About This Demo

One county. One season. The whole game.

This is not a slice. Everything inside the year is the finished game: the January cups in football and hurling, a league where your division pays the bills, the championship under the 2026 rules, the club championship once the county's year is done, and a county board that has been watching the whole time.

Eight counties, four codes

Football: Mayo, Meath, Waterford

Hurling: Clare, Antrim, Sligo

Camogie: Cork

Ladies' football: Dublin

Pick one and manage it for the year.

No transfer market

The sport doesn't have one. Every player you can pick plays for a club inside your county. You start with the thirty you're given, call up who you want from the clubs, and answer for the ones you leave out.

Players sit exams in May. A job takes a week back off you. A player can decide to emigrate, and you can sit them down and try to talk them into one more season.

Match days you actually manage

Watch it live. A ticking clock, and the whole match played out on the pitch, every score as it happens. Make your switches while play runs. Pick your moment for the speech at the break, and stand over the result after.

Every match has a named referee with a way about them, and after the whistle your coach tells you what worked and what didn't.

It ends with a verdict

At the end of the season you stand in front of the county board while they decide whether they would have kept you. That is where the demo stops. The full game carries on into the years after it.

The name on the door

There's no official license here. The governing body in the game is the Home Games Association, the HGA, and the competitions, trophies and venues are its own. The counties are real and so is the calendar. The parishes are real places. The clubs and the players are invented.

Where the game is right now

This is the build as it stands, not the finished version. The full release is 26 January 2027 and it keeps changing between now and then. Everything in the demo is finished enough to judge, so judge it.

If something is broken, unclear, or just no fun, say so in the Steam discussions. I would rather hear that than hear that it's fine.

Windows and Mac.

Irish Sport Manager is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association, the Camogie Association, or any county board. All governing bodies, competitions, trophies, venues, clubs and players in the game are fictional.