How to Play Perfect Eleven

Chemistry lifts your effective rating above the raw average of your eleven, so a well-linked side of 84s can outscore a disconnected side of 86s. What counts as a link depends on which wheel you are spinning, and it is the most misunderstood part of the game.

• Club Draft and Positional Picker: compatriots. Because every player is already Premier League, links come from shared nationality: three Brazilians in your midfield light up, and an all-English back four is a real strategy.
• PL Legends: a triple link. Same club is worth 2, same nation 1, same era 1, capped at 3 per player. A Manchester United spine saturates fastest, but a same-era side drafted across clubs gets there too.
• International modes: club leagues. In the nation drafts (Nations XI, International Tactical, International Top 50, and the World Cup archive’s Classic, Tactical, Top 50 and Legends) every player comes from a national squad, so players from the same one of the twelve major club leagues the game tracks link up instead; a player from any other league adds no chemistry.

Ratings also move with real football. Once matches are live, a striker who scores a hat-trick lifts your whole team and a defender who ships four drags it down.

Tap 🌍 International on the homepage switch, or open the International side directly, and the wheel spins nations instead of clubs. The nation drafts are dealt from all 62 nations, including the ones that missed the World Cup, each on its latest published call-up (or its World Cup 2026 squad where none has been published). Every nation’s roster in the game is labelled with the squad it deals.

All year round

• Nations XI: one player from each nation the wheel lands on. Free for everyone.
• International Daily: the shared nation draft of the day. Free for everyone.
• International Tactical (Season Pass): the wheel picks a position and deals you 10 players who play there.
• International Top 50 (Season Pass): the elite footballing nations.
• Challenge a mate, the nation head-to-head: free for everyone while an international break is running and part of the pass outside one. Whoever receives a challenge link plays it free either way.

When an international break is on

The break games open on the International side, all free:

• International Daily Duel: two internationals, one shirt, ten seconds to choose who starts in your World XI. It keeps its own streak, separate from the Premier League Daily Duel.
• International 3 FROM 6: six internationals, ratings hidden; pick the best three.
• International Scorer & Assister: the same game as the Premier League one, played over the break’s featured fixtures, each locking at its own kick-off and settled from the published results.
• International Break Predictions: call HOME, DRAW or AWAY in each featured fixture, with an exact score if you like: 3 for the result, +2 for the score. Each fixture locks at its own kick-off; calling early earns nothing extra.
• International Break XI: lock the Nations XI you drafted, once per break, and each of its players earns 3 points when his nation wins and 1 for a draw, in every fixture of the break that kicks off after your lock.
• International Team of the Week: before each round kicks off, pick a formation, eleven players (at most three from one nation), a captain and a Nation of the Week, scored against the XI computed from the round’s line-ups and results: 10 for each player in it, 3 for each on its bench, +15 when your captain is Player of the Week and +10 for the right nation.

The full rules for the nation drafts and the break games are on the Nations XI page.

The 2026 World Cup is complete — Spain are champions — and the tournament is kept as an archive: the Perfect Bracket, the Tournament Awards and the results, with their final boards intact, plus all 48 squads as named for the tournament. It is history, not a live competition: the Perfect Bracket and the Tournament Awards are closed to new entries, and their boards are there to read.

Its drafts sit beside the nation drafts on the International side: Classic is free, and Tactical, Top 50 and Legends are in the pass. The World Cup 2026 archive page gathers all of it in one place.

Draft for the slot, not the name. A 90-rated striker is wasted in a back four, and the Positional Picker punishes mismatches hardest.

Commit to a chemistry spine early. Decide in your first three picks what you are building — a nationality core in Club Draft, a club or era core in Legends — then chase links instead of collecting unconnected stars.

Respect the deep squads. When a City or Liverpool lands early, take the player your formation needs most, because that crest is not coming back.

In PL Daily, play the spread. One attempt against everyone’s identical twelve spins means a balanced eleven usually beats a top-heavy side with two weak slots.

In Team of the Week, captain the fixture, not the badge. Player of the Week is worth 15 on its own, and it usually comes from a big home win rather than the biggest name.