A stadium that grows with you

When we rolled back the September redesign, we set ourselves a brief: less text, more image, more motion. The first thing we built under that brief was the place where every club's story happens — the stadium.

Ten levels, one ground

Your stadium in ManageFC now has ten levels, and each one is drawn in 3D. The ground at level 1 is what a small club really plays in: one stand along one side, a shed, a pitch and not much else. Each level adds something you can see — a second stand, then a third, then all four sides, floodlights, more rows, a second and third tier, a roof — until level 10, a three-tier arena with a full roof and a scoreboard.

The capacities climb from 10,000 seats at level 1 to 125,000 at level 10. We deliberately kept every level inside the same frame: the growth shows in stands, rows, tiers and roofs, not in the stadium simply getting bigger on screen, so the comparison from one level to the next is easy to read.

Your crest, at the centre

At the centre circle of every stadium is the club's crest — your crest, drawn from the design you made in the badge designer, never from a picture generated for you. It is the same crest that appears on every screen of the game, thanks to the work in August, and it sits on the grass from the very first level.

Where you see it

The 3D stadium leads the stadium page of the game, and it adapts to your screen: on a phone it uses a smaller, lighter version so that it never slows the page down. If your device cannot display 3D, you see a still image of the same ground instead.

An honest note about upgrades

The stadium can show all ten levels, but upgrading your ground is switched off for now. Stadium and facility upgrades are being rebuilt so that their costs and benefits make sense across the whole pyramid — the same economy work that will one day make a division 10 start possible. Until then, the stadium you see is the stadium you have, and the levels show where the road leads.

Why start with the stadium

Because the stadium is what turns a club from a list of numbers into a place. It is where the crowd is, where your crest sits, and where — once upgrades return — your progress up the pyramid will be visible at a glance.

Next in the diary: 3D where it helps.