PcLeague

A faithful Android recreation of PcLeague 2.1, the 1994 DOS soccer-manager game by Asle Rokstad (PcLeague SoftWare). It carries the complete original database, decoded byte-for-byte from the game's RESOURCE.* files: 92 clubs across 4 divisions and 1733 real players, with the original retro DOS look. No ads, no IAP, no analytics, no tracking. Fully offline.

Install on Android

Direct APK download: https://github.com/Matswm86/pcleague/releases/download/latest/pcleague.apk

1. Open that link in your phone's browser and tap to download.
2. When you tap the downloaded file, Android may say "For your security, your phone is not allowed to install unknown apps from this source." Tap Settings, toggle Allow from this source, then go back and install.
3. The app appears as PcLeague.

The APK is debug-signed with a stable key, so reinstalling a newer build over an older one Just Works — no uninstall needed. Versioned downloads are also on the Releases page.

The game

Pick any of the 92 clubs and manage it through the seasons, exactly as in the 1994 original:

• Real 1993-94 database — every club and player from the original game (Seaman, Cantona, Schmeichel, Wright…), with the original ages, positions and shape ratings.
• 4 divisions (Premier, Division 1-3) with promotion and relegation.
• Squad & line-up editor with defensive / normal / attacking tactics.
• Transfers — buy and sell, with transfer-listed (T) players on the market; rival clubs trade too.
• 16-player youth squad — promote a youngster and a new one is generated.
• League tables, fixtures, top-scorer lists for every division.
• Finances — gate and TV income that rise with form, a wage bill, and the classic sell-to-survive squeeze.
• FA Cup knockout across all 92 clubs, with TV money each round.
• Match engine faithful to the manual: player shape curves by age, team form, probabilistic results, injuries, bookings, sendings-off, hit-the-post and referee mistakes, and 1-10 player ratings with the original per-division floors.
• English / Norsk toggle, retro EGA/VGA palette, 4 save slots + autosave.

How it was rebuilt

The original stores its data in Borland/Turbo-Pascal binary RESOURCE.* files. Everything was reverse-engineered from a personal copy of PcLeague.zip; the decoders live in tools/:

File	Contents	Format
RESOURCE.001	92 team names + division & table position	[4B BE len][name][stats…], with a 3a [global#] [divPos] marker; divPos resets each tier
RESOURCE.008	1840 first-team players (20 / club)	fixed 76-byte record: name(16) + nationality(0x14) + position(0x17) + 52-byte stat block
RESOURCE.017	760 reserve/extra players	same 76-byte record
RESOURCE.006	English + Norwegian UI strings	71-byte slots, alternating NO/EN

Player stat block (validated against the known 1993-94 squads): +2 age, +6 transfer value, +11..14 four shape components whose sum is the manual's "SUM SHAPE NOW". Position bytes are Norwegian: K keeper, F forsvar (defence), M midt (midfield), A angrep (attack). Average skill descends cleanly by tier (Premier 30.1 → Division 3 24.6), and the marquee names check out (Schmeichel 36, Steve Bruce 34) — confirming the decode.

The original program binaries (PCLEAGUE.EXE, the RESOURCE.* files) are not redistributed here. This repo contains only the new Android code, the extraction tools, and the derived dataset (data/pcleague.json).

Build from source

JAVA_HOME=~/.jdks/temurin-17 ./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
# APK -> app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk

Regenerate the dataset from the original files (needs PcLeague.zip extracted into _extracted/):

python3 tools/build_dataset.py        # -> data/pcleague.json

Credits

Original game © Asle Rokstad, PcLeague SoftWare, 1994. This is a personal, non-commercial recreation made to play the game on a phone. All footballer and club names are factual data from the original.