The BEST Football Game You Never Played… (FIFA Manager)

[@RandomGuy37]

Remember: It's morally correct to pirate a game if the developer no longer sells it anywhere and the re-sale prices are ridiculously high

[@Lynnfield3440]

💯

[@Manicanian]

would you accept that happening to your work? probably not

[@GillesPaquet-Allaire]

@@Manicanian Cry more please

[@edgreenwood6035]

@@ManicanianEA make billions legalising gambling for kids. Morally it’s fine

[@m1xxu970]

Abandonware in nutshell

[@breezjr4234]

The german community behind this game is crazy, they update all players and all the clubs , i can play with my hometown in a game with myself as a player.

[@BCHD]

let's hope they come thru with a 2025 update mod

[@hessen5498]

Bro's managing himself 💀

[@breezjr4234]

@@hessen5498 yeah kinda crazy ngl 😂

[@Youriinho]

@@breezjr4234 Who the f**k are you then? So i can play with you too?

[@christianor5501]

I remember playing with my local club. I managed our Team in Kreisliga B. I put all my teammates (and some opponents) in the youth teams. I was basically playing in the u15 while managing the mens team lol. Played for like 35 years and ended up in Regionalliga.. stopped playing. Prorbably gonna do it again soon.

[@14eure]

the reason why i learnt german was to watch fifa manager 14 videos from german youtubers, i am not even kidding 😂😂 miss this game so much

[@BCHD]

bruh that is a different level of dedication

[@ChidubeJOpara]

Wow 👏

[@leipziger6179]

wanna play? :)

[@CX1329]

This game was DEEP. The closest thing we have today is We Are Football 2024, made by the same guy who produced the FIFA Manager series (Gerald Köhler). He doesn't have the same resources he had back when EA was funding FIFA Manager, but WAF is still a very good FM alternative. FIFA Manager 14 and its mods will always be GOATed games, though

[@jamieeddolls5605]

FM is way deeper than we are football. We are football is super casual and arcadey

[@BCHD]

#bringbackfifamanager

[@BCHD]

I think i've seen it before, might give it a go tbf

[@hanzouwu]

What I liked about FIFA M and WAF is their intuitive DB editor

[@Greenslime300]

@@jamieeddolls5605 FM is a sim, WAF is a more casual game. I don't think they're trying to compete with each other. WAF's editor is way more comprehensive though, and they even let you build and edit stadiums. FM has been needing that for a very long time.

[@PAINNN666]

EAFC was made by canadians at Vancouver. FM 14 made by German at Hamburg. I dont think they even contact with each other lol

[@disco7379]

I remember losing a champions league semi to Man City with PSG and I wanted to cry it was such a good game and pretty realistic. Edin Dzeko ruined me.

[@Pazmicjonz]

Dzeko in FM14 was incredible

[@apexmva7614]

We should start a movement to get EA to make this game again

[@Wormboderpepe]

nah, they would ruin it with micro transactions.

[@noJ5395]

they can barely keep up with Fifa

[@BCHD]

i'll sign the petition in a heartbeat

[@BigBoiUltra3741]

@@BCHD Ehhh...you sure that's a good idea? I mean, do you REALLY want current EA to make this again? Current EA?

[@Fendy27x]

ahhh the nostalgia hits like a truck on this one.

[@GeorgeU55]

I feel like I could spend hours on this without even doing any matches lol, there's simply soooo much stuff to do and explore

[@BCHD]

that's exactly how i felt tbh, i had over 4 hours of footage to edit 😭 perfect game to stream i think

[@astakz6742]

just play fm mate

[@GeorgeU55]

@@astakz6742 I play FM but this is straight up better lol but ok.

[@darwis4769]

My dad had FIFA manager 2013 back in the day, and 9 year old me would play it non-stop, didn't understand a thing about managing, spent more time buying all the luxury items like swimming pool and foosball table.

[@BoxinSquare_]

building youth academies all over the world is the highlight for me and also i really love the map of the facilities and the option to upgrade them .

[@TheAsgard777]

same

[@whrobert9940]

This doesn't just blow Fifa career mode out of the water, it blows Football Manager out of the water.

[@atTran-du6rs]

Good joke

[@ralv]

Is a good competitor but not completely out of the water is still in a scale of 1-100. So u tell me.

