Football Manager 2020

Football Manager 2020 (officially abbreviated as FM20) is a 2019 football-management simulation video game developed by Sports Interactive and published by Sega as a successor to Football Manager 2019. It was released worldwide on 18 November 2019.[1]

Football Manager 2020
Developer(s)Sports Interactive
Publisher(s)Sega
SeriesFootball Manager
Platform(s)Android, Stadia, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch
ReleasePC
18 November 2019[1]
Stadia
19 November 2019
Nintendo Switch
10 December 2019[2]
Genre(s)Sport simulations
Mode(s)

Playable leagues

The game offers playable teams in 53 countries[3] across five continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.[4] Coverage is heavily slanted towards European teams, with 34 of its 51 constituent countries having playable leagues, while South Africa is the only country of Africa's total 54 that is covered.

There are 118 leagues in this version.[3] The new additions are the Canadian Premier League (added as DLC on 23 December), the Gibraltar National League (forthcoming, post-release), the Gibraltar national team and the two new Welsh second-tier divisions, Cymru North and Cymru South.

Europe
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
England
Finland
France
Germany
Gibraltar
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
The Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Romania
Russia
Scotland
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
Wales

Asia
Australia
China
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
South Korea

South America
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Peru
Uruguay

North America
Canada
Mexico
United States

Africa
South Africa

Licensing

26 leagues (across 14 countries) were fully licensed for the game, as was KNVB ("Team Holland"). The German national team was reintroduced, having been omitted in FM19, and the Gibraltar national team was licensed for the first time, as was the Gibraltar National League.[5]

21 Italian teams gained licences, including all of the 2019–20 Serie A teams except Brescia and Juventus (the latter of which appeared as Zebre).

The licensed leagues:

Australia
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Gibraltar
The Netherlands
Northern Ireland
Poland
Scotland
South Korea
United States and Canada
Wales

Release

In June 2019, it was announced that FM20 will be a launch title for the Stadia streaming platform.[6] On 27 August 2019, Sports Interactive released a trailer for the release of the game.[7]

On 2 October 2019, SI released another trailer about the new feature to be added in the game.[8]

Versions[9]
Football Manager 2020 Mobile Football Manager 2020 Touch Football Manager 2020
Android Yes Yes No
Stadia No No Yes
iOS Yes Yes No
macOS (via Steam) No Yes Yes
Microsoft Windows (via Steam) No Yes Yes
Nintendo Switch No Yes No

References
  1. Sports Interactive's official Twitter account
  2. Craddock, Ryan (December 6, 2019). "Football Manager 2020 Touch Kicks Off On Switch Next Week". Nintendo Life. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
  3. Football Manager 2020 - FootballManager.com
  4. "Football Manager 2020: All the leagues coming to the overhauled game" - RealSports101.com
  5. FOOTBALL MANAGER 2020 LICENSES - FootballManager.com
  6. McWhertor, Michael (6 June 2019). "All the games coming to Google Stadia". Polygon. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  7. "#FM20 | Announce Trailer | Football Manager 2020". Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  8. Football Manager 2020 | New Gameplay Features | Coming November, retrieved 2019-10-06
  9. Jacobson, Miles (27 August 2019). "To answer lots of questions in advance (1/2)#FM20 - PC/Mac (via Steam) & Stadia, with an exclusive tech feature only possible on Stadia coming soon from @FootballManager #FM20T - PC/Mac (via Steam), high end tablets on iOS & Android, & Switch#FM20M - iOS & Android…". @milesSI. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
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