Games like Football Academy Director
If Football Academy Director is your kind of game, the closest matches are Calcio Totale, Footy Manager and Simple Football League Manager — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Director: Build and lead a football academy from U11 to U19. Scout and recruit young talent, develop your squads, set tactics, compete for promotion and trophies, improve your academy, and follow your graduates throughout their senior careers.
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Calcio Totale
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Top pick for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
Choose from 100 Italian clubs and build your career as CEO. Oversee finances, transfers, staff, facilities and marketing. Delegate the sporting side—or take Full Control, season after season.
Footy Manager
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Second-strongest match for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
Take charge of a football club and answer for everything: sign players in a market where clubs haggle for days, balance the wage bill against the board's demands, and steer matches live from the touchline. 27 leagues, 690 clubs, one season at a time.
Simple Football League Manager
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Third-strongest match for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
A football management game for people who love football but don't want to spend hours on every detail. Build your team and guide it through leagues, cups and continental competitions. Featuring 5,909 clubs from 218 countries, 2 difficulty modes, local multiplayer and an easily customizable database.
FOOTDICE
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Ranked #4 for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
FOOTDICE is a roguelite manager game. Found a fictional club, roll dice to run your week; deals, board, fans, training; then manage every match yourself. Get promoted or the run ends. Climb from Division 4 to the World Crown.
FC Mafioso: Football Dynasty Manager
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Ranked #5 for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Simulation with Football Academy Director.
A text-based football management game with procedural storytelling, derby drama, and underworld influence. Build your club, shape your manager, and decide how far you’re willing to go to win.
President FC: Football Club Owner
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Ranked #6 for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
Build and run your own football club, starting in the lower leagues. Negotiate transfers, develop academy talent and decide where the money goes. Hire a manager to lead the team, or pick the line-up yourself.
Rush B: Esports Manager
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Ranked #7 for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
Take control of a fps esports team and lead them from underdogs to world champions. Scout talent, develop players, manage personalities, and adapt your strategy in a deep, realism-driven management sim. Are you ready to break records and leave your mark on the esports world?
Club Chairman
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Ranked #8 for Football Academy Director fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Football Academy Director.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Football Academy Director at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~61% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Director.
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 ~61% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Director.
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!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~41% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Football Academy Director.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~51% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football Academy Director.
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!
How to Fish
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Priced ~61% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football Academy Director.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~61% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football Academy Director.
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 ~61% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Director.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under Football Academy Director on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Football Academy Director.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Football Academy Director.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Director.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Magic Archery
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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 Director.
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.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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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 Director.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
No Results Found
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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 Director.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football Academy Director.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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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 Director.
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!
one night, hot springs
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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 Director.
Haru is invited by her old friend Manami to spend a night at the hot springs. All Haru wants to do is enjoy the hot springs like everyone else, but she doesn't want to cause any trouble...
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Frequently asked about Football Academy Director
- How much does Football Academy Director cost?
- Football Academy Director is listed on Steam at 12.74 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Football Academy Director?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Football Academy Director are Calcio Totale, Footy Manager, Simple Football League Manager.
- Who developed Football Academy Director?
- Football Academy Director was developed by Merla Interactive.
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