Football isn't won on the pitch alone. It's won in the boardroom, in the market and on the tactics board.

Nobody's going to hand you anything. You take over a club with nothing: a budget that barely stretches and a crowd that has heard too many promises already. What happens next is on you — who you sign, how you set up each match, and whether you hold your nerve when the results dry up. Total Club Manager is a football management sim with the depth of the greats of the genre. Every season is a story. Yours is still unwritten.

🌍 A whole continent, alive

• The five big European leagues playable with their top two divisions, promotion, relegation and faithful playoffs.

• Dozens of satellite leagues that breathe: squads age, clubs sign, talent emerges. The market never sleeps.

• The three major continental competitions, plus domestic and European super cups in their real formats.

• Knockout cups, with their penalty shootout nights and their upsets. Ask anyone who's gone out in the last 16.

⚽ The dugout is yours

• Every minute is actually played, possession by possession. Nothing is decided before kick-off.

• 8 formations and tactical modifiers: pressing, mentality, tempo. One change at the right moment can win you the league.

• Live the match in real time, suffering every chance, or delegate and skip straight to the result.

• Manage fitness, injuries and card suspensions. One booking too many at the worst possible moment and you know how that ends.

💰 Build your squad

• Transfer market with release clauses, negotiations that get tense and offers that shift right up to deadline day.

• Pre-contract deals from January, free agents, loans and payments in instalments. Everything has a price.

• A living academy: find the gem nobody else has spotted, hand him his debut, then decide whether to sell him for a fortune… or turn him into your fans' idol.

🏟️ More than just coaching

• Expand your stadium stand by stand and upgrade your facilities, with building work that takes as long as it takes.

• Balance the books: wages, TV rights, performance bonuses and sponsorships. Money talks, however much it hurts.

• Hire your backroom staff — scouts, physios, fitness coaches — and feel the difference out on the pitch.

• Keep the board on side. Those targets are there for a reason, and patience runs out.

🏆 Your legend as a manager

• In Career Mode you start at the bottom and let the results do the talking. At the end of every season, the calls come in.

• Go up with your team or make the jump to the club you always dreamed of. Your honours, your records and your all-time XI travel with you.

• It's your legacy, not the badge's. No club can take it from you.

🎨 Your world, your rules

• With the Customisation Centre you can edit teams, players and competitions: names, colours, badges and much more.

• Create multiple databases and share your changes through customisation packs.

One season. One set of fans. A whole career ahead of you. The opening whistle is yours.