Seasons bench Still BROKEN in Update 1.2.0 - Team Management doesn't save!

EA broke the game with every pach

This one has been broken for a while. It's what makes it even more bizarre. I am sure someone in the development team could fix this broken code in 30 mins.

Absolute joke EA...

blue166​ 

I can see how frustrating this is for you. Please monitor future updates/patch notes for any available updates on this. Thank you, EA_Barry.

EA_Barry

Are you able to bring this thread to the attention of the development team? It feels like it is just being ignored/forgotten about.

Thanks.

blue166​ The feedback from these threads are sent to the studio teams. That is a part of our job. However, what, how and when they resolve an issue in an update is up to that studio team. We have no say so in it. We pass it along, and after that, we wait just like the players.

Seasons hasn’t changed in 15 years since it was created. It’s been left to rot as it is not a cash generator. I only play seasons. Always have. This is a football game (or supposed to be). I’m at the end of my tether with this franchise. FIFA 21 was a low point. The gaming mechanics are there to be openly abused by people who are addicted to winning as opposed to just having fun. They’ve taken every broken mechanic from all the past games and dumped it into this. Soon as you get to division 3 upwards. It’s just rife with people who only want to use mbappe and Dembele. Just wiggling the stick while defenders perform a tackle animation in the wrong direction of the player and ball. And all while that’s going on. I’m forced to have a keeper on the bench because this franchise are too concerned about updating their UT to have Halloween logos on their packs to entice kids to steel their parents credit card details 

EA_Shepard​ I appreciate the response to this thread.

I am becoming more impatient with this game this year than ever before.

This issue is very frustrating. For example if you play with Chelsea your reserves include, Quenda, Estevao, Wellbeck, Henderson just to name a few. Being unable to move these players onto the bench which mostly consists of defenders is absolutely criminal. There is no work around and we are totally stuffed.

The immersion for playing this title is fading out for me and very fast.

I truly am ready to just make the jump to Konami's eFootball now. Saddens me to say that and feel that way but can only watch so many updates drop and this issue ignored I and other people can take.

I would say that this UI issue is so broken it actually deserves a hot fix to be dropped to correct it. It's that big of a deal.

Thanks. 

blue166​ I get it. It is totally valid to get impatient with a game you play every year. There are games I buy every single year, and there are issues every time. We have all been there. You need your defenders. Really hard to play without them. Defenders are arguably the most critical foundation of any football team. Depending on who you ask, of course, but still, when you cannot use them, it kind of puts a hard stop to the matches.

I have looked for workarounds, and I see some but none that are guaranteed; they could also just be a coincidence that they worked. I get the readiness to jump ship. I have been in this industry a long time, and I have been a gamer for more years than I can count, so i get it. I wish there were things we could say that would guarantee any issue would be resolved but we cannot.

We watch these updates all day, and we look for those messages that something will be updated, but sometimes they don't come as quickly as we want them to.

EA_Shepard​ 

Thanks for the response and may I say it's nice to have a grown up mature conversation with a representative about the issue.

I too have looked for work arounds and none exist for this issue.

I have deleted every formation, reset team sheets in online Seasons and nothing works. The substitutes and reserve players cannot be swapped around at all and saved.

You can change them around all day long BUT as soon as you leave the screen and it pretends to save when you go right back into it everything has been undone again and back to how it was at the beginning. 

It is beyond frustrating. Please drop them a long email again and say please fix pretty please 😉

Since I am sure you have a copy of the game. Please enter Online Seasons mode for me and say pick Chelsea. Go the formation screen and change some substitutes and reserves around. Try moving Henderson onto the bench and Estevao for example. You will now see them on the substitutes bench. Back out (It will make out it has saved) and then re enter that same section again. You will see that the substitutes are back to how they first were and the players you moved are back in the reserves again.

Thanks.

blue166​ You're not wrong, and I did look up both of these just in case.

https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-27/news/fc27-october-gameplay-developer-notes

https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-27/news/fc27-title-update-v1-1-0

They mention a lot of things that were and are on the agenda, and from the way it is worded, they should have been, but I cannot guarantee that is what they are referring to. Believe me, it is has been passed back over to them that the community says it was not resolved.

I will test it out on my own to say I did when I send it over. They will do the same no doubt, but if by chance multiple people get multiple outcomes, then something may not be quite right.

EA_Shepard​ Please let me know once you have carried the test out in Online Seasons. Perhaps even a video from yourself and explaining in that might also help the developers dial in on it and hopefully get it resolved.

Many thanks for the great conversation. 

EA_Shepard​ Did you manage to replicate this issue and see for yourself?

Many thanks in advance.

blue166​ Hey,

So I did not know, but for some reason that happens every time I need to. I did have someone else replicate it once, though, so I let the team know. Once it gets added to me list, it is up to the studio team for that game to go try and replicate it, or do what they do on their end.

