Football isn’t confined to one region or one country—it’s the

world’s sport. There are talented players across the globe,

and now you can help these talented athletes gain interna-
tional fame. Hire players from all over the world and create
an international club!

1
 COMPONENTS

COMPONENTS
Flight
36 markers
 total football 

3-4-3
 gegenpressing 
Decrease the
4-3-3 Opponent
Goalkeeper
Strength by 1.a
Score goal for
each Section you
haven’t lose a goal
TA005
(max. 2).

Rulebook Tactic Player cards with

1 Scout tokens
TA002

5 cards 45 unique abilities 4

region depicted on their left side (Americas, Africa,

Setup Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia). Shuffle each
of these decks separately and place them faceup in
the Transfer Area, as shown below. Keep the Veter-
New Tactic cards an cards in a separate deck as usual and place the
Shuffle the new Tactic cards into the Tactic card deck. Youngster cards as the 6th deck (Home).
New Player cards Beginning with the First player, each player places
their Scout token above any of these decks (each
Remove the regular Player cards (cards that are not
deck may have multiple Scout tokens above it).
Youngsters / Veterans) from the base game. Prepare
the International Market by dividing the Player cards Each player receives 4 Flight markers .
from this expansion into 5 decks, according to the
WESTERN EUROPE

EASTERN EUROPE

111 200 011 122 222

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222 266 633 388 333 333

AMERICAS

Sousa 2 Ibrahim 6 Walsh 3 Górski 8 3

Takahashi
america

europe

europe
africa

Sousa Walsh Górski Nkosi Takahashi Takahashi

west

east

asia
america

europe
europe

africa

Sousa Walsh Górski Nkosi Takahashi Takahashi

AFRICA
west

east

asia

asia
america

europe
europe

africa

HOT TEMPERED BODYCHECK FANS FAVORITE SMART FEINT SCHWALBE

Sousa Walsh Górski Nkosi Takahashi Takahashi
west

east

asia

asia
america

europe
europe

africa

HOT TEMPERED FANS FAVORITE SMART FEINT BORN LEADER SCHWALBE SCHWALBE
west

east

asia

asia
BEFORE
HOTTHE MATCH
TEMPERED BEFORE THE
FANS MATCH
FAVORITE BEFORE THE FEINT
SMART MATCH AFTER THE REVEALING
BORN LEADER BEFORE THE MATCH
SCHWALBE SCHWALBE
HOME
BEFORE
HOTTHE MATCH
TEMPERED BEFORE THE
FANS MATCH
FAVORITE AFTER THE REVEALING
SMART FEINT BONUS
BORN
THE OPPONENT LEADER
CARD BEFORE THE MATCH
SCHWALBE BEFORE THE MATCH
SCHWALBE
BEFORE THE MATCH BEFORE THE MATCH AFTER
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OPPONENT CARD BONUS BEFORE THE MATCH BEFORE THE MATCH
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onMATCH BEFORE THE MATCH
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THE OPPONENT
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score any
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marker for
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each Jersey Gain
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and
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the display Section.
cards in his Section.
cards in his
Player card. adjacent Section. a regular price. Section. Section.
Player card. adjacent Section. Section. Section.

2
 HIRING PLAYERS

paying 1 for each deck you move. Moving the

Production Scout marker is not a separate action, but is includ-
ed as part of the Hire a Player action.
On Monday, after Production, you may gain a by
discarding a or . You may do this as many Note: Americas and Home are treated as
times as you want, but may never discard a to adjacent, and moving from one to the other
gain or . costs only 1 .

