenge turns your club into a never-ending production line, where the focus is always on the next big thing rather than holding onto the past.

If you’re looking for a fresh way to experience FM24, these challenges will push you to manage uncertainty, work within limitations, and think creatively.

Whether you’re changing clubs every year, relying on short-term signings, constantly rotating your squad, limiting transfers to one nationality, or running a revolving door of youth, each challenge forces you to break old habits and develop new strategies.

They’ll test your patience, your problem-solving skills, and—every now and then—your sanity. But they’ll also keep your FM save fresh, unpredictable, and rewarding.

Are you ready for a new challenge?