Which saves show under Load Game
Press Load Game. Look for 24 Mobile and 26 Mobile saves only.
Press Load Game after the update. That is the whole official instruction for finding an old career. SEGA's tech FAQ says you should see your Football Manager 24 Mobile saves and your Football Manager 26 Mobile saves when you do. The feature blog says you can continue from a save in either of those two mobile games, or start again from the beginning. Those are the only two mobile editions named. The Out Now post says saves carry from earlier editions of the mobile game, which is wider wording. The support article and the feature blog then name the two. This site follows the named pair when it tells you what to look for. It does not add a third edition because the wider sentence could be read that way.
The post-match hub. Load Game sits in the same shell after the update.
What a carried save is
The feature blog's picture is simple. You are either continuing one of those two careers or you are starting fresh. Continuing means the career loads as the career you left, with the new season's tools available as you play on. A staff reply on an older mobile thread, about the jump into the previous season, said a continued save loads as it was, with new options appearing as you play forward. That reply is about the previous jump, not this one. The promise for this jump is the Load Game line in the tech FAQ, plus the blog's "continue or start again." SI staff, in this season's FAQ thread, said carry-over saves were tested and that they hoped the rough edges were ironed out. Tested is not "every save." If Load Game does not list a career you expected, the published next step is a support ticket once the phone meets the spec, not a forum fix this site will invent.
Tactics are a separate yes
The same tech FAQ says tactics and training setups do carry. If you want the new tactical roles, you set those up after the update. They are not applied for you. That page is tactics that carry.
What does not get a sentence
PC saves are not in the mobile carry list. Touch saves are not in it. A career from a mobile game older than the 24 edition is not named. Cloud saves are not described on the pages this site used for this season. The Netflix listing this site read does not mention cloud saves. Do not plan a phone swap around a cloud line that is not there. If you uninstall, the listing does not tell you the career survives. The only recovery path SEGA wrote for a phone that cannot update is redownloading the 24 Mobile app from Owned Apps, and only if you played that one and the phone is under the new floor.
| Career | Named for Load Game? | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Football Manager 26 Mobile | yes | tech FAQ and feature blog |
| Football Manager 24 Mobile | yes | tech FAQ and feature blog |
| Older mobile careers | not named | — |
| PC edition | not named | — |
| New career | yes, start again | feature blog |
Load Game is the instruction
That wording is wider. Wider wording is not a licence to invent a name.
Continue, or start again
The tools show up as you play on. Tested is not "every save." Hope is not a checklist you can wave at a missing career. The spec check is on the device page. The update that has to land before Load Game matters is on the install page.
Tactics stay a separate yes
A carried save does not quietly rewrite your roles.
What tested means, and what it does not
The staff sentence about testing is worth reading twice. It says a number of carry-over saves were tested, and that the team hoped to have ironed out as much as possible from them. Two limits sit inside that sentence. A number of saves were tested, which is not every save. And the rough edges were hoped away, which is not the same as removed. Hope is the word the staff used, and it is the honest word for a migration nobody can fully rehearse. What that means for you is that a clean load is the expected case and not the guaranteed one. If your career loads and something in it looks slightly different from what you left, that is inside the range the sentence allows. If the career does not load at all, that is outside it, and the response the posts support is a support ticket with the phone's details in it. What the sentence does not tell you is which saves were in the test. No edition, no league, no size of career. So it cannot be used to argue that your save is safe because it looks like the ones they tried. It can only be used to argue that migration was tested at all, which is a weaker and a more accurate claim.