National teams

Every country can have a national team, picked from its players at manager-run clubs and run for a season by a manager the other managers elect. National teams play the World Cup. Find them under National Teams in the sidebar.

Who belongs

A player belongs to the country on his profile, and that never changes. Only players at manager-run clubs count: bot clubs' players are never called up. A national team appears in the ranking and holds elections once its country has at least ten such players. Your own national team is your club's country.

The election

Each off-season, the managers of a country's clubs can stand for national team manager and vote for one candidate. Applying and voting are both final. Your account must have existed since the start of the season that just ended (managers who were playing when national teams launched always qualify). The vote stays open until an admin runs Managers take office: then the candidate with the most votes wins, and a tie is settled by a draw. A country with no candidates has no manager that season.

Running a national team

A term lasts one season. Once they take office, the new managers have until the next season starts to call up their squad: at least ten players to enter the World Cup, at most twenty-five. The manager sees every player of the country with his full attributes, and sets the national team's tactics on its own Tactics tab, which stay editable all season. Call-ups and removals only happen in that off-season window, so a squad never changes during a World Cup.

A called-up player shows a national team badge in every squad and on the transfer market. He stays called up if he moves club, and even if he is released and becomes a free agent: he only leaves the squad if he leaves the game. Injuries and suspensions count across his club's and his country's matches alike.

The ranking

The Ranking tab lists every national team by its World Cup ranking points (how they are earned is in the World Cup article). Teams level on points are ordered by the strength of their country's players.