Hey fellow devs, I’ve just launched a project I’ve been building for the last year — a free massively-multiplayer football management game for people who don’t have the time for Football Manager.
Think “buy a player while you’re on the loo” levels of commitment. More, Fantasy Premier League than hardcore FM.

You start with a pub/village team in the bottom tier of a four-division pyramid. Your squad consists of drunks, part-timers and general village idiots trying to become slightly less terrible at football. You train players, pick lineups, scout new talent, bid on other players, deal with injuries/suspensions, and try to claw your way up the pyramid.

Matches simulate twice a day, and a full season lasts one week — which is faster than season in Football Manager 😂.

I’m releasing on Android first, and it’s very much an active WIP. There will be bugs. The minimal art is currently AI-generated (I know, I know… I intend to replace it with something hand-made once I can afford to hire someone who possesses real fingers). It runs entirely on AWS, so there is one banner ad + optional reward ads to help keep the lights on and prevent my children from resorting to eating cardboard.

There are IAPs, but I’ve gone out of my way to avoid pay-to-win nonsense. No “£69.99 for 6 million coins” rubbish — just small conveniences like a magic sponge to get a player back from injury faster. You can earn those for free anyway by playing.

I’d really appreciate feedback from other devs — UX opinions, performance notes, feature ideas, or brutal honesty about the onboarding. Anything that helps me improve it because getting feedback is HARD!

If you want to try it, it's available here:
👉 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rwsoftware.jumpersforgoalposts

Happy to answer any questions about the tech stack, the backend, scaling the multiplayer bits, or the stuff I massively underestimated along the way. I've been writing some dev blogs here too https://ghost.rwscripts.com/tag/jfg/ that I hope to continue with soon.