It has been stated in an interview with game producer David Rutter that there are over 250 improvements in the game.
The tagline for the game is «Let's FIFA 09.» The PS3 and Xbox 360 demos were identical with the exception of the stadium used with the PS3 featuring the FIWC Stadium and the Xbox 360 version using the new Wembley Stadium. The demo was released on 10 September 2008 for Windows and on 11 September 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was later in November 2008 released for the N-Gage 2.0 and Mobile phone. It was released in October 2008 for Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and Zeebo.
Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label.
FIFA 09 Free Download for PC (titled FIFA Soccer 09 in North America) is the 2008 installment of Electronic Arts' FIFA series of football video games.