Football Manager 2009 (AKA: Football Manager 09 or FM09) is a football manager simulation game. It was released for PC, Mac and Playstation Portable on Nov 14, 2008 in Europe and on Nov 18, 2008 in North America. As in the case of other recent releases in the Football Manager series, the game is sold as Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 in the United States and Canada.

The demo of the game was released on Nov 2 via the News of the World, BitTorrent and Steam. A special Arsenal version of the game will be released.

Some of the new features and box art for the game were announced via a series of videos on Sept 3,2008, other new features have been released via a series of podcasts and online blogs. [3] It is the first game in the series to be released on DVD-ROM rather than on CD-ROM.

The main new feature gettinf the attention is the 3D match engine. This can now be watched fullscreen, with a widescreen option available. Other features include being able to play as a female or male manager, improvements to the interaction between the manager and his assistant manager, improved mid-match team talks and tactics, training players to have preferred moves and transfer rumours. The player rating will have a decimal point, eg. 6.8 or 8.3 instead of 7 or 8. There will also be press conferences, where you can build up a rapport with the journalists, and the finance and transfer systems have been completely reworked. The game is set to feature even more players than before, with over 350,000 in the database at the time of the game's announcement. The PC version has a skin similar to the one used in Football Manager 2008.