Real-world context. Simulated football lives.

• Reported data: a value with a reporting year and source, without an estimate or pending-verification flag. Check the original report’s scope before comparing countries.
• Estimate: a calculated or simulation value, including entries still awaiting verification against the original. These are excluded from the landing page’s reported-data highlights and real-data fact chips.
• Not available: no reported value has been supplied. The game can use a simulation fallback. Missing data does not mean zero, and no factual value is invented to fill the gap.

Wages show an annual median for a league tier, not an individual contract. Club revenue is tier-level context and is not assigned to an identifiable fictional club. Financial data is stored in USD; Thai display uses the dataset’s fixed conversion rate when available. This is a game setting, not a live exchange rate.

Academy access, league strength, football popularity, family-background weights and player development use estimates for game design. Birth weights are not global population shares or predictions of professional success. Events, club personalities, tactics, relationships, injuries, performances and a run’s earnings are all simulated.

All clubs, club towns, players, coaches and sponsors are fictional. Real countries provide context, but the game avoids real badges and identities. This gives the story its own world and avoids implying that real clubs or commercial brands endorse it. Badges are built from shapes, colours and initials. Financial context follows league tiers rather than copying a real club’s accounts. In-game sponsors are part of the fiction and do not represent commercial partnerships with real brands.

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