A season has up to five Player Markets in which teams may participate in legal player auctions and hire unemployed or temporary unlocked players.


Upcoming Market: Black Friday Market
A last market is held at the end of the Regular Season for teams that participated in the ongoing season.
The market is held during the General Team Management phase before the
first round of the playoffs and includes any of the unemployed players
not hired in the previous markets.
Hired players at this Player Market gain Loner(+3) or add +1 to their current Loner for remainder of the upcoming playoffs.
Players that remain unemployed after this market will retire from Blood Bowl.

XXXL teams may hire up to 4 players total per season in a Player Market.

Player Markets are organized Secret Auctions, coaches may bid for up to three players over three rounds of bidding.
Bids are handled in units of 5K, must be higher than the player’s current and a team’s total amount of bids must not be larger than the team’s current treasury.

Players will join the highest bid per round.
If two or more teams teams make the same bid for the same player the team with the highest Professionalism Rating gains the advantage. Exceptions are made if two teams are currently participating in a Blood Feud, as players will always favor to join the current leader of such a Feud.
Bids made at later rounds always autofail.

Traded players join their new team with their current skills and their current player costs, but they gain Loner for a specified time while they are still trying to adapt to their new team environment.

If the team’s number of rostered players for a specific position raises above the regular allowed limit, the new player counts as Additional Positional and has to be paid upkeep in cash based on their player value after each match.


The player loses this special status if the team’s number of rostered players reached the regular allowed limit again.

Firing a newly bought, stolen or traded player before ever fielding said player in a game may result in disharmony roll among the team, staff or audience.