[@roaarylion5214]

Fm is the best game ever made in terms of football so 🤫

[@whrobert9940]

@@roaarylion5214 FM has been a stagnant and tired mess for a decade and this is coming from a fan of the game. The creativeness of a project like this for a football management sim is actually astounding because there are elements included in this game that haven't even been considered to use in FM because SI would claim it's too challenging to add.

[@umuterdonmez6995]

Remember this, database sucked so FM took over

[@judicator1]

Man I remember this game. I used to play on the national league south or North then bring that team up to premier league.

[@BCHD]

a proper RTG, if only the national league was in FC

[@ariqarby]

This game is deep man, i love this game, the one thing i don't like in this game you have to talk to team every week for maximum happiness for better rating

[@AlvaroCoto-xw4lo]

Thanks for giving this mod visibility🙏. I play this since fifa manager 21 but there are not many videos of it on youtube

[@cburton99]

So great to see people playing this, ive played it for the past 4 years over football manager, so many reviews of the game back then do not makes sense, this game is the best manager game, yh i said it

[@needfood4279]

I have about 2000 hours in this game. I absolutely adore it. Make up your own restrictions and rules to spice it up and the game never gets dull (for me). 10/10.

[@hugoumero9723]

bro imagine FIFA Manager never ended and got 2015 game

[@BCHD]

#bringbackfifamanager

[@michaelh878]

It barely improved every year. So trash compared to football manager.

[@lucastimm2511]

I used to Play this religiously when it came out, and seeing sour video brought me back man! It was honestly the pinnacle of sports gaming if you ask me!!! What i found really cool is that you can do so much also in the managers private life, even have your kids play in your youth academy!

[@nix8260]

I'm an FM player and fan but I must say, this game, based on this video alone looks like the best game I've EVER seen

[@alessandrodelpierojuventus8156]

Looooooool

[@BCHD]

to think that EA were behind this creation is an extremely bittersweet feeling

[@jdevlin1910]

@@BCHD this was basically the last hurrah right, this game and you had stuff like NCAA Football 14 - it was after this year that they started to become what they are now.

[@y0ungbl00d]

It is.

[@barkermush7147]

I think it's the fan mods that have made it look much better now. I remember trying Fifa Manager 2012 back in the day and it was very meh, especially compared to the addictive Football Manager back then. Definitely looks better with the mods, much more immersion & pretty to look at. Credit to all the people working on the mods.. they've done some real good things 👏 actually makes me want to play this.

[@0Bennyman]

This game having a domestic abuse button was the funniest surprise ever when i played it earlier this year

[@BCHD]

💀💀

[@KnowledgeMass]

FIFA Manager has always been #1 for me. Tried Football Manager once and didn't like it at all. Ever since I've always continued playing the old FIFA Manager games. I will download this 2024 MOD, Cannot wait. Wow thank you for the video

[@JennyQT]

I feeel we would have one of the best games in the world If we had football manager with fifa gameplay

[@Ties1994]

Preach

[@PeterBuvik]

Technically that is what SI to some extent is trying to do in FM 25

[@KSK00]

i remember there was a feature up until fifa manager 12 i think, that if you had both (fifa manager and fifa) you could play fifa gameplay in the fm game

[@pazma1]

Damn, that puts FM24 to shame, and it's a decade older! It's actually way better than anything I'm expecting from this big change in FM25. It's lightyears ahead.

[@BCHD]

FM is in a weird state now after the delay, got no idea how they're gonna pull off a yearly release cycle now

[@nicolasasshauer3176]

What I always loved in this game was the youth Academy System great feeling when a new 4 Star or higher talent showed up, it was always fun developing young players

[@k1ngd0n]

You don't need to buy the 2014 version. 2013 is exactly the same game, with more licenses even (that dont matter) and i think even some more features. And mods/data files work for 2013 too

[@Mahrooss]

where can i get the 2013 version i looked theyre all really expensive

[@benjaminmujagic1489]

Piracy ​@@Mahrooss

[@MoogiWaa]

fifa manager 06 as Chelsea with Carlton Cole as my striker, those were the days

[@Otto500206]

0:17 Hey, I'm the OP of this post!

[@Anakincc]

The ammount of games between the () are not his stats as a starter, but his games and goals in the reserve team. Great game btw, I would love to use this and play the actual games in fifa, That would be perfect.

