New manager guide
How to play
Gaffer-Rivals is a human-only EA FC 26 Career Mode league. Real managers, real matches, results entered here. Fair play is everything — submit honest scores and always upload screenshots.
1.Create your account
Sign up with your email and confirm the link we send you. Add your Discord handle so rivals can find you.
2.Get your club
An admin assigns you one club. It comes with a transfer budget, a wage budget and a squad — see it all on My Club. You can rename it and upload a crest.
3.Check your fixtures
Every club plays each other home and away. Each matchday has a deadline — the countdown is on Fixtures and on your home page. You get a reminder 24 hours before.
4.Play and submit the result
Arrange the match with your opponent and play it in FC 26 Career Mode. Afterwards either manager opens the fixture and enters the score, scorers, assists, cards, injuries and man of the match, plus screenshots of the final score.
5.Confirm or dispute
Your opponent gets a notification to confirm or dispute. Confirmed results update the table, the stats and both clubs' prize money. Disputes go to the admins, who check the screenshots and decide.
6.Miss the deadline, risk a forfeit
If no result is in by the deadline, an admin can award the match to one side.
7.Trade in transfer windows
When a window is open, list players for sale or loan, or bid on others. Bids are sealed — nobody sees them — and the highest valid bid wins at the deadline. You need enough budget and wage space. Releasing a player costs half his remaining contract wages.
8.Watch your notifications
The bell at the top tells you when a result needs your review, a bid is won or lost, a deadline is close, or a dispute is settled.