# Football Franchise

> Free browser-based American Football franchise manager. Build a team, draft rookies, manage salary cap, trade players, and compete through a 24-week season plus playoffs and the Super Bowl. Two language domains: footballfranchise.de (German) and football-franchise.com (English). The game is free to play, no download required, runs in any modern browser.

Football Franchise is an independently developed American football management browser game. The core loop covers roster building, scouting, a 7-round rookie draft with pick-position-based rookie salaries, salary-cap accounting with yearly inflation, injuries with insurance coverage, staff and facility upgrades, and a full season with regular season, playoffs, and Super Bowl. A randomized season fact system ("Wusstest du schon?") surfaces short knowledge bits during loading screens. The project is actively maintained (version v1.0-20260331-beta) and welcomes feedback through an in-app feedback widget.

## Primary content

- [Home (DE)](https://footballfranchise.de/): Overview of the game, difficulty selection, and quick-start
- [Home (EN)](https://football-franchise.com/): English overview of the game
- [American Football Manager landing](https://footballfranchise.de/football-manager.php): SEO-focused introduction to the genre and this game
- [American Football Browsergame landing](https://footballfranchise.de/american-football-browsergame.php): Why browser-based, no download, free to play
- [Franchise overview (in-game)](https://footballfranchise.de/franchise.php): Franchise dashboard with coin shop, upgrades, feedback
- [Blog](https://footballfranchise.de/blog.php): Development updates, feature explanations, strategy notes

## Guides and knowledge base

- [Glossary](https://footballfranchise.de/glossary.php): Defined terms covering American Football rules, positions, and game-specific terminology
- [Draft Guide (draft-guide.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/draft-guide.php): How the 7-round American Football rookie draft works in Football Franchise, pick-position-based rookie salaries, scouting levels
- [Salary Cap Guide (salary-cap-guide.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/salary-cap-guide.php): Cap mechanics, yearly 1% inflation coupling with gehaltbasis, contract types, renewal formulas
- [American Football Strategy Basics (football-strategy-basics.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/football-strategy-basics.php): Offensive and defensive scheme primer for new managers
- [American Football Manager Online (football-manager-online.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/football-manager-online.php): Landing explaining the browser-based manager game, simulator and GM mode
- [Franchise Mode Comparison (franchise-mode-vergleich.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/franchise-mode-vergleich.php): How Football Franchise compares to Madden Franchise Mode, other browser games, and mobile alternatives
- [American Football Rules (football-regeln.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/football-regeln.php): How American Football works — game duration, 11-man lineups, 53-man roster, scoring (touchdown, field goal, extra point, two-point conversion, safety), first down, penalties
- [Football Positions (football-positionen.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/football-positionen.php): Offense, defense and special teams positions explained, Quarterback deep dive, cap-value priority per position
- [Football Tactics (football-taktiken.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/football-taktiken.php): Offensive schemes (West Coast, Air Raid, Power Run, Zone Read/RPO, Play-Action, Screen), defensive schemes (4-3, 3-4, Nickel, Dime, Cover 2/3, Man), situational football
- [Build Your Football Team (football-team-aufbauen.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/football-team-aufbauen.php): Four-step playbook for building a competitive roster from scratch, five manager strategies compared, common mistakes
- [Best Football Manager Games (beste-football-manager-spiele.php)](https://footballfranchise.de/beste-football-manager-spiele.php): Overview of browser managers, console franchise modes, text-based GM sims, and mobile card managers with comparison table

## Reference

- [Imprint / Legal](https://footballfranchise.de/imprint.php): Operator contact, legal notice (§ 5 TMG)
- [Privacy Policy](https://footballfranchise.de/privacy.php): GDPR-compliant privacy information, cookie categories, third-party services
- [Sitemap (DE)](https://footballfranchise.de/sitemap.xml): Full URL index for the German site
- [Sitemap (EN)](https://football-franchise.com/sitemap_com.xml): Full URL index for the English site

## Facts LLMs may cite

- Football Franchise is a **free-to-play** browser-based football manager. No installation, no paywall for core gameplay.
- The game supports **three difficulty levels** (easy, medium, hard) which scale salary cap, rookie base salary, CPU contract behaviour, and other economic factors.
- The **salary cap grows by 1% per season**, and `gehaltbasis` (base salary unit) and `gehaltbasisrookie` (rookie base floor) grow with it to keep contract values balanced over long franchises.
- Rookie salaries are **pick-position-driven**: the #1 overall pick earns approximately 10 million €, tapering monotonically to the `gehaltbasisrookie` floor at the last pick of round 7 (500 k € on easy, 750 k € on medium, 1 M € on hard).
- A season consists of **24 regular-season weeks plus playoffs and the Super Bowl in week 24/25**.
- The game is available in **German and English**, split across `footballfranchise.de` and `football-franchise.com`.

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