WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027: The Official Manual and Where to Get It

WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027 ships with something most modern sports games have long dropped: a real manual. Not a scanned retro curiosity, but a 281-page reference in English (321 in German) that the game’s Steam store page links directly, free of charge, and revises version by version. Most players never open it — which is a shame, because roughly a hundred of those pages explain the probabilities under the hood. This page maps what is inside, chapter by chapter, with page numbers for both language editions, and pairs each section with the guide on this site that covers the same ground in practice.

What the manual is, and who wrote it

The document is the official manual linked from the WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027 Steam store page: the store page’s link bar carries the label „Handbuch anzeigen“ and leads to a small language-selection page hosting both editions. The German file is titled „We Are Football 2027 – Der ultimative Guide“, the English one „We Are Football 2027 – The Ultimate Guide“. Both are version 3.03, dated 7 September 2026.

The foreword, written in the first person, is signed by Gerald Köhler; the copyright page credits the cover photo as „Coach featured on the cover: Benjamin Duda“. The book covers the whole series line — WE ARE FOOTBALL, National Teams, WAF2024 and WAF27 — and states its maintenance model up front: it is updated regularly, and a comprehensive change log at the end records what changed since the last edition. The author is equally candid about the limits: he „cannot guarantee that all the information is correct“, because details move with updates — reported errors are corrected in the next release. It is a player-facing reference guide, not a technical document, and everything on this page stays within what the PDFs themselves say.

How to get the manual

Two routes, both free:

1. Open the Steam store page and click the „Handbuch anzeigen“ link in the link bar on the right.
2. Or go straight to the language-selection page that the link points to, and pick your edition:

No account, no download client, no in-game unlock — the PDFs are hosted outside Steam, exactly where the store page points, and open in any PDF reader.

What’s inside: the chapter map

The manual is organised into six parts and three appendices. The two editions are typeset separately, so page numbers differ; both are listed.

Two things make Part 3 the heart of the book. Every glossary entry is annotated with the version it arrived in — „Transfer market – constantly being improved“ (EN p. 171 / DE S. 181), „Finances“ (103 / 103), „Stadium“ (155 / 166), „Training camps“ (166 / 180), „Youth“ (175 / 114), „Hotseat“ (111 / 110, expanded from two to four players) and „Creative mode“ (92 / 122) are the anchors you will revisit most. And the entries go deeper than menu help: the foreword promises „a particularly in-depth insight into how the game works“, often probabilities and little tricks for optimising your play — the layer no tutorial video reaches.

Which guide covers what

The manual explains the systems; our guides compress them into decisions. Where both exist, they pair up like this:

Manual or wiki?

Both, honestly. The manual is the official reference: complete, version-annotated, maintained by the person who signs it — but it is a PDF whose page numbers shift between editions, and it stays deliberately neutral on the questions you actually face at the start: which database, which difficulty, which club. This site is the free online layer on top: task-oriented guides in plain language, every number traceable to a manual page like the ones above, updated as patches land — including editor and community-patch territory, such as the real-name database patch, where a store-linked manual takes no sides.

So use each for what it does best: read the manual for how the game works, and come here for what to do about it. If you are just starting out, the beginner guide picks up exactly where the new-game wizard ends, and the career mode and game modes guide helps you choose the right one of those six career paths before you commit.