📬 Soccer Supremos January Newsletter

Hello Managers! 👋

Happy New Year! I hope 2026 is going to be an amazing year for you. Personally I am pleased to say goodbye to 2025, which wasn’t a great year for me personally.

As most of you are aware, Soccer Supremos and myself took a 2 week break over the festive season. The weather down here in Cape Town has been lovely, and I really did take advantage of the break. I did manage to get some work done on the game, though on the whole I mostly rested, drank and eat too much and recharged the batteries.

During the last two weeks I have made some progress on the non-playing member orders and hope to have these wrapped up before the end of the month. I also used the opportunity to put together 2 more hint sheets:

• Personality Traits
• Private Lives

So, Soccer Supremos and 2026. What is in store for the game? There are two main goals:

• Launch League 4
• Complete Feature Backlog

Launch League 4

I am aiming to get this 4th league up and running asap. Realistically, I think this might only happen in Feb now. At the time of writing this, 25 managers have signed up for the early-bird special (1st season for just £30), so the league is just under half full.

I have extended the early bird special until the end of January AND I am allowing managers who aren’t interested in the special, but would like to join a brand new league, to sign-up. The sign-up is free and comes with the first 2 turns. No obligation to continue beyond that point.

If you are interested in signing up for this brand new league then you have two sign-up options:

Early-Bird Special: Click here for more details

Free Sign-up + 2 Turns: Click here to start

Complete Feature Backlog

Despite introducing a ton of new features in 2025, I still have a number of ‘key features’ to complete. I think I should have them all done and integrated into the game by October. That is my aim. There will be a number of small fixes and improvements along the way, though the list below contains the big ones:

• Non-Playing Member Orders: These are very close to be completed at the moment.
• Missing Finance Orders: Namely, ‘Hire P.I.’ and ‘Sack Player’.
• Scouting Improvements: This needs a small overhaul.
  
• Player Transfer Request: Unhappy players will be requesting to be released from their contract.
• Player Retirements: Oldies announcing their retirement and in some lucky cases might move into a supporting staff role (coach, etc).
• Club Rivals & Derby Games: Create some ‘in-game’ rivalry that has actually knock-on effects.
• Club Shares: The ability to buy and sell shares in clubs.
• Betting: The ability to place a bet on the outcome of matches.
• Best Club & Manager Voting: This will feed into International Matches.
• International Matches: These lucky managers will be given the honor to take their national side into battle!
• Substitution Tactics: To give you control over your subs.
• Zonal Tactics: Implement a few ‘missing’ ones and to give all of them a subtle adjustment where needed.
• Replacement for a sent-off Goalkeeper: Currently the replacement is not always optimal.

– Gads