[@BCHD]

Ahhh I thought so, noticed it again whilst editing

[@interista39]

Last 15-20 years i really played almost every football game, Fifa manager was amazing, a lot of things u can do, buy a new house, have a family, son , acctually u spending ur money :D U can charge stadium prices, customice chairs and everything and do a lot of thing :) Total club manager was also fire..

[@GajendranSudharson]

After championship manager, this fifa manager was my fav football simulator, there were so many layers to it. Unfourtunatelly EA had to cancel it

[@alexnowis2468]

Holy shit I haven't seen this in years! Remember being addicted to this in my teenage years at college!

[@TheTamaJustice]

This modded version also has a Team Control function, for anyone who wants to play the matches. Does make you quite overpowered vs most teams, so bear that in mind.

[@jamesaebi157]

I never played fifa manager, but used to play LMA manager 2007 on the xbox 360 all the time. It was so good

[@PyroAdri]

Why can't they do that in the new Fifa... oh yeah, It's EA. It's only about money.

[@BCHD]

because they're strategically saving these features for fc 26 and 27 and 28 etc

[@jdevlin1910]

@@BCHD Haha! they just 'revamped' career, we won't see additions for 5 more years at least.

[@seranoraa]

The player manager part was amazing.

[@Greggoggry]

Ahhh I remember playing this back in the day, I loved it soooo much, Really wish they carried on with it, Imagine how good it could be with modern tech...

[@Daniel_Caribe]

"FIFA MANAGER 2014" is by far the best football management game I've ever played! Despite the greater scope and realism of "Football Manager", "FIFA MANAGER" is more accessible and intuitive, visually more beautiful, and is a marvel for developing players. Absolutely fantastic to play this relic!

[@Capitan_Findus]

Fifa Manager online was so cool because you could play a season with random people and take part to auctions for the same player. It’s a feature that Football Manager never impelemented. You could always play with other people online but with friends only, not casual lobbies

[@BCHD]

I wish the servers were still up… FM11 also had the live seasons feature, similar with what EA are adding I. Fc 25 with “live start points”

[@Joe1992-l7u]

Please do a series reviewing all the fifa manager games. This game is so underrated mostly because we didn’t have pc back then.

[@Wormboderpepe]

jokes on you, i still have this game downloaded with new updates 😎

[@adarbarrush]

Brandon wearing an FC Porto top and talking about the goated FiFA Manager...I still have one the first one, when it was called fifa soccer manager, from 1997. I spent hours a day playing it. well paced, lots of leagues, lower divisions.

[@BWSBwoi]

Wow, I didnt know they had an update for this game. Used to play it for hours back in the days, and I always liked it more than its competitor for some reason. I might give it a try someday!

[@jamesmcdevitt5327]

Shame ea don’t sell the rights to another publisher sure there would be intrest . Never been a game like this . Sad day when they would never make this again 😢

[@joaomarques3609]

Finally, Fifa Manager gets the fame that it deserves!!!! In this game with the personal life, you can be a Billionaire if you change the txt for the itens. Also you can buy the club, create a new club, etc

[@robertsprinke5336]

I don't know if I remember it right, but I think the stadium-building-tool got deleted or a lot smaller in the later games. Just this year I tried playing FM24 the first time since my good old days with EA FM10-13 and it's good but not the same. Maaan, I loved that old game. Loved taking over smaller clubs, the huge fanbase that produced so much content. I was spending hours building a new stadium. I was quite shocked that there is no stadium or infrastruce-building at all, less or no options for negotiations with sponsors. All in all it's quite the same game nowadays but they still missed some of the good stuff.

[@tunisiano7]

this was my best game by far and till this day i dont know why they shut down the project ( maybe because they cant inject micro-transactions in those kind of games ). Thank you for this vid. it brings so many good childhood memories ♥

[@amisco333]

5-4 scoreline is crazy

[@supermonye1]

Ive been looking for a place to download this for ages

[@BCHD]

give it a go my man, you won't regret it x

[@breezjr4234]

I got it in 2014 but nowdays its very expensive i think

[@Ties1994]

Im willing to sell you my origin account which has this game

[@Ricky-ls4sb]

Price ​@@Ties1994

[@Simmi0312]

As a German ( where this Game literally was THE Manager Game), i still have every Copy as CD :D - did help some years with the Databases, which gave you every year a nice package of merchandise from EA and FM, with of course .. the Game :D ) - For us in Germany this is a Manager, you manage that whole Club, in England its director of Football i guess. As a Manager you literally manage your Club. Finances, Stadium. Architecture and so on. I really miss that game =( yes the Updates and so on, but its not a real new game. funnily enough that a 10 year old game had better graphics in Game Sim as Sega FM.. which is quite sad tbh.

