Australian Football Coach 2023-24

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• Patch Notes·29 Jun 2026Official

  Version 1.34 now patched and available

  Another small patch today which fixes some logic around the new trade system (should prevent crashes and fix some oddities with trading draft picks), makes time not tick down on a ball up, and fixed logic around quarter time not saving in the editor when no other changes were made. You can also now switch which team a player is on in the editor. It's unclear if this could potentially cause a knock on crash, but it's in the live version. That's it for now! More fixes/changes will be made as they're identified.
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• Patch Notes·25 May 2026Official

  Very small update fixing trade and parent-child issues

  A simple patch is now live - should fix a trade issue and a couple issues involving parent-child rules. That's it for now!
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• Patch Notes·23 Mar 2026Official

  2026 Update officially released!

  Australian Football Coach has officially been updated for the 2026 season! With a couple new enhancements and fixes, including a completely reworked trade module and a five-player interchange bench, and updated men's and women's lists, the simulator is fully ready to go for the new men's season. Thank you to everyone who beta tested and provided feedback on the new version as well, community feedback has been critical in developing the game and your support is greatly appreciated. Expect another light update fixing any issues in the next couple weeks or months but until then enjoy the latest lists!
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• Patch Notes·24 Feb 2026Official

  Australian Football Coach 2026 Update Plans

  There's been a flurry of questions asking if Australian Football Coach 2023-24 will see an update for 2026, and fortunately that answer is a complete yes!At the moment a complete data update is underway, which will include lists for both men and women. Both lists are currently playable, but the women's lists still have gaps in the data - if you'd like to help improve this data set even a little bit, please get in touch on the Discord.There should also be a few quality of life improvements in the next update. These are unlikely to be anything major, but there are still a few ideas floating around on a couple nice and potentially significant improvements. None are yet developed enough to mention, and it's not impossible only the top priority gets fixed along with the data update: making sure the game can support a five-player interchange bench, which should hopefully be complete by the end of the week.There's no timeline set for the update, but hopefully there'll be something within the first couple weeks of the men's season at the latest.It's exciting to support this game into its fourth year. and it's entirely because of your support! Thank you for enjoying the game (since this is a stats-based game, the stats prove that) and hopefully this will give you even more hours of footy enjoyment over the next season.
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• Announcements·5 Jul 2025Official

  Version 1.29 released!

  Version 1.29 is out now with some bug fixes and nice quality of life updates to help you better coach your team!This started from the premise of trying to add additional information to the statistics pages and while most statistical updates are going to have to wait for a completely new edition of the game, there are a couple more available filters for you to weed out players who haven't played much.There are additional news items, additional navigation during certain points of the season, additional information when selecting your team including adding seasonal player ratings to the selection screen, and updates to starting custom leagues, especially with stadium capacity. You can also see player potential on the training screen, if they've been scouted properly!Major fixes include a big issue with the interchange screen not always being properly updated, the score worm not properly resetting between games (which was a major bug for awhile and was a simple if not easy fix) and fixing the fact players stopped telling you if they didn't like your contract offer during free agency.There's also an ongoing move to make the match engine more "editable" for some of the power users - you can now change a scenario's overall tempo by editing some of the game's data files, which can help raise or lower the number of disposals generated by the game engine.Hopefully there's going to be at least one more update before the end of the men's real life season so keep following and making suggestions and bug reports!+ added: can now filter player statistics by games played+ added: injury column back to team player screen+ added: stadiums now get generated with variable capacity, not just 10,000+ added: you can now control overall match engine tempo by setting the tempo_weight in Settings.csv (lower=faster)+ added: all players on a user's team now get a scouting report at the start of the year+ added: new news item if you qualified for/failed to make finals+ added: player log for team...
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