Pro Mode is where you play Hot Streaks: climb a board's steps by hitting a scoring target with your lineup, until you reach the top or run out of lives.
Anytime Entry
You can enter a Hot Streak board at any time — there's no Game Week start and no minimum-team requirement. A board is open as soon as a domestic league match featuring a licensed team is being played. You enter or edit a lineup up until the first player in it kicks off, so you can wait for confirmed starting lineups before submitting. Once you clear a step, you can immediately move to the next one — you're not limited to one step per weekend.
Pre-Set Lineups
On every Pro board, you can pre-set lineups for upcoming steps. Once your current step is cleared, the next pre-set lineup is submitted automatically, as long as none of its players have started their match yet. You'll be notified only when something needs your attention — a DNP to handle, or a reward to claim.
Step Clock
You still have 4 lives and 4 lineup tries per step. Once you submit a lineup to start a step, you have until the end of that matchday to clear it, or the step is failed. A matchday is one round of matches across a given league (34 rounds in the Bundesliga, 38 in LALIGA, and so on).
You can't start a step, lose a life, and then wait for the following weekend to try again on that same step. You're always free to skip a matchday and not play a step at all — but once you've submitted an active lineup, you have that matchday to clear it.
Example: You start a step on Friday with a Bundesliga lineup and submit up to 4 lineups across the matchday. If the last match of the matchday ends on Sunday and you haven't hit the target, the step is failed.
Example: You clear a step early — say, on Saturday. You can move straight to the next step with a Sunday lineup, and in that case you have until the end of the following matchday to clear it.
If a match is postponed, the step clock adjusts around it — extending when possible, or dropping the match when it can't. You'll always have a clear window to complete your step.
Some grouped competitions (Contender, for example) span several leagues and follow a tailored step clock: it runs until the latest next matchday end among the leagues in the group.
Scoring validation
- If your lineup is above the target at first validation (a few minutes after the final whistle), the step is validated and the reward is yours — even if a later score correction pushes you below target.
- If you're below target at first validation, the lineup is marked failed but stays reviewable: if a later score correction pushes it back above target, the step is validated automatically. You can also retry immediately with a new lineup instead of waiting.
- Failed lineups stay reviewable until the end of the Game Week in which the last match was played. After that, scores are final.
For the full rules, including when scores lock and which scores you see in your lineups, see [How does scoring validation work in Pro Mode?].
Rare Reward Bonus
Playing Rare cards on a Pro board earns a reward bonus:
- +15% per In-Season Rare card in your lineup
- +40% if your captain is an In-Season Rare card
- A full lineup of In-Season Rare cards earns a 2X bonus on the base prize pool
Super Rare and Unique cards are also eligible to play in Pro Mode, and benefit from the same bonus.
A few other details
- Lineup Bonuses (Cap 260, Multi-Club) do not apply in Pro Mode — they remain active in Arena mode only. New Season, XP, Collection, and Captain bonuses still apply.
- Scarcity bonuses don't apply on Pro boards.
- You can't cancel an active lineup (one where at least one match has kicked off), and a card is locked while it's in an active lineup — though you can still use that same card in a different lineup for another match.
- You can forfeit a step at any time and restart from step 1; all cards become available again when you start a new step.