This Sorare review, updated in 2025, will give you the lowdown on the popular global fantasy football game. We’ll try to highlight both the positive and negative things about it to give you an idea of what it’s like to be a manager. We also have a Sorare sign up offer, which will help you get started with a special Sorare discount for new users.
This review via @Sorarelaliga, who has been a manager for more than four years, relates to the Pro version of Sorare football. You can also try the game for free using the “Best of Europe” competitions which enable you to win credits that can be used to buy cards to play in the Pro comps.
Both baseball and basketball were also added to the platform in 2022, but this will be strictly a Sorare football review.
Sorare is really easy to join and get going with no long forms to fill out. Using this Sorare sign up offer, you’ll be rewarded with $/£/€50 of credits that can be used to buy Pro cards (T&C’s apply).
This will help you kick off your Sorare journey as you build your collection and get ready to enter your first competition.
Sorare is a global fantasy football platform. Its gameplay is based on real on-pitch events in football matches across the world including the biggest leagues and tournaments in Europe, Asia, North America and South America.
Managers need to collect cards (footballers) in order to enter fantasy competitions and compete for prizes which include cash rewards, and sometimes things like jerseys, match tickets and VIP football experiences. All competitions on Sorare are free to enter, but you’ll need at least five cards before you have enough players to field a lineup.
These digital cards can be bought, sold and exchanged with other managers, as well as won by playing the weekend and midweek competitions. They come in four scarcity levels – limited cards (the cheapest with up to 1000 issued per player per season), rare (100), super rare (10) and unique (only one per player per season).
Each scarcity level has its own competitions with the limited ones being the most affordable option for beginners to get stuck into, although it’s possible to start at any level. If you’re starting Sorare on a higher budget (e.g. $1000+), you may choose to skip limited and focus on the rare level where prices are higher, but rewards are greater and where you’ll be competing against fewer managers.
It does take some time to get used to Sorare and to fully understand the different rules, gameplay modes and league structures. There have been significant changes over the past year or so that have aimed to streamline this process, the most recent of which are detailed here.
If you’re somebody who signed up to Sorare in the past but quickly lost interest, it may be worth giving it another look, particularly with the addition of a cash wallet making it much easier to deposit funds and buy cards in the Pro version of the game.
Here’s a brief explanation of how the Sorare gameplay basics work:
The lifeblood of the platform consists of the fantasy football competitions where managers enter teams of five players that each earn points (from 0 to 100) based on their performances in real football matches. To pick a player, you must own their card at the relevant scarcity level.
These teams must consist of:
You can also nominate a captain in most competitions who will earn a bonus (usually 50%). There are also small “XP bonuses” which grow the more you hold and use a card, as well as when you build larger collections from the same club in the same season.
As a beginner, you don’t need to worry too much about this yet, but these bonuses can build up over time and act as a differential when your team scores a similar amount to the lineups of other managers.
The base points score of 0-100 that every player in your lineup receives is determined by the Sorare scoring matrix. It may be worth having a quick look through but you’ll get a better feel for which types of players score well the more gameweeks you play (there are two Sorare gameweeks each week for midweek and weekend action with team selection deadlines on Tuesday and Friday afternoons – European time).
Essentially it works in a similar way to other fantasy football style games, however it doesn’t just focus on one league. It also uses much more advanced metrics to calculate each individual score than Fantasy Premier League (FPL) for example. Everything from goals and assists to completed passes, clearances and even penalty area entries improve your player’s score. However cards, missed chances and lost duels are among the things that will decrease the score. Match data is provided by Opta.
