535 seasons, one manager: Sepp Hedel's Football Manager save outlasts entire football eras

Sepp Hedel started a game in December 2017. He is, by any reasonable measure, still playing it. The German Football Manager fan has completed 535 seasons in a single continuous save — a Guinness World Record — spanning five clubs, roughly 146 days of real playing time, and a career begun while he was working in Africa. Along the way he reclaimed a record he first set at 333 seasons in 2019, lost to Paweł Siciński's 416, and took back in June 2025 in Diebelstadt, Bavaria. In his first record run alone — played without simulation or in-game holidays — he won nearly 1,000 trophies and scored 42,672 goals in 15,768 matches. Some people finish a game. Hedel simply lives in his.