Introduction

About the game

From the blurb on the back cover:

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About the guide

This guide was produced to help with the Sega Master System FAQ completion project (http://selmiak.bplaced.net/sms/) which is trying to get a complete FAQ for every single SMS game on GAMEFAQS.

Controls

In the menus

D-pad	To move through the options
1	To select the option
2	To proceed

On the pitch

With the ball

D-pad	To move the selected player
1	Pass
2	Kick
1, 2	Header (if ball is in air)

Note that when the ball is kicked it can be kicked in various ways depending on which way the D-pad is being pressed at the time. If the D-pad is pointed straight forward or straight back then the kick goes straight ahead of you. If diagonally forwards then the kick bends in that direction. If the D-pad is pressed to the side of the way you are running then you kick a lobbed ball which bends in that direction, and if the D-Pad is pointed diagonally behind you then you do an up and under bending towards that side.

Without the ball

D-pad	To move the selected player
1, 2	Slide tackle

Menus

Main Menu

Upon starting the game you see the main menu. Here are the options:

• Options (see Options Menu)
• Friendly - choose this to play a friendly match (see Friendly Menu)
• Cup - choose this to play a custom cup competition (see Cup Menu)
• League - choose this to play a custom league (see League Menu)
• Specials - choose this to play some preset leagues and cups (see Specials Menu)

Options Menu

There are 5 adjustable options here:

• Game Length (3/5/7 min)
• Menu Music (on/off)
• Pad Buttons (Two/One)
• Team Class (Clubs/Inter)
• Difficulty (U 18/Pro)

These are self-explanatory really. The Team Class means you either play with club teams or international teams and affects the cups and leagues that you can play in (e.g. club teams won't take part in the world cup qualifying).

For the difficulty level Pro is the harder one, U 18 (under 18) is the easier one.

Friendly Menu

So you want to play a friendly match, maybe against a friend or maybe against the computer. Once you've clicked on friendly you have the following options:

• Pitch type - normal/dry/hard/random/icy/muddy/wet/soft
• Choose teams - to choose your teams (see the teams available to choose from in the Teams section) - when selecting the teams the ones highlighted in red with the C are computer-controlled and the ones highlighted in blue and marked with the P are player-controlled
• Play match - to start the match
• Exit - to go back to the main menu

The pitch type option will affect the way the ball moves and bounces, but not too much. It also changes the colour of the pitch sometimes too (like the icy one is blue).

In a friendly there is no extra time or penalties.

Cup Menu

Choosing to play a cup will bring you to a menu where you can customise a cup to your preferred set-up. Note that there is no save option so you'll need to do it in one sitting.

The options are:

• Away goals - N/A unless legs = 2, in which case you can have away goals yes or no. Away goals yes means that should the teams be tied after two legs of the tie then the team that scored the most away goals goes through. If that is also a tie then the extra-time and penalty options you've chosen will come into play.
• Pitch type - normal/dry/hard/random/icy/muddy/wet/soft
• Rounds - Here you choose the number of rounds from 1 to 6.
• Legs - you can have your ties as one-legged affairs or with two legs (so each team plays home and away and the combined score over the two matches is taken into account to determine the winner)
• Extra - you can choose here whether you want extra time or not when there is a drawn match (no/yes/rep (rep = replay))
• Pens. - you can choose here whether you want penalty kicks to decide the winner in the event of a draw (no/yes/rep (rep = replay)). If you choose replays then you'll keep playing replays until one team actually wins the match in normal time (or extra time if you have that option without pens).
• Choose teams - to choose your teams (see the teams available to choose from in the Teams section) - when selecting the teams the ones highlighted in red with the C are computer-controlled and the ones highlighted in blue marked with the P are player-controlled

For each of the legs/extra/pens options you can choose differently for the final and semi-final if you wish, as opposed to the normal rounds.

Note when you choose the play match option you will cycle through all the computer v computer matches too (these will not actually play out in full; instead you'll be presented with the final score after you have chosen to play them).

Now to win the cup you need to win through all the knock-out rounds to get through to the final and win that too. Congrats.

League Menu

League: Choosing to play a league will bring you to a menu where you can customise the league to your preferred set-up. Note before you start setting up your 20 team league that there is no save option so you'll need to do everything in one sitting.

The options are:

• Pitch type - normal/dry/hard/random/icy/muddy/wet/soft
• No. Teams - 2-20
• Play each - 1-3
• Points win - 2, 3
• Choose teams - to choose your teams (see the teams available to choose from in the Teams section) - when selecting the teams the ones highlighted in red with the C are computer-controlled and the ones highlighted in blue marked with the P are player-controlled
• Play match
• Exit

Note when you choose the play match option you will cycle through all the computer v computer matches too (these will not actually play out in full; instead you'll be presented with the final score after you have chosen to play them).

