Why has EA killed International Management? 

"Why has EA killed everything but FUT?" should be the title.

removing Brazil but keeping Qatar, in a game about football, is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. It's like having a game about Formula One and removing Scuderia Ferrari.

Well... I still believe that EA removing unlicensed national teams was the worst thing possible in history of national management. We want all national teams to be in the game, even if they are unlicensed. It doesn't matter. Having over 150 national team with custom crest and kits, would be much better than having less than 30 national teams who are licensed, and incomplet gameplay experience.

International Management, Player Career, Manager Career, they've killed everything. Can't make money off them so why bother.

I guess they can’t make money from it the greedy bastards

i'd say player career is most affected by the lack of international teams, really takes the fun out of creating an asian or african player

So annoying that they have teams like New Zealand, Iceland and Hungary but not Nigeria, Canada and BRAZIL

Solution is easy. Add every nation unlicensed like pes used to do. So many nations already have the players in the game then just add generic players to fill the gaps The fact we can’t get a full World Cup, afcon, nations league or copa America is a disgrace. EA could solve this easily yet waste time on pointless features like transfer analyst, player agent, player personality ect

Hopefully 2K is taking notes on how to make a better football game than EA but you won’t catch me holding my breath

I'm currently replaying FIFA 18 with a Crystal Palace career mode and got the BOLIVIA job with unlicensed kits and a poor squad, but I still love every match I play with them. The idea of taking a lower nation to glory should not have been removed from this game.

"If it's not a constant cashcow kill it " - EA

It’s as simple as EA are greedy Mods are legit the only way to make the game enjoyable

As a greek i am sad we have so many players in the game but we cant play with our nation i really hope FIFA makes a game and adds way more countries than last year

EA's ass-backwards approach to almost everything that isn't Ultimate Team strikes again.

nah you guys got it wrong. the reason why they removed these international teams is so that they can "re-add it" in a future EAFC title as a "new feature" when they ran out of things to say besides "we are releasing a new game to reset FUT so we can earn $ again"

this is why ive been creating my own world cups since i can remember i used to do the best 64 teams possible (all/most of the licensed teams + makeable teams such as nigeria where i can transfer all nigerian players to the same club and enter them into the created tourney) and just play the tourney out with every team but this uear i went one further bc i hate the new career mode 😢 i created qualifying for each continent using 122 national teams (every nation with at least 5 players (at launch)), with players from the nation as well as undeclared players with dual nationality (like wan-bissaka for dr congo). it looked like this europe 48 teams including malta luxembourg and cyprus(8 groups of 6) south am all 10 teams (1 group of 10) north am 15 teams including haiti, barbados and suriname (3 groups of 5) asia 13 teams including syria philippines and uzbekistan , with new zealand added as well (2 groups of 7) africa 35 teams including mozambique, sierra leone and mauritania (5 groups of 7) after playing each of the qualifying groups, the top ranking teams then qualified for a 64 team world cup as follows eu 30 teams south am 7 teams north am 6 teams asia 6 teams africa 15 teams it has been way more fun than career mode, well worth all the wditing time, and im currently making my way through the 64 team finals - maybe ill come back and let you guys know who won the finals!

I like international football in video games but I've hated the recent EA games with hardly any international teams. The 2010 World Cup game and 2014 World Cup game were both great.

What annoys me even more about it is the friendly matches. They were already kinda stretching it, especially in the middle of the season with no prize. But doing them every once in a while when the world cup & euros are both already so limited, just diminishes the international match feeling.

Career mode in general for me is an absolute slog. It used to be so fun for me to go through simulations but now, it is an absolute nightmare. Players decide that they want to quit the club so quickly even when a team is doing well and is pushing above their weight. I remember how frustrated I was when I had to get someone to leave because they wanted to, bought a player to replace them and then that player wants to leave as well. I used to have so much fun with career mod back in the Fifa 20-21 days and now I don't even want to touch that mode anymore.

2k needs to take their time and make an epic 2026 World Cup game with all the licenses, such a shame EA threw those games to the side due to FUT.

It was so much fun in 2010 being able to choose any country, using your own player and qualify for the World Cup. They even added all the official names from countries like Sri Lanka

Imagine my shock and horror when I booted the game up on launch and found no Socceroos 💔

This is why I dropped FC24 and playing 22 instead. It may be not the best FIFA, but at least I enjoy it more overall. EA's Game is an awful experience.

I was highly disappointed to find that canada was not available considering they had just qualified recently. They definitely have a really young up-and-coming squad that should be exciting for the next few years to come

We have to stop buying Fifas untill they actually do something #DONTBUYEAFC25

Honestly, career mode plays so bad this year. Legendary AI only run to the byline and cutback. It’s a bunch of crap. EA only care about improving FUT, that’s it. Destroying the game.

I'm a geografifa fan from Hungary, thanks for the mention 👍

Friendlies are boring as hell ngl

FIFA Manager 14 with 24 mod actually haves all national competitions. If you want to manage national teams, it's the best way to do so.

