Career
Engine

Your stadium photo with the club, season, league position, points, games played, goal difference, last five results, this season’s home, away and third kits, and the ground capacity.

Opponent, venue, home or away and the date. In the alpha two live chips sit on it: the expected crowd ("75,000 sold out") and the pitch condition ("Pitch Tired"). Click one and Matchday opens on that tab.

• Open Matchday

Your league table, trimmed to your part of it or shown in full. In a cup the same card turns into the cup journey, with league phase and knockout views.

• Show my position
• Full table

What is coming up and the latest results, side by side.

• Coming up
• Latest results

Your squad leaders and your best eleven’s average rating. Click any player to open their card.

Transfer budget, what you started the season with, profit so far, the weekly budget and what the club is worth.

Record, win rate, goals, goal difference, budget change and form, plus the season in numbers: top scorers, best average rating, most minutes.

One line that sums up where your season stands right now.

Every result, injury, signing and milestone in order. Filter it, keep only the highlights, or scroll back to the start of the season.

• All
• Matches
• Squad
• Medical
• Club
• Highlights only

One reading per in-game day, drawn as trends: average age, best eleven rating, weekly wage bill, transfer budget, transfer activity, average potential, club worth, squad value and players injured.

Where you sat in the table on every day of the season.

Who is playing, how the wage bill is spread across the squad, and a table of who has grown in rating.

Grouped by goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards. Each card shows the portrait, overall, today’s rating (form, morale and sharpness together) and the squad role.

Stays on screen while you scroll. Search by name (press / or Ctrl+F), position chips with counts, squad role, and sort by position, overall, potential, age or name.

• Search
• Position chips
• Sort
• Reset

Click any card to open the full player editor. It is the same card everywhere in Career Engine; see the Player card screen for everything inside it.

• Open player

Overall, potential, position, preferred foot, weak foot and skill moves (as stars), height and weight.

Up to six extra positions the player can play.

First name, last name, known as and the name on the shirt, picked from the game’s own name list.

• Apply name
• Restore name

The player’s running, finishing and set-piece styles, with how many players in the game use each one.

Pick a body type, each named after players who use it. It also tells you whether this player has a shape of their own or shares one.

Morale, form from 0 to 100, the last ten ratings and the squad role, which you can change here.

• Apply role
• Restore

Keep, sell or renew, with the reasons behind it.

Contract end season, weekly wage and release clause. Review the change, then write it into the game.

• Apply in the game
• Discard
• Restore original

The last 15 club matches: share of minutes, average rating, and whether it is a breakthrough season, a blocked pathway or a player under transfer pressure.

What the club thinks he is worth and any loan details.

Attack, Skill, Movement, Power, Mentality, Defence and Goalkeeping. Drag a bar or type a number, then apply.

• Apply
• Discard

Grouped by shooting, passing, defending, ball control and physical. Each click cycles off, PlayStyle, PlayStyle+.

• Toggle
• Apply

The player’s traits as chips you can switch on and off.

Hairstyle, facial hair and skin, each chosen from a gallery with previews taken from your own game install.

Sleeves, shirt style and fit, undershorts, sock height and sock style.

Boot model and colours, and goalkeeper gloves.

Four accessory slots with model and colour, and tattoos.

Every option shows how many players use it. Filter to those with a preview or those in use, search, or type a code directly.

• With preview
• Used by players
• Use code

Sliders that reshape a body type. Only body types a player has to himself can be reshaped; shared shapes stay locked so you do not change other players by accident.

• Apply proportions
• Discard
• Restore original

Contract until, retirement plans, the date he joined the club, birth date and age.

Transfer budget, squad value, weekly wage bill, contracts ending this season and how many moves TrueFoot suggests.

Player, overall, last 15 matches (apps and average rating), contract end, wage, release clause, value and TrueFoot advice. Filter by almost anything: ending soon, has a clause, on loan, under transfer pressure, blocked pathway, breakthrough season, position, role, age, wage, value.

Click a row and the player card opens on the Contract tab to change end season, wage or clause.

• Open contract

Tick players (or the whole list), choose how many seasons to add and a wage raise, add notes per player, review, then extend. Each contract is written and checked one by one; any that fail are put back. One button undoes all of them.

• Extend contracts
• Review
• Undo all

Injured, available, players under high load and players tracked.

One per injured player: the injury, days out and days left, recovery stage (of six), fitness, severity, and how much sooner a better rehab centre would bring him back.

• Open Department

Tells you when your career save has confirmed the latest medical change, and reminds you to save in game to keep it.

Build the department level by level. Each level has a setup cost and an annual cost, and the staff start a number of days after you order.

• Review investment
• Confirm & apply

Shows the order until the staff arrive. Changed your mind? Cancel and the money comes back.

• Cancel the order

The yearly running cost of the department, renewed when it falls due.

• Confirm annual payment

Each injured player moves through seven phases: acute care, early rehab, protected recovery, load rebuilding, return to training, match fit, final clearance.

