PowerPlay Manager

PowerPlay Manager

Manufacturer(s)	PowerPlay Manager ltd
Publication date	April 2009 (Ice hockey), June 2010 (Football), May 2013 (Handball), June 2014 (Basket-ball)
Genre(s)	Online Sports management games
Language(s)	English and more than 40 others
Players	Many (MMOG)
🌐 Website	ppm.powerplaymanager.com

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Origin

PowerPlay Manager is an online game of Slovak origin which is free-to-play. Currently (in 2026), it is available in more than 40 languages, including English. The game was officially unveiled in March 2007, and registration for the initial version began in June 2007.

Initially, the project was not created by a professional team, yet it has attracted significant interest from the online community, with over 240,000 registered players by December 2009. The final version of the first sport featured in the game (ice hockey) was launched in April 2009. The game was then developed into PowerPlay Studio, which produces sports games of various kinds many years later.

The game name is derived from the ice hockey term for a numerical advantage situation (a "power play").

Presentation

Today (in 2026), PowerPlay Manager (shorten PPM) actually comprises four sports team management games:

• Ice hockey
• Football (soccer in the USA)
• Handball
• Basket-ball

Those are separate games, therefore you can choose to manage a single team in your favorite sport or up to four. To play, you need a computer (or a smartphone, or a tablet) with an Internet connection and a web browser. As with most sports management games, the goal is to build the best team, advance to higher divisions, and aim to win the championship title.

To succeed in the game, you must buy players on the transfer market, define your team's tactics and lineup, hire staff, build facilities (training center, HR department, medical center...), train your players, develop your stadium (or arena/rink, depending on the sport), and so on.

Signing up and playing Powerplay Manager is completely free. It is also possible to purchase a PRO pack to access additional features that enhance the gaming experience. However, none of these features are necessary to win: a player who does not purchase the PRO pack has just as many chances to win as anyone else.

Seasons

The game is organized in seasons of 112 days (unless for basket-ball which has seasons of 70 days). During each season, there is a championship and different tournaments. All teams participate in the championship, which operates as a league with, at least, a home-and-away match between all teams in the same league. All teams also compete in the national cup. Other tournaments require a qualification process.

National teams

There are also national teams in PPM : 3 age categories per each country. They are available for the countries with the most players. The head coach of each national team is selected following a vote by all the managers of the concerned country. Then, the head coach manage a team of the best players of the country and try to win the world championship against all others nations.

Languages

In July 2026, PPM is translated into the 47 following languages, allowing a large part of the world to access it and compete.

N.	Language	English name	Flag	Code	Link
1	Azərbaycanca	Azerbaijan	Republic of Azerbaijan	az
2	Bahasa Melayu	Malaysian	Malaysia	ms
3	Bosanski	Bosnian	Bosnia and Herzegovina	bs
4	Čeština	Czech	Czech Republic	cs
5	Crnogorski	Montenegrin	Montenegro	cg
6	Dansk	Danish	Denmark	da
7	Deutsch	German	Germany	de
8	Eesti	Estonian	Estonia	et
9	English	English	United Kingdom	en
10	Español, Argentina	Rioplatense Spanish	Argentina	ap
11	Español, Chile	Chilean Spanish	Chile	ac
12	Español, España	Spanish	Spain	es
13	Français	French	France	fr
14	Hrvatski	Croatian	Croatia	hr
15	Italiano	Italian	Italy	it
16	Latviešu	Latvian	Latvia	lv
17	Lietuvių	Lithuanian	Lithuania	lt
18	Magyar	Hungarian	Hungary	hu
19	Mакедонски	Macedonian	Macedonia	mk
20	Nederlands	Dutch	The Netherlands	nl
21	Norsk	Norwegian	Norway	no
22	Polski	Polish	Poland	pl
23	Português	Portuguese	Portugal	pt
24	Português, Brasil	Brazilian Portuguese	Brazil	pb
25	Română	Romanian	Romania	ro
26	Slovenčina	Slovak	Slovakia	sk
27	Slovenščina	Slovenian	Slovenia	sl
28	Suomi	Finnish	Finland	fi
29	Svenska	Swedish	Sweden	sv
30	Türkçe	Turkish	Türkiye	tr
31	Vlaams	Flemish	Belgium	fl
32	Ελληνικά	Greek	Greece	el
33	Беларуская	Belarusian	Belarus	be
34	Български	Bulgarian	Bulgaria	bg
35	Русский	Russian	Russia	ru
36	Српски	Serbian	Serbia	sr
37	Українська	Ukrainian	Ukraine	uk
38	ქართული ენა	Georgian	Georgia	ka
39	עברית	Hebrew	Israel	he
40	'ارد	Urdu	Pakistan	ur
41	العربية	Arabic	Saudi Arabia	ar
42	فارسی	Persian	Iran	fa
43	हिन्दी	Hindi	India	hi
44	中文	Chinese	China	zh
45	日本語	Japanese	Japan	ja
46	繁體中文	Taiwanese	Taiwan	tc
47	한글	Korean	South Korea	ko

