• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-29

Starting with this season, the top teams of each country in sokker will take part in the sokker club Champions Cup. The total number of participants in the Champions Cup is 128 teams. This total is made up of the following teams:
- 95 League Champions from each country that already have a national team.
- 33 National Cup winners from the countries that have the highest national ranking.

If it occurs, that one team wins both National Championship and National Cup, then the Champions Cup place moves down to a National Cup winner from the next country in the national ranking.

This competition is by means of knockout and shall provide the same amount of training for your players as an official game does currently.

Champions Cup games will be played on Thursdays. The draw shall be seeded based on your teams current ranking.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-29

From the first friendlies after the play-off games a new match engine shall be installed.
In this new engine the major changes are all related with your new junior teams to enable junior matches to be played.
Juniors play based on their current hidden skills, which level the play at is related with how well their total skill is visible on your junior’s page. Juniors will play as if they were in superdivine form. The juniors pace, for game purposes, shall be increased by 5%. This is to make the viewing of the junior games less dull. Juniors cannot be injured after the match i.e. if they are injured during the game they will make a speedy recovery directly after the game is finished. Yellow/Red cards and goals are not recorded either.

Other modifications are:

- Players height, the taller the player is, decides on how well they perform on a heading duel with opponents, on the other hand the shorter they are will allow the player to speed up quicker (but maxim speed is still same for short and tall players and depends on their pace skill).
Height has been balanced to not favour short or tall players, but it does matter what style of play you prefer - e.g. if you use the wing more, passes on head or rather through passes.
- Players may now block an opponent slightly while running to the ball, how good they block depends on their experience. For example an experienced defender will be able to either block or at least slow the attacker somewhat. Players will not block while heading. That change was tested three seasons ago and is now introduced.
- Tactical Discipline skill will now have an increased influence on the player’s position accuracy according to tactics during match.
- A defender will now watch if their team mate is behind them and basing on it decide to dribble or to pass in a hurry if opponent is close, this will decrease number of stupid loses of ball by defenders and also let you use defenders in offensive actions.
- NT players will get 50% of training instead of 33% while playing in a national match
- The offside numbers are now counted and displayed

• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-28

We are introducing a new feature that will be short messages, displayed as a pop-up box, informing user about some events. You can also review the notifications within your mailbox.

Initially only notifications listed below are ready:
- You have new mail
- Someone has overbid your offer

We plan to be adding the following notifications in the future as shown below:
- A user has read your mail
- Your player has been selected or removed from NT or U21
- You have sold a player
- A manager has asked you to form a pact
- You have been challenged to a friendly match
- Your invitation to a friendly match has been accepted
- Someone has signed your guestbook (Plus)
- A friend or observed user has written a new press announcement(Plus)
- Someone has replied to your post in the forums
- Your Plus has expired or is soon to expire (Plus)
- A player in your briefcase is on the transfer list (Plus)
- A friend or observed user is online (Plus)

Modification will take effect 7-8 december, after play-off games

• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-28

From the 8th-9th of December you shall be able to either tip the score in any game you wish or comment on the outcome of the game. This feature will be available within the TV studio which shall be opened a week before the match takes place and shall remain open for comments after the match has finished.
This new tool will enable you to see how others think you may do in the game and it can also be used for some cheeky mind games against your opponent.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-28

We have introduced some minor modifications to the game:
- Popup menus on right and left menu bar which allow new users to catch up quicker on the menu organisation.
- Security of all pages have been reviewed and changed. Although this was a large change you should hopefully see no changes. If you do please post in the Bugs / Ideas (en) forum.
- Mailbox changes with the addition of notifiers (explained in upcoming news topic).
- League table colours to represent promotion, relegation, playoff etc.
- Sorting players squad by age, value, skills and also for plus users by values for each formation defined in assistant
- A short note has been added when publishing friendly ads
- Many minor bug scripts fixes

Modification will take effect 7-8 december, after play-off games

• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-26

We have implemented an update for deleting unused data in Sokker tables. The purpose of this update is to enable a quicker data backup and morning update.

