- #1 The Chairman
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mateo Jaramillo
Windows
The Chairman is a football management sim built that lives in the bottom corner of your screen. Matches simulate automatically while you work, study, or do anything else. Check in when you have a moment. Make your decisions. Let the season run. You choose the time lap.
Why similar: Sports 39.1%, Football (Soccer) 35.7% ★, Strategy 9.6%, Management 5.3%, Simulation 4.4%
- #2 Pro 11 - Football Manager Game
96% matchMostly Positive75% of 359 reviews2020
Dev: Trophy Games ApS
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Become the best football manager. Join Pro 11 and claim the championship!
Why similar: Sports 46.2%, Football (Soccer) 33.6% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 4.6%, Management 3.1%
- #3 Football Manager 26
95% matchMostly Negative32% of 30,190 reviews2025
Dev: Sports InteractivePub: SEGA
Windows · Mac
Median: 56.1 hrsMean: 110.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.3% ★, Sports 35.7%, Strategy 10%, Management 5.4%, Simulation 4.4%
- #4 Foosball Manager
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: machnikl
Windows
Build your table football club from nothing. Scout, train, and manage players, set your lineup and tactics, and watch matches unfold on a physics-driven table. Climb the divisions and become a foosball legend.
Why similar: Sports 39.4%, Football (Soccer) 38.7% ★, Strategy 10.6%, Management 5.7%, Simulation 5.4%
- #5 Football Club Manager 26 LIVE
94% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: Halfspace Games
Windows
Multiplayer football management built on fair competition. Outsmart rivals with skill and strategy - no random packs, no pay-to-win gameplay. Take charge of your club, build your squad, and prove yourself on the world stage.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.5% ★, Sports 33.5%, Strategy 9.7%, Management 4.6%, Simulation 3.4%
- #6 Pro Soccer Manager 27
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Catoo Games
Windows
Become the manager of a football team and take full control of your club. Manage scouting, training, facilities, and squad development. Choose your philosophy: focus on coaching and tactics, or invest in developing the next generation of stars. Success depends on your decisions.
Why similar: Sports 40.9%, Football (Soccer) 36.7% ★, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 5.6%, Management 4.2%
- #7 Lords of Football
92% matchMixed52% of 352 reviews2013
Dev: Geniaware SrlPub: Fish Eagle
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Lords of Football is a whole new sports lifestyle simulator, played in God Mode.The everyday routine of football is brought to life, simulating footballers' training to improve their skills and all the drama and real-life distractions that unfold during a normal season.
Why similar: Sports 51.8%, Football (Soccer) 30.2% ★, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 5.2%, Management 2.1%
- #8 Retro Football Boss
91% matchMixed56% of 39 reviews2016
Dev: 1888 GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Retro Football Boss is a historical football management simulation featuring the English professional leagues from 1888 to 1998 (with German leagues coming soon). This is your chance to take a trip down memory lane or right the wrongs of the past.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 51% ★, Sports 29.6%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 5.3%, Management 4.6%
- #9 Underdog Futsal
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Havenarc
Windows
Become the manager of a small neighborhood futsal club, recruit players on a tight budget, and build your tactics. Manage morale through team activities, shift the momentum with substitutions and tactical changes in tense text-based matches, and grow your team step by step.
Why similar: Sports 43.6%, Football (Soccer) 36.5% ★, Strategy 9.5%, Management 5.3%, Simulation 4.9%
- #10 Kevin Toms Football Star Manager
89% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Kevin TomsPub: Curveball Games
Windows
The original retro-styled football management game remade and re-released in 2025. It's a faithful recreation of the original groundbreaking 1982 Football Manager, the title that launched the football-management genre!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.6% ★, Sports 34.4%, Management 5.9%, Economy 4.1%, Simulation 3.9%
- #11 Club Soccer Director 2022
89% matchMixed66% of 110 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: Sports 41.6%, Football (Soccer) 32.2% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 5.5%, Realistic 4.6%
- #12 New Star™ Manager
86% matchVery Positive87% of 514 reviews2018
Dev: New Star Games Ltd.Pub: Five Aces Publishing Ltd.
