LobbyWay is built around a simple football journey: show the player you are, find the right people, get on the pitch, then use what happened to make the next decision. This guide follows that journey from your first visit to your next club night.
Start with your game
Your first task is to build a player profile that feels useful before it feels complete. Choose the positions and archetypes you actually enjoy, set your experience and availability, add the language and microphone details that help other players plan a session, then save your preferred name and platform identity.
You can connect a club during onboarding if you are already in one. LobbyWay verifies the membership against the club’s EA roster before it treats it as a verified club connection. If you are still looking, choose Do this later—the rest of the player journey remains open.
Let the dashboard do the organising
After onboarding, Dashboard is your personal starting point. The For you area brings together timely opportunities, confirmed football plans, recent club moments and useful Journal guides. Use More picks when you want another set of recommendations without losing the rest of your view.
Your requests is where decisions live. Incoming holds things that need your response, such as a club invitation; Sent shows applications awaiting a decision. Your week turns accepted tryouts and active Drop-ins into a clear local-time calendar. Following keeps close to players and clubs you care about, including recent club results and safe activity updates.
Build a profile worth reading
My Player is the record of your football identity and recently captured activity. Club Stats focuses on your selected club. Career Stats gives the wider record across your retained club history. Switching the club or position lets you inspect the context you mean, rather than blending different teams and roles into one story.
Match Intelligence turns recent captured matches into a five-part picture: Versatility, Att. Threat, Creativity, Def. Impact and Discipline. It is a view of recent output, not a universal rating. Open the match history beside it to see the games behind the pattern.
When enough matching evidence exists, Top Club Benchmark compares your Club Stats p90 output with players in the same selected position at current Top 100 clubs. The green segments are percentiles: a higher segment means stronger output for that individual metric against that specific cohort. It is deliberately separate from Career Stats, because a like-for-like comparison needs one club and one position.
Find a club through Tryouts
Tryouts is the discovery board for clubs looking for players and players looking for a better football fit. Search by the things that matter to you—position, archetype, region, experience, format and timing—then open a post to understand the club’s ask before applying.
A thoughtful profile does the hard work here. LobbyWay checks whether your saved positions and archetypes match the tryout requirements before it accepts an application. If a club accepts you, the plan appears in Your week and the decision arrives in your private requests. If the timing no longer works, withdraw while the application is still pending.
Get a game through Drop-ins
Drop-ins are for getting a team together around a real session. Browse open sessions, check the formation, the available positions, the game target and the host’s requirements, then claim a place that fits your role. Your place is visible in the lineup, so everyone can see the shape of the team before kick-off.
You can also host. Set the time, format, formation and any practical requirements, then manage the available positions from the board. The goal is not an anonymous queue: it is a clear match plan with enough information for players to arrive ready.
Make your club home useful
My Club is where a verified club becomes a shared football space. Start with the club home for squad context, recent results, public activity and recruitment. Club members can move between the home, squad and management views according to their role.
Club administrators can shape the club’s presence, manage members and create recruitment opportunities. Verified membership matters here: it protects the club from being managed by someone who has not been confirmed on its EA roster.
Turn matches into better decisions
Scouting is the review desk. After eligible Drop-ins, managers can complete structured player feedback and attendees can rate the manager experience. It keeps the feedback focused—ratings and concise football tags rather than unbounded public comments.
You can also start a player or club scouting run. LobbyWay gathers the captured match evidence that arrives during that run, then turns it into a private report with match facts, result context and, where enough evidence exists, the same Match Intelligence and Top Club Benchmark views. It is a way to follow a question over several matches, not a promise of instant certainty.
Keep the next action clear
The notification centre is for meaningful changes that happen outside the page you are on: a tryout decision, an invitation, a report arrival or an action that needs attention. Opening a notification takes you to the relevant place; it does not expose private club or platform information.
Your profile, club and account settings remain yours to update when your football changes. Keep your availability, roles and club context current. Better inputs make the right invitations, recommendations and conversations easier to find.
Play the long game
LobbyWay works best when each part feeds the next: a clearer profile produces more relevant opportunities; a good tryout or Drop-in creates a real match experience; the match record gives you better context for the next conversation. Start with the page that solves today’s need, then let the journey grow from there.