Time Vault Soccer: Press Kit

Welcome to the Time Vault Soccer press page. For additional information please contact us at hollya@timevaultsoccer.com.

This page covers all card, product and news releases for all things Time Vault Soccer.

What is Time Vault Soccer?

Time Vault Soccer is a celebration of the great, the good and interesting from soccer past. It’s football with time machines… cards, shouting, knee slides and sulking.

It also is the highest ranked football game on Board Game Geek with a score of 8.3/10 so it’s bloody good. It’s got magic but absolutely no unicorns… because it’s a football game.

Fact Sheet

• Genre: Tabletop living, breathing card game (Which means the rules can change with every new card release)
• Players: 2 in a head to head or multiple players in a cup, league or tournament format
• Playing time: 30 minutes
• Ages: 8 years and over
• Social: Blog, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Kickstarter
• Availability: timevaultsoccer.com / FREE print & play
• Languages: English
• Price: Starter £24.99, Expansions £14.99, Transfer Window from £0.99 
• Press contact: hollya@timevaultsoccer.com
• Game designer: Scott Shea / Toby Shea
• Game artwork: Scott Shea
• Publisher: Sneaky Prawn Games
• Manufacture: UK

Theme & mechanics

You’re the Boss. You select your starting eleven and take turns playing cards to build attacking and defending moves. You shoot by adding a third card to an attacking move. You save by having a stronger defending move.

However, your players “Special Skills” break all the rules. Stanley Matthews takes out a defender, Danny Blanchflower lets you change your cards, Pelé lets you shoot with two cards and Tony Adams catches you offside… Doh!

Gameplay is about outsmarting your opponent by how you combine your cards to attack, defend or disrupt their plans. You pick your team, you choose your strategy and it’s your fault when it all turns to custard!

 
Download the latest rule book

Game releases (Reverse chronological order)

Collection: Transfer Centre       Players in collection: 1 of 32                                   Available: From Dec 2022

France [Juventus]

• Zinedine Zidane ’98

Collection: Nucleus                         Players in collection: 32 of 192                             Available: From May 2022

England 1966 squad

• Bill Brown ’61
• John Hollowbread ’61
• Ron Henry ’61
• Tony Marchi ’61
• Maurice Norman ’61
• Ken Barton ’61
• Peter Baker ’61
• Terry Dyson ’61
• Dave Mackay ’61
• Cliff Jones ’61
• Les Allen ’61
• Danny Blanchflower ’61
• John White ’61
• Terry Medwin ’61
• Bobby Smith ’61
• Frank Saul ’61

 

Italy 1981/82 squad

• Dino Zoff ’82
• Ivano Bordon ’82
• Antonio Cabrini ’82
• Giuseppe Bergomi ’82
• Fulvio Collovati ’82
• Gaetano Scirea ’82
• Claudio Gentile ’82
• Gabriele Oriali ’82
• Gianpiero Marini ’82
• Marco Tardelli ’82
• Giancarlo Antognoni ’82
• Franco Causio ’82
• Bruno Conti ’82
• Francesco Graziani ’82
• Alessandro Altobelli ’82
• Paolo Rossi ’82

 

Collection: Rivals                         Players in collection: 32                             Available: January 2021

England 1966 squad

• Gordon Banks ‘66
• Peter Bonetti ‘66
• Ray Wilson ‘66
• Jack Charlton ‘66
• Bobby Moore ‘66
• Norman Hunter ‘66
• George Cohen ‘66
• Martin Peters ‘66
• John Connelly ‘66
• Nobby Stiles ‘66
• Bobby Charlton ‘66
• Alan Ball ‘66
• Ian Callaghan ‘66
• Roger Hunt ‘66
• Geoff Hurst ‘66
• Jimmy Greaves ‘66

