In most football management games, you build a squad, grind a season, and then everything resets when the new game releases. The players you developed disappear. The trophies mean nothing next year. Your decisions have no lasting consequence because the game doesn't belong to you. On Flow, one team built something different. Metaverse Football League, MFL, is the onchain football management game where ownership is real, seasons are persistent, and the assets you build carry value across every cycle.
Introducing Metaverse Football League, MFL. In MFL, every player ages. Contracts expire. Promotion and relegation are real. And every asset in the game is owned by the person who earned or bought it. Ownership enforced at the protocol level, on the Flow network, using Cadence smart contracts that make it a language-level guarantee.
Season 13 registration opens on March 31. The perfect time for new players to join in. If you've been curious about what an onchain football management game actually looks like after 13 continuous seasons of competition, keep reading.
What Is MFL?
MFL is a browser-based football management simulation where users own clubs, sign players, set tactics, and compete in seasonal leagues. There are 10 competitive divisions, from Diamond (12 clubs) at the top to Flint (6,144+ clubs) at the bottom. Leagues run 10-12 teams each. Every season lasts roughly six weeks. Promotion and relegation happen based on league performance. If you don't register your club, it gets relegated automatically.
Over 5,000 active managers run clubs across the ecosystem. More than 1.7 million matches have been played as of early 2026. The game runs 24/7, entirely in a browser, with no app download, no wallet setup, and no gas fees. Account abstraction on Flow handles identity. The blockchain runs in the background.
Most of the people playing MFL have never held cryptocurrency. That's not an accident. It's by design.
"Web2 UX with Web3 ownership. That's what Flow delivers, and that's exactly what we need," says Mathurin Blouin, MFL's CEO and co-founder. Before MFL, Blouin was Head of Product and Trading at Unibet, managing a platform with 300,000 monthly active users. His co-founder, Yann Uzel, built the technical foundation, bringing the technical expertise to match Blouin's product background. The two launched from Paris in 2021, with zero external funding.
What a Season Looks Like
Each season, every registered club enters both a League and the IMFF Cup. League rewards are distributed in $MFL (the game's in-game currency used for transfers, contracts, and rewards) based on your final standing. In Season 13, a Diamond league winner earns 1,230,000 $MFL. A Flint league winner earns 1,400 $MFL. The IMFF Cup runs alongside the league in six tiers (Titans through Aspirants), with separate prize pools.
But the real value isn't the $MFL rewards. It's the assets. Players you develop over multiple seasons become more valuable. A striker who you manage as they progress from 70 to 85 overall rating is worth real money on the marketplace. As of today, total market value of in-game assets sits above $5M, with over $3M in lifetime secondary marketplace trading volume.
The growth trajectory that MFL saw last year reflects this activity. Over the twelve months from mid-2024 to mid-2025, primary gross sales on the platform grew from $793K to over $3.1M. Nearly four times the revenue in one year. Serious growth, driven by gameplay improvements, organic growth, and multiple feature releases across the board.
Why Season 13 Is a Good Time to Start
The team has spent the last six months making MFL more accessible without simplifying the simulation. Three recent updates matter for new players:
Club Staff lets any club owner invite up to five managers to their backroom team. Staff get custom roles (from Assistant Manager to Head of Recruitment), permissions across six categories, and a revenue share from the club. If you're new to MFL, you can join an established club as staff, learn the game with experienced guidance, and get hands-on experience without the financial commitment of ownership. When you're ready, you can buy your own club.
Staff League takes this further. It's a new competitive format in the Flint division (the entry level) that requires each participating club to bring in a new or returning player as staff. Twenty-team leagues, 38 matches in 22 days, commons-only, with a 20% XP boost. Win the playoff tournament and your staff member earns a free club license for next season. Every active club becomes an onramp to the MFL ecosystem.
Tester Rewards lets the MFL community be part of iterating on the Experimental Match Engine, where players can submit bug reports directly from the match page via a built-in Feedback Center. Reports are rewarded in tiered $MFL bounties (100 to 500 $MFL depending on severity). This isn't just a feedback form. It's a signal that the team builds in public and compensates the community for helping improve the product.
Registration for Season 13 opens at the end of March and closes April 5. You need at least 11 players under contract to register. Get started: https://app.playmfl.com/competitions/12434
What MFL Means for Flow
MFL is 13 seasons into continuous operation on the Flow network. Every player transfer, contract negotiation, and match outcome is executed through Cadence smart contracts. Ownership is enforced at the language level: every in-game asset is a Cadence resource, meaning it can be moved but not copied, and it lives in the owner's account storage, not a global ledger.
Content creators Nepenthez (one of the biggest Football Manager YouTubers, with a dedicated MFL channel) and WorkTheSpace run dedicated MFL content. A French-language community has formed organically. Community builders create third-party tools, projection systems, and analytics platforms, all without MFL's involvement.
For the Flow ecosystem, MFL is proof that consumer-grade applications can grow on the network and see the benefits of composability, ownership, and decentralization. When 5,000 managers are competing in a football simulation and most of them have never used a crypto wallet before, the infrastructure is doing its job. The chain is invisible. The product is not.
"What we've built with Cadence on Flow would be impossible elsewhere," says Mathurin, MFL Founder and CEO. "Real money, real ownership, real strategy, all within a live, persistent, on-chain game loop."
Start your journey as a football manager at playmfl.com.
