Hi! I'm Joshua, the creator of Match Simulator.
This website was made as a hobby project in March of 2019. Since then, it has gotten a lot of interest from people all over the world. In December 2020 I found out that around 30K matches had been simulated, so I decided to take on the project again and try to make it even better.
If you like this project and want to contribute financially, that would be much appreciated! Any contribution helps me a lot and allows me to spend more time working on this project.
There it is, the 2024/25 season is now LIVE! Enjoy :)
I have a few propositions to be added. Can you consider these.
I appreciate your work and that you have made this nice website.
There it is, the 2024/25 season is now LIVE! Enjoy :)
Hi all, it's been a while since I have last worked on the website and been active. This has to do with me currently moving to a new house - a process that has taken (and will still take) quite some time.
I know that you are all eagerly waiting for the 2024/25 season update, this update can only come once the new data is available. Usually, the update is at the end of September or at the beginning of October. I will do my best to make it happen around that time this year as well, so keep an eye out :)
Another frequently requested addition is the new Champions League format. When we opened the BETA in April, I had hoped it would only take about two months to make that the definite release. After that, I would be able to add new features and formats et cetera. So that was all planned for around June/July. But I simply did not have enough time to finish up. So that's the situation now, we have a BETA that is around 70% finished.
The reason that it is difficult to add the new Champions League format now, is that I would have to add it twice basically; once in this main website, and once in the BETA. Of course, all the core functionality could remain the same (even though there would still be a few differences in the BETA), but the look and feel would have to be designed differently.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. An option is to only add the new format for the BETA, another option is to just refocus on finishing the BETA as soon as possible and add it after it's done - but there's no saying how long this would still take...
I want to keep you all in the loop as I understand it can get frustrating not hearing any updates so I hope this answers some questions.
In the meanwhile, I will do my best to use every single spare minute to work on the website and hopefully work towards a release of the BETA.
Thanks for understanding!
Best, Joshua
Reminder: 2024/25 season in MS will come as soon as FC25 releases (September 27th, could be later). Avoid flooding the same question in the comments. Remember to use a mod while waiting.
Anyone here alive? It's back!
Hello I have an idea to make it more refined. Would it be possible to simulate a whole matchday, or even a whole season with a button. It was fun to start, but later on, I could not be asked to simulate hundreds of games to see who will win the league.
Slovan Bratislava and FK Crvena Zvezda have been added to the database and are now available to use in your matches and cups.
Big thanks to Larsson for creating the players :)
Greatest comeback ever?
Who's had a better comeback in match simulator?
https://matchsimulator.com/match/c2735ec2ffd832f0/lazio-vs-napoli
Important note:
Many of you are wondering if it's possible to simulate faster (such as once per league or once per matchday). It will come probably on a premium feature, not yet confirmed when exactly. If possible, avoid asking the same question we have answered before. Thank you for your attention!
Does this remind anyone of Leverkusen this season?
https://matchsimulator.com/match/b00a605dfd7c5e96/aston-villa-vs-bayer-04-leverkusen
EURO 2024 is now available as an event: https://matchsimulator.com/event/9/uefa-euro-2024
Let's get the hype for this tournament started :)
FINALLY
The record has been broken: 126.8K matches simulated in 24 hours!
Happy New Year everyone! Here's to another year of Match Simulator, looking forward to seeing what heights we can reach :)
We have some big stuff planned for this year, including a redesign coming soon... Thank you all for being a part of the community and coming with suggestions and ideas, really happy with how invested you all are!
I'd just like to appreciate Larsson and Joshua for this 2023-24 version as it's very enjoyable with all the mods by Larsson and Joshua has done a good job with the new commentary system as it's more interesting to watch then earlier.
I have long wanted to incorporate real-life football more into this website, and with this new version I found a way to do so. In the events, you will now find current leagues and competitions, along with up-to-date standings, fixtures, and similar to the World Cup page, you can easily start the cup from this page.
