Tag: Football Manager 2022

Football Manager fan sets Guinness World Record with match that lasted 416 years

That’s one way to burn through several centuries.

Guinness World Records just recognized the longest-ever match of Football Manager — a light back and forth that lasted more than four centuries is all

As reported by GamesRadar, UEFA Grassroots C football coach Pawel Sicinski from Poland spent 416 years and 134 days in a single game of Football Manager — which the Guinness World Records committee now recognizes. The match ran from Jan. 4, 2018, through May 18, 2434, on the in-game calendar, with only 260 days off. As a frame of reference, if an actual soccer game took this long ended today, it would’ve begun back in 1606. All the players would’ve been dust ages ago.

Guinness World Records even highlighted Sicinski’s achievement on Twitter.

According to the official Guinness World Records page, Sicinski accomplished this staggering feat on Sept. 28, 2021, in Football Manager 2018. This peculiar category is more active than you might think too. Sepp Hedel, the prior record-holder, played a single game of Football Manager for 333 in-game years, which equals roughly 1,940 hours in the real world.

Sadly, there are no precise details on how many real-world hours Sicinski’s record would translate to, but upwards of a couple of thousand hours for sure. So if you’re bored and hyper-competitive, you might as well try and dethrone the reigning champ. Good luck with that!

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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Football Manager 2022 predicts the next 25 years of soccer – and it’s bad news for Juve fans

We let Football Manager 2022’s database crunch through the next 25 years of soccer.

Football Manager’s database has always been its greatest asset. Once upon a time developer Sports Interactive used to be lucky to prize info away from real club scouts – now it’s the other way around. The FM database has become a tool in its own right for many major clubs’ scouting networks. This guy even got a data analysis position at Serbian side FK Bežanija thanks in part to his FM prowess.

So when we leave that database to crunch through the next 25 years of the sport, the results aren’t entirely spurious. The numbers governing player ability, potential and position here aren’t tailored and balanced for an easy player experience. They’re the football world’s best attempt and quantifying its entire population’s talents, and they can predict the future as well as anybody. How will the wealth generated by the new generation of superstars be distributed? When will Newcastle, the new richest club in the world, win its first trophy? Will Cristiano Ronaldo ever stop scoring goals?

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Leave it to the FM database. And if you do take stock in its predictions, they make for some very sobering news for certain clubs.

Football Manager 2022 bargains – cheap players who’ll turn your squad around

Let’s help you secure some truly solid players without bankrupting your club.

As Football Manager deepens in complexity every year, what was once the simple task of signing a good player who’d bolster your side has become a life-swallowing endeavor involving huge scouting operations, board meetings, discarded coffee cups and possibly one of those corkboards covered in photographs and red string like Charlie has in It’s Always Sunny. 

Gone are the days of simply signing Maxim Tsigalko to your lower league languishers, sitting back and watching the 30-goal seasons and effortless promotions roll in. So to help you secure the signature of a truly solid player without bankrupting your club, we’ve trawled the database for bargains.

Keep in mind that the exact transfer fee – and, indeed, the performance of a given player at your club – may vary. Your reputation as a manager and your relationship with certain agents may affect transfer fees and contract negotiations. Player personalities, tendencies and positions can all impact how well they fit in with your dressing room and thus perform on the pitch. 

However, if you can find a tactical and interpersonal fit for them, the players below have the potential to become hugely important squad members, and at the beginning of the game they’re available at bargain prices. Get them while they’re hot.