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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. 

What are cup presets

BRO HOLY SHIT HOWWWW
Bosnia VS France

https://matchsimulator.com/match/2042c414bf27a0f3/fulham-vs-stoke-city

Rodrigo muniz with a 10.0 rating!

Hi, everyone! I finished my newest project: I introduced in Match Simulator the 32 teams that disputed the 2006/2007 UEFA Champions League (https://matchsimulator.com/customization-pack/177187/golden-era-2006). Every player's overall (except for the Russian teams, which I also had to use AI) is based in a videogame that recently launched 2006/2007 season, so this customisation pack is the most realistic as possible. I didn't use SOFIFA because some teams weren't in there and they put too low overalls for old players. The preset was made according to the old rules: https://matchsimulator.com/cup-preset/36350/ucl-06-07. Have fun ☺️!!!

Really cool!

WOW! Thanks for using my pack, I saw that you used my preset 😁. P.S.: in my cup, Barça won the UCL.

Hi Joshua! Can u plz send me the link to the old website of match simulator to return to memories?🤩🤩

Its gone, there is no old version anymore.

I have to use your website in an embed to play in school, can you allow logging in on embeds? I out my info and it just takes me back to the home page

No, sorry, thats a security risk.

Old saved matches (including this season) do not have the visual lineups or match ratings

Correct, any match since the 3.15 update will have it. Before that, the info is not available

Can you make it so that if two or more players are tied in match rating at the end of the match, one of them gets the star anyway?

e.g.   https://matchsimulator.com/match/5dcd7799f71f4bd2/rb-leipzig-vs-olympique-de-marseille

That already exists... but look at your bench ;)

Whoops, thanks!

Joshua can you win potm even if your team loses?

Yes

Please remove premium

joshua can you pls pls add real club logos instead of this

 

He can't do that because of copyright.

Joshua what is the next update and when i just want more update and good job joshua keep it up this is the best online simulation gamre i ever seen good job

 

Thanks!

Please read the FAQ. I can't tell when next update will come.

https://matchsimulator.com/cup/2077397/world-cup-2026 hmm portugal???

Haaland scores 5 from the back!

That's because of the bug, so that's not matter where he is playing, the stats are everything 

That's not a bug, just something hard (or maybe impossible) to implement.

Correct, not really a bug, it's just something that needs to be tweaked in the match engine.

Hello, I know some features will be premium but will player of the tourment and team of the tourment be free please? Atleast give freeusers something please.

I understand you want that, but to determine a team and player of the season you need the average rating. And the average rating can only be stored for a limited set of users, hence the premium users.

That said, "give free users something", you just had the match ratings... I couldve also chosen to make them entirely premium. I already try hard to balance the premium and free features so this is the middle ground.

Joshua, can you please make it available to pay for premium in any country with any money, but not only dollars?

It is already available in virtually every country and currency though..?

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If not, can you tell me which country you're from and what currency you expect and what options you get?

Russia, rubles

Russia is under sanctions btw, so it may not work:((

Thanks, sorry Russia is indeed an exception... I cant really do anything about it, its handled by the payment integration. Sorry :(

So it will impossible for me to try out these new features?😥😥

Well I think there are ways around it but I'm not familiar with it. And maybe someday the sanctions will go away

but not soon:(

btw what is your favorite football team?

And when this feature will be out?

See FAQ

Cant give estimates on when updates release.

Hi Joshua, I loved this new update to the match ratings, it's really great. I had an idea before, but you didn't reply: Could you add a button during the match that, when pressed, would show the players moving in 2D, indicating who has the ball, if they've received a card for a foul, or where they currently have possession? Something like a 2D simulation similar to the one in FC 26, which has "fast simulation" and "slow simulation" where you can see your players moving in 2D. Thanks! 😃

Thanks, good to hear!

Although really cool, something like that is entirely different from the current website and too complicated to develop and make it honest to life. For that, I suggest just using FM or FC ;)

Is there a better way to make packs for past seasons that aren't included? I'm thinking of working on the 2013-14 Premier League and Champions League but it's kinda annoying that it would have to be tied to an existing version cause there's already an existing database of that makes sense. That being said there probably isn't another way to do it.

