How to develop youngsters in EA FC 25 Career Mode

Mastering youth development is one of the most important steps to success in EA FC 25‘s Manager Career, regardless of the club of your choice.

Having a good youth setup is fundamental, as it ensures that your squad can only get better over time without relying on expensive transfers. That said, it’s one thing to recruit the best possible talents and another to make them world-class. With a few changes to Manager Career, here are the best tips and tricks to turn your club into the world’s talent factory in EA FC 25.

EA FC 25 Youth Development explained

The youth system in EA FC 25 is similar to the older system used in previous games. However, this year, the process of growing youngsters up to fulfill their potential has been done differently. The biggest change is the introduction of a dedicated training system, which can allow your youngsters to develop into specialists (and improve their stats accordingly).

• Open Youth Development in Manager Career.
• Go to Youth Development Plan.
• From here, you can assign specialist roles to every youth candidate.
• In my experience, Balanced is the worst role to assign. It has longer development times and hardly encourages the creation of roles.
• Naturally, a specialized role is better. Yes, you do lock a candidate into developing for a specific role, and they won’t be able to develop their secondary stats that much. However, the gains from this method are simply more.

Once you’ve set a specialized development plan for your youth candidates, their level-ups will be much more effective in EA FC 25. Additionally, playing the youth tournaments manually can be extremely fruitful as well. It takes place via the Rush mode, and you can test out what your candidates will feel like once they reach their maximum potential.

That’s pretty much it when it comes to developing the youth talent in EA FC 25 in your club. Make sure to set up an exhaustive scouting routine to bring the best young talents under your radar.