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EnglishENFootball management for PC · 2027
Season goal: win the title.
A football management game in the tradition of the early nineties — but with a world that keeps living when you're not looking. 53 associations, a board with a memory and a transfer market that trades without you.
Matchday
The match plays out like a sports broadcast: ticker, on-screen graphics, goal scenes. You make substitutions, change the shape, pull the team back — or you simulate and read the report afterwards. Both run on the same engine, so simulating is never the better option.
How you start
Take charge of one of the clubs from 53 associations. Or choose one of the two longer roads:
Manager career
At the start three clubs make you an offer, mostly from the third division. With a bit of luck there's a second-division side among them. Your reputation as a coach grows with results above expectations, with promotions and titles. Then bigger clubs come calling — and once your reputation is good enough, clubs from abroad too. Moves happen at the end of the season. Get sacked and you're out of work, waiting for the next phone call.
Found a club
You choose the name, short name, colours, crest, country and city — everything else is hard work. Your club starts in the lowest division and can climb through every league to the very top. And the stadium gets your look: skins, free of charge and switchable at any time.
The board
The board negotiates your contract, sets the season targets and doesn't judge you after every match, but at four points in the season: after matchday 10, at the winter break, in the run-in and at the end of the season. Miss the mark twice and you get a warning. Miss it three times and you clear your desk.
Transfer market
A top club won't sell its best player — not on the last day and not for double the money. What's available are cast-offs, expiring contracts and stars who have long outgrown their small club. A veteran comes cheap on the fee and expensive on wages, just like in the real business.
Sponsorship & marketing
Twenty brands and six kit suppliers court your club — or they don't. Main sponsor, sleeve, kit supplier, stadium advertising all the way to naming rights: every offer can be negotiated, with bonuses for titles and European football. What a brand pays depends on your club's standing. If you'd rather not handle it yourself, hand the job to your head of marketing.
Fan shop & merchandise
Shirts, fan gear, special kits: you set the collection and decide how much gets produced. Too little means sold out, too much means a full warehouse. A new star sells shirts — and so does a winning streak. Add campaigns on social media, TV, in print and abroad — and every one of them can flop.
Stadium
Fan shop, restaurant, media house, medical centre, training pitches — every building has its own place on the grounds and grows over three expansion levels. Some bring in money on every matchday, others make your team better. The stands you expand block by block.
EVERGOAL
Every Saturday the sports portal EVERGOAL publishes match reports, transfers, tables and rumours. Some of those rumours turn into real offers — for your players, from exactly the club that was in the paper.
And in between
A scouting day, a year of observation, then the reveal: you only see what a talent is made of once you take a closer look.
Weekly plans with a focus and an intensity. Work them too hard and they'll be tired on Saturday.
Six levers and two special instructions — from ultra-defensive to the counter-attack, with consequences you can feel.
A wage budget built from revenue, sponsors, merchandise and stadium operations. Staff costs are where clubs come unstuck.
Without scouting you only get a rough estimate. Follow a player for a year and you really know him.
The draw as a ceremony, ball by ball. A league phase, two-legged knockout rounds, penalty shoot-outs live, kick by kick — and a national cup where a second-division side can knock you out.
Friendlies, a tournament, an open day, a scouting day: you plan the summer in the calendar, date by date, until the first matchday.
Assistant coach, scouts, doctors, head of marketing — each with their own profile and strengths. Whoever you trust gets the jobs.
Alpha & Beta
The Touchline isn't finished yet — and right now every opinion counts. As a tester you play new versions before anyone else, find bugs before somebody else does and tell us what feels wrong. Sign up and we'll email you as soon as the next test round starts.