There’s a new update for Football Manager 2023, and here’s the complete list of changes and fixes added with this patch. The football management simulation game was developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega last year. The game’s reviews are pretty solid and receive constant updates that increase the gameplay. The latest version, released a while ago, does the same thing as previous ones and brings tons of changes to the game. The patch notes of the Football Manager 2023 update 23.3 are below.
Football Manager 2023 23.3 Update Patch Notes
The Main Data Update for Football Manager 2023 (PC/Mac) is now live, complete with updated squads following the recent transfer window*. The Main Data Update is also now live on FM23 Console (Xbox and PS5), FM23 Touch (Apple Arcade and Nintendo Switch™), and FM23 Mobile (iOS/Android).
More than 3.7m database changes are incorporated within the Main Data Update, including alterations to the Current Ability levels of thousands of players around the world based on their real-life performances in recent months. We have already detailed in our blog dated February 20th how the tragic events in Turkey and northern Syria are being handled in-game.
This update also contains fixes and improvements across multiple areas of the game. All gameplay adjustments will take effect in current careers, although you will need to begin a new save game to take advantage of the data updates.
Changes in the 23.3 update include, but are not limited to:
- Stability and crash fixes
- Fixes to reduce mistakes from bad touches in certain areas of the pitch
- Fixes to defenders not preparing correctly for crosses in certain situations
- Improvements to defender reaction to long through balls
- Tweaks to make attacking players move quicker to support counter-attacks
- Improvements to how AI managers use different midfield role combinations
- Improvements to central defender and defensive midfielder positioning from long goal kicks
- Improvements to how attacking wide players track back when defending
- Fixes for defending wide indirect free kicks at the edge of the area
- ‘Header won’ statistic now only counts contested headers
- Improvements to the Recruitment Focus logic
- Fixed cases of reserve or youth team tactics appearing blank in the Development Centre
- Tweaks to development loans for AI teams
- Improvements to fixture scheduling, particularly the frequency of consecutive home or away games
- Updated substitution rules across various competitions
Football Manager 23 is available on Xbox and PlayStation. For more on today’s Football Manager 2023, head to the official Steam page.
