Ultimate League Chairman - Football Tycoon Game

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Vous n’êtes pas l’entraîneur. Vous êtes le président. Prenez les rênes d’un club de football et évoluez dans l’univers impitoyable des guerres d’entreprise. Les joueurs incarnent le président d’un club de football, chargé de mener son club à travers quatre saisons. Chaque club commence avec un statut et une philosophie différents, déterminés au hasard au début de la partie, ce qui confère à chaque joueur une position de départ distincte et lui offre des opportunités et des défis variés. À chaque saison, les joueurs lancent le dé pour se déplacer sur le plateau et disputer des rencontres sur les cases « Jour de match », notamment des matchs de championnat, de coupe nationale et de Ligue des champions. Les résultats contribuent au classement en temps réel et aux recettes de billetterie, tandis que d’autres cases fournissent des cartes imposant des décisions financières et stratégiques. À la fin de chaque saison, les clubs perçoivent des revenus en fonction de leur classement final, déduction faite des salaires des joueurs, et peuvent choisir comment investir leurs fonds disponibles dans les joueurs, les infrastructures et même leur entraîneur. Il existe plusieurs voies pour bâtir un club prospère. Les joueurs peuvent se concentrer sur la réussite sportive, la solidité financière ou les infrastructures, ou combiner ces approches. La réussite sportive augmente également la valeur commerciale de la marque du club, les résultats en championnat et en coupe ainsi que le classement final en championnat rapportant des points qui contribuent à sa valeur à la fin de la partie. Un club qui remporte le championnat, voire la Ligue des champions, peut tout de même valoir moins qu’un club qui a soigneusement accumulé des richesses et développé ses infrastructures. Au terme de quatre saisons, la valeur finale de chaque club est calculée à partir de ses fonds disponibles, de ses infrastructures et de la valeur de sa marque commerciale. Le joueur dont le club a la plus grande valeur remporte la partie. —description fournie par l’éditeur

Présentation de la campagne

You’re not the manager. You’re the Chairman.

Become a Football (Soccer) Club Chairman. Manage the millions, dominate matchdays, upgrade your club and give your team the edge.

Have you got what it takes to make your club the most valuable in the league?

High-level corporate warfare.

Make the big financial decisions, outmanoeuvre rival Chairmen and build your club into the ultimate commercial superclub. The club is in your hands.

Build the empire. Win the league. Make a fortune. 

Welcome to Ultimate League Chairman

You aren't the one shouting instructions from the touchline. You're the one sitting in the Director's Box.

You're the one controlling the money.

You're the one making the decisions that can change the future of the club.

As Chairman, you sit at the very top of the organisation. You control the purse strings, set expectations and decide what kind of club it will become.

Back your manager with millions. Strengthen your squad. Upgrade your stadium. Invest in facilities. Build commercial power.

Or take a gamble that could transform your club's fortunes overnight.

How To Play

Every Decision Has Consequences. Money can buy opportunity, but it cannot guarantee success.

Spend aggressively and you could build a title-winning squad — or leave your club drowning in debt.

Invest in your stadium and facilities and build for the future — or watch your rivals overtake you while you wait for your investment to pay off. Back your manager and give them everything they need — or decide that results simply aren't good enough and replace them.

There is no single path to victory. Every Chairman will build their club differently but the winner is the player who has the most valuable club.

• Choose a club - each club has a different status or ethos which is randomly changed each game. This will give every player a different starting point for season one.
• Make your way around the board by rolling a dice with each loop counting as one season, with four in total.
• You must stop at the 'Match Day' sections on the board and play your fixtures (league, domestic cup and champions league)
• Total up your points and adjust the live league table.
• Pick up cards when landing on the other sections which will ask you to make financial decisions. Some cards will allow to embrace the dark side and have a go at your rivals.
• At the end of a season you will be given money based on your final league position, minus player wages. Then you will have the opportunity to invest in infrastructure, players and managers should have enough money that will help you next season.

I have made a first draft mock up print of the gameboard at 800x550 with some grey board backing so you can imagine what the board would be like on the table. When I get my full prototype I will include more photos. See below:

Matchday Is Where It All Comes Together

You've spent the money.

You've built the club.

You've backed your team.

Now it's time to find out if it was worth it. Roll the dice.

Every league and cup match is a battle of preparation, risk and opportunity. Every win improves morale, but every defeat takes it down and affects performance.

Your club's strength, investments and decisions can give you modifiers that influence the outcome — but football has never been completely predictable.

A weaker team can pull off a shock.

A title favourite can crumble under pressure.

A carefully constructed squad can suddenly find itself on the wrong side of the dice.

That's football.

The live league table is a feature of the game and will updated each matchday.

Get Ahead Of Your Rivals

There can only one winner, the Chairman who has the most valuable club.

Build your football empire, watch your back, and build your team your way.

You aren't playing against an AI opponent or following a predetermined career path.

You're competing against other Chairmen. Because in Ultimate League Chairman, your greatest threat isn't always what happens on the pitch.

Sometimes…

it's the Chairman sitting across the table.

Your rivals can attack you with a variety of Skulduggery cards which can set you back badly. The only way to fight back is to play dirty, but be careful, some moves have consequences if you get found out!

Below are a shot of the four decks of cards: Skulduggery, Scouting, Chairman’s and Manager:

Build your football empire, watch your back, and build your club your way.

This Is Your Club

Your rivals will try to overtake you and the pressure will keep building. But ultimately, there is only one person sitting in the Chairman's seat.

You.

You have the authority to shape the club's destiny.

You have the money.

You have the power.

You make the decisions.

Will you become the Chairman who delivers glory?

Or will your decisions become the reason the club falls apart?

Power has a price

Being Chairman isn't about making the safe decision. It's about making the decision you believe will win.

Do you spend big now and chase immediate glory?

Do you build for the future?

Do you protect your finances?

Do you gamble on success?

Do you invest millions in the hope of creating a commercial powerhouse?

Every decision creates new opportunities.

And every mistake can come back to haunt you.

In the game a number of different options will be available to you based on card decks. Here are a few examples and some I have printed out as a first draft:

How To Win

Your club must be worth the most at the end of four complete seasons.

To define a club's worth the following is considered:

1. How much money a club has at the end
2. Value of infrastructure
3. Add together your league placements over the four seasons with the higher positions attracting more value
4. Trophies won - in addition to the money received a trophy will add value to your club and be counted at the end

You can win by doing well in all four areas above or an abundance in one or two of these areas. This presents a number of different ways to win. A player who was won the league and the champions league could be penniless and lose out in the end to a player who has methodically saved up money with a top stadium but won nothing.

Club worth is a combination of £Millions + Infrastructure + Commercial Brand Value

Why Back The Game

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE FOOTBALL TYCOON GAME!

Build your club.

Manage the millions.

Take the risks.

Win the matches.

Outmanoeuvre your rivals.

Become the Ultimate League Chairman.

What makes this go so exciting? 

You have different ways to win which requires careful thought, risk taking, luck and treachery.

• What type of Chairman do you want to become?
• What type of club will you inherit at the start of the game? Will you change the ethos of the club or build on what's there?
• Are you looking for immediate prestige and trophies or well balanced solidarity?
• All the players are your rivals!

Keep your eye on this game as we will have more updates coming soon....

AI Disclosure

Some of the artwork in my project was created with the assistance of AI, however all the idea come from me. AI has been a creative tool with my direction. The game's concept, mechanics, development, editing, direction and overall creative decisions have been created and overseen by me.