How to win the cup ?

[Amane Ito]

CL is competition for 32 teams (8 groups of 4 teams, then knockout for 16 top/2nd teams).

You have overlooked how those teams were selected.

The last season league act as a qualification tournament where 4 out of 14 teams became qualified to the group stage of CL.
So the CL is actually one winner out of 8*14 = 112 teams

[pcmacdaniel]

In addition to the points addressed by other posters, the difficulty of winning the cup is relative upon what level a manager is or more specifically what the financial awards for each match is at a managers level.

Financial match award, relative to win bonus is lower at higher levels so several manager at higher levels can't afford to max that win bonus as often as they could at lower levels. So if a manager can afford to put win bonuses on max; they'll have an easier time advancing into the later rounds of the cup, even if the opposition manager has higher quality.

As already mentioned by others, token buyers often leave their quality to high so get placed in higher level cups. But having power-trained players and the win bonus on max can often overcome higher quality teams at higher levels if the level gap isn't to large. Where the difficult arises is late in the tournament when managers start believing they can "WIN" the cup, so a free player that might not max the win bonus in the first few rounds might be doing so in the last 2+ rounds.

[nikolgiorgos]

Financial match award, relative to win bonus is lower at higher levels so several manager at higher levels can't afford to max that win bonus as often as they could at lower levels.

Win bonus has nothing to do with the cup.
Last season I won the cup, only with victories and I gave lv1 , min bonus, only in the first semi and the final.
Actually Beckstar who started this thread, found the solution a bit later and made this post
http://forum.topeleven.com/tutorials...xt-season.html

I read and followed his method and I won some trebles with that way.
Actually, it doesn't need so much money or sources but is a different way of playing the game because you must use only 15-16 active players.
I don't know if this can be done in higher levels cause there is a lack of many active teams.

[gogs67]

I won the cup the last two seasons with no win bonus in any games, it can be done.
You have to make sure that you lower your team average sufficiently going into the draw though.
Here's my first day of the season squad a couple of days ago, a low 3* average

[BeckStar]

I won the cup the last two seasons with no win bonus in any games, it can be done.
You have to make sure that you lower your team average sufficiently going into the draw though.
Here's my first day of the season squad a couple of days ago, a low 3* average

I know, that's 1 year old post someone brought up haha

[nikolgiorgos]

I know, that's 1 year old post someone brought up haha

your other post/guide is invisible
LOL

[BeckStar]

your other post/guide is invisible
LOL

haha really ? i can see it

[nikolgiorgos]

I mean in a metaphoric way
haha
It seems that only you, me and a couple of other guys can read it .