[@BCHD]

Hahahaha that’s amazing! Just imagine EA remastered it and revived the series 👀

[@skariarecords]

if you want to play this I would recommend to crack FM13 instead of FM14 because FM14 is buggy

[@FigobarSpento]

Any suggestion where i shouldn't look for a cracked copy of fm13?

[@leipziger6179]

@@FigobarSpento i can add u on discord if u want.

[@MichaelVine92]

I remember playing this back in the day and building thousands of high rises to fund my excessive transfer spending.

[@kirky1293]

I mean FIFA manager 06 is the best football manager game out there other than not being able move reserve players into the first team 😂

[@soewenue]

Probably the best game (in my lifetime) which was made in germany

[@turboatrox3487]

Good old times playing this in my younger days omg

[@Iggy-l7d]

I loved FIFA Manager 07, played it so muchhh

[@nicolajgericke3130]

The reason they put it on ice is because it was a rival to fifa, their own game, and the money printing machine that became online gambling/gameplay

[@SimonCowie86]

I use to love this game EA Sports missed out on a huge market . I would love EA Sports to bring this game back it was more in depth.

[@JorgeRodriguez-ih8ub]

I didn't know about the existence of this franchise until now

[@miguelfaria2916]

You got the best shirt on my friend. Amazing taste 💙

[@ViteK-33]

11:16 English or Spanish💀

[@BCHD]

baby you got something in your noseeeee

[@ViteK-33]

Hii

[@hdkfshkskfe5186]

these who knewed: ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@aryaanshastri2364]

would've liked to see the last iteration of the actual game instead of the modded version, but love the video nonetheless

[@Pazmicjonz]

I have played both the original and modded iteration. The mod just gets you updated squads, kits, player pics, updated start menu. The rest of the game is just the same as the original Pretty cool game

[@aryaanshastri2364]

@@Pazmicjonz yesh i meant the whole experience with the squads from 2013 as well

[@hyperbolicaltimechamber6]

ur vids are amazing! Great content

[@BCHD]

you're a real one, appreciate it man x

[@wheelysteve]

"you never played".... I still have the damn case with the cd inside. I actually wanna fire it up now but my pc hasn't got a disc drive. Bloody modern shit :(

[@Handhordcarl]

Fairly sure you can get a portable disk drive pretty cheap, but it should be on a pc by standard.

[@snaggiz]

Ye get yourself a cheap disk drive and just fire it up bro

[@leipziger6179]

u need a .iso only. U wann add me on discord?

[@wisnuzaene]

Back when EA was the cool kid on the block

[@sziklamester1244]

In my opinion both manager series are good but I played other football manager game series too. Total Club later Fifa manager was good in my opinion despite EA published, because it gave you a lot of freedom on how to manage and what club to manage. Totalclub was simple and was less flashy than the more modern versions but I liked it also created football systems for non playable countries. Currently I am stick with Fifa Manager 07 and made some adjustments in it and still need to finish some country to expand it. I like that how they improved the variety with faces, hairstyles and so. Also the editor for the game let you bulk edit teams if you not wish to work on every single person. Also the personal life and build a stadium is a good pros to alter and improve your experience. Also with the editor you can skip this phase partly and prebuild a team you like.

[@moekaung2557]

I used to play this game when i was 1st year student at university. Memories....

[@LeagleDed]

Man this game is everything that made me fell in love with playing manager. Suddenly it just stop.

[@BCHD]

Damn, sad times

[@ffwdzwift4541]

Loved this game. Even think fifa manager 08 was better. Btw you look a bit like nuri sahin.

[@v.slavov]

Every now and then I go back for a quick 2 months 5 year save in FIFA Manager 11.

[@gamingnoobyt69]

Make this a series

[@ChidiebubeAmos]

Awesome, so awesome. Is there an in game editor?

