- #1 GOAL! The Club Manager
97% matchMostly Negative31% of 520 reviews2022
Dev: 2tainment
Windows
You are more than a coach. You are the undisputed club boss. Are you ready to dominate the league with your team in this re-imagining of the classic sports management franchise? Could you be the next manager sensation? Prove it!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 25.9% ★, Sports 12.9%, Grand Strategy 12.9% ★, Management 7.6%, Trading 7.5%
- #2 Football, Tactics & Glory
95% matchVery Positive87% of 4,369 reviews2018
Dev: Creoteam
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 45.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 29.8% ★, Sports 12.4%, Moddable 9.8% ★, Management 8.9%, Economy 8.4%
- #3 Boeckham's Football Manager
94% matchVery Positive92% of 63 reviews2025
Dev: Bitbeast Games
Windows
An old-school football manager in the style of the management games of the 90s. Lead your team through the seasons, shaped by dynamic story events. Develop your club and yourself to gain reputation and conquer your league and the world.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 26.7% ★, Sports 17.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.7%, 1990's 9.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.6%
- #4 WE ARE FOOTBALL
93% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,455 reviews2021
Dev: Winning Streak GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 32.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Lead your football club through national championships and to international stardom. Take over an established men’s or women’s team of your choice as its manager or bring a small team into the big league.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52.8% ★, Sports 24.2%, Management 9.1%, Strategy 5.5%, Simulation 5.1%
- #5 Soccer Manager 2026
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,898 reviews2024
Dev: Invincibles Studio Ltd
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 12.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.3% ★, Sports 18.8%, Management 13%, Tactical 7.3%, Simulation 6.3%
- #6 Football Academy Manager
87% matchNo user reviews92% of 271 reviews2026
Dev: Hubi
Windows
Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.5% ★, Sports 19.1%, Management 13.7%, Economy 10.9%, Tactical 8.7%
- #7 Football Club Management 2023
89% matchMixed51% of 163 reviews2022
Dev: Go Play Games Ltd
Windows
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your own club, in Football Club Manager 2023 a fast-paced Football Club Management Game. Download Football Club Manager 2023 now for FREE & start your Football management journey.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.4% ★, Sports 20.4%, Management 11.5%, Tactical 7.6%, 2.5D 6.2%
- #8 Player's Eleven
88% matchVery Positive81% of 53 reviews2020
Dev: Green Pitch Gaming
Windows
You're the manager and it's your team. Play Player's Eleven now! Run the club of your choice or work your way up from the bottom to the top. Extensive editing options available.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.2% ★, Sports 21.5%, Management 16.3%, Simulation 8.3%, 2D 3%
- #9 Football Manager 26
82% matchMostly Negative35% of 35,447 reviews2025
Dev: Sports InteractivePub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 56.5 hrsMean: 154.6 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.2% ★, Sports 27.4%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8%
- #10 WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024
82% matchVery Positive80% of 1,046 reviews2024
Dev: Winning Streak Games GmbHPub: HandyGames
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 48.1 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Welcome to WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024! Dive into the world of football like never before. Choose an existing club or start your own. Manage either men or women, lead your club to new heights, and become the next manager legend!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 34.6% ★, Sports 15.5%, Moddable 10.8% ★, Management 9.5%, Economy 8.8%
- #11 Club Soccer Director 2022
84% matchMixed66% of 115 reviews2022
Dev: Go Play Games LtdPub: Go Play Games Ltd
Windows
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your own club, in Club Soccer Director 2022 a fast-paced Football Club Management Game. Download Club Soccer Director 2022 now for FREE & start your Football management journey.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 35% ★, Sports 34.2%, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 9.9%, Management 8.2%
- #12 FD 27: Direct Your Football Club
81% matchMixed58% of 106 reviews2026
Dev: Syra Games
Windows
A football management game where you're not the coach, you're the club owner. Hire and fire the coaching staff, sign players, negotiate with sponsors, control the finances and build a winning organisation from the boardroom.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52.9% ★, Sports 23.2%, Strategy 10.2%, Simulation 9.5%, 2D 2.5%
- #13 New Star™ Manager
81% matchVery Positive87% of 526 reviews2018
Dev: New Star Games Ltd.Pub: Five Aces Publishing Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 96.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.7% ★, Sports 31.4%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 11.2%
- #14 Regista: Reign Your Football Club
77% matchMostly Positive74% of 84 reviews2025
Dev: dicehit
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reign Your Football Club! Be the owner of your football club, make strategic choices, and climb through the amateur league to the first while making hard decisions to set everything in line for your club.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.8% ★, Sports 20.2%, Management 13.8%, Choices Matter 6.5%, Simulation 6.5%
- #15 League Manager 2023
79% matchMixed42% of 150 reviews2023
Dev: AG SOFTPub: AG SOFT
Windows
Complete your own squad, try to win the league, and experience a thrilling win in the World Championship. The journey to E-Sport League glory awaits.
