For Clubs
Scouting and recruitment were the focus this week. The biggest change is that Scouting no longer asks you to type in a transfer budget: the market-value benchmark now works off your squad's own average value, and smaller clubs finally see affordable players from their own markets instead of empty Bargains and Blocked talent boards. Recruitment Priorities also got smarter, ranking each position by how your own players there actually perform and suggesting targets through a guided wizard. Alongside that, several league-table and season-selection bugs that occasionally showed the wrong season or phantom teams are now fixed.
Added
- Scouting: you can now enter your league's non-EU registration limit and see how many squad slots are used and how many are free.
- Scouting: prospect cards now show injury status, EU passport, and the other positions a player can cover.
- Scouting: every prospect card now has an Add to Radar button, so building a comparison no longer needs a hidden drag gesture.
- Scouting: a guided eight-step tour now walks you through the prospect boards and their filters.
- Recruitment Priorities: a guided wizard now suggests players by prefilling leagues, budget, and age from your squad, asking only how urgent the signing is.
- My Ads: posting a recruitment need now surfaces a ranked list of matching players from the Find Players pool.
- Find Players: club viewers now get a fit score against their own active needs plus a map of where listed players play.
- Reports: you can now generate downloadable PDF reports for a player and their league fit.
Changed
- Scouting: the market-value benchmark now uses your squad's average value, so no club is asked to type in a budget any more.
- Scouting: the Under 21, Bargains, and Blocked talent boards now share one consistent set of filters and load noticeably faster.
- Recruitment Priorities: position needs are now weighted by how your own players in each position perform, so mirrored roles like left and right back no longer read identically.
- Recruitment Priorities: priorities now benchmark against the league median, matching every other player comparison on the platform.
- Recruitment Priorities: the current starter for each position is now taken from your last five matches rather than whole-season minutes.
- Squad: your squad view now fixes on your current squad instead of a historical list.
- League Fit: the Targets tab now opens on players you have already saved and scores a single target without needing a second.
Fixed
- Standings: promotion and relegation playoff ties no longer show up as phantom extra teams or extra matches played in league tables.
- Season Overview: season auto-selection now picks the real latest season instead of occasionally landing on a decades-old one.
- Fit Check and Projected Performance: both tools now fall back to a fuller past season and let you pick the season when the current one has too little data.
- Recruitment Priorities: the metrics popup now shows a player's counting stats per match, matching the per-game team figure beside them.
- Recruitment Priorities: shot conversion no longer reads 0% for players who have actually scored.
- Scouting: the market-value cap now rounds to a figure much closer to the true value near the one-million mark.
For Everyone
Player profiles had a broad overhaul this week. Percentile charts are now pizza charts across every surface, physical output metrics have arrived, and a new hover breakdown explains exactly which goals a player is credited with when totals look disputed. Under the surface, physical and goal figures are now calculated the same way everywhere, so the same player no longer reads different numbers in different places. Sign-up also changed: you can now subscribe and start straight away or take a 7-day free trial, and the email verification step is gone.
Added
- Player Profiles: physical output metrics (distance, sprints, high-speed running, and top speed) now appear, ranked against position peers in the same competition and season.
- Player Profiles: hovering a goal count now lists every goal credited to the player and the own goals counted for their team, explaining any disputed total.
- Sign-up: you can now subscribe and start immediately, or take a 7-day free trial with a countdown showing how long is left.
- Marketplace: Available Players now has an Established, Emerging, and Other filter so the strongest inventory shows first.
Changed
- Player Profiles: percentile charts are now pizza charts coloured by metric family, replacing the old radar across every player surface.
- Player Profiles: the competition selector now shows every competition of a player's career, grouped into leagues, cups, and youth and ordered by recency.
- Player Stats: physical output and goal involvement are now calculated consistently, fixing inflated per-90 rates and goal counts that used to disagree between views.
- Sign-up: registration no longer requires a separate email verification step before you reach the platform.
- Notifications: email notifications are now anonymised.
Fixed
- Player Stats: the fouls-won metric is now labelled Fouls Won, so it is no longer mistaken for a second fouls-committed figure.
- Player Stats: market values of a million or more now display correctly instead of reading as thousands.
- Player Profiles: one viewer's ad-hoc chart selection no longer silently rewrites the chart everyone else sees.
- Match Record: the career record is now labelled as career-wide, so its totals no longer look like they contradict the selected season.
- Sign-up: the trial countdown now floats as a pill instead of hiding behind the dashboard bar.
For Agents
The Contact Directory is the headline: it now covers 668 clubs across 52 countries, with each contact showing every source that confirms the role and how fresh it is. Sitting alongside it, the Recent Moves feed went live, showing confirmed club-staff moves with the press article behind each and contacts you can open inline. Agencies also gained public profile pages and agency-level share links, and there is a new hub for managing the player pages you share.
Added
- Contact Directory: a new club contact directory now covers 668 clubs across 52 countries, each contact showing every source that confirms it and its freshness date.
- Recent Moves: a live feed now shows confirmed club-staff moves, quoting the press article that confirms each, with contacts expandable inline.
- Agency Profiles: agencies now have public profile pages and agency-level share links.
- Shared Pages: a shared-pages hub lets you manage the player pages you share and choose what each share exposes.
- Recruitment Needs: you can now see clubs' recruitment needs and send a request against them.
- Marketplace: you can now attach a highlights or video link when proposing a player against a recruitment need.
Changed
- Agency Directory: the directory now ranks by market value by default and gives agencies already on Footy Labs a distinct look.
- Recent Moves: once a move is confirmed, the person now appears under their new club with a Recently joined badge linking to the press citation.
- Player Performance Stats: the season picker in the stats modal is now searchable with country flags and tier badges.
Fixed
- Roster: you can now edit contract expiry for officially represented players, not just mandate players.
- Roster: the average market value pill is now clearly labelled and hidden for placeholder clubs where it meant nothing.
- Agency Staff: agents added directly by an admin now appear in their own agency's Staff section instead of being invisible.
- Prospect Notes: notes now load reliably and keep the privacy level you set.
- Opportunities: players matched only by their main position are no longer wrongly pushed into the blurred 'other positions' teaser.
For Players
Your own profile surfaces improved this week. Public player pages now exist with search-friendly content and shareable preview cards, and you can see analytics on who has viewed your profile. Your CV career table now pulls in seasons from competitions that were previously missing, and your Benchmark Hub tells you which season each comparison is drawn from.
Added
- Public Profile: you now have a public player page with search-friendly content and a shareable preview card, plus analytics on who viewed it.
- My CV: your career table now merges in seasons from competitions that were previously missing, grouped into leagues, cups, and youth with subtotals.
- Reviews: you can now leave club reviews, with viewing gated on contributing your own.
Changed
- Benchmark Hub: your benchmarking view now names the season each comparison cohort is drawn from, which matters most when it falls back to an older one.
Fixed
- Public Profile: the rest of your career now shows on your public share pages for logged-out visitors, instead of appearing empty.
- Reviews: placeholder clubs like "Without Club" and "Retired" no longer appear in the list of clubs you can review.