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Football Director

Choose any of over 200 clubs from leagues across England and Europe and get ready to take your team to league triumph and cup glory. Buy and sell players, hire and fire staff, build and train your squad, then…

31 December 1986

Football Director is a sport developed by DH Games, released 31 December 1986 on Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Football Director is

Football Director is a sport game developed by DH Games and released in 1986. It was published by CDS Software. It is available on Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Choose any of over 200 clubs from leagues across England and Europe and get ready to take your team to league triumph and cup glory. Buy and sell players, hire and fire staff, build and train your squad, then call the shots on match day.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Football Director launched on 31 December 1986, within three weeks of World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel and Leaderboard.

Released around the same time: World Games, Gauntlet, The Sentinel, Leaderboard.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Football Director come out?
Football Director was released on 31 December 1986 for Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.

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