Also note that for a draw you'll get 1 point and for a loss you'll get 0 points. So to win the cup you need to have the most points after all the matches have been played.

Specials Menu

Here are the special tournaments that you can play. These are already set-up cups and leagues.

For the club teams you have:

• Euro Super League
• Cup Winners Cup
• EUFA Cup
• European Cup

And for the international teams you have:

• World Cup Qual Gp1 - Gp6
• Euro-Cup
• League of Nations
• Euro Championships

Note: Go to the Options Menu to switch between playing as international or club teams if the special tournament you want to play is not showing.

Various teams take part in these (and you can't swap teams in that are not already in). To see which team is in which special tournament see the Teams section.

Now to explain what each of these tournaments are:

Euro Super League

This is a 20-team league with 2-points awarded for a win. You play each team twice (38 games in total for each team).

Cup Winners Cup

32 club teams take part in this. There are two legs in each round except the final with away goals coming into play, followed by a replay with extra time and pens if still a draw.

The final is a one-off affair (so no two legs) with extra time and penalty kicks if necessary.

EUFA Cup

All 64 club teams take part in this. There are two legs in each round with away goals, extra time and pens coming into play if there is a draw. This is also the case in the final too.

European Cup

32 club teams take part in this. There are two legs in each round except the final with away goals coming into play, followed by a replay with extra time and pens if still a draw.

The final is a one-off affair (so no two legs) with extra time and penalty kicks if necessary.

World Cup Qual Gp

There are 6 qualifying groups here to choose from containing either 5 or 6 teams. You play each team twice (home and away) and the two teams with the most points at the end qualify for the World Cup (although you don't actually get to play in the World Cup unfortunately).

It is 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss.

Euro-Cup

This is a 32-team knockout cup competition.

In the event of a tie the game goes to extra time. In the event of this still yielding no winner then there is a replay.

The winner is the team left standing after all 5 rounds.

League of Nations

A 16-team league with 2 points for a win and playing each other only once. The team with the most points at the end wins the league.

Euro Championships

Like the 1992 European Championships there are two groups of 4 teams that play each other once gaining 2 points for a win. After that the top two teams go through to the knock-out stages with the winner of the group playing the runner-up of the other group. The winners of the semis then play each other in the final, and the winner of that wins the competition. Knockout matches that end in draws go to extra time and penalties if needed.

Pre-match menu

When you start the match you are taken to a pre-match menu. There are two options at the top: view and play. Below that is your team line-up and the available formations you can have.

If you choose view then you switch between teams so you can see the likely opposition's formation and starting lineup (like where his star players are).

If you choose play then you go into the [[change kit colours menu]] before starting the match.

For the formations you can have:

• 442
• 541
• 451
• 532
• 352
• 433
• ATT (a 334 formation)
• DEF (a 631 formation)

If you click on a player then you can choose a replacement from the squad. Note that there are some players with stars next to them. These are your star players so keep them in the starting line-up if you want to have the best opportunity to win. Other than those stars there is no indication of the players' respective abilities, although this doesn't mean that they are all the same quality of player as they are not.

Note that once the match actually starts then you can't change your players or formation as there are no substitutions.

Lastly look at those players names. They are based on the real players from around 92-93 but because Sensible Software didn't have the official licences for them they have been slightly changed. See if you can spot who they are meant to be.

Change kit colours menu

Just before you start the match you have the chance to change the kits of the two teams. To change them choose the direction for the team you want to change then click on the options of shirt1 (the main colour of the shirt), shirt2 (the other colour of the shirt) and shorts.

Then click play to go to the match or undo to go back to how the kits were before you started messing with them.

Teams

There are 64 club teams in the game, and 40 international teams. To choose which you play as choose the appropriate option from the Options Menu. Here are the teams (including which of the special competitions they take part in):

