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Hi! I'm Joshua, the creator of Match Simulator.

What started as a hobby project in March 2019 has grown into something much bigger, with over 100 million matches simulated to date. This is now the third version of the website, and it’s an ongoing project that we continue to improve.

We’re always grateful for the contributions and ideas from the community. Thank you for your involvement and support, we're looking forward to your comments and ideas!

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Before posting your question here, please take the time to read the FAQ. It provides answers to the most common questions, like when the 2025/26 player data will be released. 

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Can you add more national teams, add world cup qualifying, UEFA nations league, and anything related to national teams?

See the FAQ.

 

This might've been requested before, but will match ratings be added?

Planned. The problem is that the match engine doesnt really center aroubd individual performances. So the easy thing would be to say: okay this guy got a goal and an assist: 8.8. Hattrick: 10

 

But how do you decide between to CBs which plsyer deserves a higher rating? We dont track passes, tackles etc. So if neither (or both) get a yellow/red card, score a goal, give an assist, how do i give one player a 6 and the other a 7?

 

In short, if I add it i want to do it well, otherwise there'll be complaints on that the grades are all the same or that they are random

https://matchsimulator.com/match/dd2508bb4384ecf6/liverpool-vs-arsenal

Im lost for words

Woww! In a final as well, this might be one of the craziest I've seen! 🤩

Joshua, I want to hear the answer to a very frequently asked question: when is the release date for 25/26??? We want new transfers.

Ever thought of checking the FAQ..? Besides, as you already said, it is asked very frequently here so you could also scroll down a bit and find the answer... 

End of September, probably the 27th.

The fact that Man United Is above Chelsea in the rankings and according to player data, still with Onana in their squad, is disturbing.

The player data has not been updated yet, so this is the data from the start of the 24/25 season. And the ratings are based on an external dataset that I do not have any influence on.

But you're free to create a customization pack to modify the ratings to the level you think it should be.

Thank you

 

Can you add russian clubs and the leage to import

You can import a mod that includes Russian teams.

Russian teams will not be added in the 25/26 season, because there is no data for them. You will - however - be able to make customization packs with custom Russian teams.

Dear Joshua, Can you please unblock Byaombe1 I didnt mean to spam I just wanted you to read my comment thats why. Thank You.none

I understand that you wanted a rwsponse, but your request have already been answered in the past or have been asked a lot already. Besides, the tone in which you make requests is not appreciated, as I indicated before already. This is your last warning, making comments with another account will result in an IP ban and possibly being banned from Match Simulator completely.

Can you add Best 11 of the Tournement and Player of the Tournment and Man of the Match?

Bro stop spamming

Yes, and @Byaombe1, this is planned

Hello! im an user from abt 2023 and i havent used this for 3 year but due to the changes, idk how  to change the season of what club i want. For example 21/22. Can you tell me how?

I dont really understand what you mean. Do you mean you have a customization pack where you created a custom team? And you try to use that team in 24/25?

If thats what you mean, that is not possible.

If its something else, i'd suggest explaining it a bit more clearly or joining the Discord and ask it there

Sorry. i mean like you could change the squad

 for a different season. So i dont know how to use 17/18 squads because its stuck on 24/25 season squads

In quick match? Just open the match settings

In a cup, that is not possible, but you can just create a new cup and select the version you want.

Can you add Best 11 of the Tournement and Player of the Tournment and Man of the Match?

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You've been blocked for spamming.

Can you make it so that Goalkeepers can have their own attributes?

Can you add Best 11 of the Tournement and Player of the Tournment and Man of the Match?

Hello Joshua and Larsson I can't simulate the matchday ( I have premium)

What is the error you get

In about an hour or so I'll be able to dive into it. Are you able to use the other premium functions (like change your avatar color or 2x as many participants)? If you want, you can also message me on Discord (see discord link in footer) or by mail to joshua@matchsimulator.com

No

What I'm seeing already is that your subscription was supposed to be continued today about half an hour ago, but it seems like the payment did not succeed. Can you verify this as well?

Yes that's normal because I just want to cancel and uncancel my subscription

 

it was just a test

I think I figured it out, it might have to do with timezones somehow. You're supposed to be renewed at 15:26 UTC, but apparently your session token for premium uses another endtime. I'll get to it in about an hour, apologize for the inconvenience! I'm guessing that you will be premium again after 15:26 UTC btw, but let me know if that is not the case

ok thanks

It works thanks Joshua !

