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iGP Manager 26: New League System Explained

Jack I have a question, when we administrators of our leagues can personalize calendar race from the settings for next seasons? How we can put the new track Zandvoort? Because I see the settings after the update IGP 26 , for make the calendar of the races but there aren't all tracks circuits to put on the calendar for the next season like before the update? 🤷

All leagues will be moved into the new schedule of daily races unless the league is boosted to unlock custom schedules.

What do boosts cost? The best value pack is 20 boosts for £9.99. That can buy a whole league 1 season of all features unlocked (including custom season lengths and races). Here's the important part: anyone can contribute boosts, even people outside the league. So, if 10 people all contribute boosts, effectively it only costs each person £1 per season to have a fully boosted league. If you have more than 10 people contributing, the costs become so negligible it's hardly worth mentioning.

There are three tiers of boosts on leagues, the first tier only costs 5 boosts (~£2.50 per season), the second tier is 10 boosts (~£5 per season) and so on. Each boost tier unlocks more features, including stuff like league banners, XP bonuses and more (meaning it negates some of the need for XP boosters, helping to save everyone in the league money). Playing for free on the default cycle may be preferable for most people, but if you want deep customisation, XP bonuses and more that's what the boost system will be for.

Remember, this is just one of the features boosts unlock. There will be more than are currently available and more features added over time. In iGP Manager 26 there will be a screen with a FAQ and comparison of the boost levels and everything explained clearly.

Hi Paul, the calendars and rules will be dynamic and voted on by the community in the free iGP Leagues and hosted leagues who use that calendar. I will be rolling out this functionality late this week.

I want to address your wider complaint though, and a couple of points of confusion. I do understand what you're saying, and I can see from everyone's reaction that we haven't done nearly enough to justify this change for you yet, even with the promise of future improvements. So, I'm going to be working to add all the league hosting features you want as my main priority in the coming weeks. They will arrive fast, such as offline league systems and greater customisation.

The last thing I will add is there appears to be a bug at the moment where the legacy league discount is not being shown properly, so everyone is assuming the price is double what it will be. I'll fix this shortly. Essentially, if your league has done 5+ seasons the price halves, it drops by 10% per season completed up to 50% off. I will get that fixed within the hour, along with other fixes to the league edit and league create pages.

A Unified Ecosystem
iGP Manager 26 unifies all managers into one league structure. Instead of separate Rookie/Pro/Elite divisions and separate languages, everyone races in the same ecosystem and is grouped by skill (XP Level first, Reputation/RXP second) to create fair, competitive grids. The old tier divisions are gone; what matters now is how well you race and develop your team.

Tiers as Access
Tiers now unlock features rather than deciding where you can race: Rookie (Tier 1): Default tier, access to iGP Leagues after 3 tutorial sprint races. Pro (Tier 2): Can join player-hosted leagues. Elite (Tier 3): Can create and host leagues. VIP (Tier 4 - New Subscription): A recurring subscription to automatically unlock all features of other tiers, plus: Race in up to 3 leagues at once. Earn sponsor tokens per league race (no daily limit). Create VIP-only leagues and set minimum tier requirements on a league. AI driver chat and 1 free league boost per month.

Your tier is now effectively your “lanyard” in the paddock, while league matchmaking is purely skill-based. The exception being hosted leagues, where managers can join.

iGP Leagues & Hosted Leagues

iGP Leagues

• Auto-generated, ranked leagues using skill-based matchmaking


• Instant join when you select a time slot


• Synchronized, bi-monthly global seasons (1st & 15th) with ~15 races

Hosted Leagues

• Player-created, persistent communities


• Use the same synchronized cycles by default, or go custom with boosts


• Pro can join, Elite can host 


• Hosts can opt-in to the auto-assignment system if they stay on the default schedule cycle or go closed/private if they have custom season lengths

League Boosts: Community-Powered Premium Features
League Boosts are a new IAP resource that work very much like Discord server boosts: anyone can boost any league from their own inventory to unlock extra features for that league.

Key points

• Boosts sit in your manager inventory until you allocate them


• 1 boost = 1 season of support for a league


• You don’t need to be a member of a league to boost it


• VIP subscribers get 1 free boost per month

Calendars & Global Cycles
All ranked leagues are synchronized to bi-monthly global cycles (1st and 15th of each month). This:

• Keeps seasons around ~15 races with daily events


• Aligns the whole community for future global events


• Simplifies migration and matchmaking

Boosted leagues with 20+ boosts can optionally switch to custom season lengths and track lists. Those become unranked by design, focusing on community fun and flexibility instead of RXP progression.

1-Car vs 2-Car Leagues: Economy Balancing
To keep operating costs fair across different league formats, iGP Manager 26 adds economy modifiers:

• 1-car leagues: standard wages, higher repair parts costs (2.0×)


• 2-car leagues: reduced wages, reduced repair parts costs

These modifiers are shown in the GUI and applied when you sign contracts and repair cars, and are explained in the league info, contract dialogs and repair tooltips. The end result is that both league types offer similar overall running costs, so you can choose based on preference, and 2-car leagues become equally appealing again.

Migration: What Happens to Existing Leagues?
All existing leagues are preserved and moved into the new structure:

• Hosted leagues keep their ID, host, members and standings


• Tiers are merged into single unified tier at the end of the current season or split into a second league, depending on the total managers


• Legacy tiers (rookie, pro, elite) are cleared once the league is migrated

No communities are deleted, and no history is lost. The migration simply reshapes the structure to match the new unified model.

Translation for multilingual leagues
As mentioned above, there are no language restrictions on the new iGP Leagues. In the event that someone is commenting in another language in the league, there is a built-in translate function on their comments on the league wall, like the translate buttons seen on most social media sites. Equally, they can translate your replies.

Joining & Multi-League Play
When you choose a league time slot, iGP Manager 26 immediately:

• Searches for an existing suitable league based on your RXP and level 


• Places you there instantly if a good match exists


• Or creates a new iGP league for that slot and drops you straight in

VIP managers can belong to up to three leagues at once, as long as schedules don’t clash. This opens up more racing and more ways to earn rewards, balanced by increased operational costs (contracts, parts, fuel) across those leagues.

Why This Feels Different In-Game

• You race in a single, global system instead of isolated tier pools


• Tiers are about what you can do, not who you race against


• League boosts give communities shared control over premium features and will expand beyond the customisation currently supported while helping to sustain development


• Calendars are synchronized by default, making it easy for us to build community-wide seasons and events


• Migration keeps your league identity and history intact while modernizing the structure

We also expect to release a long-awaited community-wide event system in 2026 and to announce several partnerships along the way. This restructuring is a major step in that direction. The new league system is designed to keep grids healthy, competition fair and communities empowered, while giving us a strong foundation for future global events and features.

It should be there now, let me know if it isn't, or if it isn't working. I'm trying to get hotfixes out as quickly as possible today.


Once the boosts are allocated they need to be kept on there until the new season for it to work. If you have crossed any tier threshold that amount will be deducted at the season reset. Eg. allocate 8 and 5 will be deducted (Bronze), if you've allocated 30 then 20 will be deducted (Gold).

One of the Badest update i have seen in my Gaminghistory

There will be future updates coming. This update was the foundation work for additional features coming.