10 Facts About Football Manager

Football Manager is a series of football management simulation video games developed by British developer Sports Interactive and published by Sega.

On 12 February 2004, after splitting from publishers Eidos Interactive, it was announced that Sports Interactive, developers of the Championship Football Manager game, had retained the rights to the source code but not the rights to the title Championship Football Manager, which were held onto by Eidos.

Football Manager 2005 included an updated user interface, a refined game engine, updated database and competition rules, pre and post-match information, international player news, cup summary news, a 2D match engine, coach reports on squads, jobcentre for non-playing positions, mutual contract termination, enhanced player loan options, manager "mind games" and various other features.

Football Manager 2005 was released in the UK on 6 November 2004 – closely followed by releases in many other countries around the world – and it became the 5th fastest-selling PC game of all time.

Football Manager Mobile, known as Football Manager Handheld upon inception, was first released on 13 April 2006 on PlayStation Portable.

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Football Manager has been recognized by real-life football clubs as a source for scouting players.

Football Manager celebrated its twentieth birthday in the summer of 2012, and to celebrate this milestone Back Page Press released a book including interviews with the creators and players that became legends in-game.

In 2013, stand-up comedian Tony Jameson performed a show called Football Manager Ruined My Life; it was well received at the Edinburgh Festival, before going on to have a successful touring run, culminating in the show being filmed and released on DVD and Steam.

In 2020, a part-time Football Manager researcher discovered Blackburn Rovers forward Ben Brereton was half-Chilean via a club interview from 2018 and added Brereton's second nationality to the game database.

Championship Manager has been the object of a sociological study where it is concluded that not only football culture is essential to fully live the gaming experience, but gamers build their sporting identity by playing the game.