The Championship Manager is a series of football-management simulation video games, the first of which was released in 1992.
A simulation video game describes a diverse super-category of video games, generally designed to closely simulate real world activities.
The League Managers Association (LMA) is the trade union for Premier League, EFL and national team managers in English association football. The LMA awards the LMA Manager of the Year award annually.
Football Manager 2006 is a 2005 football management simulation game. FM06 is the second game in the Football Manager series. It is available for PC, Mac, and PSP platforms, and was released in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2005. On the same day as the game's release, Sports Interactive also released a patch to fix some bugs discovered during the Beta and Gold stages of development. In its first week of release, it became the second-fastest-selling PC game of all-time in the UK. In the United States and Canada, the game is sold as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2006. In April 2006, an Xbox 360 version of the game was released.
Football Manager 2005 is a 2004 football management simulation game. FM: 2005 is the first game in the Football Manager series. It was developed by Sports Interactive and released on 5 November 2004, published by Sega.
Business simulation is simulation used for business training, education or analysis. It can be scenario-based or numeric-based.
Championship Manager is the first game in the Championship Manager series of association football management simulation games. The game was released on the Amiga and Atari ST in September, 1992 and ported to MS-DOS soon after. The game was written by Paul and Oliver Collyer in their bedroom.
FIFA Manager was an association football series of sports management games published by Electronic Arts. The games were developed by the German studio Bright Future GmbH and EA Sports. The game was called Total Club Manager until the name changed to FIFA Manager with the FIFAM 06. It was announced FIFA Manager's last installment was FIFA Manager 14 and that there would be no further editions to the game.
Premier Manager: Ninety Nine – Total Football Management is a soccer management simulation game, for PC, PlayStation and Nintendo 64. It was released only in Europe in 1999. It is part of the Premier Manager series and is endorsed by Kevin Keegan.
Football Manager 2008 (FM08) is the principal title of the 2008 edition of the football management simulation game series Football Manager. FM08 is the fourth game in the Football Manager series. FM08 is the last Football Manager game to be released on an Xbox console. It was developed by Sports Interactive, and published by Sega. A version for United States and Canada is titled Worldwide Soccer Manager 2008, while the South American version is Fútbol Manager 2008. There are over 5,000 playable teams from more than 50 countries. The demo for Football Manager 2008 was released on 30 September 2007.
Construction and management simulation (CMS) is a type of simulation game in which players build, expand or manage fictional communities or projects with limited resources. Strategy video games sometimes incorporate CMS aspects into their game economy, as players must manage resources while expanding their project. But pure CMS games differ from strategy games in that "the player's goal is not to defeat an enemy, but to build something within the context of an ongoing process." Games in this category are sometimes also called "management games".
Football Manager 2009 is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on PC, Mac and PlayStation Portable on 14 November 2008 in Europe and on 18 November 2008 in North America. As in the case of other recent releases in the Football Manager series, the game is sold as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 in the United States and Canada.
Football Manager 2010 is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and PlayStation Portable on 30 October 2009. It is also available for digital download on Steam and iOS. A demo for FM10 was released on 14 October 2009.
Championship Manager 2010 is a Association Football manager simulation video game. It is developed by Beautiful Game Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows on September 11, 2009 making it the first Championship Manager game to be released before Football Manager since Championship Manager 2007.
Football Manager 2011 is a football manager simulation video game. It was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 5 November 2010. It was also released for PlayStation Portable on 26 November 2010. A version for iOS was released on 16 December 2010.
Football Manager 2012 is a football management-simulation video game. It was released on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 21 October 2011. FM12 is the eighth game in the Football Manager series.
Football Manager 2015 is a football management simulation video game developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. It was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms on 7 November 2014, and on iOS and Android platforms on 20 November 2014.
Football Manager 2016 is a football management simulation video game developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega. It was released on Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux on 13 November 2015.
Football Manager 2018 is a 2017 football management
simulation video game developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega which was released worldwide on 10 November 2017 for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. The Nintendo Switch version was released later, on 13 April 2018. For the first time in the series, all three versions of the game, FM 18 for PC, Mac and Linux, FM Touch 2018 for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android, and Football Manager Mobile 2018 for iOS and Android were all released on the same day.
Football Manager 2019 is a football management
simulation video game developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega which was released worldwide in 2018 for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Nintendo Switch.
