Take Charge of Football Operations

In Football Executive 27, you are not the head coach. You are the sporting director responsible for assembling the club's football leadership, building the squad and defining its long-term direction.

Your head coach independently selects the lineup, makes substitutions and controls the match tactics. Your task is to hire the right coach, provide a suitable squad and evaluate their performance.

Build Your Squad

Analyse your team's strengths, weaknesses and tactical roles. Decide which players have a future at the club, where reinforcements are needed and how to balance sporting quality with financial responsibility.

Scout and Negotiate

Assign scouts, identify potential signings and gradually improve your knowledge of each player. Negotiate transfer fees, salaries, contract lengths, bonuses and additional clauses.

Not every target will be available. Budgets, competing clubs, player ambitions and sporting prospects influence every negotiation.

Manage Coaches and Staff

Hire a head coach, assemble your backroom staff and discuss squad planning, tactics and player development. The abilities and decisions of your employees affect the entire club.

Experience Matchday

Follow matches through a detailed 2D presentation. Observe formations, tactical adjustments, chances and performance data, then judge whether your coach is getting the best from the squad.

Carry the Responsibility

Manage finances, contracts, transfer budgets and board expectations. Recruitment decisions, sporting results and the club's financial development determine how your work is judged.

• Football management from the sporting director's perspective

• Detailed squad and transfer planning

• Scouting with gradually improving player knowledge

• Transfer and contract negotiations

• Independent head coaches

• Staff, finance and youth management

• Detailed competitions, statistics and awards

• Live matches with a 2D pitch and tactical developments