WE ARE FOOTBALL 2027: Create a Club (Vereinsgründung) Step by Step

Start a new save and the wizard asks how the game should behave, then offers six starting points — three of which Steam’s listing calls the career routes: “Three game modes: Free Club Selection, Club Creation and Career Mode (now with optional regional start)”. This page walks Club Creation, die Vereinsgründung: one long form for name and colours, then city and stadium, starting dials and Draft Mode — ending with a new club 18th in the 5. Liga Südwest. Not installed yet? Start with the installation and first-setup guide.

When founding a club is the right pick

Vereinsauswahl (Free Club Selection) hands you any existing club, Karriere interviews you and brings up to three offers, and the WM and EM cards are short national-team tournaments. Vereinsgründung alone builds a club which did not exist yesterday — you start in the country’s lowest league, with the wizard’s own promise in fine print: “Aber natürlich sind Sie unkündbar”, a founder cannot be sacked. The no-club alternative is the spectator mode guide; all six cards are compared in the game modes guide.

The form: name, colours, founding date, lowest league

The wizard opens as one scrolling screen, Vereinsgründung. Under Allgemeines you set the Interface-Farbe, then type the Vereinsname, pick its grammatical article (“die Freien Kicker Alzey sind…”) and fill Kurzname and Abkürzung. The Gründung row sets the club’s birthday — the presenter picks 10 July, his own — and the Vereinsmotto takes any slogan, here “Wir wollen in die CL!”.

The consequential block at the bottom, Zuordnung unterste Liga, says: “Gibt es mehrere unterste Ligen, so wird hierüber festgelegt, in welcher Liga Ihr Verein beginnt und in welche er ggf. auch wieder absteigt.” The video sets Land: Deutschland, Liga: 5. Liga Südwest — the decision is the region, never the tier.

Crest and kits: Wappenform, Muster, Symbol

The Wappen panel mixes luck and handiwork: Zufällig rolls a complete crest, while three steppers walk Wappenform (35 shapes), Muster (39 patterns) and Symbol (171 marks) — the tutorial lands on 16, 17 and 38. “Farbeinstellungen können mit Drag & Drop kopiert werden” — drag a colour set onto another garment. One checkbox matters: Wappen nicht überschreiben, because “Wenn Sie das Wappen ändern und überschreiben, wird dieses auch in anderen Spielständen bei selbstgegründeten Vereinen gleichen Namens überschrieben” — every same-named founded club in your other saves inherits the change.

The Vereinsfarben editor recolours Heimtrikot and Auswärtstrikot piece by piece — hover a garment, left- or right-click to cycle its style — plus Rnr. columns for the back number style.

Stadt: town picture, stadium and coordinates

Next, the Stadt screen. Left: a town picture — Vorhanden searches the game’s images, Neu uploads your own (the tutorial’s village is missing). Below sit the Einwohnerzahl (about 13,500 here), the Stadion name and a stadium row for the 2. Mannschaft; his second team gets none. Right, the Karte places the club by map click or Breitengrad/Längengrad to the second (48°13’59” North, 9°1’59” East here) — coordinates that, per the screen, feed “die Berechnung der Anreiseentfernung und für die Ermittlung von Derbys”.

Starting conditions: the difficulty dials

The Schwierigkeit Startvoraussetzungen screen tunes how generous your club’s world is — club-level difficulty, separate from the match presets in the difficulty settings guide. Dropdowns set Unterstützung Wirtschaft, Mediendruck, Potenzielles Fanwachstum, Leidensfähigkeit Fans (“Sind unschütterlich bis in den Tod” at the top), Ultras and two Freunde and Rivalen clubs each. Sliders set Ungefähre Stadionkapazität, Bankguthaben, Mitglieder, Landesweite Fans and Zuschauer Erstligaspiel; the presenter starts at 2.5 million and 15,500 seats, then drags everything down to a 2,018-seat ground and a 20,000 € bank. The Eigene Anteile switch (0, 5 or 10 per cent) carries fine print: a founder only owns a share — the rest belongs to funding friends — but of course, “sind Sie unkündbar”.

Draft Mode: buying a squad from any league

The last stop, Draft Mode, fills the squad. The Spielerwahl is two dropdowns — any league in the world, then any club inside it. The tutorial shows the scale on 1. Liga Afghanistan, then gets practical with 5. Liga Südwest and Marburg: “I don’t just get them, I can buy them in draft mode”. Every purchase deducts real money; the header tracks Startbudget (400,000 € here), Noch verfügbar and Gehalter vor/nach Draft.

The right half holds two tabs: Kader, your squad table, and Vorschau, the resulting eleven on a pitch. Spieler verkaufen, Alle Spieler verkaufen and Kader zurücksetzen reset the canvas — “we can even sell all the players and completely build our own squad”. In real windows the same logic returns (transfer market guide); paying that wage bill is finances and wage budget guide territory.

Welcome to your own club

Confirm, and the save begins — “Noch schlafen Sie im Hotel…”, with president Luka Speer welcoming you to Freien Kicker Alzey. The club card lists the facts: Tabellenplatz 18, 5. Liga Südwest (Amateur), 24 players, team value 2.0 Mio €, best player Azamet Korkmaz.

The first Zentrale shows 06.07.2026, Wochenstart, the red-tinted rail with Teamwert 2,4 Mio €, Kontostand 263.000 €, Transferbudget 515.000 €, the next match “in 40 Tagen” against Koblenz, plus the motivation card Eine neue Hoffnung that “endet nach 3 Niederlagen”. First chores per the video: jerseys and back numbers, budgets, organisation. The Statistikzentrale confirms it: in the 2026/27 table, Göppingen (N) and Freien Kicker Alzey (N) sit 17th and 18th.

From there the ladder is yours — “kick your way through the league all the way up to the Champions League, if you want”. The beginner guide takes over for the first weeks, the stadium expansion guide covers growing that 2,000-seat ground — and would you rather watch a few seasons first, the patient alternative is the spectator mode guide.