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 99.1 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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) 44.9% ★, Sports 40.1%, Management 6.1%, Simulation 5.7%, RPG 3.2%
- #13 Footy Ball Tournament 2018
87% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Heroic Games Studio
Windows
The auto-run football tournament soccer game. Be the player, be the manager.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 40.1% ★, Sports 39.9%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 4.6%, Simulation 4.3%
- #14 Regista: Reign Your Football Club
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 82 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) 41.5% ★, Sports 23.7%, Card Game 12.8%, Management 6.4%, Strategy 5.6%
- #15 UltFoot: Football Manager
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Scarlett GameStudio
Windows
Manage your football team and take on challenging, realistic tournaments. Develop your squad, trade players, play real-time multiplayer matches, and customize every detail of your club to make it truly unique.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39% ★, Sports 37.2%, Strategy 11.4%, Management 5.8%, Simulation 5%
- #16 Empire Eleven 2026
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: NextStation Games
Windows
Build your football empire. Scout talent, manage finances, develop tactics and lead your club from obscurity to glory in a deep football management simulation.
Why similar: Sports 37.9%, Football (Soccer) 36.7% ★, Strategy 11.6%, Management 5.4%, Simulation 5.1%
- #17 99Managers Futsal Edition
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Simon Dalvai
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage a futsal team and lead it to success by scouting players and choosing the best tactic and line up for every match. Customize teams and players with the in-game editor. Proudly open source.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49% ★, Sports 26.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Management 7.5%, Simulation 4%
- #18 Ultimate Club Manager 26
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Alpex Studio
Windows
Become the president of your club and make decisions that change its destiny. Manage transfers, staff, finances, media, facilities, and the president's personal life in a deep and dynamic football management experience.
Why similar: Sports 44.6%, Football (Soccer) 42.7% ★, Management 6.2%, Simulation 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #19 Football Owner 2025
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Harmonia Games
Windows
Take charge of your football club in Football Owner 2025! Build your dream team, manage finances, make key transfers, and lead your club to glory. Can you handle the pressure and become the ultimate football owner?
Why similar: Sports 39.9%, Football (Soccer) 35% ★, Strategy 8%, Management 6.1%, Economy 5.6%
- #20 Penalty Shooters 2
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: NUSPEKO
Windows
A fast-paced football penalty shootout game where you pick from 360 teams across 12 leagues, aim with the mouse, and click to dive as the keeper. Outsmart smart AI goalkeepers and climb from group stage to knockout glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 56.2% ★, Sports 40.6%, 2D 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #21 BFM 26
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Believr Games Pub: Believr Interactive
Windows
A deep football management simulation where you control tactics, transfers, training, and club development. Build your squad, outsmart rivals, and lead your team to glory.
Why similar: Sports 42.3%, Football (Soccer) 33.9% ★, Strategy 11.2%, Management 6.4%, Simulation 4.8%
- #22 Football Career Mode 26
79% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: 44games
Windows
Football Career Mode 26 is a straightforward football manager game. Choose a club, choose a sponsor and start your football manager career! Lead your club to the top through transfers, scouting, infrastructure updates and much more and win as many titles as possible!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.2% ★, Sports 37.4%, Strategy 7.6%, Strategy RPG 4.7%, Simulation 4.3%
- #23 Non-League Football Manager
80% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Cannon Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage one of over 1,000 real non-league clubs through the English football pyramid. Day jobs, ground grading, gate receipts, cup runs, and a world where clubs can fold around you. Football management at its most real.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.8% ★, Sports 37%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 5.3%, Realistic 3.5%
- #24 Premier Manager 10
79% matchMixed57% of 28 reviews2020
Dev: Zushi GamesPub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
With improved playability from previous versions, and ease of use, Premier Manager ‘10 is the ideal game for those who love the high-pressure world of topflight football management. PLEASE NOTE: You will start from the 2009/10 season.
Why similar: Sports 52.5%, Football (Soccer) 35.6% ★, Simulation 6.1%, Management 5.7%
- #25 Player's Eleven - A Football Manager Game
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Green Pitch Gaming
Windows
A football manager like there has never been before. Play Player's Eleven the way you want, as a youth coach, sports director, head coach or club director. Choose your role and lead your club to titles and glory.
