Deep in management. Simple in tactics.

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Build a club with bigger ambitions

Create your own club in one of 43 nations and begin in the lower leagues. Build around established players, nurture homegrown talent or trade your way up the divisions. Shape a club identity of your own and decide what success should look like, season by season.

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Trust your manager, or make the call yourself

Hire a manager to select the team and handle matches, then judge the results. Want a closer hand in a key fixture? Pick the starting eleven before kick-off, change formation and make substitutions as the match unfolds. Your intervention can strain the relationship with the manager, making trust another part of running the club.

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Run the business behind the badge

Choose sponsors, set transfer and wage budgets, and weigh the next signing against an investment in facilities. Expand the stadium as your ambitions grow and keep track of income, running costs and the supporters' confidence in your leadership. A bigger club brings bigger opportunities, but also bills that still need paying when results go against you.

04 of 08

Find the right player for your next move

Send scouts across a football world spanning 136 nations. Focus their search by age, position or country, follow the players they uncover and commission detailed reports before making your move. Potential is not always clear at first glance: a stronger scouting department helps you make better-informed decisions about who deserves a closer look.

05 of 08

Start with the youngest generation

Discover talent from the age of eight in the U9 age group and follow young players towards professional football. Develop your academy and build youth camps in countries around the world. Each camp helps nurture its own prospects and extends your youth scouting network, revealing youngsters at local clubs whom you can approach.

Improve the camps, bring promising recruits into your academy and watch each generation's talent become clearer as they grow. When the time comes, decide who earns a professional contract and a chance to become the next homegrown favourite.

06 of 08

Build a network that develops with you

Buy eligible clubs in different countries to build your affiliate network. Upgrade their training facilities and academies, send your young professionals out on loan for playing opportunities and create a route for standout academy prospects to join your club. Their managers continue to run the teams while you shape the network's role in your club's future.

Fund long-term development partnerships with football federations in eligible nations. These agreements help raise the potential of new generations of young players from that country, reaching beyond your own academy and camps. It is an investment whose impact unfolds over seasons as those players grow into the game.

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Turn success into a lasting legacy

Chase promotion, league titles and cup runs while building the business behind the team. Keep an eye on supporters, finances, player development and the records of past seasons. Follow academy graduates through their careers and see how decisions made years ago have shaped the club you run today.

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Make the football world your own

Use the built-in editor to change clubs, competitions and players before starting a new career. Export and import edit packs to share your changes. Start another career with the same president to carry over earned experience, then choose skills to suit that save and try a different route to success.