Mud & Glory
Live on Google Play, coming soon to iPhone and iPad
From the mud to the top flight.
Take a village club from step 7 of the pyramid to the top flight, a season at a time. You pick the team, you’re on the touchline, and the whole club talks to you.
What kind of game is Mud & Glory?
A football management game for Android phones and tablets, coming soon to iPhone and iPad. You take over a village club at step 7 of a made-up English pyramid and climb six levels to the top flight, a season at a time: pick the team, set it up to play, make the calls from the touchline, and build the club with transfers, contracts, a youth intake and a ground that passes the league’s grading.
This one is for you if
- You would rather out-think a bigger club than out-spend it
- You like a club with a tea hut, a muddy pitch and part-timers who work Saturdays
- You want a career that lasts: up to 35 seasons, then a place on the Managers’ Wall
Start at step 7
A muddy pitch, a tea hut and part-timers who work for a living: a bus driver at full-back, a plasterer in midfield. Six levels and 152 clubs above you, play-offs, and a ground that has to pass grading before you can go up.
The right plan beats a bigger club
Eight formations and five team instructions. None of them wins on its own: sit deep against a side that pushes on, press one that can’t pass, go wide against full-backs who don’t defend.
On the touchline
Every match is played live, as 2D highlights or in the commentary. At half-time, around the hour and with a quarter of an hour left, you make the subs, change the shape and give the team talk.
- 152
- made-up clubs in six levels, from step 7 to the top flight
- 35
- seasons in a career, then the Managers’ Wall
- £6.99
- once, for every match of every career. No ads
Before you tap
- What exactly is free?
- Pre-season and the first three league games of every career you start, plus a cup tie in week 3 if your club has one, and the first three matches of the weekly challenge. Game four asks for the Season Ticket. Everything that isn’t a match stays open, so you can still look round your club.
- What does the Season Ticket cost?
- £6.99 once, for every match of every season, in every career you start, plus the challenges and the weekly, for good, on every device with your Google account. On the App Store, Family Sharing will cover your family’s devices too. There are no ads and no subscription.
- What are Local Sponsor, The Takeover and Job for Life?
- Optional extras for Season Ticket holders, sold in the Club shop and never on match day. A Local Sponsor (£1.99) and The Takeover (£4.99) put money into the career you’re playing; the board’s wage cap still holds and players still have to want to come. Job for Life (£1.99, once) means you can’t be sacked, switched on per career. A career that uses one is marked Backed, and none of them are ever used in the challenges or the weekly.
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From the mud to the top flight.
Free to try: pre-season and your first three games. Then £6.99 once. No ads, no subscription.