Money and the board

• TV money every week, more the higher your division.
• Sponsors every week, set for the whole season by your division, your fans and last season's finish.
• Tickets and food and drink from every home game, booked when the game's broadcast ends.
• Merchandise from your shop every week, more with more fans and a successful team.
• Prize money for your league finish, playoff rounds, relegation playoff wins and cup rounds.
• Transfer fees for the players you sell.

• Player and staff salaries every week.
• Running costs every week, higher in the higher divisions.
• Upkeep of the arena and its facilities.
• Building work, paid when it is ordered.
• Interest when you are in debt.
• Fees for players you buy, and the remaining salary of players you release.

The weekly incomes and costs are booked at the start of every game week; game-day income comes after each home game's broadcast. The finances page shows every week's income, costs and transactions.

The board watches the money and sets a salary budget: your weekly payroll may be at most 68 % of the income it expects each week. It checks the budget whenever you sign or renew a player.

In debt the board gets stricter, step by step:

• Below zero it is worried, and you pay 1 % interest a week on the debt.
• When the debt passes 4 weeks of expected income it bans signings.
• When it passes 8 weeks it puts players up for auction itself, the worst value for money first. Players nobody buys are released.

Each step lifts by itself when the balance recovers. The board never fires you.

Your fans' mood rises with wins and falls with losses, more in the playoffs and most in a final, and slowly settles back when nothing happens. The number of fans follows the mood over the weeks. More and happier fans mean more tickets, more merchandise and better sponsors.

You can hire a head coach, an assistant coach, a goalie coach, a physiotherapist, a scout and a youth coach. Each has a weekly salary; hiring and letting go take effect from next week.