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What's new in 1.2.0
The biggest update yet: manage your country.
NATIONAL TEAMS
• Three ways to play: run a club, a national team, or both at once
• Pick from every eligible player, name your squad before each international break, and lead your country through qualifiers, nations leagues and the summer tournaments
• Federation Confidence: what your country expects, and how you're doing
• A Competition Centre with international tables, results and honours lists
MATCH DAY
• Match sounds: a stadium crowd, goal roars and the referee's whistle
• A speaker button, top right on every screen, mutes everything with one tap; fine-tune crowd, match sounds and clicks in Settings → Sound
• Every big chance builds up the same way, so you can't tell a goal is coming
• A cleaner ticker: goals, penalties, own goals, missed penalties, injuries and red cards
YOUR CAREER
• League prize money: the higher you finish, the more you earn
• Discipline at three levels: league, European and international cards and bans are counted separately
• Share your moment: turn a title, a cup or a promotion into a card for your friends
• A guided tour for every kind of career, any time from Settings → How To Play
AND
• You'll be told when an update is ready, and choose when to install it
• Many smaller fixes and tidy-ups
Released Aug 10, 2026. Current version shipped Oct 18, 2026.
Store description
The classic football management experience, reborn for your phone.
Classic Manager is a retro football management sim inspired by the great text-based manager games of the 90s. Choose your season: today's game in 2026/27, or the classic 2001/02. Each brings eight countries, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland and Israel, with their leagues, domestic cups and European competition, and a transfer market with a life of its own. Or start fresh in the game's own invented world.
No ads. No pay-to-win. No subscriptions. Your first full season is free, then one single purchase unlocks the full game forever.
TAKE CHARGE
- Pick any club in eight countries, in 2026/27 or 2001/02, or in the game's own invented world
- Manage a national team too: name your squad for each international break and take your country through qualifiers and tournaments
- 2026/27 plays by today's rules: five substitutes, squad registration and the new European cup format
- Set your formation, tactics and set-piece takers on a classic tactics board
- Watch every match unfold in live text commentary, with speed controls and mid-match tactical changes
- Face rival managers who use their own formations and change shape when they chase a game or protect a lead
THE MARKET NEVER SLEEPS
- Buy, sell and loan players against AI clubs that bid, haggle and hijack deals
- Negotiate contracts and wages under a watchful board
- Scout for the next wonderkid the honest way: by reading the game, not a spreadsheet
- Youth intakes, retirements, sackings and manager moves keep the world alive
BUILT LIKE THE CLASSICS
- Fast, readable text matches you can play one-handed
- Deep seasons: cups, monthly awards, promotions, relegations, a hall of fame
- Careers that run for decades, with history remembered season after season
- Your saves live on your device and never leave it, and the game plays offline
ONE HONEST PRICE
Play your entire first season free. If you love it, a single one-time purchase unlocks the full game forever. No ads, no energy timers, no paying to win matches. That is the whole deal.
Classic Manager is an independent, unofficial football simulation and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any football league, federation, club, player, players' association or governing body. Real-world names are used only to identify real-world teams and players, as text, with no crests, logos or photographs. All third-party rights remain with their respective owners. In-game ratings, values and simulated results are fictional gameplay elements. Rights holders can write to classicmanagergame@gmail.com and we will rename or remove the content concerned promptly on request.
The dugout is waiting. Start your career today.
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