General Info

About Matchday
Matchday is a free online football management simulator. It puts you in the shoes of a football manager as you build and manage your own football club, controlling every aspect from team selections to club finances. You compete against other managers from all over the world in the battle for football supremacy.

Registration
The first thing you have to consider when becoming a new member is whether to take control of an already existing team or create a completely new team.

If you choose an existing team:

• ■ You can get started playing the game faster, because the team is already in the league.
• ■ You will have the opportunity to get to choose a team in the higher tiers of the league system.
• ■ You will not have an opportunity to choose the location of the team or change the team name, kit design, or ground name.

If you decide to create a new team:

• ■ You can fully customize your team, including itsname, location, stadium name, and kit design.
• ■ You need to start at the bottom of the league, so it will take longer to get into the official league system. When creating a new team, you are initially placed in an unofficial league. When the season is over, you can apply to bepromoted into the official league system. The waiting period depends on when your current season ends.

Team Location
You can set your team's location anywhere you want to. You don't have to live in your chosen location to do so. Obviously, team location determines what league the team will be playing in. It also determines your spectator potential. For instance, your spectator potential will be much smaller in a small town than if you place your team in a big city.
All the teams in one region compete in the number of spectators in that area. If there are a lot of teams located in one region, the chances of you getting a lot of spectators will decrease.

Navigation
Most of the grids in the game can be sorted by clicking on the column header. Almost all player, team, league, and manager names shown in the game are clickable. Just click the name and the corresponding profile page will be shown.
If you see a symbol on the upper right portion of a grid or page, it means that there are more views available. They can be accessed by simply clicking on the symbol. On the squad page, for instance, the following views are available:

Stats	Ratings Overview
Physical/Mental Ratings	Physical/Mental Ratings
Offensive Ratings	Goalkeeping Ratings
Financial info

If you see a symbol on the upper right portion of a grid or page, in means that there are filters available.They can be accessed by simply clicking on the symbol.

Deadlines
Each season consists of 42 rounds. For each round, there is a deadline for submitting team selections and player instructions. It is important to submit your team selections before the announced deadline. Failure to do so will result in default team selections and tactics being applied to your team.
To submit all your manager instructions, click the Submit button at the top of the Main Menu.
The Submit button can either be:

You have unsubmitted actions.
All registered team selections, tactics and player actions have been submitted.

Please do remember that none of the instructions you have made will be registered unless you have submitted them. A countdown to the next deadline is always shown at the Startup page.

Managers who do not submit any instructions over a long period of time (usually five weeks) will lose their team. Once the deadline has passed, our server will start to play all matches scheduled for the week and process all submitted player actions. As soon as the server is finished, updated data will be available.