There’s nothing like pulling the cellophane off the latest Football Manager game, powering up the laptop and sinking into your favourite chair for the next six months. Whether you try and take on the world with Manchester City or attempt to get Curzon Ashton into the Football League, there’s a near endless sea of choice, tactics and despair in Football Manager.

As well as the full desktop and laptop experience, Football Manager has successfully ported into Football Manager Touch and Football Manager Mobile – simpler yet no less time-consuming mobile versions of the series. These will surely make a return in 2018 as FM Touch 2018 and FM Mobile 2018.

Football Manager 2018 UK release date: When is Football Manager 2018 coming out?

Football Manager 2017 came out on 4 November 2016, with the previous FM16 instalment released on 13 November 2015 and FM15 on 7 November 2014, so our educated stab at the Football Manager 2018 release date is 3 November 2017, the first Friday in November.

Fingers crossed for some pre-Christmas floating around the relegation zone before signing Kolo Toure on a free from Celtic.

FM Touch 2017 was out on 3 November 2016, so expect the first week of November 2018 to bring us FM Touch 2018. FM Mobile came out on 17 November, so we are looking at a triple-header release of all three versions come November 2018.