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Tunnelside

Season 1 starts . Found your club now and be ready on day one. Join Season 1

Free Multiplayer Football Manager Game

Build a club, outsmart rival managers, watch it live

Join a league of sixteen clubs, set separate tactics for attack and defence and follow every match as it is played, minute by minute. Tunnelside is free to play on any phone, tablet or computer.

Create your clubBrowse the leagues
  • No download
  • Real-time matches
  • Fictional players
  • 16clubs in every league
  • 90real minutes in a match
  • 2transfer windows a season
  • 0loot boxes or card packs

Everything a football manager needs

How it works

From the first crest to the final whistle, in three steps.

  1. Create your club

    Choose a name, colours, a crest and a kit, give the manager on the touchline a look of your own, and receive a squad of generated players to start with.

  2. Set your tactics

    Pick a formation for each phase of play, assign roles and decide how the team should attack, defend and react.

  3. Watch it live

    Your league plays a round every day. Sign in at kick-off to follow every chance, card and goal in real time.

Create your clubRead the full guide

Questions managers ask

The short answers. Everything else about leagues, tactics and the market is in the full guide.

Is Tunnelside free to play?
Yes. You can create a club, play in a league and use every feature without paying. Coins can be bought if you want to bid in auctions faster, but they are never required.
Do I need to download anything?
No. Tunnelside runs in the browser of your phone, tablet or computer. There is nothing to install.
Can I buy players or player packs?
No. Real money only buys coins. Players are signed at auction, from the transfer lists of other managers, and from your academy. There are no randomised packs.
How long does a match last?
A league match is ninety real minutes long plus a half-time break. Cup matches can go to extra time and penalties.
What happens if I am away during a match?
Your assistant manager plays to your tactics and makes substitutions as you have set them, so your club is never left unmanaged.
What happens if I stop playing for a while?
For 28 days your assistant manager keeps playing your matches to the tactics you saved. If you do not sign in for 28 days, the computer manager runs the club instead, and the club earns and pays nothing meanwhile. When you sign in again the club is yours again.
Are the players real?
No. Every player name, face and set of attributes is generated, so no real person is depicted.
When can I buy, sell and lend players?
In two transfer windows a season. The first is open before the season and through its sixth matchday, the second covers the seventeenth to the twenty-third matchday. Outside a window nobody buys, sells, lends or releases a player.
Can I lend players to other clubs?
Yes. In a transfer window a manager can offer a player on loan for 7 to 30 days at a fee of his choice, up to a quarter of the player's value. The club that takes him pays his wage meanwhile, the fee goes to the club that lent him, and when the loan is over the player returns on the contract he left on.
Do nations play each other too?
Yes. The Nations Cup is a knockout between the eight strongest nations, each managed by the computer. A nation calls up its best players from the clubs of the game, but never a player whose club is playing at the same time, so your own matches always come first.

Your club is waiting in the tunnel

Choose a name, colours and a crest, set your tactics, and your club takes its place in a league of sixteen. It is free.

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