Backyard Soccer

Not to be confused with Backyard Football, a game based on American football.
Backyard Soccer
North American cover art for the PlayStation version
Developer(s)Humongous Entertainment[a][b]
Publisher(s)Humongous Entertainment[c][d]
SeriesBackyard Sports
EngineSCUMM
Platform(s)Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation, iOS
ReleasePC
  • NA: September 26, 1998
  • EU: 1999
PlayStation
  • NA: September 28, 2001
  • EU: November 2, 2001
iOS
  • NA: October 31, 2008
'98 Remaster
  • WW: TBA
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Backyard Soccer, known in Europe as Backyard Football (PC)[1] or Junior Sports Football (PlayStation) and in Australia as Junior Sports Soccer, is a children's association football video game developed and published by Humongous Entertainment; Infogrames published the PlayStation version. It is the second game in the Backyard Sports series, following Backyard Baseball. It was first released on September 26, 1998, for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows,[2] in 2001 for the PlayStation, and in 2008 for iOS. The PC and PlayStation versions of the game, alongside the PlayStation 2 version of Backyard Basketball, were the only Backyard Sports titles released in Europe.

The game spawned two sequels, both of which would include players from Major League Soccer and the USWNT; the sequels were Backyard Soccer MLS Edition, released in 2000[3] and Backyard Soccer 2004, released in 2003.[4]

A remastered version of the game entitled Backyard Soccer '98 is planned to release on Steam.[5]


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  1. ^ "Junior Sports Backyard Football Game: Amazon.co.uk: Software". Amazon UK.
  2. ^ "Contact: Mike Salvadore, Communications Manager". Archived from the original on 1998-05-25. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  3. ^ "Humongous Sports - Backyard Soccer Game Info". Archived from the original on 2001-02-08. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
  4. ^ "Backyard Soccer 2004™ (PC CD-ROM)". Archived from the original on 2003-10-03. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
  5. ^ Moore, Logan (2024-10-10). "Backyard Football, Basketball, and Soccer Remasters "Coming Soon" to PC". ComicBook.com. Retrieved 2024-10-10.