Fifa 23 didn't in fact have the Turkish national team, the last appearance of my nation was back in Fifa 21

There's no point. EA will never respect career mode. People were making videos about it in 2010, saying "hopefully, they'll improve in the future". They never did.

Shame! EA sports Road to World Cup FIFA 98 had 172 FIFA-registered national teams and a total of 189 clubs (across 11 leagues)

Pretty sure there are 4 welsh clubs - Wrexham, Newport County, Swansea and Cardiff Loved using Ivory Coast in past FIFAs - sucks they are no longer in it

Its wild to me that they got rid of Australia who have been at every world cup since like 2002 but kept New Zealand who never qualify

where did you find the list of fifa ratings for the 1950's Hungary team?

I wonder why they are withdrawing international football from FIFA. Whenever I play multiplayer with a random person who is not into these games, they pick the national teams. I'm always curious about what club such a person will choose, and meanwhile they go straight for Brazil.

i hope 2k goes through with working with FIFA for a new game

Pushing Football Manager is the way

Bro! Drop the link for that list of the Golden Team!

I don't really play it, it's boring. Player career is another disgrace the objectives are plain stupid.

How was this on FIFA 23 i don’t have that game so just wondering

I think the most difficult part to rebuild a national team is to get the national team offer that I want.

The most flabbergasting thing about this is that the guy in the thumbnail was SO MAD that he refunded with more than 2 hours of gameplay

Idk if its still a thing in EA FC but one of the more annoying things from the previous game was also that after 10 seasons of managing Hungary the youth players and regens all fell under 5 last names (Papp, Kiss, Simon, Elek, Varga), this was not only confusing but disappointing, it takes the distintiveness away from the players instead it feels like Im just taking from 5 very large extended families. It would be far more immersive if they just randomised from the existing player name base like they did pre fifa 23. Edit: Additionally when will we ever get an option to apply for national teams...one of my friends uses an Austrian manager, but they are never offered the Austrian job (playing in Fifa 20, 23).

What I don’t understand is that Ea will have the euro tournament in the summer. Why can’t they add all the teams that play in the Euros to the base game? It can’t be for money because that is a free dlc.

This is why I still play the old world cup games. I wish EA vould add every single nation because people would want to play as their home nation

So glad I'm only playing FM these days, EA really doesn't care about career mode players

It sucks. As a Canadian, I wanna be called up to my national team in career mode like I was last year and I don't get that opportunity

I make my own Tournaments, with Clubs now instead of playing career mode. I have some of the most interesting majors Tournaments of Darts (PDC) and instead of the Players I took different clubs into it to Battle it out. FC Liverpool became World Champions and Atletico won both the Masters and the Premiere League of "Darts". UK Open coming up within the next days

It does make sense for Qatar to be there as a nation. When the game came out, they were the reigning Asian Cup champions and since have successfully defended the Asian Cup. That's not even taking into account the fact that they hosted the World Cup finals. So yes, it does make perfect sense why they are there

why are they bombarding me with national team management offers in career mode even

It's because 1. Ea doesn't want to keep licensing I remember world cup 2014 and 2010 they had almost all teams And 2. Konami Capitalises from EAs mistake to not licensing national leagues they took euro 2 years ago and have some licensing with more countries also I wish for wa to bring more leagues also from countries like albania bosnia norwegian 2nd division etc

They ignored single player/career mode for years and every new release is less enjoyable for those who dont want to play ultimate team... I recommend everyone to just play older FIFAs with mods. It's honestly the most fun I've ever had with this franchise, since it went downhill around 2017 or so..

The INTERNATIONAL game is the pinnacle of Football. It always has been and always will be. It does my head in year after year that EA hasn't expanded both Manager Career Mode and International Management. Every year I feel short changed when I realise Career Mode is the same and that there are hardly any International Teams or Competitions to take part in. There is SO much opportunity for EA FC to expand. The motto 'It's in the Game' has been an absolute embarrassment for years now, and disrespectful to those of us who have played FIFA for years (long before FUT). There are 6 out of the 7 Continents in the World that deserve to be represented in FIFA (Antarctica being the 7th - I assume they don't have a team haha). With all this talk of The World Game and Equality... there MUST be a rebuild and expansion of Manager Career Mode and International Football in EAFC. I'm done with the excuses about Licences. They have enough money to pay. I'm an Aussie, but I have to say that seeing how Africa has been neglected in FIFA/EAFC over the years has been a disgrace. They should easily have 10-16 African Nations and include the AFCON every year. Each player that purchases this game should feel like they can start as a Manager in the lower leagues, and work their way up to getting contract offers and approaching other clubs via an Agent, while also earning International Contract Offers over time that coincide with success. That success being relative of course to what Country you are from. For example, if I'm an Aussie Manager, despite being lower rated in League Two, if Arnie gets fired and Ange doesn't want the job because he's busy at Spurs, I might still get offered international management. But if I'm English, I might need to be winning the Premier League first. So many ideas. EAFC needs to get a move on with this. Please keep posting about Career Mode, you do some great work to promote Career Mode. I'm hoping those who make the decisions at EA will start listening and do the right thing by their long serving/suffering Career Mode fans. Cheers mate

Guess what will they kill next. My bet is on the manager mode itself. If that day comes, I am switching to Konami, even that was a worse game on some aspects.

