Imagine if you have a player card in Soccer Manager 2025 (SM25) that you developed and got an extra 0.45 boost in just one training session. That’s how some SM25 managers are developing their players at an extraordinarily fast rate. We will show just how they do it.

Choose the Right Manager Style

There is one step that needs to be done as soon as you want to start the game. At the start of your game, you’re allowed to choose from three manager styles:

• Suit manager
• Tactical manager
• Training manager

Each one has its perks, but if you want to develop your players at a fast rate, it’s pretty obvious the training manager, is the manager style you should choose. It gives you an extra training slot, which is probably the best thing about it. You also get manager points pre-unlocked with the training manager.

Invest in Efficient Training

You should also invest your manager points in efficient training and world-class training since they’re the ones that will give you extra training slots and boost the effectiveness of your training. The training manager sets you up with the basics needed to develop your players. But how do you know which players to use it on?

Buy Young Players (Wonderkids and Regens) into Your Squad

The next tip is to buy Regen and meta wonderkids (We have over the best 70 mentioned here). Regens are essentially recycled versions of old retired players. They are able to develop to the level of the original players’ maximum rating. You can only sign them from the free agents market, and they are easily spotted since they’re usually young players with very high market value, high potential, and no image in the player profile.

Metas are also proven players in the Soccer Manager 2025 game that work very well no matter which team you use them in. They also develop very fast in the game and so are the most preferred. Buying them ensures that you are guaranteed Wonder kids that are capable of reaching their potentials when you train them.

What if you don’t want to buy players but would rather develop your own Academy players? Players develop best when they are played. It is one of the main principles that guide this game. The more you play them, the faster they develop. Unfortunately, most of your young players aren’t good enough to play in your first team, so to combat this, you need to do one of two things.

Manage and Rotate Squad Size and Training Facilities With Wonderkids

The first one is to rotate your squad. Have a wonderkid cover for every single position in your team and rotate them into play matches against weaker opponents in the domestic cups and in the league against relegation teams. You can go by just changing only a couple of players at a time. You can play a three-back system with two young defenders and one experienced defender and your main goalkeeper, or you can try your own combos to make sure your young players get enough game time.

Loan Out Players, There Are Benefits

The second thing you can do is to send them out on loans. This is what we would advise you to do for your very inexperienced young players since they are definitely not good enough to play in your main team but can develop and get game time elsewhere. This allows you to develop them for free since the other team will also pay their wages.

Loaning out players is also good for one other reason. Can you guess what that is? It’s squad size. Squad size directly impacts the quality of your training. When you have more players, the training is shared among all of your players, which means they each get less, and the training isn’t effective. The level of your training facility will allow for only a certain number of your players to get their training too, which further makes it difficult for you to develop your players. When you loan out your players, you make room for your best players to get more points during training.

You should also sell very old players in your squad since they don’t increase during training, but rather their rating decreases. This means training these old players is essentially useless and delays the obvious.

Tip: Players with the red marks are regressing, and those in white are at their peaks. Small squad sizes allow for quality training for all your players.

But if you don’t want to sell any of your players either, then there’s a solution for you too. All you need to do is upgrade your training facilities. Training facility levels come with maximum squad limits, extra training drills, and training slots. Upgrading it means you open space for more of your players to receive upgrades whenever you train them. You will also open extra slots which will allow you to add more training regimens to the ones you unlocked already. This will further improve the rate at which your players develop. The cost, however, increases with every upgrade, so it will take a lot of investment from your team to upgrade to the maximum level.

Training Regimens for Maximum Growth

The final thing we will share here is which and how training regimens will work best for your team in the Soccer Manager 2025 game:

• Technical improves players’ technical ability
• Physical improves physical attributes and fitness
• Tactical improves players’ chemistry and mental attributes
• Goalkeeping improves your goalkeepers.

The best regimen is to put the technical training in the extra training manager slot since that gives more than the others. Then you put in one physical and one tactical. If you unlock more slots, then put another technical first. Any extra can then be given to physical. If you manage to unlock even more slots, then you can give the rest to goalkeeping and the others. Only one tactical slot is needed. So the correct order in terms of importance is technical, physical, tactical, goalkeeping before attack and defense. If you apply these methods, you can get from +0.10, +0.19, and even more growth.