Football Manager 2010

Football Manager 2010 (abbreviated to Football Manager 10 or FM10) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X on October 30, 2009, with the PlayStation Portable and iOS version Football Manager Handheld 2010 released on the same day. Football Manager 2010 was also available for digital download on Steam. The game demo was released on 14 October 2009.

This is the first release in the series to be sold under the Football Manager name throughout the world. Previous North American (i.e., United States/Canada) versions were sold as Worldwide Soccer Manager.

On August 12, 2009, Sports Interactive & SEGA Europe Ltd. announced that Football Manager 2010 for PC and Apple Macintosh, and Football Manager Handheld 2010 for PlayStation Portable was to be released on October 30, 2009. Include Competitions: Challenge Cup and Challenge Cup qualification, Caribbean Championship

Football Manager has been hugely successful, managing to gain the number 1 spot in the gaming charts. There have been many improvements made to Football Manager 2010, including the following:-
 * A totally revamped user interface making it simpler and quicker to find the information you want.
 * Match Analysis tool showing the actions of each player on the pitch, allowing you to pinpoint any team's strengths and weaknesses.
 * Making changes from the touchline by "shouting" instructions from the touchline instantly.
 * Included two new national teams Zanzibar Zanzibar and 🇹🇻 Tuvalu Tuvalu.

New features
The game's developers have expanded on the 3D match engine first introduced in Football Manager 2009, with more animations, stadia, and even pitch degradation. There will be the ability to "shout" from the touchline to change tactics.

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. Users can then, for example, make the English 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".

It has been made clear by the developers that some features will be kept secret and discovered only when playing the demo and full game, as has been the case for the last few releases of the series.

Football Manager 2010 has proved as successful as its predecessors and topped the all format UK game charts upon its release.

Demo
The demo was released in two "flavours": "Vanilla", which was a stripped down version with a limited number of players; and "Strawberry", which was a full-fledged game with most of the features that would be on the final game. Both versions of the demo were limited to half-a-season of gameplay. The demo was released on 14 October 2009.

Both versions of the demo are available for Mac OS X.

Playable leagues and club cups
Although the following list below is the leagues available immediately from installing the game, the editor allows the players to add any lower level league to existing leagues, as well as the creation of new ones. Thus there are a total of 51 playable nations and 117 playable leagues that are included in the game. (written italic)

International- Club
 * World Club Championship
 * Pan Pacific Championship

International- Nations
 * World Cup
 * World Cup qualification
 * Olympic Games
 * Olympic Games qualification (Asia, North America, Oceania, South America)
 * UEFA European Football Championship
 * UEFA European Football Championship qualification
 * African Cup of Nations
 * African Cup of nations qualification
 * AFC Asian Cup
 * AFC Asian Cup qualification
 * CONCACAF Gold Cup
 * Copa America
 * OFC Nations Cup
 * Under-20 World Cup
 * AFC Youth Championship
 * AFC Youth Championship qualification
 * UEFA Under 21 Championship
 * UEFA U-21 Championship qualification
 * UEFA U-19 Championship
 * UEFA U-19 Championship qualification
 * South American Youth Championship
 * 4 Associations' Tournament
 * AFC Challenge Cup
 * AFC Challenge Cup qualification
 * Caribbean Cup
 * FIFA Confederations Cup
 * CONCACAF Under-20 Championship

Africa
 * CAF Champions League
 * CAF Confederation Cup
 * CAF Super Cup
 * RSA South Africa (with National First Division)

Asia and Oceania
 * AFC Champions League
 * AFC Cup
 * AFC President's Cup
 * AFF Club Championship
 * A3 Champions Cup
 * OFC Champions League
 * 🇦🇺 AUS 🇳🇿 NZL A-League (Hyundai A-League)
 * 🇨🇳 CHN China (with First Division)
 * 🇭🇰 HKG Hong Kong
 * 🇮🇳 IND India
 * 🇮🇩 IDN Indonesia (with Premier League and First Division)
 * MAS Malaysia (with Premier League)
 * SIN Singapore
 * 🇰🇷 KOR South Korea (with N-League)

