Boeckham's Football Manager — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Update 1.17: Auslandseinsatz | 2026-10-29 | Hello everyone,With this Update, the game offers the possibility to work for foreign clubs. If you would like to speak to such a club, you can choose a country of your interest above the list of clubsBut be aware that you will need to speak a little bit of the country's language, at least at a basic level. For that, there are new educations you can complete. Don't worry, you won't need to learn the language of every country; for Germany, England, France, Spain, and Italy it will be necessary. The rest of the best will be satisfied with the English language for now. ;)If you want to bring your training skill to full fruition far away from home |
| Hotfix 1.16.1 | 2026-09-28 | Update with the following bug fixes and enhancements:critical bug fix for generating names if custom teams without country are usedcritical bug fix for coach greetings in multiplayerbug fix for injury messages and penalty hints in multiplayerbug fix for marking the current screen in the menubug fix for story event if players have left the teamenhancement for the match log: goalkeepers are now mentioned by nameenhancement for board goals: private money rewards are now adjusted your the current salaryenhancement for name generation: user name files are preferred if the internal file has no names for a requested country |
| Update 1.16: Nationalities | 2026-09-18 | Hi everyone,First things first: I promised too much ːPEAKsobː. In this update, there will be no mechanic to get a job in a foreign country. There is more involved in doing that than I thought. But since the first step to this is done now, and other changes are ready, I decided to release those parts early.This update's biggest change is the introduction of nationalities for single players. Coming with that is the name generation, which now creates fitting names for those nationalities. Originally, I wanted to keep the game "neutral" without countries and nationalities, but I realized that atmosphere and player binding were suffering with that |
| Hotfix 1.15.3 | 2026-08-26 | The last hotfix introduced a bug that made it impossible to renegotiate the duration of your contract as a coach. Here comes the fix for that problem. |
| Hotfix 1.15.2 | 2026-08-25 | This hotfix gets rid of a bug that would occur if you played in a league that was not part of the Europe Cup (e.g. Norway). Also, an exploit was fixed where you could increase your salary by just opening and closing the renegotiation screen. :) |
| Hotfix 1.15.1 | 2026-08-23 | Hi everyone,Until now, I tried my best to add all changes in a manner that older savegames will continue to work. Having the foreign leagues in the game has now caused a problem that could possibly lead to problematic savefiles. The issue is fixed now, and this hotfix also contains a workaround that should keep the savefiles working.To be precise, clubs from Norway, Denmark, and the Czech Republic could not be loaded properly, so that some matches in the Master League did not have opponents. This is fixed on loading a savefile so that the missing opponents are filled with the current champion of your own league. That will lead to the situatio |
| Update 1.15: Foreign countries and player events | 2026-08-21 | Hello everyone,Once again, a few weeks have passed since the last update. I hope the new additions will enhance your experience with the game.First, I managed to integrate the foreign leagues - 19 to be precise - so every country has at least its complete first league. These will be simulated as well as the cup in that country. That way, the Master League and Europe Cup participants can now be taken from real league results. The new clubs can be inspected at several spots in the game: in the league table, the transfer market, player search, league and cup results, and the history of each club in the stats screen.Selection in the transfer mark |
| Making of Boeckham's | 2026-08-01 | Hello everyone,I have spent quite some time writing a making of Boeckham's Football Manager. The development journey starts in my youth, when I discovered my love for programming, and spans over some years until the final release last year.The article has now been released on GamersGlobal:https://www.gamersglobal.de/user-artikel/boeckhams-football-manager-post-mortemRight now, it is only available in German (sorry!), but you can make good use of the translation functionality of your browser. So if you are interested in how such a game is made and why such a seemingly simple project can take ten years to finish, you should take a look. By read |
| Update 1.14: Board goals | 2026-04-30 | Hi everyone,It has been a long time since the last update - my apologies for that! The past few weeks were full of turmoil, but I don't want to mention this as an excuse, but to assure you: Boeckham is still in my focus and is still in active development.But now to something completely more interesting. What is new in this update? The main feature is the board goals that the higher-ups will present to you at the start of each season.You can negotiate those, offer to do more, or manage expectations. Making a goal easier will need some skill and will not be rewarded as much, of course. Your current goals and their status will be visible using t |
