We’re excited to be launching Live Start Points in the coming days for EA SPORTS FC 25, enabling you to use and edit real world scenarios across Manager and Player Careers throughout the 2024/2025 season as the beginning of your journey.

We first announced Live Start Points in our Deep Dives ahead of FC 25 launch, and in this Pitch Notes we’re going to cover in detail what the in-game experience will be like, so let’s jump right in.


Live Start Points are a new way of experiencing Manager & Player Career, by starting your journey at access points based on real-world events across European league football throughout the 2024/2025 season.


The following leagues will have Live Start Points available:

• The Premier League
  
• LALIGA EA SPORTS
  
• Serie A Enilive
  
• Bundesliga
  
• Ligue 1 McDonald’s
  
• EFL Championship
  
• Barclays Women’s Super League
  
• Liga F
  
• Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga
  
• Arkema Première Ligue

Additionally, most cup competitions will be updated to reflect real-life progress, creating more authentic scenarios for your Live Start Points. The covered competitions include domestic cups in England, Italy, Germany, and France, as well as all UEFA competitions in their current formats:

• UEFA Champions League
  
• UEFA Europa League
  
• UEFA Europa Conference League
  
• UEFA Women's Champions League

Multiple Live Start Points will be available when the feature releases, reflecting the real-life progress of these leagues and corresponding to previously played gameweeks. We’ll continue to release Live Start Points throughout the 2024/2025 season.

As Live Start Points are released, be on the lookout for Snapshots in the FC 25 Main Menu, showcasing highlights of the featured European leagues’ calendar, whether it’s a showstopper fixture, a derby, a title fight, or a relegation battle. Accessing Snapshots will direct you to the Live Start Points menus by simply clicking “Take me there”.

Otherwise, Live Start Points can be accessed when starting a new Career save, as long as you’re online. They’ll reflect the latest results and standings, enabling you to shape how the rest of the season unfolds. When creating a new Manager or Player Career from the FC 25 Main Menu, you'll see a new Live Start Points option, as shown below:

Let’s go through the Live Start Points creation experience in both Manager and Player Career.


Once you’ve selected “Live Start Points”, you’ll be able to select your club from any of the leagues listed above. At the top of your screen you'll see several dates to choose from, enabling you to pick a preferred game week as your Live Start Point. The standings, results, and upcoming fixtures will reflect that point in time, including your club's and rivals' cup progress.

It’s then up to you to create your own avatar or choose playing as a real manager, similar to the usual Manager Career experience.

We’ve also introduced a squad injury and suspension editor and expanded our injury system to cover more such events in Career Mode. You have the option of viewing, removing, or editing any injuries and suspensions your squad has at that particular moment in time, meaning you can rewrite real narratives by making your players unavailable due to injury or suspension, all before you start your career.

For example, who knows how Liverpool’s start to the season would have gone should some of their key players be unavailable? With injury and suspension editing, we want to give you more control over the types of stories that can be created in Career Mode.

Once you’re all set up, you can advance to start your career while we load the real-life results and data. You’ll see real-world data coming in on your Career loading screen, as shown below, in the lower part of the screen.

At this point you’ll be prompted to create your new Live Start Points save file, and that’s it for setting up your Career Mode journey. You’re now ready to experience a football story unique to you.


Similarly, when creating a New Player Career and selecting Live Start Points, you’ll be prompted with a selection screen as shown below.

Pick the team you want to play for, and choose the point in time you want to get involved.

Gameweeks are identical across both Manager and Player Careers, as are the results and standings you can start from.

You’ll have access to all of the usual Player Career options, from Created Player to Real Players and Icons.

Once you’ve decided who you want to play as, start your career while we load up the data and set up the world. Then you’ll be prompted to create your save file and can jump into the action.

Thanks for checking out our Live Start Points Pitch Notes! We can’t wait to see what kinds of new stories you’ll be creating in your Career Mode saves.

- The EA SPORTS FC Team

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The latest Title Update for EA SPORTS FC 25 is now available and includes the changes below.


Made the following change:

- Crosses can now result in the ball moderately landing further ahead of the receiver.

Addressed the following issues:

- The defensive line could have dropped deeper than intended while the attacking team was controlling the ball in the defending team’s half.
- Central and Defensive Midfielders could have dropped too deep when the attacking team entered the defensive team’s side of the pitch.
- Sometimes, a ground pass could have incorrectly sent the ball behind the intended receiver.
- Tackling inputs did not always register in locked-to-player modes.
- In rare instances, goalkeepers could have jumped significantly higher than intended.
- Improved goalkeeper decision making when attempting to make saves as the ball crosses the goal line.
- Improved goalkeeper positioning when attempting to save short distance shots.
- Goalkeepers could have sometimes not attempted to make a save against powerful long distance shots.
- Headers were sometimes significantly less accurate than intended.
- Ground passes performed during free kicks were not always directed towards the intended receiver.
- In some instances, lob passes were less accurate than intended.
- Improved ball physics in certain contested shooting and clearance scenarios.
- Players could have lost the ball easier than intended while being contested during a Skill Move.
- Improved referee logic when making advantage calls in Rush matches, penalty calls in Rush matches, and 11v11 contested offside situations.
- In rare scenarios, an incorrect injury animation could have occurred in online matches.
- Improved goalkeeper logic in Rush matches when attempting to clear the ball.
- Sometimes, a lob pass could have occurred instead of a requested cross in Rush matches.
- In rare cases, a buzzer beating goal originating from a corner kick in Rush did not count as part of the scoreline.
- Requested Skill Moves were sometimes not performed when requested near the touch line.
- Addressed instances of Player Switching not functioning as intended.
- Improved substitution logic to better avoid unnecessary CPU AI substitutions early in matches.
- Reduced instances of unnecessary suggested early game substitutions.


Addressed the following issues:

- Some Evolution Progression Summary UI elements were misaligned.
- Addressed some stability issues that could have occurred when using the Transfer Market through the SBC flow.


Made the following change:

- Rush pre-match team sheets now display player Rank Points and Club Victory Points.

Addressed the following issue:

- In some cases, it was slightly easier than intended to receive a high match rating in Rush matches.


Addressed the following issues:

- Player agents were sometimes requesting a lower wage for their client when transferring to a user controlled club.


Made the following change:

- Updated some player portraits, kits, stadium, celebrations, scenes, messages, button callouts, badges, gloves, balls, headbands, banners, flags, boots, tattoos, wardrobes, ad boards, hair, trophies, audio, and commentary.

Addressed the following issues:

- Addressed instances of placeholder text and incorrect UI elements.
- Addressed instances of various stability issues that could have occurred.

Thanks to those who’ve provided and continue to provide feedback. Throughout the course of the EA SPORTS FC 25 season, we'll provide you with more information and updates if and when they become available. Be sure to follow @‌EASFCDIRECT on X and to check out the EA SPORTS FC Tracker for the latest news and updates.

- The EA SPORTS FC Team