HALFTIME Manager

Your Club. Your Tactics. Your Football Story. A classic football manager that does none of the work for you. You take charge of a club, pick the lineup, fine-tune the tactics, and build it up over the years. Every matchday plays out as a compact TV broadcast: 2D pitch, commentary, live ticker, real stats. And at halftime, you're in the locker room. The Whole Football World - Six game worlds - from the six major leagues for a quick start to all of Europe with 52 countries and 3,054 clubs. Plus South America, North America, Asia with Oceania, and Africa. - 128 countries bring their own names, sponsors, pitchside ads, and club naming conventions. In Vietnam a club is called CLB, in the Maghreb RC, in Peru FBC. No country sounds like the next. - Up to four tiers with promotion and relegation, plus domestic cups, continental cups, and national teams that come to poach your best players. Matchday - Live direction on the pitch - highlights instead of a wall of stats, with commentary, a ticker, and real numbers: possession, xG, shots, corners. - Weather, crowd, ball - from sunshine to snowfall, stands that react with the game, and a ball that actually rolls. - The halftime locker room - team talk, tactical changes, substitutions. And when it gets tight, mid-match too. - 16 formations, mentality, pressing, and playing style, all adjustable from the touchline at any time. Or skip ahead if the opponent isn't worth your time. The Club - Your stadium, stand by stand - rows, tiers, roofing, plus twelve upgrades from floodlights to the beer stand to the training ground. - The money - main and secondary sponsors, ticket prices, season tickets, fan bond, and members. Price it too high, and the stands stay empty. - Marketing and fan shop - twelve campaigns, your own warehouse, and orders you'll actually have to sell. - Loans from lenders in your own country, with credit score, term, and rate. - A board that sets you a season objective, watches how you do, and eventually runs out of patience. The Players - Weekly training with five sessions, for the whole squad or individual groups. If your plan is no good, you'll find out on Monday. - Youth Academy - sign talents, track them through three performance tests, and decide in the end: promote them or let them go. - 13 special traits, from the poacher to the tireless runner, and development that plays out over a whole career instead of two summers. - Transfer market with fees, signing bonuses, loans, free transfers, pre-contracts - and agents who take a cut everywhere. And If That's Not Enough - Build your own world - leagues, tiers, clubs, squads, crests, and sponsors, all in the editor. - Steam Workshop - share your world or grab someone else's. - Crest builder, custom sponsor logos, custom thumbnails. And Also - 29 languages. - Local multiplayer - up to four managers on the same computer, each with their own color, and the interface switches along with them. - Five difficulty levels and an interface you can scale from 70% to 200%. - 15 achievements and cloud saves. To Be Honest The clubs, players, and crests are fictional. The league structures aren't: how many tiers a country has, how many sections, how its cup works - that's rebuilt for real. And the simulation doesn't secretly roll dice: the same save gives the same result. If you get relegated, it was on you.