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Proper planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but
sometimes it’s simply not enough—surprises are unstop-
pable. Like everyone, players and staff have their own
personalities, and many times these personalities lead to
conflict. No matter how well you’ve prepared, the stress
and anxiety of gameday is unpredictable. What troubles
might you face when your club—the well oiled machine
you’ve prepared—confronts the unexpected?

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COMPONENTS
Each of your
QUICK PASS
gain 1
for each of
your
QUICK PASS
Players.
When long passes don’t work, it’s time for
QUICK PASS.
If you have a
NATURAL BORN LEADER
you may
play an additional Tactic card this Week.
Only
NATURAL BORN LEADER
knows how to
change tactics during a match.
LONG PASS
may not be a good idea.
All of your
LONG PASS
Players
have 0 Strength.
offsides
We must focus our training on avoiding
being in an offside position. It’s happe -
ning much too often.
UE001UE001
Place 1 on any of your
PENALT Y KILLER Players.
Fans were amazed by the play of our
PENALT Y KILLER.
If you have a PERFECT CATCHER: gain 1 .
It appeared fans have celebrated the birthday
of our PERFECT CATCHER.
Place 1 on any of your
GLASS KNEES Players.
One of our Players got hit by a flare.
They are forbidden, but fans somehow manage
to smuggle them into the Stadium.
Pyrotechnics in the Stands
UE007UE007
If you have a
HARD TACKLE
Player, gain
1 or 1 .
The paparazzi took many nice photos of our
Players among the geese and they’ve immedi-
ately gained popularity on social media.
If you have a
DIVER Player, gain 1
.
One of the Players knows how to scare them.
Lose 1 goal. Place a
on any of your
PERFECT
CATCHER
Players. You may discard this token in
the next Match to gain an additional .
A shot bounced off the goose.
A big flock of birds are occupying
this rural pitch.
Goose Incident
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Unexpected
Events cards
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COMPONENTS
players
Reputation tokens
4
BOARD MEETING
Exhaust a Staff card
from the Green set.
Let’s find out who is
responsible for this
malfunction.
You may resolve only
1 additional Paid
action this Week.
We should organ-
ize training in the
morning for now and
then repair them next
Week.
Thanks to the money
from the insurance
agency we could buy
new ones.
Build a Stadium
Lighting for free (if
possible). Lose 1
.
During our evening training, the lights suddenly
turned off. What should we do?
stadium lighting malfunction
BM012BM012
BOARD MEETING
We must fine the
Players. It’s not the
kind of behavior our
fans want to see.
+1 -1
+1 . Place a on
a and a Player
cards.
Let’s ask the Players
to participate in a
charity auction to
regain the trust of
fans.
+1 -1
We must pay them
not to publish those
photos.
After the latest Match some of our Players
threw a party in a hotel room. The paparazzi
have taken some compromising photos. What
should we do?
scandal
BM011BM011
BOARD MEETING
For now, let’s keep
the old prices, after
the season we can
consider raising
them.
-2
Place 2
on your
Merchandise store (if
possible).
We should find anoth-
er producer.
Fans won’t be happy,
but that’s what must
be done.
-1
-1
or
Our Merchandise producer is raising prices
of scarfs and jerseys, but should we raise the
prices in our store too?
raising prices
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Board Meeting
cards
14
Opponents
Reputation tokens
5
Reputation
Board
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SETUP
SETUP
Shuffle the Board Meeting cards into the Board
Meeting deck.
Shuffle the Unexpected Events cards and place
them near the Transfer Area as the Unexpected
Events deck.
Place the Reputation board below the League table
and then place the Reputation tokens on it accord-
ing to the example below.
Return the rest of the Reputation tokens to the box.
1 PLAYER2 PLAYErs
3 PLAYERs4 PLAYERs
1st Player
Token
2nd Player
Token
3rd Player
Token
4th Player
Token
Opponent
Token
Example:

