The first update of 2026 comes with braking changes.
The whole data structure has been changed and make existing save game non compatible.
This was needed to create a more stable and flexible data structure to the game.
Future releases will bring historical player statistics, attributes and much more.
Additionally this it the first release that is translated to Chinese (Simplified Han script).
Thanks very much to all translations contributors making this possible!

Added
UI
- Formation: add "Suggest lineup" button, to set the suggested best lineup for the next match
- Competition selectors: sort continents and nations by world ranking
- Team selectors: sort continents and nations by world ranking
- Show version note, if new game version is opened
- Player list: keep sorting order if view changes
- Data
- Generate initial cup history
- Add headers to all csv files

Fixed
UI
- Dashboard: hide all next match info, including team logos, if no next match exists
- Light themes: show correct color in stadium buttons and penalties bar, not only black
- Disable contract offer button, if player just signed a new contract
- Fix big negative number representation
- Some numbers where shown as -.123.456
- Disable contract offer button, after new contract negotiations are over
- Player list: reset change suggestion highlight, when view changes
Match UI
- Show correct team colors in match result bar, if light themes are chosen
- Improve performance by simplifying and reducing spectators
Transfers
- Remove response delay for contract negotiations
- Take current player salary into account, when calculating remaining budget for team players
- Update player valuation after team changes (free agents included)
Logic
- Goalkeeper prestige gets now calculated with more goalkeeper specific attributes
Email
- Send regular season over email only once, when currently played league is affected
Data
- Fix youth player with empty names when the next season starts
- Fixes also game crashes during next season preparation
- Assign correct dates to historical matches generated when a new game is started
- Improve initial position distribution: every team has at least 2 players of each position

Changed
UI
- Menu: remove Bluesky link button
- Table: show last 5 matches form as colored dots
- Player profile: show contract salary for week/month/season
- Contract negotiation: show contract salary for week/month/season
- Finances: show contract salary for week/month/season
Data
- Disable custom player files loading
- Will be replaced by in-game editor
- Improve internal data structure for better performance and less errors
- Save everything as csv files
- All json files are migrated to csv files
- Remove import directory
- Save games can now be imported manually by adding them to the save games directory
- Remove trash directory
- Deleted save games get now moved to the trash of the operating system, if possible
- Never load save game backups automatically, just inform the user about errors

Code Contributors
- Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

Translation Contributors
Arabic
- عادل العمري \[aalla12399]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/aalla12399)
Arabic (Levantine)
- George Kandalaft \[Khodr]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/Khodr)
Chinese (Simplified Han script)
- pyccl \[pyccl]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/pyccl)
French
- Max \[RMax]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/RMax)
German
- Ettore Atalan \[Atalanttore]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/Atalanttore)
- Fin \[blackredit]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/blackredit)
- Doen1el \[Doen1el]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/Doen1el)
Italian
- Simon Dalvai \[dulvui]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/dulvui)
Kabyle
- ButterflyOfFire \[boffire]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/boffire)
Portuguese (Brazil)
- Thiago Papageorgiou \[tnpapa]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/tnpapa)
Ukrainian
- Максим Горпиніч \[Maksim2005UKR]https://(https://hosted.weblate.org/user/Maksim2005UKR)

v0.5.6 brings yet again some fixes to transfers. Player can be bought again. Also the contract logic to sign free agents and renew contracts work again.

Now the pre-release checklist has transfer related checks. This should prevent that future releases break transfer logic again.

• UI

  • Transfer-list: make decline button red and accept button green

• UI

  • Show correct amount of emails in dashboard overview

• Match UI

  • Update result labels after fast simulation, also if speed is bigger x1

    • Previously it would show 0:0 if speed was bigger x1

  • Fix null pointer error for players bar

• Match Engine

  • Reduce stamina recovery during match

  • Make changes only during kickin, corner or free kicks

    • Reduces amount of stuck ball states

  • Fix long wait time on penalty shootout, if target is missed

  • Slightly reduce shoot aim accuracy to reduce goals amount

• Transfers

  • Randomize offers by teams, instead of making all offers on start of market

  • Fix stuck free agent offers

  • Fix stuck buy offers

• Data

  • Load and save watch list correctly

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

• German

  • Ettore Atalan

• Portuguese (Brazil)

  • Thiago Papageorgiou