The rules in plain human language.

19. Rules in Simple, Human Language

1. Welcome to Elevenfold Legacy. You are the manager of one football club. Your job is to win matches, win trophies, build a stronger squad, and leave a legacy in the rankings and history pages.
2. Club HQ is your main page. Start there every session. From there, check your next match, your weekly goals, your league facts, your rivalry card, and then decide what needs attention first.
3. The most important rule for progress is simple: you need to play matches. No matches means no points, less momentum, and slower growth.
4. There are two match slots every day: `13:00 London time` and `20:00 London time`.
5. You can use those slots in different ways:
6. Schedule a match by challenging another team.
7. Leave the slot open and allow incoming challenges.
8. Block the slot if you want rest or you do not want to receive challenges.
9. If you leave your next 3 days completely empty, the game can send you an NPC challenge automatically for one of those free slots.
10. When your club is brand new, Club HQ can also give you one first-match NPC challenge automatically, and Manager Plan can point you straight to `Accept challenge`.
11. The fastest way to challenge another team is to open Calendar, click an empty slot, pick one of the clubs that is free for that exact time, and confirm it.

Alternative: You can still also open another club first and use `Challenge team` if you already know exactly who you want to face.

1. The other manager gets a notification. If they accept, the match is scheduled.
2. Your bigger target is not only one good result. You are trying to win the current weekly table, monthly table, and yearly title at the same time. Every official match you play counts toward the active week, month, and year.

• Above those short periods sits Elevenfold Global Ranking. It measures the last 365 days of match points plus title bonuses, so it is the best read on true club status.

