
Pivot is a football universe sandbox. Build clubs and national teams, create players and managers, negotiate contracts, and simulate 6-a-side matches — then relive every game through stats and commentary.
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Pivot is a football universe sandbox. Build clubs and national teams, create players and managers, negotiate contracts, and simulate 6-a-side matches — then relive every game through stats and commentary.

The Referee Committee
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.

Forever World Cup Simulator
The World Cup finals are here—are you ready to win it all? Lead 220+ dynamically evolving national teams to glory in this deep soccer simulation. Simulate 40+ global events, from continental cups to the grand stage. Perfect for fans of international football management and endless replayability!
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: Sports 25.5%, Football (Soccer) 23.4% ★, Sandbox 14.6%, Text-Based 14%, Simulation 13.6%
The World Cup finals are here—are you ready to win it all? Lead 220+ dynamically evolving national teams to glory in this deep soccer simulation. Simulate 40+ global events, from continental cups to the grand stage. Perfect for fans of international football management and endless replayability!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 27.2% ★, Sports 25.9%, Text-Based 16.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Simulation 13.9%
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 34.7%, Simulation 18.8%, Football (Soccer) 16.9% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Text-Based 10.6%
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 45.2%, Football (Soccer) 23.7% ★, Simulation 21%, Arcade 7.3%, Indie 2.7%
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: Sports 33.1%, Football (Soccer) 24.7% ★, Simulation 18.9%, Text-Based 13.1%, Strategy 4.1%
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 36.7%, Simulation 19.9%, Football (Soccer) 18.3% ★, Text-Based 14%, Strategy 5.5%
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: Sports 36.6%, Football (Soccer) 28% ★, Simulation 14.9%, Text-Based 10.4%, Strategy 4.5%
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 35.8%, Football (Soccer) 25.6% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Text-Based 8%, Strategy 5.2%
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) 29.6% ★, Sports 27.8%, Simulation 21.8%, Text-Based 11.3%, Resource Management 4.2%
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: Sports 39.7%, Football (Soccer) 29.6% ★, Simulation 13.9%, Text-Based 12.1%, 2D 3.3%
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 45.1%, Football (Soccer) 31.3% ★, Simulation 21.2%, Indie 2.5%
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 39.9%, Football (Soccer) 24% ★, Simulation 18%, Text-Based 9.7%, Strategy 5.1%
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 50.5%, Football (Soccer) 22.1% ★, Simulation 20.4%, Strategy 5.1%, Indie 2%
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: Sports 34.9%, Football (Soccer) 30.3% ★, Simulation 20%, Text-Based 9.2%, Strategy 5.2%
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: Sports 40.8%, Football (Soccer) 28% ★, Simulation 16.5%, Text-Based 9.9%, 2D 2.6%
箱庭感覚の駅伝シミュレーションゲームの第二弾、高校駅伝も加わりました!
Why similar: Sports 42.2%, Simulation 22%, Text-Based 16.4%, Sandbox 15.7%, Indie 3.1%
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 43.3%, Football (Soccer) 31.1% ★, Simulation 23.7%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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: Sports 36%, Football (Soccer) 28.3% ★, Simulation 19.5%, Text-Based 7.8%, Strategy 5.4%
Become the best football manager. Join Pro 11 and claim the championship!
Why similar: Sports 47.7%, Football (Soccer) 26.9% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Strategy 6.3%
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: Sports 35.3%, Football (Soccer) 34% ★, Simulation 15.1%, Text-Based 6.7%, Resource Management 3.6%
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 50.6%, Football (Soccer) 25.8% ★, Simulation 23.6%
The football game where you're not the star - you're the law. Officiate full matches: whistle fouls, wave off divers, run VAR, survive the press. In 1-4 player online co-op your friends run the lines - and every blown call has a name on it.