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REPUTATION TRACK
Your position on the Reputation track represents your
current reputation among Players, Staff, and Spon-
sors. Whenever an effect causes you to gain or lose
1
, swap the position of your Reputation token and
the adjacent token (according to the effect). The po-
sition of your token on the Reputation track indicates a bonus (or penalty) that you must resolve.
Reputation Track
1. When Hiring Players and Staff or Contracting Sponsors, you may only choose between the 2 rightmost cards (instead of the normal 3).
2. When rolling for Match Consequences, you may not reroll the die.
3. No effect.
4. No effect.
5. When rolling for Match Consequences, you have 1 free reroll.
6. When Hiring Players and Staff or Contract-
ing Sponsors, you may choose between the 4 rightmost cards (instead of the normal 3).
Reputation Track Effects

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BOARD MEETINGS CARDS
BOARD MEETING CARDS
Gain Reputation
Maintenance
End of the Game
As your action, you may spend 2 to gain 1 .
If you don’t have the to pay for the Maintenance,
you must additionally lose 1 . If multiple players
must lose 1 simultaneously, it is resolved in play-
er order. You must place a on your Staff cards
as usual.
When playing with this expansion, the rules for re-
solving ties changes to the following: the player
whose Club is higher on the Reputation track wins.
Board Meeting cards from this expansion involve
gaining or losing Reputation, but you may freely
mix them with the Board Meeting cards from the
base game or any other expansion.
BOARD MEETING
Nothing happens.
As long as it doesn’t
interfere with his
training sessions, he
may do whatever he
wants.
Place a
on any
Player card with a cost
of effect. You may no
longer use this effect.
He may stay with us
until the end of the
season and then
we will decide what
to do.
No way, he won’t
have enough time.
-1
. Discard any
Player card.
One of our Players has been elected as an MP
in his countr y. He wants to continue his sports
career as well. Should we allow him to stay?
election
BM013BM013
BOARD MEETING
We may organize a
charity lottery with
this equipment as
prizes.
-1
+1
Nothing happens.
It’s all trash. Why
have we kept it this
long?
-1
+2
+1
Let’s sell it all as
souvenirs.
One of our warehouses is full of old shoes,
balls, and training equipment. There is even a
lawn mower from the 70s. What should we do
with this stuff?
outdated equipment
BM008BM008
BOARD MEETING
Nothing happens.
Fans have had
enough of the Veter-
ans. They want to see
current Players.
Let’s invite all our
former Players and
make a Veteran
reunion.
+1 -1
We don’t like this
idea, but we can rent
them a place at our
Stadium.
Place 2
on an emp-
ty Stadium Infrastruc-
ture space. You may
not place any other
tokens here.
A group of retired Veterans want to organize
a Match against fans to raise money for their
sports bar. Should we support this?
veteran reunion
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Each Unexpected Events card contains:
• Event name
• Brief description of the Event
• 3 effects
This new type of card describes various Unexpected
Events that may occur before or during the Match.
After revealing the Opponent cards, each player
draws cards from the Unexpected Events deck until
they draw a card with a tag that matches one of
their Player cards assigned to the Match.
Once each player has drawn cards until they’ve
found a matching tag, each player must then re-
solve the drawn cards from top to bottom. After
fully resolving all effects, discard the cards to the
Unexpected Events discard pile, and continue to
resolve the Match normally. If there is a conflict
in resolving Unexpected Events (e.g.: they change
your positions on the Reputation board), resolve
the cards in player order.
In rare cases that a player has not assigned any
Player cards to the Match or has only assigned un-
trained Youngsters, they skip this step.
Unexpected Events cards
UNEXPECTED EVENTS CARDS
Place 1
on any of your
PENALTY KILLER
Players.
Fans were amazed by the play of our
PENALTY KILLER
.
If you have a
PERFECT CATCHER
: gain 1
.
It appeared fans have celebrated the birthday
of our
PERFECT CATCHER
.
Place 1
on any of your
GLASS KNEES
Players.
One of our Players got hit by a flare.
They are forbidden, but fans somehow manage
to smuggle them into the Stadium.
Pyrotechnics in the Stands
UE007UE007
Place a on each of your HARD TACKLE Play-
ers. You cannot assign them to the next Match.
Our
HARD TACKLE Player isn’t used to
this type of climate.
After the match place 2 on any of your
FAST FEET Players.
Our FAST FEET Player caught a cold.
Gain 1 for each of your HOT-TEMPERED
Players.
HOT-TEMPERED Players don’t care about
cold weather.
It’s so cold. We are playing with long sleeves,
but our Goalkeeper is trembling in the cold.
cold weather
UE010UE010
Flip the
STRONG SHOT
Player’s Jersey
marker to its side.
During the whole Match the
STRONG SHOT
didn’t shoot once on a target.
After the Match, you may Sell your
SUPER SUB

