Premier Manager 97 is a football management simulator video game developed by Gremlin Interactive and published by Sega for the Mega Drive in 1996.

It is the fourth game in the Premier Manager series.

The Mega Drive version puts the player in charge of a team of their choice from the English third division.

[4] Mean Machines Sega said that the game is "excellent fun" but observed that there's not much difference compared to the previous year's version.

[7] PC Zone compared the game to then current Premiership season and did not find it all that realistic.