[4] Premier Manager: Ninety Nine is a football management simulation game that puts the player in charge of a team of their choice from the top four English divisions (Premier League to the third division, as it was known at the time) or the top two Italian leagues (Serie A and Serie B) on the PlayStation version but limited to just the English leagues in the PC and Nintendo 64 releases.

Premier Manager uses the Actua Soccer engine to display football matches.

Using the engine allows the player of the game to view the match in detail and assess when and where tactical changes need to be made.

[3] Steve Key of CVG gave the PlayStation version a score of 5/5, praising the breadth of the gameplay compared to Championship Manager 3, describing the ability to "pick sponsors for hoardings around the pitch, TV rights, upgrade the stadium [and] fluctuate ticket prices" alongside the traditional management options as "almost player-chairman simulation".

[8] PC Zone's Steve Hill described the game as "taking more of a Theme Park approach to football management, as opposed to the number crunching of Championship Manager", criticizing the game for the presence of bugs and an "ugly and awkward" interface but praising the 'view mode' and its 3D representation of matches.