UK & Ireland
 * Setanta Sports Cup
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG England (with Championship, League One, League Two, Conference National, Conference North, Conference South)
 * NIR Northern Ireland (with IFA Championship 1 and IFA Championship 2)
 * 🇮🇪 IRL Republic of Ireland (with First Division)
 * SCO Scotland (with First Division, Second Division, Third Division)
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WAL Wales

Scandinavia
 * DEN Denmark (with 1st Division, 2nd Division)
 * 🇳🇴 NOR Norway (with First Division, Fair Play ligaen)
 * 🇸🇪 SWE Sweden (with Superettan, Division 1, Division 2)

Rest of Europe
 * UEFA Champions League
 * UEFA Europa League
 * UEFA Super Cup


 * 🇦🇹 AUT Austria (with First League)
 * 🇧🇾 BLR Belarus (with First League)


 * 🇧🇪 BEL Belgium (with Second Division and Third Division)
 * 🇧🇬 BUL Bulgaria (with B PFG)
 * CRO Croatia (with Druga HNL)
 * 🇨🇿 CZE Czech Republic (with Czech 2. Liga)
 * 🇫🇮 FIN Finland (with Ykkönen)
 * 🇫🇷 FRA France (with Ligue 2, Championnat National, CFA)
 * 🇩🇪 GER Germany1 (with 2. Bundesliga, 3. Liga)
 * GRE Greece (with Beta Ethniki)
 * 🇭🇺 HUN Hungary (with Hungarian National Championship II)
 * 🇮🇸 ISL Iceland (with 1. deild karla)
 * 🇮🇱 ISR Israel (with Liga Leumit)
 * 🇮🇹 ITA Italy (with Serie B, Serie C1, Serie C2)
 * NED Netherlands (with Eerste Divisie)
 * 🇵🇱 POL Poland (with First League)
 * POR Portugal (with Liga de Honra, Segunda Divisao)
 * ROM Romania (with Liga II)
 * 🇷🇺 RUS Russia (with First Division)
 * 🇷🇸 SRB Serbia (with First League)
 * 🇸🇰 SVK Slovakia (with First League)
 * 🇸🇮 SVN Slovenia (with Second League)
 * 🇪🇸 ESP Spain (with Segunda Division, Segunda Division B)
 * SUI Switzerland (with Swiss Challenge League)
 * 🇹🇷 TUR Turkey (with TFF First League, TFF Second League)
 * 🇺🇦 UKR Ukraine (with Ukrainian First League)

North America
 * CONCACAF Champions League
 * Canadian Championship (known in-game as Canada Champions Cup)
 * Superliga
 * 🇺🇸 USA 🇨🇦 CAN Major League Soccer
 * 🇲🇽 MEX Mexico (with Liga de Ascenso)

South America
 * Copa Libertadores
 * Copa Sudamericana
 * Recopa Sudamericana
 * 🇦🇷 ARG Argentina (with Primera B Nacional)
 * 🇧🇷 BRA Brazil (with Serie B, Serie C)
 * CHI Chile (with Primera B)
 * 🇨🇴 COL Colombia (with Categoria Primera B)
 * 🇵🇪 PER Peru
 * URU Uruguay (with Segunda Division Uruguay)

1 - Germany's national team is not allowed to be included in the game due to licensing rights being owned by EA Sports' "FIFA" series and Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer, whilst the Japanese J-League and the Japanese national team are not allowed in the game at all due to Konami's purchase of the exclusive rights for their Pro Evolution Soccer series.

Patches
The first patch, 10.1.0, was released on October 30, 2009. The 10.1.1 was released on December 2, 2009. The next major patch, 10.2.0, was released on 17 December 2009. The last patch for Football Manager 2010 was 10.3.0, which included the mid-season transfer update, and was released on March 1, 2010.