Pro Cycling Manager 2022

Pro Cycling Manager 2022 puts you in charge as a cycling team’s sport director. You manage recruitment, objectives, race programmes, sponsors, scouting and training, then make race-strategy decisions as you work to take your team to the top. You can also compete online against players from around the world.

Manage your team

A new scouting system sends scouts to different regions to find promising riders. Scouts become more effective over time and report on riders’ potential and characteristics. You use that information to decide whether to observe a rider further or bring them into the development team, while competing with other teams for talent.

Young riders are generated as 16- to 18-year-old juniors. Each year, the pool contains 1,500 to 2,000 riders, graded by level and potential on a six-star scale. They are more versatile and develop in a way similar to current stars. Rider development has also been redesigned to support versatility; riders need to fit into the team and have a good relationship with their coach to progress optimally.

Create a rider

In Pro Cyclist mode, you create your own rider, join a team and work to become its leader. You then compete in the peloton and aim to establish yourself among its best riders.

Race and customise

The peloton can produce more varied races, including stages where the action starts early, favourites take the lead and attacks come in the first hour. Redesigned stamina and resistance systems have a greater effect on how riders spend their effort, allowing some to attack repeatedly or manage their energy better at the end of a race.

The race-day condition is closer to the announced provisional condition. You can adjust the bonus amplitude from +5 to -5 or turn it off, and activate or deactivate variation. Simulation time is twice as fast as before. You can also assign specific team jerseys to particular races, and customise more aspects of your game experience.

Interface and stages

The redesigned cyclist page includes new statistics, highlighted rider capabilities and results, and a comparison of cyclists’ characteristics. The game also includes the 21 official stages of the 2022 Tour de France.