👋 Welcome and Introduction

First of all, welcome to Footium!

Footium is redefining the landscape of football management games. Footium is a live, immersive, strategic gaming experience where you own and manage your own digital football club. Club owners buy, sell, and sign unique players, craft tactical game plans, and compete in real-time leagues where the glory of promotion and prizes, and the risk of relegation and ruin, are just a corner away.

With Footium, you're not just playing a game; you're actively participating in a football ecosystem where every decision shapes your club's legacy. It’s your team, your strategy, and your victory.

This guide details how you can get started with Footium - If you’d like to learn more about the game itself and how it all works, head to the Footium Game Guide.

👏 How to get started.

In order to play Footium, you need to buy a Footium Club and a squad of Footium Players. In order to acquire these, you’ll need a crypto wallet, and to get some ETH on Arbitrum.

Arbitrum is an Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain network (meaning it’s faster and cheaper than Ethereum, but has a lot of similarities and is still connected to the main chain).

Creating a wallet and getting ETH on Arbitrum is a straightforward process, it’s like a super secure account that covers you across any Web3 application. We’d recommend using our in-depth guide here, but here’s a quick step-by-step guide:

1. Set Up Your Wallet: If you don’t already have a digital wallet, download and install MetaMask or another wallet that supports Ethereum and Arbitrum.
2. Add Arbitrum Network: Open your wallet app, go to the network selection menu, and add Arbitrum One. This is necessary to interact with Footium. You can add Arbitrum to MetaMask directly through MetaMask:

• Log into your MetaMask account and click on the network dropdown.

• Click on Add network in the pop up window.