Player for 3
or place 2
on their Player card.
Our SUPER SUB
didn’t help at all. Maybe it’s
time to sell him?
If you have a
SWIFT REFLEX
Player, score once
and place a on their Player card.
We had a free shot in the final seconds of the
Match. Somehow our
SWIFT REFLEX
Player scored!
The Match was so boring...
Until the last 5 minutes.
Final minutes
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Example: You have 1 Swift Reflex
and 2 
Hot-tempered Players. First,
you must place 1
on either of your
Hot-tempered Players. Since this
Player is already assigned, they are
treated as usual, but will miss the next
Match.
Next, you must place 1 on your
Swift Reflex Player. This Player’s
Strength is decreased by 1 for this
Match.
Finally, since you do not have an
assigned
Diver, you ignore the
bottom effect.
As normal, once the Unexpected
Events deck is empty, reshuffle the
discard pile to create a new deck.
Train any DIVER.
In the last second, our DIVER almost scored
after individual action.
Place 1 on any of your SWIFT REFLEX
Players.
Our SWIFT REFLEX used to play for
the Opponents.
Place 1 on any of your HOT-TEMPERED
Players.
Nobody likes to see so much aggression.
Matches against local rivals are always
emotional.
rivalry
UE008UE008
EXAMPLE

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GAME DESIGN: Thomas Jansen
GAME DEVELOPMENT: Jan Maurycy, Ignacy Trzewiczek
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Mateusz Kopacz, Rafał Szyma
COVER ARTWORK: Hanna Kuik
ARTWORK: Hanna Kuik, Maciej Simiński
RULEBOOK: Jan Maurycy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Grzegorz Polewka, Damian Mazur
PROJECT MANAGER:
Marek Dąbrowski
ENGLISH EDITOR: Tyler Brown
The authors thank the testers and proofreaders for their help
in developing the game.
Special thanks to: Joanna Kijanka, Kuba Jarosz, Joanna
Wareluk, Chevee, Kajtek, Alicja Święcicka, Szymon, Jędrzej,
Karol, Dorsz, GDM, Janik, Filip, Wojtek, Sławek, Karol and all
other who helped with playtesting this product.
Dear Customer, our games are assembled with the greatest
care. However, if your copy lacks anything, we apologize.
Please, let us know through the Customer Service form on our
website: portalgames.pl/en/customer-service
Portal Games Sp. z o.o.
ul. H. Sienkiewicza 13, 44-190 Knurów, Poland.
© 2022 PORTAL GAMES Sp. z o.o.
All rights reserved.
other expansions, CREDITS
You may combine this expansion with all other ex-
pansions. All components from this expansion have
the printed icon: , in order to easily distinguish
them.
When playing with the International Players expan-
sion, your position on the Reputation track does not
affect Hiring Players, but continues to affect Hiring
Staff and Contracting Sponsors.
Unexpected Events and other expansions
When playing with the International Cup expan-
sion, draw the Unexpected Event cards both in the League and Cup matches as normal.
When playing Matches against other players, ig-
nore the Unexpected Event cards.

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