Why similar: Sports 43.4%, Football (Soccer) 39.6% ★, Management 7.1%, Simulation 4.4%, Strategy 3.8%
- #26 Pocket League Story
77% matchVery Positive90% of 181 reviews2022
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
Train your team to battle to the top in this sensational soccer team simulation!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.9% ★, Sports 28.8%, Strategy 7.6%, Economy 3.7%, Simulation 3.4%
- #27 Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018
78% matchMixed63% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: Forever Young Games
Windows
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52.4% ★, Sports 29.2%, Strategy 8.9%, Management 7%, Simulation 2.3%
- #28 Football Academy Manager
73% matchNo user reviews93% of 168 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) 46.2% ★, Sports 29.5%, Economy 9.3%, Management 8.4%, Strategy 2.8%
- #29 Player's Eleven
76% matchVery Positive83% of 52 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) 52.6% ★, Sports 30.6%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 4.6%, 2D 2.6%
- #30 WE ARE FOOTBALL
75% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,447 reviews2021
Dev: Winning Streak GamesPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Median: 5.3 hrsMean: 34.3 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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) 52.7% ★, Sports 32.4%, Strategy 7.3%, Management 4.7%, Simulation 2.7%
- #31 PIX Football Manager
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PeytonParrishGames
Windows
PIX Football Manager is a nostalgic, casual football management simulator focused on scouting. Set your tactics, find hidden gems, and improve your facilities as you build a dynasty. With no visible player stats, you must spot talent yourself. Grab your clipboard, the game starts now.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.9% ★, Sports 31.5%, Strategy 9.2%, Economy 5.6%, Management 5.6%
- #32 New Star™ Soccer 5
75% matchMostly Positive70% of 852 reviews2012
Dev: New Star Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Live the life of an up-and-coming superstar in this unique football career game. Start out as a 16 year old lad and work your way to the top to become a footballing legend!
Why similar: Sports 48.4%, Football (Soccer) 45.9% ★, Simulation 5.7%
- #33 Football Director
74% matchNo user 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) 51% ★, Sports 28.9%, Strategy 12.9%, Simulation 4.7%, 2D 2%
- #34 TriFute - Online Button Soccer
73% match4 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Douglas Maieski
Windows
TriFute, a unique button soccer game, allows you to play dynamic matches against online opponents or local multiplayer.
Why similar: Sports 51.1%, Football (Soccer) 48.9% ★
- #35 WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Winning Streak Games GmbH
Windows
WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027 is the ultimate challenge for manager fans and anyone who wants to become one! Accessible, with great depth of play, a focus on tactics and more than 200 simulated countries. Now with a new creative mode that lets you tailor the game perfectly to your preferences!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.1% ★, Sports 30.7%, Economy 7.5%, Management 6.5%, Simulation 4.2%
- #36 WFO World Football Online
71% matchMixed60% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: Cagatay GuvenPub: Eren Aydin
Windows
WFO World Football Online is an online football management game with a non-scripted match engine on a virtual football world continuously developed by AI.
