Football Manager 2022 on M1 Mac: Runs great on Apple Silicon

by | Aug 17, 2022

Football Manager 2022 can run on M1 Macs via Rosetta 2.

The closest thing to real football management. FM22 brings new, progressive ways to find your winning edge, instill your footballing style and earn it on the pitch.

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ArtGameGenre64-bit?64-bitAPIM1 SupportPerformance
Football Manager 2022 Mac artFootball Manager 2022SimulationYesMetal

Rosetta

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Football Manager 2022 M1 and M2 Mac benchmarks

The table summarizes our benchmark results as well as results from other members of the community (you can request more benchmarks on Twitter):

GameMachineResolutionSettingsFPSTesterTested
Football Manager 2022🖥️ M1 Mac Mini (2020)--SmoothReddit17/8/2022
Football Manager 2022💻 M1 MacBook Air 13", 7-core GPU, 8 GB--SmoothReddit17/8/2022

As a reminder, this is how we describe the different levels of performance:

  • Below 20 FPS: Unplayable: Laggy gameplay, full of stutters and slowdowns.
  • 20-30 FPS: Borderline: Can be OK in slow-paced games. Still, not optimal.
  • 30-45 FPS: Playable: Acceptable for most (most gaming consoles do this).
  • 45-60 FPS: Smooth: Fluid gameplay, with no perceivable stutters.
  • 60+ FPS: Very Smooth: For hardcore and professional players, a luxury for most.

We usually aim for 30 FPS (frames per second) because 30 FPS is enough to guarantee a smooth and fluid experience for the average casual gamer.

M1 & M2 Mac support: Rosetta

Football Manager 2022 runs on M1 Macs with Apple Silicon via Rosetta 2.

Football Manager 2022 Mac featured

Football Manager 2022 on M1 Mac (Metal + Rosetta 2)

The game is still exclusively written for Intel-based Macs, but thanks to Rosetta 2, Football Manager 2022 can nonetheless run great on M1 and M2 Macs.

What is Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 is a translation process that enables M1 and M2 Macs to run apps built for Intel-based Macs. This is not an app you’ll have to open and or interact it. Install it once, and it’ll take care of the rest.

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Football Manager 2022 Mac requirements

These are the game’s official Mac requirements:

Minimum Requirements
OS: 10.13.6
Processor: 1.8 GHz Intel Core Duo
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB Video RAM, OpenGL 2,1
Hard Drive: 7 GB
A 64-Bit OS and processor are required

⚠️ According to these system requirements, a Mac with integrated graphics should not be able to run it. But we can confirm it’s definitely possible.

Is Football Manager 2022 on Mac worth it?

As Phil Iwaniuk from IGN puts it:

Still addictively enormous, but more open to newcomers than ever, FM 2020 is a brilliant update to a brilliant series.

If you’re into football sims, you probably already have FM 22, and if you’re looking to finally give Football Manager a try, it seems this is the best time to do it.

Bottom line:

Steam: 92% – Very Positive
OpenCritic: 86 – 83% of Critics recommend
IGN: 8.7/10 – “Great”

Football Manager 2022 download

You can download Football Manager 2022 from Steam.

Why you should trust us

While similar sites opted for 100% community-based submissions and results, we decided to stick with a semi-open setup. Of course, your contributions are essential for us, but we still perform a significant part of the benchmarks published on our site and verify all submitted tests before including them on the site.

We spend hours per week testing games on our 2 Apple Silicon Macs, and you can rest assured that someone on the team has verified all the information you’ll read on Mac Gamer HQ. Our tests include digging into the Terminal, running benchmarks, and more.

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Our Machines :

We performed our in-house tests on the following machines:

  • 14-inch MacBook Pro (2021): Apple M1 Pro chip with 8-Core CPU, 14-Core GPU, 16 GB RAM
  • MacBook Air (2020): Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU, 8 GB RAM

If you have more questions, or your own M1 test results to share, on this game or another, hit us up on the comments below on our private Discord server!

About The Author

Ric Molina
Ric Molina
Ric Molina has been covering Mac gaming for the last 6 years, since the launch of Mac Gamer HQ in 2012. Ric's work has been featured by some of the biggest tech outlets in the world, such as TechCrunch, Apple Insider, The Loop, Mac Rumors, iMore, Cult Of Mac, 9to5Mac and has been awarded Macfixit's Top Apple Blogs and Feedspot's Top 40 Mac Blogs for Macintosh Users.
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