Invincibles Studio

Invincibles Studio Ltd

Invincibles Studio

About Us

Established 2004

Invincibles Studio is an established, innovative games development studio based in the North West of England. The studio has been producing high quality football games since 2004.

The studio is headed up by CEO Chris Gore, who has an expert board behind him, including gaming veteran and former CEO of Codemasters, Nick Wheelwright as Executive chairman.

About Us

Global player base

75M+ downloads worldwide

Together the team have produced some of the most engaging and authentic football games that the market has seen. The team’s decades of combined experience in the games industry has resulted in significant year on year sales growth and a strong business platform from which the team expect to achieve further growth, taking advantage of the growing gaming market which Newzoo has predicted will reach $200 billion by 2023.

Invincibles Studio is working with some of the world’s biggest football publications (Goal) and license holders (FIFPRO) to add authenticity to the games. The Studio’s games are played in every country of the world which has resulted in more than 60 million downloads to date.

Our History

Invincibles Studio: founded 2004

The passion for creating football games has led Soccer Manager to grow from a small team starting out in their parent’s garage to a team of over 50 people located in Preston.

Invincibles Studio have brought 11 football games to the global market: Soccer Manager Worlds, The Soccer Manager single-player series, which is currently in its 8th iteration, Football Clash: All Stars and F2 Target Tekkers.

Timeline

SOCCER MANAGER 2024 GLOBAL LAUNCH
2023
SOCCER MANAGER 2024 AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER GLOBALLY
2022
WORLDWIDE DFL LICENCE OBTAINED FOR SOCCER MANAGER 2023
SM 23
SOCCER MANAGER 2023 GLOBAL LAUNCH
SM 23
2021
SOCCER MANAGER 2022 GLOBAL LAUNCH
SM 22 Major Licenses
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED FOR INVINCIBLES STUDIO IN 2022
Wolves
INTER MILAN PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED FOR SOCCER MANAGER 2022
Inter Milan
BAYER LEVERKUSEN PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED FOR SOCCER MANAGER 2022
Bayer Leverkusen
MULTI YEAR SPFL DEAL SIGNED FOR GLOBAL RIGHTS IN THE SM SERIES
SPFL Logo Crop
SOCCER MANAGER 2022 AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER GLOBALLY
SM 22 Preorder
MULTI YEAR FIFPRO LICENCE DEAL SIGNED FOR THE SM SERIES
Fifpro
LEEDS OFFICE OPENED
SM Office
MOVED TO A NEW PRESTON OFFICE
SM Office
£3 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM MERCIA TO BOOST GROWTH PLANS
2020
SOCCER MANAGER 2021 LAUNCHED
SM 21 Launch
2020
MIKEL ARTETA PARTNERSHIP
Arteta Partnership Milestone

Mikel Arteta partnership announced as the global ambassador of the SM series

2020
PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BUNDESLIGA COMMENCES
Bundesliga
2019
SOCCER MANAGER 2020 LAUNCHED
SM 20 Pre Order

Released on the 21st October, Soccer Manager 2020 is our latest iteration of our popular football management simulation. Choose from over 800 clubs from 33 countries around the world, so you’ll have the chance to manage and build your top eleven. Featuring realistic 3D graphics, intense competitions and an in-depth game economy. The football manager experience in Soccer Manager 2020 is as close to the real thing as a game can get.

F2 TARGET TEKKERS LAUNCHED
F2 Target Tekkers

Soccer Manager collaborated with The F2, YouTube’s most famous football freestylers, bringing an epic football puzzle game to market. On launching it shot straight to the top of the charts.

2018
SOCCER MANAGER 2019 LAUNCHED
SM 19 Game

Released on the 31st October, Soccer Manager 2019 is our latest iteration of our popular football management simulation. Lead your favourite team to victory in an immersive football management simulator. Decide to take on a top flight club to test your management skills against the best or help a struggling, lower division team fight for glory.

SOCCER MANAGER 2018 LAUNCHED
SM 18 Matchday

After creating Soccer Manager Arena in the Unity game engine we knew that we wanted to develop our next iteration of the single player game using the same engine. Using Unity gave us much more scope in what we were able to achieve with the game. Building it in a dedicated game engine allowed for better optimisation and more memory usage which made it possible to have a more interactive user interface, resolve save game issues and to include 3D elements. Soccer Manager 2018 was released in open beta in September with the full launch following early November.

SOCCER MANAGER ARENA RE-BRANDED FOOTBALL CLASH: ALL STARS
Football Clash Logo

The decision to re-brand evolved from feedback from our community, we wanted to divert away from users thinking it was a management game like our other titles. We also introduced new 3D shooting/ goalkeeping mechanics and the anticipated feature tournaments to the latest version. These changed the dynamics of the game so it was the perfect time to re-brand the game as Football Clash: All Stars, a name which we think is a much more appropriate fit.

20 MILLION USERS
2017
SOCCER MANAGER ARENA LAUNCHED
SM Arena Logo

In April 2016 ideas started flowing for our third title, this time we wanted to divert away from our comfort zone and create a completely different sort of football game and Soccer Manager Arena was the result. The concept was to take two popular genres of games on the market and combine features from them both creating for the first time, a high quality football based, card collecting, PvP mobile game. Soccer Manager Arena was officially launched a year later in May 2017.

SOCCER MANAGER 2017 LAUNCHED
SM 17 Logo

Soccer Manager 2017 was released in the October which contained the updated squads and leagues for the 2017/2018 football season. It was also synchronised across platforms so it allowed our users to switch seamlessly between devices and platforms so they can continue their management career anywhere and everywhere.

2015
SOCCER MANAGER 2016 LAUNCHED
SM 16 Launch

During development of the Single player game it was decided that a new iteration of the game would be released at the beginning of each season to ensure a sense of realism by including up to date squads and leagues as well as a host of other new features and improvements. Subsequently Soccer Manager 2016 was soft launched in the September and then fully released in October.

10 MILLION USERS
FURTHER £1 MILLION BACKING FROM MERCIA
GLOBAL LAUNCH OF SOCCER MANAGER 2015
2014
SOCCER MANAGER LTD SCORES 300K INVESTMENT FROM MERCIA
SOCCER MANAGER RE-BRANDED SOCCER MANAGER WORLDS
SM Worlds Logo

Soccer Manager, our online multiplayer game at the time was rebranded as Soccer Manager Worlds and was given a fresh new look ready for the up and coming release of our single player game. This was so that our two games would have distinctive identities.

2013
SOCCER MANAGER WORLDS APP LAUNCHED ON IOS AND ANDROID
2012
FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT SERIES

Development began on single player football management series

2008
FIRST 1 MILLION USERS
2006
SOCCER MANAGER WORLDS GLOBAL LAUNCHED ON WEB BROWSER
Soccer Manager Old Logo

A browser based multiplayer game that allowed managers to buy and sell players and compete head to head against other managers from across the globe. What set it apart from other football management games on the market is that it was the first realistic online multiplayer football management game, that users could play for free.

2005
SOCCER MANAGER WORLDS BETA
2004
SOCCER MANAGER LTD FOUNDED

Founded by Andrew Gore, Chris Gore, Steven Gore and Peter Adams. Three brothers and their friend decided to join expertise and create an online game they would enjoy playing themselves, a football management game that today we call Soccer Manager Worlds. It was the love they had for the game they were creating that has enabled the company to grow into the high quality game developer it is today.