LIGA Esports Manager
A downloadable game for Windows
The world's first Esports simulator for Counter-Strike where you can play your matches in-game or simulate them, you choose!
Heavily inspired by games like FIFA and Football Manager, you will be able to build your Esports team, negotiate in the transfer market, and train your team of bots to gain an edge in-game.
Features
- All major versions of Counter-Strike are supported.
- The app launches Counter-Strike and connects you to a local server.
- Then it adds the teams and players to the server as bots with their customized names and stats, according to how they exist within the app.
- You can train your team to gain an edge over your opponents. The app will automatically adjust the bot difficulty to reflect these stat changes.
- Finally, once in-game, you type
.readyin chat and the match will start. Once there is a winner, the app will record your results. - As you win matches you can rise through the divisions in your league (open, intermediate, main, advanced, invite).
- Minors and Major competitions supported. But you'll have to qualify for these, of course!
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Install instructions
The app doesn't have a code-signing certificate yet so you might see a warning when downloading or installing the app.
To install, click on More Info and Install Anyway.
Development log
- The Final Beta Build20 days ago
- Beta 50Jul 04, 2025
Comments
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Why can I only have 4 players in my starting roster?
it’s 4 starters + yourself, since you are a manager/player
you can have as many players as you want but only 4 starters as it is 4 bots + you when you join a server for a match
Hello, how can o fix this when its stuck on checking for update?
ASAP??
are you on the latest version? usually if there are issues checking for updates it will just skip it and carry on.
its ok now but how do i fix game plugin not installed?
even tho i restarted the app many times
Nice! Glad to hear you got past that initial issue. Something on your system is blocking the app from reaching out to the update servers so you’ll also have to download and extract the game plugins manually.
I have a troubleshooting entry for this here however, I’ll put the instructions below for convenience.
Hope this helps!
plugins-<version>.zip.%APPDATA%/LIGA Esports Manager/plugins(presswinkey+rand paste that path in).%APPDATA%/LIGA Esports Manager.IMPORTANT
After extracting, if you end up having
%APPDATA%/LIGA Esports Manager/plugins/pluginsthen that is incorrect.It must be extracted into the parent folder,
%APPDATA%/LIGA Esports Manager.Hi, Can I understand that this game will launch the local CS client and create CT and T Bots in the local client, which will compete themselves through AI?
hello! 👋
that is correct
thank you for your replying
mate this game is fire but u need add the ability to take over real organizations and have AI make transfers because it gets boring quickly when there are always the same squads it would be ideal if you enlarged the database or at least had more tournaments like CCT IEM Cologne or in different cities like Dallas or Katowice
thanks! I am glad you are enjoying the game.
that is true, I have to make things more dynamic and it’s in the works. slowly, but surely, as they say.
and how long do we have to wait for the next update?
i usually ship an update every 1-2 weeks
Sorry to bother you. What do you plan to add?
no worries. i have a roadmap that more or less outlines my priorities. from beta (highest), release candidate, and finally next.
when will the next update be? are you working on it?
yup i am still actively working on this project.
i realize that i’ve not been keeping the build up to date on here so i will update it to build 62 now.
Is it possible to start playing for an existing team instead of creating your own?
not yet but that’s a good idea. it’s in the roadmap now under “player career”. i’m hoping to add it within the next few releases
Hey so i haven't installed it yet, but I have 2 questions, does it run on CS2, and do I have to buy the guns and all that
hey, yea it supports cs2. not sure what you mean about buying guns but once you’re in-game you type
.readyin chat and the app will automatically start the match.from the app you can set settings like startmoney and stuff like that.
if you mean skins you’ve bought then they will show up like normal once in-game.
could you add a way to not have your own team and actually start in a open division team to be recruited depending on your stats?
I have Player Career planned in the roadmap which sounds like what are looking for.
why is it not launching CSGO automatically?
you may be running into a bug with the game plugins not downloading correctly. it will be fixed in the next release but in the meantime there is a workaround:
the logs shows there's no errors but the game is not launching itself, I tried leading it in the correct folder with CSGO in it, nothing to do about it.
hmm that’s weird. usually the paths should be mostly the same unless you changed the library path in steam.
so for example, if steam is in
C:/Program Files (x86)/Steamthe game path should also beC:/Program Files (x86)/Steam.but, if you changed your steam library in steam to another partition then it’d be like
D:/SteamLibraryfor the game path.also make sure you’re not running like FaceIT anti-cheat as that locks the cs executable and prevents the app from starting.
do you have discord so I can show you everything that happens? I'm kind of afraid to send logs here as it might contain my own data.
I think you updated the game plugins which fixed my issue thank you so much
does this support source offensive? (the cs:source mod)
no, sorry. only supports cs (1.6 thru cs2) and no mods like source offensive, legacy, etc.
Does this support modded games ?
it should, yes. as long as it’s a cs version from steam. (non-steam is not supported)
which cs version and what mods, just to be sure.
cs source with mostly map mods, like de_tuscan
yea should be fine