
A text-based football management game with procedural storytelling, derby drama, and underworld influence. Build your club, shape your manager, and decide how far you’re willing to go to win.
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A text-based football management game with procedural storytelling, derby drama, and underworld influence. Build your club, shape your manager, and decide how far you’re willing to go to win.

Football Academy Manager
Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.

Matchday Manager
Pure football management stripped to its essence. Build your squad, develop talent, and dominate the league. No press conferences, no social media just tactical decisions that matter. Inspired by the golden age of text-based management sims.
Run your own football academy. Scout and discover young talents, evaluate their potential, manage their development through training, and negotiate transfers with clubs to grow your prestige and influence.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.9% ★, Management 14.2%, Sports 12.5%, Economy 11.5%, Tactical 9%
Pure football management stripped to its essence. Build your squad, develop talent, and dominate the league. No press conferences, no social media just tactical decisions that matter. Inspired by the golden age of text-based management sims.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.8% ★, Sports 13%, Management 10.9%, Text-Based 10.7%, Simulation 8.1%
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2019 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.5% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, Management 12%, Sports 11.8%, Economy 11.3%
A data-driven football management simulation where you control every aspect of your club’s journey — from tactics, scouting, and player development to finances, facilities, and legacy. Build your philosophy, shape your destiny, and lead your team to greatness.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 35.8% ★, Sports 16.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 7.5%
The original retro-styled football management game remade and re-released in 2025. It's a faithful recreation of the original groundbreaking 1982 Football Manager, the title that launched the football-management genre!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.5% ★, Sports 16.3%, Management 11%, Text-Based 6.4%, Simulation 5.7%
In Global Soccer: A Management Game 2018 there are no restrictions, the whole world becomes playable! The 210 playable nations and the 4000+ playable clubs guarantees truly infinite hours to play.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.9% ★, Sports 13.2%, Management 12.6%, Text-Based 8.3%, Strategy 4.8%
Boss Of FCs is a text-based game that includes strategy, simulation and football/soccer. You will start on this path with a certain budget and move towards success and wealth by making the right moves. Make the best deals and the best transfers, buy and sell clubs and move towards the top...
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.2% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, Sports 12.8%, Management 12.7%, Choices Matter 6.9%
A fast-paced retro football management game inspired by the 90s. Build your squad, tweak tactics, and watch matches unfold minute-by-minute.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45% ★, Sports 11.9%, Management 11%, Text-Based 6.8%, Old School 6.6%
Beyond tactics and transfers, build and run your club as the manager—facility expansion and upgrades, staff, budgets, board relations, and youth recruitment and academy intake.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.8% ★, Management 13.1%, Tactical 10%, Sports 9.6%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Manage a futsal team and lead it to success by scouting players and choosing the best tactic and line up for every match. Customize teams and players with the in-game editor. Proudly open source.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.7% ★, Sports 15.7%, Management 15.4%, Tactical 9.3%, Simulation 5.1%
Build your football empire. Scout talent, manage finances, develop tactics and lead your club from obscurity to glory in a deep football management simulation.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.2% ★, Sports 18.8%, Management 10.7%, Text-Based 8.7%, Simulation 8.1%
PIX Football Manager is a nostalgic, casual football management simulator focused on scouting. Set your tactics, find hidden gems, and improve your facilities as you build a dynasty. With no visible player stats, you must spot talent yourself. Grab your clipboard, the game starts now.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.8% ★, Sports 15.3%, Management 10.8%, Economy 8.3%, Simulation 6.2%
NUTMEG! is a nostalgic football manager game with a deckbuilding twist, set in the '80s and '90s. Relive the days when the tackles were as hard as the mullets were long and football was about football.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.6% ★, Text-Based 11.2%, Sports 10.9%, Management 9.3%, Tactical 5.4%
Simulate over 40 events, including the World Cup and continental cups. Enjoy high replayability with 220+ national teams evolving dynamically over the years. Use powerful in-game editors to create new teams and edit tournament formats, while tracking detailed statistics for every team and event!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.9% ★, Text-Based 20.1%, Sports 15.2%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 6.5%
