For a limited time every club gets one AI badge design on us: pick a shape, colours and a symbol, get two crests back, keep your favourite. And for 24 hours you can rename your club for free, once. Watch for the banner, it tells you what your club still has to claim.

Your dashboard and club history judged a two-legged Founders Cup tie on the second leg alone. They now show the aggregate score, and who actually went through.

The Clubhouse has grown up into Manager11 Chat. Every message from the Clubhouse came with it. Reply in threads, react with emoji, share images, message any manager directly, and see who is online. Every manager shows with their club crest, division and flag, and admins can open new channels as the community grows. It works the same in the app and on the web.

Your inbox is now a real mail client. Folders for transfers, matches, finance, the board and more, a reading pane, stars and archive, search, and mark all read. Offers waiting on you sit at the top with Accept and Decline right there. On a phone, tap a message to open it and swipe back to the list.

A new top bar keeps the important things in one place: the bell shows what needs you and opens your latest notifications, the chat icon counts unread messages, and your balance, credits, search and account menu sit alongside.

Inside player search, tap Filters and pick Listed for sale to see only players on the market, with their asking price. Results now come as a table you can sort by any skill, age, value or asking price, with more filters for maximum age, rating, value and asking price. On a phone each result shows the four skills at a glance.

You can now lodge a bid below the asking price instead of being stopped with "Offer not lodged". The selling club decides: a manager can accept or decline, and a computer-run club accepts a bid at the asking price or one it judges fair value for the player.

Search now opens over the page you are on, with live results as you type, instead of bouncing you to a separate page. On a computer press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac) from anywhere; on a phone tap the search icon in the top bar. Tap Filters inside it to narrow by position, age, rating, skills or free agents and sort the results, all without leaving the page.

After you bought recovery credits in the Medical Centre, the injured players below could still say you had 0 and refuse to treat until you left the page. They now update the moment you buy, upgrade or treat. Prices in the purchase sheet also show in pounds like the rest of the game.

A club that had bought a player earlier in the season could list him and then turn down every bid, even ones above the asking price, with no reason given. If a club lists a player, a bid that meets the asking price now buys him.

A player you list no longer just comes off the market after 25 gamedays. If a cash bid of at least 75% of your asking price is on the table when time is up, he sells to the highest one, so you do not have to be online at the right moment. Anything lower and he stays with you, as before. Thanks to Todd Conwell for the idea.

You can now set a new password while signed in, with no email needed. Handy if you play on the web and want to sign in on the app, or if our emails are not reaching your inbox. It is in Settings under Security.

There is now an official Manager11 Discord. Talk tactics and transfers with other managers, post your trophies, report bugs straight to the people who fix them, and vote on what gets built next. Announcements and new features land there first. It is linked at the bottom of the menu on every page.

Manager11 Career is here: the same match engine, single-player. Pick a club, build it over seasons, in the browser or as a Windows download. No credits, no season pass, no waiting on the gameday clock. Signed-in managers will find it under Explore in the menu; it uses your Manager 11 account and keeps up to three saves online.

One payment of $20 USD, yours forever. No subscription, nothing to renew, and every bonus we add for pass holders from here is included at no extra cost. It also carries a promise about ads: there are none in the game today, and a pass holder will never see one if that ever changes. On sale until the end of September, then this price is gone.

If one of your players shared a name with someone at the club you were facing, his match was being written onto their man instead. He finished with no rating at all, which also cost him his development points and any chance of man of the match, and a goal he scored went missing from the report even though the scoreline counted it. Both sides are now read separately, so the right man gets his match. The affected matches from the last few days have also been moved back, ratings, goals and ability points included. Thanks to DELK for spotting it and for naming the exact players.

An injury could occasionally bring two players on for the same man, leaving a side playing with twelve. It needed a manager to pick a replacement within a second or two of the fifteen-second deadline, which is why it had only happened five times, but every one of those was a match decided by a side with an extra man. It cannot happen now. Thanks to BuJa04 for reporting it with enough detail to find the exact fixture.

Transfers has a My Listings tab. It shows what you are asking, how many bids are in, and how many gamedays each listing has left. That last part matters: a player aged 33 or over who sits unsold for ten gamedays leaves as a free agent, and until now the first you knew about it was a thinner squad. The countdown is on the card before it happens.

The guide explained what everything was but never what to do first. It now opens with the five things to do in your first five minutes, in order, with the consequence of skipping each one, plus straight answers to the questions managers keep having to ask in chat.

From round five the League Cup rounds were named a step ahead of the bracket: eight ties were called the quarter-finals, four the semis, and the last four a third-place playoff that never existed. Round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final now match the ties actually being played, on the calendar and on every fixture.

The search box on the Teams directory now looks across every club in the game, not just the league on screen, and each result shows where the club plays. The league picker also names the country, so the sixteen League 3s are no longer identical rows.

Matches simulated in the same second were sharing one random seed, so a dozen games at a time could open with the same bounce, the same foul, even the same first-minute red card. Every fixture now draws its own seed and it is stamped at the foot of the match report.