Great to hear, I had a few spare minutes and found the issue. Enjoy!

I have a question about the simulation and how it works. Specifically with goalkeepers. Does the simulation only take into account a GK's overall rating? Or does it take into account the Jumping stat too?

So basically the match engine is split into two parts: one part for determining which team is stronger, and one part for determining which player within a team will perform an action. 
So when an event like 'Shot' occurs, it 'randomly' selects a players based on some attributes (like a player that has high finishing will be more likely to shoot so he has a higher chance to be picked). Jumping is for example used to determine who is going to head the ball. Individual's attributes do not impact directly towards the result; so a goalkeeper might be 99 rated with everything at 99, but if his team sucks he might still get scored on a lot. 

Hope this explains it a bit.

Oh wow. That is crazy. I'm going to have to wrap my head around this a bit. It's a little abstract compared to what I'm used too. Thanks for responding. Also... Just a side note... Can't wait until you give us that option to search players by position. I've been desperately trying to find an LW that is within the limits of the rules we are using in a fictional league... (A 75 rated one.) And the search has been exhausting. Because I'm literally searching through every team just trying to find an LW at all. I hope that Position search function is something you are able to do soon. :)

Can't seem to be able to create new packs, or create players or teams in existing packs

Can you tell me whats going wrong?

uh clicking the create button has no effect, other than the button pressing down animation

Okay.. I checked as if I were your user and had no problem creating packs and players, so it's not an issue in the code. 

Can you tell me what device and browser you are using? Or if you are using the app, what your default phone browser is? 

I'm guessing it is related to the browser/phone, and maybe switching to another browser can help. Or try clearing your browser cache.

Let me know!

using a chromebook rn

Okay, so please check if it works on for example your phone.

Then try and see if clearing your browser cache works

Yeah it's fine on the phone. I wonder why 

There is a bug in the latest update that the leagues are all based on the latest season. So for example Brentford & Ipswich Town will always be listed as Premier League, while they were still playing in Championship in earlier seasons. I hope to get an updated dataset, or otherwise I will fix it myself soon.

This has been fixed btw.

Creo que sería genial que agas algún tipo de modo carrera, tipo que yo pueda crear un jugador o un equipo y ponerlo en una liga y poder hacer fichajes o algo parecidos, también sería genial que salga la valoración de cada jugador después de cada partido 

 

Career mode and match ratings are planned!

Obviously not a priority but will we be able to change the background colours and texts of our league one day to make it feel more immersive?

For example, changing the background black and text orange for the Europa League if we wanted

I seem to remember the league events from 23/24 being different colours so just wondering :)

Maybe yes, I'd like that too. Maybe even as a premium feature.

Now that's a good thing to lock behind premium icl

Will we get a match rating system

Yes

Can you fix it so that players with 92+ finishing should score 30+ goals in a league  like how does Haaland with 96 finishing score 11 goals and Saka with 85 finishing scored 18 goals? And if you say because his teamates are sharing chances LOOK at prime MSN EACH player in MSN would score 30+ goals a season

And also can you add more injuries because there should be 3-10 injuired players per team because look at arsenal they already have 6 injuried players and its only match day 3. And make the injuires more long term like an ACL injury would take you out for entire season.

1. Since you already address it you know my reply. The fact that you have to come with MSN which is around 10 years ago says enough; the match engine is built on modern day football stats. Also, it implies that you've already seen my previous replies to this regard so please stop demanding this.

2. Injuries were more frequent, people complained it was too much. Since I lowered it I got no complaints anymore. Maybe in the future you will get an option to tune it up and down.

3. There are longterm injuries like ACL, they are just rare just like in real life.

Its been a while since I've been on this site and I don't know if this is on the FAQ (if it is I am so so so sorry for the inconvenience), but I noticed that the 2014-15 season is the oldest season we can access, is that just a coincidence or do you remove the 10th year every time it updates?