Why similar: Sports 26.3%, Moddable 14.5% ★, Management 13.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.9%, Simulation 8.3%
- #16 Tennis Manager 2021
78% matchMostly Positive77% of 232 reviews2021
Dev: Rebound
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 6.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Do you have what it takes to become the greatest tennis manager? Enter your academy, manage your team, plan your training, schedule your tournaments, change your game plans and discover the new young guns. Take the reins, make the right decisions, become the very best!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 31.9% ★, Sports 29.3%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 8.2%
- #17 CFS (Chinese Football Simulator)
75% matchMixed70% of 309 reviews2026
Dev: 悟空实验室Pub: Wise Games
Windows
"Chinese Football Simulator" is a management game themed around Chinese football. As both club owner and head coach, you'll develop and manage teams—either existing or custom—immersed in authentic Chinese football culture.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.3% ★, Sports 18.6%, Moddable 13.9% ★, Trading 11.2%, Management 10.2%
- #18 Striker Manager 3 - Online Football Manager
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 86 reviews2024
Dev: UPLAY Online
Windows
Join the online Football Revolution and become the best Manager ever. Striker Manager 3 represents the nextgen of Football Manager games. Control all the management tools that Striker Manager 3 puts at your fingertips to take your team to the top.
Why similar: Sports 30.3%, Football (Soccer) 25% ★, Grand Strategy 21.1% ★, Strategy 8.9%, Simulation 8.1%
- #19 Football Club Simulator - FCS #21
77% matchMixed65% of 287 reviews2016
Dev: Dinamic GamesPub: FX Interactive
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 48%
Casual football & strategy videogame. Real-time simulation of your favourite football Club. Agile, intuitive, fast... allows you to play seasons in hours, not days: line-up, training, tactics, youth squad, scout, transfers, stadium, highlights, Strategic match... From the Premier Manager creators.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 35.1% ★, Sports 15.5%, Trading 11.7%, Management 9.5%, Economy 8.6%
- #20 Esports Manager 2026
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,791 reviews2026
Dev: Neurona GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Build and lead your own professional esports organization. Scout players, manage contracts, develop talent, hire staff, grow your brand, and compete for championship titles in a deep and realistic management simulation.
Why similar: Management 24.2%, Economy 18.9%, Sports 15.2%, Tactical 14.5%, Simulation 11%
- #21 CS Manager
72% matchVery Positive84% of 74 reviews2026
Dev: Crumana
Windows
CS Manager is a deep and tactical esports manager game. Make key decisions on rosters, strategies, and practice, and take on your opponents in real time matches. Rise to the top of the circuit in a simulation where every decision has impact
Why similar: Sports 32.1%, Management 23.8%, Tactical 11.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Simulation 10.9%
- #22 NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager
71% matchVery Positive90% of 447 reviews2026
Dev: Sumo DigitalPub: Secret Mode
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.8% ★, Sports 18.2%, Management 9.7%, Simulation 6.8%, Tactical 5.4%
- #23 Pocket League Story
73% matchVery Positive90% of 188 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Train your team to battle to the top in this sensational soccer team simulation!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 51.7% ★, Sports 22.1%, Simulation 6.7%, Management 6%, Strategy 5.9%
- #24 Speedway Club Manager 25
71% matchVery Positive91% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Marcin DopierałaPub: Speedway Club Manager
Windows
Take on the role of a speedway club manager and lead your team to championship glory! Sign your dream riders, secure sponsorship deals, upgrade your facilities, and develop young speedway talents!
Why similar: Sports 58.4%, Moddable 20.7% ★, Economy 14.2%, 2D 5.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #25 Club Soccer Director 2021
74% matchMixed61% of 155 reviews2020
Dev: Go Play Games Ltd
Windows
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your very own club in Club Soccer Director 2021 a new super realistic football club management game.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 62.5% ★, Sports 33.8%, 2D 2%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #26 Football School
74% matchMostly Positive76% of 91 reviews2020
Dev: Raptor Claw Games
Windows
Football School - Take control of a sports club in a small town. Train your team, compete and climb the world ranking. Management game made by the developers of Boxing School.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 36.7% ★, Sports 15.1%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 12.3%, Management 10.6%
- #27 Teamfight Manager 2
70% matchMixed60% of 2,268 reviews2026
Dev: Team Samoyed
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Teamfight Manager returns with more detailed tactics and management, a new MOBA-style match format, and a Deathmatch mode reminiscent of the previous title. Take charge of a fictional esports team, build the strongest roster, and become the best manager!
