Hey dudes, I just love soccer games (like Winning Eleven, FIFA, etc, etc...)

I wanna know if there's any soccer game under linux.

Thanks in advance!

i dunno, i am not into soccer games try google c if anything comes up, n let us know heck maybe i'll play a game w/ u hehehe

A search on 'Linux Game Tome' (http://www.happypenguin.org) returns this this eight games :

- BattleBall
- Bygfoot Football Manager
- Eat the whistle
- Football Manager
- Hoverball
- Soccar
- SpaceCup
- The Tao of Soccer

The Freshmeat site is worth a try too : http://freshmeat.net.

Yes, but are any of those games worth playing? We are looking for people with direct experience ( done it themselves and can tell us how it went ) with playing a soccer game on Linux, not just Google search results.

Reviving almost 2yr old threads isn't cool, especially if you have nothing overly constructive to say. Slam Soccer 2006 looks like the only half-way decent soccer game for linux, no I haven't played it but the installer is on the site if you want to try it.

Best of luck.

First, directing the conversation away from conjecture ( one of these might work or be good ) to fact ( I've installed and played this game on Linux and it works well ) IS constructive.

Second, I've discovered that Transgaming officially supports FIFA World Cup 2006, and am installing it now. Works on Linux to me covers both natively and non-natively, so this solution works for fine me. I would agree that a soccer game that runs natively on Linux would be better, but for those who only care about the "runs" part, stay tuned for my update on FIFA WCS 2006.

nice.. i think i might go out and get fifa 2006 now. ( i am a cedega subscriber also )

do you use a gamepad?

Never tried one. Do they work in Linux using ( or not using ) Cedega?

Most joypads will work just fine in Linux. Try to avoid joypads that rely heavily on drivers, such as the Xbox360 joypad for MS Windows. I use a PSone pad through a simple USB adaptor myself and it works great. Well, to sum up: Get a USB device, avoid pads with fancy drivers. I also don't think that ForceFeed back is supported in Linux, but the device may work anyway (my PSone pad works, but without the feedback).

Good news is I found a copy of FIFA 2004 ( no manuals, it was used and in bad shape ) and got it working under Cedega. Without the manuals, I am having problems figuring out how to play, but it is working pretty good.

The installation was not simple though. I tried using P2Play and when it got to the second disk, the installation Window just disappeared. P2Play did not create an icon for it. What I had to do was change to the game directory, and run fifa2004.exe with cedega, and immediately exit the terminal window I started it from. Otherwise, the game would run and the keyboard output would go to the terminal and not the game. Otherwise it works well ( video, audio, controls ) .

Can't wait to find a copy of FIFA 06. So far I have checked Amazon.com and Bestbuy for it. Amazon has FIFA 2006 for the PC , which I hope is the same as '06' .

It took a bit of work, but I got this game to work. I ordered it from Amazon.com, and started installing it using Cedega 5.2.4. I have 5.2.5, but it would not install using that version.

Now, the version I had came on 4 CD's, and the second CD errored out right away saying it could not copy file Data_25.big. I had to go the illegal route to fix this and uses a downloaded DVD image to make a DVD and then used that media to install the game ( I spent 2 hours trying to get the CD installation to work ). However, I used the serial number from the CD version, so all legal there.

Beyond that, I just put the DVD in and start the game. This is really feeding my desire to get a gamepad as the control s are optimized for that input device. I'll see if I can find any PSone's for sale as that is the only one that I have someone verify that it works with Linux.


Thank You.


PS. The game is fun, but kind of hard with a keyboard as the input.

You could add Yoda Soccer to the list.

Yikes. Is that even a soccer game?

well the fifa 2006 demo works flawlessly via Cedega 5.2.6, going to buy the full version for sure

my MS sidewinder gamepad worked out ov the box.. no configuration necessary