| Competition | Covered matches |
| Champion | Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 |
| Challenger | Eredivisie, Jupiler Pro League, English Championship, Portuguese Primeira Liga, Danish Superliga, Turkish Super Lig |
| Contender | Liga MX, Superliga Argentina de Futbol, Austrian Bundesliga, Scottish Premiership, SuperSport HNL, Swiss Super League, J1 League, Russian Premier League, Eliteserien, French Championship (D2), LaLiga HYPERMOTION, Serie B, 2. Bundesliga, K League 1, Primera Division de Chile, Ecuador Liga Pro, Primera Division del Peru, Chinese Super League, Colombian Primera A, Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A |
| Premier League | Premier League |
| MLS | MLS |
| LaLiga | LaLiga |
| Bundesliga | Bundesliga |
| U23 | Any covered match (players must have been aged 23 or under on July 1st 2024) |
| Special Weeklies | Varies by week |
Sorare’s league coverage grew considerably in 2022 and, at the time of writing, there are 325 officially licensed clubs including all the top flight teams in England and Spain, and 58 covered leagues and cups, including some international and continental tournaments.
In August 2024, old competition formats such as capped modes were replaced with three new tiers – Champion, Challenger and Contender. For each of the scarcity levels, managers can field lineups in any of those three competitions by selecting players in action in any of the relevant leagues each matchday.
For example, in Contender, you could pick a goalkeeper from Korea, a defender from the Spanish Segunda Division, a midfielder from Peru, a Scottish forward and an extra player from Mexico. That being said, you may find it easier to just focus on one or two leagues that you know well and play it that way.
There are also additional competitions for LaLiga, the Premier League, MLS and the Bundesliga, while the U23 competition remains, enabling managers to pick young players from any of the covered leagues on Sorare.
There are also special competitions where additional matches such as those in the Champions League, Europa League and international competitions are covered, offering managers additional opportunities to use their cards and play for prizes.
At limited and rare levels, most competitions are also broken up into three divisions where promotion and relegation is possible each week depending on your performance. Managers will want to target the higher divisions which offer higher rewards, although you can usually enter up to three lineups per competition, meaning it’s possible to build a big gallery and enter a large number of different teams each weekend.
Another big recent change, that is set to continue on Sorare in 2025 and beyond, is the break-up of competitions into “in-season” and “classic”. The in-season offerings feature cash prizes whereas classic competitions will mostly reward cards.
To enter in-season competitions, you’ll need four or more in-season cards (cards from the present season). In-season cards will typically be more expensive to buy as a result given they offer the chance to win cash prizes.
Cards from any season can be used in classic competitions, but you’ll still win in-season cards as rewards if you do well which can then be used or sold.
As a Sorare newbie, it’s important to understand that older classic cards are not worthless, although new users do tend to target in-season ones first. That’s largely because they can be bought directly from Sorare as new cards, and are initially more useful, at least until the end of the present campaign.
Classic cards do still have considerable utility though, and even if the player has since transferred to a different club, even in another country, you can still field his card as normal providing he still plays in one of the covered leagues detailed above.
For example, a 2019/20 card can still be used in the 2024/25 season in classic competitions, or as your designated classic card in an in-season competition. The main scenarios where a card may become unplayable are in the event of that player’s retirement, his team’s relegation or a transfer to a non-covered league – the most notable of which is currently the big-spending Saudi Pro League which is not on Sorare.
Sorare has built up an active and engaged community of hundreds of thousands of fantasy football managers, most of whom are passionate and positive about it. However, it’s safe to say that like many projects using NFT and blockchain technology, there are skeptics out there too and Sorare’s journey has been a bumpy one over the past couple of years, after a period of enormous growth following its initial release in 2019.
If you’re only interested in the free-to-play version where there are no risks attached, it’ll be simpler to just join Sorare and pick it up as you go.
If you’re considering putting money in, buying some Pro cards and trying to build competitive lineups, then you may want to do a bit more research into Sorare. This section may help highlight some of the pros and cons:
Anyone, anywhere can use Sorare. You can use your local knowledge or interest in specific leagues to gain an edge and can be part of a global community of passionate football fans. Sorare has registered users from almost every country in the world and being a Sorare manager can open up all sorts of opportunities to travel, watch football, maybe meet other managers and feel part of a big, football-mad community.
