Football Manager 26 Console Edition

Football Manager 26 is the first entry since Sports Interactive cancelled Football Manager 25, and the first in the series built on Unity. You take over a club or a national side and run everything except the players' feet: tactics, training, recruitment, scouting, the wage bill, the press, and the substitutions that decide a match. Matches play out in a 3D engine that simulates the game in real time, watchable from several camera angles or reduced to 2D or text if you would rather read it. The PC and Mac version covers roughly 750,000 playable people across 156 leagues in 58 nations, ships with the full pre-game and in-game editors, supports Steam Workshop, and places no limit on how long a save can run. Online network games let several human managers share one save and compete inside the same league structure. Football Manager 26 Console is a separate, smaller build rather than a port of the PC version. It carries around 60,000 players across 148 leagues, limits a save to ten nations and thirty years, and has no editors and no demo. Worth knowing before buying if you are used to the PC release.