There is a strange thing about Football Manager. For all the talk about tactics, transfers, wonderkids and the match engine, the part of the game you actually spend the most time looking at isn’t the pitch. It’s the interface. You navigate menus. You check player profiles. You negotiate transfers. You manage training. You read reports. […]

The match engine is where Football Manager ultimately has to deliver. You can have a brilliant recruitment system, an impressive tactical interface and hundreds of new features, but when the match starts, everything comes down to what happens on the pitch. And after the experience of FM26, the match engine is likely to be one […]

FM27 is officially on the way. After months of waiting, speculation and plenty of questions from the Football Manager community, Sports Interactive has finally started pulling back the curtain on the next edition of the series. There is still a lot we don’t know about FM27, but we now have some important information to work […]

Football Manager 2027 is on the way, and while we still have plenty to learn about the new game, there is already one thing we know for sure: FM has never been short of depth. The question is what Sports Interactive does with that depth next. FM has become an enormous simulation. There are tactics, […]