- #1 Player's Eleven - A Football Manager Game
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Green Pitch Gaming
Windows
No unnecessary complexity, no endless menus: Startelf is a football management game focused on transfers, squad building, and the decisions that truly matter.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 35.7% ★, Sports 35.1%, Real Time Tactics 11.3%, Simulation 9.1%, Text-Based 4.6%
- #2 Pro 11 - Football Manager Game
95% 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 42.9%, Football (Soccer) 35.4% ★, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.5%
- #3 Foosball Manager
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: machnikl
Windows · Mac
Foosball Manager is a table football management sim. Scout, sign, and train your squad. Set your tactics, then call the shots from the sideline as your players act on their own across a physics-driven table. Climb the divisions and become a foosball legend.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.8% ★, Sports 37.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Strategy 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #4 Non-League Football Manager
93% 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) 41.6% ★, Sports 32.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Text-Based 4.6%
- #5 Football Manager 26
92% 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) 45.8% ★, Sports 33.8%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 9.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #6 Retro Football Boss
91% matchMixed55% of 40 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) 52.2% ★, Sports 27.2%, Simulation 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%
- #7 Football Owner 2025
90% 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 35.6%, Football (Soccer) 34.8% ★, Real Time Tactics 9.2%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 6.7%
- #8 Pro Soccer Manager 27
89% matchNo user reviews2026
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: Football (Soccer) 38.4% ★, Sports 37.2%, Simulation 13.3%, Strategy 10.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
- #9 Football Club Manager 26 LIVE
89% 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) 50.4% ★, Sports 31.9%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 8.3%, 2D 0.9%
- #10 Lords of Football
88% matchMixed52% of 353 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 47.6%, Football (Soccer) 30.9% ★, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 9.1%
- #11 Football Academy Director
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Merla Interactive
Windows
Take charge of a football academy, from U11 prospects to the U19 academy team. Scout and recruit young talent, choose youth camps and training camps, shape squads and tactics, climb the Youth League pyramid, and chase league title and World Youth Cup glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 40.5% ★, Sports 35.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Strategy 8.3%, Text-Based 5.5%
- #12 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) 39.4% ★, Sports 33.8%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Text-Based 3.9%
- #13 New Star™ Soccer 5
86% matchMostly Positive70% of 876 reviews2012
Dev: New Star Games
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 13.5 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: Football (Soccer) 44.1% ★, Sports 42.9%, Simulation 13%
- #14 The Chairman
85% 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: Football (Soccer) 39.5% ★, Sports 38.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 8.9%, 2D 1%
- #15 Monster Scout
84% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: GESKT
Windows · Mac
Monster Scout is a soccer scouting game that tests your ability to discern player traits, as stats ARE NOT immediately visible. The fate of your team relies on your judgement. Enjoy the authentic coaching experience.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.8% ★, Sports 28.5%, Real Time Tactics 13.2%, Strategy 10.7%, Simulation 7.4%
- #16 Empire Eleven 2026
83% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: NextStation Games
Windows · Mac
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: Football (Soccer) 37.6% ★, Sports 35%, Simulation 12%, Strategy 9.8%, Text-Based 4.2%
- #17 Master Manager
84% match6 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Hasbeen Games
Windows
You are the manager of a football club, determine its future by making the best decisions regarding tactics, training, player contracts, sponsorship deals and infrastructure. Watch your players performing on our amazing 2d match engine.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 33.9% ★, Sports 31.8%, Real Time Tactics 11.8%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 6.6%
- #18 FD 27: Direct Your Football Club
82% 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) 50.3% ★, Sports 26.2%, Simulation 10.8%, Strategy 10.6%, 2D 1.2%
- #19 BFM 26
82% 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 38.5%, Football (Soccer) 34.3% ★, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Text-Based 5%
- #20 Ultimate Club Manager 26
81% match1 user reviews0% of 1 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: Football (Soccer) 43.7% ★, Sports 40.9%, Simulation 14.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #21 FC Tycoon 2027
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Darkwave Studios
Windows
A data-driven football management simulation where you control every aspect of your club’s journey — from tactics, scouting, and player development to finances, facilities, and legacy. Build your philosophy, shape your destiny, and lead your team to greatness.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.4% ★, Sports 33.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 8%, Text-Based 7.2%
- #22 F11 Football Manager
79% matchMostly Positive75% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Factotum
Windows · Mac
Manage your own club in F11 Football Manager. Sign players, upgrade the stadium, negotiate sponsorships and devise tactics to lead your team to glory. Do you have what it takes to be the best football manager?
