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Online_acc_91
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1 day ago

Career Mode - Wrong & Outdated UEFA Qualification

The UEFA qualification rules are wrong & outdated. (Especially for live start points)

It seems to all come down to the Champions league places in the premier league being wrongly and statically capped at 4. An example of this causing a major issue is if you finish 4th and qualify for UCL, but another premier league team outside the top 4 wins the UEL, they will steal your UCL spot and you will be relegated to the UEL the following season. What should happen is they should both qualify for UCL but this is stopped due to it being wrongly capped at 4 PL teams no matter what. Another example is that teams finishing in a UCL spot, that have also qualified by winning the UEL or FA Cup do not pass their UCL place down to the next highest league place as they should, it still just caps at 4 teams.

My knowledge of the UEFA and premier league rulebook isn’t perfect so here is a link to how UEFA qualification works and how it should work in game:

https://www.premierleague.com/en/european-qualification-explained

I have seen multiple posts on this forum and elsewhere online reporting the same issue going all the way back to FC24 and probably further back. I consistently experience the same issues across different saves, yet no acknowledgement which is very frustrating. I just don’t understand how EA has not even addressed this issue after minimum 3 years and 3 different games. Do they just not care, does nobody at EA play the game? Or watch or even care about football in real life to know that the system is broken? It may seem like a small issue but I find this to be game-breaking at times and makes the game unplayable for me. What is the point of playing when in the end, I already know I will be cheated? Think about going through a season, getting in a UEFA spot, planning and making signings with this in mind, only to realise your career mode is ruined when the draw roles around and your not in it because the game has the wrong rules.

I really hope that EA can acknowledge this so we know you are aware of it and that at the very least it can be fixed in the release of FC 27 otherwise it will sadly be a no-purchase as much as I really want to play career mode, authenticity and fun is what makes it, and this bug ruins all of that. This should really be priority number 1 before adding new features and expanding career mode, fix the glaring issues like this that are out of our control first, please!!!

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