In the future, more leagues and cups will be added such as Bundesliga, La Liga, Ligue 1, etc.
And there's a lot more to come with regards to integration of real-life football, so keep an eye out!
Look forward to your reactions and as always, let me know if you encounter any problems.
Quick links:
https://matchsimulator.com/event/4/eredivisie
https://matchsimulator.com/event/3/premier-league
https://matchsimulator.com/event/2/uefa-champions-league (also added FK Crvena Zvezda to the base game, based on Larsson's mod)
Update: just included that the schedule of events that are a league (Premier League, Eredivisie) is now also correctly generated when you start a cup from the event page.
Joshua created best website : )
Hi Joshua! First I would like to thank you for all your work and say I really love what you do with it. It is really great!
I have some suggestions that I think will improve the experience using the simulator:
1. Substitutes: Right now the simulator takes random 3 players from the bench and bring them into the field, regardless their rating or position (except a GK). There should be an option to set up the 3 substitues while making the line-up (choosing the player who going out and the one who replace him). If that option is a bit comlex to create, at least the simulator should pick the best 3 players from the bench, the same way it picks the best 10 outfield players for the national teams. (I had a match when I put Mbappe on the bench for 'realism' and he didn't come in all the match).
2. Shirt Numbers: I think it will be cool and will improve the experience if each player will have a shirt/squad number. It won't affect the match, it will only be displayed on the line-up menu next to the players' position and in the match screen when the player do something in the game. In the national teams I guess it's more complicated so it can be automotic like the England national team thing when the starting 11 are always numbers 1-11.
(I know it can be really hard to go over every player and now add a number so if you want- my friends and I will be able to make an Excel/Google-Sheets file with the needed database of shirt numbers.)
3. Custom Nation's Flag: There is a bug for a couple of years by now that you can't see a custom nation's logo (with no difference if it's your mod or someone else's), and you just see the gray default badge. So it made me think- when fixing that, there should be no option while creating a new nation in the mod creator, and the nation's logo can be only rectangle that you can change its colors so it will represent the nation flag.
Again I will say that I love all of your work and and hopefully the simulator will be better and better. (And sorry if it is hard to understand me, English isn't my natural language)
I believe we would really like Joshua to add injuries to match simulator.
https://beta.matchsimulator.com/match/5cfa89bccc5c1d73/viktoria-plze-vs-real-sociedad
all own goals lol
The events for the top ranked leagues for the 2024/25 season have been added now as well. Please have a little patience for the European competitions, those require new functionality that will come later.
Enjoy the events!
New champions league format pleasee.. we need to test itt :))
Honestly I feel bad for athletic Bilbao fans:
https://matchsimulator.com/match/e7f78313f8768614/inter-vs-athletic-club-de-bilbao
I know the Swiss model format will be created in time for 2024 - 25, but I just wanted to see how Match Sim thinks the UCL shapes up next year. I created an Mbappe to Madrid mod for private use so this ends up more accurate (but let's be honest, that saga is a never-ending one).
The New Format
The new format sees 36 clubs partake in one league stage - where each club plays 8 games, 4 at home and 4 away, with 8 unique opponents, two from each of the "pots", essentially four seeds based on UEFA coefficient. Typically pot 1 contains the holders of the Champions League and Europa League along with the winners of the top European leagues, but given the uncertain state of many title races, I will be basing this purely off of coefficient. For easier simming, I am separating the 36 into four "groups" - with each team playing other group members once, before I then compile the groups, tediously, into one league standing. I will also be using the league standings as of the current date, the 16th of April, 2024.
Teams ranked from 1 to 8 in the league stage progress straight to the last 16, and teams ranked 9 to 24 take part in a "knockout play-off", with the eight winners of those games making the last 16. From there, it progresses as usual.
Now, for your convenience, here are how the four extra spots are distributed. Note that I assume Leverkusen win the Europa League, and the Champions League, well, every club still in that has already qualified here. Lille and Twente are given direct byes to the league stage for this reason.
