Spin. Pick. Conquer.

Every round the wheel lands on a country and a World Cup year (1966–2026). You draft one player from that squad into an open slot. Great teams come from reading the spin — knowing which nations were stacked in which year.

Two draft sizes:

• Quick Draft — 6 fast rounds: GK, DEF, DEF, MID, FWD, FLEX. A quick hit.
• Full Team — a complete 11-man XI over 11 rounds: 1 GK, 3 DEF, 2 MID, 2 FWD, and 3 FLEX slots you can fill with any outfield player (DEF, MID or FWD). Your FLEX picks decide your formation — see Formations & Tactics below.

Two difficulties: Easy shows overall ratings while you draft so you can chase the strongest lineup. Hard hides them — you draft on name and gut alone, a pure test of ball knowledge.

Your Team OVR is the number that ranks you on the leaderboard. It's your XI's quality, built up like this:

• Start with the average overall of your drafted players.
• 99-rated legends each add a little extra on top — stacking all-time greats pays off.
• Captains give a small leadership boost (each one multiplies your rating up slightly).
• Major individual awards (Golden Boot, Golden Ball, etc.) add a further boost per award.

The strongest squads push past 100 OVR. This rating is pure squad quality — your formation does not change it (it changes how you play, not your leaderboard number).

In Full Team drafts, the positions you pick — especially your 3 FLEX slots — settle your XI into a real formation (like 4-3-3 or 5-3-2) and one of four tactical identities. Your identity shapes how your matches play out:

It's a real but secondary lever: a smart shape gives you an edge in a matchup and changes your scorelines, but a clearly stronger squad still wins most of the time. Aiming your strength at an opponent's weakness is worth a few percent — not a free win.

Your opponents are real historical World Cup squads, drawn to match the round. Each match is decided by a calibrated model, not a coin flip:

• Quality leads. The bigger your Team OVR edge, the more likely you win — but an upset is always possible.
• The title is meant to be hard. Winning it all realistically needs an elite squad. Roughly: an 86 OVR side lifts the trophy a couple percent of the time, 90 ≈ 1-in-5, 92 ≈ 2-in-5, and a 99 super-team ≈ 80%+. Below 86 it's a long-shot by design.
• Weak sides get punished early. Squads in the low 80s and below face an extra hurdle in the first knockout rounds, so they tend to bow out early rather than fluke a deep run.
• Group stage is a strength gate: 90+ sides go through automatically, 86+ almost always, and it scales down from there.
• Formation nudges the margins and the odds a little (see above), and level matches go to extra time and penalties.

• World Cup (solo) — the main event. Draft, then simulate group stage → knockouts → Final. Reach the trophy and top the all-time board.
• Daily Challenge — one themed draft, the same for everyone, every day. Build a streak.
• Online Friendly — draft and get matched 1v1 against another player (or a quick opponent), then watch the match play out live. Your formation matters here too.
• Online World Cup — join a 48-player pool. When it fills it's split into 12 groups of 4; the top 2 of each group plus the 8 best third-place teams reach a 32-team knockout that plays out to a champion.
• Leaderboards — every mode ranks you. One free account carries your record, streaks and titles.