It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and PlayStation Portable platforms and was released in the United Kingdom on 21 October 2005.

[citation needed] Football Manager 2006 contains the same playable leagues as its predecessor but with two small additions.

from the Sky One drama series Dream Team was included in Football Manager 2006 as an Easter egg.

In his review for Eurogamer, Kristan Reed wrote: "It's a 9/10 game before you've even got it out of the shrink-wrapping, and whether you've given it a cursory 10, 20 or more hours, it's just tough – nigh on impossible in fact – to decide its true merits on the basis of a 'review's length' of time.

"[8] In Trusted Reviews, Gordon Kelly wrote: "As expected, Football Manager 2006 takes the series to the next level.

Sports Interactive probably never dreamed it would come so far from the very first Championship Manager title all those years ago.