{"id":923810,"date":"2026-07-31T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:13:54","slug":"sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sifu Dev&#8217;s PS5 Football Game Rematch Has Had a Great First Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body\">\n<article id=\"article\">\n<header>\n<section>\n<p>Squad goals<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/users\/130362\/avatar.jpg?v=1637676014\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Quintumply\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/authors\/Quintumply\">Stephen Tailby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><time data-days=\"5\" datetime=\"2026-06-19T14:00:00+00:00\">Fri 19th Jun 2026<\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<figure data-uuid=\"fa4654e0977af\"><a title=\"Sifu Dev's PS5 Football Game Rematch Has Had a Great First Year 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/fa4654e0977af\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/fa4654e0977af\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Sifu Dev's PS5 Football Game Rematch Has Had a Great First Year 1\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/rematch\">Rematch<\/a> is a game I&#8217;ve not given much thought since its debut this time last year, but it seems the online football title has enjoyed a pretty healthy 12 months while I&#8217;ve not been paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, this is from developer Sloclap, perhaps best known for its martial arts beat-&#8217;em-up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/sifu\">Sifu<\/a>. Its next game would be Rematch, an online multiplayer football game that combines the real sport with the immediacy and simplicity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/rocket_league\">Rocket League<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It turns one year old today, 19th June 2026, and by all accounts it seems to have had a great first year.<\/p>\n<p>Player stats shared by the team suggest it has a very active player base:<\/p>\n<figure data-uuid=\"cc3b7f1133a2f\"><a title=\"Sifu Dev's PS5 Football Game Rematch Has Had a Great First Year 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/cc3b7f1133a2f\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year-2.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/cc3b7f1133a2f\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Sifu Dev's PS5 Football Game Rematch Has Had a Great First Year 2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Rematch has 7.5 million unique players, who have scored 530 million goals and played 105 million matches. This averages out to 1,000 goals and 200 matches every minute.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of actual sales, Sloclap has not shared an updated figure. Shortly after launch, it was announced it had sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/06\/in-a-surprise-to-absolutely-no-one-rematch-is-doing-really-well\">over a million copies<\/a>, so it&#8217;s certainly doing well for itself.<\/p>\n<p>I had a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/2138720\/charts\/\">SteamDB<\/a>, and while player number charts aren&#8217;t always a great metric, I was pretty impressed by how consistent Rematch is.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been attracting an average of about four or five thousand players for many months now, and while that&#8217;s not the biggest number, it&#8217;s clearly holding the attention of a pretty sizeable enthused audience.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last year, Rematch has been updated with gameplay improvements, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/09\/after-finally-adding-crossplay-rematch-is-coming-to-physical-retail-in-november\">crossplay<\/a>, and seasonal content, so the team has really been supporting it well too.<\/p>\n<p>All seems pretty good, then. Are you still playing Rematch on PS5? Tell us in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/users\/130362\/photo\/0\/avatar.jpg?v=1709297087\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Stephen Tailby\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen has been part of the Push Square team for over six years, bringing boundless enthusiasm and a deep knowledge of video games to his role as Assistant Editor. Having grown up playing every PlayStation console to date, he&#8217;s developed an eclectic taste, with particular passion for indie games, arcade racers, and puzzlers. He&#8217;s also our go-to guy for Sonic-related matters, much to his delight\/chagrin.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/authors\/Quintumply\"><span><\/span> Author Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/stephentailby.bsky.social\"><span><\/span> Bluesky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a onclick=\"return replyTo('Quintumply');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/#\"> Reply<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/06\/sifu-devs-ps5-football-game-rematch-has-had-a-great-first-year\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squad goals by Stephen Tailby Fri 19th Jun 2026 Rematch is a game I&#8217;ve not given much thought since its debut this time last year, but it seems the online football title has enjoyed a pretty healthy 12 months while I&#8217;ve not been paying attention. To recap, this is from developer Sloclap, perhaps best known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33169,3790],"tags":[7659,7229],"class_list":["post-923810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devs","category-football","tag-devs","tag-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}