Superclub rules
As a football manager, you'll need to make all the tough decisions: from picking your starting lineup to managing your finances and signing new players. You can read up on the Superclub rules below or download a PDF pack containing English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese versions of the rules.
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Game boards

Player cards

Game changer cards

Key staff cards

SuperCup cards

Developed player cards

Investment cards
Other game elements

Captain boost

Squad token

Point marker

Dice

Two-dice probability:

Club pad

Manager folder
Superclub at a glance
The objective is to win the game by finishing the season with 100 points or win three seasons and the SuperCup.

Quick game

Player draft
Roll one dice each to determine who will be manager 1 in the first season. Highest roll wins. The manager to the left of manager 1 is manager 2 etc. Place 16 players face up on the board. Go clockwise around the table picking one player each until the board is empty. Manager 1 starts the first round, manager 2 the second round etc. Repeat the process as many times as there are managers in the game so that every manager ends up with 16 players in their starting squad. After the draft, flip the board to discover The world of football.

Note! No Garibaldi in the draft. He’s too good to be drafted. If he comes up, simply replace him on the draft board with another player card from the deck. Once the draft is over and before the player cards are divided into continents, shuffle Garibaldi back into the deck.
Game pieces
Each manager has two game pieces, a squad token and a point marker. The squad token should always mark the total strength of your full squad, meaning the amount of stars on all your player cards combined (not including the Given goalkeeper, potential stars, chemistry, captain boost or key staff advantages, just full stars on player cards). Do this right after the draft and move it up and down the table as you strengthen or weaken your squad. If your squad is strengthened or weakened during the season (only happens with Game changer cards), both pieces must be moved up or down the table. The point marker is used in the season (see the Season section).
Off-season
Start the game with an off-season. This is where you improve all aspects of your club. Keep the manager folders open at all times during the off-season. Everyone should be able to see everyone else’s squad. The off-season has 5 steps.
1. Finance
Finance is easy in the first round. Just hand out the starting cash and begin playing. All other steps in the off-season are completed as normal in the first season.
Slower game: 90 million
Normal game: 120 million
Quicker game: 150 million
In the following seasons, the finance step becomes much more interesting with 4 actions.

a) Placement reward
1st: 100M
2nd: 90M
3rd: 80M
4th: 70M
5th: 60M*
6th: 50M
**Only available with the Top Six expansion pack.

b) Stadium income

c) Wages
d) Buy unhappy players (optional pro-rule)
Your ability to keep your best players happy with your clubs progression, depends on your table status at the end of the season: Newly promoted (keep 3 star players happy), Established (keep 4 star players happy), Mid-table (keep 5 star players happy) or Title contender (keep all players happy).
If your point marker reaches a status level above one or more of your competitors, and they have a player that you could keep happy but they can’t, you can make a bid of 15M x full stars for that player.
The manager receiving a bid for his or her player must then decide to either a) sell the player for that amount, or b) try to negotiate better deal, or c) if negotiations fail, bench the player for the entire upcoming season as he refuses to play for the club. (“If you don’t give me 20M more, I don’t care. I’d rather bench Garibaldi than to give him away for 90M”).
Placing an unhappy player bid means that the player in question will not play for his current club in the upcoming season under any circumstance (he either stays and is unhappy or leaves). That means that somebody else will have to step up. The manager receiving the bid immediately gets to add one star to one optional player with potential, regardless of whether the unhappy player stays or goes.
Benching the player will retain his value to the squad (not affect the squad token), but he can not be used in matches.
If more than one manager can make an unhappy player bid, there are some limitations:
- a manager can only bid for one unhappy player per season.
- a manager can only be the target of one unhappy player bid per season.
- the season champion starts the bidding. Other managers who can make unhappy player bids must decide whether to enter this bidding round or stay out of it to bid for another player from another club.
Unhappy players will only join clubs that match their ambitions, so clubs without the necessary status level can not enter the bidding. All bids are binding.
2. Training
Each manager starts with the basic training facilities, a normal training pitch, giving you the opportunity to fill one hollow star for one of your players. Choose the player you want to develop and roll 1 dice. You need to roll at least the number eyes/dots that you want your player to reach. The champion goes first, and you continue clockwise around the table.
- Develop to 2 stars (roll 2 or higher)
- Develop to 3 stars (roll 3 or higher)
- Develop to 4 stars (roll 4 or higher)
- Develop to 5 stars (roll 5 or higher)
- Develop to 6 stars (roll 6)
As you upgrade your training, you gain the ability to develop multiple players by multiple stars every season, but the dice always decides how much your talents will develop (with the exception of the top level training complex, allowing you to give one player one star without rolling the dice. In this case, you must assign your guaranteed star before you start rolling).
Upgraded players are found in the Developed attackers/midfielders/defenders decks. The number in the top left corner on the player card shows where in the deck you find the upgraded player.
Example:
You’ve invested 30M in a nice Training Centre, giving you the opportunity to add up to 3 stars to each of 3 players cards. You choose to develop a player card with 2 full stars and 6 star potential.
- If you roll 1 eye, nothing happens – try again next season!
- If you roll 2 eyes, nothing happens – try again next season!
- If you roll 3 eyes, your player card is upgraded to 3 stars.
- If you roll 4 eyes, your player card is upgraded to 4 stars.
- If you roll 5 eyes, your player card is upgraded to 5 stars.
- If you roll 6 eyes, your player card is also upgraded to 5 stars.
(If you had the state of the art 60M Training Complex, your player card would have been maxed out with that one roll of the dice).

