About
You’re the newly appointed manager of a top flight football club. A decent club, not a great one. Certainly not a Superclub, although becoming one is the objective.
The question is: Can you manage?
Superclub combines match day tactics with big picture decisions to give you football on every scale. Team selections, stadium expansions, staff hiring, scouting, player development – skills and luck – it’s all here! But what really sets Superclub apart from other football based board games that came before it, is the unique scoring system that ties it all together. Build a footballing powerhouse brick by brick over multiple seasons, all in one highly eventful game night.
In short, Superclub is the complete experience of managing a football club in direct competition with the ones you love ... to beat.
HOW IT WORKS
IN THE BOX
Do you have what it takes to build a Superclub?
THE BIRTH OF SUPERCLUB
That football manager board game that’s been lurking in the back of your mind for years ... when do you sit down and actually take the time to draw some sketches and write the rules? For AD/copywriter Audun Egenberg, the answer was "you don’t". Until he took a solo trip to a mountain cabin with no Internet, no TV, no nothing.
As it turned out, his suspicions were confirmed. The perfect framework for a football manager board game does indeed exist. Sketches in hand, Audun approached the owners of Tada – the advertising agency they all work in – and proposed that they make it together. After all, Tada's talented in-house designers, paper magicians and business managers, plus a good idea and a lot of time, is really everything you need to create the perfect board game.
Stian Iversen, AD/partner in Tada who knows absolutely nothing about football (but everything about paper) said "let’s go!" on the spot. CEO/partner Kjetil Hetlevik Johansen who knows a lot about football (and business) said "let’s go!" before he'd even crunched the numbers. Kjetil Sande, designer/partner in Tada who knows a lot about board games, a thing or two about football and everything about design, said "let’s go down to the office tonight and get started!"
Kjetil (the designer) and Audun spent countless hours over many evenings making, re-making, deleting, reconstructing and fine-tuning the game until it was ready for the first test game late in January 2019.
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Fast forward nearly a year (and a dusin versions), the game is ready to launch. We hope you love it as much as these people do …
THE MASTERPLAN
- 2016: Have idea
- 2017–2018: Mull over, procrastinate, draw first sketches
- 2018: Pitch idea and start planning
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- January 2019: First prototype! (It was already good fun!)
- August 2019: Eleventh prototype
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- November 2019: Launch (and fund)
- December 2019 – March 2020: Complete, fine-tune and send to print
- April/May 2020: Manufacture
- May/June 2020: Distribute
- July 2020 – Grow the Superclub Universe
THE PERFECT GIFT
Superclub will unfortunately not be ready for Christmas this year, but you can still put it under the Christmas tree. We've made a festive printable gift card that will become available to all our backers free of charge. It's not the real thing, but it's sure to put a smile on the recipient's face. And when the game arrives in the mail, the wait will make it even sweeter.
SHIPPING AND DELIVERY
We ship worldwide. Pledges will be fulfilled around June 2020, meaning that's when you'll receive your game. After the campaign ends, we will collect information and charge shipping through our pledge manager.
Friendly shipping to the EU, UK (regardless of Brexit) and Norway will be only NOK 79. We'll subsidize the rest. As for the rest of the world, we're negotiation shipping prices based on the volume of games going to each country, and will update you on the prices when we have them.
The game on display is a prototype, and is subject to small changes per manufacturer's requirements and/or Superclub’s preference for what is in the best interest of the game and our dear backers.
©2019 Superclub AS, all rights reserved
GREETINGS FROM THE SUPERCLUB TEAM
This section is where we get to say a proper thank you. Since we started reaching out online over the last few weeks, the support for Superclub has been nothing short of immense. Thank you so, so much everybody, we’re really feeling the love! ❤️
We also have to say a big thank you to everyone who's helped us over the last year or so. Friends, families and business partners. You're too many to name, but you know who you are.
Thank you!
Best,
From the left: Stian Iversen (designer), Kjetil Sande (designer), Audun Egenberg (creator) and Kjetil Hetlevik Johansen (manager).
Risks and challenges
We are first time game publishers, and may not know all the ins and outs of this business yet. However, we’re not first time designers, marketers, business people, copywriters or creators. We have vast amounts of experience from multiple business areas given our background in the advertising industry, and we have the contacts, resources and manpower to scale up if need be.
Naturally, we can’t predict every possible scenario, but we believe that we’re more than capable of handling any challenges that might arise in this project.
As for the game production, technically it’s not a difficult production, perhaps apart from the manager folders. The primary reason they’re somewhat tricky to make, is that we want a plastic free, environmentally friendly game. Rest assured that we’ll never compromise on quality. We want the game to be played a lot of times, as our prototypes have been. So if it becomes necessary, we won’t hesitate to sacrifice our margins for the good of the game. We're in this for the long run, and happy customers are our highest priority.
We do not take our backers for granted, and will keep you up to speed with our progress with as much transparency as possible throughout the whole process.
Thanks for your trust!
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