About 10% shorter, at most 7 days, once per injury, and not in the first or last phase.

• Review treatment
• Confirm

Conservative, standard or accelerated. Faster means back sooner, with a higher re-injury risk on the medical report.

• Conservative
• Standard
• Accelerated
• Take back

Fitness, minutes over the last 7, 14 and 28 days, rest, likely to start next, load and a risk band for every player.

The fixture schedule with players to rotate and the shortest gap between matches.

The players most likely to get hurt if they keep playing at this rate.

Every injury episode of this career, which ones are still active and how long tracking has run.

Captain, penalties, free kicks, corners and the other takers, each with a player search. Applying tells you exactly who replaces whom.

• Apply
• Restore

The game keeps these choices in more than one place. Repair writes your choice to all of them so it stays.

• Repair

Every formation on a mini pitch. Search by name or position, filter by back line, preview on the board, then use it.

• Use

Your saved starting eleven. Click or drag to swap players. Right click a player (or Shift+F10) for role and focus, position, captain and set pieces.

• Drag to swap
• Role and focus

A slider for how high your line sits.

Build-up style (balanced, counter, short passing) and defensive approach (deep, balanced, high, aggressive).

Swap anyone with the bench or open a player’s card.

Formation, roles and team sheet back to what they were before you started.

• Restore original
• Read again

Squad size, average age, height and overall, your best player and your hottest prospect.

Every academy player with filters. Click a row to open the player card.

Judgement and experience of each youth scout, which you can change. Save your career to keep it.

• Apply
• Restore

Your level out of the maximum. Invest from the transfer budget and the works run for a number of career days.

• Invest

Progress of the build. When it is done, open the new facilities; cancel before that and the money comes back.

• Open the new facilities
• Cancel the works

Once built, better facilities give academy players a chance of extra growth (see the Academy development bonus rule in World Automation).

Transfer list, loan list and blocked, matching the game’s own transfer list. Click a player to open their contract.

Every player listed by another club: club, league, overall, wage and clause, with filters and totals (how many, rated 60+, clubs, leagues).

• Filters
• Show more

Who the forced listing rules would put on the list at other clubs, and why.

Flags players whose form has dropped below your limit.

Flags veterans who have stopped playing.

Flags players beyond what a role needs.

Flags wages out of line with ability.

Rules on, players who would be listed, last run and next run.

Number of transfers and fees, what your club spent and received, and net spend.

The biggest spenders, with a button to show only one club’s moves.

This season’s biggest signing in each league.

Filter by fee, league, club, buyer or seller, month and fee range, or only your club. Record badges mark the season’s top ten and league records.

Budget, what is safe to spend, wage share and the board’s view.

Available transfer budget, profit, operating and commercial income, club worth, how revenue is made up, partnerships, costs and top shirt sellers.

Every category, season to date.

The club budget for this season, the weekly budget for the weeks left, and each income and expense line.

Compare naming-rights offers, check the terms and sign. Signing writes both the money and the new stadium name, with a backup first. Collect payments and performance bonuses as they fall due.

• Hold this offer
• Sign agreement
• Collect payment
• Undo signing

Everything due in or out from partners, in one list.

• Collect
• Pay

Pick a partner for each and sign.

• Sign

When you have a kit sponsor: a shirt sales target to accept.

• Accept objective

In July and August: book a tour. Travel is paid now, the fees arrive when you come back.

• Book the tour

Loan balance, what is due this season and how much more you could borrow. Choose type, amount and instalments.

• Take a loan
• Repay early

When a takeover offer arrives, accept or decline it.

• Accept
• Decline

Off, Realistic, Strict or Hardcore, set per career. Shows squad cost against revenue and how much headroom you have.

When you break the rules the league opens a case. Accept the charge or appeal the sanction; automatic penalties can be switched on or off.

• Accept the charge
• Appeal the sanction

Promotion windfall and parachute payments.

Give your ground a new name, shown straight away and kept when you save. Restore puts the original back. A club with no licensed ground in FC 27 shows "Home Ground" and cannot be renamed.

• Rename
• Restore

Seats added, cost, build time, seats closed during the works, expected income, payback time and what you lose per home match meanwhile.

Results, kick-off time and more seats, with a link to set a crowd of your own on Matchday.

Average crowd and fill, ticket income per match, extra income since the expansion, recent home crowds.

An estimate of the next attendance, taking losing runs and league position into account.

Its condition and the reasons for it, and the upgrade that would help most.

Hybrid grass, undersoil heating, drainage and more. A temporary surface is laid while the work runs. Stop the works and 60% of the unbuilt share comes back.

• Start works
• Stop the works
• Undo

Stadium expansion, pitch works, youth facilities, medical staff on the way, a pre-season tour and league cases with their hearing date, each with days left.

• Open its page

Bars to each end date with a marker for today.

