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Since EA FC series parted ways with FIFA, the official system has been limited to populating Career Mode with fictitious teams and tournaments. You can become a national team coach and participate in unrealistic tournaments.

Due to the lack of official authorization, this mode is incomplete, resulting in insufficient teams to fill the schedule. International team management functionality has been largely ignored for years. But World's Game update changes all that.

World's Game Update

With World Cup approaching, EA FUT 26 decided to create an unofficial version of the tournament. But more importantly, the developer significantly increased the number of national teams available in FC 26. In the past two years you only had 29 national teams, whereas now the game features nearly 60.

As a result, players no longer face a small-scale World Cup with only 24 teams; instead, they get the full tournament format that you will see this summer. 48 teams will be able to compete in the same event. This is something that every FC 26 player and football fan can look forward to.

Team Expansion

Before this patch, there were actually only 6 teams from North America, South America, Africa, and Asia in FC 26. Now that number has tripled to over 20.

In South America, six national teams are now available: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay join Argentina, which has been in the game since launch. North America has gained Canada, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, and the United States.

In Africa, Cape Verde appears for the first time in Career Mode, while South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Congo, and Tunisia have also been added to the game.

As for Central Asia, even Uzbekistan now appears in Career Mode. The average age of its population is around 23, and the country is producing many talented young players – all of which is now directly integrated into Youth Academy System.

You can develop players from Uzbekistan or Cape Verde in your youth academy and watch them graduate into the real national team system. In this update, only three of the newly added national teams actually come from Europe. No matter which region you are from, you will be able to use the countries and teams you are more familiar with.

Players Return

The benefits of adding these national teams are not limited to international competitions. They also bring back a large number of players you want to use, such as Neymar, whom many players have been hoping for. Thanks to this update, a great many players have been restored to Career Mode, and this is merely a side effect of adding more nations.

The developer likely made this update mainly because they wanted Neymar back in Ultimate Team. By adding Neymar, many players hope to use him in FC 26 no matter how many FC 26 coins he would require, and this would undoubtedly generate substantial revenue for the developer.

Quality-of-Life Improvements

Another very good change is that you can now manage a national team from day one. However, you still cannot be solely an international manager. You must manage both a club and a national team simultaneously.

You can now directly choose which country to coach, rather than having to reload a save on a specific date and wait for the right job offer to appear – this is undoubtedly an improvement. It is the accumulation of small quality-of-life improvements like this that makes Career Mode better.

Missing Competitions and National Teams

Nevertheless, national team football still lacks some fairly important elements and is not 100% perfect. Major regional competitions such as African Cup of Nations and Asian Cup have essentially been removed.

This may be because the update focuses mainly on World Cup, but those other tournaments are equally important for national team management. Without them, you are essentially just waiting for the next World Cup four years later.

Africa is still missing some important national teams: Egypt, Nigeria, and Cameroon have not been included. South America still lacks Chile and Peru because those teams failed to qualify for World Cup. North America is missing Jamaica. Europe also remains quite incomplete, with 27 out of 52 UEFA national teams around the world still absent from FUT 26.

However, many of these countries already have a large number of players in the database. For example, with Egypt, Jamaica, and Nigeria, you could easily assemble a national team using those players. Perhaps FC 26 will continue to update and improve World's Game during World Cup.

Second Nationalities

If you have been following some other football databases, you may have noticed that second nationalities are a fairly important element in some of them. The developer might introduce a mechanic for players to switch nationalities, as this often happens in real life, and this would be part of a long-term plan to improve national team management. However, there is currently no concrete evidence that they will do so.

Even without these features, this is still the best FC 26 has performed since around FIFA 18. Players can finally choose to have 48 teams compete in a tournament instead of 24. The national team selection pool has expanded significantly, and many players have been re-added to the game. Hopefully, this is part of a genuine, ongoing cycle of improvement, rather than just a one-time update to boost sales before the release of EA FC 27 in September.