Same stuff here.
I bought the game on Steam but every time I progress many seasons in the manager career this thing happens and I am forced to use Alt F4 and hope that the next one goes better. But obviously don't. I tried all, honestly I don't know that to do more for trying to resolve.
My PC specifications are excellent, I have a 9800X3D and an RTX 5080 so I should not have any kind of problem and I don't have any issue with other games.
Intro of the matches are glitched/stucked, the pitch remains empty during the presentation and already from there I understand that after the end of the first half the players will no longer return for play the second half.
Replays are broken too, if I can't see the players during automatic game replays it means the game is broken and from this I already know that it will crash at the end of the first half.
I can simulate the matches but I paid to play them, otherwise I would have stayed on Football Manager.
It is honestly unplayable at a certain point because it does it every 2/3 matches and sometimes all the times with certain teams.
From what is my experience, I can say that I have noticed this error more frequently with Premier League and La Liga teams, maybe because these are the teams that have better reconstructed stadiums with particular music and atmospheres? I don't know.
What I find inconceivable is that this thread has been around for 8 months and this bug has been around since the game launched practically and it still hasn't been fixed.
I'm very disappointed and probably won't buy FC again in the future if this is the situation.