Prestige

Prestige is a club’s weight in the game’s world, a number from 0 to 100. Every club has it, including the clubs the game runs. You see it on the club page and on a match page before kick-off.

Prestige does not affect match results.

Tiers

Stars	Tier	Prestige
★☆☆☆☆	Local club	0–29
★★☆☆☆	Regional club	30–49
★★★☆☆	National club	50–69
★★★★☆	Continental club	70–89
★★★★★	World-class club	90–100

What it is made of

The game works out where a club is heading as the sum of five parts:

Part	How it is counted	Points
Division	Division 1 gives 80, every lower one 20 less: 60, 40, 20, 0	0–80
Average finish	Over the latest 5 seasons: always first gives +6, mid-table 0, always last −6	±6
Trophies	A division 1 title gives 3 points, each lower division’s half as much	0–10
Club age	In proportion to the years: 100 years or more give 3 points	0–3
Seasons in the upper divisions	A season in division 1 counts in full, in division 2 by half. 20 full seasons give the maximum	0–6

Inertia

The sum of the parts is a target, not the new prestige. Once a season, in the off-season, prestige covers only 30% of the way to the target:

new prestige = 70% of the old one + 30% of the target

That is why a relegated club keeps its name for several seasons, and a freshly promoted one still has to make its own. The club page shows the difference as a separate line, “Inertia of past seasons”: the parts plus the inertia add up to exactly your prestige.

Where a club starts

When the world is built, a club gets the prestige of its division. So division 1 clubs start as continental (80) and still have to earn world class.

Example

A club with prestige 40 has won a division 3 league and gone up to division 2. Its average finish over the latest seasons is 2nd, and the club is 50 years old.

• Target: division 60 + finish 5 + trophy 1 + age 2 + upper divisions 0 = 68.
• New prestige: 70% × 40 + 30% × 68 ≈ 48. The club stays regional, but is now close to national.