Premier Manager 3

Premier Manager 3 is a football management video game that puts the player in charge of a football club. The player has to manage not only the team and tactics to win football matches but also the club's finances, such as applying for bank loans, organising advertising boards, and scheduling stadium improvements. The primary interface is made up of 12 main sections. These are team settings, telephone, fax machine, sponsorship, ground improvements, business case, club finances, transfer market, history, league tables, cup competitions, and the option to play the next match. From this interface, the player can access all the settings necessary to manage the football club.

When the game starts, the user takes control of a Conference League team of their choice. If the user manages the team poorly and finishes in last position in the league, the team will not be relegated; in real life, a team finishing in the relegation zone would have gone down to what is now Level 7 in the English football league system at the time, although since 2004 two leagues were added between these leagues and the Conference National. To be successful, the user must not only win football matches, but also manage the finances of the club well. If the player is in too much debt then the player can be fired even if he had good results.

The tactics system in Premier Manager 3 was the biggest new development in the game, allowing the user to set tactics for individual players during football matches. The team and player statistics were updated for the release to the 1995/96 football season. Premier Manager 3 was re-released again in April 2004 by the holders of the Premier Manager trademark Zoo Digital. It was released on CD ROM with the warning that it will not run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems.

Critics received Premier Manager 3 well. Amiga Format rated the game 85% and observed that the game is difficult enough to challenge even experienced players of management sims. CU Amiga rated the game 85% and praised the game for the user friendly interface but also criticised how similar the interface and game in general was similar to Premier Manager 2. The review from Amiga Computing gave the game its "Gold Award" and recommended readers purchase Premier Manager 3.

The review also observed how similar the game is to Premier Manager 2, and suggested it may not be worth buying if the players already own the previous two games in the series. Amiga User International magazine did not like Premier Manager 3. The review wrote that it is too similar to its predecessor and the improvements were minimal. The review also attacked the method of playing the game as flawed due to not being able to compare tactics against the opposing team's players.