Don't worry, we're not removing versions! We've always had the 2014-15 as our lowest season. Maybe someday we'll even add the seasons all the way back to 2006-07, but right now let's first focus on adding the 25/26 at the end of September 😉

Hello, just a question, is there a particular technical difficulty to add the before-2014-2015 seasons or is it just a choice to not doing it now?

Not necessarily, I think it should be quite easy. That said... the specific data that is used (for example the finishing attribute) might not be available in those older versions (or be named different), so I'd have to research that first.

Ok I see thanks for your answer!

I think it'd be great, in order to add a bit more of randomness in the simulator, to add an option to get in cups kind of boosts to a team or to players like adding +1 to some random players in a matchday, or like a streak of good form of a team, like adding +1 to all its players during x matchdays. In the oppositive, there'd be some degress of some teams who would underperform. I think it'd be more realistic with some teams who overperforms, like LOSC who won Ligue 1 three/four years ago

I agree, that would make it a lot more fun. Something like form I have an idea for, and an "upset" mode where you'll see more unexpected results is also planned

When will you release the 2025/2026 version of this site?

 

Please just see the comment above you, or 2 below, or 4 below... the question is answered in the FAQ for a reason

Can you fix it so that players with 92+ finishing should score 30+ goals in a league  like how does Haaland with 96 finishing score 11 goals and Saka with 85 finishing scored 18 goals? And if you say because his teamates are sharing chances LOOK at prime MSN EACH player in MSN would score 30+ goals a season

And also can you add more injuries because there should be 3-10 injuired players per team because look at arsenal they already have 6 injuried players and its only match day 3. And make the injuires more long term like an ACL injury would take you out for entire season.

When 2025/26 coming data?

check the pinned message

How do I redeem the 2 free months of premium it says on the pricing page?

Its already integrated in the annual price! If you click the billed annually switch.

Can you try it out without any payment info im a broke 14 yo with no credit card I wanna try and see if ill bribe my parents to pay for it lol

Nope, sorry. If I were to do that everyone would just grab the free periods and make new accounts to use it infinitely. But there will be future discounts, so keep an eye out!

Maybe give it for free if we predict the exact score of a match

when the 2025/26 player data will be released. 

 

You should check out two comments below you or the pinned comment above you...

Have you seen the pinned comment before asking? That's your answer. 

Will there be any new national teams added when the update drops?

I know for the clubs, you use the ones that feature in the FC games but for national teams you have extra ones in such as Moldova and Luxembourg, so just wondering if more are to be added or it'll be more or less the same ones.

Cheers! :)

For the national teams, I just add every nation that has at least 10 players. So we'll have to wait to see what that brings. But so far, I believe every year has brought more national teams so you can be hopeful.

And of course, in a matter of time people will have created the packs for additional nations

Sorry to bother buy when is the 25/26 being updated?

See FAQ

End of September

It would be nice for me to add team kit and home stadiums. For example, I can create a team and add the kit for it from the suggested options or upload a photo of the kit. The same goes for stadiums. It would be cool to be able to see this information in the match simulation. 

Stadiums might be added, but I'd need a reliable data source for that which I can easily connect to my own database. Image uploads are not going to be added for security reasons, so kits will not be a thing anytime soon.

Ok, thanks 

Hi Joshua, will there be another plans (lite, economy,...). It comes with an affodable price (example lite plan will keeping ads). Because in many developing countries, $4-$5 a month still something we cannot consider.

I don't mean to underrated your efforts or this project you have made for all of us. But as you can see, AAA games these day or FC 25 itself only from $70 for lifetime play. So maybe a reasonable price will make a lot of buddies down there have the "crown" beside their name. You can keep the ads for the income flow, and you also can sell an ads-free plan.

For the sim matchday, you can give a trial for free user like one time a day, lite premium a limited times a day, and higher is unlimited...

Hi I understand your situation and appreciate your ideas, but unfortunately I can't really make it any cheaper. The reason for that is that for each transaction, I already lose a substantial amount in tax and fees. Therefore, smaller fees than 4 euro's are basically worthless...

I hope you understand, and of course there will be discounts at various times which might make it feasible for you.

Quick question will the simulation streaks remain the same or will everyone start from 0 when FC26 releases?

The streaks will simply continue!

Im experiencing a bug where sometimes when a player in first 11 is injured is replaced by a reserve player. This is odd cause I thouht this old bug was fixed but its creeping up again.

