When did Premier Manager release?

Premier Manager was first released on December 31, 1992.

Premier Manager

Dec 31, 1992SimulatorSportStrategySega Mega Drive/GenesisAtari ST/STEDOSAmigaArchimedes

Premier Manager — frequently asked questions

What platforms is Premier Manager on?: Premier Manager was released on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga, Archimedes.
When did Premier Manager release?: Premier Manager was first released on December 31, 1992.

About Premier Manager

Premier Manager is a football management game released for the Sega Mega Drive exclusively in Europe. It was followed by Premier Manager 97.

Summary via IGDB.

Game details

Developer: Realms of Fantasy
Publisher: Gremlin Interactive

Details via IGDB.

Reception

IGDB rating

60/100

from 5 ratings

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Platform	Year	Loose	Complete	Sealed	Fake risk
Sega Genesis	1995	$5	$7	—	Low

Also released on: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis · Atari ST/STE · DOS · Amiga · Archimedes. We haven’t priced or authenticated those versions yet.

Collector value & authenticity

Sega Genesis · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-29

Loose

Complete

Sealed

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What it needs to play

Some modesSave battery (inside the cartridge) — saves to memory kept alive by a battery inside the cartridge; if that battery has died, saves are lost (MAME cartridge records).

How often it sells

Loose: about once a month
Complete: about 2 times a month
Sealed: about once a year

Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-29.

Price over time

Loose
Complete

A loose copy sold for about $4.07 in Jul 2018, $5.49 five years ago, and $4.89 as of Oct 2026.

Show as table

Month	Loose	Complete
Jan 2019	$2.17	$5.52
Jan 2020	$3.81	$6.02
Jan 2021	$4.30	$5.70
Jan 2022	$5.79	$6.40
Jan 2023	$4.94	$7.67
Jan 2024	$5.78	$9.13
Jan 2025	$5.22	$8.31
Jan 2026	$4.19	$10.98
Oct 2026	$4.89	$7.23

Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.

Release record

Territory	Date	Product number	Known board
Europe / PAL	24 November 1995	1191	171-6021A · MPR-18473-U

Source: Product numbers: MAME's Mega Drive software list and the No-Intro serial records in the libretro database, published where both agree on the same cartridge dump, or from the libretro records alone where MAME lists no number for that dump. Board and ROM numbers: MAME's software list

Region: EU
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Low

Modern re-releases, such as Sega Ages, the Genesis Mini and Nintendo Switch Online, are not tracked hereLow counterfeit risk

Sega Genesis prices, all games & how to spot a fake

A European football management game that is a cheap pickup, though a niche one.

Premier Manager is a soccer management game from Gremlin Interactive, published by Sega for the Mega Drive in Europe on 24 November 1995. You manage a club in the English league. It began as an Amiga game and the Mega Drive version more closely resembles the sequel, Premier Manager 2. The box called it the first football management game for the Mega Drive.

How the Sega Genesis version differs

The 1995 Mega Drive conversion follows the design of Premier Manager 2 more than the original and allows two players rather than four.

To save memory the Mega Drive game starts the player in Division Three and drops the lower divisions.

The cartridge carries a battery-backed 32Mb memory chip for saving games.

Also on other platforms

Amiga · Atari ST · Archimedes · MS-DOS

Amiga. The Amiga version won Amiga Computing's Gamer Gold award with 93%, and Amiga Action gave it 90%.

Before you buy

This is a Europe-only cart, and among European carts it sits below the middle. The cartridge saves to a battery inside it, so check that a save holds; a replaced battery is a normal repair.