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Sports: soccer sorted by release date

Football (or soccer) is one of the most successfully simulated sports in video games on every platform, both consoles and PCs, since the dawn of 8-bit video gaming. There's been a number of soccer games of various genres: simulations (the FIFA series), arcade/action games (Kick Off, Sensible Soccer), team management simulations (Championship Manager, Premier Manager), etc. Some of them became successful franchises, others are no longer even remembered.
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Sensible World of Soccer 96/97

DOS1996protected3.7/5 Sensible Software
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Ultimate Soccer Manager 2

DOSWindows 3.x19963.9/5 Impressions Games
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Championship Manager: Season 97/98

DOS19974/5 Sports Interactive Limited
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FIFA: Road to World Cup 98

Windows XP/98/9519974.1/5 Electronic Arts
FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 (also known as FIFA 98) is a football sports game developed by Electronic Arts and released in 1997 for multiple platforms including Windows, Genesis, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, SEGA Saturn, SNES. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 is the fifth game in the FIFA Soccer series.
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Football Fanatic

DOS1998freeware4/5