The game's been out more than a week but just in case you missed it somehow, a patch was made available for the PC version right after the game launched.

As is very common with game releases, minor bugs were discovered after the disks went off for manufacture, so the patch was a great way to get things tweaked immediately. See details of what was fixed below.

The patch can be downloaded automatically via the EA Download Manager, which comes bundled with the game on the same disk. However, it turns out that a small number of people also had issues with the Download Manager. So, for anyone still having issues, you can click the link below to get the patch directly.

Download English FIFA 09 Patch 1

What’s in the patch?

1. Special characters can now be entered in the Account Creation and Sign-in screens. Characters such as '-' or '_' will be accepted by the sign-in widget at the top right of the main menu.

2. A Save Replay option is now available if online games disconnect. No matter what happens, if you decide to record an online game you will be able to keep it whether the opponent quits the game or the connection drops out.

3. adidas Live Season can now be used in Direct IP matches.

4. An online disconnect when shooting with the mouse wheel (if you configured shooting to the mouse wheel) has been fixed.

5. Minor bug fixes:
- A minor update of some team names.
- When playing with mouse and keyboard controls, we fixed a player indicator colour bug.
- Missing installer images during non-primary flow (entering the CD Key window when accessed through Support directory) were fixed.