While players can create teams based in the home nations of Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland; as well as in Monaco, they will still play in the English and French league systems, respectively.

[3] In the Japanese version however, there is a direct player editor akin to the main Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurō series, and only team imports to World Football Climax function.

Following this, the game slides a series of newspaper headlines, chronicling the formation of the player's team, and its rise to the third tier of the respective country's league system.

It also introduces the main antagonist, a local-born business tycoon who plans to take over and merge a football club into his conglomerate, Big Bang Konzern, which is also based in the player's hometown.

Otherwise, the rival buys a different club from the same hometown who earned automatic promotion and begins a local rivalry which lasts for the rest of the game, forming the main thread of the story.

[5] Some users were upset and felt like the critics didn't give the game a fair chance past the first couple of hours.

[9] A fan-made texture mod for the PCSX2 emulator replacing the unlicensed logos with official, period accurate ones was created and released on Neoseeker in 2022 by an Australian YouTuber named Nexxus Drako Gaming.