Club Roots

Found a football club from nothing. Grow it from the grassroots into a national force.

Club Roots is a dream-realistic football club founder-manager. You don't inherit a famous team — you start with a dream and a handful of youth players, survive a 12-game Youth Gateway, and if you prove yourself, the country takes notice: a real budget, a first stadium, and a Founder Draft to build your first senior squad for the national top division.

Highlights

• Start from the roots. Build U16/U14 sides and win your founding season.
• The Founder Draft. Turn recognition into a real senior squad — pick players yourself or let your staff auto-build a balanced team.
• A living, generated world. Every player, club, and staff member is generated from country football profiles — no two saves alike. Even a small nation can produce a once-in-a-generation talent.
• Text-commentary matches with stats, key moments, and player ratings.
• Three difficulties that change what you see and how forgiving the world is — from a generous dream on Easy to hidden potential and a save-ending gateway on Hard.
• Saves built to last. Long-term saves are treated as sacred: the save format is versioned and forward-migratable, so your club is designed to keep loading across future updates.

This release

v0.1.12 lets you play one shared game across your devices. Open Play Together on the PC and press Start hosting — your club goes live on your home Wi-Fi. Type the shown address into your phone's browser and the same club loads there; play from either device and both stay in sync, so you can start a match at your desk and finish it on the couch. It's LAN-only — nothing is exposed to the internet, and the PC remains the authoritative save.

v0.1.11 makes in-match decisions informed and disciplined. Open the substitution panel at any minute and every player now shows a live match rating, a fitness bar that drains with minutes played (faster for low-stamina players), and their headline attributes — so you can pull a fading man for a fresh pair of legs on real information. It also brings FIFA-style cards: a yellow is a warning, a second yellow or a straight red sends a player off (you play on a man down), and a sending-off triggers a disciplinary review that can rescind, stand, or extend the ban — suspended players are unavailable for their next match(es).

v0.1.10 makes matches truly on-the-fly: instead of pre-deciding a whole half, the game is simulated minute-by-minute as the clock runs, so you can pause and substitute at any moment and only the future changes — more live management, less predictable scripting.

v0.1.9 made matches interactive: play them out with a live clock, the scoreline and stats developing as it runs and goals appearing on the timeline, then it pauses at half time so you can make substitutions (up to three) that genuinely change the second half before you kick off again.

v0.1.8 added a transfer market with an offer system: browse players at other clubs (with a market value and ability read), make an offer, and the selling club accepts or holds out depending on your bid — and rival clubs make incoming bids for your own players each summer, which you accept for the fee or reject.

v0.1.7 added contracts, renewals and expiring deals: a Contracts screen shows every player's wage and how long their deal runs; players entering their final year are flagged, and you offer renewals (wage + length) that they accept or reject based on their market value, game time and the club's standing — leave it too late and they walk for free. On Easy you see what they want; on Hard you offer blind.

v0.1.6 added scouting and youth intake: send scouts (youth / domestic / bargains) to find prospects with difficulty-gated ability & potential estimates, then sign the ones you want; and each season your academy produces a youth intake of new prospects — bigger and better with a stronger Youth Academy and higher reputation.

v0.1.5 reworked the tactics board: drag players from your squad onto the pitch to pick the XI (reliable pointer dragging), drag anyone already on the pitch to any custom position to fine-tune your shape (nudge the playmaker higher, overload a flank), drag two players together to swap, or drag off the pitch to bench. Your custom shape is saved with the team.

v0.1.4 added injuries and season-long fitness: players tire as they rack up minutes and recover with rest (a better Medical Centre speeds recovery); tired, older players risk injuries that sideline them for weeks — injured players can't be selected, so squad depth and rotation matter.

v0.1.3 added a Stadium & Facilities view: expand your ground through its growth stages and upgrade six facilities (training pitches, youth academy, medical centre, gym, analytics, scouting) — facility levels feed player development.

v0.1.2 added:

• A playable U14 league running alongside the Youth Gateway — a parallel development competition for your younger group, with its own table.
• A real match experience — watch matches play out minute-by-minute with a live clock, updating scoreline, and revealing commentary (play / pause / speed / skip), then stats and ratings at full time. Open any past result to re-watch it.
• Drag-and-drop tactics — drag players onto the formation pitch to pick your XI.
• Fine calendar control — advance a single day, a week, or right up to your next match, then play it.
• Currency conversion — display your finances in Euros (default), US Dollars, or Pounds Sterling; switching converts every figure, not just the symbol.

Built on the founding MVP: club creation, the Youth Gateway, the Founder Draft, entry into the primary division, training, scouting, finances, and save/load with schema-versioned, migratable saves (earlier saves load unchanged).

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