FIFA Football 2005

FIFA Football 2005, also known as FIFA Soccer 2005, FIFA 2005 or simply FIFA 05, is a football video game released in. It was developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox, PlayStation Portable, GameCube, mobile phone, Gizmondo, N-Gage and the Game Boy Advance. The tagline for the game was: "A great player needs a great first touch". FIFA Football 2005 was the twelfth game in the FIFA Football series, the ninth in 3D and it the final game released in North America for the PlayStation. FIFA Football 2005 marks the first time FIFA Football has been developed seventh generation handheld game consoles.

Improving the career mode, the game was extensively advertised and released much sooner than the usual late October date to avoid proximity with the release of Pro Evolution Soccer 4 and the EA Big release, FIFA Street. While some critics still considered it to have inferior gameplay to Konami's series, it was acknowledged to have improved significantly since the 2003 edition.

The game featured a return of create-a-player mode, as well as an improved, 15 season-long career mode. The game's biggest difference compared to previous titles was the inclusion of first-touch gameplay which provided gamers the ability to perform "real-life" tricks and passes. It was also the first version to feature the full Mexican League, which boosted sales in the United States. The soundtrack was headlined by British DJ Paul Oakenfold, who composed the FIFA Theme especially for the game. This was the last PlayStation 1 title ever to be released.

The main cover for the game featured Patrick Vieira, Fernando Morientes and Andriy Shevchenko. On the North American cover Oswaldo Sánchez replaced Patrick Vieira.

John Motson provides commentary with Ally McCoist on special comments in the English version of the game.

Leagues
There are a total of 25 complete leagues representing 18 countries in FIFA Football 2005. The game also includes a "rest of the world" division for clubs that are included in the game but not that club's entire league system. Some notable omissions include the leagues of the Czech Republic, Argentina, Turkey, Poland, Greece, Ukraine, Republic of Ireland and Russia.

1 Sheffield United feature in 2003-04 kit 2 MSV Duisburg feature in 2003-04 kit 3 New league for this edition
 * 🇦🇹 AUT Austrian Bundesliga
 * 🇧🇪 BEL Belgian League
 * 🇧🇷 BRA Brazilian League
 * DEN Danish Superliga
 * NED Dutch Eredivisie
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WAL Premier League
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WAL Football League Championship1
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WAL Football League One
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 WAL Football League Two
 * 🇫🇷 FRA MON French Division 1
 * 🇫🇷 FRA French Division 2
 * 🇩🇪 GER German Bundesliga 1
 * 🇩🇪 GER German Bundesliga 22
 * 🇮🇹 ITA Italian Serie A
 * 🇮🇹 ITA Italian Serie B
 * 🇰🇷 KOR K-League
 * 🇲🇽 MEX Mexican League3
 * 🇺🇸 USA MLS
 * 🇳🇴 NOR Norwegian Tippeligaen
 * POR Portuguese SuperLiga
 * SCO Scottish Premier
 * 🇪🇸 ESP Spanish Primera
 * 🇪🇸 ESP Spanish Segunda
 * 🇸🇪 SWE Swedish Allsvenskan
 * SUI Swiss Axpo Super League

Rest Of World
This section is for the clubs whose leagues are not represented in the game. There are 12 teams from 5 different countries.


 * 🇨🇿 CZE AC Sparta Prague
 * 🇦🇷 ARG Boca Juniors
 * 🇹🇷 TUR Galatasaray
 * 🇵🇱 POL Legia Warsaw
 * GRE Olympiakos
 * GRE Panathinaikos
 * GRE Paniliakos
 * GRE PAOK
 * 🇵🇱 POL Polonia Warszawa
 * 🇦🇷 ARG River Plate
 * 🇨🇿 CZE Sigma Olomouc
 * 🇵🇱 POL Wisla Krakow

National Teams
FIFA 2005 has 39 teams in its international division. Some of the more notable exclusions are Japan (who made it into the round of 16 in the 2002 World Cup, but whose licensing rights currently belong to Konami, despite having a Japanese soundtrack), South Korea (whose national league is featured in the game, finished fourth in the 2002 World Cup and was in FIFA Football 2004), the Netherlands (which also has their national league featured in the game) and Senegal (who made it into the quarter-finals of the 2002 FIFA World Cup and was in FIFA Football 2004). The following international teams are playable in FIFA 2005:


 * 🇦🇷 Argentina Argentina
 * 🇦🇺 Australia Australia
 * 🇦🇹 Austria Austria
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium Belgium
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil Brazil
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria Bulgaria
 * 🇨🇲 Cameroon Cameroon
 * 🇨🇳 China China
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica Costa Rica
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia Croatia
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic Czech Republic
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark Denmark
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England England
 * 🇫🇮 Finland Finland
 * 🇫🇷 France France
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Germany
 * 🇬🇷 Greece Greece
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary Hungary
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland Ireland
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Italy
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico Mexico
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria Nigeria
 * Northern Ireland Northern Ireland
 * 🇳🇴 Norway Norway
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay Paraguay
 * 🇵🇱 Poland Poland
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal Portugal
 * 🇷🇴 Romania Romania
 * 🇷🇺 Russia Russia
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Scotland
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia Slovenia
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Spain
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden Sweden
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland Switzerland
 * 🇹🇳 Tunisia Tunisia
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey Turkey
 * 🇺🇸 United States United States
 * 🇺🇾 Uruguay Uruguay
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales Wales

