In Football Manager 2024, Parthenope are among the clubs in Serie A
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In Football Manager 2024, Parthenope are listed as a Serie A side that you can take charge of.
Given that Sports Interactive – the studio behind the game – don't have the rights to every club, some team names need to be altered as not to infringe on rights. In the past, Juventus have had an exclusivity deal with Pro Evolution Soccer (now eFootball), which meant that they had to be renamed as Zebre within the FM world. Manchester United are currently out of the game, too, listed as Manchester UFC from FM22 onwards.
FM24: Who are Parthenope in Football Manager 2024?
Napoli are known as Parthenope in FM24(Image credit: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Parthenope is the club name in Football Manager 2024 given to Napoli.
The club are named so because Parthenope was the original name for the city of Naples in southern Italy. To this day, Napoli's nickname is I Partenopei (The Parthenopeans).
Football Manager 2024 contains UEFA licensed competitions (Image credit: SI)
“So last year, we added graphics for the Bundesliga, to make it look like a Bundesliga match would on the telly – and it went down really well,” Miles Jacobson, Studio Director at Sports Interactive, the team behind the game, told FFT last year.
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“So we were already going to do it for the EFL this year. Then UEFA came along and we got a chance to do it for that. Because of the UEFA deal, we decided to revamp the cup draws in-game, too. We’ve got the music – you might as well use the music in more places!”
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