Hiring Players Selling and discarding

When Hiring Players, you may only Hire the Player
When Selling or discarding Player cards, return
from the top of the deck where your Scout marker is.
their cards back to the bottom of the corresponding
If you want to Hire a Player from the top of a deck
deck—there is no Player card discard pile.
that does not have your Scout marker, you must first
move your Scout marker to the appropriate deck by

Example: Your Scout marker is above Africa and Some card effects allow you to discard all Player
you want to buy the top card from Asia. In order cards from the Transfer Area or Hire any card from
to do this, you must move your Scout marker and it. When these effects happen, each is resolved with
pay 3 . only the 6 topmost cards
WESTERN EUROPE

EASTERN EUROPE

311 400 311 022 222

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222
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1 0 1 2 2
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hire

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hire
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hire

hire

-1-1 -2-2
-2 -3 -2 -3 -3

822 966 17
333 488 333 333
AMERICAS

Luna 2 Sarr 6 Romeiro Kovalenko 8 3

Takahashi
america

europe

europe
africa

Sousa Walsh Górski Nkosi Takahashi Takahashi

west

east

asia
america

europe
europe

africa

Sousa Walsh Górski Nkosi Takahashi Takahashi

AFRICA
west

east

asia

asia
america

europe
europe

africa

HOT TEMPERED BODYCHECK BODYCHECK FAST FEET SCHWALBE

Sousa Walsh Górski Nkosi Takahashi Takahashi
west

east

asia

asia
america

europe
europe

africa

HOT TEMPERED FANS FAVORITE SMART FEINT BORN LEADER SCHWALBE SCHWALBE
west

east

asia

BONUS
HOT TEMPERED FANS FAVORITE BONUSFEINT
SMART BEFORE THELEADER
BORN MATCH BEFORE THE MATCH
SCHWALBE asia SCHWALBE
HOME
BEFORE
HOTTHE MATCH
TEMPERED BEFORE THE
FANS MATCH
FAVORITE AFTER THE REVEALING
SMART FEINT BONUS
BORN LEADER BEFORE THE MATCH
SCHWALBE BEFORE THE MATCH
SCHWALBE
BEFORE THE MATCH This Player
BEFORE THE MATCH AFTER
THE THE REVEALING
OPPONENT CARD BONUS BEFORE THE MATCH BEFORE THE MATCH
AFTER THE REVEALING BONUS BEFORE
BEFORE THE MATCH BEFORE THE MATCH THE OPPONENT CARD
You may spend up to Place 2 THE
onMATCH BEFORE THE MATCH
ASIA

Place on this card 1 needs 2 to THE OPPONENT

If there is no CARD
in You may immedia- Place 2
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on Place 2 on
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cards in his Section.
cards in his
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Player card. adjacent Section. Section. Section.

3
 VARIANTS
End of the Week
At the end of the Week, discard the top card from
each deck without a Scout marker.
End of the game
At the end of the game you gain an additional 8
if you have Players from all 6 different decks.
International Players expansion and other expansions
You may combine this expansion with all other
expansions. All components from this expansion
have the printed icon: , in order to easily distin-
guish them.
GAME DESIGN: Thomas Jansen
GAME DEVELOPMENT: Jan Maurycy, Ignacy Trzewiczek
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Mateusz Kopacz, Rafał Szyma
COVER ARTWORK: Hanna Kuik
ARTWORK: Hanna Kuik, Maciej Simiński
RULEBOOK: Jan Maurycy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Grzegorz Polewka, Damian Mazur
PROJECT MANAGER: Marek Dąbrowski
ENGLISH EDITOR: Tyler Brown
Variants
You may shuffle all regular Player cards from the
base game with the Player cards from this expan-
sion to create a bigger Player deck and use the rules
for Hiring Players from the base game. You may also
create the 6 decks of cards using all regular Player
cards from the base game and expansions, and use
rules from this expansion for Hiring Players.
When playing with the Unexpected Events expan-
sion, the effects of the Reputation board do not
apply to the Player cards.
The authors thank the testers and proofreaders for their help
in developing the game.
Special thanks to: Joanna Kijanka, Kuba Jarosz, Joanna
Wareluk, Chevee, Kajtek, Alicja Święcicka, Szymon, Jędrzej,
Karol, Dorsz, GDM, Janik, Filip, Wojtek, Sławek, Karol and all
other who helped with playtesting this product.
Dear Customer, our games are assembled with the greatest
care. However, if your copy lacks anything, we apologize.
Please, let us know through the Customer Service form on our
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