Football Ambition 27
Football Ambition is a simple but deep football club management and simulation game where you take control as the owner or as a manager. Build your squad, improve facilities, manage finances, shape the club’s future and rewrite the scrolls of destiny.
- nations
- 221
- competitions
- 473
- leagues
- 367
- clubs
- 5,998
nations
competitions
leagues
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Why build this game?
Design Mindset
I grew up playing games like FIFA, PES, and FM. I loved something different about each of them, but they all had their problems for me. Like Career Mode was fun and easy to play, but it often lacked realism. FM offered amazing depth, but it felt too complicated and I got bored. Master League had a special feeling that many of us, I believe, still miss today.
My vision for Football Ambition is to bring the best parts of these games together. I want it to have the personality of Master League, the fun of Career Mode, and the depth of Football Manager, but with a cleaner and simpler interface.
The game will offer two modes. You can play as a manager and focus on tactics, training, players, and matches. You can also play as a club owner and control the finances, facilities, staff, and future of the club. Many of us have always wanted a proper owner mode, and I want Football Ambition to finally offer that experience.
Transfers will feel more realistic. Computer controlled clubs will consider their finances, squad needs, and playing style before buying or selling players.
Youth development will also be rewarding without becoming an easy way to get rich. Every young player from age 14 will belong to an academy. If you find a talented player, you will need to negotiate with the academy and compete with other clubs to sign them.
Moreover, I have always wanted football club management games to offer an immersive fan system. Like a social media platform where people and journalists talk about you and other top AI clubs in the database. So, yes, this game will offer that as well.
Football Ambition is for players like me who love building teams, discovering talent, developing clubs but with realistic challenges. It will be simple to learn, relaxing to play, and deep enough to make every career feel special. Also keep in mind that this game is a casual but deep and realistic simulation experience; decisions you make will define scores and how your club writes its future.
Raif RazyCEO and Lead DesignerMega Games
At a glance
Key Features
Football Ambition 27 offers you a casual but deep football management experience that simulates more than 5,000 clubs in a living, dazzling footballing world. You can play the game in two modes: manager mode and owner mode.
5,998 clubs. 131,995 players. 473 competitions across 221 nations, from the top of Europe down to the sixth tier of England and Spain. Clubs will sign players, sack managers, run out of money and win things while you are busy with your own season.
Many ways to start
Start the way you want to. Take over an existing club with its existing squad, drop into the lowest tier with a handful of players, or build a brand new club from nothing.
Play the world realistically or turn the realism down. And choose how the game ages around you: players retire and are reborn, or fresh players emerge over time the traditional way.
Match Engine
Every engine in the game, the match engine included, is built in Rust for the fastest performance possible. Each match weighs three things: the players’ attributes, the coach’s tactical system and how it stands up against the opponent’s, and each player’s style, because every style in the game suits some systems better than others.
Realistic Transfers
Computer-controlled clubs weigh their finances, their squad needs and their playing style before they buy or sell. A club will not hand over a key player because you bid high, and it will not sign someone it has nowhere to put. Fees and wages come from where a player actually stands in the game, not from a number typed into a table.
On deadline day the clock runs in two-hour blocks. Answers come back the same afternoon, players leave before midnight, and the club that said no at nine might say yes at four.
Realistic Finance
Budgets come from what the club is genuinely worth. Revenue comes from the gate, the broadcast deal, the sponsors and what you sold. Money spent on a stand is money not spent on a striker, and the stand takes months to open before it earns a penny back.
In owner mode there is a figure called Safe to Spend. It is the amount you can spend once the season’s expenses are paid.
Youth System
Every young player from the age of 14 already belongs to an academy. Find someone special and you negotiate with the academy that holds them, against every other club that spotted them too. Some come good, some never do. If you really want a challenge, skip the scouting system: spot academy players yourself in the market and send scouts to learn their expected overall rating.
Social Media System
An immersive social media system. Supporters, rival fans, reporters, aggregator accounts and commentary accounts will talk about your club, your players and other top AI clubs.
Every account is a person with a temperament. Follow the ones worth reading, turn the bell on for the ones you cannot miss, and watch the following grow or collapse with the results.
Scenario Creator
Cut a scenario out of any database and set the world where you want it. Put the table where you like, play by hand the fixtures you care about, and let the game settle the rest of the season around them.
Then start from that moment. Name it, save it, and put it on the Workshop for everybody else.
Moddable Database
Clubs, players, nations, sponsors, coaches and more load from versioned data you are allowed to edit. Badges, kits and logos resolve from your folder before the shipped ones, so an update can never delete your work.
A whole database is one file. Publish it to the Steam Workshop as a single item, and subscribe to somebody else's to have it land in your game ready to play.