Also loving the ratings system :)

At the moment, no. But:

Older seasons are planned for premium users

And its still somewhere on my list to make packs containing only custom players available for all seasons

Hi Joshua. I dont know if its possible or not but could you maybe add a possibilty to Play your own World Cup 2026 with the quali for the Wc of every Continent?

Sorry, no. Its too complicated right now with all the different formats and missing nations etc. You can import a pack that has the teams, then make separate qualifier cups and then finally the World Cup

Hi joshua will it be possible to add a not edited toggle button so I can find the players that I haven't transferred or changed their stats?

Wow, Joshua, you made a great work last year! I was away for like a year and when i came back these days i was shocked! Thanks for such a good thing! I have already recommended to 10+ friends that also like football and they enjoyed it!

Thanks, love to hear it!

https://matchsimulator.com/match/bbb8390cb053501b/al-hilal-vs-tottenham-hotspur

Also in this match porro got  a 6.1 but also got an assist - is that a mistake??

 

No, he also conceded 4 goals

what is the lowest rating you can get?

1.0

thanks

How do you get 1.0, because someone in my match got a red, own goal, and conceded 3 times but got a rating of 3.4

what

Thank you for adding player performance ratings: I think it is a really nice new feature. I think it would also be really nice if you had like a average performance rating ranking in tournaments.

⏭️ Up next: a best performers card on the Summary tab (soon), followed by advanced stats tracking in cups for Premium users: average match rating, matches played, minutes played, clean sheets, motms

Is best performers not just who has the best average match rating? Also, is the best performers stat only going to be for premium users or for regular users aswell? Thanks

Best performers is showing the three best players live during the match, and is for regular users as well

cool

You comment disappeared, do you know how that happened?
Anyway, i saw it in the notification: no, there is no new mechanism to make the title race more exciting. Its all weighted chance!

Hi Joshua! Can you add Hamza Abdelkarim to the game. Thanks for everything

See FAQ

We dont normally add or update teams or players. You can create or import them yourself using a customization pack.

Hi Joshua, I had an idea and wanted to share it with you. What if we added separate statistics for the first and second halves of the game?

Fun idea, I'd also like to add a similar thing for the league table to compare home vs away.

Idea noted.

Hi Joshua, I’ve got a suggestion: how about adding a shot map visualization for goals, showing where the shot was taken from and where it ended up in the goal?

Its cool, but right now that data simply does not exist. So in order to add it we also have to update the match engine to give each shot a location etc.

Not a priority right now.

Hello Joshua! I have a suggestion. What if we added a Golden Goal mode instead of the Away Goals and Penalty shootout mode?

Hmm, cool idea, but I dont believe its implemented anywhere in real football, is it?

You could always make it happen for the nostalgia merchants, like in the 90s durning the world cup!

Well away goals aren't anywhere anymore either, but it's an option. Adding this as an option would be cool.

But they were until the 22/23 season, which are available on the website.

Still an option to consider though.

Hey Joshua! I've got a suggestion. How about you add captains to teams in match siumlator

Planned

Josh can you add the name of the player when it says "saved by a last ditch tackle" or "ball is headed out by the defender" during a corner so those defensive stats effect the players match rating?

Maybe, yes.

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Can you try again? Or explain whats the typo and where?

When you create cup from Cup presets page, in tab Match engine it said "Tacticacl" instead of Tactical

Thanks!

Hi Joshua, I would Say you which the Palermo's goalkeeper Is not Bardi because he went in another club which I dont know

All player on MS comes from sofifa.com updated as of 10th Septemeber (or 16 I don't know). If you want to change the players from their clubs, you can create or import a "customization pack"

https://matchsimulator.com/match/6661a3294c4ebf29/sl-benfica-vs-liverpool

Cinematic 9-goal match.

Sup, Joshua. Have you ever thought of making the two-staged Championship play-off group and relegation play-off group cup type like in the belgian and romanian league?

Yes, but those types of cups are difficult to make dynamic and configurable. So for now, I recommend to make separate cups for them to do it.

Hi Joshua 

When will you add stadium's names when we simulate cups ?

what use will that add tho....