Results of the qualifying play-offs:
Galatasaray 4 - 2 Crvena zvezda (2-1, 2-1)
Shakhtar Donetsk 2 (3) - 2 (0) Young Boys (2-0, 0-2)
Sparta Praha 2 - 3 Bodø/Glimt (2-1, 0-2)
Midtjylland 3 - 0 HNK Rijeka (3-0, 0-0)
PAOK 4 - 3 Malmö (1-3, 3-0)
Benfica 2 - 4 Anderlecht (1-1, 1-3)
Rangers 7 - 5 FC Lugano (3-2, 4-3)
Now, here are the pots.
Pot 1: Manchester City, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, PSG, Liverpool, Inter, RB Leipzig, Roma, Barcelona.
Pot 2: Atlético de Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Juventus, Benfica, Arsenal, Shakhtar Donetsk, Rangers, AC Milan
Pot 3: Feyenoord, Sporting CP, PSV, Salzburg, Lille, PAOK, Celtic, Galatasaray, Bodø/Glimt
Pot 4: Midtjylland, AS Monaco, Aston Villa, FC Twente, Girona, VfB Stuttgart, Bologna, Brest, Union SG
And now, the "groups", only made for easier fixture-making. I do realise now that there was a flaw in the group-making in that two teams from the same country ended up group partners, but y'know, it was just the once. Right? Right?
Group A: Manchester City, PSG, RB Leipzig, Atlético de Madrid, Benfica, Feyenoord, Celtic, Girona, Union SG
Group B: Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Juventus, Arsenal, Rangers, Salzburg, Bodø/Glimt, AS Monaco, FC Twente
Group C: Liverpool, Inter, Borussia Dortmund, Shakhtar Donetsk, Sporting CP, Lille, PAOK, Galatasaray, Midtjylland
Group D: AS Roma, Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Milan, PSV, Aston Villa, VfB Stuttgart, Bologna, Brest
On now to the league stage, coming soon.
What a second leg MCCLUTCHINAY https://matchsimulator.com/match/7d9ab1460ea70721/arsenal-vs-manchester-united
This afternoon and evening the website has been down as the result of a bot attack making more than 50 thousand accounts and comments, with more coming every second and spamming every comment thread they could find. I have taken some measures to prevent this from happening in the future, but I want to thank you all for flagging the comments so that I was able to at least notice the problem and take some preliminary precautions.
I had to make quite some big changes, so if you encounter any problems, feel free to reach out!
Hey everyone, so a few days ago, in the matchsimulator subreddit, I let people decide what teams they wanted in the world cup hosted by Germany. There wasn't a lot of activity so I had to randomize some teams.
Now I don't know if this is allowed exactly (if it's not I'll delete this comment) but I wanna share the results of the world cup here too along with a picture of the groups. Let me know what you think!
The cup: https://matchsimulator.com/cup/778684/world-cup-germany
Match Simulator Is So Addictive.
I think the moderator needs start setting a actual deadline on adding a option to simulating a whole match week, not just keep saying "in the future". People's opinions are way more important than advertising clicks. I have used a lot of simulation websites, I give credit for this one due to the details but the rest have better user friendliness such as simulating the whole week or even season which is Awesome. He knows that there's large amount of population wanting the option but people are just being nice and quiet for now until it's gets ridiculously boring having to sim 380 matches individually like a some kind of revenue slave mule. That's all
It would be very great idea to sim the whole matchdays because it feels kinda broing to sim through every single match, i mean simming of single match should still be there but also simming of whole matchday or even the whole cup would be interesting.
Idea. The possibility to mark spots in a league table. For exemple: you can mark the relegation zone red; and the play-off zone green or yellow.