A player sent off in the opening minute used to vanish from the match: no red card on his record, no ban, and the stats sheet showed his side starting with ten. He now keeps his place in the stats, the card is logged and he serves his suspension like anyone else.

When the assistant picks your side, the bench now carries a keeper and at least one defender, midfielder and forward, then the best of the rest. It used to fill up with defenders and forwards and leave no midfielder to bring on. Save a full lineup for a fixture and it is still yours.

Group games and first legs in the Founders Cup were drawing a few thousand fans no matter how big your ground or your following. Your own supporters now fill the stands for every Founders home match, and the gate money comes with them.

Winning the Founders Cup now writes the trophy to your cabinet and the honours roll the moment the final settles. Every past winner has been added back, so your club page shows the silverware you earned.

Romanian and Omani players showed a blank flag everywhere, and the Eastern Europe region wore Poland's. All three render correctly now, on the World tab and on every player card.

The compact squad list has a sortable Side column, so you can spot a left-heavy defence without flipping to cards. Players out on loan keep their side chip too.

When a player comes off the transfer list, the message now shows his card and a View Player button, so relisting him is one tap instead of a hunt through your squad.

The "Win every round" total on cup prize cards included the third-place playoff, a game a champion can never play, so it read higher than any winner could be paid. The cards now show exactly what a clean run earns.

Lose your only goalkeeper to an injury or a red card and an outfielder has to go in goal, where he stops almost nothing. Until now nothing told you, and clubs walked into matches with a centre-back between the posts without knowing. Tactics now warns you the moment it happens, with a link straight to the transfer and loan markets so you have time to fix it before kick-off.

Miss a lineup and the eleven that takes the field is now chosen properly. It reads match fitness (a 60 percent fit player really is a 60 percent player out there) and stamina, it keeps left-footers on the left instead of quietly costing them a quarter of everything, and it knows a holding role wants a tackler while an attacking one wants a shooter. It picks the whole side at once rather than one shirt at a time, so your best players end up in the right shirts. Across 400 live squads every single one came out stronger. Your saved drafts now play too, in every competition, instead of being replaced by a computed 4-4-2.

The badge studio is open: pick a shape, colours and a theme, and AI designs two one-of-a-kind crest options for your club — keep your favourite and it shows everywhere, from the league table to the match centre. 150 credits per design run, charged only when it works. You can also rename your club (100 credits) from Settings, and there is a new Report an Issue button there too — real replies, credit refunds when something genuinely went wrong.

Every World Challenge Cup result now opens in the same match centre as your club games: timeline, lineups, player stats, commentary, kits and cards, all of it. Your nation page shows your group table at a glance, and the dashboard duty card links straight to your group and the tournament hub.

The calendar now opens with the full rundown: squads lock Friday midday AEST, world qualifying plays Friday night with a round every 20 minutes, the new season kicks off straight after at one gameday per hour, the Founders Cup runs through the season, and the World Challenge Cup finals play after the Eli final with rounds every 2 hours, all the way to the final. Every milestone with times in your own timezone.

A brand new 64-club competition for the top of the pyramid: every club in the top four tiers plus the sixteen League 3 champions. Sixteen groups of four played home and away, then a two-legged knockout decided on aggregate, with extra time and penalties when a tie will not break. Prize money every round, and real credits for the two clubs in the final. The pots are published now, the draw date will be announced.

National managers can now run their nation like their club: pick a formation, fill the XI slot by slot from your 30-man squad, name a bench of 7, set the tactic and save the teamsheet, all from your nation page. Your fixtures will appear there after the live qualifying draw. The sheet you save is the one your nation plays with.

National squads have been reset for qualifying: too many of the original call-ups have retired since selection. Managers, pick a fresh 30 (4 keepers, 8 defenders, 10 midfielders, 8 forwards) and hit Submit squad on your nation page. A submission deadline will be announced. Miss it and the game picks your best 30 for you.

Apply for any nation without a manager and the job is yours instantly, no waiting on an approval. Applications stay open right through qualifying, so there is still time to lead a country into the World Challenge Cup. Look for the claim banner if you are not on a bench yet.

All 119 national teams now wear their actual home and away kits, imported pattern by pattern from each federation’s public records. See them on every nation page. Club managers get a bonus: a new International category in the kit designer with over 500 national shirt patterns to build with.

A player-suggested one: real credits as prizes. Winning the Eli Bendersky Association Trophy now pays 10 credits to the manager, every season, straight to your balance. Bigger credit prizes are coming for the international game: qualifying pays, the playoff pays, and the world tournament itself will pay most of all.

Fancy a different bench for the world tournament? National team managers can now resign from their federation page and apply for any open nation. The squad stays with the federation for the next boss.

All 119 nations are seeded into pots by squad strength, confederation by confederation: eight groups of six in Europe, five in Asia and Oceania, three in Africa, two each in the Americas. The groups will be decided in a LIVE draw, one nation revealed at a time, date to be announced. See your pot now.

