Sources
The spine is the official Football Manager site: the FM27 overview, the buy page, the feature dives, and the news posts from September and October 2026. GamesPress carries the matching press releases for the launch and the free preview. Steam app 4530370 is the PC price and the requirements block. Epic, Xbox, and the PlayStation concept page are the other stores.
Community indexes are FM Scout and Sortitoutsi, always with the date of the index. They are how I count skins and how I point at a tactic without hosting it. Current Metacritic averages and cumulative player totals are omitted when the original pages cannot be independently reproduced. A blocked page is not fresh verification. Single-publisher community counts and ratings remain explicitly labelled single-source.
Video is the official channel. The preview dated 19 October 2026 and the first look dated 22 October 2026 are the clips embedded after a click. I do not treat a view count as stable.
The full research log for this site is the internal notes used to build the pages. Readers get the link on the page, not a dump of every URL in one paragraph. If a page and this list disagree, the page's own source line is the one I meant for that sentence.
When were these checked?
30 October 2026, unless a page names an older article date.
Do you link community sites?
Yes, when they are the index for a pack or a draft list, and I date the visit.
What if a store page changes?
The store page wins, and the guide should be edited. Mail [email protected].