Match Day - Tabletop Football Game
28 April 2026
A Full Football Season at the Kitchen Table.
Match Day is a paper-and-dice football game for people who care about league tables more than ninety-minute simulations. Three stats per team. A handful of dice. A complete season at the kitchen table.
Matches resolve in 1-2 minutes. A full Premier League season fits comfortably across a few evenings.
How It Works
Every team has three ratings: ATK (attack), DEF (defence), and a third dimension that shapes character. Roll for each side, apply the home advantage, and read the result. Goals, draws, late winners, scrappy 0-0s - they all come out of the dice without forcing the maths.
If you want more depth, swap to the Long Play engine - twelve event-by-event moments per match, around 7 minutes per game. Same ratings, more drama.
If you want a cup run, jump to the Cup Play book - knockouts, extra time, penalty shootouts, narrative tables.
What's In the Pack - Four Books, 76 Pages
- Book One - Quick Play. The core engine. 1-2 minutes per match.
- Book Two - Cup Play. Knockouts, extra time, penalty shootouts, narrative tables.
- Book Three - Long Play. Event-by-event resolution. Twelve moments per match. Around 7 minutes.
- Book Four - Fictional Leagues. Managers, transfers, growth, and the campaign mode.
Two Leagues Ready Out of the Box
EPL 2024-25 - all 20 teams rated, fixtures, league sheet, and a CSV. Plus a single-file HTML helper app that runs in any browser and tracks the whole season for you.
Try the EPL 2024-25 Helper in your browser →
Booster Pack 01: The Coastal Premier - a complete fictional league. Eight clubs, archetypes, managers, rivalries, fixtures. Drop straight into Book Four for a campaign with stakes.
What's In the Zip
- Book One: Quick Play (PDF)
- Book Two: Cup Play (PDF)
- Book Three: Long Play (PDF)
- Book Four: Fictional Leagues (PDF)
- EPL 2024-25 Season Pack (PDF + CSV)
- EPL 2024-25 Quick Play League Helper (HTML app)
- Booster Pack 01: The Coastal Premier (PDF)
You'll need: 2d6, 1d6, a pen, a printer (or a screen).
Three Engines, One Game
The four-book structure is the point. Quick Play is for evenings when you want results - sim a round, update the table, move on. Long Play is for the match you actually want to live in - twelve moments, late equalisers, red cards, the works. Cup Play is for the one-off - the FA Cup final, the penalty shootout, the extra-time goal that makes a season. Fictional Leagues is for the long campaign - your own clubs, your own managers, your own rivalries.
Buy the rules once. Rotate engines as your mood changes. Build out your shelf as more drops.
More to Come
Future season packs and booster packs to follow. World Cup on the way. The pricing model is simple - rules pack once, season packs and boosters as the calendar demands them.
Get It
Print-and-play A4 PDFs. Solo or two-player. Four books, two leagues, one HTML app, one zip.
A TTX Sports original. If you've played 3rd and Long, Over the Line, or Down the Line - same idea. Clean system, fast play, full season.