Appealing a ban with club funds threw an error for everyone (paying with credits was fine, which is why it slipped through). Fixed. If your star is banned for the final, the disciplinary panel will now actually hear you out. Thanks to UttBall and Leomessi for the reports.

A "free" loan is free for the borrowing club, not for you: the owner keeps paying the full wage. The loans page now says exactly who pays on every offer and listing, so nobody accepts a deal on the wrong assumption again. Offer lists show the current season only, tab counters count offers that actually need your attention, and stale offers are cleared automatically at the end of each season. Listed players who attract no interest now get a targeted look from suitable clubs too. Thanks DELK and UttBall.

Two linked changes. Crowds are now driven by your earned fanbase (division, support, form, prices), not by how many seats you built, so oversized bowls sit part empty. And every seat costs 40p per gameday to maintain, itemised on your finance page. Built too big? Stands can be dismantled from the stadium page to shed the cost. A right-sized ground for your level is unaffected and still turns a healthy profit.

Players rated 15+ command steeply higher wages, up to several times more at the very top. Nobody under rating 15 changes at all. Fielding a team of stars is now a payroll decision, not a free upgrade.

Manager pages now show a form strip, season-by-season club record, honours cabinet with real competition names, and a message button. Player portraits were also backfilled for 8,919 players who were showing blank silhouettes.

The clubhouse now supports proper threaded replies, messages arrive instantly instead of on a refresh, and a profanity filter keeps it civil. Manager11 reads the clubhouse daily, so bug reports and suggestions posted there do get actioned.

Both pages were quietly downloading every injured or suspended player in the world (8,000+), which is why they crawled or went blank. They now show your league by default with a Whole World toggle. Loaned-out players who get injured also appear in your medical centre again, and yellow cards show correctly in live matches.

The inbox tab now has the same mark-all-read button as alerts. Small thing, much asked for. Thanks UttBall.

Only your best coach in each area ever counted, so a bigger staff was pure wage burn (and a couple of clubs were hoarding the rare elite coaches). Clubs now carry at most 7 coaches, one per specialty. Nobody already over the cap loses anyone, but you cannot hire again until you are under it.

Accepting a loan offer failed every time. Fixed, loan away. Promoting a youth prospect twice in quick succession could duplicate them. Also fixed, and affected squads cleaned up. And if players in your saved lineup get injured, suspended, or sold before the match, the tactics page now flags them and offers a one-tap fix. Bonus: lower-division AI clubs now come in with loan offers for bigger clubs’ fringe players, because those lads want minutes. Thanks to TjalveF, DELK and Leomessi for the sharp reports.

The market finally goes above 3 stars, but elite coaches are choosy. Four-star coaches want level 6+ training facilities and a top-four-division club; five-star coaches only consider level 9+ facilities in the top two flights. They are rare, they are expensive, and a credit-powered headhunter can track down the best coach your club can currently attract.

Ability counters now stop at zero, as many of you asked. If poor form would push one below zero, the skill drops a point right away, it shows in the development history, and good performances can win it straight back. No more confusing negative numbers on the training screen.

Some managers signed up using their email address as their username, which showed it publicly in chat and on the forums. Those accounts have been renamed to protect the address, and signup no longer allows it. Logging in with your email still works exactly as before.

Listings that sat unsold now come off the market on schedule, clubs feeling a wage squeeze put players up for sale, and Directors of Football are placing bids again. Expect a livelier market.

Every results digest and club update email now carries a one-click unsubscribe. Login and security emails always arrive regardless.

Tapping train twice in quick succession could throw an error and leave the session half-recorded. One session per player per gameday now lands cleanly, every time.

Attendance now shows this season (with a season-by-season graph, not an all-time average that buried your growth). Seat prices are consistent everywhere you build. You can rename your stadium with credits, and if expansion is locked the page now tells you exactly why.

A big performance pass: pages you have already visited come back instantly, artwork is cached on your device, and the app starts faster. This applies to the website and the mobile apps.

Opening a finished game used to bounce through "match not found" and "match finished" screens before the report. It now goes straight there.

Cup ties decided after extra time were stored at their 90-minute score, so the report showed a draw with no winner highlighted. Every historic tie has been corrected, over 45,000 of them.

A saved draft lineup now plays in live games instead of being replaced by an auto 4-4-2. Shootout goals no longer count as match goals, and stoppage-time events show as 45+1 style minutes.

You can reply to a specific message in chat, your club crest shows as your avatar, and Manager11 answers questions in the room.

Apply to manage a national side, then pick your 30-man squad: 4 keepers, 8 defenders, 10 midfielders, 8 forwards. A world tournament between the nations is coming.

Change formation and make swaps while your live match is playing, straight from the match screen.

Academy intakes now draw from the whole world by default. Scouting is what tilts the odds toward a region, as it should be.

The Android app is live on the Play Store, with credit packs available in-app. iPhone is in TestFlight.