Gerald Köhler takes stock of We Are Football 2027 and promises improvements. We have patch notes for the first update.
The founding father of *Anstoss*, Gerald Köhler, and his small team at Winning Streak Games have launched their latest manager simulation and landed it firmly in the middle of the pack—both in the GameStar review and on Steam, *We Are Football 2027* currently averages around 70 points/percent. One week after release, the lead developer takes stock and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the development process.
To ensure smooth gameplay both on and off the field, the development studio has released its first update. The new version fixes bugs and introduces quality-of-life improvements for the manager’s day-to-day routine.
Interim sales figures
We asked Gerald Köhler how We Are Football 2027 is selling. This is particularly significant, as the developers no longer have a publisher backing them and had to finance development out of their own pockets and through crowdfunding. “We’ve reached about 85 percent of our target,” replied the prominent father of former German soccer managers.
Whether the game will generate the necessary revenue for the long-term development of the series will be determined in the coming weeks. Fan support via the Steady platform is a key component of this. At the end of the week, the team will conduct an initial internal review to more precisely plan the next steps for the future of the soccer manager game.
First Major Update Brings Important Fixes
Meanwhile, the first concrete improvements to the game are now available for all buyers. Patch 1 for We Are Football 2027 introduces new filters for the transfer list to sort sales and loans more effectively. It also includes performance improvements for player comparisons, the reactivation of keyboard controls for staff selection, and fixes for crashes in the weekly schedule and national team budgets.
At the same time, work is underway on Spanish and Italian language versions. Test files for both languages are already available on Discord. The studio is also hoping for active support from its global fan base.
In addition to addressing immediate bugs, the team is working on the simulation’s long-term direction. The Steam Workshop is about to enter the testing phase and is intended to offer the community even more creative possibilities. Currently, for example, it’s still very cumbersome to integrate real names, logos, and player photos into the 2027 update of We Are Football.
Improvements
- Transfer List + Transfers and Contract Extensions: New filters “Sales Only”/“Loans Only”
- Ongoing Negotiations: “On Transfer List” column added
- Greater convenience when entering top surcharges via arrow fields
- 3D jerseys can now be completely disabled
- Additional city and country texts added
- Initial work has begun on preparing a Spanish/Italian version; mix files are available on Discord for both languages
- In the future, language variants derived from a base language will be possible (English, UK → US; German, D → A, etc.)
Fixes
- Fix: OBS streaming
- Improved display of the selected language at the start to make it easier to find the option to switch
- Fix for reduced number of leagues when a country is reduced to the 1st League and deselected
- Player comparison speed restored
- Keyboard navigation for staff selection has been re-enabled
- Fix: Fixed an error with the display of past Champions Cup results
- Fix: Fixed an error with the 2nd division league size when 2nd division teams are promoted
- Fix: Crash when setting jersey numbers
- Fix: Crash in the weekly schedule caused by youth players without a club
- Fix: Crash related to national team budgets
- Fix: Base salary now also affects the budget if the player agrees to join during the week
- Fix: Signing bonuses are now paid and recorded correctly
- Fix: No more duplicate expense entries when playing without a budget
- Fix: Playing time in the player list in the lineup now matches only the value under “Playing Time”
- Poached youth players can now be re-signed for your own youth academy
- Negotiations can no longer be canceled despite a release clause being offered
- No more broken promises when discussing a contract extension with a player and extending it within 2 weeks
- The board is now more lenient after losses if the season goal is still achieved afterward; effects on AI coaches, however, have been slightly increased
- Fix: Issue with stadium expansion of mini-stadiums when founding a club (only for new save files; for existing save files, see Update 2)
- Inflation adjustment for floodlight prices
- Average age on the roster screen now includes one decimal place
- Progress toward the next level is no longer lost when opening the internal player editor in Creative Mode
- Member count on the Fans screen is now updated correctly
- Tooltip added to the Headquarters for “Home-grown players are not for sale”
- Improved explanation of gameplay in the tutorial
- Standardized term “Familiarity” for the playing philosophy
- Improvements to DB import (cleaning up previously deleted players)
- Fix: Merging league affiliations
- DB: English first and last names distributed more evenly
- Editor: 3rd international competition can now be named
- Editor: Missing text for the drop-down menus under “Country Data” added; league names are now international
- Editor: Startup issues related to WAF24 resolved
- Missing button text for Editor events in English added
- English and French update
