How is the purely Czech football board game Football Team of Stars created? Original idea seeks support on Hithit

Since 27 May, football fans have been supporting the creation of a purely Czech football game on Hithit. The board game Football Team of Stars is based on the principles of a tactical game in which an ideal eleven football players are bought and assembled. The game is created for all ages and for the entertainment of not only football enthusiasts, but also their whole family.

The board game Football Team of Stars was created by Roman Bilavcik, a former football player. “There’s not a day goes by when I’m not doing something football related. When I’m not coaching the youth in Otrokovice, I help out in our shop with football equipment fotbalprovas.cz, which is in Stary Město, and when I have some free time, I watch football matches,” said Roman Bilavčík.

He started turning his idea into reality five years ago. Over time, he fine-tuned his idea until the final form of the game was created. “We love board games in our family and we found it very strange that a game as popular as football didn’t have one,” explained Roman Bilavčík, the author of the board game Football Team of Stars.

He tried to create a football game to his liking, and when he really succeeded, he was constantly figuring out how to improve and tweak the game so that it could go on the market. In inventing the game, he also thought about the less football-loving members in the family, like moms or grandmothers.

“I think with a game style similar to Racing and Betting, which everyone knows, we’ve managed to take the fear away from even the football laymen. Horse racing and betting is also not just for horse racing fans and Monopoly for economics graduates,” said Roman Bilavčík.

The game has been supported from the very beginning by football international Jan Rajnoch. “When Roman told me about the idea, I was excited. Every ex-footballer misses the game terribly much – it’s the same as when football fans choose their holidays at work so as not to miss the game. Some of us start coaching, some of us get into management, but we all want to be close. And Roman simply invented a great game,” explained the reasons for supporting the project popular Jan Rajnoch.

The road to the idea of a football board game was a thorny one for Roman Bilavcik. The initial idea for the game came about when he was struggling with fatigue syndrome and had to quit active football.

“When I couldn’t play football and couldn’t really do anything – football was fun and work. I struggled, I didn’t want the disease to become chronic, I went outdoors a lot. By being out in the fresh air and spending time thinking, ideas were formed. One of the main ones was to create a purely football board game,” says Roman Bilavčík.

What emerged was a unique football board game in which the best eleven footballers are made up – they have different values from 10 to 210 million and are traditionally divided into goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and strikers. There are several possible variations of the best team in the game and players have to think about their purchases.

There are several levels of footballers to choose from, so you can play with the best team in the European cups – the Europa League, where players are worth twice their value, or the best team in the Champions League, where players are worth three times their value.

“A participant in the game first buys a coach in the small circuit and then moves to the main big circuit where he buys footballers and stacks them into his eleven players. When the participants put together a team of eleven footballers and want to replace someone, each player has the opportunity to make three substitutions per game,” explained the basic principle of the game’s creator Roman Bilavčík.

The game can be played by children as young as eight years old. It is for two to four players. The best number of players is four, where the most action is experienced, but even with two players you can come up with various interesting variations. The game time is two to three hours.

The game is ready and the creators decided to raise the necessary money for its production through supporters and football fans in a Hithit campaign. In the campaign, it is possible to buy the game in pre-sale or make a financial contribution not only to support the creators, but also to receive unique gifts, such as wooden figurines of football players with their own name.

You can support the production of the game and the creators on Hithit.