What is a Financial Takeover?

If you’ve followed the wider world of football, you’ll be familiar with the idea of a financial takeover. Chelsea, Manchester City and PSG are good examples of clubs that have been taken bought by billionaire owners.

In essence, the club is sold to a new wealthy owner who is able to put more money into the club. Traditionally that would benefit the club from top to bottom, transforming its facilities and infrastructure. However, fans are usually just interested in an increased transfer budget. In the real world, the introduction of Financial Fair Play (FFP) by UEFA is an attempt to limit massive cash injections to football clubs.

An increased transfer budget is exactly how it applies in FIFA 19. You’re given an improved transfer budget but no other real changes happen. Most players will activate a takeover while managing a club with a small transfer budget,

How Do I Get a Financial Takeover?

Follow the step by step instructions below, be sure to read them through first.

1. Have an Existing Career Mode Save

Make sure you’ve already started a career mode and saved the game.

2. Open Career Mode

Go into career mode and open your chosen save file.

3. Check Budget

Go to the ‘Office’ tab and look at the ‘Finances’ tile. Make a note of your transfer budget and the split between transfers and wages. Sometimes the split gets changed which can make it hard to read how much extra budget you were given.

4. EASFC Catalogue

Press in the right stick on your controller to open up the EASFC Catalogue. If you’ve never seen it before, it’s the place where you can use points to unlock items such as Focused Training or Scout Future Star.

5. Career Tab

Use the right stick to move to the ‘Manager Career’ list. This ensures you’re only looking at items that will affect career mode.

6. Redeem Item

Scroll through the list and find one of the financial takeovers. There should be three in total, one each at level 10, 25 and 35. You’ll need to be a high enough level in EASFC to unlock these rewards, but it’s easy to climb the levels by playing the game regularly.

Once you find it, hit ‘Redeem Item’ and you should see a confirmation message.

7. Advance

Now go back to the ‘Central’ tab on the main menu. It can take a few days to come into effect so hit ‘Advance’ and allow a few days to pass.

8. Check

Go back to the Finances tile in the Office tab and check to see if your budget has increased. If not, repeat steps 7 and 8.

How Much Money Does a Financial Takeover Give You?

This tends to vary and is possibly based on the club you’re managing and/or your existing transfer budget. For example a Championship side might get given an additional £40m to spend. However a Premier League side might get an additional £90m. It’s not an exact science but this should at least give you some idea.

How Many Times Can You Activate a Financial Takeover?

I mentioned already that there are only three financial takeovers in the EASFC catalogue. Each one can only be redeemed once, and this won’t change if you delete your game saves or anything like that.

Another thing worth mentioning is that you can only redeem one per season. Please don’t try and redeem more than one in the same season. You won’t get anything extra and you’ll have wasted one of your three rewards.

What If I’ve Used All My Financial Takeovers?

If you’ve already used all three, you won’t be able to get another financial takeover. However, you can exploit a bug in the game and increase your transfer budget to around £1 billion.