Ahhh babbo.....Cannot help you there in terms of personal experience. Though I know there are those on this board that can.

With the immense amount of time I have played this game (hours per day, not longevity) I have seen that it is possible to get promoted every season for 1-2 years at least without spending your own money. As for how many trophies you can win it will likely diminish as you rise up the levels without a lot of hard work. You can get a lot of free tokens if you have the patience as well as at least ten boosters per day just from watching commercials on android (in the USA).

My method of winning is expensive but one can get a roster filled with near 6 star players who are nearing the end of their career each season for dirt cheap. This will allow you to finish in the top 4 of most leagues in the early levels and can win you some trophies as I see many players employ the tactic.


For example, while I will buy a player for $7M+ at lvl 4 because he is a 18 year old fast trainer one can buy 4-6 older players for that price. If you can manage to go deep in the cup and/or champions league it will provide you a lot of cash for such players or you can use free token offers to achieve the goal.

The down side being that they will not be good enough to stay more than a couple seasons at best as they don't train well. But they are cheap enough that you can just rebuild after promoting.

The other popular method is tanking. Intentionally having losing seasons to stockpile assets in order to build the team up for promotion. This will take longer but is effective.



Bottom line is that you do not HAVE to spend money to achieve success in the game. But you will never be at the level of someone who spends freely. It isn't a direct pay to win game but it sure does make it less time consuming and greatly improves your chances of silverware.