Overview
About this game
DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT: FOOTBALL CLUB
YOU ARE THE DIRECTOR.
Everything else is noise.
Director of Management: Football Club is a deep football management simulation built around three ideas:
Every person has a life beyond football.
Every club exists within one of the largest football worlds ever created.
Every player has the tools to reshape that world through built-in editing and mod support.
Build a dynasty. Rescue a fallen giant. Take a village club to the world stage. Every transfer, contract, staff appointment, tactical adjustment, and financial decision shapes the future of your organization.
DOMFC is built for people who want to run football, not watch it.
EVERY CAREER LEAVES A MARK
The teenager you sign today might captain your club for fifteen years, return as a coach twenty years later, and eventually sit in the opposite dugout trying to get you fired.
Every person in DOMFC exists beyond the pitch. Club legends become managers. Former goalkeepers become scouts. Physios become sporting directors. Youth prospects become rivals. Careers continue long after retirement, creating stories that unfold across decades of simulation.
More than 1,000,000 players, coaches, scouts, executives, medical staff, and managers develop through a universal life and career system. Each person possesses over 100 attributes spanning technical ability, personality, professionalism, intelligence, leadership, coaching potential, medical expertise, and hidden characteristics.
Life events can include injuries, family milestones, mental health challenges, career changes, retirement, and death, with extensive content settings allowing players to customize the experience.
No two careers are identical, and no two saves create the same football history.
ONE OF THE LARGEST FOOTBALL WORLDS EVER CREATED
Football does not stop at the top leagues.
DOMFC simulates football across:
Nearly 900 territories
6 confederations
15,000+ competitions
20,000+ clubs
1,000,000+ players and staff
From global superclubs to semi-professional sides on remote islands, the entire football pyramid exists within a single simulation.
Load a single territory, an entire continent, or the whole world.
THE COMPLETE FOOTBALL PYRAMID
The simulation includes:
Domestic leagues across multiple tiers
National cup competitions
Super cups and promotion playoffs
Reserve and youth football
Continental club tournaments
International football and world competitions
Every competition is connected to a larger football ecosystem where promotion, relegation, qualification, development, and history continue year after year.
MEN'S AND WOMEN'S FOOTBALL
Men's and women's football are part of the same living world and receive the same simulation depth throughout the game.
Manage a men's club, a women's club, or both simultaneously. Transfers, finances, scouting, development pathways, competitions, staff structures, and career systems are fully integrated rather than treated as separate modes.
This is not a separate women's mode. It is the same simulation engine, the same depth, and the same long-term world simulation.
RUN THE ENTIRE CLUB
Success is built long before match day.
Control every layer of your organization:
Transfers, loans, negotiations, and contracts
Tactical systems, formations, and match preparation
Scouting networks and player recruitment
Training schedules and player development
Youth academies and annual intakes
Coaches, analysts, scouts, and medical staff
Budgets, sponsorships, and wage structures
Board expectations and ownership demands
Press conferences, media relations, and dressing-room management
Every decision influences the future because every decision changes the people inside the club.
DOMFC includes a fully integrated in-game editor from day one. Modify players, staff, clubs, finances, competitions, and world data without leaving your save.
BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MANAGE
DOMFC focuses on decisions rather than presentation.
Advance rapidly through seasons while concentrating on recruitment, development, finances, and long-term planning instead of spending hours watching matches.
Build squads. Develop talent. Balance budgets. Survive board meetings. Create a club that outlives you.
BUILT TO LAST
DOMFC includes comprehensive modding tools from day one.
Create custom databases, competitions, clubs, graphics packs, alternate histories, fictional worlds, future eras, and total conversions. Whether you want to update real-world football, recreate historical seasons, or build something entirely original, the tools are included with the game.
No paid editor.
No paid database packs.
No subscriptions.
Create the football world you want.
NO SAVE STAYS THE SAME
A giant collapses under debt.
A fourth-division club reaches continental football.
A generation of academy graduates transforms the fortunes of a nation.
A club legend returns decades later in a completely different role.
A manager who started in obscurity becomes one of the most successful figures in football history.
DOMFC does not generate seasons.
It generates football history.
Content settings allow you to customize life-event systems and simulation depth to match your preferred experience.
PLAY ANYWHERE
Steam Deck support target
Windows, macOS, and Linux
Steam Cloud saves
Steam achievements
Keyboard and controller support
In-game editor included
Comprehensive modding tools included
No microtransactions
No pay-to-win mechanics
FREE INTRASOLAR EXPANSION (PLANNED)
Humanity eventually takes football beyond Earth.
Future scenario modes are planned to introduce Luna, Mars, Titan, Ceres, Ganymede, and other off-world territories through the Football Confederation of Intrasolar Territories.
Manage clubs separated by millions of kilometers. Build interplanetary dynasties. Compete across worlds.
Included free for all players.
KEY FEATURES
Nearly 900 territories
6 confederations
15,000+ competitions
20,000+ clubs
1,000,000+ players and staff
Universal Person System with complete life and career simulation
100+ attributes per person
Men's and women's football with equal depth
Deep transfers, contracts, scouting, finances, youth development, and staff management
Fully integrated in-game editor included
Comprehensive modding tools included
Dynamic world evolution across decades of simulation
Steam Deck, Windows, macOS, and Linux support
Steam achievements and Steam Cloud
No microtransactions
Free Intrasolar Expansion planned