That is odd, can you provide a clear example where this happens? Easiest might be some screenshots in the discord, but maybe a link to a match would work as well

For example, in my tactics for Atletico Madrid, Alex Baena is the starting LM but when he got injured, he was replaced by Conor Gallager who is on the reserve.

I'm sorry, but I'd need a link to a match + tactics where this happened to investigate it properly

Ok let me send in the discord

Is there a bug with the champions league (league and knockout) format? By the time it gets to matchday 7, it asks me to draw the next round even though I've selected 8 matches. Then it just goes past match day 8 and the table stops updating, but still schedules matches 

I'll look into that! Can you send me a link to your cup?

https://matchsimulator.com/cup/1722481/world-league-2?uid=68bc380e0f944

Thanks, that is definitely glitched. Right now I cant look into it in depth, but please leave the cup so I can investigate later.

Until then, I presume that if you start over it would work, I had no problems myself

I think this might be the second time it's happened as the first time I thought I just clicked 6 matches rather than 8 so I restarted. I'll try again though. Thanks

Sorry for the inconvenience, tomorrow morning I'll be anle to figure out whats wrong

And let me know if it happens again!

You weren't wrong, it was indeed bugged! Wonder why you're the only reporting it though. It has been fixed now so won't happen again.

Thanks for letting me know!

Ah perfect. Thanks for fixing it

Can you fix it so that players play in position like CDM should not playing LB and a LB shouldnt be playing CDM and if they do play out of position their overall goes down and please add alt positions

That is called the 'beta'-engine. That takes positions into account. If you want to customize your team, you can do that in the tactics-tab.

Alt positions are planned.

To add to Larsson, the default lineups it picks will be improved at some point.

very awsome website

Hey, there seems to be a bug in the cup mode, im not able to simulate the whole gameweek at once. The page just refresh and the gameweek is still the same

Thanks for pointing it out! I noticed the same issue, will look into it immediately!

Should be fixed now, thanks for bringing it to my attention

Version 3.10.0 is now live!

You can now send friend requests and add those friends in your cups as co-owners. With clear specification on what those users can and can not do. Only the owner will be able to delete the cup. The co-owned cups will show up in My cups (and recent cup) as well.

Next up: permissions and co-ownership in packs!

i dont see any comments like this, but I really appreciate this website. it is a very good wesbite and i love how you are doing this. i am very grateful

Thank you, its a welcome type of comment 😁

We're working hard on improving it every day, so hopefully you're here to enjoy it for a long time!

can you add like customization remix where we can remix other people customization mods and like change and stats add some teams and stuff

That is really difficult because you basically take away the credit from another pack creator. So somehow it should only be possible to use it for yourself, while I also want to prevent duplicates. So maybe if I figure out a way someday, but for now it's not planned.

yeah i think it should be like only you can use it

if i wanna buy premium, but i don't have my country in the list, what can i do?

Im not sure what list you're referring to, but I presume that it says "Unavailable" or something for you?

Can you elaborate the exact issue? You can also send a screenshot to joshua@matchsimulator.com or in the Discord

yo i think this might be plan for career mode but can there be a feature we can add multiple cup is one thing like you sim the prem and want the fa cup to be in it to or do a full on prem to league 2 thing in one save?

this also might be added in career mode but can you add like manager and manager stats cause we dont want a team like man u win the prem when they should be getting relegated

Career mode is planned

Manager stats might not come as I would not know where to get the data for that

Hi Joshua! I think it would be much more easier for us if it was a searcher on the national teams custom lineups. Sometimes you spend so much time searching for the footballer you want to put on the lineup and I think that having a searcher in which you just have to put the name and it gives the player would be a good thing, thanks

You mean in the reserves? I'll add that to the list

just go on a PC and hit CTRL+F

Thank you! That was so good! 

You should hire a team of players from discord to develop the game so that updates come out for freeqently 

If I were to do that, I would only hire the best developers. And those cost money. If we had that money available, of course we would do that. But right now, we're not even close to such a step, I can't even work on this fulltime myself

Do you Know when career mode will come out like what month or year?

No, see FAQ

What is being added in the new update and how many days until the update?

As stated in the FAQ, we cant say when and what will come.