
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 Director
Take charge of a football academy, from U11 prospects to the U19 academy team. Scout and recruit young talent, choose youth camps and training camps, shape squads and tactics, climb the Youth League pyramid, and chase league title and World Youth Cup glory.

Simple Football League Manager
A football management game for people who love football but don't want to spend hours on every detail. Build your team and guide it through leagues, cups and continental competitions. Featuring 5,909 clubs from 218 countries, 2 difficulty modes, local multiplayer and an easily customizable database.
Take charge of a football academy, from U11 prospects to the U19 academy team. Scout and recruit young talent, choose youth camps and training camps, shape squads and tactics, climb the Youth League pyramid, and chase league title and World Youth Cup glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.5% ★, Sports 17.6%, Management 10.3%, Text-Based 9.9%, Economy 5.8%
A football management game for people who love football but don't want to spend hours on every detail. Build your team and guide it through leagues, cups and continental competitions. Featuring 5,909 clubs from 218 countries, 2 difficulty modes, local multiplayer and an easily customizable database.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.8% ★, Management 14.4%, Sports 11.8%, Text-Based 8.8%, Resource Management 5.1%
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%, Sports 12.8%, Economy 11.2%, Tactical 9.1%
Manage your club through fast-paced football seasons in a retro-inspired management simulation. Build your squad, scout the transfer market, manage finances, shape your tactics and experience procedurally generated stories in every career.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 44.7% ★, Sports 14.3%, Management 11.5%, Procedural Generation 7.6%, Simulation 6.1%
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) 39.7% ★, Sports 13.3%, Management 10.8%, Text-Based 10.7%, Simulation 8.1%
A football manager like they used to make: negotiate with clubs, players and sponsors, keep your dressing room, your board and your private life from falling apart — and follow every match in a live ticker with drama and a wink. Deep simulation with humour and heart. German language only.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.3% ★, Sports 18.2%, Management 10.3%, Text-Based 8.8%, Simulation 7.7%
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 13.4%, Sports 12.1%, Management 11.9%, Economy 11%
Take control of a futsal club and build your career season after season. Manage your squad, transfers, contracts, training, tactics, finances, and dressing room as you compete to take your team all the way to the top.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.4% ★, Sports 15.5%, Management 11.2%, Tactical 7.2%, Economy 5.9%
You're not just the manager — you own the club. Start in the fifth tier with a broke squad and a crumbling ground: set tactics, sign players, build the stadium, keep the board happy. Then sell up, buy a bigger club, and climb again. Five leagues. One long road to the top.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48% ★, Sports 12.9%, Management 12%, Economy 9.9%, Text-Based 6.3%
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) 35.6% ★, Sports 17.1%, Text-Based 13.4%, Management 12.3%, Simulation 7.6%
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% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, Sports 13.2%, Management 12.5%, Choices Matter 6.8%
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) 44.8% ★, Sports 12.2%, Management 10.8%, Text-Based 6.8%, Old School 6.7%
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) 50.6% ★, Sports 13.5%, Management 12.4%, Text-Based 8.3%, Strategy 4.8%
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) 45.6% ★, Sports 17%, Management 10.7%, Text-Based 6.4%, Simulation 5.6%
You're not the manager, you're the CHAIRMAN. Hire and fire managers, survive transfer windows, and keep the ultras out of the boardroom. Bankroll Barcalana, dodge bankruptcy, and try not to get voted out. It's football without all that annoying running.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 26.7% ★, Sports 19.2%, Text-Based 14.5%, Economy 8.1%, Simulation 8%
Parabéns, você é o novo presidente de um clube de futebol — agora o problema é seu 🎉 Em Miranza FC, um simulador de gestão e estratégia, você não escala o time: negocia contratos, administra o caixa, responde à diretoria e enfrenta uma eleição que pode te tirar do cargo se os resultados não vierem.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.1% ★, Sports 12.9%, Management 11.7%, Text-Based 11.2%, Dynamic Narration 7.5% ★
Give your team its own identity, watch your tactics come alive on matchday and manage the victories, setbacks and ego clashes that follow.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46% ★, Sports 17%, Management 10.4%, Text-Based 8.2%, Tactical 6.1%
In Noyan: Club Chairman, you’re the president, not the manager. Leave tactics to the coach; your job is to manage finances, lock down sponsors, and win over the fans. Remember: matches are played on the pitch, but the club’s future is won in the presidential office!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.4% ★, Text-Based 11.9%, Sports 11.8%, Economy 11%, Management 10.7%
Buy, build, and flip football clubs in a fast-paced roguelite management sim. Sign players, hire staff, survive FFP, unlock Club DNA modifiers, and grow club value across 1-2 hour seasonal runs.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.6% ★, Sports 16.3%, Management 10.8%, Economy 7.7%, Simulation 5.5%
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) 45.7% ★, Management 12.9%, Tactical 10.1%, Sports 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.8%
Remember when football was proper? Let us take you back 40 years — to when naming two subs was still a luxury and the only seven-figure salaries were in Italian lira.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.7% ★, Management 12.7%, Sports 9.2%, Text-Based 7.7%, Tactical 4.8%
A futsal management game with a 2D match engine and integrated editor. Can you find the next wonderkid and become the best manager? Proudly open source.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 51% ★, Sports 16%, Management 14.4%, Tactical 9.2%, Strategy 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 19.5%, Management 10.7%, Text-Based 8.5%, Simulation 8%
You're not the manager, you're the agent. Scout hidden gems across 26,000 players, win them over face to face, build their careers, and sell them for millions. A deep football agency career sim where every contract has your name on it.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.8% ★, Sports 13%, Management 9.9%, Economy 8.9%, Tactical 7%
Climb from the lower divisions to glory. Marvelous Soccer Simulation is a single-player football management sim — fast seasons, leagues and cups, tactics, transfers, and match nights built for drama. Early Access.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 29.2% ★, Sports 21%, Text-Based 20.1%, Simulation 9.9%, Economy 9%
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) 42.9% ★, Sports 11.5%, Text-Based 11.3%, Management 9.4%, Tactical 5.4%
Retro Fútbol is a football management game inspired by the classics of the 1990s. Manage your squad, transfers, tactics, stadium, and finances, and lead your club to the top season after season.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 47% ★, Sports 12.9%, Management 10.3%, Economy 6.6%, Simulation 5.9%
The World Cup finals are here—are you ready to win it all? Lead 220+ dynamically evolving national teams to glory in this deep soccer simulation. Simulate 40+ global events, from continental cups to the grand stage. Perfect for fans of international football management and endless replayability!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.7% ★, Text-Based 20.1%, Sports 15.6%, Management 12.1%, 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) 56.4% ★, Sports 15.6%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 5.8%
A football strategy game where every match is fully simulated. Choose a national team, set the formation and tactics, then watch your decisions play out on the pitch. You don’t control the players directly, your job is to prepare, adapt, and lead your nation to the world title.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43.3% ★, Sports 13.5%, Management 10.4%, Tactical 7.1%, Procedural Generation 5.5%
Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48.1% ★, Management 12.5%, Sports 11.9%, Text-Based 11.4%, Tactical 7.2%
In this retro football management sim, you’ll watch players from over 350 clubs in fully simulated matches, trust your eye to uncover hidden gems, and outbid rival managers to sign them. Shape your tactics and lead your club season after season to build your dynasty.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.6% ★, Sports 16.5%, Management 10.9%, Economy 8.1%, Simulation 6.4%
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) 43.1% ★, Sports 22.6%, Management 14.1%, 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) 42.7% ★, Sports 22%, Simulation 9.5%, Management 9%, Tactical 9%
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) 38.7% ★, Sports 21.1%, Management 12.5%, Economy 8.3%, Text-Based 8.2%
LeManager is a fast football management simulation where you build squads, scout and negotiate transfers, train players, set tactics, handle player egos and incidents, and play endless seasons without losing the speed of classic management games.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 66% ★, Management 16.7%, Sports 9.1%, Simulation 8.2%
