Match revenue — gate, TV and matchday

Every home match earns you the gate, and it lands in your balance when the match completes. There is no away-club cut and no gate sharing.

How attendance is built

The engine starts from your fan base and adjusts it: cup ties draw 80% of a normal league crowd, club reputation adds up to +15%, and matchday excitement swings it by up to 4% either way. The crowd is capped by your stadium. What each spectator brings depends on your division: every division has an ordinary crowd — about 80 people in division 10, 600 in division 7, 5,000 in division 4 and 40,000 in division 1 of a strong football nation, fewer in weaker ones — and an ordinary crowd at the fair ticket price earns about 38% of the division's typical wage bill a week. Outgrow that crowd with a bigger ground and more fans and you earn more; every stadium level also adds 2% spend per head (the bar, the ticket office, the boxes).

Cup and continental home ties

There is no per-round prize money in cup or continental competitions in the current build. The money in a cup run is the extra home gate: a cup tie pays per head 80% of a league gate, so a cup night against a small club is a pricing decision, not a payday.

TV money is weekly, not annual

Central broadcast money arrives in the weekly finance pulse and is the same for every club in a division: about a third of the division's typical wage bill. In a strong football nation that is about 57 a week in division 10, 360 in division 7, 4,500 in division 4, 9,600 in division 3 and 52,000 in division 1. The same pulse adds a commercial stream of about a quarter of the wage bill, scaled by your club's reputation.

One scale for every division

Every number in a club's economy — TV, commercial income, gates, sponsors, prizes, staff wages, academy and scouting costs, loans and building work — is measured against what a typical squad costs in its division. An ordinary club earns a little more than its wages, a well-run one saves for players and buildings, and a club that overspends still sinks. Going up a division always pays more.

Prize money

Prize money is paid at season end to every club, in weeks of the division's typical wage bill: ten weeks to the champion, six to the runner-up, four to third, two to the rest of the top half and one to the bottom half. In a strong football nation the division-10 title is worth about 1,800 and the division-1 title about 1.6M.

Practical implications

Because the gate depends on the crowd and the crowd is capped by your stadium, capacity is a lever you build: a club founded on a dirt pitch for 100 people has to grow its ground to grow its gate. The ground and facilities article has the twenty stadium levels; the pricing article covers how to move prices without emptying the stands.