On 21 May, our game will be 15 years old (release date of version 1.0)! Of course we’re celebrating with a great update and specials. And – don’t worry – you don’t have to give us anything, YOU get the presents!

The celebrations will start on Monday the 19th with the BIRTHDAY CUP, which will be held every half hour during the day. You will receive a gift for taking part and, as the winner and runner-up, two and one gift respectively!

On the birthday itself, you can search your club grounds for gift transporters and collect their loads (max. 11).

And just in time for the birthday, there will also be an update with no fewer than five new medals. We’re not revealing all of them yet, but it’s all about heads, hammers and goals …! We’re also already promising even more new medals in the big autumn update, as we know that many players love to hunt for medals.

In this context, however, we have identified several medals that provide false (unrealistic or even potentially unfair) incentives. We will therefore deactivate these. Mind you, this does NOT mean that these medals will be taken away from you – they will of course remain in your inventory! It’s just that they can no longer be earned again and, to be fair, will no longer count towards the platinum medals toplist. We’re sure that the majority of players will welcome the fact that they no longer have to do nonsense things like voluntarily relegate(!) in order to collect a medal, but can instead do what’s fun: play and win!

We can also announce that we will be changing the rules of the Clan Championship on 1 June in line with your responses to our ongoing survey: There will be a size limit for clans as well as a grand final tournament, so that the clan championship will be more exciting and interesting again. The details are still being worked out. The other exciting suggestions, which you have voted for quite positively in the survey so far, will be included in the autumn update. As you can see, even after 15 years, the KiO story is far from over!

Thank you for playing – and here’s to the next 15 years!

Your crazy programmers from Ludetis

In January and February, there is a new limited specialist: the Supporter.

Supporters give all other players in their team section (defence, midfield, attack) +4 strength each. Supporters are available for all positions except goalkeeper.

Example: in a 4-4-2, a DM Supporter gives the other three midfielders (regular, special or boosted) +4 each (for a total strength bonus of +12). In a 5-4-1, two CB/WB Supporters give the remaining three defenders +8 each (for a total of +24).

Note that Supporters do not count towards the specialist rating because their ability only affects the strengths, similar to superstitious players.

There are three ways to get limited specialists: from the transfer market at strength 100 (several are randomly generated each day), with scout discovery after a search for the specialisation, or with the corresponding limited specialist training from the season pack in January and February.

Please note that limited specialists cannot be created with player contracts, the academy, in newly created teams, or with normal or non-limited specialist training.

We hope you enjoy trying out the new limited specialist! Feel free to send us your feedback or suggestions for further limited specialists. The Supporter was also a suggestion from the community!

There will be a new limited-edition specialist from 1 March. To avoid any confusion: this will not be the ‘Teamplayer’, who unfortunately can already be found accidentally in the search window (we will remove this selection in the next update).

We are proud to present the new features of the big update that will be released at the end of October. As always, the changes are based on your suggestions and requests. Here we go!

• Clan Championship: To prevent the Clan Championship from being decided too early in the season and thus becoming boring due to the massive participation of large clans in most Clan Cups, we are reducing the number of points for winners and finalists to 10/5. In addition, three Clan Cups will be held daily as Super Clan Cups, in which only one team per clan may participate (‘one-for-all rule’ as in the Clan Master Cup) with 30/15 points reward. In addition, the unpopular clan duels in the lounge will be abolished. We hope that this will make the CM more exciting again, which should ultimately be in everyone’s interest. If not, we will make some adjustments.

• Ü32 Cup: Similar to the U21 Cup, there will be an ‘Old Boys Cup’ for players aged 32 and over several times a day. Similar to the U21 Cup, up to 5 younger players may be fielded. There will also be a new medal for the winners of the new O32 Cup (which, appropriately, has a beard). The O32 Cup is called the Ü32 Cup in German. Since not many clubs will have a suitable team at first, the tournament will initially only take place a few times a day, with the option of more frequent dates over time.

• Limited specialists: We will regularly introduce new specialists, but they will only be available for a limited time (hence ‘limited’). The first one is the Finisher, who only exists as attacker and has a significantly increased shot power compared to normal strikers.
• Important: The Finisher doesn’t shoot on goal more often than other strikers, only better. This means that he is only useful in offensive tactics (442/433/424) in which shots on goal are frequent. However, he counts towards the special rating regardless of the tactics set. You can setup as many finishers as you like, but a maximum of four (in 424) makes sense.
• Important: The limited specialist is only available as an expensive strength 100 player on the transfer list (for teams with a lot of money), via scout discoveries (for teams with less money) and a special specialist training that will only be available in the November/December season pack (pay-to-win). The game otherwise does not generate finishers, not even with normal or selective specialist training and not otherwise in the academy. The limited specialists are deliberately very rare and not available in any number desired. At the beginning of January, another limited specialist will appear and the Finisher will no longer appear for the time being (but existing Finisher specialist training items will of course remain). By the way, you are welcome to send suggestions for interesting specialists to the support team!

• Angry fans: Sometimes, frustrated clubs sell their squad in the middle of the season. While this is understandable to some extent, it is completely unrealistic and can clearly distort the competition. We have come up with the ‘angry fans’ as a realistic consequence. They appear when you lose a game in the first division with a strength of less than 90 starting from level 30. As long as you have angry fans, spectator interest is significantly reduced, i.e. significantly fewer spectators come to the stadium (with unchanged ticket prices). The angry fans will disappear on their own after 30 days, or you can sacrifice a fan club to get rid of them. You can only have one group of angry fans at a time. The angry fans are not a penalty. They are a reminder that, as a sportsman and manager, you should never act against your own club (and the fans) or against general fair play rules, no matter how frustrated you may be.

• National Specials: The platinum medal for winning national specials will now require only 250 instead of 1000 tournament victories. However, it should be noted that long-term motivation is definitely useful, because if everyone had all the new medals after just a few weeks, it would be boring again right away.
• Campaigns: The benefits of the campaigns that can be purchased for K$ (book tour, Tiktok, etc.) are each doubled. We actually wanted to introduce two new campaigns, but we’ll wait and see at what price they are interesting enough. Although the luxury campaigns are intentionally very expensive, enough teams have that much dough. Try it out, because the high account balance alone is of no use.
• Cosmetic fixes: We have improved many small things, e.g. tapping the Weak SSP icon now displays a suitable text, the trophies are sorted more meaningfully in the team display, and the chat window has been revised. There are also technical updates in the background that Google regularly enforces and cause work that you don’t even notice.
  

We are sure that you will love the big 2025 update and hope you have fun. See you on the fields!

Your crazy programmer