World Club Champion Football
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| Developer(s) | Hitmaker |
| Publisher(s) | Sega |
| Producer(s) |
Hisao Oguchi Mie Kumagai Jun Tsuchiya |
| Composer(s) |
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi Junpei Mishiyama Takahiro Kai Mitsuhuru Fukuyama Chihiro Aoki |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release date(s) |
Arcade JPN 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 EUR 2005, 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single player, two player |
| Cabinet | Satellite |
| Arcade system | Sega RingEdge, Lindbergh, NAOMI 2 |
World Club Champion Football (WCCF) is a Japanese collectible card game and football/soccer sports arcade game produced by Sega. The player assembles a squad by collecting and trading specially marked cards, produced by Panini. The player then selects a team and manage it, playing simulated football matches on an arcade machine taking part in friendly, league and cup competitions.
The squad managed by the player can consist of up to 16 footballer cards with the data stored on a player's smart card, commonly known as an IC. The IC can store up to 150 matches worth of data; once the maximum number of matches has been reached the player has an option to transfer their statistics to a new IC.
Footballer cards are registered by starting a game and laying the cards down on a special matted table that identifies the card allowing the game to retrieve the footballers attributes from a database.
Players can issue commands to his team during a match, change the team's formation, talk to individual team members or in pairs in a virtual manager's office and train the team up to six areas of skill: Offense, Defence, Passing, Possession, Speed, and Power.
The first major version of the game was based on the top division of Italian football, the Serie A, and was released in Japan in 2002. The teams included were those that participated in the competition during the previous footballing year; the player data being based on performances during that 2001–02 season. An updated version of the game was released in 2003 with gameplay fixes/adjustments also added 32 black/white and 13 foil player cards.
With the success of the game, Sega went on to produce a second major version of the game, again devoted to Serie A, that was released in 2003. The teams and players included were those that participated in the 2002–03 season. As with the 2001–02 version the 2002–03 version was also updated several months later to include gameplay updates and additional players consisting of 32 black/white and 43 foil player cards. The 2002–03 season version of WCCF was the first version that was released outside of Asia by being made available in Italy.
After a brief hiatus, Sega's next major new version of the game was released in late 2005. This time, the game was not dedicated to Serie A and instead was based on the top divisions of four countries in Europe: the English Premier League, Dutch Eredivisie, Spanish La Liga, and Italian Serie A. The teams included in this European Clubs version of the game was based the 2004–05 season and Sega started distributing the game more widely outside of Asia; the countries included the Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, the UAE and the UK.
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