Two halves of 45 minutes, with 0–2 minutes added to the first and 1–5 to the second.
5 substitutions a side, and one more in extra time.
3 yellow cards in the league bring a one-match ban.
A straight red card brings a ban of 1 to 10 matches, usually one.
Competitions
Tables give 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a defeat, unless a competition says otherwise.
Clubs level on points are split by: Points · Wins · Goal difference · Goals scored.
Players
A professional’s overall goes from 65 to 99.
Talent, from 1 to 10, is how much a player can still grow.
Players can retire from the age of 33; stars, world-class players and goalkeepers carry on a few years longer.
Generated squads
A club without a researched squad gets one of 22 players when small, 25 when mid-sized and 27 when big, two of them youngsters from its academy.
Money
A club’s opening budget comes from its size, its reputation, its stadium and its country’s market; clubs with published accounts start from them instead.
Each season the board caps the share of the club’s revenue that wages and fees may take:
Club board · 80% game limit
Brazil · division-based game limit
Spain · 70% board limit
English top division · 85% game limit
UEFA competition · 70% game limit
A few clubs start with 10,000,000,000 of test capital when you manage them.