Football Manager 2010

A demo game was released on 14 October 2009.

• Title — Football Manager 2010 • Developer — Sports Interactive • Publisher — Sega • Series — Football Manager • Platforms — Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation Portable, iOS • Released — 30 October 20093 November 2009 • Genre — Sports management • Modes — Single player, multiplayer

Football Manager 2010 features similar gameplay to that of the Football Manager series. Gameplay consists of taking charge of a professional football team (the game also includes semi-professional, amateur, and international teams) as the manager. Players can sign football players to contracts, manage finances for the club, and give team talks to players. The Football Manager series is a simulation of real world management, with the player being judged on various factors by the club's AI owners and board. Football Manager 2010 expanded on the 3D match engine first introduced in Football Manager 2009, with more animations, stadiums, and even pitch degradation. The database editor has also received an upgrade, the stand-out feature of which is the option to add new divisions to existing leagues or to add entirely new leagues to a game database. For example, users can make the English football league system fully playable right down to its lowest tier (up to level 20), making it the first football management game capable of doing so, or they could make a league for a nation whose league is not normally playable, or even make their own entirely new league, such as a Super League. The first patch, 10.1, was released on 30 October 2009. Version 10.1.1 was released on 2 December 2009. The next major patch, 10.2, was released on 17 December 2009. The last patch, 10.3, includes mid-season transfer update and was released on 1 March 2010.