^ a b The Ultimate 11: SNK Football Championship user's manual (Neo Geo AES, EU).

Hamster Corporation also re-released it for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 2019 under their Arcade Archives series. On March 12, 2013, D4 Enterprise re-released it on the Wii's Virtual Console.

After its launch, the title was showcased to attendees at the 1996 AM Show. Both the Japanese and European AES releases have since become one of the more expensive titles on the platform, with copies of the port fetching over US$6,000 and $45,000 on the secondary video game collecting market respectively. The game was one of the few Neo Geo releases to feature a corporate sponsor: Akai. The Ultimate 11 was first released by SNK for the Neo Geo MVS on Octoand for Neo Geo AES on December 1996. Shinsekai Gakkyoku Zatsugidan members Yasuo 'Tate-Norio' Yamate and MIKI handled both music and sound effects. I.Etsuko and Y.Romario served as co-designers. The Ultimate 11: SNK Football Championship was headed by Takashi Nishiyama. There are 80 teams available to choose from before the start of any game modes, each one divided into 8 geographical 'regions' and representing their country: Europe (group A) Teams are ranked to mirror their real-life counterparts. When the bar is fully charged and flashing, if a player is near the goal, they can take a shot that is virtually unblockable, depending on the opposing team.

Teams now have a charge bar (similar to the one in fighting games), which is charged depending on how long the player keeps the ball under their team's control. Good player performance opens up a match again a hidden boss team called the SNK Superstars, which features characters from SNK's fighting games as players.

The last region played is the deciding match. The regional tournaments have been eliminated and replaced with alternate mode the SNK Football Championship, which is the game's namesake, an elimination tournament in which the player can select any one opponent from any region to play. The players scoring the goals are still named, but individual scores are no longer kept.

Though it follows the same gameplay as with other soccer titles at the time and most of the sport's rules are present, the game opts for a more arcade-styled approach of the sport instead of being full simulation. Similar to its predecessor, The Ultimate 11: SNK Football Championship is a soccer game that is played from a top-down perspective in a two-dimensional environment with sprites. See also: Super Sidekicks 3: The Next Glory § Gameplay

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