Steam Player Count

Football Manager 27 had 51,155 players on Steam in its launch hour, 4pm GMT on Nov 10, 2026, and peaked at 72,471 four hours later, at 8pm GMT, per SteamDB; the next evening, Nov 11, it set a higher all-time peak of 76,444 at 8:30pm GMT. Vi.ki reads Steam's count every hour and works out the busiest hours, how many players stay and where the count goes next.

Football Manager 27 opened on Steam with 51,155 players in its launch hour, 4pm GMT on Nov 10, 2026, and 52,652 at 5:12pm GMT, 72 minutes after release, and kept climbing to a launch-day peak of 72,471 at 8pm GMT, four hours after release: SteamDB's hourly points read 57,526 at 5pm, 64,061 at 6pm, 70,160 at 7pm, 72,471 at 8pm, 72,258 at 9pm and 65,370 at 10pm GMT, and SteamDB posted the peak itself ("Football Manager 27 has peaked at 72,471 concurrent players on 10 November 2026 on release day", SteamDB, Nov 10, 2026). By 6am GMT on Nov 11 the count was down to 19,337, the first overnight low, and the second evening went higher than the first: SteamDB's chart read 72,423 at 7pm GMT on Nov 11 and a new all-time peak of 76,444 at 8:30pm GMT, a day after release ("Football Manager 27 has peaked at 76,444 concurrent players on 11 November 2026 a day after release", SteamDB, Nov 11, 2026). From launch day on, Vi.ki records FM27's Steam count once an hour, so the section at the foot of this page fills in as the first evening, the first weekend and the first month go by. The chart is drawn on the home page.

Launch day on Steam

Launch hour (4pm GMT, Nov 10, 2026)	51,155 players
72 minutes after launch	52,652 players
Launch-day peak	72,471 players, 8pm GMT on Nov 10, 2026
All-time peak	76,444 players, 8:30pm GMT on Nov 11, 2026, a day after launch
Steam top sellers	Second, Nov 10, 2026
Steam followers	35,674, Nov 10, 2026
Twitch viewers	13,111 at 5:12pm GMT, peak 22,925
Steam user reviews	"Very Positive", 94% of 194, 5:13pm GMT on Nov 10, 2026

The game did not start from zero at 4pm GMT, because the Launch Preview was the game itself: people who had pre-purchased or had Game Pass were already playing when the full release went live, which is why the first hour's count is already above 51,000. We expect the launch-day peak later than these readings, in the European evening, and Vi.ki's hourly counts below will hold it.

These are Steam's players only. FM27 is also sold on the Epic Games Store and the Microsoft Store, comes with PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and runs on PlayStation 5, Xbox, Netflix and Apple Arcade (Platforms), and none of those publish a count. SEGA's one figure across stores is for the free week: more than 625,000 people played the free Launch Preview between Oct 29 and Nov 3, 2026.

Vi.ki's analysis of the Steam counts

The block below is computed from those hourly readings and refreshes each hour. For a football management game the questions worth asking of it are when managers play (FM sessions are long, so evenings and weekends should stand out), how many of the launch crowd are still there after a week and a month, and how FM27 ranks beside the other launches Vi.ki charts; it ends with our outlook.

Football Manager 27 had 50,106 players on Steam at the latest hourly reading (Nov 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC), with a peak of 75,406 in the 24 hours before it. That is 66% of its all-time peak, and the best day of the last 30 reached 100% of it.

Latest reading	50,106 (Nov 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC)
Peak, last 24 hours	75,406
All-time peak	75,406 (on Nov 11, 2026)

How many stayed after launch

Against the best day of the first two weeks after Free Launch Preview (Oct 29, 2026), 75,406 players, the average daily peak of the week around each mark:

After	Daily peak	Of the launch peak
7 days	73,939	98%

Among the games Vi.ki charts

By the peak of the last 24 hours, Football Manager 27 is #6 of the 25 games with a Steam chart on Vi.ki, just behind All Call of Duty on Steam (147,938) and ahead of Slay the Spire 2 (70,532).

How this is made: Vi.ki records Steam's own count of people playing every hour (Steam's public player count) and holds SteamDB's measured chart before that. The hour and weekday patterns compare each hour with its own day, so a rising or falling month does not tilt them. Steam only: console and other stores are not counted. Updated every hour; this page may be up to a day behind.

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Frequently asked questions

How many people are playing FM27 on Steam?

The most so far is 76,444 at once, at 8:30pm GMT on Nov 11, 2026, a day after launch, above the launch-day peak of 72,471, per SteamDB's chart read on Nov 12, 2026; the analysis above gives the latest hourly count.

Does the Steam count include Game Pass, Epic and console players?

No, and for FM27 that leaves out a lot: the Epic Games Store, the Microsoft Store, both Game Pass tiers, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Netflix and Apple Arcade report nothing by the hour, so the Steam figure is a floor for the PC game and says nothing about FM27 Console, Mobile or Touch.