BOSS93: Retro Football Manager

Retro text football manager

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Take any club from the non-league to glory. Sign players, set tactics, and watch your matches play out minute by minute. Offline-first, no nonsense. BOSS93 is a love letter to the football management games of 1993 — all the depth, none of the bloat. A green-on-black text interface, a fast brain underneath, and one question that still matters: can you take your club to the top? YOU ARE THE BOSS Take charge of any club across four divisions and the non-league, and play it your way. Buy and sell players in a living transfer market, negotiate fees and wages, send out scouts, manage the wage bill and the bank balance, and answer to a board that remembers every result. MATCHES THAT BREATHE A zonal match engine simulates every fixture, and you can WATCH your own games play out minute by minute — live commentary, a ticking clock, the score, and the chance to change your tactics while the game is still in the balance. Or sim the season at speed if you just want the results. A FULL FOOTBALL WORLD - Four divisions plus the non-league, with promotion and relegation - Domestic cups, the Charity Shield and European competitions - A deep transfer market: scouting, fees, wages, loans, contracts, tribunals - Squad happiness, manager reputation, board expectations and the sack race - Player development, injuries, fitness, suspensions and monthly awards - "Generated Players" mode for a fresh, fictional world every time PLAY ANYWHERE Fully playable offline — your saves live on your device. Sign in (optional) to back your career up to the cloud and carry on across devices. No microtransactions. No energy timers. No nonsense. Just you, a squad, and a season to win.

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NEW IN v3.5.0 GAME OPTIONS • After picking your club at New Game, you now choose how the game plays. Every option starts the way the 1993 original played; change any and the game is marked custom, with one press to go back to the 1993 classic. Once the game starts, the options stay as they are. • Foreign Teams Can Bid: clubs abroad come into the market. They bid for listed players nobody at home wants, go after your league's stars and best prospects, and can outbid a club at home. They only spend what clubs in your game have paid abroad, so no money comes from nowhere. With it on, Offer Transfer To Clubs can find a club abroad too. • 12 Month Loans: every loan runs to the end of the season, with no extensions to agree. • Players Moving Abroad can be switched off, so your stars on expiring contracts stay put. • Named Foreign Squads (mod): players at foreign clubs get names from their own country instead of GOALKEEPER, DEFENDER and so on. • Inflation (mod): every price rises each season, from wages and transfer fees to tickets, sponsors and prize money. • Saves started before this version can switch on 12 Month Loans once, from Settings > Game Options. PLAYERS • Real career histories in every edition: a player's career screen shows the clubs he really played for, season by season, and seasons abroad now name the club, not just the country. • Academy players develop in the reserves, so the best prospects reach the first team with time left to reach their potential. • Fewer new players are red card or injury magnets: aggression, temperament and injury proneness now mostly land in the middle, with the extremes rare. • Other clubs no longer bid for a newcomer before your scouts could have watched him. ONLINE LEAGUES • A league picks its Game Options when it is created, and the lobby shows them before kick-off. • A Classic Transfer Market league prices players the 1993 way every week. ALSO • The loan message after a shortlist loan now appears in your language. Thanks for playing BOSS93!

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Seller
Planetarium Games Unipessoal Lda
Size
37.5 MB
Category
Sports
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English
Age Rating
13+
Copyright
© 2026 BOSS93