1. You can play up to two matches every day, but your players get tired after each match and they recover gradually, not instantly.
2. That means one strong XI is not enough if you want to play often. To stay competitive, you need rotation and squad depth.
3. The safest mindset is this: rotate before stamina collapses, not after your results already get bad.
4. To rotate properly, you need more players. You can get them in three main ways:
5. Create your own custom players.
6. Buy players from the transfer market.
7. Try to buy eligible custom players from other clubs.
8. If you browse another club and a player has `Try to buy`, you can make an offer there directly. The market is not the only buying path.
9. The transfer market is useful when you want faster short-term help. Market players can already have higher levels, so they can improve your team immediately.
10. Your own created players are usually better in the long run. They are unique, they fit your plan better, and lineups with more self-created players benefit from stronger club identity and cohesion.
11. Transfers can be agreed any time, but many of them only complete during the weekly transfer window. If you agree a deal on Friday, the player may join only after the last Sunday slot.
12. All players have levels. Starter players and new custom players begin at level 1. The maximum level is 10.
13. You can level a player up from that player's modal by using `+Level`. It costs MP, and higher levels cost more.
14. Every player also has a career cap. By default, players retire after 100 games.
15. That is why you should keep an eye on important players who are getting close to retirement. You will be warned before the final limit, but you should still plan early.
16. Medical Doctors let you extend a player's career cap. Each extension size depends on the doctor quality, and the total cap can go up to 200 games.
17. Fitness Coaches help restore stamina, which is essential if you want to use both daily slots often.
18. Psychologists help restore morale. Morale matters because low-morale players are less reliable and poor form can spiral if you ignore it.
19. When you start losing, morale can fall, which can make the next matches harder. That is exactly when psychology support becomes important.
20. For career extensions, stamina recovery, and morale recovery, you can use either permanent staff or one-shot freelancers.
21. Permanent staff are better if you expect to use that system repeatedly. Freelancers are better for emergencies or occasional fixes.
22. In Club HQ, you may also receive special offers. These can give you freelancer sessions, vouchers, or bonus MP. Some offers are free and some are paid.
23. Your players also have public image, from `E` to `A`. Better image helps prestige, value, and long-term club growth.
24. PR Managers help you control and improve that reputation system. If you care about long-term club growth, do not ignore them.
25. Infrastructure Managers reduce stadium growth costs and make long-term development more efficient.
26. Transfer Directors improve transfer economics by giving cashback benefits, so they matter more once you become active in the market.
27. Stadium is a long-term club project. A better stadium improves home advantage and increases home-match MP income, but upgrades take time, so do not treat stadium as an emergency button.
28. MP is your main resource. You spend it on players, levels, morale, stamina tools, doctors, staff, freelancers, transfers, and stadium growth.
29. You mainly earn MP from weekly payouts, trophies, awards, weekly goals, rivalry bonuses, and other club systems. Good managers spend MP with a plan instead of reacting emotionally after one match.
30. Weekly Goals are there to give you reasons to come back and play. Every new week, you get 3 goals that fit your club stage. Early weeks lean harder toward clearer onboarding goals like accepting a challenge, preparing your team, playing matches, scoring, and hiring the free Personal Assistant.
31. Weekly Goal cards are clickable, so if you are unsure what counts, open the detail view and use its direct CTA when one is available. If you complete a Weekly Goal, the MP reward is added to your next weekly payout. That means active weeks are often worth much more than passive weeks.
32. Rivalry is simple: the team you have faced the most becomes your biggest rival. If you beat them, you add an extra `+100 MP` to your next weekly payout.
33. Before every match, check four things:
34. Do you have 11 active players?
35. Do you have at least 1 active goalkeeper?
36. Is your stamina good enough for this slot?
37. Is morale stable enough on the players you depend on?
38. If your lineup is invalid, you risk a technical `0:3` loss. Never assume the team is ready without checking.
39. Team Management now has two layers: `Basic` and `Advanced`.
40. `Basic` is the default. It keeps the page centered on the decisions that matter most before kickoff:
41. Formation.
42. Starting XI.
43. Captain.
44. One football-language team-style preset.
45. `Match Readiness`.
46. `Match Readiness` is your quick pre-match summary. It tells you whether the XI is valid, whether a captain is set, what your average starting stamina looks like, the current risk level, and one short recommendation.
47. In your first real match prep, `Basic` is intentionally narrower. Focus on formation, captain, one style preset, and the one suggested bench/XI improvement if it appears.
48. If you want the deeper system, open `Advanced`. That is where the full bench editing flow, the current team orders, and the individual player orders still live.
49. The team-style presets in `Basic` are:
50. `Balanced`
51. `High Press`
52. `Counter Attack`
53. `Deep Block`
54. `Possession`
55. `Wide Play`
56. Those presets still map onto the real tactical system under the hood, so they are simpler to read without being fake or cosmetic.
57. If you need more squad depth, one of the fastest early actions is to use `Create player` on an empty bench slot in Team Management.
58. Assistant Managers help with those football decisions. They are there for stronger tactical support, lineup suggestions, and better order choices.
59. Personal Assistants are different. They are your interactive rules and UI helper. You can hire one for free, and they can answer questions step by step while you play.
60. If you hire a Personal Assistant, their floating chat button appears in the app. You can also hide or show it in Preferences.
61. Office is your long-term planning page. That is where you deal with things like memberships, manager profile, club-wide systems, and strategic growth beyond the next match.
62. Edit Club is where you manage your branding. Team name, short code, city, and colors can be changed only once every 30 days, so treat them as serious identity choices.
63. Logo is different. You can upload a transparent PNG logo or change badge style anytime.
64. Preferences is where you control notifications, assistant visibility, beginner-guide behavior, and onboarding replay.
65. Notifications matter. Match answers, transfer offers, results, warnings, and other key events can also arrive by email or push if you keep them enabled.
66. Match details matter too. Open played matches to understand what happened instead of reacting blindly to just the final score.
67. If you want historical context, check champions, legacy, rankings, and club history pages. That is where your long-term progress becomes visible.
68. There are two membership tiers: Premier Silver and Premier Gold. They are optional paid memberships that support the project and improve weekly MP bonuses. Gold gives a bigger weekly bonus than Silver.
69. If you ever feel lost, use three help layers together:
70. Vanessa for page-specific beginner explanations.
71. The Personal Assistant for interactive questions.
72. `/how-to-play`, the simple rules page, and the full rules page when you want structured reading.