Football Manager 2023 review

Football Manager 2023

Need to know

What is it? The 30th edition of the monolith football management sim that loves to eat your time.
Expect to pay £45/$60
Developer Sports Interactive
Publisher SEGA
Reviewed on Windows 10, Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce3060 Ti; and 2021 Macbook Pro, Apple M1 Chip, 16GB RAM
Multiplayer? Yes
Link Official site (opens in new tab)

Playing Football Manager makes me a better and more knowledgeable football fan. I don’t get to know the names and trajectories of upcoming wonderkids anywhere else, and it makes me sound cultured when I can tell my mates about a promising new player from the Austrian league. There’s a big wide world out there, outside of the Premier League, full of talent that’s ripe for the picking. 

In Football Manager 2023 that’s never been truer, and if you’re a fan of playing with virtual spreadsheets and trying to take your tiny hometown football club to the Champions League, then there’s nothing better.

(Image credit: Sega)

I have spent 18 years trying to do just that. Football Manager 2023’s ultra-realism allows me to sign off from my work emails at 5 pm and into my fantasy emails at 6 pm. An army of researchers work to make the player database as true to life as possible, so learning the game directly transfers into real-world football knowledge, in a way that no other sports simulator does. And, like all the other iterations that have come before, I am totally hooked.



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