Matches

Players receive experience for playing in national team matches. Additionally, a national team player will earn a salary reduction of 40% if he is under contract at a club in his home country and of 33% if he is employed abroad.

Players may be injured when they play for the national team. As well as the salary reduction, the home club of an injured player will receive compensation amounting to 100% of the player's base salary times the length of the injury.

There are no loyalty bonuses for national teams, so a player's loyalty bonus is not applied in national team matches.

National team games do not count toward a player's training. Bookings and send-offs are not stored either - in this respect, all national team matches work like club friendlies.

Home team advantage for national teams is not the same as for club teams. National teams get a smaller home field advantage, equal to the boost given to the away team in a rivalry game.

National teams benefit from a special “Fog of War” feature. This means that for the last 8 hours before a match, many factors about a team will be hidden from public view. Team spirit, Team confidence, Players and some other stats around the site will no longer be visible. The reason for this is to give coaches a reasonable chance to plan ahead and not force them to monitor opponents and update their orders all the way until the last minutes before kick-off.