Football Manager has finally added women's teams after 20 years. I put the game to the test
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Football Manager 26
The most recent edition of the Football Manager game was played by a mind-blowing 20 million people. But last year a new game wasn't released, for the first time in its 20-year history. That's due to significant delays as its studio, Sports Interactive, made massive changes to refresh the series. Usually, minor tweaks and features are added in new versions. But what's coming in Football Manager 26 - when it finally releases on 4 November - is closer to a complete rewrite of everything that came before. Some of the new features are ambitious, to say the least. It will be the first game ever to feature women's football, including around 40,000 players from 14 leagues.
I visited Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager, to get my hands on the game
And the user interface - the system you click through to sign players, read news and get to the football - has been remade. Essentially, it is no minor update.
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