In addition to Football Manager 2016 (PC/Mac), the newly-assembled squad also includes Football Manager Touch (for both computer and high-end tablets) and Football Manager Mobile (for all iOS and Android devices).

Previously known as Football Manager Classic, Football Manager Touch has, until now, been available as a 'quick play' mode within the full simulation (and for high-end tablets since March). Now, for the first time, it will be available separately through Steam (for PC and Macintosh), as well as for high-end tablets. Football Manager Mobile was formerly known as Football Manager Handheld.

The Football Manager 2016 Beta is now available to play for those who have pre-purchased from a participating digital retailer. 

For the first time ever, the Beta features network play – allowing managers to play against each other in online games including one of the new game modes for 2016, Fantasy Draft. 

As always, any career progress you make during the Beta will carry forward when the game updates upon full release.

If you haven’t yet pre-purchased Football Manager 2016 you can do so now and get immediate Beta access, as well as the Football Manager Documentary for free.

Digital pre-purchase (Steam): If you pre-purchased from Steam, your Beta download should automatically start when you launch the game from your Steam Library.

Digital pre-purchase (non-Steam): If you pre-purchased from any other participating digital provider, your code should have been sent to you via email and you will need to follow the instructions below to activate: 

1.    Open the Steam client (if you haven’t yet downloaded Steam or created an account, you can do so here)
2.    On the top toolbar, click 'Games’
3.    Select 'Activate a Product on Steam'
4.    Follow the instructions and input your code to install the FM16 Beta

Key Features:

• Improved Matchday Experience:: More than 2,000 new animations make the Football Manager 2016 match engine the best ever. There’s also more control when planning set pieces and a new highlights package to keep you up-to-date with all the action from every league.
• Manager on the Touchline: Get closer to the action than ever before with your own customisable character to bark out instructions and join the celebrations from the touchline.
• Two New Game Modes:
• • Fantasy Draft: Create your dream team and take on your mates in ‘Fantasy Draft’ mode. Starting with a fixed budget, each manager builds a squad from scratch, competing with other managers to sign the best talent before going head-to-head against one another in a mini-league.
  • Create-A-Club: For the first time, Football Manager 2016 allows fans to add their own custom-built club to any league they choose, through the single player ‘Create-a-club’ mode. Create-A-Club allows you to name the club, add yourself and friends to the line-up, edit the squad to your heart’s content and even choose the colours.
• Multi Match Highlights: A highlights package available to easily view other fixtures in your own competition (or others) to keep you up-to-date with everything that’s going on in the world around you. The highlights package is just like an evening TV round up – showing comprehensive, extended, key or just the goals for each match in the division played that day.
• Prozone Match Analysis: Sports Interactive’s partnership with the leading sports statistics provider, Prozone, has seen a wide reaching revamp of the in-game match analysis tool, adding lots of useful functionality whilst also making it a lot more prominent and easier to use.
• Set-Piece Creator: Football Manager 2016’s powerful, yet easy-to-use set piece creator allows managers to set up multiple set piece routines to be used across multiple tactics; with different set pieces for each set piece taker, new zonal marking options and much, much more.
• Expanded Press Interaction: Press conferences are more varied than ever before, with many new conversations to be had with the press, especially more contextual questions & responses. In addition, unemployed managers can now use media interviews to help get them back into the game.
• Football Manager Touch - Cross-Save: All versions of Football Manager Touch 2016 are 'cross-save compatible' with one another, so a career started on a tablet can be saved to the cloud and continued on computer (and vice versa).
• More Realistic Injuries: Sports Interactive has worked alongside a number of physiotherapists, doctors and related organisations to ensure that the depiction and treatment of injuries in Football Manager 2016 is more realistic than ever before. This doesn’t mean that fewer injuries will be sustained, but that those which do occur will be treated and develop more realistically. Injuries will now be determined during matches, while new injury types have been added and there is now a tangible distinction between player condition and match sharpness.
• And Much, Much More: Further additions and updates include staff shortlisting, improved manager and staff movement, revised board requests, a revamp of board confidence, more contextual team talks, fully updated competition rules & squad information, an improved financial module, improved AI transfers and team selection, new social media features and many more – all of which combine to make Football Manager 2016 the most complete and immersive simulation of football management ever.