Articles on: 🛠️ Building Your Squad

🧠 Coaching & Training in Footium

🧠 Coaching & Training in Footium


Get the most out of your squad by mastering Training and **Coaching, **two essential tools to develop your players and stay competitive throughout the season.


📚 Key Concepts Explained:

Unlocked Potential – The amount of a player’s total potential that’s currently available to be used in training. Earn more by playing matches and unlocking minutes.
Used Potential – Potential already spent to increase ratings. You can’t get this back, but it shows how far a player has progressed.
Remaining Potential – What’s left after used and unlocked potential. This unlocks over time.
Accumulated Minutes – The total minutes a player has spent on the pitch this season. More minutes = more unlocked potential.


🏋️‍♂️ Training Your Players

Train players to boost their ratings in specific positions. It's simple, but you’ll need to manage fatigue and injuries.

🔓 How to Access

  • Available only during active match periods of the season
  • Head to the Training tab in the Footium game
  • Each club gets 2 training slots and 1 coaching slot


⚙️ How It Works

  1. Click ➕ to open a training slot
  2. Pick a player with available potential
  3. Choose a position to train (Green = strong, Red = weak)
  4. Check:
    • The player will finish above 20% condition
    • Training time and cost
  6. Click Start Training and sign in your wallet

When training finishes, return to apply the stat gain by clicking Finish.


⚠️ Injuries: Players who finish training at or below 45% condition risk a 50-hour injury.💡 Players in training can’t appear in matches, plan ahead


🎓 Coaching Sessions

Coaching is a premium training method that boosts 3 positions in one go. It also grants bonus unlocked minutes, speeding up long-term progression.


🛒 How to Get Coaching Sessions

  • Purchase sessions in the Footium Store
  • You can pay using:** Card** (top up your in-game balance**) or ETH on Arbitrum** (optional / advanced)
  • Sessions don’t expire and are tied to your club
  • You can hold multiple sessions for future use


📈 How Coaching Works

  1. Click the Coaching slot on the Training page
  2. Pick a player with unlocked potential
  3. Choose a primary position
  4. Two secondary positions will also improve by +1. These are based on the player’s next two best roles
  5. Confirm and approve the transaction


💡 Example: Coaching a CF might also boost their LW and CAM if those are their highest-rated roles


Use Coaching to build flexible players or fast-track your key stars.


🧠 Training Tips

  • Specialists: Focus on one role to create monsters in key positions
  • All-Rounders: Use Coaching to improve 3+ positions and cover injuries
  • Balanced Approach: Steadily develop your full squad to stay competitive


💡 The more potential a player has already used, the longer their training takes


Updated on: 05/11/2025

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