Stadiums
There are 30 arenas in FIFA 05, 20 of which are real-life stadiums. The other 10 are generic stadiums for teams that do not have a signature stadium in the game. The following stadiums are featured in FIFA 05:

Real Stadiums

 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands Amsterdam ArenA, Netherlands
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Anfield, England
 * 🇩🇪 Germany BayArena, Germany
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Calderón, Spain
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Camp Nou, Spain
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium Constant Vanden Stock, Belgium
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Stadio delle Alpi, Italy
 * 🇫🇷 France Félix Bollaert, France
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Hamburg Arena, Germany
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Highbury, England
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Estadio Mestalla, Spain
 * 🇫🇷 France Stade de Gerland, France
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Old Trafford, England
 * 🇫🇷 France Parc des Princes, France
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Italy
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Santiago Bernabéu, Spain
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England St James' Park, England
 * 🇫🇷 France Stade Vélodrome, France
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Stamford Bridge, England
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Westfalenstadion, Germany

Generic Stadiums

 * Closed Square Style
 * Division 1 Euro Style
 * Division 1 UK Styles
 * Division 2 Euro Style
 * Division 2 UK Style
 * Division 3 Euro Style
 * Division 3 UK Style
 * Olympic Style
 * Open Square Style
 * Oval Style

Ratings

 * FIFA 2005 Player of the Year: Thierry Henry
 * FIFA 2005 Runner Up Player of the Year: Ruud van Nistelrooy
 * FIFA 2005 Bronze Player of the Year: Ronaldinho
 * FIFA 2005 Best Team: Arsenal
 * FIFA 2005 Most Skilfull Player: Kaka
 * FIFA 2005 Official Flop Player(s): Cristiano Ronaldo, Jose Antonio Reyes, Javier Saviola and Hernan Crespo
 * FIFA 2005 Official Goal of the Year: David Beckham free-kick, Real Madrid vs Manchester United. (European Cup)

All stats were produced by FIFA in June 2005.

Game soundtrack
FIFA Football 2005 features a wide variety of world music on its soundtrack. The songs featured are as follows:


 * 🇫🇷 France Air - "Surfing on a Rocket"
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Brothers - "Dieci Cento Mille"
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico Clorofila of Nortec Collective - "Almada"
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica Debi Nova - "One Rhythm (Do Yard Riddim Mix)"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Emma Warren - "She Wants You Back"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Faithless - "No Roots"
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands Ferry Corsten - "Rock Your Body, Rock"
 * 🇺🇸 United States Flogging Molly - "To Youth (My Sweet Roisin Dubh)"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Franz Ferdinand - "Tell Her Tonight"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Future Funk Squad - "Sorcerary"
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Gusanito - "Vive La Vida"
 * 🇺🇸 United States Head Automatica - "Brooklyn Is Burning"
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil Inverga + Num Kebra - "Eu Perdi Você"
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil Ivete Sangalo - "Sorte Grande"
 * 🇦🇺 Australia INXS - "What You Need (Coldcut Force Mix 13 Edit)"
 * 🇫🇷 France Jose - "A Necessidade"
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela Los Amigos Invisibles - "Esto Es Lo Que Hay (Reggaeton Remix)"
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Mala Rodriguez - "Jugadoras, Jugadores"
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland Mañana - "Miss Evening"
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil Marcelo D2 - "Profissão MC"
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark Miss J - "Follow Me"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Morrissey - "Irish Blood, English Heart"
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Nachlader - "An die Wand"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England New Order - "Blue Monday"
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Oomph! - "Augen Auf!"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Paul Oakenfold - "Beautiful Goal (EA Sports Football Theme)"
 * 🇮🇹 Italy Sandro Bit - "Ciao Sono Io"
 * 🇨🇦 Canada Sarah McLachlan - "World on Fire (Junkie XL Remix)"
 * 🇺🇸 United States Scissor Sisters - "Take Your Mama"
 * 🇩🇪 Germany Seeed - "Release"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland Sneak Attack Tigers - "The End of All Good"
 * 🇪🇸 Spain Sôber - "Cientos de Preguntas"
 * 🇯🇵 Japan Soul'd Out - "1,000,000 Monsters Attack"
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden The Sounds - "Seven Days a Week"
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden The Soundtrack of Our Lives - "Karmageddon"
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England The Streets - "Fit But You Know It"
 * 🇯🇲 Jamaica Wayne Marshall - "Hot in the Club"
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico Zion y Lennox - "Ahora"