The 1-minute guide to every mode
No jargon, no hidden mechanics. Every rule, reward, threshold, and fine-print detail in The Gaffer’s Ledger explained longhand.
Getting Started
Your first steps in the dugout
Draft legends, play the dailies, pledge your club, and get your name in the Ledger.
How it works
- Sign in (Google, Discord, or email) — your first coins are waiting.
- Three moves to start: declare your club, play today’s daily, draft your first season. The checklist on the home page walks you through them.
- Everything you earn — coins, packs, cards, badges — lives in My Vault and on your Profile.
What you win
A daily login bonus of 100 coins, and every mode pays its own way.
The fine print
One account per manager; your username is your name in every leaderboard and Ledger entry.
Draft & Simulate
Build an XI across 34 PL seasons
Build an XI from 34 seasons of greats, then live a full 38-game season — and try to go unbeaten.
How it works
- Pick a manager (real tactical identities), a formation, then draft one player per randomly-assigned real team — knowledge beats luck.
- Set your duties (captain, penalties, free kicks, corner target) — they change results.
- The sim plays all 38 games against the real current top flight, match by match, scorers and all. Same squad + same seed = same season: results are earned, never rigged.
- Chemistry is real: same-club, same-era, same-nation links lift every line. A manager playing his favoured shape gets a bonus. Feuding players in one XI hurt you.
- After the season, the reason report tells you exactly why you dropped points — the opponent, the numbers, the cause. It reads the sim’s actual data; it never invents.
What you win
Coins scaled to results, a reward pack tiered by wins, and for the full 38 unbeaten — the Invincible badge, 500 bonus coins, and your name in the Ledger.
The fine print
Realism mode (injuries, suspensions) is optional and off by default. A player can only appear once in your squad. Ratings are our own, computed from real per-season stats.
Daily Games
Four daily puzzles, reset at 00:00 UTC
One puzzle a day per game, same for everyone — build streaks, earn coins and packs, and win the card itself.
How it works
- Higher or Lower (#higher-lower): 20 pairs, pick who our ratings scored higher. One miss ends the run.
- Card Guesser (#card-guesser): name the mystery card in 8 guesses; every wrong guess narrows it (club, nation, era, rating direction). Win it and the card is minted into your collection.
- Gaffer’s Grid (#grid): 3×3 — name a player matching both clues for each cell. One guess per cell, no player twice. Rarer answers score better.
- Missing XI (#missing-xi): a famous starting XI with gaps — fill in the missing names.
What you win
Coins by score, packs at streak milestones (3/7/30 days: Bronze, Silver, Gold packs), and the Card Guesser card itself.
The fine print
Answers are checked server-side; the daily resets for everyone at 00:00 UTC — no timezone advantage.
Weekly Gauntlet
Themed squad challenge on a shared seed
One themed squad puzzle a week — same rules, same simulation luck for everyone — top manager takes the prize.
How it works
- Each week has a theme with hard rules (budget caps, tier limits, era locks).
- Build a legal XI, enter, and the sim runs with the same seed for every manager — the leaderboard measures your squad-building, not your luck.
- One official entry per week. Pick carefully.
What you win
The week’s Gold prize pack for the top spot; bragging rights all the way down.
The fine print
Entries lock when the week ends (countdown on the page); the theme rotates automatically.
Matchday & PL 26/27 Live Season
Survivor, Score Predictor & Season Auction League
The real season is the game — survive week to week, call exact scores, and draft live 26/27 PL squads on FPL points.
How it works
- Last Gaffer Standing (#survivor): pick ONE club to win each gameweek. A win keeps you alive; a draw or loss eliminates you from the run. You can never pick the same club twice in a run. Eliminated? Re-enter next round.
- Score Predictor (#predictor): call the exact score on the week’s six headline games. Exact score = 25 bonus coins, correct result pays 50–1,200 coins (+ Silver pack for 6/6).
- Season Auction League (#season-auction): draft this season’s real Premier League players in a live auction room with your mates. Set your 15-man squad, name your captain, earn live FPL points every gameweek, and drop flops to waivers.
- Picks & Lineups lock at the first kickoff of each gameweek.
What you win
Survival rewards that grow with your streak (up to 3,000 coins + Gold pack at 10 weeks); weekly predictor coins; live FPL Season League glory.
The fine print
Scores sync from real FPL results several times a day — during a gameweek your points may show as provisional until finalized.
Club Wars, Allegiance & Ladders
Pledge your club and climb its ladder
Pledge your club once, then everything you play fights for its badge.
How it works
- Allegiance (#allegiance): pick your club — any of the 20. ⚠️ It’s a real pledge: one change per season (seasons turn 1 Aug), and you can NEVER return to a club you’ve left.
