Feudal Football: your real club's matches build your medieval House

Feudal Football turns the club you already support into a medieval House that grows every time your players do something on the pitch. You swear to one real club, knight real footballers, and their goals, saves and tackles in real matches come back to you as ground taken, gold in the vault and knights who get harder to beat.

Every deed is a real one, lifted from the real match. Your No. 9 scores on Saturday and you take ground, and he comes off the pitch stronger than he went on. Your keeper keeps them out and your midfield wins its tackles, and gold, steel and loot come home. Nothing is simulated and nothing is a dice roll. If it did not happen on the pitch, it does not happen to your realm.

Feudal Football runs on the fixture list, so it plays while you do not. Your knights turn out for their real clubs whether or not you are watching, and your mines and markets work through the week on top of that. You open it on Saturday evening to a match report and a pile of spoils, rather than to a list of chores.

Feudal Football is the builder that finishes itself. You still get the squad, the ownership and the numbers going up, but the engine is the real season instead of a save file you have to sit through, so there is no simulation to watch and no month to click past. The only input it wants is the match you were already going to watch.

No, and being away is not punished, it is banked. Nothing in Feudal Football expires, nothing decays, and there is no streak to break. Go quiet for a fortnight and you come back to a fortnight of matches, spoils and building waiting to be collected in one sitting, which is arguably the better way to play it.

Your other knights keep playing. Your banner is one club, but your warband can be recruited out of 26 leagues, and each knight earns from his own club's fixtures rather than from yours. A squad drawn from a few different countries has something on most days of the week, so an international break or a quiet Sunday for your club is not a quiet week for your House.

You swear to one club, and you can recruit from all of them. Banners come from 26 top divisions, covering most of Europe including England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, Poland, Greece and the Nordic countries, along with Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Australia, Egypt, South Africa, South Korea and India. In England it is the top flight only, and Germany, Ireland and Japan are not in the list. Your banner never changes. Where your knights come from is entirely up to you.

Feudal Football is free, and the things worth having cannot be bought at any price. Ground and knight strength are minted by real matches only, so the sole way to take land is for your players to go and do it. There is an optional subscription and there are two paid packs, and what they buy you is capacity and luck. Nobody is out-building you with a card.

No, and the difference is what you stake. Before kickoff you can back your own knights with what they have already won on the pitch, never with money. Your land and your gold cannot be staked, cannot be lost and cannot be taken by another player, and no House can win anything off another. The worst Saturday available to you is one that pays nothing.

Nothing, and that is rather the point. In Feudal Football your club's result can only ever help you, so a defeat pays nothing and takes nothing, and a relegation season cannot undo a keep. You will never again need your own side to fall short so that something else of yours goes right.

No, but it is built for the one you already shout at. Your banner is permanent, so there is no chasing whoever is top of the table in August. Your warband is the opposite: you can recruit the rival striker who has been tormenting you for a decade and put him in your colours. He will still score against you on Saturday. He will just be working for you when he does.

No. Feudal Football is independent, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by any club, league, competition or player. Every crest, banner and coat of arms in it was drawn for this game and exists nowhere else.

Open Feudal Football in a browser and pick your club, and your first fixtures are already on the calendar waiting for you. It is free, it runs on a phone or a laptop, and there is nothing to download unless you want it sitting on your home screen.