Total Club Manager 2004 is a football management game published in 2003 under the EA Sports label. Electronic Arts was entering a genre with well-established competition, and its main weapon was licensing: real competitions, clubs and players held through the company's flagship football series.

The work happens off the pitch. Squad building, training plans, budgets, transfer negotiations, contracts and tactics for individual matches. A season plays out through tables and menus, with matches viewable in a simplified overhead broadcast, which is what the viewpoint on the record refers to.

Presentation was where it differed from classic managers. Where older titles in the genre were content with text and numbers, EA added three-dimensional match coverage, commentary and a visual link to its football engine, so the game felt closer to a sports title than to a spreadsheet.

The year in the name follows the usual practice of sports releases: a new version annually with updated squads and small system changes. Buyers were mainly paying for current data, which mattered doubly in management games, since transfer activity devalued the previous edition quickly.

The OldGame.cz card for this edition carries the year, the publisher and screenshots; play through the site is not offered here.