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Bitbeast Games · Published by Bitbeast Games · Official site ↗
Very Positive — 92% positive (65 reviews) · 18 achievements
Last updated 6 Oct 2026
An old-school football manager in the style of the management games of the 90s. Lead your team through the seasons, shaped by dynamic story events. Develop your club and yourself to gain reputation and conquer your league and the world.
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Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Sports · 2025 · More under £5 games
Manage your team through seasons shaped by unpredictable story events in this 2025 indie simulation. Build your club and yourself to rise to the top of the league and conquer the world.
About this game
The game
Boeckham's Football Manager is an old-school management game in which you are in charge of a soccer team. To be successful, you need to manage your players, buy some cheap and sell some with profit, and care for them when they get into trouble. Build your stadium and expand the facilities. Negotiate with sponsors to finance all of the above.
But your team is not the most important part of the game: you are! Strive for a stellar career, gain more knowledge through education and experience, and make a name for yourself. Start as a nobody in a small local club and lead it to the top. Or why not use your fame - as long as you have it - to get hired by more renowned clubs? Or even get nominated as the coach for the national team? What will you do to achieve what no other coach has achieved before?
Background
The game is designed in the spirit of the management games of the 90s like "The Manager" or "On The Ball". The main goal is to reduce the overburdening complexity of modern football management games. There is nothing wrong with those games, but if you want to finish a whole season or two in one evening instead of just playing one or two match days, this game is maybe for you. There is no claim to accuracy, instead, fun and simplicity are more important design goals.
If you are unsure if the reduced complexity, style, and gameplay are for you, please try the demo first!
The development is continuing after the release, and the game will expand a little further. You need to be aware that due to the nature of such a complex genre, you may encounter bugs and balancing issues. But I would love to hear about them and fix everything you like to share - you will play a very important part in the development process.
Current features include:
two countries with different teams (German and English) (make your own with the editor)
stadium management: build more seats and decide on ticket prices
sponsor negotiations: banner sponsors and main sponsors
player management: buying and selling players, training single players, negotiating contracts, etc.
match management: style of play, substitutions, injuries, cards, and loss of endurance (all of those can be deactivated in the settings)
facility expansion: build gyms, rehab centers, parking lots, restaurants, and more
coach management: take workshops or education with quizzes to unlock special gameplay features and skills, choose your own path, apply for jobs at other clubs, and become a national coach
league, cup, Europe's cup, World Cup, and the international Masters League with statistics
narratives: from singular events to long-spanning plots revolving around your players or yourself
found your own club in-game after you achieved everything else
team and player editor
hot-seat multiplayer
save and load anytime
Planned features:
many more narratives to shape the story you will experience, different in every playthrough
more graphics, especially the facilities
more countries to play in parallel
a small card game mechanic to decide the tactics for each game to gain a performance boost for your team
more influence of your biography on the story
more help screens with little tips and tricks per screen
What you won't get for now:
original team and player names due to licence issues
detailed stats for each player - it all boils down to strength and talent
complex tactical possibilities like placing players at dedicated positions
creating a training schedule or plan each day of the week
multiple countries running at the same time (will be there later on, see above)
hand-holding tutorial; figuring out the inner workings of the game is part of the experience for you are an inexperienced coach who has to learn "the game". Also, most games of the 90s did not have a manual... well, actually they did, but you know what I mean ;)
Hopefully, this simplified yet not casual approach will provide a fun experience for you. If not, let's talk about improvements and I will see what I can do. :)
Trigger warning: The game contains topics of death and suicide.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated graphics
- Storage: 175 MB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.16.1
Update with the following bug fixes and enhancements:critical bug fix for generating names if custom teams without country are usedcritical bug fix for coach greetings in multiplayerbug fix for injury messages and penalty hints in multiplayerbug fix for marking the current screen in the menubug fix for story event if players have left the teamenhancement for the match log: goalkeepers are now mentioned by nameenhancement for board goals: private money rewards are now adjusted your the current salaryenhancement for name generation: user name files are preferred if the internal file has no names for a requested countryRead full article on Community Announcements (Olipool)Patch NotesOfficial
Update 1.16: Nationalities
Hi everyone,First things first: I promised too much ːPEAKsobː. In this update, there will be no mechanic to get a job in a foreign country. There is more involved in doing that than I thought. But since the first step to this is done now, and other changes are ready, I decided to release those parts early.This update's biggest change is the introduction of nationalities for single players. Coming with that is the name generation, which now creates fitting names for those nationalities. Originally, I wanted to keep the game "neutral" without countries and nationalities, but I realized that atmosphere and player binding were suffering with that:This additional property will hopefully add to a better definition and better recognition of players. Generating "fitting" faces was an idea, but there is astonishingly little data, on which I can base that. So instead of just using clichés, I decided to postpone that idea for now.New in the game are flags for the countries you will find in many places: in dropdowns, master league tables, and matches, for example:In the image above, you can also see the match ticker being generated, although the match speed is "result only". That way, you can take a quick glance at who shot goals or who got injured, even if you are playing a season very quickly.The league tables now also have received three new columns for wins/draws/losses (W/D/L). You can now see much better how your points have come to be:Like all columns, they are sortable. A new feature is that the selected columns and their sorting order will be saved per user. That means: sorting of tables, sponsors, players, transfer market, as well as filters for the diary, statistics, and match ticker will stay as you want them to be.You may notice in the screenshot above, the top scorers are now available for each league now. If you are interested in the best strikers in league 2 or even from Norway, set the league, and the scorer list will be updated accordingly (using the pink butt...Read full article on Community Announcements (Olipool)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.15.3
The last hotfix introduced a bug that made it impossible to renegotiate the duration of your contract as a coach. Here comes the fix for that problem.Read full article on Community Announcements (Olipool)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.15.2
This hotfix gets rid of a bug that would occur if you played in a league that was not part of the Europe Cup (e.g. Norway). Also, an exploit was fixed where you could increase your salary by just opening and closing the renegotiation screen. :)Read full article on Community Announcements (Olipool)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix 1.15.1
Hi everyone,Until now, I tried my best to add all changes in a manner that older savegames will continue to work. Having the foreign leagues in the game has now caused a problem that could possibly lead to problematic savefiles. The issue is fixed now, and this hotfix also contains a workaround that should keep the savefiles working.To be precise, clubs from Norway, Denmark, and the Czech Republic could not be loaded properly, so that some matches in the Master League did not have opponents. This is fixed on loading a savefile so that the missing opponents are filled with the current champion of your own league. That will lead to the situation that the champion plays in the Master League fourfold. It is just a workaround for faulty savefiles, once you hit the next season, everything should work as expected.In addition to that, some translations have been fixed, and the sorting of career events using the reverse button is fixed as well.I hope no further problems will arise. My deepest apologies for the inconvenience! :(Read full article on Community Announcements (Olipool)
