Game entry
Football Manager 2018
2017 · Sports, Simulation · PC, Mac, Linux · Sega Games
Football Manager 2018 is ranked no. 4,346 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,388 and 40% of duels won. Its most contested head-to-head pits it against World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International: 1 wins to 2 across 3 duels. Where it fares best, it sits at no. 121 out of 203 (Sports).
World rank
no. 4,346
ELO score
1,388
Wins
40%
Duels played
83
About Football Manager 2018
They say football is a game of opinions and everyone has theirs, but it’s only yours that counts around here.
You make the decisions now, from who you sign and who you sell, to how you manage your budget. Will you build tactics around the players at your disposal or train them in your vision of how the game should be played? Who you pick and who you bench will affect squad harmony, and it’s up to you to manage it. Every decision comes back to you.
Get it right and you’ll be the star of the show, grabbing the newspaper headlines and dominating trends on social media. They’ll write your name in footballing folklore…if you succeed, of course.
With unparalleled choices both on and off the pitch, all within the immersive footballing world, it’s time to decide what kind of manager do you want to be?
Try your hand in 50 of the biggest footballing countries
Win the title with any one of world’s top 2500 clubs
Play the transfer market with over 600,000 real players and staff
Watch your football vision come to life before your very eyes
All purchases of Football Manager 2018 also include a free copy of Football Manager Touch 2018 for PC/Mac and Linux.
New for this season!
Dynamics – A harmonious squad produces better results on the pitch. By building partnerships amongst your players – both on and off the pitch – and maintaining a good dressing room atmosphere you’ll get the best performances out of your squad.
Matchday Live – A brand new graphics engine produces the best lighting, stadiums and player models in the series’ history, alongside a sleeker match interface and modernised presentation that bring your fixtures to life.
Real World Scouting System – A true-to-life representation of the techniques used by the world’s biggest clubs including more detailed data analysis that, combined with a wider range of scouting options, give you a better overview of any potential signing.
Sports Science – The new Medical Centre gives you a more complete overview of your squad’s injury situation, with your medical team providing advice on feedback on individual players’ injury risks and how to avoid injuries occurring during training.
Tactics – A redesigned tactics screen puts analysis at its heart, giving you a clear view of whether your tactic is working. The new pre-match briefing allows you to be better prepared for your upcoming fixtures, while new player roles give you more ways to exploit your players’ abilities.
Fantasy Draft – Redesigned with a new interface that is perfect for streaming and with several new setup options that help tailor the Fantasy Draft experience to you, including a bigger squad budget and a Quick Start option.
Football Intelligence – A realistic transfer market that reflects the inflated transfer fees and contract values, more clauses to help finalise that blockbuster deal and the more intelligent transfer and board AI that take into account more contextual information from the game world.
ELO progression
Score moved from 1,500 to 1,388 ELO points over the last 215 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against World Soccer: Winning Eleven 6 International 33% 3 duels played · 55 points behind
- against Score! Hero 50% 2 duels played · 148 points behind
- against World Cup 98 50% 2 duels played · 42 points behind
- against Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 0% 2 duels played · 77 points behind
- against Lonely Mountains: Downhill 0% 2 duels played · 141 points behind
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The standing
Where Football Manager 2018 ranks
The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Football Manager 2018 stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 121 out of 203 (Sports).
| Ranking | Position | Games competing |
|---|---|---|
| World ranking | 4,346 | 5,110 |
| Sports | 121 | 203 |
| 2010s | 1,775 | 2,044 |
| 2017 | 191 | 222 |
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