The qualifiers are finished! The following 128 teams are going to enter the group phase which will take place on august 10th in the afternoon. The tournaments will be created around 13 CEST starting with group 1, so make sure you find out when your group starts!

Group 1: -BH- Thunderstorm United, JVP Marios Bierpatrioten, KTT Caen Kylian34, Devil KiLLeR (4)

Group 2: TFA Thunder Angel, TRM Rumpelfuß, -BH- Wandering Rovers, 1FC Augustin Kickers (4)

Group 3: KTT CLUB BENNY, -BH- Daan, CAFFE Lampogol, TFF germania baumberg (4)

Group 4: KTT Aufstiegskolonne 1892, LCB Katztastisch, TRM Ayyildizspor 74, -ZPP- Halli Galli Lucker 81 (4)

Group 5: -BH- Ostblechbande, KTT TSG Holstein Preetz, IKG CarinaCologne, -ZPP- Berna (4)

Group 6: -BH- Padertaucher, KTT Alph611, IKG SC Kayhan, -RU- BSG Stahl Auerhammer (4)

Group 7: -DS- Nourvitch, -BH- SSV Reutlingen 1974, GE 04 CrazyDante, Svænne Exercitus (4)

Group 8: TFF FC Hillary, -BH- Walking with Strangers, -DE- Greifswalder SV 14, GE 04 Eurofighter 1904 (4)

Group 9: KTT The DeVil InSide, TFF FC Hot Dog, BMC FC Pustibaer 04, -BH- FC lützel 85 (4)

Group 10: KTT KÖNIGSKLASSE TREMMEN.EV, TMF cumbatënt, GE 04 Pocalujmniewdupe, -BH- ChitoChat (4)

Group 11: -BH- 1fc sambuca, KTT BTAK Iserlohn, FKK FC Highflyer, -DS- FC Südfriesland (4)

Group 12: -BW- **FIREBOYS**BW**, -ZPP- BvB Lippstadt 09, TFF FC Flummi 1909, KTT Besiktas Köln 1903 (4)

Group 13: TFF Vélodrome City FC, -BH- TV Biddafeld, KTT Rote Teufel Amateure, TFA Fußball Club -MD- 1965 (4)

Group 14: -BH- ESV Lokomotive Borussia, TFF werfen allstars, Mordor City, TRI Nugget (4)

Group 15: -BH- 1. FC Preetz, TFF Rot Weiß Hechingen, KTT FC Knallhart 04, -ZPP- Weserfun Minden (4)

Group 16: Merci FC, BMC Hounds of Hell, GE 04 FC AUSTRIA 67, TFF Fc Wacker Boden (4)

Group 17: Shooting Break, KTT SaXonS HaLLa, -CB- Cosmo FC, GE 04 Eastwood Frisia NLD 2011 (4)

Group 18: FLY Bruchpiloten Ismaning, TMF Adlerträger 1899, -RU- Slovenija Sport, KTT Old Gold Wanderers 1877 (4)

Group 19: BMC Spvgg Koeln-Hanau, True Believers, GE 04 FC GratisÖl, -BH- Boobonics (4)

Group 20: KTT Hoolland, BMC Biersportverein Berlin, -BH- Vorwärts Bayern, 1. FC Lange Nase (4)

Group 21: TFF FC Rot Weiß Holzbein 1890, -ZPP- FC Kölsch 1978, -BF- Eintracht Mario, BMC ZORRO (4)

Group 22: GE 04 Jena2612, IKG FC Saarbruecken, TMF FC FIGHTCLUB, TFF Fc Emdschi20 (4)

Group 23: BMC 1.FC Größenwahn, -ZPP- Gokkun, TuRa Meldorf, -DS- Don Martin Soccer (4)

Group 24: -BH- BIEL, -DS- Borussia Burgermeister 1900, Gillbach United, TFF 1.FC Monheim-Baumberg (4)

Group 25: -RU- Panthera Bremen, TFF 2. FC QuaggyDE, TMF Fürstenhof Varisker, -UC- Goleador Derby (4)

Group 26: -BH- Bachfischer Fc, TFF 1.Fc Sakima, -BF- CF United Doves, PIZZA FC SensibleSoccer (4)

