Wonderkid Factory app icon: three ascending gold stars on a football pitch

Coming soon to iPhone

Build the academy that makes the players

You're not the manager chasing trophies. You're the one who finds raw teenagers, develops them, and sells the finished article to fund the next generation.

Muddy pitch to talent factory

Start with a leaky gym, a worn pitch and a handful of hopefuls. Six divisions sit above you.

Find them

Scouting is a gamble

Send scouts to local schools, grassroots clubs and street football. Every prospect has a hidden ceiling your scouts can only estimate — so you might unearth a generational talent, or waste a season on a lad who was never going to make it.

Develop them

Every week is a trade-off

Set the training focus and balance intensity against injury and burnout. Upgrade the pitch, the gym, the analysis room and the recovery suite. Watch a fourteen-year-old turn into something.

Play them

Match day, minute by minute

Give the team talk, follow the game as it unfolds, name your Man of the Match — then hear what the local press, the visiting scouts and the players' families made of it.

Sell them

The hardest decision in the game

The bigger clubs come calling. Sell now and fund the academy, or keep him another season and risk injury, a plateau, or the interest drying up. Agents take their cut until your reputation grows.

Survive

Wages are due every week

A running-cost economy with a parent club watching the books. Miss the wage bill often enough and they'll sell your best player out from under you.

Climb

Six divisions, promotion and the drop

Finish top two and go up. Bottom two and you're down. Name a captain, take the board's season objective, and build something that outlasts any one player.

What it looks like

Real screens from the game, not mock-ups.

The Office screen showing academy funds, reputation, the current week and the assistant coach's advice
Your office, and Ray's opinion
A player profile showing attribute bars, traits, morale, fitness and coach notes
Every prospect, in detail
Match day text commentary showing minute-by-minute events and a goal
Match day, as it happens
League table showing standings with promotion and relegation zones marked
Results that carry over

“You've built something here, gaffer. Three seasons is barely a start — there's a whole career waiting if you want it.”

Ray Docherty, Assistant Coach

Join the beta

Wonderkid Factory is in TestFlight now, ahead of release on the App Store. Testers get the full game, and the thing I most want to know is simple: is there a player you got attached to?

Free to download. One optional purchase unlocks the full game — no ads, no energy timers, no premium currency, nothing else to buy.