Football Manager Will Release 'Later' Than Planned This Year

This year's Football Manager game will be released "a little later" than originally planned, according to developer Sports Interactive. In a statement put out by studio boss Miles Jacobson, it was explained that new games in the long-running sports series will be released this year, but they won't appear at the time originally planned, and will have slightly different features. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/11/18/football-manager-2020-announce-trailer"] "What I can confirm today is that, despite all the problems going on in the world, there will be new Football Manager games released later this year," said Jacobson. "They will be delivered a little later than we’d originally planned, but they’ll have exceptionally strong feature sets… albeit different to those we thought we’d settled on back in January when I completed my ‘dream feature set’." The delay is due, as so many have been this year, to the impact of COVID-19 and the enforcement of working from home. While Sports Interactive reports adding more than 20 new members of staff to its team during this unusual period, it has had to reassess development on "an almost weekly basis", which has resulted in changing scope, both up and downwards. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/04/29/euro-2020-in-football-manager-feat-football-ramble-daily-part-1"] Football Manager games traditionally release in November. With Sports Interactive saying that the new games will release this year, it seems sensible to assume that December could be the new target month. However, with no date given, it's impossible to know when this year's FM will land. For more Football Manager in the meantime, take a look at how we recreated the Euro 2020 tournament in FM 2020. You can also check out our Football Manager 2020 review. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

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