Editing Football Manager (section)

===''Football Manager 2006''===
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''Football Manager 2006'' for Windows and [[Mac OS]] was released in the UK on 21 October 2005 (two weeks earlier than the originally stated 4 November 2005 release). On the same day as the game's release, Sports Interactive also released a [[Patch (computing)|patch]] to fix some bugs discovered during the Beta and Gold stages of development. In its first week of release, it became the second-fastest-selling PC game of all-time in the UK.

Essentially a season update of ''FM 2005'', it includes many small adjustments and improvements to the general gameplay. These adjustments include team-talks, simplified training, and in-game help screens. Furthermore, the game is updated by its many researchers (unpaid fans of the game augmented by in-house collaboration). The database is usually updated twice in the period of the release of the game. The first comes with the game and the second is usually downloadable in February as a free data update to reflect the changes which take place during the winter opening of the FIFA [[Transfer (association football)|transfer]] window. As has been customary with the series, a [[Software release life cycle#Beta|beta]] demo of the game was released on 12 September 2005. This was later followed on 30 September 2005 by a [[Software release life cycle#RTM|gold]] demo. This is a cut-down, limited time version of the full game, which is sent to the game manufacturers. With a special download from Sports Interactive, one can play as the fictional football team Harchester United from [[Sky1|Sky One]]'s series ''Dream Team''.

====''Football Manager 2006'' – Xbox 360====
The [[Xbox 360]] version was released on 13 April 2006 and is the first [[Video game console|home console]] game in the ''Football Manager'' series. The full 50 playable league systems are included, as well as a 250,000-strong player database (very near to the figure of the PC version). Due to the large save files of the game, which is region free, the Xbox 360 hard disk drive is required. This version also makes use of the [[Xbox Live]] functionality, allowing players to create online leagues and cups with up to 16 human-controlled teams using team data they have exported from their offline game. Voice chat is fully supported during online play. It was also confirmed that Sports Interactive would release new content through the [[Xbox Live Marketplace]] system.