The Kick Off franchise is a series of football simulation video games created by Dino Dini.

In 1992, Dino Dini left Anco and signed a contract for Virgin Games, which released Goal!

In 2001–2003, the KOA collaborated closely with Anco developer Steve Screech in an attempt to relaunch the Kick Off and Player Manager series.

In 1992, Dino Dini left Anco and signed a contract for Virgin Games, which released Goal!

There is a league and a cup tournament with sudden death penalty shoot outs, in case of a draw.

Kick Off 2 also provides the facility to change strip colours and on expanded Atari ST's (1 MB or above) there are additional sound effects.

The "Action Replay" facility allows goals to be viewed at normal pace or in "Slow Motion" and saved to disk.

[5] The Mega Drive version knocked PGA Tour Golf II from the top of the charts.

featured similar gameplay to Kick Off 2 but also added one-touch passing as seen in Sensible Soccer, player acceleration, and more advanced menu systems and options.

[20] Later the same year, Anco released Kick Off 98 for the PC which received poor reviews.

[21] In 1998 Kick Off World was released for the original PlayStation, again developed by Toka and published by Funsoft.

The game was built using the Gamebryo engine,[22] released by Anco in 2002 for PC and Mac[23] with the name Kick Off 2002.

A new entry in the series, with a control system designed for the use with an analog stick, Kick Off Revival, was released in June 2016 for PlayStation 4 with poor reviews from the main game websites.