Become the trainer of your favourite team and lead it to glory by winning one competition after the other (championships, national and European cups as well as international competitions). More than 350,000 players and 5,000 clubs from 50 countries are available!

Football Manager 2009’s key features:

3D match engine: The famous Football Manager match engine can now be viewed in full 3D with motion captured animations of the players. Sports Interactive has been working on the 3D match engine with the support of one of SEGA Japan’s development teams who provided the motion capture data and some of the animations.

Improved media: FM 2009 now features more news stories, more detail and greater media interaction than ever before, creating and even more realistic simulation of the football world.

Press conferences: Attend pre-match and post-match press conferences with local and national journalists, but choose your answers carefully because they could come back to haunt you in the media at a later date.

Realistic finances: SI have listened to feedback from all of their researchers to try and model every single financial area of the game correctly for each country, including transfers, staff wages, budgets, season tickets, competition bonuses and club sponsorships.

And much more!

• + A brand new match engine in 3D!
• + Watch your matches in new full screen TV view
• + Assistant manager feedback
• + Attend pre-match and post-match press conferences
• + Completely new and re-written transfer system code
• + Fully updated for the new 2008/09 football season with all the latest league, club and player data, featuring over 5,000 playable clubs from over 50 countries, and around 350,000 players and staff from around the world.