The Draft
In April 2018, 64 Football Manager players participated in the first ever Football Manager World E-Sports Championship at Insomnia 62, all competing for the £15,000 first prize along with the chance to manage Norwich City Legends against Inter Milan Forever in a fixture that included the likes of Bryan Gunn, Darren Eadie, Efan Ekoku, Jurgen Klinsmann, Javier Zanetti and Francesco Toldo.
That tournament was won by none other than Daniel Fry aka @fryman7, where he narrowly defeated Mario Fontan in the final after a grueling weekend of FM action and was presented with the FMWEC prize by none other than CM/FM legend Cherno Samba.
One year later, 21 guys have gotten together to battle out an FM19 Draft League – rather than everyone having to be online at the same time as is normally the case for a Football Manager online game, the draft was completed using a Google Sheet whereby players took turns to select players in each round. The draft was completed over a 5 day period whereby all 21 managers have built a team of 20 players that each will feel are strong enough to reign supreme at the end of the 40 game competition.
The Draft
The Managers
| Team Name | Manager | Social |
| Ajax | Remco Heijselaar | @fm_lowietje |
| Armour FC | Stuart Armour | @StuartArmour |
| Bashev FC | Branimir Bashev | @branimirios |
| Bluemoon FC | Chris Thompson | n/a |
| Coqueiros FC | Henrique Ternes Morasco | @TernaoM |
| Dannyball Reserves | Matthew Hood | @FMTrequartista |
| DANNYBALL UTD | Daniel Fry | @fryman7 |
| Divok Originals | Max Wilson | n/a |
| Electric Rev | Bruno Vienescu | n/a |
| Fontiris FC | Mario Fontan | @MarioFontan89 |
| Hjorth FC | Mathias Hjortjh | @FM_Hjorth |
| Ipswich Monstars | Chris Bullard | @ChrisyBullard |
| JDFC | Jacob Dudley | n/a |
| JM All-Stars | Jim Martin | @hotspudman |
| Noobleton FC | Chris Rowlands | @noobleton |
| Pjanic @ the Disco | Paul Madden | @MaddFM986 |
| Save Chip FC | Lee Reading | @leereading6 |
| UCRACDF | Alex Cadman | @notch_fm |
| VK | Wilfried Thomas | @Vulrak |
| Westmeath Wanderers | Reuben Byrnes | @reubtubefm |
| Willian Dollar Baby FC | Ben Crouch | @Crouch_B |
Check out the league rules here!