Game Guide

Getting Started

Registration

Signing up takes three quick steps:

1. Create Your Account — Pick a name, email, and password. Your name doubles as your president's name.
2. Set Up Your President — Choose your age and profession. These define your in-game identity.
3. Found Your Club — Name your team, pick your colors, and decide on a league:
   • Create a new league — You become the league administrator. Your league launches with AI-controlled teams to fill the schedule, and you can invite other players to replace them.
   • Join an existing league — Enter an invite code from a league administrator.
   • Skip for now — You can join or create a league later.

When you create your team, you'll receive a starting squad of players spread across all positions.

Your Dashboard

Your dashboard is command central. From here you can see:

• Team overview — Your squad, formation, and upcoming fixtures
• Finances — Current budget, weekly income, and payroll obligations
• League standings — Where you sit in the table
• Notifications — Match results, financial reports, transfer confirmations, and more

Managing Your Squad

Player Attributes

Every player has:

• Position — Goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, or attacker
• Ability — How skilled the player is. Higher ability means better match performance.
• Morale — How happy the player is. Low morale drags down performance.
• Age — Players in their prime perform best. Younger players are still developing, and older players start to decline.
• Salary — What the player costs you per week. Better players demand higher wages.

Signing Free Agents

The free agent market has players looking for a club. To sign one:

• You pay a signing fee upfront (based on their salary)
• They join your squad and start earning their weekly wage immediately
• New signings arrive with full morale
• You can't sign players if your squad is already at maximum capacity

Releasing Players

Sometimes you need to trim the wage bill. Releasing a player:

• Costs a termination fee (based on their salary)
• Removes them from your squad and payroll
• You cannot release players if it would leave you with fewer than the minimum squad size

Coaching

Hiring a Coach

Each team can employ one coach at a time. A coach provides a performance boost to your entire squad during matches.

• Browse available coaches on the market
• Pay a signing fee upfront (based on their salary)
• The coach's weekly salary is added to your payroll
• Better coaches cost more but provide a bigger boost

Firing a Coach

• Pay a termination fee to release your current coach
• You must release your current coach before hiring a new one

Finances

Weekly Income and Payroll

Each week, your club receives a fixed income. Against that, you must pay all player salaries and your coach's salary (if you have one). If your income covers your payroll, you're in the clear. If not, your budget shrinks.

Going Into Debt

Teams can go into debt. There's no instant game-over, but being in the red has consequences:

• Your players notice when the club is struggling financially
• Morale drops across the squad when the team is in debt
• Unpaid players lose even more morale each week
• Low morale means worse match performance

Recovering From Debt

• Release high-earning players to cut your wage bill
• Fire your coach if the salary is too heavy
• Win matches to keep morale from spiraling further
• Be patient — your weekly income will gradually pull you back if expenses are low enough

Player Morale

Morale is one of the most important factors in your team's success. Happy players perform well. Miserable players don't.

What Makes Morale Go Up

• Getting paid — When the club meets payroll, players' morale improves
• Winning matches — Honest victories give the squad a boost

What Makes Morale Go Down

• Not getting paid — When the club can't cover wages, morale drops
• Being in debt — Financial trouble weighs on the whole squad
• Losing matches — Defeats hurt morale, especially when the team was involved in shady dealings
• Losing while cheating — If you bribed the referee and still lost, the morale hit is even worse

How Morale Affects Performance

Morale directly scales each player's effective ability. A player at full morale performs at their best. A player with rock-bottom morale is barely functional. Keep your squad happy and they'll reward you on the pitch.

Match Day

How Matches Work

Matches are determined by comparing both teams' overall performance. Your team's performance depends on:

• Squad strength — The combined ability of your best players, selected automatically based on position and form
• Morale — Each player's morale scales their contribution
• Age — Players in their prime contribute more
• Coaching — Having a good coach amplifies the whole team's output
• Home advantage — Playing at home gives a meaningful boost
• Bribes — If you've bribed the referee and they accepted, you get an extra edge (at a risk)

Improving Your Chances

• Sign talented free agents to strengthen weak positions
• Keep morale high by paying your players and winning matches
• Hire a quality coach for an across-the-board boost
• Consider your home/away schedule when planning tactics

The Shady Side: Bribing Referees

Every match has an assigned referee, and every referee has a price — or doesn't.

How to Offer a Bribe

Before a match, you can choose to offer a bribe to the referee. You decide how much to offer, within a set range. The money is deducted from your budget immediately.

Will the Referee Accept?

Each referee has their own level of integrity. Some are easy to sway; others are practically incorruptible. The more you offer, the better your chances — but there are no guarantees. If the referee rejects your bribe, the money is gone.

The Boost

If the referee accepts, your team receives a performance boost for that match. Bigger bribes produce bigger boosts.

The Risk

Accepted bribes have a chance of being detected after the match. If you're caught:

• You'll be hit with a fine significantly larger than the original bribe
• Your reputation takes a hit

The Morale Trap

• Win with a bribe — Your players don't celebrate — the victory feels hollow. No morale boost.
• Lose with a bribe — Your players are demoralized even more than a normal loss. They risked their integrity and still lost.

Use bribes strategically. Over-reliance can spiral into financial trouble and a miserable squad.

Leagues & Seasons

League Structure

Leagues follow a double round-robin format — every team plays every other team twice (once at home, once away). Standings use standard football points: wins earn the most, draws earn some, losses earn nothing.

League Types

• Instant Play — Matches happen when all human-controlled teams mark themselves as "ready." NPC teams are always ready.
• Scheduled — Matches run on a fixed calendar.

Instant Play

League admins can enable or disable instant play from the League page. When enabled:

• A ready-up panel appears on your Dashboard showing the next matchday and how many teams are ready.
• Click "Ready Up" to signal you are prepared for the next match. Click "Cancel Ready" to undo.
• The Fixtures page shows which teams are "Ready" or "Waiting" for the next matchday.
• Once all human-controlled teams are ready, the matchday simulates automatically.

Season End

When all matchdays are complete:

• Champion crowned — The team at the top of the table is recorded in league history
• Prize money — End-of-season bonuses are distributed based on your final standing
• Player aging — Every player ages by one year
• Retirements — Older players may retire
• Youth promotions — Your academy produces young prospects to join your squad
• Free agent market refresh — New players and coaches appear on the market
• New season — The next season's schedule is generated automatically

Notifications

Your inbox keeps you informed about everything happening at the club:

• Match results — Scores and outcomes
• Bribe outcomes — Whether the referee accepted, rejected, or whether you were caught
• Financial reports — Weekly settlement summaries
• Transfer activity — Confirmations when players or coaches are signed or released
• Season events — Retirements, academy promotions, prize money, and championship announcements
• League updates — Matchday readiness status and simulation confirmations

Frequently Asked Questions