Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 03:39 pm
Retro Football Management – Strategy Game Review
Retro Football Management is a Strategy/Sports game from Coast Gaming LTD, first launched in 8th January 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 74+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Retro Football Management Stand Out
Welcome to Retro Football Management, the game that breathes new life into classic football seasons. This simple, fun and free football manager game allows you to take control of the greatest club sides from history and complete a game in less time than it takes to finish your daily commute.
We are adding new seasons every month to the game, which currently includes 40 seasons from 8 countries across 5 decades, with the European Cup and Champions League.
Pick the era when you fell in love with football and manage the legends of your youth. Turn an average Coventry team into European Champions, sell the players you never liked and buy the ones you did. Unlike other Management games, your clubs past mediocrity will not stop you signing the world’s best players – assuming you have the money of course!
As you play the game you will earn points for hitting various challenges, like winning 3 matches in a row or being top of the league after 10 games. Points can be exchanged for squad enhancements in the shop that will help take your team from also-rans to champions; spend them wisely to help make your club the greatest in the world. Points can also be used to unlock extra classic seasons like the 1988/1989 Italian with European Cup.
The app will always be free to download and contains in-app purchases if you want to enhance your team more quickly but does not require you to spend money in order to win. It’s designed to be a fair test of your gaming skill and football knowledge; you against the computer, just like it used to be.
You will start with a small squad that always is in need of some work to sell players to generate cash and then buy better ones for less; your transfer aptitude will go a long way to determining your success. The club’s board will set you season-long objectives, hit them and get rewarded with cash and stadium expansions, but if you miss them you will be fired – classic game over!
You can play 5 different games at the same time, so you can build world-class sides from 5 different decades—Pele to United in the 1960s, Leeds sign Cruyff in 1973, Spurs sign Maradona to play with Gascoigne in 1988—whoever your team is, Retro Football Management gives you the chance to pack your squad with legends and dominate world football.
Why wait? Download the game for free now and take a nostalgic trip through the history of gaming and football!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Retro Football Management is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Performance improvements and other fixes
Download & Availability
Retro Football Management is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Retro Football Management on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The idea of this game is great but unfortunately only three leagues and very few years are available. It feels they released the game too early.
Please update the prime players that you can buy.
Must add the ability to put players in other positions, and have greater options to switch formations & tactics.
This is a great game, anybody thinking about getting it absolutely should. However, we have three things that we think would be great additions to the game, if possible. 1. More seasons for Portugal: Portugal is a huge league, one of the best in the world. However, there is only one starting season available for the Portuguese league. We think adding a few more would be awesome! 2. Promotion/Relegation: Promotion and Relegation is an important aspect of many leagues around the world. If it was in this game, itd be so cool! 3. Europa League/UEFA Cup: This game already has the Champions League/European Cup. We think adding the secondary European competition would enhance it even more.
Very simple game but love the old teams – would be great if they could add some formation detail – it could be really close to Champ Man 1 eventually, which is no bad thing.
Silly but great for an hour or so.
Can we play more then one season or does the season repeat.
Nice idea and we hope a bigger game with more features would be available for the mobile and PC as well as ur is nice to play classic leagues with real names.
Great games works fine in the first season, however in season 2 and beyond our players with 100 stamina who we can play every week in the first season start degrading fitness. Stamina stat is still 100 but they lose fitness each game they play. Annoying because our recruitment strategy revolves around recruiting high stamina players.
You should add a database that we can edit so we can add our own players and make our own teams.
Loving the blast from the past with this game. Have noticed a bug though. First season works fine. Second season whenever we finish a game the game freezes on Checking Ads Quota so we have to close and reopen which means we cant boost transfer funds. Suggestions – in match player ratings. Add a little more to the tactics even if its just a basic playing style eg direct, short passing, long ball etc.
Add MLS seasons and carry over any money left to use in other seasons.
We think the game would be so much more fun if you guys added a bit more to the tactics. Not that its buggy or whatever but for some reason whenever a team uses 4-5-1 their one striker just ends up scoring every game. We used Bergkamp with Ajax as a lone ST and he had over 300 Goals and assists in about 200 games. We think being able to choose a formation and having roles for players would make the game a lot better so that its more fair when playing teams with 1 striker because as of right now its a guaranteed 2 goals scored against you.
After completing the 2009 la liga it goes into a complete white screen it has happened on both our saves we cant proceed to the next year.
This game has a great concept and its executed well, but the match engine is bad. We understand some upsets, but Im the Galacticos and Im losing 2-0 to teams in the bottom half every week.
Could use more seasons and more leagues.
If you love football and want to have some fun while you are bored play this game.
Its a great game but we suggest you add a button to restore purchases. We had bought a reward before deleting the game. We installed it back again and we couldnt get our reward back. Hope you add this soon. Thank you.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.83.8
- Size: 134.25 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Coast Gaming LTD
Last updated: 15th September 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Sports | Developer: Coast Gaming LTD