We've achieved a remarkable milestone! On December 11, 2023, at 11:57 UTC, we soared past an incredible 50 million simulated matches. These incredible numbers are all thanks to the vibrant community that has joined us on this incredible journey. Thank you all for being a vital part of the success of Match Simulator!
A special shout-out to the match that marked this momentous occasion: Daejon Citizen - Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors :)
But we're not stopping here; our sights are set on an even more ambitious goal... Let's aim to close out 2024 with a whopping 100 million matches!
As an expert on soccer (football) clubs, I appreciate that Joshua made the website possible! I mean the events tab is an excellent addition to Match Simulator but some areas need to improve the National Teams need flags on the Public Mods though. but still, I like the website.
I won't make any more mods.
I've made 270 teams with at least 20 players so far. It's fine for now... Haha
I finished my UEFA-project. All UEFA countries now have at least 4 teams!
Enjoy simulating! (I'll still add more and more teams)
could you make an option to copy mods...? because I spend a lot of time recreating tams and players
Could you apply the new substitution rule? Maximum 5 substitutions, and 6 if the match get into extra time
We have resolved the confusion between Crvena Zvezda and Red Star FC in Match Simulator. Previously, when Crvena Zvezda was added to the game, they were mistakenly substituted with Red Star FC. This was not an issue initially, as Red Star FC was not included in the game at that time. However, now that Red Star FC is competing in Ligue 2, we recognized the need for accurate team representation.
In older cups where Crvena was used, it will now be shown as Red Star. For matches that have already been played, this is not an issue as the underlying players and stats still belong to that of Crvena. But for matches still to play this means that Red Star will play the matches instead of Crvena. However, we have decided not to clean up old data for matches from the 23/24 season, as most users have likely moved on from that version.
We appreciate your understanding and hope this improves your experience!
https://matchsimulator.com/match/00c1dc3e6e0522a7/fk-crvena-zvezda-vs-martigues Hey, I believe there has been a confusion when naming the host team of that game. I have checked their squad and it is actually the French 2nd division side Red Star FC and not the FK Crvena Zvezda from Serbia. It is possible to change their name and logo? Thank you!
I know that y'all are waiting for 24/25, FC25 is releasing tomorrow (at the time of writing) but patience is very important, it could come at anytime.
CHECK THE UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE, SAN MARINO ACTUALLY WON
who else remembers the el classico with Antony vs Mudyrk 2008
What a thrashing!
https://beta.matchsimulator.com/match/587995eddc2411e7/ferencvarosi-tc-vs-ogc-nice
Hi! 1st and 2nd French divisions are available on matchsimulator, so i decided to create a mod for 3rd division! Match Simulator | Mod 'French 3rd Division'
With all this clubs, i added also FC Martigues, which got promoted to 2nd division this year
Note : For Dijon, Nîmes and Red Star, here is other mods created by other users :
Hi, is there a way to not login every 20 minutes? Its extremely annoying. And when Im simulating a match, it sometimes tells me to login and it messes with my activated mods, messing with the entire match outcome. Also could you guys add a feature where possibly 3 teams advance from a 4 team group?
I was looking for an original way to have fun... so I had this idea. I created a standard team for the Euro with an unlimited budget but with the only condition of only being allowed one player of each nationality (24 players selected) and I did the same thing for the CAN , the Copa America and the Asian Cup (here I had to use several players of the same nationality due to the lack of Asian players in the game). All the mods are available in the mod part of the old part of Match Sim and I am also providing you with the link.
Crazy game! 5 goals and a straight red in the final 10 minutes!
https://matchsimulator.com/match/6b62d6dbda2bafcc/fc-bayern-munchen-vs-arsenal
Could you add an option to sim a gameweek rather than every game? So, simulating 38 times rather than 380 times for a 20 league system?
On matchday 5, Semenyo got himself suspended for 3 weeks (until md8). Then 3 weeks later on matchday 8, Tyler Adams got himself suspended for 3 weeks as well (until md11). Bournemouth players are apparently rather aggressive haha
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