Club rating and rank
How the club rating moves, what ranks I–VII are and what depends on them.
The rating is a single number that shows the club's strength in competitions. It sets the club's rank, and the rank decides which cups you play in, how much the sponsor pays and which specialists you can hire.
Where you see it
The rating is shown on Home, on the club page and on the "Cups" page. A new club starts with a rating of 1,000.
How the rating moves
- Only official matches — cup matches — change it. Friendlies do not touch the rating, so they are a safe place to experiment with tactics.
- A win raises it, a loss lowers it. A draw moves the rating towards the side that played against the stronger opponent.
- The opponent's strength matters. Beating a club with a higher rating gives more than beating a weaker one. Losing to a weaker club costs more than losing to a stronger one.
- The score matters a little too. A convincing win moves the rating more than a one-goal win.
- A penalty shootout is a win for one side and a loss for the other, not a draw.
The help does not give exact formulas: it is enough to know the direction — beat stronger teams and your rating grows faster.
Ranks I–VII
The rating scale is split into seven ranks — from "Rank I · Amateur" to "Rank VII · Legend". A club with a rating of 1,000 is in rank II.
- On the "Cups" page your rank is marked "you", and the rating range of every rank is shown in the tooltip of its tab.
- The rank follows the current rating: win enough and you move up, lose and you can drop down.
- Higher-rank cups that are closed to you are marked with a lock.
What depends on the rank
If your rank drops, the staff you have already hired serve out their contracts, and you can still renew them. You cannot hire new staff of a closed tier until the rank comes back.
Rating, reputation and fans
These are three different numbers:
- Rating — strength in competitions. It moves with cup results.
- Reputation — the club's fame. It rises and falls with results in official matches, and it decides how many spectators come to home matches.
- Fans — supporters. Wins and draws in official matches bring more of them, losses cost a few, a friendly win adds a little, and every Monday more arrive — more if the club wins often and has a PR specialist. Merch income depends on them.