SM 2016 is an Android app developed by Soccer Manager Ltd (1 Faraday Drive Fulwood Preston PR2 9NB). Others apps created by Soccer Manager Ltd are: Football Clash: All Stars, Soccer Manager 2018, SM Worlds.

SM 2016 first became available on 08 Oct 2015. It is estimated that SM 2016 has been downloaded between 1000000 and 5000000 times from the Play Store.

SM 2016 2.01 requires the following permissions:

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.

Allows access to the vibrator.

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.

Allows an application to write to external storage.