Football Manager 2023 is finally out today (and it's on Xbox Game Pass right now)

Since 2005, the vast majority of football fans in the UK – and beyond – will tell you about their love for Football Manager. There’s something about getting your hands deep inside the stats of a database and making it work for you that millions of people find compelling. And that’s the key to the game’s continued success.

For Football Manager 2023, the story is no different. More than 8.8 million matches were played during the Early Access Beta period of Football Manager 2023’s launch alone, and with the real-life stat matching and replayable content on offer in the title, Sports Interactive studio director Miles Jacobson reckons “FM23 will continue [SI’s] tradition of providing the best value-for-money games on the market.”

Better yet, if you’ve got an Xbox Game Pass subscription, you don’t even have to pay for it! Following last year’s success, FM23 and FM23 Console are available with Xbox Game Pass from launch – meaning that you can kickstart your career in the game at no extra cost if you’re signed up to Microsoft’s service.