Championship Soccer 2026
2026 (3D) manual
Play the football. Shape the team. Build a career.
Everything you need to find your way from the first friendly to your own football world.
Start here
Choose your next step
I want to play now
Choose Quick game → Friendly match, pick two teams, then open Lineup and controls to assign your device.
Friendly matches and tournaments →I want a career
Choose Start a new career, select a football world and decide whether to play one footballer, manage a team or combine both.
Choose your career role →I want to create a team
Open Team Editor, make a personal copy of a database and use the Team Editor to change its clubs and players.
Learn the Team Editor →Football on the pitch and across a career
Control a full team or live the match through one footballer. Choose formations, develop youth players, work with coaches and scouts, negotiate transfers and follow leagues, cups and national teams across the seasons.
This manual covers the 2026 edition throughout. Its analogue movement and dedicated actions, expanded careers, Quick Tournaments and Team Editor are explained where you use them. Each chapter describes what the choices mean and how to make them.
Start with a short friendly. Learn a pass and a shot, then try the more detailed controls. Use the reference chapter for unfamiliar ratings and abbreviations, or Help when the game behaves differently from what you expected.
Contents
The complete guide
Getting started
Install the game, find your way around the menus and choose the football world you want to play in.
Chapter 02Quick games
Play a friendly, organise a tournament and share the pitch without advancing your main career.
Chapter 03Your career: player, manager & founder
Choose a role, create your footballer or manager, earn opportunities and follow a career through different clubs and responsibilities.
Chapter 04Controls
Assign your keyboard or Xbox controller, learn every match action, and use aiming, passing, tackling and match shortcuts.
Chapter 05Matchday, camera and match management
Prepare the side, follow the football, make changes and understand the result in Championship Soccer 2026.
Chapter 06Squad, tactics & players
Choose your team, understand footballers and build a tactical plan for both phases of play.
Chapter 07Training & youth
Develop the first team, bring academy players through and understand what helps a footballer improve.
Chapter 08Transfers, loans & contracts
Find suitable players, negotiate with clubs and players, manage loans and protect the wage budget.
Chapter 09Staff, scouting & information
Build a backroom team, improve your knowledge of footballers and choose useful scout reports and data licences.
Chapter 10Club management
Run the club from the manager office and follow its money, supporters, news and calendar.
Chapter 11Competitions & the football world
Follow leagues, cups, national teams, records and the changing football world across the seasons.
Chapter 12Options, display and sound
Choose the pace, controls, match balance, graphics, audio and personal preferences that suit your game.
Chapter 13Saving, loading and storage
Keep careers and tournaments safe, choose a storage folder and recover from an unsuccessful save.
Chapter 14Replays, match moments and videos
Watch the recent action again, keep favourite moments and create videos you can share.
Chapter 15Team Editor
Create and edit football worlds, clubs, kits, players, staff, competitions and scouting providers. Save copies, exchange entries and preview scripts.
Chapter 16Custom football worlds
Install community databases, use folder and ZIP worlds, manage shared names and graphics, add stadium music, and understand import warnings.
Chapter 17Editing game data
The complete text-file guide to countries, leagues, cups, teams, players, skills, birth dates, nationalities, staff, scouting providers and editor scripts.
Chapter 18Ratings, terms and abbreviations
A complete glossary of player skills, squad columns, positions, career values, match statistics, team attitudes and competition abbreviations.
Chapter 19Steam Deck setup and updates
Use the Windows release through Steam and Proton, assign the Deck controls and keep the correct installation and saves together.
Chapter 20Help and common questions
Find the next useful step when a control, match, career, database or file does not behave as expected.