Pro Evolution Soccer, often abbreviated as PES and also known as World Soccer: Winning Eleven 5 (Japanese: ワールドサッカー: ウイニングイレブン 5, Hepburn: Wārudosakkā: Uininguirebun 5) in Japan,[1] is a football sports simulation video game released in 2001.

The cover of the Japanese version of the game featured Shunsuke Nakamura.

[6] Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating in the 0–100 range, calculated an average score of 93 out of 100 ("Universal acclaim/Must-Play") for the PlayStation 2 version.

[21] In the United Kingdom, the PlayStation 2 version of Pro Evolution Soccer received a "Gold" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),[22] indicating sales of at least 200,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

[23] Pro Evolution Soccer was the 26th best-selling game of 2001 in the United Kingdom.