The Football Manager is currently the most important and almost the only serious alternative on the market when it comes to football managers. In the future, the Primus will also focus on the issue of equal rights.
Sports Interactive and SEGA announced today in a joint press release that you will not only be allowed to take over male football teams in the future. The starting shot for a multi-year project has now begun to add the topic of women’s football to the Football Manager in future issues.
As a result, you don’t get a completely independent women’s football management simulation as a stand-alone game. Rather, this part of today’s football should be fully integrated into the game world of the regular football manager. In short: in the future you will manage both men’s and women’s clubs and will even be able to switch smoothly between the two.
The studio has not yet set a definite date for the completion of this project. The aim, however, is to incorporate women’s football as quickly as realistically possible. The Sports Interactive development team wants to ensure that women’s football is represented in the game as authentically as possible. A publication date will only be announced once the high standards that we have set ourselves have been achieved.
Incidentally, the makers frankly admit that the cost of development will amount to millions and that it will not be profitable in the short term. “But that is not the point. It is simply not to be denied that women’s football is still touching a glass ceiling and we want to do what we can to help break it. We believe in equality for all and want to be part of it the solution, “says Studio Director Miles Jacobson.
And further: “We want to be part of the process of equality between women’s and men’s football. We know that we are not alone in this endeavor – the historic TV contract between Sky, BBC and WSL in England is the best proof of this – but we also want to do our best to bring women’s football to where it belongs. “
The drive to incorporate women’s football in Football Manager is supported by leading figures in the world of football, including Emma Hayes, Chelsea FC Women coach.