MatchCraftYOUR TEAM. YOUR DECISIONS.WHY MATCHCRAFT?
Fair minutes. Sensible positions. Changes you can manage from the touchline. Tell MatchCraft what matters to your team, and let it work through the rotation.
TWO WAYS TO PLAN
BALANCED TEAM
MatchCraft works forward through the match, weighing who needs playing time against who fits each position. It aims to keep a sensible team on the pitch while rotating your squad.
Use Pure Fair → Favour Key to adjust the playing-time targets for key and squad players. You decide how much emphasis to give your key players.
Explore video guides →EQUAL-TIME
MatchCraft first works out who should be on the pitch to spread playing time, then finds suitable positions for that group. It gives fair minutes priority over the most natural positional fit.
Key-player status is ignored. The key-player slider is disabled in this mode, so rotating players work towards equal playing-time targets.
Explore video guides →Equal-time is an aim, not a promise of identical minutes. Available players, eligible positions, locked players and the timing of substitution windows can limit what’s possible.
THE PLANNING, IN PLAIN ENGLISH
The planner checks availability, allowed roles and your player locks. It also considers preferred positions, side and footedness when choosing where players fit.
Your chosen mode guides each block of the match. When planning the remaining game, minutes already played count towards each player’s target.
Both modes try alternative stretches of the rotation, looking for fewer conflicts and a closer match to playing-time targets. You can preview the result before kick-off.
Balanced builds an initial plan one window at a time. Equal-time separates player selection from position assignment. Both then run a limited search across the schedule to improve it. The same inputs produce the same result; the search is not random.
The planner checks whether lineups are allowed before weighing preferences. Its search is deliberately limited to keep planning practical, so it does not guarantee the best possible schedule or prove that no alternative exists.
YOUR SETTINGS. YOUR MATCH DAY.
Set the match length and choose halves, thirds or quarters. Let breaks happen automatically or call them yourself.
Set your earliest substitution time and the number of in-game windows per period. Give the team time to settle before the first planned change.
Set separate preferences for how many substitutions to make during play and at breaks. Aim for fewer position switches for players staying on.
Set a preferred maximum number of stints. Use the substitution cooldown to stop automatic suggestions immediately involving players you’ve just moved. Manual changes remain available.
Lock the goalkeeper out of automatic substitutions while retaining manual control. Automatic goalkeeper assignments require a player eligible to play in goal.
Choose alerts for upcoming changes, substitutions due, intervals and kick-off. Set a lead time and choose sound, vibration or notifications, subject to device permissions.
Limits on substitutions, stints and position switches are planning preferences, not guaranteed caps. Availability, allowed roles and player locks are firm checks. Review the plan and any warnings before kick-off.
WHEN THE MATCH CHANGES
Make a manual substitution, deal with an unavailable player or change formation during play. Remaining-match planning takes actual minutes already played into account.
Explore video guides →Record and correct the score, see playing time on the pitch and bench, and review and share the summary at full-time.
Explore video guides →Choose manual-substitution mode when you want to make every change yourself. Keep the match clock and playing-time tracking without automatic planning or suggestions.
Explore video guides →YOUR TEAM. YOUR DECISIONS.
Start with our team and player setup demos, then explore more on YouTube.