How much revenue did Football Manager 2019 make?

Football Manager 2019 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Football Manager 2019 sell?

Q: How many copies did Football Manager 2019 sell?

379k to 616k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 379k–616k; from 12k 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 2019 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Football Manager 2019's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–3.9M

best case 4.9M (EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23)

Games like Football Manager 2019

The middle of these games

≈ 3.6M–3.9M copies

from ~117k 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: EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (8 of 8) and Football (Soccer) (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Sports.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 21 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	56k reviews Mostly Positive	Football (American)Football (Soccer)
eFootball™ 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	117k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Free to Play
EA SPORTS™ FIFA 23 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	150k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Sports
NBA 2K20 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M too small to compare SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	60k reviews Mixed	BasketballSports
EA SPORTS FC™ 25 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	107k reviews Mixed	SportsFootball (Soccer)
EA SPORTS FC™ 24 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	111k reviews Mixed	Football (Soccer)Sports
FIFA 22 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	120k reviews Very Positive	Football (Soccer)Sports
eFootball PES 2021 SEASON UPDATE 2020	Est. copies ≈ 945k–1.5M too small to compare SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	38k reviews Mostly Positive	SportsFootball (Soccer)