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Kevin Toms Football Star Manager

The original retro-­styled football management game remade and re-released in 2025. It's a faithful recreation of the original groundbreaking 1982 Football Manager, the title that launched the football-management genre!

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Developer
Kevin Toms
Publisher
Curveball Games
Release
August 14, 2025
353 days ago
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Positive38 reviews92.1%

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About the Game

Love retro, lightweight football sims? 

Want something nostalgic yet portable? 

Prefer fun and speed over depth and detail? 

If you’re after a fast, nostalgic, football management fix with bite-sized tension and strategy — then this is the football management sim for you!  

 

  • Classic simplicity with subtle depth: Manage your club across four divisions, with promotion, relegation, domestic cups, and European cup competitions. There's a transfer market, tactics to set, player fitness-wise decisions, and club finances to balance — all designed to be quick to learn but hard to put down. 

  • Match highlights: Stylised, text and graphic match highlights reminiscent of the original 8-bit title. It’s charming, easy to follow, and still engaging.  

  • Customisation & roster controls: Rename teams, edit kits, or retitle players. Player ratings consist of skill, fitness, and age. Aged out players retire or decline, while younger talent can improve season by season. 

  • Strategic decisions: Purchase loans to fund signings, manage morale boosts (twice per season to lift spirit), bid on players with risk/reward valuation, and navigate transfer valuations that fluctuate with division status. 

Remade and re-released for 2025, the godfather of football management games is back with Kevin Toms Football Star Manager. This faithful recreation of Kevin Toms' groundbreaking Football Manager (1982) breathes new life into the retro classic with modernised improvements to recapture the footy magic of the 80s. 

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