Problems with the artificial intelligence in FC 26 Career mode

I don't understand how you can release a game like this. Charge $100 for this. The only reason why I play this game is for the career mode, and you are correct, this is unplayable.

It's been like this since launch. It's going to be a month now and they didnt fix it, lol.

It's very easy. It's made career mode so boring. Please fix

this is so true, ai is the wrost its ever been legendary diff play like trash!! EA NEEDS TO FIX THIS!

The Ai is so unfathomably bad. I find it beyond hard to believe this was an accident and people need to start engaging their brains. They want to push people to FUT online play for the £££, career mode players just don’t matter anymore!

Once easily my favourite game producer, EA sports is an absolute disgrace for putting out nice looking games that don’t function properly.  I’ve played fifa since 98 and I’ve never known anything like this. How they have managed to make the worst AI ever in 2025 and then not be able to fix it, it’s.. actually unbelievable guys come on. It’s getting to that time where people go back to FIFA’s competitors because the trust between various games consumers and EA sports has been decimated over recent years. 

Spot on. Would love to go into their offices and tell them to their face. Absolutely disgusting to charge 100 bucks for an unfinished game. It’s almost 2026, the AI should be much more advanced and realistic. It feels like I’m playing a mobile game with imbecile npc’s. 

I loved building my team and preparing for the season. I made great transfers and set up my tactics exactly how I like my teams to play. My first match looked like the players didn’t know where to be and kept running into each other. They do this very weird thing where they hold on to the ball for too long then pass in the direction they aren’t facing making it a weak and intercept able pass. I don’t understand, I watched them have no build up play with tiki-taka and amazing technical players. This crazy thing also happens where during “Kick off” when my players are in possession to start, they make one pass and shot it out for no reason. Please fix this AI, it’s 2025/2026. We expect better. This is the last one I’m buying if they don’t make this game better.

Had a ton of fun in FC 25 Manager Career Mode, so I thought I'd try 26...yeah I couldn't agree any more with OP here! The CPU is fundamentally broken in this mode, haven't checked other modes. Mostly played tactical but dynamic and custom settings don't really help to solve the issue.

On Offense:

The AI is extremely passive advancing and shooting the ball on offense. They basically don't do anything...no dribbling past defenders, no crossing, barely any through-passes and refusing to shoot the ball on goals.

On Defense:

The AI either drops really deep and park the bus, relentlessly trying to block low passing lanes but get are lost defending lob passes and double-passes. Or presses the player basically the entire size of the pitch, being super aggressive with standing tackles, never miss-timing any of 'em but are extremely vulnerable and easily exploited with any passes.

The result is very boring gameplay that never challenges the player in any way...playing FC 26 on the same difficulty as 25 on Manager Career Mode and it honestly seems like the AI is broken and not working as intended! Please fix your game EA!

P.s.: You might also want to take a look and emberassing glitches like the tucked in jerseys being completely broken while you're at it. It would be nice to buy a game that is out of beta for once...🤫