Why similar: Sports 41.7%, Simulation 22.6%, Football (Soccer) 18% ★, Arcade 11.8%, Character Customization 4.7%
Step into the gloves of a rising goalkeeper, starting your journey at local clubs and working your way to the world’s biggest football stages.
Why similar: Sports 36.8%, Football (Soccer) 23.2% ★, Simulation 18.6%, Arcade 14.9%, 2D 4.7%
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: Sports 42%, Football (Soccer) 29.9% ★, Simulation 22.2%, Strategy 5.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Take on the challenge and become the king of kick-ups. Put your skill and precision to the test in Soccer Kick-ups.
Why similar: Sports 51.1%, Football (Soccer) 19.5% ★, Simulation 15.2%, Arcade 12.6%, Indie 1%
AR Basketball is a long-term basketball franchise simulator where team chemistry, economics, fan growth, player personalities, and league history matter just as much as winning championships. Build your organization across 100 seasons and chase multiple paths to greatness.
Why similar: Sports 39.2%, Simulation 21.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Text-Based 11.6%, Strategy 5.8%
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: Sports 41%, Football (Soccer) 33.8% ★, Simulation 22.7%, Indie 2.5%
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 42.5%, Football (Soccer) 29.1% ★, Simulation 19.1%, Strategy 5.1%, 2D 2.7%
箱庭感覚の駅伝シミュレーションゲームです。
Why similar: Sports 50.1%, Simulation 27.4%, Sandbox 18.7%, Indie 2.6%, Singleplayer 1.2%
FootCareer ULT is the brand new retro style football career simulator where you can become the greatest player possible. Rise to the top, make your own decisions, and solidify your place in football history.
Why similar: Sports 23.8%, Football (Soccer) 22.2% ★, Sandbox 17.5%, Simulation 16.2%, Arcade 12.6%
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 41.5%, Football (Soccer) 28.8% ★, Simulation 23%, Strategy 6.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Super Foosball is an arcade inspired Foosball game. Play with a friend or against a bot!
Why similar: Sports 58%, Simulation 28.2%, Football (Soccer) 13.8% ★
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Sports 39.1%, Football (Soccer) 35.7% ★, Simulation 19%, Strategy 5.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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) 40% ★, Sports 31%, Simulation 22.3%, Strategy 4.8%, Indie 1.9%
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) 42.8% ★, Sports 41.1%, Arcade 9.9%, 2D 5%, Singleplayer 1.2%
You’ll experience all the emotions of football management in Premier Manager 2004-2005. Find out if you’ve got what it takes…
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 32.5% ★, Sports 28.3%, Text-Based 13.3%, Simulation 12.6%, Arcade 6.6%
Prepare for the kick-off with a fast-paced football game, bringing a refreshing look to the football genre with accessible controls and skilled-based gameplay like over-the-top classic soccer games.
Why similar: Sports 42.2%, Football (Soccer) 27.2% ★, Simulation 18.2%, Arcade 11.1%, Indie 0.8%
Indulge in pan-European fantasy football by taking control of any club from the four English divisions, or simultaneously from the top two divisions of the continent’s premier leagues (Spain, Italy, France and Germany).
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 32.2% ★, Sports 27.9%, Text-Based 14%, Simulation 12.4%, Arcade 6.5%
A solo-developed, text-based football management game focused on transfer windows and building your squad before each season. Simulate around 30,000 matches in about ten minutes, use the flexible Data Editor, and follow football history for centuries.
Why similar: Sports 31.2%, Football (Soccer) 25.2% ★, Simulation 17.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Text-Based 9.1%
Four years of high school track & field. One shot at a college scholarship. Choose your specialty, build your athlete, and beat the rival who's been faster than you since day one.
Why similar: Sports 44.9%, Simulation 24.4%, Text-Based 18.9%, Character Customization 6.2%, Resource Management 5.1%
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 43.8%, Football (Soccer) 25.4% ★, Simulation 23%, Strategy 6.1%, Indie 0.9%
The auto-run football tournament soccer game. Be the player, be the manager.
