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Welcome to NFC Manager Fantasy League. This is a free to play Fantasy game which lets you manage your own Fantasy team selected from the players in the Barclays Premier League.

Register your teams, choose your tactics, pick your players, select your starting line-ups and transfer wisely. Pit your managerial skills amongst the rest in Asia. You can even set up your own mini league against your mates!

Cash prizes, Nokia mobile phone and a shot at the Grand Prize awaits the top manager each month. Play NFC Manager right now to see if you can be the best in Asia! It's that simple so get started now!

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Early Registration Bonus (20th August - 14th September 2007)


With a budget of £55m and unlimited transfers during pre-scoring rounds, select your star players and put your knowledge and management skills to the test!

Picking Your Team


Study the player list and decide which players you want in your team for the Barclays Premier League 07/08 season.

Your team must contain no more than two players from any one Premiership club and must conform to a 4-4-2 or 5-3-2 formation.

* A 4-4-2 formation consists of one goalkeeper, two full-backs, two centre-backs, four midfielders and two strikers.

* A 5-3-2 formation consists of one goalkeeper, two full-backs, three centre-backs, three midfielders and two strikers.

The total cost of your team cannot exceed the £55m budget

Once you have decided which players you want for your team, click on log in or register, depending on whether you have already entered your personal details or not, to go ahead and select your team.

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Scoring Points


From the first scheduled kick-off of the Demo Fantasy League 07/08 game, until the end of the Barclays Premier League season, points are awarded to players in Premier League matches only on the following basis:

Event Points Details
Goal 3  
Assist 2  
Goalkeeper/Defender Appearance 1 (must play 45 mins or more)
Goalkeeper/Defender Clean Sheet 3 (must play 75 mins, inc. 1 pt for appearance)
Goalkeeper/Defender Goal Against -1  

These points then make up you, the managers and cumulative team score. Each team competes in a 'Fantasy League' table against other teams, for the glory of coming top of the pile and maybe even a prize or two along the way.

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Goals :
Goals are those officially attributed by the Press Association (PA). Fantasy League will not overrule this source in any circumstances. Fantasy League can only amend goals that are overruled by PA within 24 hours.

Assists :
Generally, a team-mate making the last completed pass to a goalscorer before a goal is scored will earn an assist. There are only two exceptions:

* If the last touch is by an opposing defender and significantly alters the speed or direction of the ball (excluding a goal-line clearance). This could result from a dodgy backpass, a defensive deflection, a blocked shot or a poor clearance. However, if the defender's touch occurs after the goalscorer has already touched the ball then the assist will stand. This is because the assist is given for the last pass to the goalscorer, and the defensive interference has occurred after this.

* If the last touch before the goalscorer receives the ball is from his own team mate but does not significantly alter the speed or direction of the ball then two separate assists are given. One to the person providing the ball and one to the attacker providing the flick on. These typically occur as a result of near post corners, long throw-ins and goal-kicks.

Whether the player intends to interfere with the flight of the ball or not, is not the defining factor in awarding assists. The assists are decided on the actual movement of the ball and how it is affected by any touch by attacking or defending players.

A player who has a shot which comes off the woodwork and rebounds back to the goalscorer will also be deserving of an assist.

Appearance points & Clean Sheets :
An appearance point (1 point) is awarded to any goalkeeper or defender who is on the pitch for at least 45 minutes - including injury time (i.e a full half). Goalkeepers and defenders who appear in only part of a game will lose one point per goal conceded while they are on the pitch. Accordingly, a player who completes a game and concedes one goal will score no points (0 points). A player who completes thirty minutes of a game and concedes one goal will be deducted one point (-1 point total).

If a player completes 75 minutes or more of a game before he is substituted - and no goals are conceded whilst he's on the pitch - then that player will be awarded two extra points for a ‘clean sheet' (3 points total).

Goalkeepers and defenders receiving red cards will lose points after they are sent off. If a player is sent off and his team concedes goals after his dismissal, he continues to lose the points that his team-mates do.

If the goalkeeper / defender is sent off and his team keep a clean sheet then, as previously, he keeps the points as at the time he was sent off.

The decision of Fantasy League will be final on all these matters.



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Transfers


If your team isn't performing as you would like, it's easy to switch players in and out. Prior to the start of the game, unlimited changes can be made to your team. Once scoring for the game is underway, you can make a maximum of 25 transfers in total. To help ensure that you use your resources wisely, you can only use a maximum of 5 transfers in any one calendar month. So, one more time... that's 25 transfers in total for the season and no more than 5 transfers can be used in any one calendar month.

Transfers can be made at any time. Any transfers made after a scheduled kick-off/whilst a match is in progress will simply take effect for the next match.

To make a transfer, go to your team screen and click on the Team Changes button. You should then follow the prompts displayed on the screen.

Don't forget… You can make unlimited changes before scoring for the Demo Fantasy League 07/08 game begins.

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