Rules of both games

Everything that decides points and places in the two free games — the exact-score prediction game and fantasy football — in one document. The same rules apply on this website and in the app.

1. General principles

Both games are free and award points only. There is no money anywhere: no purchases, no deposits, no stakes and no cash prizes. Points have no monetary value, cannot be exchanged, transferred or sold. If partners ever offer prizes, every contest will have its own published rules and eligibility, and taking part will never require a payment.

The games are part of an unofficial fan project. Competition names, team names and flags are used to identify the matches only; the project is not connected with any football governing body.

2. Player profile

• A profile needs a nickname and a birth year. Players must be at least 13 years old; younger visitors can use everything else on the site and in the app.
• Nicknames are unique within this app (letter case does not matter). Offensive nicknames and names that impersonate other people or official bodies are not allowed and may be renamed or removed.
• One profile per person. Using several profiles, automation or any attempt to manipulate rankings can lead to points being removed or the profile being deleted.
• The profile is protected by a secret player key, created on your device. Whoever has the key controls the profile, so keep it private. The key lets you use the same profile on the website and in the app.
• Country is a two-letter code, prefilled from the device region and editable. It decides your country ranking.
• Contacts for prize contests (Telegram, WhatsApp, Instagram, e-mail, phone) are optional, available from 16 and stored only with the explicit consent "I agree to be contacted about prizes". They are never shown to other players.

3. Exact-score game

3.1 Matches and deadlines

The matches available for predictions are listed on the score prediction page and in the app. A prediction can be created, changed or deleted until kick-off. The kick-off time on the server is decisive; a match also locks as soon as a result has been posted. A match with only a date and no time locks at 00:00 UTC on that date.

3.2 Points

• Exact score: 3 points.
• Right winner and right goal difference, or a draw with a different score: 2 points.
• Right outcome (home win, draw, away win) only: 1 point.
• Otherwise: 0 points.

The score at the end of play counts, including extra time and excluding penalty shoot-outs. Points are calculated when the official result is posted and recalculated if the result is corrected.

3.3 Scoring examples

The table below applies the rules to a few typical results so that every case is clear.

4. Fantasy football

4.1 Squad

Fifteen players — 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders, 3 forwards — bought with a budget of 100.0m; at most three players from one national team. Prices are fixed for the whole season. Players who have left the national team cannot be bought but remain in squads that own them.

4.2 Line-up

For each gameweek you choose eleven starters and four substitutes. Allowed formations: 1 goalkeeper, 3–5 defenders, 2–5 midfielders, 1–3 forwards. Bench slot 12 is the reserve goalkeeper; slots 13–15 are outfield players in priority order. Captain scores ×2; if the captain does not play, the vice-captain scores ×2.

4.3 Automatic substitutions

If a starter plays 0 minutes and all of his team's matches in that gameweek are finished, the first bench player who keeps the formation legal replaces him.

4.4 Points

Appearance 1–59 minutes 1, 60+ minutes 2; goal by goalkeeper or defender 6, midfielder 5, forward 4; assist 3; clean sheet (60+ minutes, nothing conceded while on the pitch) goalkeeper or defender 4, midfielder 1; every 3 saves 1; penalty save 5; penalty miss −2; every 2 goals conceded (goalkeeper or defender) −1; yellow card −1; red card −3 (replaces the yellow); own goal −2. There are no bonus points.

4.5 Gameweeks, deadlines, transfers

A gameweek is one international window: kick-offs less than six days apart belong together. The deadline is the first kick-off. Transfers are unlimited before your first deadline; afterwards one free transfer per gameweek, saved up to two; each extra transfer −4 points, counted against the squad the gameweek started with. One wildcard per season: unlimited transfers for one gameweek without deductions. The national-team fantasy guide explains strategy, prices and the current gameweeks.

5. Rankings

Rankings are calculated for all time, each calendar month and the current tournament or season, in the following scopes: overall, your country, your friends and each private league. Order: points, then exact scores (fantasy: total points), then fewer predictions played, then nickname; equal points and equal exact scores share the same place. The countries table shows the average points of active players per country, for countries with at least three active players.

6. Private leagues and friends

Anybody can create a private league with a name of 3 to 30 characters; it gets a six-character code to share. Leaving a league is always possible; if the owner leaves, the oldest member becomes the owner, and an empty league is deleted. Friends are added mutually with a personal eight-character friend code.

7. Data, deletion, contact

You can export or delete all your game data at any time, in the app or on the player account page. Inactive profiles are deleted automatically after 24 months. How data is handled is described in the privacy policy; general conditions are in the terms of use. Questions about the rules: contact@eurocup28.com.

8. Postponed, abandoned and cancelled matches

If a match is postponed, its new kick-off time is published and predictions stay open until that new kick-off. A match that is abandoned or cancelled without an official result scores no points in either game until a result is officially confirmed; if it is never played, it is removed together with its predictions. A match awarded by a disciplinary decision counts with the awarded score once it is published by the data source. In fantasy, a player whose match is postponed out of the gameweek counts as not having played in that gameweek, and automatic substitutions apply as usual once every other match of his team is finished.

9. Corrections and disputes

Points always follow the official result as published by our data source. If you believe a score, a goal or an assist is wrong, write to us with the match and the minute; we check the source and, if it changes, the points of every player are recalculated. Decisions on fair-play cases (for example several profiles of one person) are taken by the project team and explained on request.

10. Changes to these rules

The rules may be updated between seasons, for instance when a new tournament format starts. Changes never apply retroactively to matches that have already been played, and the current version is always the one on this page and in the app.

11. Worked example of a fantasy gameweek

Suppose your captain is a forward who plays 90 minutes and scores twice: 2 points for the minutes plus 2 × 4 for the goals gives 10, doubled to 20 as captain. Your goalkeeper keeps a clean sheet with four saves: 2 + 4 + 1 = 7. A defender plays 75 minutes, gets a yellow card and his team concedes two goals while he is on the pitch: 2 − 1 − 1 = 0. A midfielder on the bench replaces a starter who did not play and provides an assist in 30 minutes: 1 + 3 = 4. If you made two transfers with only one free transfer available, 4 points are deducted from the gameweek total.

Scoring examples for the score game

Fantasy points by position