Why similar: Management 32.6%, Sports 31.5%, Simulation 20.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 6.8%, Choices Matter 4.2%
- #28 Handball Manager 2021
73% matchVery Positive87% of 83 reviews2021
Dev: netmin games
Windows
Finally state of the art handball management. Prove yourself as a manager and trainer in the daily business of professional handball.
Why similar: Sports 26.1%, Management 13%, Economy 11.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.1%, Moddable 11.1% ★
- #29 Teamfight Manager
70% matchVery Positive87% of 5,888 reviews2021
Dev: Team Samoyed
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.1 hrsMean: 14.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Teamfight Manager is a simulation game where you are the coach of an e-sports team. You must manage players to set them up for matches. Make the best of pick & ban by evaluating the characteristics of the champions/players! A smart strategy can make up for a lack of individual player skills.
Why similar: Management 39.3%, Simulation 20.1%, Sports 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.3%, Strategy 5.5%
- #30 Franchise Hockey Manager 12
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 134 reviews2025
Dev: game54 SoftwarePub: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2025-26 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.
Why similar: Sports 28.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 16%, Management 10.6%, Moddable 9.5% ★, Economy 8.7%
- #31 Franchise Hockey Manager 9
69% matchVery Positive83% of 235 reviews2022
Dev: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2022-23 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.
Why similar: Sports 29%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.7%, Management 10.1%, Strategy 8.8%
- #32 Pro Gamer Manager 2
73% matchVery Negative14% of 166 reviews2017
Dev: Millenway
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 12 minMean: 54 min≥1hr: 17%
Pro Gamer Manager 2 is an e-sport simulator game. Create, manage and compete with your own team of Pro Gamers. Conquer all obstacles and become the number one team in the world!
Why similar: Sports 49%, Management 18%, Simulation 17.1%, Strategy 15.9%
- #33 Hockey Manager 20|20
70% matchMixed67% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: netmin games
Windows
Enjoy the state of the art hockey management. Prove yourself as a manager and coach in the day-to-day business of ice hockey and lead your favorite club to fame and fortune.
Why similar: Sports 20.3%, Grand Strategy 19.4% ★, Management 13%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.3%, Economy 11.9%
- #34 Franchise Hockey Manager 8
69% matchVery Positive80% of 203 reviews2021
Dev: Out of the Park Developments
Windows · Mac
Franchise Hockey Manager returns for the 2021-22 season with plenty of additions to the deepest, most authentic hockey strategy gaming experience you can find. Choose from teams around the globe and select a team to guide to glory, including a chance at the ultimate prize, the Stanley Cup®.
Why similar: Sports 43.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 14.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 10.7%, Management 9.6%
- #35 Pro Basketball Manager 2025
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: Umix Studios
Windows · Mac
Suit up and become the manager of a basketball team. You’ll have all the managerial tools you’ve come to expect in a manager game, scouting, facilities, training and more. Will you put emphasis on coaching or player development? Success is only the result of your decisions both on and off the court.
Why similar: Sports 34.8%, Trading 15.9%, Management 15.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Moddable 7.2% ★
- #36 SEGA FOOTBALL CLUB CHAMPIONS
67% matchMostly Negative34% of 714 reviews2026
Dev: SEGA
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Powered by Football Manager ™, featuring more than 5,000 real player data from FIFPRO™. Allowing you to compete in J League, K League, and more! Become the manager of your club and bring your team to global superstars.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.8% ★, Sports 32.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Modern 6.7%, PvE 3.4%
- #37 Football Coach: College Dynasty
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,501 reviews2025
Dev: SidelineSim Studios
Windows · Mac
A true college football management game. Play as a coach or a school, recruit players, develop your team, and compete for national championships. Build a college football dynasty and become a coaching legend!
Why similar: Sports 47.5%, Management 18.7%, Simulation 15.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 7.5%, Choices Matter 5.3%
- #38 Pro 11 - Football Manager Game
68% matchMostly Positive76% of 363 reviews2020
Dev: Trophy Games ApS
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Become the best football manager. Join Pro 11 and claim the championship!
Why similar: Sports 37.4%, Football (Soccer) 36.7% ★, Strategy 10%, Simulation 9.7%, Management 6.1%
- #39 Esports History
65% matchMostly Positive78% of 402 reviews2024
Dev: Quantum Gear Studios
Windows
Esports History is an RPG sim where you start as a regular guy, and work your way up to the very top of esports. Defeat bosses in tournaments, make a name for yourself within the esports community, and become a real pro!
Why similar: Sports 27.1%, Management 19.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 17%, Simulation 9%, Strategy 8.5%
- #40 Goalgetter
66% matchVery Positive81% of 102 reviews2023
Dev: netmin games
Windows
In the first-person football career simulator, you can make your dream of becoming a top striker in one of the major European leagues come true. You are a young, talented striker. Now, you have the opportunity to play professional football.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.6% ★, Sports 18.5%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.7%, Economy 10.5%, Management 8.8%