Codes used in PPM and in this table are certainly those definined by ISO 3166.

Community aspects

Following the competition results

Unfortunately, not everyone can follow the competition results and a team of his choice because you need to be logged with an account in the game.

Once logged in the game, you can follow the comptetition results or any team of your choice :

United Kingdoms :

• Hockey division 1
• Soccer division 1
• Handball division 1
• Basket-ball division 1

United States :

• Hockey division 1
• Soccer division 1
• Handball division 1
• Basket-ball division 1

Tournaments

World Championship

Referral program

If you want to take part of the game then you may register in PPM trough a referral program in order to get a godfather in the game.

When you register in the game, it's mandatory to choose the country from where you connect trough the internet otherwise your account will likely be blocked in a few days. The choice of your country is important for the national teams because of this will depend the nationality of all your new players.

Forums

PPM provides a wide number of forums. There are organized by countries and sports are accessible by everybody.

Forums for the United Kingdoms :

• Main
• Hockey
• Soccer
• Handball
• Basket-ball

Forums for the United States :

• Main
• Hockey
• Soccer
• Handball
• Basket-ball

Reception

Hockey players

The game is promoted by Peter Šťastný, a Slovak-Canadian former professional ice hockey player and by David Rodman and Marcel Rodman, two Slovenian former professional ice hockey players.

A serious game

PPM is refered as a serious game by two french organizations : ONISEP and CRIJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

University studies

The University of Kragujevac (Serbia) has published a study named "The use of anglicisms in German and Serbian languages and the degree of their adaptation" based on the analysis of a corpus made up of translations of the PPM website.

Development history

Launch dates

Starts dates for each sport of PPM:

Sport	Announcement	Beta	Final version
Ice hockey	March 2007	June 2007	April 2009
Football	?	?	June 1, 2010
Handball	?	?	May 27, 2013
Basket-ball	?	?	June 23, 2014

Therefore, now, the game runs well for more than a decade which is reassuring in terms of longevity.

The dates provided in this table indicate the major phases of the PPM project. The game continued to evolve beyond the final release dates. Today (in July 2026), the most recent known update took place in May, 2025, improving the auction system shared by the four sports. However, this is a minor update and the main game mecanics will probably not evolve a lot in the future.

About developers

In december 2010, František Debnár has left the PowerPlay Manager development team in order to start the development of another game.

Technical aspects

Client side

The game is fully designed with web technologies which means it will work perfectly on every hardware with a web browser installed on it. The game does not require any specific executable downloads to work.

That is how PPM can be played on quite old hardware without any issues. Any computer, tablet or smartphone which can run a web browser of year 2010 (or later) should work perfectly. The game will also work on any new electronic hardware as long as the web browser maintain the web historical compatibility.

However, a Youtube video shows an another interface for PPM which should be an heavy client... But it seems that there is no mention of such possibilities on the PPM website.

Server side

It is obvious that the game uses the nginx http web server. It is certainly written mainly with PHP. The data are organized trough the use of Redis (a NoSql database system).

Sources

And links to PPM (they can't be clickable because of a SPAM issue with everybodywiki ; we asked the admin to remove this but, unfortunately, no answer at this time) :

External links

• [ppm.powerplaymanager.com Official website]

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