Prepare a match

How do you get your team ready for match day on IFC? Ask who's there, call up your players, and find reinforcements if you're short.

What to remember

• Attendance. The captain or a co-captain asks who's there: Send a reminder notifies the players, then only those who haven't answered yet. Each player answers Available, Maybe or Absent. One answer covers every match the team plays that day.
• The call-up. The staff picks the day's players among those not absent, then Send the call-up: each one is notified. A change goes out with Update the call-up, and only the players added or removed are told.
• The day's lineup is set once for every match of the day still open when you open it from the day (from a match, it covers that match only), and becomes the team's default lineup.
• Reinforcements. Short of a position? Publish a request for the day: the positions, and how many players for each. Players from your league apply, and the staff accepts or declines.
• A reinforcement plays for you that day only: they show in the day's lineup, don't join your squad and sign no contract. A player can only reinforce one club a day.

Good to know

• Your team must play in a league to look for reinforcements, and only that league's players see your requests.
• A player who answers Absent can't be called up, and leaves the call-up if they change their answer to Absent.

Application	What it means
Pending	The staff will answer.
Accepted	You play with this club that day.
Not retained	The staff declined, or the position filled up.
Withdrawn	You withdrew, or another club accepted you that day.