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Full Football, Tactics & Glory update
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- Gameplay
This document outlines all major and minor features and improvements included in the World Championship DLC.
Core DLC Mechanics
The game now features national teams, the World Championship, and the opportunity to be invited to manage a national side. Additionally, national teams can now be used in Hotseat mode, a new type of modification for national teams has been added, and a new World Championship 2026 mode is available.
This is a comprehensive set of mechanics, which I will detail further below:
Single Player
Footballer Nationalities
Every footballer now has a nationality. A flag is displayed in all footballer profile windows. You can hover over it to see a tooltip with the country's name.
Youth academies in each country now produce footballers specifically of that nationality.
In the League Editor, you can now assign nationalities to footballers.
World Championship
If you have enough countries in your game world, the World Cup takes place every 4 years.
It consists of a Qualifying stage, held separately on each continent, and a Final stage.
The Final stage features 32 national teams.
National teams call up footballers from clubs for international matches.
If footballers from your club are called up, you receive Glory for each player.
Upon the footballers' return to the club, you receive additional Glory if your players participated in national team matches.
When generating the calendar, the system attempts to keep the international break week free from matches. If the league week cannot be cleared, it at least moves cup matches to other weeks.
As with all other tournaments, the game collects and displays detailed World Cup statistics for both the tournament and the participating footballers in a convenient format.
The game also features a national team ranking, updated after every match using the Elo system, taking into account home and away factors, goal difference, and the tournament stage.
Continental Championships
Similar to the World Cup, every 4 years each continent hosts its own separate championship - for example, the European Championship, the American Championship, etc.
The mechanics are similar to the World Championship, but since some continents may have a small number of countries, the final stage of a Continental Championship might consist of fewer teams. Depending on your settings, there may not even be a qualification stage.
A unique cup and shield have been created for each continent's final celebrations.
Managing a National Team
If your Reputation is high enough, you may be invited to manage a national team. Notably, it is often much easier to get into some weaker national teams than into top-tier clubs.
You will manage the national team alongside your club duties.
Every national team aims to exceed its previous achievements, so they will set fairly ambitious goals. However, they won't ask you to do the impossible. If a team has never progressed past the World Championship group stage, they won't task you with winning the tournament.
Your work involves selecting footballers for the national squad specifically for matches. If you are a manager who knows how to motivate players, use Reputation to inspire them in crucial matches.
You can start a campaign immediately with national team offers. To do this, select Sandbox mode, grant yourself 2000+ Reputation points, and start by looking for a job. After choosing a club, you will receive offers from national teams.
Local Multiplayer (Hotseat)
New World Championship 2026 Mode
The new mode is located in the Main Menu alongside other local multiplayer modes.
In this mode, you can manage a fictional national team in the World Cup 2026 final stage.
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