If you’re an avid soccer fan, there’s a probable chance your love of the game has transcended to the next level and you feel the need to be as involved as possible with your favorite teams and players.  Your passion simply can’t be contained with just viewing the game. When it gets to that point, many supporters usually take to the Internet and join a fantasy league to ply their trade at management.

It’s all fun and games to criticize coaches, call for their sacking, and proclaim you could do a better job. So creating a fantasy team, within a tight budget and set parameters, simulates that situation and puts you in control. Every decision is up to you in order to reach the top and strive for glory.

In today’s world, however, there are a number of fantasy soccer leagues to choose from with various rules attached to each one that make it different from the others. This makes it a little overwhelming to decide which one to choose and sign up for.

Euro Fantasy League offers a unique experience by providing many additional features that players are unable to enjoy on other sites. Here are 5 ways that Euro Fantasy League (or EFL) separates itself from the pack:

1. Play a Draft Game

Euro Fantasy League offers a draft game where you can participate after registering on the site for free. You can create your own Draft Game and invite 15 of your friends, or you can join another one someone has already started if an invitation has been sent your way. Once this is completed, you and your friends will select your lists of preferred players from any team and any league in Europe. You are not restricted by a budget, so this really allows you to create a list of the most powerful and skilled players.

With the draft, it works just like a real-world draft.  You’ll end up with fourteen players, eleven of who will be your starters. Because of this, no team will be the same, and everyone will have a truly unique set of players.

2. Play from the top 5 leagues in Europe

While you can certainly play a single league game, EFL offers you the opportunity to play a league across the top 5 divisions in Europe, where you can pick the best players from the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue Un — all in one game.

So that means if you want an all-star lineup including Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Leo Messi, Thomas Muller and Paul Pogba — provided you stay within your 100 million budget — you can. You can make the choices that will make or break your fantasy team.  Teams from the EPL, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 are available for your picking, which means the sky is the limit in terms of how in depth you want your squad to be.

3. Unlimited substitutions

Player substitutions are unlimited and free, except for when a game is taking place.  This allows a lot of creativity and flexibility in terms of fine-tuning your team.  Along that note, every manager is given twenty free transfers to use in order to remove underperforming players.  The twenty transfers are shared between the teams you manage, so if you possess a Draft Game team as well as a Standard Game team, then you will still only have those twenty transfers to divide up amongst the two.

It provides a level of difficulty that many fantasy managers will see as a challenge to work around, as the choices and changes they make to their squads will absolutely determine the outcome of their season.

4. Different display options for your team

Your ‘My Team’ page is handled in a very thorough way as well, providing you with two formats to view your squad.  The first one is a visual method that many people will be familiar with, as it shows who’s on the pitch for the gameday and who you have readied as your substitutes.

The second view is for those more interested in statistics and are looking deeper into the game.  You can see exactly how a specific player is performing, how often they score, how many assists they can, how many times they start, how many clean sheets they run away with — any stat available to provide you with an in-depth analysis into every strength and weakness of your squad.

5. Available in different languages

Euro Fantasy League is definitely worth a venture because of the level of competitiveness and freedom to construct a very powerful squad.  Offered in a number of languages, including English, Spanish, Italian and — coming soon — French and Indonesian. The game reiterates how this truly is the world’s game.

Players from around the world can join the leagues you create, or vice versa.  There is no language barrier to this global sport, which is what truly makes it such a beautiful one.  This only enhances the level of passion and interactivity between fantasy managers.

Register soon for Euro Fantasy League as the start of the season in Europe is just around the corner. Your squad needs a manager!