This update will clean tables of old matches that contain players that are not still active in Sokker(i.e. have been fired or deleted). The optimization will affect only matches that are older than 2 seasons.

For old matches with no active players remaining, the following will take place:
- delete players list (numbers) and players statistics data
- delete stored tactics view settings
- if there are no players on the list in both teams the match comment will also be removed

The optimisation will be executed from Wednesday and carried out during the testing phase everyday with limited number of matches affected.

After the successful testing phase we plan to add further data cleaning eg;
- transfer forums old topics
- match orders (currently all orders are stored)

• rtg [del]
• 2009-11-16

From now on the following changes apply regarding Transfer Forums:

* Players can only be advertised in their home country or the home country of the user selling them. This means that all National Transfer Forums in effect become closed forums.

* Transfer (en), Transfer Star (en) and Transfer Junior (en) (formerly known as Transfer II, Transfers III and Junior Transfers) become the official worldwide Transfer Forums where all players can be advertised according to their own specific rules. You can add those forums to your forum list by clicking in ->Show other forums

These changes are designed to reduce complexity that currently exists in transfer forums. We also expect that National Forums become more usable as they will be more focused in the national players and local market.

Before posting in any Transfer Forum please read the rules thread of that forum as special rules may apply.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-08-24

As some leagues have many bot teams that produce walkovers in them, it makes for quite an uneventful week when human teams face them.

Starting this season bot teams will have their line-up and match orders set by using current order supplemented with new players if needed.
The default order is as follows:
- if there are players in the bot team, but previously not set in the match orders, they shall be moved into the orders.
- if a team doesnt have enough players to actually field a team then new players shall be generated for this team, to supplement squad, under the same rules as new teams being generated.

Additionally older players in bot teams will retire. How often will depend on age and value. In general if the player is 33 or older then it is possible they will be retired. A new player shall replace the retired player in each bot team as long as this player was actively playing in the team.

Both updates will be executed every Tuesday - until the season starts it will be executed every day for testing.

• rtg [del]
• 2009-08-17

It is election time again! You will have the opportunity to stand for election as the national team coach (either Senior or U21) of any nation, and vote a Senior and U21 manager for your own nation.

To access the election page, go to the respective country homepage, then click on National Team, and then Elections.

This season we would like to welcome the following new countries to both the NT and U21 competitions.

as-Saʻūdiyya (Saudi Arabia)
U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates)
Kazakhstán
al-Jazā’ir (Algeria)
Sakartvelo (Georgia)


If you stand for election, it is recommended that you open ONE thread in the appropriate country forum after the elections start. Please prefix your thread with [NT] or [U21] , e.g. [NT] forestman or [U21] guacamole. Please do NOT spam forums, SK-mail people directly for votes, or spam users Guest Books. Any of these spammy activities will result in forum banning and/or financial fine.

Please remember that a user who has been elected as an NT manager will not be able to resign from their job. Therefore when you stand for the NT job, it is not only for fun, it is also your responsibility to serve the full term which the people that voted you into the job thought you should serve.

Elections will start August 17th and end 30th August at 22:08, so start preparing your speeches, asking candidates tough questions & voting!

• forestman [del]
• 2009-07-24

We are proud to introduce the official Sokker T-Shirt. It is available from our shop which is accessible from Plus -> Shop. It is also possible to buy Plus for your friends with a single payment.

This T-Shirt could be worn while your team is playing, or maybe for sokker gatherings. Perhaps it will even provide luck during transfers or for pulling great juniors! ;)

The T-Shirt has a laced sokker logo with coloured threads over your heart. You can personalize the back with a number and a name. Maybe you'll put the name of your team, your nickname, your real life last name, or ... leave it empty to be undercover!

The Sokker T-Shirt is manufactured by Kariban, and is made from high quality cotton with a rib-bound neckline and with cotton and spandex (elastane) cuffs.