Own the club. Control the chaos.

Cyber-Ball Manager drops football 500 years into the future: faster, more violent, more commercial, and still somehow your fault when the fans riot.

Match Setup

Pick the formation, set the risk, and leave instructions for when the score ruins your afternoon.

Implants

Install match-day bonuses in four body slots. Powerful, expensive, and not covered by a sensible warranty.

Manage Everything

Hire staff, build facilities, balance the money, and keep the supporters only normally furious.

Transfer Market

Buy teamless players immediately or spend eight hours wondering whether somebody will outbid you.

Current access // development server

The current build is over here.

Cyber-Ball Manager is still under active development. The playable build lives on the development server while the larger machinery is being assembled.

dev.cyber-ball.com Check out the development server here

Expect frequent changes and the occasional loose bolt.

Football evolved. The manager still gets blamed.

Five centuries have not made football safer or more sensible. It is faster, ultra-commercial, and considerably more violent. Some rules were changed. Others were apparently considered optional.

Cyber-Ball Manager puts you in charge of the whole club. Coach, manager, owner, accountant when necessary. Nobody else seems willing.

You train the players, set the tactics, buy and sell, sign sponsors, build the stadium, and try to keep the fans happy. Well, happy and bloodthirsty.

Development world // running elsewhere

One football world, currently under construction.

Fixtures, transfers, training, and the rest of club life continue on the development server. The public site keeps the useful reading material here and leaves the experimental machinery over there.

Visit the current world
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Miro Kael

Iron Ward / augmented stopper

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Sera Holt

Tactical relay / pressure passer

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Riko Vance

Velocity Forge / implant finisher

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Tactics

Make a plan. Then prepare for it failing.

Set the formation, intensity, width, height, violence, and what the team should do when events become inconvenient.

Transfers

Eight hours is a long time.

Buy teamless players at once, or place a bid and wait to see which rival manager also has too much money.

Stadium

Concrete is also a tactic.

Build facilities, hire staff, find sponsors, and give the club something useful around the eleven players.

Public guide // probably useful

The CBM Field Manual.

Want to know what you are getting into? Start here. These are the rules of the world, explained without making you sit through a board meeting.

01 How CBM works Cyber-Ball Manager puts you in charge of the squad, tactics, training, transfers, money, and everything else a futuristic football club can get wrong. 02 Tactics & match setup Set your Cyber-Ball Manager formation, choose the matchday squad, adjust the tactics, and prepare Events for when the plan falls apart. 03 Implants Install cybernetic upgrades in Cyber-Ball Manager players. Here is how slots, tiers, bonuses, durability, destruction, and transfers work. 04 Transfer market Buy and sell players in Cyber-Ball Manager, with eight-hour bids, instant teamless deals, saved searches, and actual consequences for bad finances. 05 Development updates A straightforward look at where Cyber-Ball Manager is today, what I am working towards, and where to follow development. 06 FAQ Direct answers about Cyber-Ball Manager gameplay, accounts, cost, matches, tactics, transfers, implants, and development.
Open the complete Field Manual

Note from the developer

It works. It is also nowhere near finished.

CBM is still early in development. The plan is free-to-play, supported by optional paid extras. Quite a lot works already; quite a lot is still capable of surprising me.

The rough plan

  • 2023Concept exploration and fleshing out
  • 2024Design and pre-production
  • 2025Prototype and production
  • 2026Alpha, beta, and release work
  • 2027+Keep improving it. That part does not really end.