Finally, below the board is an area to keep your staff member cards all players start with a starting trainer card. Beneath the directors, you will find an area to keep track of your clubs four major statistics: yellow money, red fan support, green staff, and blue fitness. Each of these cards gives some special abilities as well as a colored dice chart which shows how they will vote on events. The club manager board is seeded with three directors (they can be distributed in a draft). The stadium board starts mostly empty, though a few sponsor spaces are pre-printed filled in on the board. Each player gets three boards to represent their club (stadium board, club director board, match board). The table is setup to start the game – markets for advertisers, staff members, and regular players are made – 5 cards from each respective deck – it is helpful to separate the rightmost three cards (available now) from the two on the left (coming soon).

To start out the week, you’ll spend three days (turns) taking actions to improve your club – hiring players, improving facilities, employing staff members or seeking out advertising sponsors. In this game, you take control of a soccer club over a six week season each week being played over the course of one of the six rounds in the game. In fact, as I’ll outline later, knowledge of how football matches are played may actually be a detriment!

The game is very much an economic game by mechanism and knowledge of actual football tactics and strategy will likely not help you win more matches in the game. This review, however, will focus on only the base game – which has been played both multiplayer and solo here since bringing it home in October.īefore I start explaining the game, I think it is important to start out by saying that while the game is very thematic, no previous knowledge of soccer/football is required to play or enjoy the game. The game finished a very successful Kickstarter campaign last year, and there are already a number of expansions that are available – made due to the response of the KS campaign. You may also have to fight against time to try to complete the stadium before the deadline! You may have to manage the club in a crisis, and at other times you will have to rejuvenate a football team of players that are not so young anymore. In the beginning, the task is simple: You have to climb the steps of the football leagues and achieve the appropriate experience. The solo mode includes six different scenarios that challenge players with different starting situations and goals for the season. Among the many tasks on the list are transferring new players and choosing the right tactics for each of the upcoming matches.Įleven can be played multiplayer or solo.

You acquire sponsors, expand the stadium infrastructure, and take care of your club’s position in social media. During the game, you hire staff members, including trainers, physical therapists, PR specialists, and directors. Your task is to manage and grow your own football club over the course of a season.

Played with review copy provided by publisher at SPIEL 2022Įleven: Football Manager Board Game is an economic strategy game set in a world of sport.

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