| Football Manager 2011 | |
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| Developer(s) | Sports Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Distributor(s) | Sega (retail) Steam[1] and Games for Windows Marketplace[2] (online) |
| Series | Football Manager |
| Version | 11.0.0 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation Portable, iOS |
| Release date(s) | PC, Mac 5 November 2010 PSP 26 November 2010 iOS 16 December 2010[3] |
| Latest release | 11.3.0 / 8 March 2011 |
| Genre(s) | Sports, Simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | |
| Media/distribution | Download, DVD |
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Football Manager 2011 (abbreviated to Football Manager 11 or FM11) is a football manager simulation video game. It was released on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X on 5 November 2010. It was also released on PlayStation Portable on 26 November 2010.[4] The latest version for iOS was released on 21 April 2011.
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On the 11 August 2010, Sports Interactive published a video announcing a number of new features that will be included in Football Manager 2011.[5] This video announced the following features:
Other features that were posted on the Mirror Football blog from Miles Jacobson include:
A Demo of the game was released on Steam in association with Mirrorfootball.co.uk on 21 October, which as usual is half of a season of game play, which can be continued within the full purchased version. The Demo is also available to download from the official site for use outside of Steam. As with previous editions of the game, two versions of the demo exist; Vanilla and Strawberry. Vanilla version has a smaller download size and is limited to only English and Scottish leagues playable as quick-starts, whereas the Strawberry version has 12 nations' playable as quick-starts.[11] Steam can only download the Strawberry edition of the demo.
The first patch for Football Manager 2011 (version 11.1.0) was issued on the game's release date; one of the main reasons for the patch was to update the ownership details of Liverpool F.C. which had changed hands between the game discs being printed and its release, the financial situation and points deduction at Dundee F.C., as well as other bug fixes.[12][13] Version 11.1.1 followed on 12 November which fixes a number of minor bugs.[14] The third patch, v11.2.0 came available on 16 December which fixed many bugs and improved the Match engine. One day later a 'Hotfix' became available to fix a bug which didn't allow players to continue on their saved game if they were running a Polish League after they had installed the v11.2.0 patch. v11.3.0 has now been released as of 8 March and includes all World Transfers from the January transfer window, as well as various game fixes.[15]
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.
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.
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