What the first screen is for
You start as a young talent at a smaller club. The career hub is the place to read the week, the next fixture, and the navigation before you kick off.
A reviewed Season 1 recording showed seven hub buttons: Play, Training, Career, Table, Cups, Schedule, and Ranking. In that same save the player was at Clayton FC with OVR 51 during Season 1, Week 1 of 18. Club name, starting OVR, and schedule length can differ by save, so treat those numbers as a layout example and read your own panels.
- Play opens the next match overview in the reviewed footage.
- Training opens Finishing, Passing, and Set Pieces.
- Career, Table, Cups, Schedule, and Ranking are the buttons to inspect for current career information. Not every tab's full contents were reviewed.
Read the prematch card
Pressing Play opens a card before the ball moves. The reviewed card has three lines, then Start:
- Goal chances tells you how many attacking sequences the fixture gives you.
- To win tells you how many of those sequences must end as goals.
- Misses allowed tells you whether a saved shot or an intercepted pass is acceptable.
One recorded Iberia Cup fixture listed Goal chances 4, To win ALL 4, and Misses allowed NONE. That tie left no recorded miss. Other matches can be softer. Retry rules and any penalty after a failed card are not established by that frame, so do not assume every failure behaves the same way.
Play the first chance
The official control rule is one sentence: where your line ends, the ball goes. Draw from the ball toward the destination.
- If the prompt is a shot, end the line inside the goal, away from the goalkeeper or on a visible target ring.
- If a teammate is running, end the line in the grass ahead of that run rather than into a defender.
- Watch the on-screen prompt. It tells you whether the sequence wants a shot, a cross, or a through ball.
What to do after week 1
The same reviewed save, by Season 1 Week 4 of 18, showed Clayton FC at OVR 54, rank 2 with 7 points in English League Two, an 8.4 average rating, 3 goals, and 3 assists, plus a Lionheart Cup fixture on the dashboard. Use those figures only as proof of which panels exist.
Between weeks, do three checks:
- Open Training when a session is available and fill +1 boxes. The counter on the reviewed menu reads toward +0/12.
- Open Table and Cups so you know whether the next match is a league week or a stricter cup tie.
- Open Career and read goals, assists, and average rating before you look for a bigger club.
Redeem RELEASE from the official description, and try Legend if you have not used it, before you spend the first currency. The exact menu path is on the codes page.