The world desires a REAL career mode to bring us back. Career mode on FC24 just ain’t it.

imagine not having brazil national team in a football game

I managed Croatia through three years of friendlies. Then the 2026 World Cup came around and they weren't even qualified!

The mode as it is, is very bare bones. I think EA need to have an entire game mode dedicated to being an International Manager, from scouting and developing new and existing talent, to EVERY International tournament. And CHOOSE the country instead of waiting for an offer. As it is now, it's just something that's kinda... there.

I’m a Syrian and I’m struggling to find ways to play with my nation

If they are too lazy to add any more national teams, at least create another tournament where the 7 available countries outside of Europe are able to play. Call it the “Transcontinental cup” and have it set up like “Euro qualifiers”and put them into one group at the end of the season the top 4 national teams with the most points play for a semi final and a final. Otherwise waiting every 4 years for the World Cup to come around is boring..

Honestly can’t wait for some new football games to come out, FUT has become such a money grabbing grind that has lost the fun. I always end up playing career mode by the end and they just don’t care about it. The minute a good career mode alternative comes out, RIP EAFC

So if im an asian player the national team wont call me up for friendlies?

Another reason why I only play Football Manager now

To me EA is simply stupid, i get they can’t make money like they do with FUT but one of the biggest reasons in recent years that people got PES instead of FIFA was because PES had so many customization options and had basically most international teams even if they were generic, i don’t get why EA FC just doesn’t do that, why give us less now, they’d have more people wanting to buy the game because those modes also bring in consumers

all 211 fifa teams + the 10ish confederational teams should be added. That would be my non negotiable

Does anyone know any good mods for Pc in which you can add every (or just more) national teams for career mode?

One thing I hate is you can’t call up players like I can manage croatia 🇭🇷 but they only give me like 20 players

Even though they're not in the game anymore as a national team, I still like to win the CL with Canadians only

2k needs to get the license of fifa

Derry City is a Irish team in an Irish League 🇮🇪

Idea EA should do: Only add nations that have 50 or more players in the game by the licensed leagues. So no more qatar cause last time i check they have zero. It makes it much more fairier and ensures game can keep up with retirements. (Unfortunately EA will just make it 16 teams next year anyway)

Maybe fifa 2k25 could have the international lisences

3:25 but the problem is there wasnt turkey in fifa 23 😭

mods is the best way to fix fc24 and every past fifa game

A they can make a trophy look as close as the real fifa world cup one. and B even if they don't have the rights to do the team they do have the players and can make there own international teams

If they could give every nation w/ enough players for a national team squad a team, even if unlicensed, that would be amazing, and making it so you can scout those countries for YA players too. We have generic clubs w/ the squads of Italian teams they lost the licence to, so why can't they do the same w/ national teams?

Been playing football manager last 2 years, I’ll probably never come back to eafc carrer. Been having an absolute blast building watford❤

Easy solution for people who like to manage: pick up a copy of football manager. I did several years and haven't touched fifa since.

And we thought not having croatia in 2018 was a shame

The world cup not being licensed is fine, but they need to have enough licensed national teams to fill it's substitute.

Ea fc should also add afcon and afc

They named it men's international cup ? Ridiculous 😂

EA Sports ruins EVERY game they produce in pursuit of short term profits from micro transactions. I hate them so much.

Yet people will still buy the game. I'm going to predict that EAFC25 will be even worse, people will complain and yet the game will still sell millions of copies 🤷‍♂

EA killed career mode.

how did you manage to have Nigeria in your background gameplay? is it mods?

Maybe since the wc will be in north america they used the same formats from 86 and 94 as a tribute? Lol

Problem: Licensing. Solution: Mods.

Let's face it. FIFA has been bad for years now. Career mode hasn't been good for years either and international management was always the most bare bones of career mode's options. They sold their soul to microtransactions.

I only use international jobs now as the easy way of scouting young players for the nation my club is in, otherwise its completely pointless

3:00 Pretty sure Canada isn't available this year :/

Why not have every team in the world tho

It's an Elo rating, not an E.L.O. rating, named after its creator, the (ironically Hungarian) physicist Arpad Elo.

Why not add every team in the world? PES did it untill about 2020. Korean Derbies were insane!

There’s also no Australia but we have enough players in the game

Simply play World soccer champs in mobile, with a budget around 1000000x less than EA they make international management very good

3 welsh teams???? There’s 4

For all the PC isers, please just wait untill the IEM mode cimes ou with all 211 nations and all continental competitions and qualifyers. For non-PC users: it is a shame that EA have done thus throw the years.

Not a shock that EA don't give a shit