Win a match, and you can acquire players from the team you just beat. eFootball™ Kick-Off! is a football game about building your own club that way. The series started in 1995 as Winning Eleven and has also been known as Pro Evolution Soccer, or PES. Today it goes by eFootball, and this is the first time a game under that name has come to a Nintendo console.

It was released exclusively for Nintendo Switch™ 2 in June 2026. It was announced in February’s Nintendo Direct, and Konami Digital Entertainment developed and published it. It supports English text, and English commentary is included from the start. It is a one-time purchase.

Online matches with a friend are 1-v-1, with each player using their own console. Online play requires a Nintendo Switch Online membership. Get together in the same place, and up to four people can play over local wireless.

The World Tour map, with stadiums across Europe and the prompt “Select a competition to enter.”

What are you collecting in World Tour?

In World Tour, you start your own club from scratch and work your way up through tournaments held around the world. Win a match and you can acquire players from the team you defeated, and Coins earned through play let you sign legendary players.

Konami added 13 more of those legends in a free update announced on September 24. They include Fernando Torres, Keisuke Honda and Gerard Piqué.

There is also a Rank system. It evaluates how you play, and your Rank rises as your skills improve.

A match in progress, with Argentina leading France 1-0 on the scoreboard

Straight into a match: Quick Match and 6-a-side

Quick Match lets you pick a real national team or club and go straight into a game. A pre-release play report put the lineup at 48 national teams and more than 19,000 players.

For people new to football games, there is a 6-a-side mode, with assists that simplify the controls. The mini-games include Wall Ball and Obstacle Race.

EFB United players lifting a trophy under the banner “International Championship Winners”

After launch: player data updates and new modes

In June, the month of release, two player data updates went out. The first refreshed the national teams’ player data. The second updated players’ clubs, registration details and appearance data.

International Cup was not in the game on launch day. The mode, which recreates the international tournament held every four years, is now available to play. Its group stage follows the format of the real-world 2026 tournament.

Leagues Mode arrived in the September 24 update. You pick any club from 25 leagues across Europe, South America, Asia and Oceania, then play a full season for the league title. The standings shift after every matchday, and individual rankings, such as those for top scorers and most assists, are tracked too. The leagues include English League, Spanish League, Ligue 1, Brasileirão and Japan’s J1 League.

Leagues Mode supports co-op for up to four players, and International Cup has co-op too. Co-op is local only; it is not available online.

You can lead a national team through an international tournament, play out a full season with a club from one of 25 leagues, or build your own club from players acquired from the teams you beat. Switching between those goals could keep you coming back to the same game for a long time.