Games like Footy Manager
If Footy Manager is your kind of game, the closest matches are Proper Football Boss, Football Academy Director and The Pay Window: 80s Wrestling Simulator — 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 Footy Manager: 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.
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Proper Football Boss
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Top pick for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy Manager.
Remember when football was proper? Let us take you back 40 years — to when naming two subs was still a luxury and the only seven-figure salaries were in Italian lira.
Football Academy Director
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Second-strongest match for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy Manager.
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.
The Pay Window: 80s Wrestling Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Footy Manager.
Book shows, manage talent, build feuds, and survive the US territory era and beyond in a text-based wrestling booking sim where ratings, money, morale, and momentum can make or break your promotion.
Court Vision
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Ranked #4 for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy Manager.
Court Vision is a deep basketball GM sim manager. Build a championship dynasty across multiple seasons through scouting, the draft, free agency, trades, and player development, all driven by a simulation engine calibrated against real basketball data.
Calcio 98
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Ranked #5 for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy Manager.
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.
ShotCaller 26
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Ranked #6 for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy Manager.
Build a Counter-Strike inspired esports org from a scrappy team of five into the world #1. Sign players, train stars, negotiate sponsorships, design your merch, and call the shots on Match Day - all from a living team house where everyone has an opinion and your inbox runs the whole operation.
FD 27: Direct Your Football Club
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Ranked #7 for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy Manager.
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.
Pro Soccer Manager 27
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Ranked #8 for Footy Manager fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Footy 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.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Footy Manager.
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The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Footy 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.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Footy Manager.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
AdVenture Capitalist
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome, eager young investor, to AdVenture Capitalist! Arguably the world's greatest Capitalism simulator!
Fallout Shelter
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Footy Manager.
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Footy 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.
Emily is Away
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Footy Manager.
Emily is Away is an interactive story. Create a screenname and choose your path through the branching narrative.
One-armed robber
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Footy Manager.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
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Frequently asked about Footy Manager
- What games are most similar to Footy Manager?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Footy Manager are Proper Football Boss, Football Academy Director, The Pay Window: 80s Wrestling Simulator.
- Who developed Footy Manager?
- Footy Manager was developed by Marajo Games.
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 Footy Manager.
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