The release date is the one thing about DLS 27 that is genuinely settled, and it is worth stating plainly before anything else: First Touch Games has confirmed December 2026 on the official Dream League Soccer page, with the teaser ending "DLS 27 — Coming 12/2026". No specific day has been announced.
DLS has shipped an annual version every December since the series began. DLS 2026 itself landed in December 2025 — around the 22nd — and versions at the time of writing sat in the 13.130 to 13.340 range with the package name com.firsttouchgames.dls7. When a studio has kept a December cadence for a decade, "December" is a much stronger signal than any specific date. The community expectation is the first week of December 2026, and the usual pattern is a teaser landing three to four weeks before launch.
This is the single most important thing to understand before you plan your season: DLS 27 is a major update to the existing app, not a separate game. Your club, your squad, your coins, your account and your friend list all survive the update. There is no re-registration, no new save file and nothing to migrate by hand.
What does not survive is the competitive picture. Squads get refreshed, ratings get updated, clubs move between divisions according to the real European season, and the players you signed last December are suddenly competing against a different set of clubs in a different order. Your club stays; your advantage probably does not.
Every December, the search results for "DLS 27" fill with third-party download sites offering a "mod APK". Some of these are repackaged builds of the previous year with a new icon and a list of permissions that no legitimate football game needs. A number of them resell the download or misrepresent an unofficial mod as the official release. First Touch only ever ships through Google Play and the App Store. If a site is not those two, it is not the game, and installing one puts your account at risk for a version that you were going to get for free anyway.