Football Manager 2022 has received its big winter update and the patch notes are extensive. The winter update includes a variety of fixes and improvements to the game. The update should improve the stability of the game and also add new competitions such as the American Super Cup to the game. The update is available for players on all platforms right now. Here’s everything included in the new winter update for Football Manager 2022.
Football Manager 2022 Winter Update Patch Notes
22.3 Change list (includes but is not limited to):
Database and Research
- Main Winter Update which contains over four million changes since the release of FM22, including thousands of player transfers and tweaks to player ability
Core/Stability
- Number of stability and crash fixes
- Fixed rare issue where in some circumstances saving to the cloud would cause issues with saving locally
- Improved support for touch screen laptop
- Fixed examples of hangtime on ‘Awaiting Media Reaction’ page
- Fixed Cloud save files over 160 MB in size could not be loaded. Please note this only fixes the issue for the main/primary save, any rolling save files that are over 160 MB will still be broken
Match
- Tweaks to inside wingers/forwards and how often they cut inside with the ball when attacking
- Improvements on how pre-set user match plans are implemented in the game
Comps and Rule Groups
- Format structure and rule changes for nations including (but not limited to) Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, England, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, USA and Wales
- Improvements to Continental Competitions rules and addition of European/South American Super Cup
- Major progressive format and structure changes for Argentinian competitions from 2021 to 2026
- Added English U18 Premier Division Cup, Central League Cup and U23 Division 4
- Corrected playoff seeding in the English National League and National League North/South
- Removed incorrect Promotion/Relegation playoff in Croatia
- Changed Russian squad registration rule to correctly apply to U22 players rather than U20 players
- Format change for Welsh Cup
- Homegrown Belgian player display and recognition
- European/South American Super Cup has been implemented
- Fix for seeded playoffs in determining home team and stadium
- European Group Stage tie break rules
Art and Animations
- Fixed rare issue where matches could play on the dressing room and not proceeding to show the match environment
- Multiple kit clashing fixes
- Multiple scenarios where 3D background kits and badges were slightly incorrect have now been fixed
- Fixed wrong logos and colors on some press conference and pre-match tunnel background board panels
- Fixed main issue with TVs in stands appearing blank and not displaying
- Manager clothing colors now look the same when picking them as they do in matches
Gameplay
- Tweaks to how Dynamic Youth ratings work, including some rebalancing and allowances for smaller nations to receive boosts within realistic parameters
- Fixed issue where the user could not set assistant manager to take control of certain staff responsibilities
- Fixed issue where trialist leaves and no report card is generated
- Tweaks to when a player will demand promise to play in certain position/role in contract negotiations
- Change which will see councils block stadium expansions less often now
- Fixed cases of stadium expansions not being completed correctly
- Fixed cases of transfer budgets being set before playoff final, and not boosted if promotion achieved
- Fixed issue where a player on loan would show as being unavailable incorrectly
- Fixed issue where unsuitable players were being nominated for the NxGn award
- Tweaks to player valuations in certain leagues due to teams being unwilling to sell mid-season
- Fixed cases of being unable to sign non-EU youth players in Italy
- Fixed taxation on wages being too high in Portugal
- Fixed issue where the text refers to the user’s team instead of the selling/buying one when arranging a loan back
- Fixed issue where a player is linked to their own club on deadline day
- Fixed issue where the transfer or contract date incorrectly shows as 1900
- Fixed issue where loan with future fee is not correctly remembered when making a transfer offer
- Tweaks to loan negotiations when adding in a buy-back clause
- Tweaks to when a player will be willing to enter contract talks when they have decided to leave their existing club on a free transfer
- Tweaks to player exchange transfer offer logic
- Fix to when a New international manager is under immediate job security pressure despite good start
- Some adjustments to Club Vision scoring
User Interface
- Goal captions now always showing the correct number of goals scored by player
- Stopped proposed friendlies duplicating on the arrange friendly screen
- Added captain icon into some touchline tablet views in-match
- Fixed scroll position resetting after visiting a player profile in various list and table views
- Fixed player value displaying as 0 on some inbox items
- Data Hub pop-ups will now close if the user clicks anywhere outside the pop-up
- Added “Last Match Analysis” to be viewable after one match is played, rather than having to wait for three matches
- Fixed issue in the match where live league table was not displaying correctly in Assistant Advice
- Fixed some scenarios where touchline tablet options were changing from match to match
- Fixed cosmetic only issue in the match where player condition indicators would reset to full when the user navigated away from match screen.
- Fixed issue where users were able to modify transfer offers for their own players through the Player’s Transfer screen
- Fixed issue where the sidebar icons would disappear for unemployed managers in certain display modes
- Fixed issue where dugout notification would appear for an opposition player towards the end of matches
- Fixed an issue where the user couldn’t change tabs on Player profile when using World Search unless they had the Navigation Bar
- Fixed being forced into contract negotiations when moving across to the Contract tab of an unattached
- Fixed being unable to put a Substituted Player on an Empty Pitch Position During Match
- The Football Manager 2022 patch notes apply to all platforms. The game is available right now on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, and Mac.