Retro Football Boss is a historical football management simulation featuring the English professional leagues from 1888 to 1998 (with German leagues coming soon). This is your chance to take a trip down memory lane or right the wrongs of the past.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 56.7% ★, Sports 15.3%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 5.8%
Take charge of your football club in Football Owner 2025! Build your dream team, manage finances, make key transfers, and lead your club to glory. Can you handle the pressure and become the ultimate football owner?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.9% ★, Sports 20.6%, Management 12.6%, Economy 8.6%, Text-Based 8.2%
No unnecessary complexity, no endless menus: Startelf is a football management game focused on transfers, squad building, and the decisions that truly matter.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.4% ★, Sports 22.1%, Management 14.4%, Text-Based 10.8%, Simulation 7%
Become the manager of a football team and take full control of your club. Manage scouting, training, facilities, and squad development. Choose your philosophy: focus on coaching and tactics, or invest in developing the next generation of stars. Success depends on your decisions.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.4% ★, Sports 22%, Simulation 9.5%, Tactical 9.1%, Management 9%
Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.3% ★, Management 12.5%, Sports 11.9%, Text-Based 11.7%, Tactical 7.3%
Playability is central to the ethos of Premier Manager and 06/07 offers all football fans, young and old, the most accessible entry point to the management genre.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.3% ★, Sports 14.5%, Text-Based 13.6%, Management 9.2%, Simulation 5%
Manage your football team and take on challenging, realistic tournaments. Develop your squad, trade players, play real-time multiplayer matches, and customize every detail of your club to make it truly unique.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.1% ★, Sports 19.6%, Management 12.2%, Text-Based 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
The Chairman is a football management sim built that lives in the bottom corner of your screen. Matches simulate automatically while you work, study, or do anything else. Check in when you have a moment. Make your decisions. Let the season run. You choose the time lap.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44% ★, Sports 22.4%, Management 12%, Simulation 7.9%, Economy 7.1%
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52.8% ★, Sports 20.2%, Management 12.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 6.9%
You're the manager and it's your team. Play Player's Eleven now! Run the club of your choice or work your way up from the bottom to the top. Extensive editing options available.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 58.1% ★, Management 18.8%, Sports 15.7%, Simulation 7.4%
Take control of a Real Football Club or create your own club, in Football Club Manager 2023 a fast-paced Football Club Management Game. Download Football Club Manager 2023 now for FREE & start your Football management journey.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 54.9% ★, Sports 15.2%, Management 13.6%, Tactical 9.1%, Simulation 4.8%
Manage one of over 1,000 real non-league clubs through the English football pyramid. Day jobs, ground grading, gate receipts, cup runs, and a world where clubs can fold around you. Football management at its most real.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.1% ★, Sports 19.3%, Text-Based 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 7%
Whistle1 is a retro football manager in the style of the 90s. Take charge of a club in Germany, England, Turkey, Italy, France or Spain and lead them to the top of European football.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.2% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Management 11.5%, Sports 11.4%, Tactical 6.6%
A deep football management simulation where you control tactics, transfers, training, and club development. Build your squad, outsmart rivals, and lead your team to glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.3% ★, Sports 22.3%, Management 13.5%, Text-Based 10.9%, Simulation 7.9%
Premier Manager returns for another season, with overhauled presentation and an enhanced interface that makes the world of football management even more accessible.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.5% ★, Sports 14.7%, Text-Based 13.8%, Management 7.2%, Simulation 5.1%
Multiplayer football management built on fair competition. Outsmart rivals with skill and strategy - no random packs, no pay-to-win gameplay. Take charge of your club, build your squad, and prove yourself on the world stage.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 57.9% ★, Sports 19%, Management 10.5%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 6%
WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027 is the ultimate challenge for manager fans and anyone who wants to become one! Accessible, with great depth of play, a focus on tactics and more than 200 simulated countries. Now with a new creative mode that lets you tailor the game perfectly to your preferences!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.7% ★, Sports 15.7%, Management 13.3%, Economy 11.3%, Simulation 6.8%
Indulge in pan-European fantasy football by taking control of any club from the four English divisions, or simultaneously from the top two divisions of the continent’s premier leagues (Spain, Italy, France and Germany).