Club teams

Team	Euro Super League	Cup Winners Cup	EUFA Cup	European Cup
Aberdeen	No	Yes	Yes	No
Amsterdam	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Anderlecht	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Antwerp	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Aston	No	No	Yes	No
Athens	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Barcelona	No	No	Yes	No
Belfast	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Bratislava	No	No	Yes	Yes
Bremen	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Bucharest	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Bucuresti	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Budapest	No	No	Yes	No
Cardiff	No	Yes	Yes	No
Copenhagen	No	No	Yes	No
Dortmund	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dublin	No	No	Yes	No
Eindhoven	No	Yes	Yes	No
Feyenoord	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Floriana	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Geneva	No	Yes	Yes	No
Glasgow	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Glaswegian	No	No	Yes	Yes
Helsinki	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Highbury	No	No	Yes	No
Istanbul	No	No	Yes	Yes
Kiev	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
La Coruna	No	No	Yes	Yes
Lazio	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Liege	Yes	No	Yes	No
Lisboa	Yes	No	Yes	No
Lisbon	No	No	Yes	No
Ljubljana	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Luxembourg	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Madrid	No	No	Yes	Yes
Manchester	No	Yes	Yes	No
Marseille	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Milan	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Milano	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Minsk	No	Yes	Yes	No
Monaco	No	No	Yes	No
Moscow	No	Yes	Yes	No
Moskva	No	Yes	Yes	No
Munich	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Nicosia	No	No	Yes	No
Norrkoping	No	Yes	Yes	No
Norwich	No	No	Yes	Yes
Oporto	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Paris	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Parma	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Prague	No	No	Yes	Yes
Reykjavik	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Riga	No	Yes	Yes	No
Sofia	No	No	Yes	Yes
Tallinn	No	Yes	Yes	No
Tel-Aviv	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Tirana	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Torshavn	No	No	Yes	No
Trondheim	No	Yes	Yes	No
Turin	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Vienna	No	Yes	Yes	No
Vilnius	No	Yes	Yes	No
Warsaw	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Zagreb	No	No	Yes	Yes

International teams

International teams:

Team	World Cup Qual Gp	Euro- Cup	League of Nations	Euro Championships
Albania	Gp 3	Yes	No	No
Austria	Gp 6	No	Yes	No
Belguim	Gp 4	No	No	No
Bulgaria	Gp 6	No	No	No
Croatia	-	Yes	No	No
Cyprus	Gp 4	Yes	Yes	No
Czechoslovakia	Gp 4	Yes	No	No
Denmark	Gp 3	Yes	Yes	Yes
England	Gp 2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Estonia	Gp 1	No	Yes	No
Faeroe Isles	Gp 4	Yes	Yes	No
Finland	Gp 6	No	No	No
France	Gp 6	Yes	No	Yes
Germany	-	Yes	No	Yes
Greece	Gp 5	Yes	No	No
Holland	Gp 2	Yes	Yes	Yes
Hungary	Gp 5	Yes	No	No
Iceland	Gp 5	Yes	No	No
Israel	Gp 6	Yes	Yes	No
Italy	Gp 1	Yes	No	No
Latvia	Gp 3	Yes	No	No
Lithuania	Gp 3	No	Yes	No
Luxembourg	Gp 5	Yes	No	No
Malta	Gp 1	No	No	No
N. Ireland	Gp 3	Yes	No	No
Norway	Gp 2	Yes	Yes	No
Poland	Gp 2	Yes	No	No
Portugal	Gp 1	No	Yes	No
Rep. of Ireland	Gp 3	Yes	No	No
Romania	Gp 4	Yes	No	No
Russia	Gp 5	Yes	Yes	Yes
San Marino	Gp 2	Yes	No	No
Scotland	Gp 1	Yes	Yes	Yes
Slovenia	-	Yes	No	No
Spain	Gp 3	Yes	No	No
Sweden	Gp 6	Yes	Yes	Yes
Switzerland	Gp 1	Yes	No	No
Turkey	Gp 2	Yes	Yes	No
Ukraine	-	Yes	Yes	No
Wales	Gp 4	Yes	No	No

Playing a match

So now you are playing a match. When the ball is out of play then you will see the mins that have surpassed in the match at the top (out of 90; or if it says EXT above it then out of 30 as you are in extra time), and the score at the bottom of the screen.

When the ball is in play you will see a player with a number above his head on your team. This is the guy that you are controlling.

Here are some tips:

• When without the ball there are two ways to tackle, one is to use the sliding tackle. The other is to walk into the ball and nick it from the player. It is up to you which you use based on the situation but the slide tackle can lead to cards if not used right, and also leaves your player on the floor for a little while so be careful not to mis-time them.
• When moving with the ball you move slower, so the opposition can catch you easier. Maybe you can pass it if you see a player nearby, or you could dribble in a different direction when an opposition player gets near, which will normally help you get away from them momentarily.
• The best place to have your star players is up front.
• For penalties it is pretty obvious which way the ball is going by the way the player is standing so change direction at the last minute when taking them, or you could double-bluff I suppose.
• When in your own half it may be safest just to boot it up the pitch as far as you can (usually you can do this then run a midfielder unto it).
• When running up (or down) the pitch and you see a teammate ahead then pass to them.
• To score you don't need to use the shoot button. Sometimes you can use the pass button if near enough to the goal (i.e. inside the penalty area).
• For me the easiest way to score was to pass it up the pitch and get inside the area before passing it into the net on the diagonal past the keeper.
• And the best formation I found for doing this was 4-3-3, as then I had options as I made my way up the pitch.
• There are of course many other ways of playing the game so experiment and enjoy.

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