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Transfers with tension
Work through multi-round negotiations, wage budgets, loan deals, sell-on resistance, and the uncomfortable truth that every club values a player differently.
The matchday edition
The details
are the game.
Every system in The Dugout is there to give your decisions weight. Nothing is a mini-game. Nothing is decoration.
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A club with a balance sheet
Ninety-two playable clubs have distinct financial identities. Learn what your board will tolerate before a single transfer window opens.
03
Matches you can imagine
A Poisson-based simulation engine turns tactics and squad choices into rich, readable match narration. The drama arrives in the report.
04
A world that answers back
The Dugout Gazette and your inbox bring board decisions, press stories, and league-wide consequences into the season.
Build beyond the starting eleven
Find a player.
Make them yours.
Scouting reports arrive with graded accuracy bands. A youth academy gives tomorrow’s squad a beginning. Hidden attributes and aging ensure that a promising name on a team sheet is only the start of the story.
Playable clubs92
Free demo20 weeks
Full unlock£4.99
No small print
One unlock. The whole club.
Try the first 20 in-game weeks for free. If The Dugout feels like your kind of Saturday, carry your progress into the full game for a one-time £4.99 purchase. No subscriptions. No ads. No pay-to-win.