Football manager game in your browser
Take a club from the terraces to the top flight.
Turnstile Manager is a free-to-try football manager game in the spirit of the classic 90s management games. Take charge of any club across Europe and South America, pick your team, set your tactics and follow every match minute by minute. Play an open career or take on a scenario. Win promotion, dodge the drop, and build a history season after season. It runs in your browser, with nothing to install.
Free to try. No card needed to start.
Pick the team
Choose your starting eleven and bench, or let your assistant pick the strongest side.
Set the tactics
Formation, mentality, tempo, passing, pressing and width.
Press Continue
Watch it unfold minute by minute, then live with the result.
Two ways to play
Play alone at your own pace, or race the clock.
Single player
Your own career
Any club, anywhere in your world, for as long as you like. Build a dynasty, get headhunted, or take a minnow all the way up.
- Europe or South America
- Play at your own pace
- Unlimited seasons with a subscription
Single player
Scenarios
You get a club, a brief from the board and a goal. Win the league, the cup or the lot, sometimes against the clock.
- Set challenges to beat
- A badge for every win
- New ones added over time
From the dugout
Management that feels like the classics
A minute-by-minute match engine
Possession, through balls, crosses, long shots, set pieces and penalties, all decided by player attributes and your tactics.
Real tactical choices
Formations (or your own shape, made on the pitch), mentality and team instructions that change how a match plays out.
Pick your own XI
Or let your assistant name the strongest fit team, and step in when a player's injured or suspended.
Believable results
Calibrated over thousands of matches against real-world averages. Giant-killings happen, but not every week.
A living football world
Europe
20 countries to choose from, from England's four divisions to Turkey, Romania, Portugal, the Netherlands and Ukraine. Pick up to eight for your world, every one with at least two divisions.
South America
Ten nations and twelve leagues, from Brazil and Argentina to Bolivia. Seasons run from February to November, with Apertura and Clausura and title finals.
Your own world
Every manager's world is generated from its own seed, with fictional players named for each nation's football culture, so no two are the same.
Transfers and contracts
Bid, haggle, sign free agents, renew contracts and keep an eye on the wonderkids.
AI managers
Every club has a manager with their own record, and they get sacked and replaced as the seasons go on.
Scenarios
A set task
Take charge with a brief from the board. Win the league, the cup, the continental cup, promotion, or the lot in one season, sometimes against the clock.
Some tie you to the club
Get sacked and it's over. Others let you move on and finish the job somewhere else.
The front page on day one
The local paper sets the scene as you walk in, and the board's demands are on Home all the way.
A badge for the win
Pull it off and your account earns the scenario's badge for good.
Careers that last
Continental nights
The Champions Cup in Europe and the South American Champions Cup put each continent's best clubs in groups, then two-legged knockouts and a final at a neutral ground.
Full seasons
Weekend fixtures and midweek rounds, knockout cups, play-offs and, in South America, title finals.
The board is watching
Meet their expectations, or face an ultimatum and the sack. Get headhunted by bigger clubs.
Share the big moments
Won the league, a cup final or a derby by five? Share a picture card of it with a link anyone can open, your name on it or not.
A youth academy
An U18 squad with its own league, intake day every spring, and a youth coach who tells you who looks promising.
Scouting and harder settings
With hidden player information, you send scouts to find out who's any good. You can hide rivals' finances too.
A squad with opinions
Your best players expect to play. Leave them out and they'll complain, lose form and ask to leave, unless you give them a promise you can keep.
Retrain a player
The coaches can teach a player a new position over a few months, so a squad can change shape with you.
Development and retirements
Players grow, peak and decline, faster with games and good facilities.
History and records
League and cup histories, top scorers, head-to-heads, and every player's career record.
AI assistant optional
The choice is yours, career by career.
Included with the subscription
Bring your own AI assistant
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or any AI app that supports MCP to your careers, and talk tactics with it: who to pick, who to sign, how the money's going. It runs on your own AI plan.
- It only sees what you see. With hidden player information, it gets your scouts' estimates, never the true ratings.
- It can't change anything. It leaves suggestions (a team, transfer targets, tactics) for you to accept or dismiss.
- No AI app? You can chat with the assistant inside your career, using a free Google Gemini key (or your OpenAI, Anthropic or OpenRouter key). Your key stays in your browser.
- Or press Copy for AI to put a briefing of your career on the clipboard for any chatbot.
- "Who should I pick for Saturday?"
- "Find me a left back under £2m"
- "How are my finances heading?"
- "Which youngsters are ready?"
No AI
Play it old school
No AI unless you connect it, and you can switch it off for any career. Just you, the squad, the tactics board and the vidiprinter, like the 90s.
- With hidden player information, other clubs' players are estimates until your scouts have watched them. You can send scouts to a player, a league or a whole nation.
- With hidden club finances, you can't see rivals' budgets and wages.
- Even your own youngsters' potential is only your coaches' opinion.
Questions
Is it free?
You can play your first seasons of single-player careers free, with no card needed. After that, a monthly subscription gives you unlimited seasons and careers, and the AI assistant. Cancel any time.
Can an AI help me manage?
Yes, if you'd like. Subscribers can connect their own AI app (Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and others) to their careers through our MCP server, and ask it about the squad, transfers and finances, or chat with it right in the game using a free Google Gemini key. It sees only what you can see, runs on your own AI plan, and leaves suggestions for you to accept rather than changing anything itself.
Do I have to use AI?
Not at all. Nothing is connected unless you connect it, and you can switch it off for any career. For the full old-school challenge, start a career with hidden player information and rely on your scouts.
Do I need to download anything?
No. It runs in any modern browser, on a computer, tablet or phone. You can also install it like an app from the menu, so it opens full screen with its own icon.
Where can I manage?
Europe and South America for now. In Europe, choose up to eight of 20 countries for your world (England, Scotland, Spain, Germany, Italy and France to begin with, or Turkey, Romania, Portugal, the Netherlands, Ukraine and more). South America has ten nations, from Brazil and Argentina to Bolivia. More of the world is on the way.
What's a scenario?
A career with a set task. You get a club to start at, the board's goals and sometimes a season limit. Beat it for a badge on your account, or play an open career instead.
Are the clubs and players real?
No. Every club, player and manager is fictional, with names drawn from each nation's football culture. Every manager's world is generated from its own seed, so yours is your own.
Is my career saved?
Yes, to your account after every match, so you can carry on from any device.
Can I use my own database?
Yes. Browse and edit the whole world in the database editor, or import a database in the open format, and start a career in it.
What about online leagues?
Online leagues with friends, with timed match days, are on the way, and your first league season will be free.
Every season starts at the turnstile
Choose your club. The board is expecting results.
Free to try. No card needed to start.