With players in the Peruvian and Japanese leagues just as likely to earn points and win rewards as those in Serie A or LaLiga, anyone willing to put some time into scouting players and researching smaller teams, can often find a genuine edge. With a far more interesting and complex scoring matrix than Fantasy Premier League for example (not to mention much better prizes that are far easier to win!), there’s also an opportunity for data nerds to get stuck into the numbers and figure out who the best value players are.
It’s certainly possible to put together a limited team that can at least compete for rewards in one of the limited competitions for well under $100.
However it’s true that having better cards, and analysing things like team news and fixture difficulties, will radically increase your chances of winning better prizes. If you can’t afford a competitive full team to start out with, you can also simply try to trade your way up to the point where you have enough cards to field a lineup, although that’s likely to take a fair while unless you’re a really talented trader.
Sorare’s prizes extend way beyond the game and can open up all sorts of opportunities to watch football and meet the stars. From VIP tickets to signed shirts, there are loads of cool prizes that can be won on Sorare in addition to the cash and card prizes.
There are also some truly unique experiences on offer. For example, the winners of the 2022 Global Cup (during the 2022 World Cup) were rewarded by getting the chance to play five-a-side football with the legendary Zinedine Zidane!
While the coverage has grown significantly and the Premier League joining in early 2023 filled the most obvious glaring hole that was on Sorare, there are still a few gaps here and there. Not all of the covered leagues (outlined above) have every single club licensed for the 2024/25 season, although most of the big names are there.
This is more likely to be a frustration if you’re a fan of a club or a league that isn’t fully licensed. That being said, it can often be possible to find many of your desired players from previous season’s cards if they used to play for a fully licensed club. They can still be used in Sorare’s competitions, regardless of what jersey they are wearing on the card.
You can now play Sorare using cash (it previously ran only using the cryptocurrency Ethereum) and don’t need to know anything about NFTs to play and enjoy the game. However the underlying technology that Sorare is built on is known as the blockchain, and cards come in the form of digital collectibles (NFTs).
There are people who see them as a huge part of the future world as we move further into the digital age. There are others who see them as a huge fad. Sorare has protected themselves against the latter scenario by building a game that already feels like it has mass appeal with the vast majority of users there to play fantasy football rather than collect NFTs.
The value of cards (and therefore your collection) can increase and decrease quite rapidly at times, for a number of reasons. The biggest determining factor is still how well a player is doing on the pitch. Somebody who fires in three 90+ scores in a row will most likely go up in value, whereas a player who gets dropped or seriously injured and spends several gameweeks on the bench will almost certainly lose value.
The overall market trend over the past couple of years has been for cards to lose value, particularly classic cards. It’s impossible for anyone to say how long that decline will last, but given the ever-increasing supply, Sorare would most likely need to attract a large number of new users (or a few very rich ones!) to turn that tide.
If you’re somebody who used Sorare before, but lost interest for whatever reason, it’s worth pointing out that threshold payments are no more. These were previously paid out to managers who exceeded a certain points threshold in specific competitions and offered a way for managers to steadily grow their balance.
With more than $15,000,000 in prizes on offer during the 2024/25 season, there are still plenty of ways to win cash however. A new MLS ‘beat the game’ mode has also started, which should keep managers occupied during the European off-season. This offers cash rewards for hitting specific points targets, but it’s not as easy to win as was the case with the old threshold competitions.
All competitions on Sorare Pro are free to enter. However, to enter most of them, you will need to spend money on buying cards. The only current exceptions are the free-to-play “Best of Europe” competitions where you can select players from a large pool of common cards.
Sorare Rivals was another free-to-play mode mostly geared towards new users on Sorare, however it is currently being disbanded. A new free game-mode is expected to be announced soon.
Sorare has grown in a very short space of time and was valued at $4.3bn in 2021 after it secured record-breaking funding. Since then, it has opened an office in New York in addition to its existing Paris base and partnered with huge global stars including Leo Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Serena Williams.
