Football Manager 2016

After years of sharing tales of virtual touchline glory with friends, Football Manager 2016 finally gave you a chance to go head-to-head. One of two new game modes, Fantasy Draft gave you all the same amount of cash and then let you assemble your best possible team, before throwing you together in a mini league to help separate the best from the rest.

The other new game mode was Create-A-Club, allowing you to build your own custom team and add it to any existing league (reminiscent of the popular My Club option in previous Handheld titles). In keeping with the customisation theme, FM16 also let you design a manager avatar to spring from the dugout in style and complain about dubious throw-ins.

FM16 featured improvements to the matchday experience with over 2,000 new animations helping the 3D Match Engine to shine, you had more options to plan set-pieces and a new highlights package to keep up to date with other leagues. Prozone integration then gave you authentic tools to prepare for your next big match, with more stats than ever.

Finally, Classic mode was also rebranded Football Manager Touch, which let you carry over our game in the accompanying FM Touch 2016 release for high-end smart devices.