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Football management simulation focused on running a club rather than on-pitch action. The 2025 release from Sports Interactive and publisher Sega has 33,116 Steam reviews at 34% positive, with a mixed rating and a $59.99 initial price.
Overview
Football Manager 26 is a 2025 Simulation game developed by Sports Interactive and published by SEGA. On Steam it has gathered 33,149 player reviews, 34% of them positive, which counts as a mixed reception among indie titles in the Simulation category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $60. The pairing of developer Sports Interactive with publisher SEGA is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Simulation projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 895,000 to 2.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Football Manager 26 can be compared against similar Simulation titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
33,149
Positive
34%
Steam appid
3551340
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0895K to 2.1M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $30.7M to $71.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$60 | +15 |
| positive_34% | -10 |
| final NB | 45 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Football Manager 26 at roughly 895,000 to 2.1 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 33,149 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $51.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $30.66Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $30.66 to $59.99, averaging $52.30 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $30.66 on 2026-04-29.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Football Manager 26 sold?
- indielist estimates Football Manager 26 has sold between 895,023 and 2,088,387 units (median 1,491,705), derived from its 33,149 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Football Manager 26?
- Football Manager 26 was developed by Sports Interactive and published by SEGA.
- When was Football Manager 26 released?
- Football Manager 26 was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Football Manager 26 have on Steam?
- Football Manager 26 has 33,149 Steam reviews, of which 34% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Football Manager 26 within the Simulation segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Sports Interactive's other releases and SEGA's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Football Manager 26 sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Football Manager 26 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Simulation game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.