Tournaments are knockout cups your club enters within a season. They come in four formats — here's how each one decides a winner, and what it means for your run.
A captain registers the club (paying any entry fee from the treasury). When the bracket is generated, fixtures are scheduled and your matches appear. You play them in EA as normal and sync the results — the bracket advances live as results confirm. The tournament page shows the overview, the teams, the bracket, and a “My Club” tab with your next fixture and your private squad.
The classic knockout. Win and you advance; lose and you're out. Each round halves the field until two clubs meet in the final. If the number of clubs isn't a clean power of two, the top seeds get a bye through the first round. It's the fastest, highest-stakes format — every match is do-or-die.
A World-Cup-style format. Clubs are drawn into groups and play a round-robin within their group — everyone gets several matches regardless of an early slip. The top finishers from each group advance into a single-elimination knockout bracket to decide the winner. More games, more room to recover from one bad result before the knockouts begin.
One loss doesn't end your run. There are two brackets: a winners' bracket and a losers' bracket. Lose in the winners' bracket and you drop to the losers' bracket for a second life — keep winning there and you can still reach the final. The two bracket champions meet at the end. A second chance for everyone, so the eventual winner has genuinely beaten the field.
No one is eliminated early. Every club plays a fixed number of rounds, and each round pairs you against another club on a similar record — winners face winners, and so on. After all the rounds, the standings rank everyone by their results. It packs a lot of competitive, well-matched games into a set schedule, ideal for larger fields.
Whatever the format, the prize pool pays out when the tournament finishes and lands in the winning club's treasury. Players who actually featured earn the tournament XP — it rewards who played, not just the current roster.