[Idea] Soccer GM

[vinceprai]

I saw that EA Sports is leaving their partnership with FIFA. Thus, I was wondering if you could make a Soccer GM for us to enjoy? Soccer has a lot of minute details, like youth camps, Promotion/Relegation, and other leagues (FA Cup, Champions League). So maybe you could start off by just simulating the Premier League with no Promotion/Relegation, then slowly expand the game from there! We'd love to see this huge project happen!

[dumbmatter]

Yeah it would be cool some day... https://basketball-gm.com/faq/#other-sport has my thoughts on it which are similar to yours

[DavisWeaver]

I saw that EA Sports is leaving their partnership with FIFA. Thus, I was wondering if you could make a Soccer GM for us to enjoy? Soccer has a lot of minute details, like youth camps, Promotion/Relegation, and other leagues (FA Cup, Champions League). So maybe you could start off by just simulating the Premier League with no Promotion/Relegation, then slowly expand the game from there! We'd love to see this huge project happen!

going to be hard to compete with football manager! https://www.footballmanager.com/

[vinceprai]

DavisWeaver: A Soccer GM would be extremely impressive. Also, Football Manager is sponsored by Phil Foden and Ilkay Gundogan, 2 players on Manchester Cheaters. I mean, when City's first defense for itself is that "Well, this guy was an Arsenal fan, so we're innocent!" then I don't want to play a game sponsored by those Cheaters.

dumbmatter: You could expand it step-by-step. First, make the EFL system (Premier League all the way down to the National League North/South). Then, maybe add modes for other nations' leagues (La Liga, Bundesliga, Ukrainian Premier League, etc)

Next, you could expand to European soccer with the UEFA Europa Conference League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Champions League, and the UEFA Supercup. Maybe you could get a license from UEFA, the EFL, etc to use the real team logos, names, colors, and players.

Then, to add more and more, you could go to CONCACAF next. Despite CONMEBOL being a hub of amazing national teams like Brazil and Argentina, CONCACAF has good teams and a more notable club soccer system (The MLS). So, maybe do that next. Then, you could move to CONMEBOL, then Asia, then Africa, then maybe even add some fictional clubs on top of that (Like AFC Richmond, which FIFA 23 bungled by putting Roy Kent in the Bantr jersey, which came 1 year too late for him, and by that time he was a coach on AFC Richmond. Maybe make the roster as of S3E12 of Ted Lasso).

Anyways, your GM games are already amazing. Maybe somewhere down the line you could add the contract feature. And I have seen that there are a few nations which still haven't ever used ZenGM (Amazingly, that list doesn't include North Korea). Soccer GM would undoubtedly make your prominence explode around the world.

I sincerely hope that you can work on this.

Thank You.