WikiStadium & facilities
Your stadium is both living room and revenue source. With smart expansion, well-kept facilities and happy fans it becomes a fortress with a full till.
Stadium blocks
Your stadium consists of individually expandable and renovatable blocks across several rings. Only blocks in the innermost ring can be used as standing areas. Expansion has limits:
- Ring 2 can only be expanded from a capacity of 24,000 seats.
- Ring 3 from 48,000 seats.
Boxes hold 10 seats each and must always be rented in full, regardless of attendance.
Facilities
Besides the stadium, your club grounds are crucial (e.g. sausage/drink/fan-shop stands, rehab clinic, training pitches, youth academy & youth pitches). Buildings wear out over time and need renovating.
If a building decays to 0%, the current level is demolished and must be rebuilt. Renovating is always cheaper than rebuilding – so maintain in time.
Fans
Your fans are the be-all and end-all of financial success:
- Hardcore fans prefer standing areas and create the atmosphere.
- Casuals mainly take seats.
- Business fans love boxes and spend the most.
The higher the fan count and atmosphere, the more spectators come – and the more they buy at your stands. You can see both in the Fans tab of your stadium, per fan group. The fan count grows long-term with your sporting success; the atmosphere reacts constantly to what you do. How big your fan base can get depends on your country's fan potential – but international success moves that limit: if your country performs well in Europe (five-year ranking) and your club wins international titles itself, the fan potential of all your fan groups grows well beyond the normal national level.
What moves the atmosphere
Fan atmosphere is no coincidence – it reacts to concrete events:
- Results & season record: wins and a season above expectations lift the mood, defeats drag it down.
- Transfers: a star signing thrills the stands; selling a crowd favourite (a top player in your squad) makes them furious – hardcore fans take it hardest.
- Stadium: a completed expansion gives a mood boost (at most once every 10 days), a decaying stadium annoys everyone.
- Finances: lasting debt costs noticeable atmosphere.
- Fan events: club festival, family day & co. are targeted investments in good spirits.
A good fan atmosphere carries your team: at home matches your side gets up to +3% match strength on top – with a miserable atmosphere the effect even tips slightly negative. Together with the regular home advantage, your own stands are a true twelfth man (on neutral ground, such as finals, both are off).
Season tickets
At the start of the season (days 1–5) you sell season tickets for the whole campaign: you set a quota and a price each for standing and seated areas. How many tickets sell depends on fan count, atmosphere and your price – and on timing: demand is highest on day one and then ebbs away. Setting it up early pays off.
- The income (ticket price × all league home matches) lands on your club account immediately – a nice cash cushion for the start of the season.
- In return, the sold seats are occupied at every league home match: season-ticket holders attend, but no longer pay matchday admission.
- Excessive prices slow down sales – as a rule of thumb, fans compare against normal ticket prices.
Tickets
You set individual prices per seat type: standing 5–20, seats 10–40, boxes 800–1,200 (the box price is per full box). The utilisation display helps with fine-tuning: pricier tickets = fewer spectators, but possibly more income. Finding the sweet spot pays off.
Happy fans + full stands + good prices = a full till and a tailwind on the pitch. Expand rings in the right order, maintain the facilities, set up your season tickets on day one – and treat your stands well, they play along.
Some sponsors lower expansion and renovation costs: Schlüttfixi Bau for the stadium itself, Max Fliege Bier (hot dog/refreshment stands) and Rehbock Sportswear (fan shop) for the facilities. More under Sponsors.