Games like Football Academy Manager
If Football Academy Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are My Scout Life, Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019 and 99Managers Futsal Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and lighthearted. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Football Academy Manager: 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.
Players who liked Football Academy Manager also play
Steam players who put hours into Football Academy Manager also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
My Scout Life
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Top pick for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Discover hidden gems, develop their potential, and sell them for profit. In My Scout Life, you're the scout — finding young talents before anyone else does. Build your reputation, grow your network, and dominate the transfer market!
Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Academy Manager.
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
99Managers Futsal Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Academy Manager.
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.
Kevin Toms Football Star Manager
WHY THIS
Shares economy management, simulation, casual and a chill mood with Football Academy Manager.
Ranked #4 for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
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!
Pro Soccer Manager 27
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Ranked #5 for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
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.
Football Pitch and Arcade Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Academy Manager.
Manage a football pitch and arcade! Upgrade machines, attract players and build your ultimate fun center.
GOAL! The Club Manager
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Ranked #7 for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
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!
Sports Card Shop Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Football Academy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Indie with Football Academy Manager.
Open packs, search for rare cards, and build the best sports card shop. Hunt for holos, autos, and numbered variants to satisfy your collection obsession. Design custom cards and enjoy the thrill of pulling those creations from a fresh pack!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Football Academy Manager at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~58% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Manager.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~42% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Football Academy Manager.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Manager.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~58% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Manager.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Manager.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~75% under Football Academy Manager on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Football Academy Manager.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
Aimlabs
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby, winner of Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2025, is ready to race! Scout featured trainees and supporters as you navigate the immersive sports life simulation through the game's in-depth training system and top-of-the-line 3D graphics!
Supermarket Together
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
The multiplayer supermarket has arrived to your neighbourhood for free! Stock your shop space, unlock perks and franchises, hire employees or chase those pesky shoplifters. The more players, the more action!
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Manager.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
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Frequently asked about Football Academy Manager
- Does Football Academy Manager work on Steam Deck?
- Football Academy Manager is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Football Academy Manager cost?
- Football Academy Manager is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Football Academy Manager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Football Academy Manager are My Scout Life, Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019, 99Managers Futsal Edition.
- Who developed Football Academy Manager?
- Football Academy Manager was developed by Hubi.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Football Academy Manager.
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