Europe's Top Five Leagues Are Now in 38-0

38-0 began with Premier League squads because the name comes from the challenge of winning every match in a 38-game league season. That was a clear starting point, but it left too many great football arguments outside the game. An all-time XI conversation rarely stops at one country: it moves from English pace to Spanish technique, Italian defending, German intensity, and French talent development in the same breath.

The draft pool now covers the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, and Ligue 1. Each option uses club-season squads rather than a loose list of famous names. When the wheel lands on a club and season, the choice is grounded in a particular version of that team, so the player you select carries a club, an era, a primary position, alternate positions, and the ratings used by the simulation.

Choosing one league keeps the whole run inside that football culture. A La Liga draft can move between different generations of Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla, and other Spanish sides. Serie A produces a different set of decisions, especially when a formation asks for specialist defenders or a defensive midfielder rather than another attacking star.

The selected league also determines the opponent pool used when the completed XI enters its 38-match season. The game builds a schedule from 19 clubs and plays each one home and away. The result is still a fictional challenge, but league selection now shapes both the players available during the draft and the kind of opposition the finished team faces.

All-leagues mode removes the national boundary and turns the draft into a European crossover. A goalkeeper from Serie A can sit behind a Bundesliga centre-back, a La Liga playmaker, and a Premier League forward. The attraction is obvious: it creates the sort of team that can only exist in a group-chat argument.

The wider pool also makes restraint more important. A lineup full of the biggest names is not automatically the best team. Formation slots still have to be filled, position fit still affects chemistry, and mixing eras can change how efficiently the ratings reach the final team strength. The expanded pool creates more possibilities, not a shortcut around squad balance.

The player pool is curated for a browser game. It is not an official or exhaustive historical database, and it does not claim to reproduce every registered squad member from every season. Ratings are editorial game inputs designed to create meaningful draft decisions; they are not official values from a league, club, FIFA, UEFA, EA Sports, or another game publisher.

That distinction matters because 38-0 is built around the experience of choosing an XI and seeing a season unfold. Data will continue to be corrected and expanded when gaps are found, but the aim is a coherent simulation game rather than a definitive statistical archive. The methodology page documents the model and its limits in more detail.

The quickest way to feel the difference is to try the same formation twice. First choose a single league and work within its player pool. Then choose all leagues and see whether the extra star power actually produces a better-balanced XI, or simply makes every selection harder.