10 Teams to Manage in South America on Football Manager 27

Football Manager 27 is just three days away so, if you’re anything like me, you’ll have all sorts of save ideas running through your head before the game drops on Thursday (29 October). I’ve seen plenty of save idea content out there in recent days but, as yet, no standalone article recommending interesting teams to manage in South America.

If you fancy avoiding the major European leagues, then South America offers a wealth of intriguing possibilities, from clubs that have fallen on hard times to ridiculous fixture overload and truly bonkers league formats. That said, it baffles me that Sports Interactive still haven’t added at least Ecuador and Paraguay to the playable nations of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. However, within those limitations, here are our top 10 teams to manage in South America on FM27.

Argentinos Juniors (Argentina)

Kicking off this list takes us to the club that developed the great Diego Armando Maradona, and has a stadium named after the little genius. In addition to Maradona, the club has a rich reputation for producing young talent, including the likes of Juan Román Riquelme and Alexis Mac Allister. We’ll be looking to take this challenge on in our next Wonderkid Factory adventure, so the mission with Juniors is to develop a new golden generation that can lead Argentinos Juniors to its first title since 2010.

Clube Atlético Atlanta (Argentina)

When I visited Buenos Aires a few years ago, I was en route to a match at Vélez Sarsfield when I spotted a cool yellow and blue stadium that I discovered belonged to a small club called Atlanta. The club, in the Villa Crespo district of the Argentine capital, was founded in 1904 but has only won a now-defunct cup competition way back in 1958, living very much in the shadow of its higher-profile city rivals. Indeed, Atlanta’s biggest claim to fame appears to be the antics of a dog called Napoleón in the 1930s. Your mission is to put that right and put the club’s name on Argentina’s football map by gaining promotion to the top tier, then setting your sights on the Buenos Aires big five.

Santos Futebol Clube (Brazil)

Having suggested Maradona’s former club, it feels only natural to put forward the club arguably best known for producing the supremely talented Pelé. Santos have fallen on hard times in recent years, including being relegated from Série A for the first time in club history in 2023. But, now back in the top flight, Santos brought prodigal son Neymar back to the club before also signing former FM wonderkid Gabriel Barbosa (on loan) and former Liverpool man Philippe Coutinho, promising at least a couple of intriguing seasons before looking to take advantage of its youth development prowess.

Amazonas Futebol Clube (Brazil)

The Brazilian title tends to be dominated by teams from the country’s biggest cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Indeed, Atlético Mineiro is the only side outside of those two cities to win the league since 2014. Furthermore, Sport Club from Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, is the northernmost club to have won Série A. That gives you plenty of scope to establish a new club as Brazil’s northernmost champion. But our pick would be Série C side Amazonas which, as the name suggests, is located way up north in the city of Manaus in the state of Amazonas. The club was only founded in May 2019, got promoted to Série C for the first time four years later and immediately won the league to reach Brazil’s second tier. Now back in the third tier, your mission is to bring glory to Brazil’s northernmost state for the first time.

Club Deportes Limache (Chile)

Chile has seen surprise packages claim unexpected titles in recent years. Huachipato lifted the title in 2023, then nearly got relegated a year later. And Coquimbo Unido won their first league title in 2025, and now sit 10th in their title defence, 23 points behind the leaders. However, the ultimate surprise package would be Deportes Limache, a club that was only founded 14 years ago. Limache swiftly rose through the ranks, reaching the Copa Chile Final last season only to lose on penalties to Huachipato and currently sits 7th in Liga de Primera. Your mission is to continue Limache’s remarkable rise and help it challenge Chile’s dominant forces of Colo Colo, Universidad Católica and Universidad de Chile.

Santiago City (Chile)

Another intriguing but slightly controversial option in Chile is the even more recently launched Santiago City. The club, which wears black and pink as a tribute to women suffering from breast cancer, was only founded in May 2020 and entered the fifth tier of Chilean football, swiftly winning it at the first attempt. However, in December 2023, the club was suspended for three years by the Chilean FA for failing to comply with media access requirements, attempting to censor press coverage and cutting the media’s electric cables. An initial appeal was rejected, but a further appeal was successful in January 2024. It went on to gain promotion and now finds itself in the second tier of Chilean football, despite City Football Group issuing a cease and desist letter for the club’s crest looking remarkably similar to that of Manchester City (and adopting the same nickname, Los Ciudadanos). Like Limache, this gives you an opportunity to write a new club’s history and look to challenge Chile’s elite.

Atlético Nacional (Colombia)

Brazilian clubs have won the last seven Copa Libertadores and look set to make it eight in a row this season. While no club outside of Argentina and Brazil has been champion of South America since Colombia’s Atlético Nacional lifted the famous trophy in 2016. Clubs outside the big two nations typically don’t have anywhere near the same financial power, so you’ll face a massive task to try and compete continentally. Furthermore, you may also have some work to do domestically, given Atlético have only won one of the last eight Colombian titles and two of the last 17. That said, Atlético tend to have superb youth development for you to build a team of superstars and potentially raise some money through sales.

Club Cienciano (Peru)

74 of the 109 Peruvian Liga 1 titles have been won by the Lima big three of Alianza Lima, Sporting Cristal and Universitario. Cienciano holds the dubious honour of being the club that’s spent the most time in the top tier without ever claiming a title, no playing a 43rd season in Liga 1. The Cusco-based side famously beat River Plate to win Copa Sudamericana in 2003. But your mission is to end El Papá de América’s 125-year wait for domestic glory.

Albion Football Club (Uruguay)

Albion FC is Uruguay’s oldest football club, having been founded on 1 June 1891, which led to it becoming a member of the Club of Pioneers, an association for the world’s oldest football clubs, in 2018. Despite that longevity, Albion’s only club honours are two second-tier titles, the most recent of which was in 2025 to send it back into Uruguay’s top tier. The club apparently has a “high-performance Sports City” that’s home to a number of youth sides as well as the first team training facility. But whether that’s reflected by strong youth and training facilities in FM27 remains to be seen. Either way, your mission is to establish Uruguay’s oldest club as the nation’s dominant force.

Montevideo Wanderers (Uruguay)

Montevideo Wanderers won two of the first nine Uruguayan titles way back in 1906 and 1909, and have only added one more in 1931. Since then, the Uruguayan title has been dominated by the big two of Peñarol and Nacional, who’ve won the league 102 times and been runners-up 89 times between them. So your lofty challenge is to take control of Wanderers and begin building a club that can challenge the dominance of their city rivals.

Those are our 10 suggested South American clubs for you to take on as challenges in FM27. Of course, there are loads more options out there, and we’d love to hear of any teams you’re looking to take on when the new game drops in Launch Preview on Thursday (29 October).