The beautiful game is back – now even more beautiful!
Hi friends of the discreet tackle and the magnificent strike.
The time has finally come for you to go to your job in your favourite football club. There you must fulfil no lesser task than to take your club to glory and honour. No matter what.
Goal offers you:
Football presidents who will make unfulfillable desires in latent craving for status.
Sponsors who would rather pay too little than too much.
Spoiled hairdresser clients who are called football stars by the fans.
At least 34 Rogue-like levels per season with valuable points as loot for the so-called league table.
Exciting adventures in the locker room, where you can give your squad the hairdryer treatment.
Indulge extensively in the materialism that comes with employment.
Come and see the madness that the world's second favourite occupation has in store every day, rise to become one of the tough football managers who subordinate everything to success and become the autocrat of the football leagues. Take the plunge into the business of brutal tackles and unjustified penalties and get a few virtual high-profile fans and a virtual cheeky ball (Pallino and us) for free at the start of the first season.
Get the ball into the net!
The teams of 2tainment and Toplitz Productions
The new tactical focus
Hello football fans,
you can see it on the new roadmap: There will changes regarding the further development direction for the rest of this year as well as for 2023.
The absolute priority for us is that the game is performant, stable and fun to play with the content already available at the start of the Early Access phase. This premise was also responsible for the release delay. Our main focus was sending an entertaining as well as functional game onto the competitive pitch.
The three weeks of additional development time have helped GOAL! in every possible way. It is more polished, it is more stable, and it is even more fun to play. However, the three weeks spent on improving and bugfixing are now missing in the schedule to add more features and content. Also, with the launch into Early Access, we are expecting a huge amount of player feedback. In turn, we have to channel, filter and sort this before we start working on requests, bug fixes and further balancing or optimization issues. As a result, we are running out of time for the content and feature additions we had planned for this year.
When we add a new feature, we want it to fit seamlessly and not feel like a hastily tacked on appendix. It should work as smoothly and bug-free as possible.
That's why we've decided to dedicate the post-launch phase of Early Access almost entirely to community feedback as well as optimizations, balancing and bug-fixing of the existing content. In the background, the feature additions are already being prepared, but we don't want to rush anything, yet release everything as quickly as possible, but also as well-functioning as possible. We'd rather take a little longer to develop, but with a decent result.
We will keep you informed about the progress in the next weeks and months and wish you a lot of fun with GOAL! The Club Manager.
The teams of 2tainment and Toplitz Productions
Two days to kick-off!
Hello football fans!
Just a few more days - and then Goal! The Club Manager will be released in Early Access.
We want to say thank you ahead of time. For all your patience and the support we felt over the last few weeks.
It was a rocky road. And in the case of the short notice release delay it was very painful. But we also know, how long you've been patiently waiting, to feel and play the re-imagining of one the Germany's most prolific franchises.
We could spend more days and weeks on fixing bugs, adding more features, testing those features, fixing bugs etc.
But we don't want you to wait any longer. At the same time we feel and hope, that the current feature set will entertain you for dozens of hours, while you are trying to prepare your team for the tasks ahead and try to put your club on a financially sound foundation.
This is, why now seems to be the right moment in time, to let you all in. We are looking forward to your feedback. This is extremely important and vital to us, in order to align our next development steps with you, to honor your wishes and to see, how we can connect them with our vision of a modern football management game.
With absolute certainty, you will find the occasional bug and probably pixels who seem odd. A lot of what you'll discover we probably know already and are working on it. Some of what you might discover, could be a first. But regardless of new or already reported, we'll try to fix as many bugs as fast as possible.
But we will also add new features and more content. For Early Access start there are national teams or international cup competition missing, for example. Those will be delivered as soon as possible, while we continue to update the roadmap.
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the world of Goal! The Club Manager in two days!!
The teams from 2tainment and Toplitz Productions
GOAL! The Club Manager: Development Goes into Extra Time
Hello everyone!
More time needed to deliver best possible gaming experience – release postponed to November 2nd
It’s the same every year. The season opener is scheduled, and fans begin to make their way to the stadium in anticipation of their team’s first match. They grab their seats in a sold-out stadium, nervous for kick-off. Instead of the whistle being blown and the roar of the crowd rolling out, the turnstiles are closed, and kick-off has been canceled. It’s time to return home.
The kick-off of GOAL! The Club Manager can’t quite begin. Developer 2tainment and publisher Toplitz Productions have to announce the release of the football management sim has to be postponed on short notice. Unexpected problems have arisen in the final testing phase, which make the originally planned release on 13 October impossible. Instead, the game will now be released on 2 November 2022.
In a joint statement, 2tainment and Toplitz Productions address the fans: "We have worked tirelessly for you over the past days and nights, improving features and fixing bugs. Unfortunately, a blocker has crept in that we are not able to solve in time. Thus, we have decided to postpone the release by a few weeks to give you the best possible experience."
Changes in the feature list??? Say what?
Hello football fans,
you might have noticed that there have been slight changes in the feature list for GOAL! The Club Manager.
There is nothing to worry about, though. With the Early Access release date closing in, we just wanted the features to be as accurate as possible. To achieve that we added a sidenote if that feature will be available during the Early Access phase, wherever applicable.
But everything that we set out to include either in Early Access or further down the road, is still planned and all the major features that didn't make it into the game at launch will be shown in a roadmap that we will release together with the game on October 13.
We are looking forward to seeing you in GOAL! The Club Manager and being a part of a very vivid community.
Talk soon!
The 2tainment and Toplitz Productions teams
Goal! - The Club Manager - A glimpse into the game!
"The show must go on".
Smiling broadly, you get out of the car that has just taken you to the car park of your new sports venue. You lift your sunglasses and look out at the masses of people expecting you to be the new saviour for their club. Just twelve people are standing there.
You hurry past a 7-year-old fan in a baseball cap and scarf, signing his autograph pad with three crosses. Let's see if it's worth perfecting your signature some other time. You are nimbly taken to the club boss's office, where they expect nothing less from you than to win the championship. You correctly set fifteen signatures this time and the adventure begins. That is exactly what you came for!
Yes, dear friend of cultivated chessboard tactics and admirer of false 9’s and swapping wingmen, soon the time will come. Then it will be up to you to prevent the storming of the pitch with subsequent public tarring and feathering and instead collect golden trophies for the display case!
But first you must watch this video!
Let's go!
Away match at Gamestar.
Hello fans,
We had an away match with Gamestar. See what they have to say (Article in German)!
GOAL! The Club Manager is getting ready to take on the competition!
Hello football fans,
We are tremendously happy to welcome you here!.
You are exactly in the right place to get the latest news about the GOAL! development status and much more.
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And we are eager to receive your feedback. Your opinion matters!. Because Anstoss 2022 is made by fans. For fans like you. And with fans like you!
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We leave you today with a quote from David Pleat: "A game is not won until it is lost.” And right he is.
