How much revenue did Football Manager 2022 make?

Football Manager 2022 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Football Manager 2022 sell?

Q: How many copies did Football Manager 2022 sell?

533k to 867k copies, based on its 22k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 533k–867k; from 22k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Football Manager 2022 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Football Manager 2022's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 613k–889k

best case 1.2M (Football Manager 2020)

Games like Football Manager 2022

The middle of these games

≈ 613k–889k copies

from ~22k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Football Manager 2020 at ≈ 912k–1.5M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 215 to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Football (Soccer) (8 of 8) and Management (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sports.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Soccer Manager 2020 2020	Est. copies ≈ 39k–63k too small to compare SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlaySports
Football Manager 2020 Touch 2019	Est. copies ≈ 29k–48k too small to compare SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Football Manager 2017 2016	Est. copies ≈ 459k–746k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
Football Manager 2024 2023	Est. copies ≈ 706k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	28k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2021 2020	Est. copies ≈ 591k–961k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	SportsSimulation
Football Manager 2019 2018	Est. copies ≈ 379k–616k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2020 2019	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports
Football Manager 2023 2022	Est. copies ≈ 492k–799k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	20k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSports