
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.
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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.

Master Manager
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.

Calcio 98
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.
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) 29.2% ★, Sports 21.7%, eSports 18.9% ★, Management 6.8%, Simulation 6.4%
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) 39.1% ★, Sports 19.6%, eSports 13.1% ★, Management 10.6%, Text-Based 6.8%
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) 36.4% ★, Sports 17.3%, Management 11.7%, Text-Based 11.4%, Tactical 5.3%
Lead a small football club through one unforgettable season. Make tough choices, face the media, manage morale and ambition — every decision shapes your story in this cinematic, story-driven football management drama.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 38.6% ★, eSports 21.5% ★, Sports 12.3%, Management 6.3%, Tactical 5.4%
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) 37% ★, Sports 26.4%, eSports 18.8% ★, Text-Based 10.4%, Simulation 5%
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) 31.2% ★, Sports 25.2%, eSports 15.2% ★, Management 10.5%, Text-Based 6.4%
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) 33.3% ★, Sports 24.5%, Management 9.5%, Simulation 7.1%, Text-Based 7%
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) 33.1% ★, Sports 23.6%, Text-Based 12%, Management 12%, Simulation 7.3%
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) 35.8% ★, Sports 24.2%, Management 10.3%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 6.9%
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) 36.9% ★, Sports 16.7%, Management 11%, PvE 7.8%, Comedy 5.3%
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) 45% ★, Sports 21%, Management 13.3%, Tactical 8.3%, Strategy 5.3%
Be the Boss of your own soccer club, choosing from clubs from the biggest leagues across Europe. Make decisions based on tactics, training, staff recruitment and player selection. Spend your transfer budget wisely during the transfer window whilst keeping the board satisfied with your performance.
Why similar: eSports 25.9% ★, Football (Soccer) 24.7% ★, Sports 21%, Management 11.8%, Strategy 6.1%
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 26.1%, Management 10.8%, Text-Based 9.6%, Strategy 6.1%
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) 45% ★, Sports 17.6%, Management 15.3%, Text-Based 8.5%, Strategy 5%
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) 48% ★, Sports 19%, Management 12.3%, Text-Based 7.6%, Strategy 5.4%
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) 43% ★, Sports 23.6%, Management 10.2%, Text-Based 7.4%, Tactical 5.8%
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) 45.9% ★, Sports 19.4%, Management 11.8%, eSports 8.4% ★, Tactical 7.9%
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) 40.2% ★, Sports 16.3%, Management 12%, Choose Your Own Adventure 7.3%, Choices Matter 5.4%
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) 42.9% ★, Sports 22.7%, Management 11.6%, Tactical 7.3%, Simulation 5.8%
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) 40.2% ★, Sports 20%, Management 11.5%, Text-Based 10.5%, Simulation 8.6%
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) 42.9% ★, Sports 19.5%, Management 15.1%, Tactical 9.6%, Text-Based 6.3%
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) 40.7% ★, Sports 18.8%, Text-Based 12.2%, Management 9.9%, Comedy 5.2%
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) 41.1% ★, Sports 19%, Text-Based 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Comedy 5.4%
Manage a prison football team, trade inmates, develop your squad, survive prison politics, and lead your team from the yard to glory.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 39.1% ★, Sports 24.2%, Management 13.1%, Simulation 7.9%, Comedy 5.8%
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) 37.7% ★, Sports 29.3%, Management 13%, Text-Based 9.2%, Simulation 6.4%
Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 42.7% ★, Sports 15.6%, Management 11.6%, Text-Based 9.7%, Tactical 6.6%
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) 37.7% ★, Sports 28.9%, Simulation 8.7%, Management 8.4%, Strategy 8.2%
Manage your own club in F11 Football Manager. Sign players, upgrade the stadium, negotiate sponsorships and devise tactics to lead your team to glory. Do you have what it takes to be the best football manager?
Why similar: Sports 30.5%, Football (Soccer) 25.1% ★, eSports 21.2% ★, Management 8.4%, Simulation 7.7%
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) 41% ★, Sports 19.2%, Text-Based 11.5%, Management 8.3%, Comedy 6.4%
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) 33.2% ★, Sports 29.4%, Management 12.2%, Text-Based 9.2%, Strategy 7.3%
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) 49.4% ★, Sports 19.8%, Management 13%, Text-Based 6.2%, Strategy 5.2%
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) 51.3% ★, Sports 21.1%, Management 17.3%, Simulation 6.9%, 2D 3.4%
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) 39.9% ★, Sports 28.1%, Management 11.3%, Text-Based 8.8%, Simulation 8.3%
GOAL3 is a 3D arcade soccer game in unique arenas where nature itself prevents you from winning!
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 31.4% ★, eSports 25% ★, Sports 19.4%, Comedy 7.3%, Funny 6.3%
With very few rules, on field fatalities and quick, hectic matches, Heroic Sports Football : Enhanced Edition is the remedy against stat-heavy, lumbering football simulations. It’s football the way it should be played. Pure brutal adrenaline charged fun.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45.1% ★, Sports 24.6%, Management 10.8%, eSports 6.7% ★, Tactical 6.2%
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) 46.1% ★, Sports 25.5%, Management 11.3%, Text-Based 6.2%, Simulation 5.9%
A football management game where you're not the coach, you're the club owner. Hire and fire the coaching staff, sign players, negotiate with sponsors, control the finances and build a winning organisation from the boardroom.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 49.6% ★, Sports 20.4%, eSports 12% ★, Strategy 8.3%, Simulation 7.1%
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) 47% ★, Sports 23.1%, Management 15.7%, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 5.7%
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) 42.7% ★, Sports 19.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Management 6.5%, Comedy 5.2%
Step into the dugout and experience the future of football management.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 46.7% ★, Sports 27.2%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 7.4%, Simulation 7.2%
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) 42.4% ★, Sports 21.5%, Text-Based 18%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 6.3%
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) 50.8% ★, Sports 25.3%, Management 9.6%, Strategy 6.9%, 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) 48.7% ★, Sports 24.1%, Management 16%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 5.1%
Football isn't only played on the pitch. Manage the dark side of football! Control the referee committee, give secret instructions, use the VAR room to dictate scores, deal with the betting mafia, and shape the season's fate. Keeping this powerful seat is harder than getting it.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 37.9% ★, Sports 22%, Text-Based 15.6%, Simulation 6.4%, Strategy 6.2%
Foosball Manager is a table football management sim. Scout, sign, and train your squad. Set your tactics, then call the shots from the sideline as your players act on their own across a physics-driven table. Climb the divisions and become a foosball legend.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 41.2% ★, Sports 30.8%, Management 11.7%, Simulation 8.8%, Strategy 7.5%
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) 42.4% ★, Sports 22.7%, Management 10.6%, eSports 8.4% ★, Simulation 6.2%
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) 45.5% ★, Sports 14.5%, Management 13.5%, Tactical 10.4%, Choices Matter 5.9%
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: Sports 29.1%, Football (Soccer) 26.6% ★, Text-Based 11.5%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 8.3%
Win the world cup through clever clicks, useful upgrades, silly own goals, and bending the rules. An active incremental game that strips football down to just its beautiful beating heart: kick balls hard, score goals, earn money.
Why similar: Football (Soccer) 45% ★, Sports 17.8%, Incremental 12.6%, PvE 9.1%, Cartoony 6.7%
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) 60.4% ★, Management 16%, Sports 12.4%, Simulation 7.8%, 2D 3.4%
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) 46.4% ★, Sports 18.8%, Management 11.8%, Simulation 6.9%, Text-Based 6.8%
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) 48.3% ★, Sports 23%, Management 13.1%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 6.9%
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) 53.4% ★, Sports 22%, Management 9.4%, Simulation 8.6%, Strategy 6.6%
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: Sports 29.5%, Football (Soccer) 27.6% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Simulation 8.7%, Strategy 8.4%