Its not really planned anytime soon, since it doesnt add much other than immersion. The thing is I have to retrieve that data for somewhere, and the annoying thing is that those names change, so I'd have to get those names for each season separately.

So it will probably come, but I'm not planning on adding it soon.

https://matchsimulator.com/match/400714f2d687bc58/fc-barcelona-vs-real-madrid

 

Just saying I really like the match ratings system
I think it is very realistic

Thanks!

My personal suggestion would be to track MOTM like goals are tracked but this is still good

Yes, Premium users will get advanced stats like minutes played, matches played, clean sheets, motms, average rating

Hi Joshua, "Mark all as read" function lead to a Bad request page. Please check it

Yes, I'm aware, thanks for reporting! Will fix asap

HI JOSHUA. How do you move a player out of tactics manually

You cant really delete a player from tactics, only thing you can do is put him in the reserves

Is it possible to get over a 7 match rating without a goal or assist for an attacker or midfielder?

Yes

https://matchsimulator.com/match/691189fb9e334b2e/newcastle-united-vs-liverpool

I like the rating system but i think it is too hard to get a 7 or above for example this game its 0-0 but no defenders got a 7. also when teams win, a lot of times its only players who got goal or assist who got a 7 or above, so despite team winning 2-0 it could be only 2-3 players and rest would be 6 or 5 ish ratings.

in my opinion it should stay like that because when you watch football you know Liverpool they have really low amount of players that are in good form and it's like that wirtz should get 8 match rating all week

well bro im not talking about liverpool scum specifically like im just saying like if a team is winning usually its not just the players who score who have an impact, so i think other metricts for stats should be accounted for as well. this for all positions, attackers, mids, defs like are they dribbling passing blocking shots who doing that shiiuu

Burnley - Nottingham Forest | Match Simulator like heres another good example like 1. why is wood getting 6.6 after scoring, and then legit brunley scored 3 goals and everyone got bad ratings excpet the 3 players who got g/a

https://matchsimulator.com/match/52d4ba080df665e2/manchester-united-vs-chelsea and this one like chelsea won 2-1 and pedro neto is the only player who got a 7 like eveyrone else was apprent;y crap in a 2-1 win

https://matchsimulator.com/match/768ab6bc1279f1bb/fk-bodo-glimt-vs-tottenham-hotspur 

well link watch some football because on Barcelona Lewandowski scores but gets mid ratings too

 

and getting a goal doesn't always give you high match ratings cuz the ratings are from the full match

Thanks for the feedback, will be taken into account. The ratings will be continuously tweaked until they are balanced and fair.

That said, it all depends on in which context you look at the ratings; do you look at it like you expect from other apps/leagues/...? Because each uses their own metrics to give ratings. There are newspapers that rate from 1 to 5 where 1 is nearly perfect and 2 is already really rare. So with that in mind, you can also regard this as the Match Simulator Metrics. As long as the ratings are fair and consistent over time and position, you could argue this is fine as well.

But as stated before, it will still be tweaked and your feedback is noted!

The rating system is really excellent! Thank you Joshua.

Wow I see you have done a great job there with the rating system! Don't know how it works but very realistic. Thanks a lot for bring it to us!

Thanks, good to hear! In the end it became a pretty advanced and detailed system, I kept coming with things I could integrate that influence the rating. But: it is still open to feedback, it can be tweaked until it is balanced and fair.

Josh can you add in cups average match rating stat?

Up next: a best performers card on the Summary tab (soon), followed by advanced stats tracking in cups for Premium users: average match rating, matches played, minutes played, clean sheets

Why is it premium i wanted it as a free and many would :(

Because:

1. I want Premium to have exciting and advanced content

2. This would cost a lot of storage, so it can only be available for a small number of users

joshua how do i bulk reset like in the customisation pack,i wna reset all edited players.do uk anything abt tht?

There currently is no way to do that. But cant you just make a new pack?

ouh ok.i made a mistake in the pack but i couldnt let myself delete a year worth of work

yes match ratings are here

 

https://matchsimulator.com/cup/2067350/world-cup-2022 

What would happen if England actually won the 2022 World Cup