Though a club’s fame and fortune can be measured by its success on the field, financial strength is as much an important factor in determining footballing greats. Income comes from how well your side performs on the pitch, from prize monies and from gate fees collected from your adoring fans. The more success you achieve, the larger your attendance and the more cash will it earn you. Every home match generates gate receipts, which are kept by the home side, the crowd being made up of the whole of the home team’s following plus 50% of the fans from the visitors (simulating travelling fans). Thus, when a more successful team visits you, the gate receipts will rise as a result.
The money gained from this varies upon the gate price, and to make this system simplistic enough to ignore, we have set all clubs within the same division at a standard gate fee. This fee is higher for the top divisions than it is for the lower ones.
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