Hi guys,
I would like to invite you guys to play one of the most popular football management game, Managerzone Football. At the moment we have 613 790 members over 50 countries but sadly only 294 members are from Malaysia. I hope more people from Malaysia will join this game and make this game more interesting for all of us

The url : http://managerzone.com

For those who looking for challenging game, Managerzone Football is for you! Customize your own tactics (Like Football Manager), Graphical interface, train a player or youth, sending them to training camp, choose you own player positions and much more! Got 3D live and tactics analyzer some more!
For any Hattrickers that are curious about the differences, here they are:

1. Match engine totally different. Not really sure how it DOES work, but at least on the surface it's not that similar to Hattrick's. A bit too much detail, but the guys seem genuinely interested in making it better.

2. Training - you can individually train players.

3. Youth - you set aside an amount of cash each week, and based on how much you spend, you get a certain # of youth (who draw no wages, but do cost weekly) to train. When players age turns to 18, they get moved to the full-time squad. (Youth train much faster than senior)

4. Coaches - you can have multiples, and dedicate them to training particular skills. In player stats, each skill gets a certain amount of 'balls', which equal levels. Say a player has 3 'balls' in passing. If you put him training passing, and put a coach with him, and the coach has more than 3 'balls', he'll help speed up improvement. However, if you have let say 5 players for one skill, only 4 of them (randomly) will benefit from coach training. And once a player levels, it's best to switch his training.

5. Formations - there are no preset formations. You place players like in Championship Manager. Depending on where you place them, you'll get reported 3-5-2, 3-4-3, 4-4-2, etc, but the players stay where you put them. Also you have options such as 'use wings', 'offensive', 'defensive' and such.



This post has been edited by koben: Jun 18 2007, 11:18 PM

How to play?

First sign up your team. Your country will be selected automatically based on your ip address, ie. if you in Msia, the country will be Malaysia.
Your team will automatically fill the empty slot in the lowest league in its pyramid.

Top league: 1 league (12 teams)
Division 1: 3 league (36 teams)
Division 2: 9 leagues (108 teams)
Division 3: 27 leagues (324 teams)
Division 4: 81 leagues (972 teams)
Division 5: 243 leagues (2,916 teams)
Division 6: 729 leagues (8,748 teams)
Division 7: 2,187 leagues (26,244 teams)
Division 8: 6,561 leagues (78,732 teams)
Division 9: 19,863 leagues (238,356 teams)
The notation for each division uses the Division number, a dot and then the subdivisional number. For example, the 20th league in division 3 would be 3.20.


Getting started

After sign up your team, you will get a team with the basic foundation of a potentially successful squad of 19 players, a budget of 400000 USD, a stadium for 8,000 spectators including facilities such as pubs and restaurants.
The main idea behind the game is to prepare your team for league play by playing friendly matches with other teams and to improve your players. In order to play your first friendly match you need to set your tactics. This is done by evaluating your players' skills and moving them into the proper positions on the field. This is done under the "tactics" page. You are now ready to challenge other teams. Get a list of teams by selecting "clubs", and enter the team name you are searching for, under the quick search. Click on the team you would like to challenge and select "challenge".

Training:
For your players to start getting better they need to train. By going to the "training" page you can move players out to the positions for the skills that you would like them to improve. For instance, if you have a player that has one or less balls in "ball control", it might be wise to put him on the ball control station. Each week day they train you can see their improvements under "training report".

Making money:
In order to build the best team not only does it require good coaching skills, you also need money to pay salaries and buy players. Most of the money you make is through stadium attendance. Therefore you also want to look at your stadium configuration. Most likely you will get more people to attend your matches than there are seats initially. Check out other teams in your league as a reference as to how much you should build. Do not overbuild!

Here are some screenshot and a bit of explaination & description.

Clubhouse
Login and see information aimed to you including invitations to cups, friendlies and the hottest results from other teams matches. You can go to players, tactics, training, challenge etc by browsing the navigation menu at the top of your page.

