Appointments

First team → Appointments sets the roles in the team. These are long-term decisions: they stand until you change them.

Roles

Role	Whom the game picks if you do not
Captain	Experience and class: the player’s strength in their own position plus their age. Of two equal players the older one gets it, and an experienced player can edge out a slightly stronger one
Vice-captain	The same rule, the best after the captain
Penalties	The most accurate shot: the best shooting
Free kicks	The best mix of shot and pass: shooting counts 60%, passing 40%
Corners	The most accurate pass
Long throws	The strongest physically

Next to each role you see whom the game would pick and why, e.g. “Automatic: J. Smith: the most accurate shot”.

How it works

• A role you leave open goes to the best starter by the rule in the table.
• The game never puts the goalkeeper on set pieces itself, however good their shot. Only you can appoint a goalkeeper.
• If an appointed player does not start, the role goes to the best starter for that match, and the vice-captain stands in for the captain.
• The clubs the game runs pick by the same rules.

What it affects now

Some of a match’s goals come from set pieces: about 10% from penalties and 4% from free kicks. Such a goal goes to the taker, so in the match timeline it is marked “pen.” or “free kick”. The score does not change: appointments decide who scores, not how many.

The captaincy, corners and long throws do not affect a match yet. They will matter once the game gets more detailed.