Football Manager 2023 Exclusive: Miles Jacobson explains supporter profile feature

Miles Jacobson, the director of Football Manager, has revealed exactly how the supporter profile works in FM23.

Sports Interactive’s latest release hits storefronts across the world on November 8th, with the beta coming two weeks prior, as is traditional.

One of the much-heralded new features sees fans given a major new role in the game.

Not only will you have to earn the respect of the board, you’ll also have to keep the fans onside, and there is a supporter matrix for every club in the game.

Of course, FM23 simulates real-life football so there is a huge number of football clubs within the game, and they all have an individual matrix based on their real-life fanbase.

We at GMS sat down with Miles to talk about all things Football Manager and he revealed the work that went into compiling this fan database.

In the game, there will be a button around the club vision that will take you to the ‘Supporters’ tab, which includes the profile of the fans.

As explained on Football Manager’s official website, the following personalities are included:

As Miles has explained, clubs that begin in lower leagues will have more hardcore fans at the start of the game, but success can see fair-weather fans picked up as you continue to progress.

Speaking exclusively to GMS, Miles was asked about how much of a challenge the supporter profile was to create and he replied: “Well because we've got so many researchers around the world, we've got over 1000 Researchers in 51 countries and regions. And in a lot of countries, we have one researcher per club. So, in those countries, it was quite easy to do but you've then got to check it all because people can be biased right towards their own clubs.

“So, it's definitely a challenge for the research