Underdog FC: Soccer Club Sim

Take charge of a broke fifth-tier club and drag it to the top.

You are the owner and the manager. Nobody else picks the team, balances the books or decides who to sell.

• BUILD A SQUAD Set training for each player, pair a veteran with a prospect as his mentor, and send the ones who cannot get a game out on loan. Players peak and decline by position, and game time changes how fast they grow.

• RUN AN ACADEMY Your academy plays its own season, so prospects get real matches. Pair them with a first-team veteran and they pick up his traits. But once they turn 19 they want first-team football, and clubs will come for the ones you leave behind. Deciding when to hand out a professional contract is the job.

• WIN ON MATCHDAY Pick the shape, set the instructions, and watch it play out minute by minute. At half time you can change the tactics, make substitutions and pick the words you use in the dressing room.

• KEEP THE CLUB ALIVE Wages, transfer fees, gate receipts, sponsors, bank loans, ticket prices, stadium and facility upgrades. Miss the board's target for too long and you are out of a job.

• CLIMB Five divisions, promotion play-offs, domestic cups and a continental cup. Top scorers, player of the season and a team of the season along the way.

Your progress is saved on your device. No account, no sign-in.

The rewarded video is there for people who want it; you can finish the game without watching a single one. One full-screen ad appears when a season rolls over, never during a match or while you are in the menus. There are no banners. Buying Supporter removes the full-screen ad. You can also buy club funds if you want to grow faster, but you never have to.