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Selling players during a live tournament

You can continue trading while a tournament is live, but selling players who have already entered the tournament may affect your rewards and incur a higher fee.

How selling affects your tournament rewards

When a player enters the pitch - or their game starts in NFL - the shares you hold become eligible for that tournament.

If you then sell enough shares to take your holding below 90% of that eligible amount, this counts as one in-tournament sale. Each player can only count once per tournament, no matter how many separate transactions you make.

A small number of in-tournament sales will not affect your rewards. However, selling several eligible players during the same tournament reduces your overall player-performance reward. These are called substitutions.

Players sold during the tournament	Reward you receive
0–5	100%
6–7	50%
8–9	25%
10 or more	10%
Any reward you give up is redistributed to managers who retained their eligible shares.

You'll be shown a warning before you make a substitution - be sure you want to proceed before confirming!

Fees during live fixtures

A higher fee may also apply when you release or swap out of a player while they are playing:

Releasing or swapping out carries a 10% fee while the player is participating.
The fee begins to fall after the player leaves the field or the game ends.
It gradually returns to its normal level over the following hour.
Signing or swapping into the player is unaffected.

The trade preview will always show the fee that applies before you confirm.

Updated on: 14/08/2026

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