Pro Basketball Manager 2026

Pro Basketball Manager 2026 puts you in charge of a professional basketball club or national team. You manage tactics, finances, recruitment, training, staff, lineups and the locker room, balancing day-to-day decisions with long-term plans for the team. The game includes more than 2,000 professional teams across 90 domestic leagues, including 17 women’s leagues.

Run your team

You shape your club’s direction, manage budgets and facilities, and build a squad through scouting and recruitment, from youth prospects to established stars. You can also invest in youth recruitment and the draft; when a player you develop is drafted, your team receives a payout.

Team chemistry and morale affect how players work together. Leaders, influential players and shared history play a greater role, and players who spend more time on court together build stronger synergy. Keeping a leader may cost more, while bringing in a new star can put the team’s chemistry at risk.

Transfers and dismissals involve negotiation. You explain your decisions and handle players’ reactions, with failed talks potentially leaving a player demotivated. You also plan pre-season friendlies: established opponents can draw larger crowds, while playing away can provide a quieter setting to test tactics. These choices affect income and morale, and a heavy defeat can hurt the team’s morale.

Competitions and leagues

The Basketball Champions League is fully licensed, including its official teams and players. The game also features seven European, two American and one Asian continental competitions, alongside domestic leagues and cups across the regions below. It includes 20 or more licensed national leagues, including leagues from France, Turkey, Lithuania, Belgium and the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Austria, Sweden, Slovakia, Cyprus, New Zealand, Norway and Italy, as well as the women’s Adriatic league.

• America: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, the USA and Venezuela, each with one men’s league.
• Asia: China, Chinese Taipei, the Philippines and South Korea, each with one men’s league; Japan has two men’s leagues and one national cup.
• Europe: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom each have one men’s league. Austria has one men’s league, one women’s league and two national cups; Belgium and the Netherlands share one men’s league, with a separate national cup in each country. Estonia and Latvia share one men’s league, while Latvia and Lithuania share one women’s league. Cyprus has one men’s league, one women’s league and two national cups; the Czech Republic has one men’s league, one women’s league and one national cup; Finland has one men’s league and one national cup; France has four men’s leagues, two women’s leagues and three national cups; Germany has three men’s leagues and one national cup; Greece has two men’s leagues and one national cup; Hungary has one men’s league, one women’s league and one national cup; Italy has three men’s leagues, two women’s leagues and six national cups; Lithuania has two men’s leagues and one national cup; Norway has one men’s league and one women’s league; Poland has two men’s leagues, one women’s league and one national cup; Russia has two men’s leagues, one women’s league and one national cup; Slovakia has one men’s league, one women’s league and one national cup; Spain has three men’s leagues, one women’s league and two national cups; Sweden has one men’s league, one women’s league and one national cup; and Turkey has two men’s leagues, one women’s league and two national cups. Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro also take part in one women’s league.
• Oceania: Australia and New Zealand each have one men’s league.

Match presentation

The game rebuilds its textures and 3D character models, with hairstyles, beards and accessories such as headbands, sleeves and shoes giving players different looks. Reworked animations and lighting change how matches appear, while improved in-game AI offers multiple difficulty levels.

Tools and interface

A redesigned interface and rewritten UI components support navigation, and large tables and lists load up to 20 times faster. The game also includes a free DataEditor and Steam Workshop integration for creating and sharing teams, player faces, rosters and more.