It’s a dream for many to take their favourite club to trophy glory, but one man is living the dream – albeit virtually.

Mikkel Enemark, from Denmark, has spent the last 11 years playing Football Manager – a hugely popular football management simulation computer game – and in that time has taken Dartford FC from the sixth tier of English football to European and international dominance.

The 44-year-old chose the club due to its “okay-ish stadium” and location close to London.

But after playing a total of 29,669 games, winning 237 league titles and 1,488 individual awards – wracking up an incredible 237 days of gameplay on the title – the club has become a firm friend, he told SPORTBible.

The story has gone viral with the factory worker wracking up more than 273 days in gameplay and his efforts have not gone unnoticed with the club’s co-chairman Steve Irving commending his accolades.

He said: “I’m not a gamer but I understand it’s all a bit of fun and it’s fun to see he has turned Dartford into a global phenomenon.

“The stats are fantastic but I’m surprised someone has played the game for that long.

“If I understand it right that was the game in 2012 when we won the play-offs and got promoted to the Conference national division beating Welling United.

“I would like to find out whether that played a factor in his decision to play as our team.”

Steve was also amazed by the progress the club had made in the Dane’s game.

He added: “It’s fun to think of Princes Park having a capacity of 139,000 and if that was the case I would certainly be travelling to games differently.

“I did also enjoy the bit about the 23-year-old Colombian he signed in the year 2331 who went on to score more than 800 goals in 1,000 games. I couldn’t imagine what sort of value we could get out of a player like that.”

Steve felt it best not to comment on a potential role for the Dane in manager Alan Dawson’s backroom staff in the future but did say the club would be happy to get in touch and send Mikkel a care package of scarves and shirts and even tickets for the new season.

Steve hopes the club could follow Mikkel’s footsteps in the coming season having finished in second last campaign in the Conference South; narrowly avoiding promotion after losing on penalties to St Albans in the play-off final.