Your four teams earn points for you in every Champions League match they play:
| What happens | Points |
|---|---|
| Your team wins | 3 |
| Your team draws | 1 |
| Your team loses | 0 |
| Your team reaches a knockout round (Round of 16 onwards) | +2 |
All four of your teams score for you and their points are added together. If two of your teams happen to play each other, you score for both sides of the result.
Each knockout stage a team appears in is worth +2 points, awarded once per stage as soon as that round's fixtures are confirmed — you don't have to wait for the match to be played.
The stages that count are the Round of 16, Quarter-final, Semi-final and Final. So a team that reaches the final earns 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 progression points, on top of its match points.
Not towards the score of the match. If a knockout tie is decided on penalties, the shootout is stripped out before scoring. A match finishing 1–1 and won 4–3 on penalties is scored as a draw — 1 point each, and only the 1–1 goals count towards your goal totals. The shootout result is still displayed underneath, for information.
The winner isn't left out of pocket, though: because they go through, they appear in the next round's fixtures and pick up the +2 progression points for it.
Because you have four teams, P counts four teams' worth of fixtures — so after a single matchday you'd typically see P = 4, not 1.
If two players are level on points we compare, in order:
Nobody. Results come automatically from the official football-data.org feed and update during matches. Nobody can edit a score — not other players, not the league organiser, not us. That's deliberate: it keeps every league honest.
Every player gets one team from each of the four official UEFA pots, so everyone ends up with a mix of a top seed and a lower seed. It's completely random, and run by the league organiser.
Yes. With 36 teams and potentially more than nine players, teams get shared. What we guarantee is that no two players get the identical set of four teams, so nobody is your exact twin in the standings.
No — the luck of the draw is rather the point.
No. The organiser can use "Draw for new players", which gives teams only to people who don't have any. Everyone else keeps their teams and their points.
Run Draw reassigns everyone's teams and resets all scores to zero. It asks for confirmation first. Use it only for a genuinely fresh start.
From the day you join. Every match played on that date counts, even if it kicked off earlier in the evening — so joining at 8pm on a matchday still gets you that night's results. Matches on earlier days don't count: you don't inherit points from games you weren't there for. The same applies to knockout bonuses — you collect the +2 for any round confirmed on or after your join date.
This means players who joined at different times can have played a different number of matches. The P column shows exactly that.
Two ways: tap the invite link the organiser sends you, or tap Join league on your My Leagues page and enter the league code (it looks like SL-A1234).
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League-phase standings only exist once the league phase is under way. Before the first matchday there's genuinely nothing to show.
It filters the list down to matches involving your four teams — the only ones that affect your score.
It fills in automatically as each round is confirmed by UEFA. Nothing for you to do.
Live during matches, straight from the official feed, and your league table recalculates itself as results come in.
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