Why similar: Sports 40.5%, Football (Soccer) 26.3% ★, Real Time Tactics 12.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 6.6%
- #23 Football Referee Simulator
78% matchVery Positive90% of 526 reviews2024
Dev: Vladimir Pliashkun
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 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) 43.5% ★, Sports 39.3%, Simulation 8.8%, Text-Based 6.5%, 2D 1.3%
- #24 Retro Club Manager
78% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: TECH NIN9
Windows
Manage your club through fast-paced football seasons in a retro-inspired management simulation. Build your squad, scout the transfer market, manage finances, shape your tactics and experience procedurally generated stories in every career.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.2% ★, Sports 29.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 9.3%, 2D 0.7%
- #25 Footy Ball Tournament 2018
79% 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) 42.1% ★, Sports 37.7%, Simulation 10.5%, Strategy 9.7%
- #26 Matchday Manager
77% 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) 43.8% ★, Sports 27.6%, Simulation 14%, Strategy 7.7%, Text-Based 6.1%
- #27 New Star™ Manager
77% 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) 47.4% ★, Sports 38.7%, Simulation 13.9%
- #28 Retro Manager
75% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Mark StablesPub: Metaguard Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
A fast-paced retro football management game inspired by the 90s. Build your squad, tweak tactics, and watch matches unfold minute-by-minute.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.6% ★, Sports 24.3%, Simulation 10.6%, Real Time Tactics 10.3%, Text-Based 3.7%
- #29 Premier Manager 10
76% matchMixed59% of 29 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 48.6%, Football (Soccer) 36.8% ★, Simulation 14.6%
- #30 Eleven Legends
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: HillRock Studio
Windows
Eleven Legends blends football management, character growth, and strategic matches. You are not just a manager on the sidelines, nor just one player on the pitch. Plan each week, build bonds, find mentors, and lead your team to victory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.3% ★, Sports 30.7%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 7.5%, Singleplayer 1%
- #31 Penalty Shooters 2
74% 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) 58.8% ★, Sports 38.1%, 2D 1.9%, Singleplayer 1.1%
- #32 Kevin Toms Football Star Manager
73% matchPositive92% of 38 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) 48.5% ★, Sports 33.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Text-Based 3.5%, Strategy 3.1%
- #33 Referee Simulator
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Goat Gamez
Windows
A first-person soccer referee simulator will let you see how hard the job of a soccer referee is on the field.
Why similar: Sports 44.6%, Football (Soccer) 33.9% ★, Real Time Tactics 17.1%, Simulation 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #34 Underdog Futsal
74% 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: Football (Soccer) 51.1% ★, Sports 32%, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%
- #35 Club Soccer Director 2022
73% 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: Sports 40.3%, Football (Soccer) 34.7% ★, Simulation 13.7%, Strategy 10.7%, Singleplayer 0.7%
- #36 Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018
73% matchMixed67% of 27 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) 54.4% ★, Sports 27.3%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 5.6%, Text-Based 4.6%
- #37 WFO World Football Online
72% 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: Football (Soccer) 42.6% ★, Sports 40.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 6.3%
- #38 99Managers Futsal Edition
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Simon Dalvai
Windows · Mac · Linux
A futsal management game with a 2D match engine and integrated editor. Can you find the next wonderkid and become the best manager? Proudly open source.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52% ★, Sports 30.7%, Strategy 7.7%, Simulation 7%, 2D 1.7%
- #39 Total Futsal Manager
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: IAA Games
Windows
Take control of a futsal club and build your career season after season. Manage your squad, transfers, contracts, training, tactics, finances, and dressing room as you compete to take your team all the way to the top.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.6% ★, Sports 31.8%, Simulation 9.6%, Team-Based 6.7%, Strategy 3.2%
- #40 Football Conquerors
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ravencorwind
Windows
