Club Manager: the football board game

How to play

Club Manager is a true campaign experience.
Each season takes roughly 60–160 minutes to play, and your club’s journey unfolds over ten seasons of progress, setbacks, and unforgettable matchdays.

But don’t worry — you don’t need to play all ten seasons in one sitting.

The game includes a built-in save system, allowing you to pack everything away neatly between sessions and return to your campaign whenever your next game night rolls around.

Building Your Club Over Time

Success in Club Manager isn’t just about what happens on matchday.

Over the course of the campaign, you’ll spend your time:

• developing players into stars
• scouting exciting youth prospects
• upgrading club facilities to grow income and performance

Every decision shapes your future seasons, and if you neglect the long-term foundations of your club, you won’t be able to reach the ultimate prize: winning the Euro Cup.

The player cards

No two player cards are the same. Develop your squad, manage retirements, and shape your team around your chosen formation, using player traits and characteristics to gain the edge on matchday.

The rule book

Download a copy of the Club Manager rule book to fully discover how the game is played. Minor edits will be made to the rule book before publication, based on community feedback during this Kickstarter.

At launch, Club Manager will be available in English. We are also exploring potential translations into Spanish, German, Italian, and French.

If additional languages become available, digital copies of the rulebook will be offered as a free download from the Club Manager website.

What's inside the box?

Club Manager is a premium board game, crafted with high-quality components.
From the moment you open the box, everything is designed to feel immersive, durable, and satisfying to play with across a ten-season campaign.

Inside, you’ll find a huge variety of beautifully illustrated cards, clear and functional player boards, and sturdy tokens built for years of matchday drama. Every component has been carefully chosen to support the long-term campaign experience — whether you’re managing solo or competing with friends.

This is a game made to live on your table, season after season.

Game features

🤝 Play against friends or go solo
🏟️ Develop your stadium and facilities
💰 Buy and sell players
🌟 Develop youths into stars
🎂 Retire older players
🎭 Manage prima donnas
📈 Earn from marketing
🏢 Interact with the boardroom
🚑 Manage injuries and suspensions
🔍 Scout opponents
🧠 Use tactical cards to gain an edge
⚙️ Sophisticated matchday engine
🏆 Celebrate promotions and cup victories
📅 10-season gameplay

Pledge levels

FREE neoprene mat!

Following feedback from early backers, I’ve improved the neoprene mat offer.

Instead of receiving four neoprene mats with the Bundesliga and Serie A pledges, you will now receive five...at no extra cost.

The fifth mat is the main game board, giving you an even more premium playing experience.

Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts and helped make the game better!

Into the action!

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Featured add-on

Club Manager works for solo play straight out of the box, but you can enhance the experience with the Solo Scenarios add-on!

Jump straight into dramatic situations and experience Club Manager in a whole new way.

Can you handle the pressure?

You can add the 24-page booklet to your pledge - just follow the steps Kickstarter will guide you through.

Customs-friendly shipping

All rewards shipped to the EU, the UK, USA, and Canada will ship from within these regions. There will be no extra customs charge.

We will charge shipping for the physical rewards after the Kickstarter concludes, based on the actual costs incurred to ship. This will be collected via pledge manager after the campaign ends. Shipping costs vary depending on where you live.

The below list features rough estimates for shipping a copy of Club Manager to your address. Please bear in mind these are just estimates, and they may change based on the weight of items selected.

Taxes and tariffs will be charged during the pledge manager process.

NOTE: A mistake has been made in shipping estimates for the Bundesliga pledge for EU customers. The actual shipping cost for that pledge will be much lower than the estimate you see in Kickstarter.

Estimated shipping costs

Social goals

Club Manager has been a passion project from day one. I’m an independent creator, and this campaign is being run on a small, carefully managed marketing budget: no big publisher, no huge ad spend behind it.

Because of that, I’ve chosen to focus on social goals rather than traditional funding stretch goals.

The game itself is complete. I don’t want to bolt on unnecessary extras or risk delays just to chase higher funding numbers. Instead, I’d rather grow this the right way — by building a genuine community around the game.

As more people follow, share, and talk about Club Manager, we’ll unlock additional content, reveals, and bonuses together. It keeps production simple, protects delivery timelines, and most importantly, makes this feel like a shared journey rather than just a transaction.

If you’re backing this project, you’re not just pre-ordering a game, you’re helping build something from the ground up.

And that means a lot.

Meet the creator

My name is Colin Webster, and I live in Edinburgh, Scotland.

I'm originally from Inverness, which explains the fact I'm a supporter of Inverness Caledonian Thistle (Scottish Cup winners 2015!).

I published my first game, Counter Attack, in 2019, and now I'm asking for your help to turn Club Manager into a real product. I hope you learn to love Club Manager as I have - it's been a huge part of my life for the last three years!

I am both the game designer and the artist for this game. And I'll possibly be the person who packs and posts your copy, too!

Thank you for your support, Colin