In short, it’s very much a legit company but one operating in a new sector using a new technology whose future uses are not yet fully known or understood. It’s impossible for anyone to know what the platform will look like, and how much or how little Sorare cards will be worth in two, five or ten years’ time.
Sorare is a fantasy football game with competitions that are all technically free to enter. The vast majority of countries do not classify Sorare as gambling. However, this is still very much early days for NFT-based games and the lines are a bit blurred to say the least.
Sorare is already the subject of much greater regulation in Switzerland for example, while France has recently introduced NFT gaming laws, largely in response to the platform’s popularity. The UK Gambling Commission is also investigating Sorare, accusing it of offering unlicensed gambling, although this is bitterly disputed by the company and its founders.
You can currently play Sorare using US Dollars, Euros or Great British Pounds. It’s also possible to play the game using the cryptocurrency Ethereum.
There is no special Sorare token. Managers can buy and sell cards using the currencies listed above.
After a long wait, the Premier League finally joined Sorare on 30th January 2023. You can buy, trade and sell cards from all 20 English top flight clubs. LaLiga and the Bundesliga are among the other fully licensed leagues for the 2024/25 season.
Yes, there are lots of methods and strategies you can use to profit on Sorare. You can profit from simple trading (buying a player and then selling him for a profit) or by winning rewards in fantasy football competitions.
However, it’s true that card values have fallen across the board since 2022, so most managers have seen their overall collection values decline.
Sorare makes money from selling newly minted cards and through 5% commission when managers trade cards with one another. New cards are minted and sold in auctions all the time which provides it with a regular income stream while “Instant Buy” enables managers to buy cards directly from Sorare at any moment.
There is no reason to believe Sorare is struggling financially, with recent changes such as scrapping threshold payments designed to ensure its business model is safe moving forwards.
Valuing cards on Sorare is best done by using Soraredata which highlights the average valuation of any player according to the most recent trades.
Players can go up or down in value, as in real life, according to how well they play. Injuries or transfers to less dominant teams or stronger leagues can also sometimes negatively impact on price. The scarcity of a card also has a massive impact on price, with limiteds being the cheapest while rares, super rares and especially uniques sell for much more.
During the 2022 World Cup, Sorare issued National Series cards for some of the teams in the tournament. These can be bought and sold like any other but they are “collectibles only” which means they can’t be used in any fantasy competitions. They tend to be very cheap as a result but be careful not to buy any by mistake as you won’t be able to use them!
Sorare has partnered with some legends of the game, so you may see some legend cards of retired players knocking around. They can only be used in special legend competitions with their cards scoring points according to the performance of players in their position at their former club.
The concept is similar in that you pick a team, your players score points and you compete against other managers. However Sorare has vastly superior prizes on offer to FPL and is also a much more engaging, deeper experience overall with a more advanced scoring matrix where players can potentially still score really well, even without a clean sheet, assist or goal.
Sorare is more akin to running a club where you buy and sell players and try to build a squad that can compete. In many respects, it has more in common with a strategy game like Football Manager than FPL.
It’s also worth noting that as opposed to FPL, you can join Sorare at any point in the season as it runs weekly competitions rather than full season ones. In other words, every gameweek offers a fresh start.
No, unlike FPL, Sorare does not currently enable you to name substitutes. Therefore it’s important to make sure you pick five players who are ideally all going to start.
If a player doesn’t play at all, he scores 0, most likely ending your chances of finishing high up on the leaderboard and landing a prize in that competition.
The joining process is fairly intuitive, with no long forms to fill out. You can sign up to Sorare via Email or by using your Google or Apple account, to get going with your free credits.
We have a separate look at Sorare for beginners that may help you take those first steps on the platform, or you can connect via @Sorarelaliga on twitter.
DISCLAIMER – This post contains affiliate links to Sorare. We aimed to give an honest Sorare football review which highlights some of the pros and cons of their platform, but please do your own research before putting money in. This is not investment advice & you should never spend money you can’t afford to lose!