| Update 1.13: Übersetzungen und mehr | 2026-01-12 | Hi everyone,This update brings some small and big enhancements (at least I hope it does).From now on, the game supports loading custom translations. I would love to offer more translations on my end, because there are football management lovers all around the world, but for such a small game, it is economically not possible to provide. Community translations are a cool thing, but those could not be used in the game so far. But from version 1.13 on, there is a new "..." button in the language menu for loading language files from your hard disk.More user-friendly is the possibility to upload those files to the Steam Workshop, where they can be |
| Update 1.12: Youth players | 2025-12-21 | Hi everyone,With this update, the youth player system has been reworked. Previously, a new youth player would magically appear in your team after a few weeks. From now on, there will be several review events for youth players who are currently living in the academy.For each player, you can decide whether to continue training them in the academy, extract them early to the main team, or release them if they are not good enough and your resources are better spent on the other players. A player’s strength and talent are initially uncertain and can be assessed more accurately with each review round. How many players the academy can host and how lo |
| Update 1.11: Multiplayer-Verbesserungen | 2025-12-01 | Hello everyone,No 90s management game could live without local multiplayer. That is why this update mainly focuses on enhancements for the multiplayer mode. Previously, some features were not properly supported, or calculations were incorrect, for example, all users were assigned the same main sponsors. In a game, only the first user could make substitutions or determine the playing style. This has now been expanded. By clicking on the substitution button, the bench can now be switched for all clubs that currently have an active match: Another new feature is the option for multiple users to submit offers on the transfer market, because previo |
| Thank you for 1001 downloads! | 2025-11-30 | Hi everyone,Boeckham's Football Manager has hit the magical milestone of 1001 downloads. I am very grateful and give my wholehearted thanks to everyone who gave this little indie game a chance. My expectations for the release were nowhere near that number. I would have been happy with 100 downloads. 500 was already a fantasy. And now you multiplied the number I hoped for by ten. Thank you for your trust, the numerous ideas for improving the game, and your respectful treatment of bugs. Small indie games are not perfect at release, and I am glad you were not trigger-happy with bad reviews, because you could evaluate the whole development situat |
| Hotfix 1.10.4 | 2025-10-21 | Hi all,The last update to a newer version of Unity introduced the bug for some players that the screen is zoomed in and the settings can't be accessed. This hotfix adds a shortcut so you can use the TAB key to open the settings and adjust the screen size.This should work in Windows and the Steam Deck. |
| Update 1.10.3 | 2025-10-09 | Hey everyone,After the last update to the new Unity version, the launcher just disappeared. There you could set the screen resolution of the game.Because of that, I added those setting directly into the game in the settings menu:You can now also chose between exclusive fullscreen and fullscreen window.Have fun with it :) |
| Security update 1.10.2 | 2025-10-07 | Hi everybody,Maybe you already heard: Unity - the game engine behind many games - suffered from a recently discovered security issue that existed since 2017. Until now, there do not appear to have been any problems, and Unity and Steam have taken countermeasures. But as a recommendation, every game should make an update to close this security issue. This update 1.10.2 does exactly that.The only problem is that the engine version I was using for Boeckham's football manager so far, did not get a security update. So I had to update to a whole new version. Such an update ALWAYS brings trouble along. I spent the last two days repairing stuff, and |
| Hotfix 1.10.1 | 2025-10-02 | Hi all,This hotfix corrects a bug in the Steam-Workshop upload. Also, the rendering of the money chart in the statistics screen for money values above 2B was corrected. |
| Update 1.10: Workshop Integration | 2025-09-29 | Hey everyone,The main highlight of this update is the integration of the Steam Workshop! That means club files and logos can now be shared directly through Steam — no more manual copying needed. Nothing’s standing in the way of using the original clubs and logos anymore.Here’s how it works: once you’ve loaded, edited, and saved a club file in the editor, the Upload to Steam button becomes active. In the window that pops up, you can select any of your previously created items from the dropdown. If you haven’t created one yet, just enter a title and click “Create new…”.At the bottom, you’ll see which files will be uploaded to Steam — including |
| Update 1.9: Custom difficulty | 2025-09-18 | Hi everyone,With this Update, you can customize the difficulty level not only by using the five presets, but you can create your own presets:At the start of the game, there is a new cog icon. In the cofiguration window you can finetune many modifiers. They act as multipliers, which means: if a number is set to 1.5, then the related value in the game will be multiplied by 1.5. If you get 10 reputation points for an action, with that multiplier you will get 15 instead. Another example: if you need to roll the dice usually higher than 20 and use a multiplier of 0.5, you only need to roll above 10.What values are modified will be shown in the too |