Why similar: Sports 45.4%, Football (Soccer) 42.6% ★, Strategy 7.6%, Simulation 4.4%
- #37 Legendary Eleven: Epic Football
71% matchMostly Positive73% of 128 reviews2019
Dev: Eclipse GamesPub: Eclipse Gamse
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Legendary Eleven is an epic arcade football game inspired by the golden age of football spanning the 70's to the 90's. Choose from 36 teams full of glorious haircuts, moustaches and legends in short shorts. Lead them to glory and win the World Cup!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 63.5% ★, Sports 36.5%
- #38 Matchday Manager
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lucky Conker Games
Windows
Pure football management stripped to its essence. Build your squad, develop talent, and dominate the league. No press conferences, no social media just tactical decisions that matter. Inspired by the golden age of text-based management sims.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.4% ★, Sports 31.2%, Strategy 9.3%, Management 6.6%, Simulation 6.1%
- #39 Backyard Soccer '98
66% matchVery Positive96% of 209 reviews2024
Dev: Mega Cat StudiosPub: Playground Productions
Windows
Return to the soccer field with your favorite Backyard athletes! The original Backyard Soccer 1998 is back and now enhanced to run on Steam. Build your roster from among the iconic Backyard Kids. Kick, pass, and score in this classic game that made soccer fun for everyone!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 54.3% ★, Sports 43.3%, Simulation 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #40 IOSoccer
68% matchVery Positive81% of 2,851 reviews2018
Dev: IOSoccer Team
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 43.8 hrs≥1hr: 45%
IOSoccer is a free non-commercial competitive third-person online multiplayer soccer game that offers unparalleled freedom in ball control and gameplay depth.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 55.7% ★, Sports 44.3%
- #41 Foosball - Street Edition
70% matchMostly Positive71% of 181 reviews2014
Dev: Yuisy
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Foosball - Street Edition is a 5 VS 5 arcade football game, that puts you in the control of 9 teams of foosball players, each one with unique skills and abilities. Enjoy playing football with awesome characters in crazy locations!
Why similar: Sports 60.3%, Football (Soccer) 39.7% ★
- #42 Eat, Sleep, Bet, Repeat
69% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Strategic Designs Ltd.
Windows
You are unemployed and living in a filthy town centre bedsit circa late 1980's Britain. There are no jobs and there is no future but you don't care because there is a betting shop, kebab house and pub right outside your front door and today is the day your benefits cheque arrives! NEW 3D RACES!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.5% ★, Sports 31.7%, Strategy 10.5%, RPG 10.4%, Simulation 3.9%
- #43 Soccer Rage
68% matchVery Positive81% of 647 reviews2015
Dev: Stamina-Games
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 1.3 hrs≥1hr: 24%
Soccer Rage is a sport/action game that features: a hybrid engine of soccer and fighting. This game has a dynamic and fast paced soccer gameplay. There are no red cards, no off-sides, no outside balls, no substitutions, brutal fouls are allowed along with fighting.
Why similar: Sports 53.1%, Football (Soccer) 46.9% ★
- #44 Swipe Football - Football Manager RPG Game
67% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2019
Dev: Cleardot Games
Windows · Mac
Manage your team as a fair (or ruthless) football manager and swipe your fingers either left or right to impose your will upon the team. Navigate the stream of problems and demands from the people around you - coaches, players, the press, the board of directors, your family and more.
Why similar: Sports 49.9%, Football (Soccer) 30.8% ★, Card Game 9.9%, Simulation 6%, Story Rich 1.7%
- #45 The Killer Pass: Season 1
66% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Hi-Develop
Windows
The Killer Pass: Season 1 - a tactical soccer game where your decisions lead to victory. Lead Prakaidao through intense matches, position players strategically, and outsmart opponents. From swift counterattacks to breaking defenses, prove yourself as the ultimate playmaker!
Why similar: Sports 51.6%, Football (Soccer) 30.5% ★, Strategy 15.1%, 2D 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #46 Football tournament
67% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: Phoenixxx Games
Windows
Football has united all the countries of the world on the football field, and numerous football tournaments are held every year. This time there is a place for your team in the standings, choose it and play football.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 51.6% ★, Sports 39.4%, Hand-drawn 3.7%, Simulation 3.6%, 2D 1.5%
- #47 Super Arcade Soccer
68% matchMixed56% of 57 reviews2019
Dev: Ruben Alcañiz
Windows · Mac
Classic Football is back with Super Arcade Soccer. Super Arcade Soccer is a fun soccer game with arcade playability; direct, accessible control; and a wide range of actions, such as passing, centering, skill shots…
Why similar: Sports 55.1%, Football (Soccer) 38.5% ★, Simulation 6.4%
- #48 Football Referee Simulator
64% matchVery Positive91% of 482 reviews2024
Dev: Vladimir Pliashkun
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Football Referee Simulator—the groundbreaking game that puts you in the referee's shoes! Are you ready to kickstart your career in the lower divisions and ascend to legendary status by overseeing thrilling finals?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.3% ★, Sports 46.2%, Simulation 4.1%, 2D 2.2%, Singleplayer 0.3%