Gokickoff is a very challenging online football manager game. After you have registered and as soon as your registration application has been processed, you'll receive your football manager account. For first time login, you'll take charge of an unknown club. Your job is to use your management and tactical skills to the best of your ability in order to compete against thousands of other clubs from all over the world and bring your club to the top.
We strongly encourage you to read our manuals and guidelines if you want to stand a chance amongst thousands of other competitive managers. This document will help you to understand how to play the game in a short time.
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2. Registration and activation
Click the "Join free" button on the left side menu on the first page. After that enter your information which is required for registration. Please input "real information" otherwise it will result in the immediate termination of your account.You must also thoroughly read our terms of service and agree to these terms before proceeding to the next step. click "Register" to finish the registration process.
Once you've signed up for a Gokickoff account, you'll need to confirm your email address in order to activate your new account. The confirmation link that you'll use to confirm your email address is included in a "Welcome" email that you'll receive after signing up with us. If you don't receive the confirmation email within a few minutes, ensure that you check your email account's spam folder to make sure that it wasn't misfiled. If you can't find the email please contact gokickoff@gmail.com.
After you've confirm your email address, you can now login to play the game. Please keep in mind that your club will not be joining in any league if your acccount is not yet reviewed by Gokickoff staffs. It normally takes no more than 12 hours to review your account. Nevertheless, you can take charge of your own football club right away. Only certain game features is disabled during the activation process such as buying and selling players.
3. Gokickoff game system overview.
The game never ends so you can create your own goal. Normally, the goal is to bring your club to the top. Your competitors are managers from all over the World. There are two major leagues in each season in a country, league and cup. There are 16 teams in each league. During the course of a season each club plays the others twice (a double round robin system), once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents, for a total of 30 games. Teams receive three points for a win and one point for a draw. No points are awarded for a loss. Teams are ranked by total points, then goal difference, and then goals scored. At the end of each season, the club with the most points is crowned champion. If points are equal, the goal difference and then goals scored determine the winner. The country cub competition is a straight knockout competition and your opponents are clubs from the same country.
- Skills of a player increase each day at 00.00 utc from Training. Reports can be found in the "Training" menu. Attributes also increase from matches.
- You can set a player position freely in GoKickOff. Besides, you can instruct his playing style.
- You can promote up to 5 youth players form the academy in each season.
- The official currency of Gokickoff is "G".
- Wages and maintenance fees have to be paid on fridays. Likewise, You earn income from facilities on fridays.
- You get tickets fee for every home game. You can change stadium both quality and capacity.
- You can build facilities, such as Training Ground, Fitness Center, and Hotel.
- There are 16 clubs in each league. At the end of the season, the top 2 of a league is automatically promoted to the division that lie directly above it. The last 6 clubs in a league on the other hand are relegated to the divisions that lie directly below it.
- League is held on saturdays and wednesdays while cup is held on mondays. If your club is knocked out of the cup or the cup is not scheduled,you can play friendly instead. Kickoff time depends on the country.
- The fitness level of a player is increasing every day. But this doesn't apply to the injured players.
- You can possess up to 5 coaches. It is advisible to assign the player with a coach who is competence in the skills that you focus on. It is important to balance the number of players per coach as work overload of a coach diminishes the progression of training. If you dislike a coach, you have a choice to annul his contract and hire a new one.
- "Potential ability" and "progress rate" are hidden attributes. You have to use your scout to estimate these values. If the ability of a player reaches his potential ability, training will have small effect in improvement. Progress rate dictates how fast a player can improve his attributes.
- Energy points are to be used for certain actions in the game such as using scouts and doing club activities . Energy is regenerated by 1 point every 6 minutes.
- Trading players is this game is run by auction system. The bidding system stops three days after the auction is started. User with the highest bid win the auction and gets the player. Though you can only see the average bid and the number of bid but not the maximum, you can guest the maximum bid by using a scout and the accuracy of this guesses will depends on the level of that scout. You can change your bid during the auction period but you can't cancel your bid. To search for a player to buy go to club office--> transfer market. To sell a player select transfer status on his detail page. After the auction ends, if no one bid your player he stays with you.
- Refers a new player, and you will be rewards with extra credits. Collect these extra credits to exchange for a prize.These credit can't be found in the game. Note that posession of more than one account will result in the immediate termination of your account.
- At the end of each match, skill points of a player may increases but the fitness of that player may decreases.
- Condition, experience, moral, and adaptation points (depends on how long the player is in the team) has effect on each match.
- At the end of each season, a player get older by a year and if he is over 32 he have a chance of retiring from professional soccer career.
- When a player is over 30, his performance may decreases. The chance of this declining also increases as the player ages.
- A young player's attribute improves faster than an old player.
- You can't buy and sell players unless your club has a league.
- You can only view the attributes of your players and the players with price tag. If you wish estimate view the attributes of a player in another club, you have to use your scout. (The accuracy of the estimation depends on the level of that scout.)
- Community : Chat box is available on the first page. You can use it to talk with manager all over the world. Nation forums are also available.
- Financial reports are available in the game. These help you to manage your budget.
- Statistical report in this game provides you all the data that you want to know such as top scorers and players of the week.