Dugout-Online is a football management game where you take charge of a small and unknown club. Your goal is to bring that club to the top and win the World champions’ cup! It won’t be easy though, and you’ll have to use your management, trading and tactical skills to the best of your ability if you want to stand a chance amongst thousands of other managers from all over the world.
The game is actually never-ending, so all the data is passed from the season to the season. If, for example, you win a title in some lower division, your club gets promoted to a higher one, if you win a cup then you’ll be defending the title next season and so on.
Players
In Dugout-Online you have a standard team and a youth team. Every player has a level of talent, and the higher it is, the faster he will progress in his skills. A player gains skills through training. Every player gains a number of the so called “training points”. The more talented the player is or, the more the coaches are better, he will gain skill points faster. When the player reaches 1200 skill points, he gains a skill for the position he has been training for.
Unlike some football managers, players in DO have a standard position (ex. Central midfielder (MC), or a left midfielder(ML),…) and if that position is changed in the game (ex. a central midfielder plays on the left side) he will suffer a penalty. Skills range from 1-50 and some are important for some position, some are not and some are the main attributes a player must have (ex. a defender will certainly need as bigger tackling and marking ,but he will certainly not need shooting and he will have to have as much strength as possible).
Every player has also a contract, you can offer him a new contract or, if you don’t, the player becomes free and can sign for an other team after he gets some rest.Youth players can get a professional contract after they turn 17.
Finances
A manager also controls his finances (he will get a million pounds at the start) and you can bring new players, get sponsors (which will of course pay you for a season, they will also pay you if you pick a daily sponsor), build up structures (ex. you can buy a training ground,which will improve their training or, fitness center, which will improve the players fitness after a game,…). Transfer bids are like auctions – a manager sets the initial price for that player, a second manager bids that initial price, and if anyone else is interested in that player, he will have to bid a price higher for at least 1000 pounds.
There is a deadline – 2 days after the initial bid, and whoever has the biggest bid when the deadline passes, gets the player. You can also loan a player for a season or two, depends on the deal you make with the team from which you wants to loan the player. Managers will also have to pay the players and the staff weekly wages and the maintenance of the stadium and his structures.
Stadium
In the beginning, a player will also get a small stadium (1450 seats) with a poor quality pitch. As your fame and finance increase so will the need for a greater stadium and both pitch quality and stadium size can be upgraded. A player can also make money from the tickets, with the ticket price for each home game being set by the manager himself. The number of the spectators at each game depends on the weather, ticket price and club rating.
Leagues and matches
Teams play in a league consisted of 12 clubs and play 22 matches every season. Matches are played in real-time, a game starts in a standard game time (there are a several times depending on country), and the game lasts 90 minutes. The game is simulated, and the engine always analyzes tactics, player skills, weather and the condition of the pitch, then simulates the results, goals and actions. A player can play league games, cup games, international competitions, and also youth team games and friendlies. Player can set the tactics at least one hour before the game. The manager can change the line-up, player positions, aggression, substitutions, playmakers, penalty takers, attacking side, counter-attacks and offside traps.
As a new player, other players may seem to you to be more advanced and much stronger, and you may feel that there is too much challenge.
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