- Club Wars (#wars): every point big-six fans score in dailies, gauntlets, and sims counts for their club that week. Two tables: Power (total) and Pound-for-pound (per active fan).
- Club Ladders (#ladders): 100 levels of club knowledge and squad challenges per big-six club — open to everyone, any club, no allegiance needed. Timers tighten from 25s to 12s; cap of 3 levels per day.
- Club Album (#album): your collection, organized by club and era — completion milestones pay.
What you win
War week winners: active fans get a random card of their club (~90% gold / 10% icon). Ladders: rewards every 10 levels, gold card at 50, icon at 90, and the 3 top icons at 100.
The fine print
Active means you played that week — idle fans don’t dilute averages or collect prizes. Failed levels can be retried tomorrow with fresh variants.
Cards, Coins & Packs
18,000+ player-season cards
18,000+ player-season cards rated by our own engine from real stats — collect them, play them, trade them.
How it works
- Every card is a player-season (Henry · Arsenal · 03/04 · 96). The same player can exist across many seasons at different ratings.
- Tiers: Bronze (<70) · Silver (70–79) · Gold (80–89) · Icon (90+).
- Ratings come from our engine: per-90 performance, percentile-ranked within position and season. No licensed ratings or photos — shirt, number, and colors are the card.
- Earn coins by playing: season rewards, daily games, streaks, daily login (100 coins), quick-selling cards, market sales, referrals (up to Icon pack + 3,000 coins at 5 friends).
- Packs: Bronze (150 coins), Silver (500 coins), Gold (1,500 coins), Icon (5,000 coins).
What you win
Everything above — coins have no real-money price and never will.
The fine print
All card and coin movement is server-verified and ledgered. Duplicates are normal and fuel the market. Cards burned in Challenges are gone for good.
Transfer Market & Trades
Auctions and direct manager swaps
An open market between managers: auction your cards for coins, or strike direct swaps.
How it works
- Transfer Market (#auctions): list a card with a start price (and optional buy-now). Bids escrow your coins instantly. Late bids extend the clock (anti-snipe).
- Trades (#trades): list a card with "what I want"; others offer cards, coins, or both. Accept one — swap is atomic; other offers refund instantly.
- Outbid? Your coins release the moment it happens.
What you win
The market is how collections get finished — album hunters pay well for the right era.
The fine print
Listed cards are locked; auctions settle automatically; all balances are ledger-backed.
Legends Auction House
Live draft rooms for historical catalog cards
A live auction night with your mates — bid real budgets for football’s historical greats, then run a shared 38-game season simulation.
How it works
- Legends Auction: host sets budget, squad size, clock and filters; room bids live for one-of-each legend (ratings hidden).
- Full Season Simulation: once squads are picked, ONE shared 38-game simulation runs every squad against the Premier League field.
What you win
The table and bragging rights. Room budgets are play-money per room — never your coins.
The fine print
Room cards are for that room only — they don’t enter collections.
My Journey
Player-career mode through PL history
Be one player. Win the shirt, keep it, and decide the moments that matter across Premier League history.
How it works
- Create your prospect — choose your name, position, archetype, and starting club in any PL season from 1993/94.
- Live your career season by season: match moments, tactical decisions, training, contracts, and Monday morning press conferences.
- Manage club relationships, fatigue, and trust. Request transfers or accept loan moves to climb the football ladder.
- Invest your earnings, build your legacy, and earn honours to enter the Hall of Fame.
What you win
Career wages, contract bonuses, silverware, player-season cards minted into your collection, and a permanent Legacy score.
The fine print
Career choices persist across seasons. Match moments use deterministic seeds so your performance is always earned.
Competitions & Leaderboards
Weekly fights and permanent records
Every week is a fresh fight — and the best of every era is written down forever.
How it works
- Invincibles board: the week’s best seasons — unbeaten first, then points, then goal difference. #1 wins the week’s prize icon.
- Weekly game boards: per-game tables resetting weekly (Monday 00:00 UTC); percentiles for everyone. Winners hold a title until dethroned.
- Hall of Fame: Strongest XI board, Showcase, and Records Hall (the Ledger itself): first Invincible, career bests, every week’s winners.
- Mini-Leagues: private tables with a join code — compare everything with your mates.
What you win
Weekly prize icons, titles, and permanence.
The fine print
Boards reset Monday 00:00 UTC; percentiles include everyone who played that week.
Achievements
62 badges across the product
62 badges across everything you can do here — from your first pack to The Invincibles.
How it works
- Bronze → Silver → Gold → Platinum (only four exist).
- Every badge shows its rarity among real managers. A few are secret until someone earns them.
- Land automatically — play, and the cabinet fills.
What you win
The cabinet on your profile, and rarity bragging rights.
The fine print
Badges are retroactive — anything you earned before a badge existed is granted when it ships.