Players
All players have special skills. Along with your senior players you can also add youth players to your team. In this page you can see all the player's skill and other options like sell your player, discard him from squad and more.

Tactics
Obviously you have to set your tactic to be able to play some matches. Try your way to find the tactic that fits your players. Customize your tactic, place your best player in position and win the match!

How to set your tactic
If you played Football Manager or Championship Manager maybe you'll get an idea how to set your tactic. Similar to this game, you only drag and drop your player to the desire position. Here some basic tips what skill to look up when deciding the position

GK - Of course player with high keeping skill
DF - Tackling, Speed (important if u against team with fast striker), Stamina, BC
MF - Passing, Stamina, BC
FW - Shooting, Speed, BC



Training
The training field is where you add your players to be as good as possible in their different skills. Train your player and be one of the best player in the world.

Training report
Follow the result of your players training effort from day to day.

Match result
Get a full match result of every game. In addition to this you can view the game with our analyzer tool or the impressive 3D view.

Transfer
On the transfer you can find that special player from another club/country that you believe fits your team and will bring you great success. Not like other management games, this game only allowed you to have only 3 foreigners player in your team. Which is fair to other players.

Stadium
This is your team's very own stadium. As the team plays better and better you can rebuild your stadium to fit the needs of the growing amount of audience. Try to build your stadium so that the proportions are 75% terraces, 23% seats and 2% VIP. This how your spectator demographic will be.

Statistics
Here you can follow your team's form, ranking, greatest victory, top scorer for the season etc.

Forum
One of the great features with ManagerZone is the community engaging many of our managers all over the world.

This post has been edited by koben: Jun 19 2007, 02:36 AM

You can refer to manual/FAQ page in managerzone or ask here if there any question. For those who live in overseas but want to play Malaysia League, please PM me for guide.
Here is my details in MZ if you want to add me as a friend
username: ggnebok
team: Perak ; league : Super League
Asst Coach of MZ Malaysia National Team

Some useful link & tool for managerzone
http://www.fab.dial.pipex.com/mz/index.htm - tutorials and tips (VERY USEFUL. PLEASE HAVE A LOOK!)
http://www.mzmanager.com - assistant tools to help you track your player development & set you best tactic
http://oxi.se/top11/ - player viewer / tactic calculator

Members

koben - Perak (833599)
Sheep319 - Los Kambing United (868985)
mars85 - Kikikatkat (868986)
Love to see more player from malaysia join this game

This post has been edited by koben: Jun 19 2007, 02:44 AM

Oh snap, finally there's Malaysia?

yup, they added malaysia last year oct 2006

Registered, under Los Kambing United

love to see more player from malaysia

come on guys

You may ask any question about tactic, training, setting up friendly etc.. i'm glad to help

Registered...... Under Kikikatkat team names.......... BTW i still configure up how to arrange tactics.... GK i dunno which 1 now and also dunno how to put GK at there......zzz

But very weird stuff..... All my player name is Indon player......... Am i in wrong nation team?? but i saw Malaysia flag lol when i registered......

I'm in! Let's hav fun o

Welcome to the club

About the tactic, thats the great stuff in this game hehehe:D
Okay here is what i do to my tactic
Tactic A - i use for my 1st XI
Tactic B - i use for my youth squad / reserve

I need to make sure all player hv a good form. you can see at the bottom of the player attributes. There are 3 types of form

Need to play - u need to play him regularly
Satisfied - he is in good form
Need a rest - usually because you played him too much matches

How to maintain form (Satisfied)
Each player need to play
2 league match + 2 friendly match or 4-6 friendly matches

About the players name, there's nothing we can do about. They using the Indonesian player database maybe because they dont have a malaysia name data. They did ask about this but its kinda hard to give them at least 200 names
Guess it couldt be helped

BTW i'm updating my previous post on how to set your tactic and your player position. Refer post #2 under tactic

Great May i know your team name please

This post has been edited by koben: Jun 19 2007, 02:42 AM

recently my team gone bankrupt. so i just rest and got new team.