About This Demo

A football management game for people who love football but don't want to spend hours managing every detail.

Take charge of almost any club in the world, build your team, make the decisions that matter and experience the opening half of your first league season.

FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE

Simple Football League Manager is inspired by classic football management games and focuses on getting you quickly from one meaningful decision to the next.

No endless spreadsheets, no hundreds of player attributes and no need to spend hours preparing for a single match. Choose your club, manage your squad, set your formation and strategy, develop your players, enter the transfer market and keep your career moving.

Along the way, your assistant Rob helps you understand what is happening around your club, from upcoming opponents and recent performances to important developments in your career.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE DEMO

• Choose from 218 countries, 411 leagues and more than 5,900 clubs.

• Play through the first half of your opening league season.

• Cup matches played during this period are fully available and do not count towards the demo's league-match limit.

• Choose between Simple and Cozy difficulty.

• Play matches in Fast Mode when you want quick results or Full Mode when you want to follow the action minute by minute.

• Manage formations, strategy, player fitness, injuries, suspensions, transfers, training and club finances.

• Get pre-match insights, post-match observations and career commentary from your assistant Rob.

• Use the built-in Tutorial to learn the game at your own pace.

• Customize fictional club, player and competition names using the game's Excel-based Database tools.

• Play with mouse and keyboard or controller on Windows, macOS, Linux or Steam Deck.

DEMO LIMITATIONS

The demo is designed to let you experience the core Career Mode systems before deciding whether to continue with the full game.

The main limitation is career length. You can play only the first half of your opening league season. Cup matches that take place before you reach that limit remain fully playable.

When the playable part of a career ends, you can still open the career, explore your squad and review what you have built. You can also start a new demo career with another club.

The demo does not include Local Multiplayer. Local Multiplayer is available in the full version and supports up to 4 managers playing in the same world on one device.

The full version removes the demo's career-length restriction and lets you continue season after season through promotions, relegations, play-offs, cup runs, transfers, player development, retirements and new generations.

BUILD AND MANAGE YOUR SQUAD

Every player uses a compact set of attributes designed to keep squad decisions quick and understandable.

Choose your active players and reserves, assign players to their best positions, select a formation and adjust your tactical approach. Fitness, age, injuries, suspensions and player development can all influence the choices you make.

Train players between matches, rotate your squad and decide when your strongest team needs to be on the pitch.

MEET ROB, YOUR ASSISTANT

Rob helps you understand what is happening around your career.

Before matches, he can highlight patterns in the opposition and players worth watching. After matches, he reflects on what actually happened on the pitch, including where attacks developed, which players were most involved and how the match changed over time.

He also follows the wider story of your career, reacting to form, transfers, injuries, milestones and other important moments with his own observations and occasional sense of humour.

TRANSFERS AND FINANCES

Search the transfer market, make offers and sell players from your squad.

Your club operates within a financial system covering transfer fees, salaries, maintenance and income from league performance, cups, sponsorships, television rights and other sources.

Strong financial management gives you more freedom to improve your team, while poor decisions can restrict what you are able to do.

EXPERIENCE MATCHES YOUR WAY

Choose how closely you want to follow each match.

Fast Mode gives you the important information and result quickly while still leaving room for managerial decisions.

Full Mode lets you follow each half minute by minute through text-based match commentary, including goals, chances, midfield battles, cards, injuries and other key moments.

At half-time you can react to the match, adjust your approach, make substitutions and manage player stamina as the game develops.

SIMPLE OR COZY

Choose between two difficulty levels.

Simple includes the complete stamina, injury, suspension and financial systems and represents the intended challenge.

Cozy offers a more relaxed football management experience with fewer pressures and more room to simply enjoy building your team and progressing through your career.

CUSTOMIZE THE GAME DATABASE

The default database uses fictional club and player identities, but the built-in Database tools let you customize names and shape the football world the way you want.

Simply export the database to an .xlsx file, edit it on your computer and import it back into the game.

CONTINUE YOUR CAREER IN THE FULL GAME

The full version of Simple Football League Manager removes the demo's career-length restriction and lets you continue through promotion battles, relegation fights, play-offs, cup runs, transfers, player development and season after season of club management.

Enjoying the demo? Wishlist the full game on Steam.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI was used to assist with preparing translations and to support the development of the game's code.