Euro Kick Tournament — Play Free Online

Euro Kick Tournament is a football game built around a tournament: you play through a run of matches rather than a single kickabout, and each result decides whether you stay in the competition. It sits in the Sports section of Doodle Jump, and it loads directly in the page, so there is nothing to install and no account to make.

It is a different kind of session from the site's headline game. Doodle Jump is one endless climb where a single missed platform ends everything; a tournament game gives you separate matches with a clear result at the end of each, which makes it easy to play one round and stop, or keep going for a longer run.

How to play

On a keyboard, move with the arrow keys or WASD, and use the mouse to aim and to pick options in the menus. On a phone or tablet you tap and swipe instead, so the whole game can be played without a keyboard.

Start from the menu, choose your side if the game offers a choice, and begin the first match. Use the movement keys to get your player into position, then aim with the mouse to direct the ball. Switching between moving and aiming is the main skill: the player who positions first usually gets the cleaner shot.

Tips

• Spend the first minute of the first match learning how far the ball goes at a given aim. Everything afterwards depends on that sense of distance.
• Do not rush every shot. A well-aimed attempt is worth more than three hurried ones.
• If you are on a touch screen, swipe in short, deliberate motions rather than long sweeps so your aim stays consistent.
• Tournament games reward patience across rounds, so treat an early loss as practice for the next attempt.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

If you want another sports title, Bouncy Basketball swaps the football pitch for a hoop and plays on the same quick-round idea. For something that keeps the one-more-try feel but with platforming instead, Helix Jump and Bird Jumper are good next picks, and Doodle Jump itself is always a click away.

Euro Kick Tournament suits short breaks and quick rounds, and it works equally well on a laptop, a Chromebook or a phone.