The league files are out. Your drafted team is waiting for you in Front Office Football Eight. Here's how to claim it.
Before you start
You need three things:
- The league ID: WAFL2026
- The FTP login: in the Owners Only area of the forum
- Your team password: I've sent it to you by private message
1. Enter New Career
- In FOF8, open Controls → Participants → Enter New Career.
- Type the league ID WAFL2026, pick your team, and choose Begin Without Draft. FOF8 lists the game's original teams here, not the WAFL names — pick the original team that is yours (list below; your PM says it too). The WAFL names and banners arrive with Import Configuration (step 4).
- Fill in the FTP window from the Owners Only post: server, user name, password, port 21, and leave the base directory blank.
- You'll see "Entry succeeded".
- Arizona Pioneers (team #0) → Samoa Wave Riders
- Atlanta Raptors (team #1) → Madrid Black Bulls
- Baltimore Nightwings (team #2) → New York Steelheads
- Buffalo Snowplows (team #3) → San Antonio Lonesome Dove
- California Lightning (team #23) → Miami Manatees
- Carolina Hill Cats (team #4) → Oeresund Sort Sol
- Chicago Bruins (team #5) → Newcastle Phoenix
- Cincinnati Monarchs (team #6) → Atlantic City Sharks
- Cleveland Hexagons (team #30) → Camden Red Raiders
- Dallas Lone Stars (team #7) → Cairo Vipers
- Denver Drovers (team #8) → Yuma Aces
- Detroit MoCats (team #9) → Cardiff Dragons
- Green Bay Abrogators (team #10) → Tipperary Wolfhounds
- Houston Space Dogs (team #31) → Washington DC Freemasons
- Indianapolis Stallions (team #11) → Baltimore Bridgeburners
- Jacksonville Cougars (team #12) → Norfolk Destroyers
- Kansas City Fountainheads (team #13) → Escondido Scorpions
- Las Vegas Bandits (team #20) → New Orleans Revenants
- Los Angeles Guardians (team #26) → Shanghai Flying Tigers
- Miami Bay Sharks (team #14) → Springfield Isotopes
- Minnesota Norsemen (team #15) → Edinburgh Griffins
- New England Colonials (team #16) → Detroit Motorheads
- New Jersey Skyrockets (team #19) → Cleveland Horde
- New Orleans Delta Rays (team #17) → Transylvania Nightwings
- New York Gladiators (team #18) → Khartoum Haboob
- Philadelphia Condors (team #21) → Carthage War Elephants
- Pittsburgh Ironmen (team #22) → Vermont Maple
- San Francisco Gold Rush (team #25) → New Zealand Warriors
- Seattle Cyberhawks (team #24) → Tokyo Shogun
- Tampa Bay Privateers (team #27) → Reggio Briganti
- Tennessee Smokies (team #28) → Hamburg Blue Crabs
- Washington Landslides (team #29) → Faros Magma
If you're claiming your team now, at the start of the league, skip this step. It's for owners who join during the off-season.
Off-season owners: download the new-owner kit from the site (League Office → Files) and unzip it into your league folder:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football Eight\leagues\WAFL2026
(paste that line into File Explorer's address bar). Do this after Enter New Career and before Import Game Files.
If FOF8 ever says "Unable to load record book file", that's the fix: put the kit in, then import again.
3. Bring in the files
- Open Controls → Participants → Import Game Files.
- The first time, FOF8 asks which career: pick League ID = WAFL2026, Team = <your original team's nickname> (for example Team = Norsemen for the Edinburgh Griffins), then Open.
- Answer Yes to load the files. If it asks for the FTP details again, enter them.
- Type your team password. The league opens with your team.
- Then run Controls → Participants → Restore Career. It brings down past weeks and seasons. Everyone runs it, every time you set up the league.
Run Controls → Participants → Import Configuration. It brings the league's own team names and banners. They take effect the next time you start the game, so close FOF8 and open it again.
From now on
- Open the league with the Open Multi-Player Game button at the top of the game window.
- Run Import Game Files after every sim.
- When you've made your moves, run Controls → Participants → Export Stage File before the deadline shown in the bar at the top of the site. Upload Status (League Office) shows whether your file is in.
- Joining in the middle of a season? Ask me for your playbook. Once I've sent it, run Restore Playbook on the Participants menu.
Stuck? PM me or one of the assistant commissioners (Grim, Wackad00).
— CMax