| Update 1.8.5 | 2025-09-08 | Hi everyone,This update was meant as a hotfix for the bug that money turned negative once it reached over 2 billion (thanks to Strohmann and RadlerAndi). Also, two stories could block the game (thanks to Waldi98). Both are fixed now, so you can get insanely rich again (although you could take a philosophical view on the idea, that no one should own more than 2 billion) ;)But a new feature also made the deadline: you can now mark some of your players as favourites. Those will always be set when using the automatic roster checkboxes:Why should you use this? If you want to rejuvenile your team or support a promising youth player, you can mark th |
| Hotfix 1.8.4 | 2025-09-04 | Just a tiny fix, that deals with preventing shirts and pants having only white and black colors when starting a new game. |
| Update 1.8.3 | 2025-09-03 | Hi everyone,Today's update brings a few bug fixes that were causing trouble in some circumstances.Fix for the Master League participant always being the same, no matter who won the leagueFix for the lower information bar, if the roster value got over 2 billion (yes, that happened :D)Fix for returning players that were loaned, and could cause 12 players to be set to playFix for a story arc in the coming-out narrativeAdditionally, a new setting feature is also included:Using the new cog button at the formation, you can now set a preferred formation for the automatic setup of players. You can use 3-4-3, or 3-5-2, and the automatic system will fi |
| Update 1.8.2 | 2025-08-28 | Hi everyone,This update brings you the following additions and fixes:You can now create custom save files, just use the "..." button instead of the fixed 1 to 4 ones. The last used directory will be saved in the settings. (Thanks to gelbert1)Fixed the calculation of income / expenses when no match has been played. You will still get money from sponsors, souvenirs, etc. and national teams won't cost salaries (Thanks to Jon Zen)Fixed earnings from Europe Cup and Master League, you will get parts of the sponsor money for each successful roundThe income from souvenirs was nerfed a bit, they are also more dependent on the success in the last match |
| Hotfix 1.8.1 | 2025-08-17 | Hi everyone,1.8.1 is a small hotfix that fixes some softlock issues that made progressing to the next week in the game impossible.Fix for switching to a new team and using the manual lineup of your players. Sometimes you could not reach the next week after a matchFix for never-ending cheering players, in case you set the match speed during a celebration to ultra-fast or result onlyFix for savegames that were created when a goal was scored. You could not continue to the next week (well, yeah... you can't come up with those funny cases when testing :D)Fix for invisible team names or shirtsEspecially the last point is not amusing, because I miss |
| Update 1.8: Europe Cup | 2025-08-14 | Hi all,In this update, everything is about a new competition: the Europe Cup.The teams placed 2nd to 5th will participate, unless the normal cup winner is not part of them. That team will then replace the 5th. The competition ties into the game like the others and takes place during the season. Results can be viewed in the stats screen, the main sponsor will pay an extra sum (subject to negotiation), etc.It is a simple knockout tournament for 32 teams from Europe. For that, new teams from different countries have been added to the game. For modders: all teams will now be loaded from their respective league files. The old file with all interna |
| Hotfix 1.7.4 | 2025-07-24 | Hi everyone,critical fix for skipping a match without involvement directly after loading. This could result in a halt of the gamefix for automatic lineup of teams you have managed and left. If you played with manual lineup then the teams were putting less and less players on the pitch after your departurefix for aging of cards for teams in other leagues. Such teams could end up with only blocked players |
| Hotfix 1.7.3 | 2025-07-21 | Hey everyone,Just a quick note:second fix for retraining of playersfix for resetting matchspeed after automatic skipping of matches |
| Hotfix 1.7.2 | 2025-07-18 | Hi everyone,In the last update, there was a bug that could leave your players weaker than before when retraining them to their preferred position. This is fixed now! I am sorry for the inconveniences. |
| Update 1.7.1: New settings and adjustments | 2025-07-17 | Hi everyone,This update introduces some new settings, and adjusts some content that was getting on your nerves ;)Skip matches without user involvement: on a match day without a match that you have to manage, all matches will be calculated at once, and you can go to the next week without having to adjust the match speed, click "Start matches" and then reset the match speedSkip pre-match greetings: no more greeting words from your opponent's coach before the matchSkip cup drawing when not in cup anymore: this lets you skip the whole cup drawing screen once you are not part of the cup event anymoreUse quick dice rolls: dice rolls will be much fa |
| New facility buildings | 2025-07-07 | Hi everyone,After my vacation, my productivity suffered a bit, but luckily, Mike created a lot of new graphics. Now, there are real differences in style for every upgrade of the bigger buildings. Here you can see it by the example of the restaurant:Many thanks again to Mike, I think the sense of progress is much better now and adds a lot of flair to the atmosphere.For the real nostalgic, there is now an option to set the currency to "DM" (German Mark). Now you can dive deep into a 90s season ;-)The editor features a new button to import csv files for a better way to create original teams and players. This feature is in an early version and li |