EA_Shepard​ I am glad to see you got someone to verify the issue. Now, hopefully the team will jump into Online Seasons mode and also replicate the issue. Hopefully, then we might get some news on a fix.

Appreciate you looking and reporting it. 👍

blue166​ Of course. Happy to help out. Here's hoping!

EA_Bogdan​ EA_Shepard​

Any update from the team about this issue and a time frame. It's just totally game breaking for us players. 

I have Estevao, Welbeck, Henderson, Gittens and Quenda I would like to have on my substitutes bench in Seasons mode. Right now they are stuck in the reserves and I can't use them on the bench because it does not save. 

Thanks. 

EA_Shepard​ Thank you so mutch for very good answers in this thread👍 

Good job to you👍😀

And also thank you blue166​  for pointing out a important issue for us seasons players👍⚽️

This from another seasons player

EA_Bogdan 

Pass this code in to your team please... 

# FIX: Online Seasons Team Sheet Data Serialization Bug

# Module: game_modes/seasons/squads/squad_sync_controller.py

class SquadSyncController:

def save_user_custom_tactics(self, user_id, team_id, squad_payload):

"""

Saves user's custom FC IQ tactics, starting XI, substitutes, and reserves.

"""

# Validate the incoming data payload from the Team Management UI

if not squad_payload or 'starting_xi' not in squad_payload:

return {"status": "error", "message": "Invalid squad composition structure."}

try:

# ❌ BUG AREA: The current engine only maps 'starting_xi' and 'tactics'

# keys to the live database, dropping 'substitutes' and 'reserves' lists entirely

# upon server handshake, or forcing a hard fallback to the Live-Form template.

db_payload = {

"user_id": user_id,

"team_id": team_id,

"tactics_slots": squad_payload.get('tactics_slots'), # FC IQ slots 1-5

"starting_xi": squad_payload.get('starting_xi'),

# --- FIXED LOGIC ---

# Force the server database to map and preserve the user's manual

# changes to subs and reserves instead of silently dropping them.

"substitutes": squad_payload.get('substitutes', []),

"reserves": squad_payload.get('reserves', []),

"override_live_form_bench": True # Block the automated Live-Form asset override

# ---------------------

}

# Commit payload securely to the EA Online User Profile database

success = self.db.write_user_profile_squad(user_id, db_payload)

if success:

# Force clear local cache so the game doesn't pull old templates

self.cache.invalidate_squad_file(user_id)

return {"status": "success", "message": "Tactics and complete bench successfully synced."}

else:

raise DatabaseWriteException("Server rejected team management schema mapping.")

except Exception as error:

self.logger.log_critical(f"Squad Sync Failure for user {user_id}: {str(error)}")

# Fall back to raw factory team file instead of sending a glitched, locked template

return {"status": "fallback", "message": "Loaded default live form database."}

Vouch for this. As you can see, I have 2 GKs in Subs, and I can't do anything about it. If I swap in a player from reserves, it doesn't save (it goes back to 2 GKs). I can't swap a GK with any player except another GK, so I'm still stuck with 2 GKs in Subs.

My belive in EA becomes more and rusty. blue166​.. It's been 17 hours since your last, very reasonable questions - and still silence from all the cm's that you tagged.. This is not good customer service! If they can't answer, at least you/we deserve that they tell us so. Even if we are just seasons players, we are still customers who pay full price for the game! I'm so tired of this moneyhungry company!

I am starting to wonder if this issue which is totally game breaking falls on a genuine touching point of being able to ask for a full refund to hand the game back for a return of payment. This is the only mode I buy the game for and this issue completely cripples the mode as it cannot be played properly. 

EA, as the mode is clearly broken because of this issue within the game that cannot be resolved by any work around where do we sit with genuinely being able to ask for a full refund. I am not sure Microsoft would now refund but does EA have the ability to refund if the game is not complete? 

As this is the only mode I and many others buy the game for where do we sit in regards to this. 

I feel that we have paid £70 for a beta test. That doesn't sit well with me. 

Thanks in advance. 

blue166​ As a seasons player you will allways be a second range customer at this company. I'm so disappointed! 

I really had faith in that at least EA_Shepard​ would follow this up.. It looked like that in the beginning in this tread.. Now, even he has gone to silence.. Sad, and just shows the true nature of this company. As a seasons player you are nothing worth to EA

I already uninstalled the game. Honestly, it's for the best. I only play games to unwind, not to end up stressed out. Maybe I'll come back for FC 26 later.

Here is the issue again. I took this video earlier and posted on X. 

https://x.com/TheReal_blue166/status/2116882935005520207?a=wJB-mUSOBL-Uy6GL3v8&s=19