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) 54% ★, Sports 18%, Management 16.9%, Strategy 5.6%, Simulation 5.5%
Build a nation into champions in a football card roguelite. Develop players, handle dilemmas, manage morale, and survive the journey from group stage hopefuls to glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.3% ★, Sports 15.4%, Management 6.6%, Choices Matter 5.6%, Strategy 5.5%
FOOTDICE is a roguelite manager game. Found a fictional club, roll dice to run your week; deals, board, fans, training; then manage every match yourself. Get promoted or the run ends. Climb from Division 4 to the World Crown.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.7% ★, Sports 12.5%, Management 9.4%, Text-Based 8.6%, Procedural Generation 6.3%
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) 43.9% ★, Sports 20.1%, Management 12%, Text-Based 8.6%, Simulation 8.4%
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% ★, Sports 14.9%, Text-Based 13.6%, Management 9.1%, Simulation 5%
Focused football management: play a full season in one evening. Scout players whose traits reinforce each other, build real chemistry, and outsmart richer clubs with a squad that clicks.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 43% ★, Management 14.9%, Sports 13.9%, Text-Based 11.4%, Strategy 6.7%
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) 43.8% ★, Sports 22.9%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 8%, Economy 6.9%
Whistle1 is a retro football manager in the style of the 90s. Take charge of a club in Germany, England, Turkey, Italy, France, Spain or Brazil and lead them to the top.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Sports 11.7%, Management 11.3%, Tactical 6.6%
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) 47.7% ★, Sports 19.7%, Text-Based 10.3%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 7%
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 52.5% ★, Sports 20.6%, Management 12.2%, Simulation 7.7%, Strategy 7%
Calcio 98 is a single-player football management game set in the 1998/99 season and created by longtime fans of the classics like Premier Manager 98 or PC Fútbol 7. Lead your club across 18 leagues and 14 cups through tactics, transfers, squad development and finances.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 50.3% ★, Sports 17%, Management 13%, Text-Based 9.1%, Strategy 6%
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) 57.9% ★, Management 18.5%, Sports 16.1%, 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) 54.7% ★, Sports 15.6%, Management 13.4%, Tactical 9.2%, Simulation 4.8%
Take charge of your nation from a world of 202 teams and chase international glory. Build your squad, master deep tactics and live sideline shouts, unearth wonderkids in your national youth academy, and battle through the World Cup and Continental Championships in a deep football management sim.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 29.5% ★, Sports 21.8%, Text-Based 13.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 8%
A classic football manager in a modern guise: take charge of a club, fine-tune your tactics and experience every matchday as a compact TV broadcast with a 2D pitch, live ticker and half-time dressing room. Six nations, three leagues per country, one shared European cup.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 48% ★, Sports 15.9%, Management 12.7%, Economy 10%, Simulation 6.4%
Eleven Legends blends football management, character growth, and strategic matches. You are not just a manager on the sidelines, nor just one player on the pitch. Plan each week, build bonds, find mentors, and lead your team to victory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 53% ★, Sports 17.6%, Management 16.8%, Simulation 7.3%, Strategy 5.4%
A solo-developed, text-based football management game focused on transfer windows and building your squad before each season. Simulate around 30,000 matches in about ten minutes, use the flexible Data Editor, and follow football history for centuries.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.2% ★, Sports 16.6%, Text-Based 9.6%, Management 8.7%, Simulation 7.2%
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) 57.6% ★, Sports 19.4%, Management 10.3%, Strategy 6.6%, Simulation 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) 38.1% ★, Sports 22.8%, Management 13.3%, 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) 48.2% ★, Sports 15%, Text-Based 13.8%, Management 7%, Simulation 5.1%
A Sunday League football management sim about a down-and-out pub team in Bannockshire. Guide veteran plumbers and aging shop attendants from car park pitches to regional glory. Sunday League football management at its most beautifully chaotic.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.2% ★, Sports 14.1%, Management 13.1%, Choices Matter 7.2%, Tactical 6%