Revealed: The position Sunderland, Portsmouth and Wigan will finish in League One - according to Football Manager 2022

The popular long-running franchise encourages the player to step into the shoes of a real manager in a living, breathing football world.

In Football Manager the fate of your club rests with you.

And users will be provided with real-world insights and new gameplay mechanics combine to deliver dynamic, true-to-life experiences with greater levels of drama, depth and control in the latest edition of the game.

New features include a revamped matchday engine and sweeping changes to the pressing system unlock new levels of realism and smarter decision making whilst a wealth of AI improvements have added to the enhanced authenticity of the various passages of play.

Further additions push football realism to greater levels, drawing real-world insights to create a simulation experience that continues to blur the lines between the professional game and the living, breathing game world.

Here, though, we take a look at how the League One table will look come the end of the season and where Sunderland will finish under Lee Johnson according to a simulation using Football Manager 2020:

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