The maker of Football Manager has announced that it will be adding womens leagues to the simulation video game.
Sports Interactive, which launched the Football Manager series in 2004, said the move would cost millions for minimal short-term return but that it was the right thing to do.
Theres no hiding that theres currently a glass ceiling for womens football and we want to do what we can to help smash through it, wrote Miles Jacobson, Sports Interactives studio director. We believe in equality for all and we want to be part of the solution. We want to be a part of the process that puts womens football on an equal footing with the mens game.
Jacobson said it was a multi-year project on which work had begun some time ago. He explained that it would take considerable time to build the database for womens football and work on the animation, as well as address issues such as transfer and wage structures and even the menstrual cycle and pregnancy.
Users will be able to manage both a mens and womens team on the same package. At this stage we dont know exactly how long the process will take so we cant say exactly which version of FM will see womens football make its debut, Jacobson said, but rest assured that our plan is to make this happen as soon as we possibly can.read more
Football Manager reveals plan to add women’s leagues to game
