What is SVC Showdown?
SVC Showdown is a community game that tracks the real World Cup 2026 through Soccerverse. If you own influence in a footballer on Soccerverse, you earn Showdown points whenever that player performs at the actual World Cup. Leaderboards rank the best-performing players, the best-value players, and the users who own them.
How do players score points?
Points are based on each player's Soccerverse salary, so a star's appearance is worth more than a squad player's:
- Appearance: starters who play more than 45 minutes earn their matchday wage.
- Goals and assists: each is worth the player's bonus wage.
- Clean sheets: starting defenders who play 75+ minutes without their team conceding earn their clean sheet bonus.
How do user points work?
Every point a player earns is shared between the accounts that hold influence in them, pro rata to how much of the 1,000,000 influence supply each account owns. Hold 1% of a player, earn 1% of their points.
What does ROI mean here?
Return on investment: points generated relative to the cost of the influence in Soccerverse. A cheap squad player who starts every match can out-rank a superstar on ROI. Prizes will be awarded for most points and best ROI.
Why is a World Cup starter missing from the leaderboards?
A handful of World Cup players don't exist in Soccerverse, usually because they broke through after the game's player database was created. They can't be owned, so they can't earn points — their real-world performances simply don't count in Showdown.
Example: South Africa's Mbekezeli Mbokazi started the opening match against Mexico, but made his Orlando Pirates debut in 2025 and was never added to Soccerverse.
Do yellow or red cards cost points?
Not directly — there's no card deduction in the scoring. But cards cost points indirectly: a red card ends a player's minutes (which can wipe a clean-sheet bonus if they go before 75 minutes, or an appearance wage before 45), a player sent off leaves his team more likely to concede everyone else's clean sheets, and a suspension means missing the next match entirely — zero points on a dead matchday.
When do the leaderboards update?
After full-time of each match, once the official player data is published and processed. The status bar on the home page shows how many of the 104 matches have been counted so far.
Are the organisers playing too?
Yes. Accounts belonging to the organisers appear on the leaderboards like everyone else — we think that's more transparent than hiding them, since all influence trades are publicly visible on Soccerverse anyway. A pre-tournament snapshot of all holdings was taken before kick-off, and all trades since then are tracked, so every position on the board can be audited.
Is this official?
No. SVC Showdown is an unofficial community project. It is not affiliated with Soccerverse or FIFA.