Manager creation | Starting the game Football Manager 2016 Guide

During the match, look for the created manager by the field sideline.

An innovation in this year's edition is the option to create the avatar for your manager. The manager that you create will take part in matches and you can see him by the field's sideline, where he celebrates each scored goal, or shouts instructions to the players. Also, you can adjust parameters such as his build, face or the color of his clothes, as well as his birth date, favorite clubs or spoken languages. These do not affect the game, but they allow you to reflect your own self more accurately.

Pick the focus, experience and the coaching license. Then, distribute available points among the attributes that are the most important for you.

What is a bit more important is picking the initial attributes of your manager. They have been divided into two categories: Practical and Technical. By assigning attributes, you can move points from one to the other and balance these two out.

Practical

Skills that you can find in this category refer to your manager's coaching skills in training. They allow you to specialize in a specific type of coaching (it is better to be a good coach on one select aspect than a mediocre one in all of them - this can make you redundant to the club, after coaches with a specific attribute better than yours appear). If you want to coach, pick the attribute that you will be the best at and appropriate your points there. The number of points depends on the license that you hold - the higher, the more points you receive. Coaching licenses can be obtained during the game, which increases the number of your skill points.

Tactical

Tactician focuses mainly on skills connected with team management, i.e. familiarity with the players' attributes, ability to motivate or determination. These skills influence auxiliary aspects that do not affect the game directly. Just like in the case of attributes from the Practical set, you can partially rely on the coaching staff here, but it is impossible to increase the number of available points by increasing your experience level in tournaments (you can define these while creating your manager). These characteristics seem to be more useful than the ones from the Practical set, because you can always hire appropriate coaches and high Determination, or Knowledge about players, make managing the team easier (e.g. they increase chances of having the Board grant your request).