Quote: Originally Posted By bigal888 on 7/12/2009 We just rolled into our 5th season and I noticed a lot of new teams joined up. The key issue I noticed is that they will all start with a 5000 standing room stadium. Why not put these new teams into a second division where they can compete and work their way up? Shouldn't we be at about that point where a second division can start?

Knowing what I know now, if I had a new team like this I would sign a crappy team to 1 year contracts (maybe 1 or 2 solid players to long term deals) and dump all the money into a stadium. Then grab free agents the next season. My team is middle of the pack so I let the older big $ free agents go and added 10,000 seats this season and will get back into the swing next season with my 20,000 (12,500 seats) stadium.

Just noticed that there are 36 Mexico teams playing with 6 on the waiting list. That would make 42 teams and there are 2 leagues with Mexico. With the 2 extra teams would that bring on a 2nd division for the next season or where would the extra teams go?

If they want to get to 5 countries per world, it makes sense that they would wait for a few more Mexico teams and then add Mexico to another world. We probably won't see second divisions until every world has 5 countries or the USA is in every world and they have 20 USA teams waiting.

The total number of clubs listed includes the ones on the wait list.

Number of clubs for a country are all user owned clubs, including those on the waiting list and those that haven't clicked to join a league yet.

Quote: Originally posted by norbert on 7/15/2009Consolidation is not in the plans, but I would not say it would never happen. We want to wait to see if we can get the number of users we need for the current worlds from Fox Soccer, which has been a very slow process because they have a lot on their plates, but it will pick up eventually.  They are behind the game 100% and have a stake in it now.  We have the number of people playing now with no advertising and very little presence on just our site (basically a menu link and forums), so it's not too far fetched to think we could get 10 times that number with Fox Soccer throwing some real estate up for it.  I'd like to see at least 5 countries per world and 2 or more divisions per country.The first few updates will most likely be improving the basics of the game, like play by play, tactics, and players, but the game really reaches full potential when we can start looking at youth academies, international competitions, and national teams.

I know we have to be patient for this to fill but I think that if we had/when we have a realistic World formation with the above mentioned full potential ***ets in place is when the europeans will come knocking at the door and we will have no problems filling vacant spots.