Gameplay

• Improved attacking AI decision-making around two-point attempts, goal chances, long passes, pressure, and late-match urgency.
• Improved passing and receiving so passes and fist passes lead moving teammates more naturally.
• Improved catch selection and the timing of contested throw-ins.
• Fixed free takers occasionally being changed or cleared during set-piece setup.
• Fixed free-kick recovery interrupting a kick that had already started.
• Fixed own goals being attributed incorrectly in match statistics and replays.

Training Mode

• Improved player and team setup reliability, particularly when using edited squads or custom team assignments.
• Fixed Training Mode penalties so the selected taker and goalkeeper retain their correct roles.
• Fixed goalkeeper control changes sometimes clearing the penalty-saving setup.

Career Mode

• Fixed generated players and headshots carrying between different Career save slots.
• Improved end-of-season progression and prevented some year-end panels or player-generation processes from running more than once.
• Fixed missing, outdated, or incorrectly displayed player headshots in awards and team-management screens.
• Fixed an issue affecting the replacement of Aidan Forker after retirement.

Competitions

• Full Season competitions now automatically use the complete available team list.
• Added New York to the Cu Chulainn competition pool while correctly excluding them from the group stage.
• Fixed National Football League team selection and seeding to use the correct Division 1–4 teams.
• Improved Irish and second-tier Championship setup to prevent missing, duplicated, or invalid team selections.
• Improved tournament reset reliability and prevented players from continuing with an invalid competition setup.

Creator Centre

• Added commentary-name selection for created players, including alphabetical browsing, search, surname matching, previews, and a “No Name” option.
• Added the ability to preview team commentary names.
• Added Buck Eejit and TGFHA kits.
• Improved saved character and kit lists with smoother scrolling, more reliable controller navigation, and correct item selection.
• Fixed Creator Centre lists occasionally losing input or opening the wrong item after scrolling.
• Added the ability to restore built-in players, kits, and teams to their original versions.
• Custom creations can still be deleted, while built-in content is now reset instead.
• Custom kits assigned to a team can no longer be deleted until they are unassigned.
• Fixed stale kit selections and improved the reliability of kit previews when reopening saved kits.
• Fixed characters sometimes loading with an incorrect or incomplete kit when entering Character Creator.
• Improved stability when loading and unloading character clothing and returning to Creator Centre.
• Removed an invalid kit entry that could cause incorrect kit loading.

Saving & Loading

• Improved compatibility and reliability when loading older Career and Tournament saves.
• Added automatic recovery for damaged Tournament saves while preserving the original save file.
• Fixed Career data being incorrectly written into or loaded from the general player profile.
• Fixed an issue that could create an empty or incomplete initial save.
• Improved save reliability when creating, editing, resetting, or deleting characters, kits, and teams.

Controls & Interface

• Improved player-switching reliability during matches.
• Fixed brief controller disconnections leaving players unable to rejoin multiplayer menus.
• Improved navigation audio feedback and scrolling behaviour throughout selection lists.
• Fixed repeated input during standings or group resets potentially causing navigation problems or UI softlocks.
• Improved penalty goalkeeper input reliability during shootouts.

Platform Stability

• Fixed several rare errors involving missing players, inactive players, replay cleanup, and Creator Centre data.