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FIFA refuses to kick off with "your squad must have at least 11 players and 7 subs … currently below the minimum number of players (18)". The imported club's squad carries ONLY its starting XI, so a freshly installed real club is unplayable until someone fills the bench by hand in the hub. `fill_bench_to_minimum` tops the squad up with the club's best spare players, writing EMPTY bench slots from index 11 upward. The 23 slots are 0..10 pitch and 11..22 bench/reserves, derived from the index alone, so the starting XI — and any bench the operator has already chosen — is never touched and a re-run is a no-op. Only real PLAYER definitions are eligible: a kit, a manager or a consumable in a squad slot is nonsense the client would drop anyway. Selection is best-rating-first with a stable id tiebreak, so the same bench comes back on a re-run rather than shuffling. Scoped to the REAL club on purpose. The 14-item fixture is a market test bed with a single spare player; demanding 18 there would abort a bring-up that never needed to kick off. Fixture mode therefore does not call this at all. Verified against a copy of the club snapshot (the live staging database was left alone, since it currently holds a squad the operator saved by hand): 11 -> 18 players, slots 0..17, no duplicate instance in two slots, every filled pick a real player definition, and a second run filling nothing. This is NOT a diagnosis of the failure the operator just hit — that squad had already been filled to 23 valid players before the match was created, and the host log shows the client issued no request at all after `match-create` beyond account-sync, so that refusal is decided entirely client-side. It removes the variable: after a clean bring-up the club is now playable without hand-editing.
OpenFUT
⚠️ Status — see
docs/PROJECT_STATE.md(canonical). The working, actively-developed target is FIFA 17, not FIFA 23. Everything below this banner describes the superseded FIFA 23bridgelineage and is kept for historical context.Run the server (canonical):
cd fifa17-recon/docker/fifa17-python && docker compose up -d— seefifa17-recon/FUT-RUNBOOK.md.openfut-coreis the shared offline backend (still used by the FIFA 17 path);openfut-bridgeis the retired FIFA 23 integration.
Offline Ultimate Team — like SPT, but for FIFA 23.
OpenFUT replaces EA's retired FUT servers with a fully offline, single-player backend. You own FIFA 23 legitimately. You just want to keep playing after EA shut down the servers.
Repositories
| Repo | Purpose |
|---|---|
openfut-core |
Game-independent offline FUT backend |
openfut-bridge |
FIFA 23 integration layer + reverse-engineering proxy |
Architecture
FIFA 23 client
│
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┌─────────────────┐
│ openfut-bridge │ ← intercepts FUT traffic, maps routes, logs unknown
└────────┬────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────┐
│ openfut-core │ ← offline FUT backend: profiles, packs, squads, SBCs
└─────────────────┘
│
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SQLite database
Core is game-independent. It speaks a clean REST API and knows nothing about FIFA 23 internals.
Bridge is FIFA-specific. It speaks FIFA 23's wire protocol and translates it into Core API calls. Bridge is where all reverse engineering work happens.
Current Status
| Feature | Status |
|---|---|
| Local profiles + clubs | ✅ Working |
| Coin system | ✅ Working |
| Pack generator | ✅ Working |
| Card collection | ✅ Working |
| Squad builder | ✅ Working |
| Objectives engine | ✅ Working |
| SBC engine | ✅ Working |
| Match rewards | ✅ Working |
| NPC transfer market | ✅ Working |
| Statistics | ✅ Working |
| FIFA 23 integration | 🔴 Reverse engineering in progress |
| Chemistry calculation | 🟡 In progress |
| Full Draft mode | 🟡 In progress |
| Squad Battles AI generator | 🟡 In progress |
| Objectives claim flow | 🟡 In progress |
Running
# Start the offline backend
cd openfut-core
cargo run
# Start the proxy (for traffic capture / FIFA integration)
cd openfut-bridge
cargo run
Core listens on http://127.0.0.1:8080 by default.
Bridge listens on http://127.0.0.1:8443 by default.
Design Principles
- Offline-first. No EA account required. No internet connection needed.
- Single-player only. This is not a multiplayer server emulator.
- Data-driven. All cards, packs, SBCs, and objectives are JSON files. Everything is moddable.
- Clean architecture. Core has zero knowledge of FIFA 23. Bridge has zero game logic.
- No copyrighted assets. No real player images, no EA trademarks in data files.
Disclaimer
This project is not affiliated with EA Sports. You must own FIFA 23 legitimately to use this software. This project does not bypass any ownership verification and is intended only to restore offline playability of a game whose online services have been retired.