FC Porto lost the 93/94 title by two points, now you can play it again | OneFootball

Some seasons are remembered for the titles. Others are remembered for what almost happened.

The 1993/94 season was one of those. FC Porto went into it as two-time national champions, after the 91/92 and 92/93 titles. They started the league badly, watched Benfica take control at the top, and despite Bobby Robson’s arrival at the Antas in January, they never managed to recover enough. In the end, Benfica celebrated their 30th league title with a two-point advantage. Two.

The response came immediately after — in 94/95 FC Porto became champions with a single defeat in thirty-four matches, and from then on came what the country would call the five-in-a-row. But that does not erase the question many supporters still ask thirty years later: what if that season had gone differently?

A game to answer that question

Anyone who had a computer at home in the 90s knows what we are talking about. Black-and-blue screens, text tables, players represented by numbers, and entire nights spent pressing “continue” just to see how the next matchday would go. The kind of game where you did not see a single kick of the ball and still could not stop playing.

BOSS93 is a modern recreation of that experience. It is a football management game built around the 1993/94 season — no 3D graphics, no cinematics, no microtransactions every two clicks. Just squads, tactics, transfers, league tables, and the same sense of responsibility you had at fourteen when deciding whether the kid from the B team should make the starting eleven.

The big news for anyone reading these pages: the 93/94 Portuguese league is already included, and the game has been fully translated into Portuguese.

Take the squad and do it differently

In practice, this means it is possible to take charge of FC Porto at the start of 1993/94, with that season’s squad, and try to achieve what did not happen in real life. Fix the shaky start. Make the signing that was not made at the time. Or simply manage the season with the calm of someone who already knows where the traps are in the fixture list.

And you do not have to choose the easy path. The 93/94 league had eighteen teams and stories of its own — from Salgueiros to Estrela da Amadora, from Beira-Mar to Marítimo. Taking one of them into the European places is a much harder challenge than winning with the blue and whites, and some people prefer exactly that.

Where to play

BOSS93 runs directly in the browser, with no installation, at boss93.com. It is also available for mobile, on the App Store and Google Play, for anyone who prefers managing their team while standing in the supermarket queue.

The game is developed independently by a Portuguese programmer and is updated regularly. The databases for old seasons are always a work in progress — squads, names, attributes — and feedback from those who lived through that football is worth more than any statistic found in an archive.

If you still remember who FC Porto’s left-back was in 1994 without going to Google, this game was made with you in mind.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.