Football Agent Patch Notes

This page tracks official Football Agent patch notes and hotfixes during Early Access. Updates are listed newest first. For the longer view of what ATERO GAMES still wants to add, see the Early Access roadmap. Mechanical deep-dives for career history, club spending, events, and fees live on career, economy, random events, and the transfer market.

Translation Fixes & More — 27 August 2026

Actionable club requests

When a club asks you for a player, you can now propose one from the Market screen and from the Club Mandates panel. If the player you put forward is not eligible, the game explains why instead of failing silently. That loop matters for agents who live on mandate work: a rejected name is no longer a dead end.

Translation and inbox cleanup

• Notification patterns, notes on message replies, and brand-investment tooltips that were stuck in the wrong language now follow the selected locale.
• Player Training Focus options (Defenders, CDM, ST, CF, Wingers, and the rest of the focus set) are fully translated into all supported languages.
• Club names in the inbox and in transfer rumours now translate with the rest of the UI.
• Sell-on percentage formatting is corrected.
• The “CLUB” tag no longer appears on the wrong inbox messages.
• Club-request bonus formatting is corrected.
• Duplicate club names have been removed from the database.

Source: ATERO GAMES Steam Community Announcement

Season Archive, Career History and Balance Fixes — 27 August 2026

New: Season Archive and player career history

My Career now includes a Season Archive tab. It records awards, league champions, and cup winners so a long save has a season-by-season memory instead of a blur of results. The player file gains a Career History tab: matches, goals, assists, rating, and OVR by season. That history is the missing context when you decide whether a client is stalling, peaking, or ready to move.

Fixed: masteries, Turkish leftovers, and glued sentences

• Empire Builder and Dynasty masteries now grant +2 player capacity everywhere. Academy graduates were not receiving the bonus; the extra slots were invisible or broken. They apply across the roster now.
• Social feed, transfer rumours, and reputation notifications were still showing Turkish in other language settings. Twenty-five of those texts are translated into all supported languages.
• Two sentences that ran words together have been split.

Balance: transfer market, events, and relationships

The transfer market has been rebuilt around longer club finances. Clubs carry spending into following seasons, the world market is in play, fees are capped, and mega transfers are the exception rather than the weekly rhythm. The same event no longer repeats, and monthly event volume is capped so a calendar week cannot bury you in the same prompt. Club relationships and motivation gestures can no longer be raised without limit by spending money — buying affection on a loop is closed.

Read career for the archive and history tabs, economy for how cash and capacity interact with masteries, random events for the volume cap, and transfer market for the rebuilt fee rules.

Source: ATERO GAMES Steam Community Announcement

Hotfix 3 — 26 August 2026

Match time and development

• Playing time now depends on where a player stands in his club’s squad and on the playing-time promise you negotiate. Both were being ignored: loaning a youngster out changed nothing at all. Now it does.
• Player development was far too fast with full investment — a wonderkid reached his ceiling in three seasons. It now takes considerably longer, and a player who does not get minutes barely develops.

Source: ATERO GAMES Steam Community Announcement

Hotfix 2 — 25 August 2026

Critical fix: event popups could lock the game

• Fixed an issue where event popups where every option required money could trap players with no cash — there was no way to close the window and the game became unplayable.
• You now always have a choice you can afford — but it costs you: neglecting an agency event damages your reputation, walking away from a player’s situation costs morale, trust and your bond, and postponing a signing meeting lowers his interest while rival agents move in.
• Fixed five labels on the decision outcome card (club relationship, player trust, media pressure, media profile, transfer rumour) that were showing untranslated in every language.

Source: ATERO GAMES Steam Community Announcement

Hotfix 1 — 25 August 2026

Initial Early Access fixes

• Renewing a contract clears the related messages properly.
• Every event now has an option that costs nothing.
• Match engine: better defending, far fewer offsides.
• Assists can no longer appear in a 0-0 draw.
• Bug report link added under Settings > Help.

Source: ATERO GAMES Steam Community Announcement

Roadmap

The public 1.0 list — larger database, more events and negotiation scenarios, Steam achievements, deeper balance, quality-of-life work, extra languages if demand is there, and data or name-pack import — is tracked on the roadmap. The studio prefers to leave Early Access when the game is ready rather than on a fixed schedule. Football Agent entered Steam Early Access on 25 August 2026, with a six-to-twelve-month window described as the planning horizon.