Build your squad, conquer regions, complete quests, and grow stronger in this football-themed strategy experience. Upgrade player cards, earn rewards, master Football Survival mode, and push your progression across every challenge.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53% ★, Sports 24.6%, Strategy 10.3%, Real Time Tactics 8.9%, 2D 2.1%
- #41 Football Career Mode 26
69% match7 user reviews29% of 7 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) 40% ★, Sports 35.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Real Time Tactics 6.5%
- #42 Fifth Tier
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: HS GAMES
Windows
You're not just the manager — you own the club. Start in the fifth tier with a broke squad and a crumbling ground: set tactics, sign players, build the stadium, keep the board happy. Then sell up, buy a bigger club, and climb again. Five leagues. One long road to the top.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52.9% ★, Sports 26.8%, Simulation 8.2%, Strategy 7%, Text-Based 3.5%
- #43 Super Arcade Soccer
71% 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 48.1%, Football (Soccer) 37.5% ★, Simulation 14.4%
- #44 Club Chairman
68% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Ashina Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You're not the manager, you're the CHAIRMAN. Hire and fire managers, survive transfer windows, and keep the ultras out of the boardroom. Bankroll Barcalana, dodge bankruptcy, and try not to get voted out. It's football without all that annoying running.
Why similar: Sports 38.6%, Football (Soccer) 28.6% ★, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 10.9%, Text-Based 7.9%
- #45 LemonFC - Der Fußball-Manager
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lemoncookie Studios
Windows
A football manager like they used to make: negotiate with clubs, players and sponsors, keep your dressing room, your board and your private life from falling apart — and follow every match in a live ticker with drama and a wink. Deep simulation with humour and heart. German language only.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.8% ★, Sports 38.2%, Simulation 13.4%, Text-Based 5%, Singleplayer 0.5%
- #46 PIX Football Manager
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: PeytonParrishGames
Windows
In this retro football management sim, you’ll watch players from over 350 clubs in fully simulated matches, trust your eye to uncover hidden gems, and outbid rival managers to sign them. Shape your tactics and lead your club season after season to build your dynasty.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.7% ★, Sports 30.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Strategy 8%, Real Time Tactics 6.2%
- #47 Marvelous Soccer Management
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: JV Interactive
Windows
Climb from the lower divisions to glory. Marvelous Soccer Simulation is a single-player football management sim — fast seasons, leagues and cups, tactics, transfers, and match nights built for drama. Early Access.
Why similar: Sports 39.5%, Football (Soccer) 29.3% ★, Simulation 15.5%, Text-Based 10.3%, Strategy 4.5%
- #48 Calcio 98
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Vertigo srl
Windows
Calcio 98 is a single-player football management game set in the 1998/99 season and created by longtime fans of the classics like Premier Manager 98 or PC Fútbol 7. Lead your club across 18 leagues and 14 cups through tactics, transfers, squad development and finances.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.2% ★, Sports 30.6%, Strategy 8.6%, Simulation 6.8%, Text-Based 4.4%
- #49 WE ARE FOOTBALL
67% 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) 56.2% ★, Sports 30.6%, Simulation 6.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Singleplayer 0.4%
- #50 The Referee Committee
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: New Page Interactive
Windows
Football isn't only played on the pitch. Manage the dark side of football! Control the referee committee, give secret instructions, use the VAR room to dictate scores, deal with the betting mafia, and shape the season's fate. Keeping this powerful seat is harder than getting it.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 40.6% ★, Sports 29.7%, Simulation 10.3%, Text-Based 8.9%, Strategy 8.4%
- #51 Football Club Management 2023
66% 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) 52.8% ★, Sports 28.3%, Team-Based 7.6%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 3.3%
- #52 Sim: World Cup Manager
65% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Jfsimgames
Windows
Take charge of your nation from a world of 202 teams and chase international glory. Build your squad, master deep tactics and live sideline shouts, unearth wonderkids in your national youth academy, and battle through the World Cup and Continental Championships in a deep football management sim.
Why similar: Sports 39.5%, Football (Soccer) 28.5% ★, Simulation 13.8%, Strategy 11.2%, Text-Based 6.5%