West Germany 1990 squad

• Bodo Illgner ‘90
• Raimond Aumann ’90
• Andreas Brehme ‘90
• Klaus Augenthaler ‘90
• Guido Buchwald ‘90
• Jurgen Kohler ‘90
• Stefan Reuter ‘90
• Thomas Berthold ‘90
• Pierre Littbasrski ‘90
• Olaf Thon ‘90
• Lothar Matthaus ‘90
• Uwe Bein ‘90
• Thomas Hassler ‘90
• Rudi Voller ‘90
• Jurgen Klinsmann ‘90
• Karl-Heinz Riedle ‘90

Collection: Promotional          Players in collection: 1                                Available: July 2018

A.C.Milan

• Gunnar Nordahl ’51

Collection: Debut                         Players in collection: 64                             Available: July 2018

1960’s Squad

• Rogelio Dominguez ‘60
• Roy Bailey ‘62
• Dalmo Gaspar ‘63
• Zozimo  ‘62
• Bobby Moore ‘66
• Artistide Guarneri ‘65
• Horst-Dieter Hottages ‘69
• Antonio Simoes  ‘69
• Bertie Auld ‘67
• Danny Blanchflower ‘61
• Pat Crerand ‘68
• Cliff Jones ‘61
• Albert Johanneson ‘65
• Ian St John ‘64
• Jimmy Greaves   ‘61
• Willy Roy ‘68

1970’s Squad

• Mervyn Day ‘75
• Alan Mayer ‘79
• Alberto Tarantini ‘78
• Ernie Brandts ‘78
• Franz Beckenbauer ‘74
• Clauidio Gentile ‘77
• Ron Webster ‘72
• John Robertson ‘79
• Gerrie Muhren ‘72
• Charlie George ‘74
• Ian Callaghan ‘77
• Jupp Kapellmann ‘76
• David Geddis ‘78
• Pele ‘70
• John Toshack ‘73
• John Radford ‘71

1950’s squad

• Malcolm Finlayson ‘59
• Lev Yashin ‘58
• Eusebio Tejera ‘50
• Bill Shorthouse ‘54
• Jeno Buzanszky ‘54
• Jose Santamaria ‘58
• Eddie Stuart ‘59
• Jack Froggat ‘50
• Duncan Edwards ‘56
• Jose Maria Zarraga ‘57
• Jozsef Bozsik ‘54
• Peter Harris ‘50
• Jack Rowley ‘52
• Bobby Mitchell ‘55
• George Robledo ‘52
• Stanley Matthews ‘53

1980’s squad

• Dave Beasant ‘88
• Uli Stein ‘83
• Alan Kennedy ‘81
• Tony Adams ‘89
• Giuseppe Bergomi ‘82
• Claudio Gentile ‘82
• Joao D Pinto ‘87
• Tony Galvin ‘84
• Gian Antognoni ‘82
• Socrates ‘82
• Morten Olden ‘86
• Laszlo Boloni ‘86
• Francesco Graziani ‘82
• Marco Van Basten ‘88
• Peter Withe ‘81
• Jorge Valdano ‘86

Our Story

Ever been so bored witless with a game that you want to punch yourself in the balls? We have… and half our start up team don’t even have balls.

Ever wondered why tabletop sports games are so unloved? See above.

So we fixed it. We being Scott, Sarah, Toby and Holly. A family combo that isn’t afraid to do what every games expert told us not to… wish a tabletop retro football card game that is actually worth playing into existence.

In the summer of 2018 Time Vault Soccer took it’s first, hand on hips, bending forward, gasping for air, breaths. 5 years on we sell to 22 countries, have a BGG ranking of 8.3 (the highest ranked football game) and about to launch our 7^th squad into the Time Vault Soccer Universe.

If you like the idea of a football card game that magnifies the strategy, speed and joy of soccer past then defy the tyranny of modern football with us, play Time Vault Soccer and punch somebody else in the balls.

About Sneaky Prawn Games

We don’t just make tabletop games, we make games so good you’ll sulk like an 8 year old when you lose.

We’re a family business, the senior squad, Scott and Sarah have been around the block a few times working for some of the biggest names in business, Kimberly Clark, Pepsi, Philips, John Lewis and Toys R Us. The youth squad, Toby and Holly are still in education, but keen to get into the big world and make a difference. All are football, games and pubs bonkers!