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.4% ★, Text-Based 14.9%, Sports 14.6%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 5.1%
Build your table football club from nothing. Scout, train, and manage players, set your lineup and tactics, and watch matches unfold on a physics-driven table. Climb the divisions and become a foosball legend.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.6% ★, Sports 22.5%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 9.7%, Strategy 7.2%
Lead your football club through national championships and to international stardom. Take over an established men’s or women’s team of your choice as its manager or bring a small team into the big league.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 59.6% ★, Sports 17%, Management 9.9%, Strategy 4.6%, Choices Matter 4.5%
Retro Soccer Manager Sim 89 is a tribute to the golden age of management sims, a love letter to text-based immersion. Every week presents a new set of challenges and a deeply satisfying gameplay loop where your decisions truly matter.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 21.5% ★, Sports 20%, Text-Based 12.5%, Economy 7.3%, Simulation 7.2%
You’ll experience all the emotions of football management in Premier Manager 2004-2005. Find out if you’ve got what it takes…
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.1% ★, Sports 14.9%, Text-Based 14.2%, Management 11%, Simulation 5.2%
Reign Your Football Club! Be the owner of your football club, make strategic choices, and climb through the amateur league to the first while making hard decisions to set everything in line for your club.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.5% ★, Management 14.2%, Sports 13.1%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Simulation 5.2%
Train your team to battle to the top in this sensational soccer team simulation!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 58.8% ★, Sports 15.5%, Management 6.7%, Economy 5.9%, Simulation 5.8%
Premier Manager 08 is the definitive pick up and play football management experience. Whether you want to start at the top with one of the big boys and go for instant glory, or whether you want to guide a minnow to the top flight, Premier Manager will put you in the management hotseat.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47.3% ★, Text-Based 15.6%, Sports 14.2%, Management 6.6%, Retro 5.3%
In Torchance 6, up to 4 players can take on the task of managing all aspects of a football club. Unlike other football management games, you can easily complete a season in less than 60 minutes if you wish. This makes this game ideal for a quick round or two when you only have a few spare minutes.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.2% ★, Sports 13.4%, Management 12.5%, Tactical 8.8%, Resource Management 8.1%
This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 54% ★, Sports 22.4%, Management 13.5%, Simulation 10%
Become the president of your club and make decisions that change its destiny. Manage transfers, staff, finances, media, facilities, and the president's personal life in a deep and dynamic football management experience.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.9% ★, Sports 24.7%, Management 13.7%, Simulation 10.7%
Welcome to our thrilling football agent game, where you have the opportunity to build a successful agency and manage the talented players on their journey to stardom. You'll have the power to attract players to your agency, negotiate contracts, and guide them to the top of the football world.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.5% ★, Sports 21.9%, Management 13.1%, Choices Matter 6.1%, Simulation 5.5%
You are more than a coach. You are the undisputed club boss. Are you ready to dominate the league with your team in this re-imagining of the classic sports management franchise? Could you be the next manager sensation? Prove it!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44% ★, Sports 13.5%, Management 12.6%, Economy 11.3%, Strategy 4.8%
You are the manager of a football club, determine its future by making the best decisions regarding tactics, training, player contracts, sponsorship deals and infrastructure. Watch your players performing on our amazing 2d match engine.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.2% ★, Sports 20%, Management 9.2%, Text-Based 8.9%, Simulation 8.6%
Manage your team in this voxel based football (soccer) management simulator. Make active decisions directly influencing the events in the match. Can you win the league?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 54.6% ★, Sports 15.1%, Management 14.8%, Simulation 7.8%, Tactical 7.7%
Highlighting playability and ease of use, Premier Manager® 09 is the ideal game for younger gamers or players looking for a casual introduction to the high pressure, high stakes world of football management. PLEASE NOTE: You will start from the 2008/09 season.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 51.5% ★, Sports 15.6%, Management 14.3%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 5.5%
Become the manager of a small neighborhood futsal club, recruit players on a tight budget, and build your tactics. Manage morale through team activities, shift the momentum with substitutions and tactical changes in tense text-based matches, and grow your team step by step.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.2% ★, Sports 25.6%, Management 12.5%, Simulation 9.1%, Strategy 6.6%
Football Referee Simulator—the groundbreaking game that puts you in the referee's shoes! Are you ready to kickstart your career in the lower divisions and ascend to legendary status by overseeing thrilling finals?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53.2% ★, Sports 24.5%, Text-Based 15.4%, Simulation 6.9%
A reality TV production management game. Cast, create or download contestants, design your season, and watch drama unfold in the most complex relationship sim ever created. Scout hidden talent, manage moods, watch challenges play out, and survive dramatic tribal councils. Build your franchise.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.1%, Management 23.3%, Economy 11.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
Tactics, transfers, and talent trees! Tactilite is a modern football manager with RPG elements. Lead your team from the 3rd division to the top, choose unique manager archetypes, level up your players, and master the tough Ascension mode. Do you have what it takes to become a legend?
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.9% ★, Sports 19.4%, Tactical 11.2%, Strategy 9.4%, Management 6.1%
Become the best football manager. Join Pro 11 and claim the championship!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.2% ★, Sports 28.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 7.6%
The auto-run football tournament soccer game. Be the player, be the manager.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.3% ★, Sports 23.3%, Management 10.7%, Simulation 7.9%, Strategy 7.7%