Pro Cycling Manager 2023

Pro Cycling Manager 2023 lets you manage a professional cycling team as its sports director, or create a rider and build a career in Pro Cyclist mode. You can start at the bottom or take charge of one of 80 professional teams, with over 800 riders represented. The game covers the 2023 season, including the Tour de France route, and features 260 races and 700 stages.

Lead a team

As sports director, you make decisions across race management, rider rotation, training, recruitment, equipment and race strategy. Manage contracts and find sponsors to support the team’s progress, hire doctors, trainers and scouts, and schedule riders around their requests to maintain morale throughout the season. You can also send staff around the world to scout future talent and monitor the transfer market for riders to sign.

Adapt tactics to each race, the weather and your opponents’ attacks. Upgrade wheels, frames and other equipment to benefit from new technology and improve race performance. The game includes 80 teams and more than 800 professional riders, including Jumbo-Visma, Ineos-Grenadiers, UAE Team Emirates and Trek-Segafredo.

Build a rider career

In Pro Cyclist mode, create a rider and choose their starting physical attributes, such as whether to focus on climbing or sprinting. Training and early races shape the career ahead. Set tactics with your manager, develop attributes through a skill tree, and balance physical development, specific training, preparation for particular races and social life.

Training is central to your rider’s progress: choose key moments in the season and targets for improvement, then respond to unforeseen events as your career develops. Results affect your place in the team hierarchy, where teammates can help in challenging situations. Keep an eye on transfer rumours and make yourself noticed to attract teams.

Races and rankings

The calendar includes 260 races and 700 stages, among them the Tour de France, La Vuelta, Liège-Bastogne-Liège and Tour de Romandie. The game also includes World and European Championship races, with a candidate and selection system.

Rider rankings use a rolling 52-week system. The 2023 season starts with the existing world ranking, which updates weekly by removing points from the previous year and adding points earned in the current year. Team rankings start at zero on 1 January, so teams must earn points during the season. Rankings for riders and races are consolidated to make individual results easier to track.

Race improvements

Sprints have been revised, mass finishes are handled better and race endings are more realistic. During stage races, riders may benefit from the Grupetto, conserving energy for later days and leaving some riders fresher for sprints and the final stages. The AI has also been improved, including how riders manage their energy and save strength on mountain stages.

Other changes include Medium Mountain ratings and terrain for riders and stages, a race page with search and lists of starters and winners, and a redesigned race results page.