Doors open
Register, claim, take a club. The onboarding-week checklist. The countdown to Round 1.
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Dispatches
The fifteen dispatches we wrote before the doors opened: a little more about the game and how to play it.
Legacy managers — what you get
Coins ×3, diamonds, how to claim, what's remembered. Tomorrow: doors.
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It's a community game
Forums, chat, the press, the jury, multi-manager clubs, betting and the lotto.
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Fans, mood and the ground
What moves the mood, attendance, ticket price, the away end, expansions, sponsors' tradeoffs.
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Growth, potential and the academy
Training, ceilings where every point comes harder, the aging DNA, academy graduates.
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A season, in days
133 days, weeks, matchdays, the cup, the gala, the off-season. Season 1's calendar.
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Lineups & tactics without a headache
Mentality, shape, width, pressing, tempo — what each lever does and costs. Sub windows.
Read →The live match
What a match looks like from inside: the stream, the bench, the field, several matches at once. With video.
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Your first hour
Register, take a club, read your squad: positions, the attributes that matter, potential.
Read →2019 vs 2026
One table: what was, what is. A computed result vs a live match; menus vs agents that talk.
Read →What you actually do here
The day of a manager in eight lines: squad, lineup, tactics, the live match, training, market, money, fans.
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We're back.
On Sunday 27.9 Season 1 begins. On Monday 28.9 the doors open. On Saturday 10.10, Round 1. It took far longer than I promised — here is what the time bought.
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