The complete guide to the fantasy football of lost seasons: from the idea to your first auction, from matches to your team. If you just want to try it, the home page is quicker: here you find every detail.
Drawn at random and never revealed before the draft. It could be 1990, 2006 or 2015. Every match is a surprise, every choice a leap in the dark.
The rating comes from what happened on the pitch that day. If Baggio scored a brace, his rating tells the story.
A matchday lasts a few minutes, commentary included. A full season in one evening, even on your lunch break. No more leagues that last nine months and drain your will to live.
Countdown, raises, folds. The tension of the real table, without having to organise the evening. The timer ticks, the credits drop, and someone is about to snatch the striker from under your nose.
Match by match, not just the total. Who dominated the first one? Who collapsed in the third? Partial standings tell the story better than the final result.
The club colours of the time. Juve in black and white, Parma in yellow and blue, Milan in red and black. Details that make the difference.
Just you and your friends. Create the league, share the code, only you play. No strangers, no trolls: your group, your rules.
Nothing to download, nothing to install. Open your browser, create the league, play. On phone, tablet and PC — even with a connection that comes and goes.
Pick the rules, invite your friends. RetroFC draws a random historic season and keeps it hidden. It could be the year of Maradona's Napoli, of Milan's Dutch trio or of Inter's Treble. You won't know until you've picked your players.
You can see the players' names, but what did they do that year? Totti in 2001 is not Totti in 2006. Who dares to bet everything on a name without knowing the context?
Every matchday is played in a few minutes using the real results of that year: goals, assists, cards, clean sheets. No simulations: that's really how it went.
RetroFC shines in a group. Create the league together, take on the same mystery season and, at the end, compare the standings of every single matchday. Who picked the unknown striker who scored a hat-trick? Who spent everything on a defender who got a 4? Laughs guaranteed.
retrofc.itAscending-bid auction, like in the most classic fantasy football. You nominate a player, bidding starts, and the highest bidder takes him home. A 20-second countdown: hesitate and you're left empty-handed. It's the poker table of fantasy football, right in your browser.
Round-based auctions on blind bundles. Open a pack, see two previews out of five players, and decide how much to risk without knowing what's inside. You might find a Ballon d'Or winner or a defender who scored a 4 three matchdays in a row. Fortune favours the bold.
Every player you buy at the auction goes into your collection. Open the season, pick the team and see which cards you already have and which ones are missing.
From 1985 to 2020: the 1995 Del Piero and the 1998 one are two different cards.
Every purchase is one more card, even against the bots. At the auction a “New” badge tells you when you're missing one.
Portraits drawn by hand in the style of '90s video games, with new ones added all the time.
Your collection is on your public profile: who you already have, who you're missing.
Scores that change minute by minute and live text commentary: the same thrill as following the league update after update, just like the old days.
Eight ready-made crests, or design your own: pattern, colours and initials of your choice.
Twenty different faces, each with their own style: pick the one that represents you best.
Follows you auction after auction with advice on credits and squad, with their face at the table.
From 1985-86 to 2019-20: final table, top scorers and ratings calculated from the real matches of every season.
RetroFC is a free browser-based fantasy football game that uses real Serie A matches from 1985 to 2020. How it works: 1) a historic season is drawn at random and kept secret; 2) you open a pack with the players of that season and bid for them with your credits until your squad is complete; 3) you set your lineup using the pack's formation and pick a captain; 4) the real matchdays of that season are played: ratings come from the real stats of each match (goals, assists, cards, minutes, result); 5) whoever scores the most points tops the table. A full season takes between 15 and 45 minutes.
Play solo: you face CPU opponents (bots), from 2 upwards, and start right away without waiting for anyone. Lobby: you are quickly matched with other players waiting. Play with friends: you create a private league and invite people with a link; you can also add 2, 4 or 6 bots to the table. Challenge a friend: after a solo game you send a link and your friend plays your same mystery season, with the same matchdays and the same cards, whenever they like; at the end you compare points. There is also a pack mode, where players are assigned in round-based auctions.
Every participant has the same budget of credits in every session (300 by default, chosen by whoever creates the match): credits you don't spend don't carry over to the next session. Someone picks a player to put up for auction; from then on anyone can raise whenever they want, with no turns. The countdown does not restart from zero on every bid: it only climbs back up to a short minimum, so the auction stays fast and frantic. If nobody raises, the player goes to the highest bidder, who pays that price; anyone who no longer wants to compete can drop out. Now and then a mystery player appears, whose identity is only revealed after the sale. When all squads are complete the auction ends.
Before you play, a Serie A season between 1985 and 2020 is drawn at random and you are not told which. It could be 1990, 2006 or 2015: every choice is a leap in the dark, and what counts is remembering the real performers, not just the famous names. The season is only revealed at the end.
Every player you buy at the auction joins your collection as a pixel art card. A card is a player in a specific season, so there is one album for every season from 1985 to 2020 and the same star in different seasons counts as different cards. Cards taken by bots do not count, cards you buy while playing against bots do. On the My cards page you open a season, pick a team and see the players you have and the ones you are missing; the collection is also visible on your public profile.
Zero. RetroFC is completely free. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases to unlock seasons. Create the league and play. Full stop.
A full season (auction + 3 matchdays) takes between 15 and 45 minutes, depending on how many of you there are and how much you like raising at the auction. A single matchday for two is settled in a few minutes (the more of you, the longer it takes).
Each player's rating is calculated from the real match stats (goals, assists, cards, result, minutes played) with a system tuned to be realistic. Matches are not simulated: everything that matters really happened.
Yes, with "Solo challenge": you draft at auction against CPU opponents and play a matchday right away, without waiting for anyone. But the heart of RetroFC is multiplayer: the blind draft with friends is a different thing altogether.
From the 1985-86 season to 2019-20. Thirty-five years of Serie A, from Maradona's Napoli to Allegri's Juventus. We're working on expanding the catalogue.
No. RetroFC works directly in the browser, on any device. Open the link, create the league, play. No app to download, no updates.
When you create a league you choose between 2 and 8 players, yourself included. You can also add bots to the table. The more of you there are, the more chaotic and fun the auction gets.
Yes. With the friend challenge you send a link: your friend plays your same mystery season with the same cards whenever they like, and at the end you compare points. If you play a league together instead, the creator can start right away and bots fill the empty seats.
You need an account (Google works too) to save your games. If you receive an invitation link to a league you can still jump in right away as a guest, just by typing a team name, and save your account later without losing anything.
They are computer-controlled opponents that take part in the auction and set their lineup like a player would. They let you play alone or fill the table. When all humans have a complete squad you can end the auction right away without waiting for the bots: their squads are completed automatically.
The captain is a starter chosen by you: every goal they score is worth one extra point, as long as they actually played. At the end of the auction every team starts with a captain picked automatically (bots included), and you can change it whenever you like.
Play right away against the computer, or find a public room or create a private league with your friends. Either way a random season is drawn — it could be 1994, 2006 or 1987. You don't know. And that's the fun of it.
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