The daily challenge

By the All Eras XI team · Updated 12 November 2026

The daily challenge gives everyone the same squad sequence, formation and settings, with one ranked attempt per day. Read the objective first: the strongest choice for a scoring challenge can differ from the best defensive pick.

A new challenge at midnight UK time

The reset is 00:00 in the Europe/London time zone, following GMT in winter and British Summer Time in summer. The daily screen shows a countdown. Sign in with Google or Apple to play, then check the objective, formation and underlying mode before starting your draft.

The daily rotates among Classic 38-0-0, World Cup Legends and Treble Chasers. New challenges use Casual difficulty and Mixed opposition. Everyone receives the same ordered squad offers; spending a re-spin moves you along that sequence, so different choices can lead to different later offers.

You receive three re-spins for the whole draft. Progress saves your picks and re-spins so an interrupted draft can resume. Submitting the completed XI records the day’s ranked result. Use the positions guide to assess fit before confirming a pick, especially when the chosen formation needs specialist roles.

Fewest goals conceded

Lower conceded totals rank first. Ties compare goal difference, goals scored, points and the leading scorer’s total before squad efficiency and run score. That order rewards a strong defensive result while preserving a reason to build a useful attack.

1. Prioritise a credible goalkeeper: keeping contributes directly to defensive strength throughout the simulation.
2. Take natural centre-backs when available, protecting the defensive line’s effective-rating average.
3. Inspect full-back and wing-back fits carefully; their placements also contribute to the defensive line.
4. Value midfielders with a balanced profile, since midfield quality also supports the team’s defence.
5. Spend re-spins on offers that leave an exposed defensive vacancy, particularly late in the draft.
6. Retain a useful attacking line: goals and goal difference help separate entries with equal concessions.

Most goals scored

Higher team goals rank first. Goal difference, fewer conceded, points and the leading scorer’s total follow. Build an attack that can produce across the underlying competition, with enough balance to advance when the day uses a tournament mode.

1. Protect natural attacking fits so the forward line keeps strong effective ratings in its assigned roles.
2. Take a productive striker when offered, particularly when the formation provides a single central attacking slot.
3. Value creative, well-fitted midfielders because midfield contributes to the team’s attacking strength.
4. Use re-spins where the remaining open attacking roles fit the current squad’s available players poorly.
5. Build enough defensive quality to support tournament progress and the extra scoring opportunities that advancement brings.
6. Review all attacking placements together; the line uses average quality, making its weakest fit worth addressing.

Best goal difference

Higher goal difference ranks first, then goals scored, fewer conceded, points and the leading scorer’s total. Consider both ends when deciding where a strong squad offer belongs. A defensive improvement can be as useful to this target as another attacking selection.

1. Identify your weaker team line before each pick and look for an offer that improves it.
2. Secure a dependable keeper, helping protect the goals your attacking players create.
3. Choose well-rounded midfielders: their line influences both scoring strength and defensive resilience.
4. Check effective placement ratings across every vacancy before choosing the most familiar name.
5. Save a re-spin for a substantial late mismatch, when an emergency fit could damage the completed XI.
6. Keep a credible attacking outlet, since goals scored is the next comparison when goal differences match.

Golden Boot: most goals by one player

The highest individual scoring total leads, followed by team goals, goal difference, fewer conceded and points. Goal allocation favours attacking roles and stronger goal threat, so the striker choice and the supporting side both matter.

1. Identify a strong scoring candidate while inspecting each offer, with particular attention to natural attacking positions.
2. Place that candidate in an attacking slot, where the simulation gives players greater goalscoring weight.
3. Support the scorer with a useful midfield so the side creates a larger total of goals to distribute.
4. Assess the whole forward line: a poor fit can reduce team scoring even beside an excellent individual.
5. Preserve defensive quality on tournament days, helping the team reach more fixtures and generate further scoring chances.
6. Use re-spins to improve the scoring candidate or a major supporting weakness, guided by the open roles.

Ties, leaderboards and reviewing a result

After the objective’s performance comparisons, lower total drafted player ratings win the squad-efficiency comparison, then run score and submission time provide further ordering. Efficiency belongs late in that sequence, so prioritise the objective while drafting. The leaderboard can display shared ranks for matching performance and squad-rating totals.

The daily board shows the leading ten entries, the objective result and scorer details where relevant. Your ranked row can appear separately below the leaders, and selecting an entry opens its drafted XI. Compare placements as well as names when learning from another manager’s result.

Streaks, sharing and achievements

The streak strip shows current and best play streaks plus the week’s activity. Completed ordinary runs and daily entries both count towards UK calendar days of play. A consecutive-day habit can therefore include different modes alongside the daily.

The result’s share feature creates a card with the XI and performance details for sharing or downloading. Daily Winner is awarded when the completed day’s leading entry is recorded. Your underlying mode can also award its usual achievements, and a first completed run or a player reaching 25 goals can earn First Steps or Golden Boot. Read scoring and player ratings, then open today’s daily challenge.