3. Scouting
Scouting is easy. Draw player(s) from your continent(s) of choice, and decide if you want to buy the player for the discounted scouting price in the bottom right corner (marked by binoculars). Unsigned players goes in the Inactive players pile. The champion goes first, and you continue clockwise around the table.
Each manager starts with the basic Local scouting, giving you the opportunity to scout one player in the first off-season. As you upgrade your scouting department, you will be able to scout multiple players per off-season later in the game.
4. Investments
It’s time to invest in the long term future of your club. The champion goes first, and you continue clockwise around the table. You have a maximum of two actions per season, and not in the same department. You’re not allowed to skip a step in the investments either. You can invest in training facilities, scouting department or stadium – and/or hire key staff.
The price of the investment is found near the top of the training, scouting or stadium card. Your current level is bold and underlined, and the price of the next investment is seen to the right.
Key staff: You can also use one of your investments to hire key staff. These come with a variety of advantages that lasts throughout the game. The price of hiring them is found at the bottom of the card. If you want to hire key staff, pick 2 cards and hire 1 or none. Even if you end up not hiring any of them, you still spend one investment action.

5. Deadline Day
Managers are free to transfer players between each other at any point during the off-season after the finances have been completed. But it’s often difficult to get your opponents to agree to selling you a player you want. Not to worry! During every season, there are several (1 more than there are managers in your game) foreign players available for transfer on deadline day. The champion starts by turning one player from The world of football board. This player is now available and will go to the highest bidder in a free-for-all bidding war. The minimum price is shown in the bottom left corner, but the price often goes much higher as a result of intense bidding wars. If two managers have bid the same amount for a player and none of them are willing to go higher, the player will go to the one with the strongest squad.
When the player is either signed by a club or rejected by all, you continue clockwise around the table flipping players from the board. The champion starts and ends. Unsigned players goes in the Inactive players pile.
Note: You can have a maximum of 23 players in your squad (11 players on the field + all substitute slots filled will give you 23 players). At any point, you can sell players abroad (back to the deck) for their scouting price found in the lower right corner (binoculars). The bank then pays for the player. This means that you can effectively use players as currency – there’s no need to exchange player cards for money, then use the money for the desired transaction. Remember to move your squad token down the board as you weaken your squad.
Season
Once the pre-season is over, it’s time to play matches. Follow the schedule on the board as to who plays who at which stage of the season.

Player cards



Pre-match

Match
The matches are played in three thirds and start with midfield versus midfield. Count the full stars in each midfield line-up, add Captain boost, chemistry stars and key staff effects, throw 2 dice and add the scores together. The manager with the highest total (stars, boost, staff and dice eyes) wins the third.
The winner then goes on the offensive with their attack versus the opponent’s defence. In case of a midfield draw, the home side, as seen in the fixture list, goes on the attack first. Repeat the process described above.
PS. Goalkeeper stars count towards your defensive total.
If the same player has won both thirds, the game is over. You don’t play the last third. If it’s 1–1, or even 0.5–1.5 (a draw in one of the thirds), the last third is played to determine the winner (or seal the draw).
Points during the season are represented on the board by the Point marker (see page 6). Start from the base, and add points earned during the season.
Match points are as follows
Win: 6 points
Draw: 2 points
Lose: 0 points
Note: Matches are, whenever possible, played simultaneously. If you’d like a longer game, you can play home and away matches against each opponent (already recommended on the chart for heads up games). If you do this, then half the points awarded for each match: 3, 1, 0. In this case, follow the fixture list on the board until every match is played twice.
Simulated matches
There are 5 matches every season, giving the possibility of 30 points from matches. When playing fewer than 6 players, simulate the remaining matches as instructed in the fixture list on the board.
To simulate a game, simply roll two dice. The strength of your squad (squad token) determine how likely you are to win a simulated match. You can see what you need to roll to win on the board to the right of the table under SIM-roll. After the simulation, use the point marker to mark these points on the board as you would after a normal match.
There are no Game changers or injuries in simulated matches.
Injuries and Game changers
If you roll double dice (two equal) (1+1, 2+2, 3+3 etc.) you either get an injury or a Game changers card.

Injury

Game changers

End of season


Do we have a winner?



Penalty shoot-out (in case of a cup final draw)