Where each kind of project starts: Stadium, Pitch, Youth facilities, Medical department, or the pre-season tour in Finance.

Position group, nation, league, club, overall, potential, age and name.

Player, position, age, nation, club, overall, potential and height.

The player card works for any player you open here, not only yours.

• Open player

Clubs, women and national teams with a league filter and search: overall, attack, midfield, defence and squad size.

• Clubs
• Women
• National

Kits, home ground, colours, league position, budget, wage bill, club worth, manager, rival, honours, youth facilities and year founded.

That club’s players. Click one to open the player card.

Budget left, season start budget, what is used, rank in the league, wage bill and squad value.

Default formation and defensive depth.

The current manager and the managers seen there before.

Every club’s manager: nation, age, rating, since when and how long in charge.

Managers without a club and since when.

Appointments and departures as they happen in your career.

Clubs, goals, goals per match, leader and next match.

The table or league phase, with a badge and reason for any points deduction.

Everything played and everything still to come.

Goals, assists, goals plus assists, average rating, player of the match, clean sheets and cards. Can be narrowed to your club.

Best attack and defence, clean sheets, how matches end, biggest win, table split and form.

Winners during your career and last season’s top scorers and assists.

Transfers and injuries as the game reports them. Filter by type, spending or where, search, and go back through older days. Kept on your PC.

Up to date, changes ready, career ahead of the real season, sync blocked or not checked yet.

The result changes, the matches your career already played, the European cup states and the career date. Choose results only, or results plus scorers.

• Results
• Results + scorers

Career date, club, where you stand, table, fixtures, career save and save file, each checked before anything is written.

Rows to add, rows to change and rows that already match, scorers credited and player stats.

Career score next to the real score. Replace them with the real results, one league at a time.

• Replace with real results

Apply one league on its own.

Synced only when your career’s draw matches the real one exactly.

Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, each applied on its own.

A last look at what changes, a save backup, the checks before and after, and automatic undo if anything does not read back right.

• Review & apply
• Undo last sync
• Check again

Monthly. Players aged 15 to 21 grow taller and heavier, within realistic limits. Optionally, facial hair appears once between 17 and 19.

Monthly. After you invest in youth facilities, academy players may gain +1 on a key attribute, and sometimes +1 potential.

Monthly. Some players aged 21 to 26 who are below their potential gain +1 on key attributes.

Weekly. A player who plays enough matches in a new position gets it added to his alternative positions.

Every career day. Players back from injury wear a sleeve, wrist tape or face mask (optionally knee and ankle tape) for a set number of matches.

Monthly, and before finals. Players switch to another boot from the same brand, and put on fresh boots for a final.

Every career day. Winter gloves on cold match days, always the same players, off again after the match.

Each season. Pays that season’s bank loan instalment when the new season starts.

Four transfer listing rules (poor form, older players with few minutes, surplus by role, paid above rating). Preview only, set up on Transfer list.

What will change on the next date step, and what the rules that are off would add if you switched them on.

Every change the rules made, with undo per change or all at once, until the career is saved.

• Undo
• Undo all

Rules on, players in scope, next step and changes not saved yet.

• Run now

Opponent, competition, ground and seats, the month’s weather odds, light (dusk or dark), typical temperature and how many matches you have in 14 days.

Who would wear gloves in this match, with a link to the World Automation rule.

Set the kick-off time of each upcoming match. Usual times come first, or pick any other time. Fixed on match day.

• Set time
• Restore

Set the weather for every match at that ground this month, or leave it to the game’s odds.

• Set weather
• Game's odds

Their likely eleven from their own team sheet, formation, captain and set-piece takers, and their strength today against yours.

Realistic, your own percentage, or leave it to the game. Set for the next home or away match and written the moment the lineup screen builds the match.

• Realistic
• Choose
• Game decides

Expected crowd, recent home crowds, season average and ticket income.

After a home match, the recorded attendance and ticket income are corrected once to match the crowd that was set.

What TrueFoot set for each of them.

Condition 1 to 4 for the next match: realistic, your choice, or the game’s. It follows the ground, the season and the work you put in.

• Realistic
• Choose
• Game decides

The reasons behind the condition and the grass colour at the ground.

Keeps FC 27’s own pitch wear setting switched on for your career.

A link to the pitch works on the Stadium page.

Score, player of the match or best rated, goals, attendance and matchday income at home.

The fixtures that follow.

Slow paced, normal or fast paced. FC 27 hides this from its menus; it works in career and in Kick-off.

• Confirm
• Discard
• Restore

One set of camera settings shared by every camera type, with default values and presets you can save and load.

• Apply
• Save preset
• Load preset

Show a "Career Engine ready" notice over the game, and add one extra key next to F10 to open Career Engine.

All good, partly limited or needs attention, and whether this game version has passed on your PC before or is a new game update.

Each page marked ready, view only, degraded, blocked or not yet. If editing is paused after a game update, restore still works.

The list of checks behind the result.

• Check again