UPDATE: As of 29th January 2019, EA have finally released a patch that fixes the -1 Rating Glitch. Please note, this will only correct the issue on new career mode saves, existing saves will continue to be affected.

While many career mode players have complaints about EA’s reluctance to make any improvements to the mode, there aren’t too many significant bugs or glitches. Some glitches are good and some others might actually be a feature rather than a bug.

However, players have noticed a new glitch recently in FIFA 19 that is definitely not beneficial. We’re going to call it the -1 Rating Glitch.

What is the -1 Rating Glitch?

As an experienced career mode player, you’ll know that player’s attributes can go up and down. For most of their career they will increase, and cause the player’s overall rating to move towards their potential. In the later stages of their career or during a long injury, attributes may decrease, which will bring their overall rating down.

However, whats happening currently is when a players attributes increase enough to cause their overall rating to increase, it actually goes down by one point. Hence why we’re calling it the -1 Rating Glitch.

For clarity, this happens whether or not you train your players.

Take a look at the screenshot below. This will happen to multiple squad players at the start of a career. It’s not just ageing players either, young players with no injuries are declining despite their attributes going up.

What Can We Do About It?

In the game, there’s very little you can do about the -1 Rating Glitch. It’s going to happen to every player in your squad eventually. Our advice is to play through it. Yes, your players overall will decrease initially, but the next time their attributes increase, their overall will increase by one. From this point on, their overall ratings should increase as normal. It’s just frustrating that you have to take a hit initially.

What Are EA Doing About It?

It’s unclear at this stage. EA are not the most transparent company when it comes to upcoming features or bug fixes. As well as being mentioned on Twitter and Reddit, it has also been posted on the EA FIFA Forums. Fingers crossed EA fix it and get a new release out quickly.