Friendlies

Friendly broker

You can arrange friendly matches using the Friendly Broker which is linked to on the forthcoming matches page for your team. You can specify which day you would like the match to start. You can also restrict the start time and the rating of your opponent. The friendly broker will then generate a friendly fixture for you if there is another team who wants to play a friendly and your criteria match. If there is no other matching team then your request will wait for another team to make a request for a friendly until the day you requested.

System managed teams

When you request a friendly you can choose whether you will allow a system-managed team to accept the friendly request. System-managed teams are weaker than user-managed teams but they are less choosy about when they play their games. System-managed teams will only accept a request for a friendly the day before the request expires. This is to allow user-managed teams a chance to accept the request first.

Cancelling a request

If you already have already made a friendly request you can cancel it from the same Friendly Broker page.

League fixtures and friendlies

When a league's fixtures are generated any outstanding friendly requests for the teams in the league are deleted. This is to prevent a friendly fixture clashing with a league fixture.

Challenges

You can challenge other teams to a friendly at a time that suits you. There is a link to challenge a team on their team page. This will give tkae you to a page where you can choose a date and time for the friendly match and choose which ground the match will be played at.

You cannot challenge a team when there are matches for either team that would clash with the proposed match time. Also, you can only have a maximum of 5 challenges in effect at any one time.

You can see the challenges made and received by your team by following the 'Challenges' link in the left menu for your team's page.