Your first season

FTG Football is a football GM game that you play in your browser at football.ftgsports.net. You run one team for a full season. It is newer than FTG Baseball and has rougher edges. If something looks wrong, send feedback. See Sending feedback.

Read the Basics pages first for sign-in, leagues, drafts, trades and free agents. The pages in this section cover what is specific to football.

First steps

A good order is:

1. Go to football.ftgsports.net and sign in. See Accounts and signing in.
2. Create a league and pick the one team you will run all season, or join a league with an invite code. See Leagues and Run your season. To start a league from a custom roster file, see Custom rosters.
3. Set your depth chart for offense, defense and special teams. See Your team.
4. Shape your coaching staff: your head coach and your two coordinators. See Coaching.
5. Focus your scouts on up to five draft prospects, or turn on the Auto checkbox. See Scouting and the draft.
6. Run your first sim. In a scheduled league, check when it runs. In a manual league, the commissioner runs the games. See Run your season.
7. Look for help at positions where you are thin. See Free agency.
8. Before week 9, look at trades. See Trades.

All football pages

• Run your season: the Dashboard in the regular season, the playoffs and the offseason.
• Your team: the roster, the depth chart and team stats.
• Coaching: your staff, the staff budget and the hot seat.
• Scouting and the draft: prospect grades, scout focus and the draft queue.
• Front office, Owner's box, Outlook and Chemistry: your contracts, the franchise tag, the owner's goal, the five-year plan and the locker room.
• Free agency: first-come signing in season, sealed bids in the offseason.
• Trades: building a deal, the trade block and the closed window.
• Players and news: the league player list and the news feed.
• Leaders, records and GM scores: league leaders, the record book and GM standings.
• Commissioner: league settings, trade review and who runs each team.
• History, champions and season recap: past champions, the Hall of Fame, All-Pro teams and your season recap.
• Custom rosters: start a league from a roster file.