Football · Hurling · Camogie · Ladies' Football

Irish Sport Manager

The management sim for the Gaelic games. Take a county in Ireland, name your fifteen from the parishes that produced them, and answer to a board that remembers everything.

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Windows and Mac, on Steam · Free demo out now · Steam Next Fest, 19 to 26 October 2026 · Launching January 2027

From the Sideline

Nineteen screenshots from the current build. Click any to view full size.

Live match on a top-down pitch: Dublin in sky blue against Wexford in purple, 47:16 on the clock, Dublin 2-2-11 to 0-1-6, a Dublin forward on the ball at the edge of Wexford's arc. Live camogie match, Cork in red against Kilkenny in black and amber at 32:12, a POINT flash for Sarah Power, Cork 1-15 to 1-6. Squad screen: Dublin's fifteen on a pitch diagram with each player's position and rating, the named bench of 16 to 26 beside it, and the skills table below. Player profile for Sinead Walsh, Cork camogie full-forward, age 27: portrait, camogie and ladies' football ratings, personality traits, attributes and season statistics. Player profile for Seamus Farrelly, Kilkenny hurling half-back, age 26, opened over Kilkenny's hurling panel: ratings in both codes, traits, attributes, season by competition and a Leinster medal. Calendar for April 2028: championship Sundays, U20 Wednesdays, and football, hurling and camogie match days all on one month. The All-County Fifteen for football, fifteen award winners laid out by position with their county crests, above the 2031 roll of honour. Dublin's club football championship: quarter-final results, the semi-finals still to play, and the leading club scorers, with players on the county panel marked. Choosing a county for a new career: camogie selected and Cork's dossier open, top division, tradition 19 of 20, Munster, and what the board expects. Cork camogie's county page on match day: the Cork v Kilkenny championship fixture with the referee named, the fifteen at a glance, injuries, top scorers and form. Match report for a Leinster semi-final, Dublin 2-3-20 to Wexford 0-1-13: each side's scorers, Man of the Match Matthew Cullen, and every player's rating, scores, assists, turnovers and blocks. The inbox six seasons into a career: letters from the coach, the press, the physio, the scout and the county board, with the 2031 season review open. The bainisteoir's page: Peadar Lynch, five seasons at Dublin, with the board's target, final position, board confidence and honours for each year. Full time in camogie, Cork 1-22 to Kilkenny 1-18: a rating on every player's card, Woman of the Match Sinead Daly, and the choice of words for the team. Half-time, Dublin 2-2-7 to Wexford 0-1-6: the fifteen with ratings, the team talk options and the protest button, with the pitch and commentary beside them. Live match at 47:20: Dublin carry the ball through the middle against Wexford, a ring marking the player in possession. The January pre-season cups: the Kells Cup bracket won by Dublin, the Broighter Cup sections and the Derrynaflan Cup groups. A referee's record opened from the match card: Andrew Carroll from Cloghan, Offaly, even-handed and deaf to a crowd, with games, frees and cards a game, red cards and finals by season. The inbox with the coach's report after Dublin v Kerry open: the score, what worked, what didn't, and what to consider next time.

Nobody Ever Made This Game

The Gaelic games are the biggest sports in Ireland, followed by a worldwide diaspora, and they have never had a management simulation to their name. Irish Sport Manager covers all four codes at full depth, two of them women's codes, on one calendar in one save.

It sits in the grand tradition of management sims: deep, honest, career-long. But its people are amateurs with jobs, exams and boats to catch, and its world is the parish, the county, and a board that expects par and dreams of more.

Features

Thirty-two counties and the exile boards, four codes, one sideline. Yours.

Four codes, one sideline

Football, hurling, camogie and ladies' football fully simulated: real dual counties, dual players, and the fixture congestion that comes with them. Every county fields four jobs.

You are the bainisteoir

Pick your thirty from the clubs inside your own county and name your fifteen. Nobody is bought. Everybody is from somewhere.

Amateurs, and the game knows it

Students sit exams in May. A day job takes its fortnight back. Players emigrate, and you can sit one down and try to talk them out of the boats for one more winter.

Match days you actually manage

Watch it live, make your switches while the play runs, and pick your moment for the speech at the break. Every match has a named referee with a way about them, and after the whistle the coach tells you what worked and what didn't.

Every code played its own way

Thirty players who move on their own, each at their own pace. Football goes backwards to go forward and calls the mark on a clean catch inside the 20; hurling goes forward; the keeper restarts after every score. The clock keeps time with the play.

The county underneath

U20 springs and club championships fully played and watchable from the stand, with the call-up rows they start and a U20 manager who has his own ideas.

A board that remembers

Expectations set in writing, a verdict every autumn, and the job market that follows a bad season. Careers run for decades: honours, sackings, second acts.

The season as it is played

January's pre-season cups, a spring league that pays the bills, provincial championships and a national series to high summer, football's run to the new 2026 format. Then the clubs take the autumn back.

Real counties, invented people

The thirty-two counties and the exile boards, real colours and townlands. Players and clubs are procedurally generated, so nobody's parish gets libelled. Share a seed, share a world.

Fact Sheet

The short version, for the curious and the press alike.

Developer
Loophead Labs
Platform
Windows and Mac, on Steam
Release
January 2027
Free Demo
On Steam now
Steam Next Fest
19 to 26 October 2026
Genre
Sports management sim
Modding
Steam Workshop story packs
Contact
ism@loopheadlabs.com

Press & Creators

The press kit is a single download: nineteen screenshots at full size, the 45-second trailer, two animated GIFs of live play, logo and capsule art, and a one-page fact sheet. Free to use in coverage of the game, no permission needed.

The free demo on Steam is one full season with one county: the league, the championship, the club final, and the board's verdict at the end. It is the easiest way to see the game before release.

Review keys for the full game go out closer to the release on 26 January 2027. Ask now and you will be on the list.

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