Play-By-Mail Football Management

Run Your Club.

The original pbm football management game. Rebuilt from scratch for the modern era. Takes minutes to play. Takes seasons to master.

Take a Club — It’s Free See Sample Results

Active Leagues

200+

Managers Playing

£1.50

Per Turn

’92

Est.

Matchday Magazine Week 22 · Season 3

Division 1 — This Week’s Results

Arsenal 2–1 Chelsea

Everton 0–0 Tottenham

Liverpool 3–2 Man United

Division 1 Table

1 Liverpool 22 15 4 3 49

2 Arsenal 22 13 4 5 43

3 Man City 22 12 5 5 41

4 Chelsea 22 11 3 8 36

Emailed weekly + your Manager’s Report

64 clubs per league 30-week season One turnsheet per week Results by email No hidden fees

The Game

No touchline. Just decisions.

Soccer Supremos is a play-by-mail football management game – one that ran by Royal Mail in the late 80s and 90s and peaked at over 10,000 managers worldwide. It went away. Now it’s back, rebuilt for the web, and better than it ever was.

Once a week, you submit your online turnsheet – team selection, tactics, training, transfers, ground orders and more. A few hours after the deadline, your results land in your inbox as two detailed PDFs: your personalised Manager’s Report and the league-wide Matchday Magazine.

No live matches. No reaction play. Just proper management – planning, patience, and consistently making better decisions than the 63 other managers in your league.

“Proper depth, proper competition, and a community that’s actually alive. This is what football management was always supposed to feel like.” — F. Morgan, League 1

The Weekly Cycle

Results In

Two PDFs land in your inbox — your Manager’s Report (25+ pages of personalised club data) and the Matchday Magazine covering the whole league.

Plan Your Week

Study the squad, check the tables, review match performance, watch your finances. Work out what you’re doing differently this week.

Submit Your Turnsheet

Fill in your instructions online before 4pm UK time on your league’s processing day. Takes a few minutes once you’re familiar with it.

Repeat

New results arrive and the cycle begins again. 30 game weeks per season, then promotion or relegation — and straight into the next one.

What You’re Managing

The details are the game.

This isn’t a set-and-forget game. Every decision connects to something else — and the managers who understand the systems are the ones who stay up.

⚽Squad & Players
Up to 25 players, each with ratings, hidden potential, learning ability, personality traits, private lives, fitness, contract length, and market value. No two squads play the same.

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Tactics

35 tactical options across attack, defence, midfield, and set pieces. Stack up to 15 per match. Tactics interact and counter each other — reading your opponent matters.

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Training

25 hours per week across 8 session types. Balance development, fitness, and injury risk. Your coaches and physio each affect different outcomes.

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Transfers & Deals

Buy, sell, swap, and loan players via the Supremos Circuit or direct manager-to-manager. Transfer restrictions, market value bands, and per-club limits keep it competitive.

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Ground & Finances

Four stands to develop across four stadium tiers. Gate prices, sponsorship deals, policing, turf management. Your ground is a business — run it like one.

🔥Rivalries
A hidden rival score builds through repeated encounters. Progress through five levels — from Rival Aware to Legendary Derby — unlocking named cup competitions along the way.

The Story So Far

EARLY 1990s

Soccer Supremos Launches Created by Sean Cleworth from his bedroom in the UK. Turnsheets went out by Royal Mail. Managers waited days for results.

1990s PEAK

10,000+ Active Managers Hundreds of leagues running at once. One of the largest PBM football management games in the world, with a strong following across the UK and Scandinavia.

MID 2000s

The Game Winds Down PBM loses ground to the internet. Soccer Supremos closes. Former managers spend the next two decades asking if it’ll ever come back.

MAY 2022

Two Years Rebuilding Sean reprogrammes the entire game from scratch for the modern web. The 5th Edition rulebook is written. Original illustrator Greg Stewart redraws all the artwork.

JUNE 2024

Soccer Supremos Relaunches Four active leagues, 200+ managers, weekly processing. The game is back — and it’s better than the original.

Why It’s Back

Some games deserve a second life.

There’s a reason former managers kept asking about Soccer Supremos for the better part of two decades. Modern football games never quite replaced it – the slow burn of a full season, the satisfaction of a well-drilled squad, the banter of a proper league community. Nothing else scratched that particular itch.

The rebuilt version keeps everything that made the original great. Same depth. Same pace. Same community feel. Just without waiting three days for a letter.

If you played back in the day, you’ll recognise it immediately. If you never got the chance – this is where to start. There’s genuinely nothing else like it.

“Soccer Supremos was my favourite pbm game in the late 90s. Joining the relaunch was a no-brainer. The depth is remarkable – honestly better than I remembered, and my memories of it were pretty good.” — Returning manager, originally from the 1995+ era

Best Value For Money PBM

One Turn Fee. No Hidden Extras.

£1.50 per turn. Top up when you like. Your first two turns are on the house.

Standard Turn Fee

£1.50

Per turn

10% Discount Bundle

£30

22 turns

Best value

Season Ticket

£38

30 turns — 16% discount

20% Discount Bundle

£60

50 turns

Not sure yet? Your first 2 turns are free — take a club, fill in your turnsheet, and see what drops into your inbox on results day.

Get Started

Your club is waiting.

Clubs are available across all leagues right now. Registration is free, setup takes five minutes, and you could have your first results in your inbox by the end of the week.

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Free signup + 2 turns New & existing leagues £1.50 per turn Retro PBM at it’s finest Community driven