Football Manager 27 is not just changing what happens on the pitch. It is changing how the match feels around it. The latest feature deep dive focuses on the FM27 Match Day Experience, with improvements to crowds, stadiums, weather, lighting, cutscenes and player models. But rather than simply listing everything Sports Interactive has changed, there […]

Football Manager has never been short of information. That has always been part of the appeal. Players, tactics, scouting reports, finances, transfers, training, staff, competitions, news… there is an enormous amount to keep track of during a save. But there has also been a familiar problem: sometimes finding the information you actually need can feel […]

Football Manager 27 is getting closer, and the picture is finally starting to become clearer. After the first major FM27 feature reveals and Deep Dive videos, we now have a much better idea of what Sports Interactive is trying to achieve with the next edition. But there is an important distinction to make. FM27 isn’t […]

Football Manager 27’s first two deep dives reveal a redesigned interface, a more detailed football world and the return of some familiar features. But how much difference could these changes make to your next save? There are two sides to a good Football Manager save. There’s the football you actively manage — your tactics, transfers, […]

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, […]