Why similar: Sports 41.6%, Football (Soccer) 31.3% ★, Simulation 17.9%, Strategy 5.7%, Indie 3.6%
This is a 3D soccer simulation game. Includes the 2026 FIFA World Cup Round of 48, wildcard matches, and a pure penalty shootout mode. You can freely set the team's formation and tactics, and you can also control the players in real time.
Why similar: Sports 43%, Football (Soccer) 32.9% ★, Simulation 21.2%, Indie 2.9%
Become a football player and lead the career of your dreams. Be precise, score as many goals as possible, make the right choices during the transfer window, win numerous prestigious trophies, and become a legend!
Why similar: Sports 46%, Football (Soccer) 28.5% ★, Simulation 23.6%, Indie 1.1%, Singleplayer 0.8%
This is a surrealistic football game. You will form a national football team composed of super heroes, use some unusual ways (such as match-fixing, bribing the refree), and lead them to challenge the top teams in the world to win the world championship.
Why similar: Sports 36.2%, Football (Soccer) 34.5% ★, Simulation 16.8%, Sandbox 9.7%, 2D 1.8%
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: Sports 39.8%, Football (Soccer) 30% ★, Simulation 20.8%, Character Customization 4.7%, 2D 4%
Run your own MMA promotion. Sign fighters, book cards, manage contracts, and build a combat sports empire in a deep, procedurally generated MMA management sim.
Why similar: Sports 40.1%, Sandbox 23.2%, Simulation 16.9%, Text-Based 11.6%, Resource Management 5.1%
Take charge of the league’s weakest club and lead it to glory. Build your squad, develop players, set formations, adjust tactics, and fight your way from last place to champions.
Why similar: Sports 45.7%, Simulation 23.8%, Football (Soccer) 23.7% ★, 2D 4.5%, Indie 1.6%
Premier Manager 08 is the definitive pick up and play football management experience. Whether you want to start at the top with one of the big boys and go for instant glory, or whether you want to guide a minnow to the top flight, Premier Manager will put you in the management hotseat.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 31.7% ★, Sports 27.3%, Text-Based 14.8%, Simulation 12.2%, Arcade 6.6%
You're the player — not the manager. Start on the bench at a fourth-division village ground and play your way up to the title. Every career runs in its own generated world: 74 clubs, four divisions, and a scout who sees everything.
Why similar: Sports 46.4%, Football (Soccer) 33.7% ★, Arcade 11.2%, Character Customization 8.1%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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) 39.8% ★, Sports 37.3%, Simulation 15.1%, Strategy 5.3%, 2D 2.5%
This is a sports betting simulation game. You have to make bets and earn money in order to achieve set goals and advance in your adventure.
Why similar: Sports 43.5%, Football (Soccer) 24.9% ★, Simulation 18%, Text-Based 8.8%, Strategy 4.3%
Pure arcade football, inspired by an unforgettable classic. Fast matches, goals, and nonstop excitment.
Why similar: Sports 41%, Football (Soccer) 40.7% ★, Arcade 12.7%, 2D 4.1%, Indie 0.9%
Compete in several game modes at the same time: Predictions, Virtual Trainer and Interactive. Will you win the Copon Mundial with your favorite team? Enjoy the game, with its Copon tournaments, its interesting matches, rankings, etc. Beat your records and fill the Hall of Fame!
Why similar: Sports 47.4%, Football (Soccer) 22.4% ★, Text-Based 15.5%, Simulation 14.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 41.6%, Football (Soccer) 27.4% ★, Simulation 15.9%, Text-Based 8.2%, Strategy 4.1%
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: Sports 41.5%, Football (Soccer) 39% ★, Arcade 10.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
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: Sports 37.9%, Football (Soccer) 37.2% ★, Simulation 14%, Arcade 7.2%, 2D 2.6%