Group 27: TFF FC Döner jawull, JVP borussia baden, Yukisan Juventino, -DS- SV-Husum (4)

Group 28: -BH- Magic Stars 1, KTT woodie77, TFF Black – Pearl, -ZPP- Baumi Fc (4)

Group 29: -BH- SG Schneifel, WNS FC Wolf Club, TFF SG 1 Kommando, -FP- Sniper Wuppi (4)

Group 30: TFF merheim München, -FUN- SuperFrog, TDS Dark days, KTT uA Sari Kirmizi (4)

Group 31: KTT DSC Arminia Bierfehlt, TFF FC Rathenow, FC Gummikrebs, JVP CKC Green (4)

Group 32: -BH- Allfield Utd, KTT HAHOHE 1892, TFF Sylter Sport, -BW- Aran Banjo (4)

On 4 November, the big annual update of our game will be released: Kick it out! 24

There will be several minor or major innovations, but the core of the game will remain untouched.

New rule: League participation restriction for households. Due to frequent complaints and time-consuming suspicion checks, starting with this update, we are preventing teams on the same network (i.e. household) from registering for the same league (i.e. country and division). Bypassing this restriction is therefore considered a rule violation. Once again: Participants in the same household (family, flat-sharing community, but also second teams of the same manager, etc.) are prohibited from participating in one and the same league. We ask for your understanding for this measure. We are sure that the enjoyment of the game will not suffer if people within the family only meet in tournaments or friendly matches. Big advantage: As a family, you no longer have to feel exposed to the blanket suspicion of „arranging“ league games because you don’t meet each other at all. More relaxed playing for everyone!

New coach action: Set up team. In future, you can let the coach set up the team. A feature that really exists in every football manager game is now also available in KiO. It is certainly interesting, especially for beginners, to see how the coach sets up the team. By the way, the set tactics remain untouched. Of course, every experienced manager is free not to use the new coach action!

New campaigns

The biggest news is the new advertising campaigns. There are several of them, and we will not present them all in detail here. Basically, the following applies to each campaign:

You can buy the campaign in the shop. Attention: The campaigns are very, very expensive. That is on purpose! They are there so that extremely rich teams have a way to shell out their money for at least somewhat useful things. Having an extremely high capital is not a useful goal for a football manager. So you can finally invest your dough!

You can only have one campaign at a time. This restriction is necessary so that extremely rich teams can’t take advantage of multiple benefits in a short period of time.

Campaigns run for 2 or 3 days. You need to have level 20 (for the „coach memoires“ campaign) or 30 (all others) to see the new campaigns in the shop.

During this time, campaigns grant small benefits (but not in simu!). The advantages are intentionally small so that rich teams do not suddenly have a huge advantage over others.

Here is an example of one of the new promotional campaigns:

As you can easily see, this is a „Tiktok advertising campaign“. It simply generates a certain number of talent points during the runtime of three days. Exactly how many and when is a bit random, and we are not revealing the exact value at the moment, nor the price. Only this much: it’s a three-digit million amount. That’s a lot! You are therefore faced with the decision of whether or not you want to shell out the money for a small pile of talent points. Your free decision!

We will start with six new campaigns. We may be due for a readjustment, and possibly more campaigns will be added in the foreseeable future. Because we don’t think much of you having tens of billions lying around and not knowing where to put it. Now we are creating an opportunity to invest large amounts of capital in a realistic way. We are sure that the majority of you will find this useful and interesting!

Of course, the big KiO World Cup will again take place this year!

The start is on 23 June.

As always, there are 192 qualifying groups in knockout mode every day between 10 am and 10 pm, the winners qualify for the group stage (you can participate as often as you like until you qualify). The qualifiers run until mid-July, so I’m sure everyone will find time to participate at some point. We end the qualifying phase again with a Youtube video showing the group draw.

The group stage will probably take place on Saturday, 5 August: 32 groups of 6 in league mode with first and second legs, 1st and 2nd place will advance to the final round. There will be no more than one team from the same clan per group if possible!

The grand final day is expected to be 19 August: 64 teams will play the winner in knockout mode with second legs.

Good luck and have fun with the preparation!