Planned Release Date: Q3 2026

About This Game

DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT: FOOTBALL CLUB

YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR.

Everything else is noise.

Director of Management: Football Club is a deep football management simulation built around three ideas:

Every person has a life beyond football.

Every club exists within one of the largest football worlds ever created.

Every player has the tools to reshape that world through built-in editing and mod support.

Build a dynasty. Rescue a fallen giant. Take a village club to the world stage. Every transfer, contract, staff appointment, tactical adjustment, and financial decision shapes the future of your organization.

DOMFC is built for people who want to run football, not watch it.

EVERY CAREER LEAVES A MARK

The teenager you sign today might captain your club for fifteen years, return as a coach twenty years later, and eventually sit in the opposite dugout trying to get you fired.

Every person in DOMFC exists beyond the pitch. Club legends become managers. Former goalkeepers become scouts. Physios become sporting directors. Youth prospects become rivals. Careers continue long after retirement, creating stories that unfold across decades of simulation.

More than 1,000,000 players, coaches, scouts, executives, medical staff, and managers develop through a universal life and career system. Each person possesses over 100 attributes spanning technical ability, personality, professionalism, intelligence, leadership, coaching potential, medical expertise, and hidden characteristics.

Life events can include injuries, family milestones, mental health challenges, career changes, retirement, and death, with extensive content settings allowing players to customize the experience.

No two careers are identical, and no two saves create the same football history.

ONE OF THE LARGEST FOOTBALL WORLDS EVER CREATED

Football does not stop at the top leagues.

DOMFC simulates football across:

• Nearly 900 territories

• 6 confederations

• 15,000+ competitions

• 20,000+ clubs

• 1,000,000+ players and staff

From global superclubs to semi-professional sides on remote islands, the entire football pyramid exists within a single simulation.

Load a single territory, an entire continent, or the whole world.

THE COMPLETE FOOTBALL PYRAMID

The simulation includes:

• Domestic leagues across multiple tiers

• National cup competitions

• Super cups and promotion playoffs

• Reserve and youth football

• Continental club tournaments

• International football and world competitions

Every competition is connected to a larger football ecosystem where promotion, relegation, qualification, development, and history continue year after year.

MEN'S AND WOMEN'S FOOTBALL

Men's and women's football are part of the same living world and receive the same simulation depth throughout the game.

Manage a men's club, a women's club, or both simultaneously. Transfers, finances, scouting, development pathways, competitions, staff structures, and career systems are fully integrated rather than treated as separate modes.

This is not a separate women's mode. It is the same simulation engine, the same depth, and the same long-term world simulation.

RUN THE ENTIRE CLUB

Success is built long before match day.

Control every layer of your organization:

• Transfers, loans, negotiations, and contracts

• Tactical systems, formations, and match preparation

• Scouting networks and player recruitment

• Training schedules and player development

• Youth academies and annual intakes

• Coaches, analysts, scouts, and medical staff

• Budgets, sponsorships, and wage structures

• Board expectations and ownership demands

• Press conferences, media relations, and dressing-room management

Every decision influences the future because every decision changes the people inside the club.

DOMFC includes a fully integrated in-game editor from day one. Modify players, staff, clubs, finances, competitions, and world data without leaving your save.

BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MANAGE

DOMFC focuses on decisions rather than presentation.

Advance rapidly through seasons while concentrating on recruitment, development, finances, and long-term planning instead of spending hours watching matches.

Build squads. Develop talent. Balance budgets. Survive board meetings. Create a club that outlives you.

BUILT TO LAST

DOMFC includes comprehensive modding tools from day one.

Create custom databases, competitions, clubs, graphics packs, alternate histories, fictional worlds, future eras, and total conversions. Whether you want to update real-world football, recreate historical seasons, or build something entirely original, the tools are included with the game.

No paid editor.

No paid database packs.

No subscriptions.

Create the football world you want.

NO SAVE STAYS THE SAME

A giant collapses under debt.

A fourth-division club reaches continental football.

A generation of academy graduates transforms the fortunes of a nation.

A club legend returns decades later in a completely different role.

A manager who started in obscurity becomes one of the most successful figures in football history.

DOMFC does not generate seasons.

It generates football history.

Content settings allow you to customize life-event systems and simulation depth to match your preferred experience.

PLAY ANYWHERE

• Steam Deck support target

• Windows, macOS, and Linux

• Steam Cloud saves

• Steam achievements

• Keyboard and controller support

• In-game editor included

• Comprehensive modding tools included

• No microtransactions

• No pay-to-win mechanics

FREE INTRASOLAR EXPANSION (PLANNED)

Humanity eventually takes football beyond Earth.

Future scenario modes are planned to introduce Luna, Mars, Titan, Ceres, Ganymede, and other off-world territories through the Football Confederation of Intrasolar Territories.

Manage clubs separated by millions of kilometers. Build interplanetary dynasties. Compete across worlds.

Included free for all players.

KEY FEATURES

• Nearly 900 territories

• 6 confederations

• 15,000+ competitions

• 20,000+ clubs

• 1,000,000+ players and staff

• Universal Person System with complete life and career simulation

• 100+ attributes per person

• Men's and women's football with equal depth

• Deep transfers, contracts, scouting, finances, youth development, and staff management

• Fully integrated in-game editor included

• Comprehensive modding tools included

• Dynamic world evolution across decades of simulation

• Steam Deck, Windows, macOS, and Linux support

• Steam achievements and Steam Cloud

• No microtransactions

• Free Intrasolar Expansion planned

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI-assisted tools were used to draft in-game text content including news templates, inbox messages, and narrative event text, as well as the Steam store page description. No live/runtime AI content generation occurs during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

DOMFC is a deep football management simulation. It contains no visual depictions of violence, sexual content, or drug use. All mature content is presented through text-based events and news stories.

**The game includes the following mature themes:**

**Violence and crime.** Players, staff, and clubs can be involved in criminal events including assault, domestic violence, drink driving, match fixing, organized crime, and drug trafficking. Fan violence, riots, and stadium incidents can occur, including injuries and deaths. Terrorist attacks are a rare world event. All criminal behavior carries negative consequences.

**Death and serious injury.** Characters can die from accidents, cardiac events, and other causes. Riot and crime events can result in fatalities. Deaths are permanent and affect the game world.

**Suicide and mental health.** The game simulates mental health crises including depression and burnout. Suicide is a possible outcome at the extreme end of the mental health system. A sports psychology and support system is available. All mental health content can be adjusted or disabled in content settings.

**Drugs and alcohol.** Characters can be involved in alcohol abuse, drink driving, doping, recreational drug use, drug trafficking, and the medical use of substances that may be illegal in certain territories. Substance abuse is depicted with negative consequences.

**Discrimination.** The game simulates racism, homophobia, religious discrimination, sexism, and xenophobia as real events that can affect players and staff. These are presented as harmful, with systems for response, support, and progressive change over time. The game does not endorse any form of discrimination.

**Language.** The game contains mild to moderate profanity in dialogue, press conferences, and news content.

**All mature content categories can be individually toggled off in the game's content settings.**