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• Championship ManagerChampionship Manager was the football management series Paul and Oliver Collyer made from 1992 to 2004, ending with Championship Manager 03/04, before their studio Sports Interactive lost the name to Eidos and started Football Manager. Championship Manager 01/02 is its best remembered game; FM27 is the series' latest descendant.
• Football Manager 2024Football Manager 2024 came out on Nov 6, 2023, the last game on Sports Interactive's old engine and the most played in the series, with more than 14 million players by Sep 2024. Many stayed on it after Football Manager 26's poor reception, and FM27 can carry over its saves.
• Football Manager 25Football Manager 25 was announced on Sep 30, 2024 for Nov 26, 2024, delayed to March 2025, and canceled on Feb 7, 2025 because Sports Interactive said it would not reach the standard required. Every pre-order was refunded, and the series went on with Football Manager 26 and then FM27.
• Football Manager 26Football Manager 26 came out on Nov 4, 2025 as the first Football Manager on the Unity engine, adding women's football and the Premier League license. It sold faster than any game in the series but drew a Metascore of 68 and Mostly Negative Steam reviews, and FM27 replaces it on Nov 10, 2026.
• Football Manager Games in OrderSports Interactive has released 21 Football Manager games in order from Football Manager 2005 (Nov 2004) to Football Manager 26 (Nov 4, 2025), and FM27 is the 22nd, out Nov 10, 2026. Football Manager 25 was canceled in Feb 2025, so no game came out that season.
• Football Manager in Real FootballReal clubs have used Football Manager's player database for scouting since Everton licensed it in Nov 2008, and Sports Interactive later sold the data to professional clubs through Prozone. The database behind FM27 comes from about 1,400 researchers, a network that began with fanzine writers in the 1990s.
• Miles JacobsonMiles Jacobson is the Studio Director of Sports Interactive, the studio behind Football Manager and FM27, where he has run the business since the Championship Manager 01/02 era. He was appointed OBE in 2011 and took full responsibility for Football Manager 26's reception in May 2026.
• Sports InteractiveSports Interactive (SI) is the London studio that makes Football Manager, founded in 1994 by brothers Paul and Oliver Collyer after their Championship Manager, and owned by SEGA since 2006. It makes FM27, out Nov 10, 2026, and is led by Studio Director Miles Jacobson.

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