What fees are payable on trades?

How fees work

When you make a trade in the game, you'll see the fee that applies. This can depend on:

• The action you are taking - signing, releasing or swapping
• Whether the player is involved in a live fixture
• The size and market impact of a release
• Your recent selling activity across the market
• Any temporary fee rules applying to that player

Where several fee rules apply at the same time, they are generally not added together: the highest applicable fee is used.

Standard trading fees

• These are the normal fees charged when you sign, release or swap player shares.
• A swap has two sides: releasing shares in one player and signing shares in another. Each side has its own fee and what you pay is the combination of the two

Market-health fees

There are four types of dynamic fees that respond to market conditions:

Live-fixture fees

You can trade a player while they're involved in a game, but a higher fee applies when releasing or swapping out of a player who has entered the pitch in football, or where their fixture has started in NFL.

• Signing or swapping into the player is unaffected.
• Releasing or swapping out carries a 10% fee while the player is participating.
• When the player leaves the field in football, or when the game ends in NFL, the fee begins to fall gradually.
• The fee returns to the normal level over the following hour.

Large-trade fees (also known as 'surge fees')

A large release can have an immediate effect on a player’s price. If your proposed sale would move the market significantly, a higher fee may apply to that trade. The larger the market impact, the higher the fee may be.

Dynamic player fees

Heavy selling can create sustained pressure on an individual player’s market. When this happens, a temporary higher fee may apply to further releases or swaps out of that player.

The fee rises in response to market conditions and gradually returns to normal as the selling pressure eases.

Manager market-impact fees

Rapid or sustained selling across several players can temporarily increase the fee on that manager’s later releases, preventing someone avoiding player-specific protections by dividing a large exit across many different player markets.

The system looks at the combined market impact of qualifying releases over rolling periods, with faster and more sustained selling creating greater pressure.

A few useful clarifications:

• Ordinary small trades should not trigger this.
• Buying and swapping does not contribute to the calculation.
• The fee reduces or expires when the qualifying selling activity stops.
• This remains a priced exit: you can still trade.

Updated on: 14/08/2026