Sports Interactive & Sega Europe Ltd. have announced via a video on their YouTube channel that Football Manager 2009 for PC and Apple Macintosh will be released on November 14th.

The Football Manager match engine is being brought into full 3D with motion captured animations for each player, developed in conjunction with Sega's in-house studio, Sports R&D Division. You can now watch your matches in 3D from multiple camera angles, and can re-watch any part of the match by fast forwarding and rewinding the action using a new match time bar that flags the key moments in the game.

"With the 3D view of the match engine, and dozens of animations for each player, this year is definitely one of revolution for the Football Manager series," commented Miles Jacobson, Studio Director of Sports Interactive.

The game will also be fully updated for the new 2008/09 football season with all the latest league, club and player data, featuring over 5,000 playable clubs from over 50 countries, and around 350,000 players and staff from around the world, drawn fresh from the famous Sports Interactive database.