Football Sporting Director
Last update (27-07-2024) : Edit Mode & Game balancing
What is Football Sporting Director?
It's a free browser-based game where you play the role of a sports director of a football club (or 'soccer' club, as some countries like to call it). You manage the club's strategy, keeping an eye on the field and on finances, always on the lookout for the best deals on transfer market.
How to win the game?
Everyone has their own goal and vision. Do you prefer taking over a big club and winning the European Cup as quickly as possible? Building a dynasty? Taking the reins of a small team and making it grow? Developing young talents? Ensuring a starting spot for that old player who has become grotesque but who captured your heart in the past? Everything is possible!
How to play?
I would advise starting by exploring the various menus and available buttons. To advance in time, simply click on 'Advance' or go to the dashboard to progress more quickly. If you're stuck, just follow the instructions displayed in red!
Website : football-sd.com
Development log
- New feature : Edit Mode !Jul 31, 2024
- New feature : Live matches !May 07, 2024
Comments
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The small newspaper text is a funny detail that really shows how dedicated the dev is and the ability to edit teams and players is incredibly fun, wish this game got more recognition because it deserves it.
Haha thanks a lot Bankloova !
The update is very fun to mess around with and create dumb characters, good job on that part but I hope that one day it does not take super long to load a new season.
Great game but there are two issues - one very minor and one major. Negotiations is spelled wrong, and the player progression seems random rather than preformance based. For example, I had a 73/73 striker who scored 25 goals in a season, yet lost 3 ratings, or a 71/90 attacking mid who got 20 contributions yet lost 6 potential. I may be wrong here, but it seems that players aren't rewarded based on how well they play. Very enjoyable but this problem makes it frustrating to play with wonderkids, for example.
Hi ! Thanks for your feedback !
I see what you mean and I understand your frustration. Currently, the progression system is rather simple and indeed not based on past performances. Since performances are already based on the rating, if we reward good performances, a good player will inevitably become stronger the following year, perform better, and thus become even better, and so on. Conversely, a bad player will get worse. In my view, progression indicates the expected performance for the upcoming season rather than reflecting the results of the past season.
In your first example, if your player has a 73/73 rating (meaning no room for improvement), it indicates he’s over thirty and can only decline.
I understand this might be frustrating for young talents, but in reality, there are many young players who were dubbed 'the next Messi' or 'the next Zidane,' who were thought to have enormous potential but disappointed or whose progress was slowed (hence the significant drops in potential for some young players in the game). I did not want progression in the game to be linear. Nonetheless, even though potential can vary over time, a player with high potential is more likely, on average, to develop better than a player of the same level with average potential.
I'm not sure if this is very clear. I hope to introduce other features that might influence player development (like a coach or specific training), but I still want to maintain some randomness. I recently made slight adjustments to the overall progression to balance the game, which may change your experience.
Regarding the most important point, thank you for pointing it out! 'negotiation' is 'négociations' in French, and unfortunately, I am French… I'll correct that soon!
That's fine. I've played a few more seasons since then and the progression doesn't seem as bad as I had first thought. I have a thing with all football games where I always develop youth talents. Whether it's fifa/eafc, football manager or other games like this it's always my passion. I feel that adding a youth academy for teams would be beneficial as it means that not all players just spawn in the free agents. Would be a nice feature in a future update. But for now, a very nice game that is high quality compared to how new it is.
I love this game! Just a small thing, when I watch a champions league game I'm not able to see some teams in squads and I can't find the best players. Could you add more countries to the league selection for sqads
Hi ! You're right, I'll probably make every team available in "Squads". For now, you can still see the best players in "Players".
Thanks for noticing that !
Minor thing, but I find it hilarious when I look at some of the player's height and weight. For instance, I had a DL that was 166 cm tall and weighed 103 kg. That gives a BMI of 37.38 - a little unrealistic for a professional footballer. Height can remain random, but maybe you could set the weight based on BMI (weight = height of player squared times n, where n is a random number between 18.5 and 30) In this formula, n is the BMI range from normal to overweight.
I have been giving lots of suggestions, sorry if it has been bothering you!
Damn he's wider than taller.. like Xherdan Shaqiri..
Not bothering at all ! I have a lot of things like that I want to make more realistic ;)
Wonderful game! A few suggestions:
When the staff feature is added can you allow the option to disable it? I kind of like the current simplicity. Also for squad can you create the option to look at the squads from all seasons (just like top goal scorer and transfers where one can see records from the past seasons). So that I can keep track of a player's performance more easily.
Really love this game, possibly the best football manager game I've found thus far. Well done!
Just a side note: I don't know whether it is just me, but my team head coach made 3 substitutions right before half time for a match even when the player is still fit. This is not very logical, can you revise this if possible (but it does not really affect my experience)
Hi, a new suggestion: can you add "retired" players into the "transfers" section as well? Right now it is impossible to access the old players who have retired so by adding them to the transfer list after they retire, we can still access them. Thank you!
Noted too, I want them to be accessible too!
There are instances where players on the bench score an own goal
Also sometimes suspensions do not work. A team might be kicked out of the cup knockout stages but a suspended player will be deemed eligible to play in the next league game happening after a cup round which the team did not participate in.
Another request: option of deleting a game apart from "load" and "export".
Thanks for noticing that, I corrected it for the soon-to-be-released next update ! I'll check for the suspensions mistakes too.
And yes, deleting a game is one of the many features I have to had ;)
Hello, and thanks for playing!
Don't known yet how I'll handle the staff, but I won't make it complex, and maybe add an automatic button to let computer run it or something like that.
Noted about team through seasons and weird subs, I'll check that.
Thank your for the feedback :)
Hello, still love the game and love simulating through seasons and seeing what I win in 10 years time, however I wish there was like a sandbox mode almost that allows me to just screw around with starting 11s or create some characters with custom stats and see how they do playing for Luton town. But not super important but still just a funny little idea. (BTW I do love the live matches update it is very immersive)
Yes, I would like to soon provide the ability to modify player names, their characteristics, edit clubs, and take control of any club at any time. That will come someday! For now, I am trying to stabilize the game in areas I'm not very satisfied with (such as financial evolution) and continue to develop some cool features. However, a sandbox mode is indeed planned for the medium term!
Thanks for the live matches, it's just text but I find it more exciting to discover your result minute by minute like that.
Very good game. The only problem for the moment is that after a few seasons I find myself blocked due to a lack of payroll while I finish 3rd in the Premier League, 16th in the Champions League, final of the cut, but I can't make any transfers because I don't have enough money even though I have a huge transfer budget. I had this problem on all my games.
Thanks for the feedback ! It's really precious to fix things like this. Maximum payroll is not the same every time, and there may be a quite huge gap from one game to another, even for the same team (hey, not every president is ready to break the bank for his club...). But for a 3rd place in PL (the evolution is for now only based on the championship final rank each season), the payroll should easily be 2 or 3 times (or even more) greater than your 1 600 000 per month. Sorry about that, I'll try to find out what could be the cause and fix it. Thanks again !
Love this game, you should add like a trophy room so you can keep track of everything you have accomplished but this game is one of my favorites.
Thanks ! Trophy room is a cool idea, I'm currently working on a livetext for the games, when it's done I may think about that !
Free FM, nice
Thanks a lot !