Teams are the unit that carries competition

• Manager responsibility. A team manager maintains the club details and squad, and accepts or declines join requests. Managed team capacity depends on the role and membership plan.
• Membership is one club at a time. A player's active membership is recorded, so squads stay realistic and league eligibility can be checked.
• Squad size is limited. The platform enforces a roster limit, which keeps team management and matchday selection meaningful.
• Followers are not members. Supporters can follow a team without joining the squad, so community interest does not distort the playing record.

A team cannot buy promotion, standings position or match outcomes, and sponsorship does not create competitive advantage. Entering the ecosystem does not guarantee a place in a higher league level: the published qualification rules and the regional slot limit decide that. What the platform does offer is a fair, documented competition in which a team's work is visible.

• Verified participation first. A team's visible record is built from confirmed matches. Scout-facing information follows activity that has actually been verified, not participation that was merely registered.
• Consent-based visibility. Discovery runs on consent and eligibility rules, so a squad is not exposed to scouts simply by existing. The scouting explainer covers how that works.
• No paid discoverability. Sponsorship and advertising placement do not create a scouting signal. Visibility from commercial placement and visibility from verified activity are kept separate.

• Onboarding before competition. New participants move through Starter League onboarding before entering the wider competition structure, so the Competition tier is reached deliberately rather than by default.
• Regional competition. Leagues are organised by region, so a team competes within its own region's slot structure. A team elsewhere in the country is not a competitor by default.
• Managed capacity. The number of teams one manager can run follows the role and membership plan, which keeps team management realistic.
• One active club per player. A player's active membership is recorded, which keeps squads accurate and league eligibility checkable.

A team's identity, community, region and playing ground are club information that exists so opponents, officials and supporters can identify the side they are dealing with. Squad rosters, membership records and internal team management are participant data and stay inside the authenticated workspace.

Where no public team listing is available on this page, that is deliberate rather than an omission: team rosters are participant data and are not published. The platform documents how teams work here, and the workspace handles the team itself.