Football Manager 27 hits 72,471 players on Steam on launch day

Football Manager 27 was released on 10 November 2026. On Steam the game became available at 5:00 p.m. Rome time (16:00 UTC). That same day, according to SteamDB, it reached 72,471 concurrent players, the new instalment's all-time high.

The figure is lower than the peak of Football Manager 26, which SteamDB puts at 84,909 concurrent players on 4 November 2025, the previous launch day. Both figures cover Steam only: according to the official website, the digital versions of FM27 were released on 10 November on all supported platforms, including Epic Games Store and the Xbox app for PC, Xbox Series, PlayStation 5 and, in its mobile version, Netflix. The physical edition for PlayStation 5 is listed for 20 November.

In Statcade's 11 November reading, at 5:19 UTC (6:19 a.m. in Italy), Football Manager 27 had 19,384 players and ranked 49th in the catalogue. Football Manager 26, still listed, had 6,071 (109th). At 9:52 a.m. Rome time the public Steam API recorded 29,690 concurrent players on FM27.

Reviews of the new edition, still few a day after release, are very positive on SteamDB: 1,043 favourable reviews out of 1,143 (91.3%). Those for Football Manager 26 remain mostly negative: 13,362 positive out of 37,056 (36.1%), again according to SteamDB.