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Squad and players
First team → Squad lists every player of the club. The filter at the top shows all of them or only goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders or forwards.
Columns
| Column | What it means |
|---|---|
| Pos | The player’s natural position |
| Player | First and last name |
| Age | From 17 to 34 |
| Pac, Sho, Pas, Dri, Def, Phy | The six skills |
| Stamina | Stamina |
| Form | Current form |
Skills
Skills are on a 0–99 scale, and real players have them between 10 and 99.
| Skill | Where it matters most |
|---|---|
| Pace | Full-backs, wingers, forwards |
| Shooting | Forwards, attacking and wide midfielders |
| Passing | Central midfield |
| Dribbling | Midfield and the attacking flanks |
| Defending | Defenders, defensive midfielders, the goalkeeper |
| Physical | Centre-backs, the goalkeeper, forwards |
How skills add up to the strength of the lines: Team strength.
Form and stamina
- Form adds or takes away up to 10% of a player’s strength: 50 is neutral, 100 adds a tenth, 0 takes it away.
- Stamina only penalizes: a fresh player gives everything, a worn-out one loses up to 10%.
At the start of every season form is set afresh between 40 and 80, and stamina between 60 and 99. For now they do not change between rounds, so a player spends the whole season in that condition.
Positions
| Code | Position | Line | Key skills |
|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Goalkeeper | Goalkeeper | Defending, physical |
| LB | Left back | Defence | Pace, defending, physical |
| CB | Centre-back | Defence | Defending, physical |
| RB | Right back | Defence | Pace, defending, physical |
| CDM | Defensive midfielder | Midfield | Defending, passing, physical |
| LM | Left midfielder | Midfield | Pace, dribbling, shooting |
| CM | Central midfielder | Midfield | Passing, dribbling |
| RM | Right midfielder | Midfield | Pace, dribbling, shooting |
| CAM | Attacking midfielder | Midfield | Passing, dribbling, shooting |
| LW | Left winger | Attack | Pace, dribbling, shooting |
| ST | Striker | Attack | Shooting, pace, physical |
| RW | Right winger | Attack | Pace, dribbling, shooting |
The key skills of a position are what the game looks at when it picks a player for that position on its own.
The color of a position in the game shows its line: yellow for the goalkeeper, blue for defence, green for midfield, red for attack.
A new club’s squad
A club starts with 22 players:
| Line | Players |
|---|---|
| Goalkeepers | 3 × GK |
| Defenders | 2 × LB, 3 × CB, 2 × RB |
| Midfielders | 2 × CDM, 2 × CM, LM, RM, CAM |
| Forwards | LW, RW, 3 × ST |
How good the players are depends on the division: every lower one is weaker on average. But clubs differ within a division too, so a strong club of a lower league can be better than the bottom side of a higher one.
Age and career
Players come into football at 17 and retire after 34. The young ones improve every season, veterans decline, and in place of each one who leaves, the club gets a young player for the same position. See Player development.