[@BCHD]

Yesssir, it comes with the mod download as a separate application. You can't open it whilst the game is running tho :/

[@arnonuhmer3771]

just downloaded the 2014 and modded it into fifa fm24 xD awesome

[@MarcelPadrino]

which site dowload ?

[@lylesrevenge]

Where did you download it from?

[@juvinho2866]

i played FIFA Manager from 09 to 14.

[@itsfuthelp8428]

I dont know if you saw this. But you can become a playermanager aswell. It looks very fun.

[@BCHD]

I tested it out in a recent stream I did, also international management etc

[@rubencaturna1104]

Does anyone remember the online game where you were a player on a field?

[@BeamMeUpScottieV1]

fifa online?

[@thebravedave]

You mean the one with paint grahpics?

[@thebravedave]

There was the one jumpers for goalpost, maybe thats the one

[@rafaelgomes4686]

Love the shirt you wearing 🐉💙

[@BCHD]

vamos portoooo

[@skittle-chan3665]

Boa para ir para o lixo

[@tobywebb3377]

Great vid, just wanna shout out how awful that tactic was 😂

[@LeofreitasLHP]

I really love FIFA MANAGER 14

[@BCHD]

SAME HERE

[@zsoltszegedi8995]

Holy shit I used to play this game back in the day. I remember so many of these menus lol

[@BCHD]

I wish I grew up with this game in my childhood

[@genzowakabayashi2766]

Funny because it's actually one of the few managers that I've actually played 😅

[@Zedvais]

Football manager is better. The only thing it needs is flexibility about like real life manager aspect.

[@nimtoys]

FM (football manager) need this finance & merchandising feature

[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

I had FIFA Manager 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. 2005 was the worst. 2004 where they integrated it with FIFA was superb! I spent countless hours playing it as well as the 2006 edition. Being able to use the database for all kinds of mods was another game-changing (pun intended) feature.

[@ricardovinicius3874]

Please make a series with a team in this game

[@jdevlin1910]

Man this makes me so sad about what is available now. This is what we should be seeing on FIFA 10 years later.

[@BCHD]

Aaaaaand these features never came 😭

[@ryanhahn3651]

If this came out rn this guy would say “why is it only on PC! EA doing the same shit all the time”

[@olabildigincemuhalefet9491]

How is it different from Football Manager 25? This game FIFA Manager looks like a quality game, even after all this time the 2024 update is coming.

[@PainFireFist]

I play FM nowadays, but I do really miss the old FIFA Manager games. They were my favorite football manager series. FM is a good game, but it looks a bit bland and boring at times when compared to FIFA Manager.

[@thevirtualgoalie]

Petition for a EA FC Manager 2X

[@BCHD]

That would be the dream

[@TheSSarmy23n]

I'll stick to football manager on the pc, but it does look good. Football manager gets players future stats right, but their personality type can hinder their careers.

[@KingKrossKTK]

Listen this was the best game franchise in history I played FIFA Manager 08 for 6 years I didn't care about the real world I played this game as if it was the real world. I still have the disk for the game.

[@trstnmk]

This is nuts.

[@muziekjes781]

I can’t get it to work anymore.. “graphics acceleration needed” or something like that. Such a shame! I loved this game!

[@DGAMINGEN]

FM-Zocker and ImpactRaptor have great Tutorials on this common issue. Sadly the fixes are mostly in German. But you just have to add like one line of code to an open document.

[@felixzwei6145]

This is rather easy to fix: Go to your Documents Folder to the Folder "Config" then open the "user" and add "WINDOWED = 1" - without the " in the first line. At least that worked for me because i also had that problem

[@talonlawson]

you need to troubleshoot compatiability and change it to windows 8.

[@felixzwei6145]

@@talonlawsonor change it to windowed mode

[@felixzwei6145]

Worked for me… just edit the config

[@Aliptc]

Well thanks for sharing this is the game i want now

[@JanR1995]

You could combine Fifa 11 with FIFA Manager 11 for the best of both worlds... I miss it...

[@teddux]

I mean, Football manager is out there.

[@sidfederallaw3429]

Nostalgic 😊

[@agentg11]

This really deserves a remake but i just know EA will farm the hell out of this with their "pay $900 for just playing"

[@BCHD]

Games are more expensive to make nowadays so they’d have to find a way to monazite it more…

[@MjGaming04]

i loved this game