Youth players

Youth players

You can acquire new players for your regular squad by recruiting youth players. This can be done in two different ways:

• Recruiting a player from the outside directly into your senior squad by using your scouting network.
• Starting a youth academy, recruiting talents and developing them. You can play matches against other youth teams in private or public leagues, and eventually promote your talents to the regular team.

Finding a player through the scout network and recruiting them directly to your senior squad is a simple and time-efficient way to acquire talent. Running a youth academy is more challenging, but if you do a good job it can also be more rewarding.

You can only use one system at a time. If you are running a Youth Academy, you cannot promote a youth player from the scouting network. However, your academy costs also counts as scouting network investments, making it swifter to get your scouting network up to speed if you decide to close your academy and use the scouting network instead.