Matchday: Soccer Card Game launches on Android and iOS with Messi, Ronaldo

Matchday: Soccer Card Game has gone live on Android and iOS with a simple sales pitch: open packs, pull real footballers, build a dream squad, and get into matches that play out in fast highlights. That puts Lionel Messi and officially licensed players at the center of the hook, while keeping the on-field action closer to a quick mobile hit than a full 11-v-11 sim.

Google Play frames the game as collection-first soccer with short sessions, live events, weekly competitions, and fresh mini-games. The listing was updated on June 3, 2026 and points to World Champions Cup 2026 cards, while also noting that the summer of soccer starts June 11. For players deciding whether to install now, that matters more than any broad pitch: Matchday is leaning hard into a live card-collecting cycle tied to the football calendar.

Apple’s App Store listing puts the basics in plain view. Matchday is free, includes in-app purchases, is rated 13+, and is developed by Pitch Labs Inc. The App Store also showed an expected release date of June 4, 2026, which lines up with the game shifting from anticipation to a live download on mobile. On Matchday’s own site, the framing is equally direct: it is a free mobile card game featuring officially licensed players, out now on iOS and Android.

The licensing push is clearly the backbone of the launch. Matchday says it is an official partner of FIFA and FIFPRO, and its page for the game says matches are built around fast highlights. That gives the title a very specific identity in the crowded football-mobile space, where recognizable names and short-session design can do as much work as the gameplay loop itself. Matchday has also claimed there are more than 1 million squads on the platform, suggesting the game is already trying to look like a living football community rather than a fresh install waiting for its first season.

The company’s 2023 funding round explains how it got here. Matchday raised $21 million in seed funding in March 2023, backed by Play Time, Courtside Ventures, Greylock, HackVC, Capricorn Investment Group, and Horizons Ventures. Alexia Putellas was named as the founding global ambassador, co-founder and CEO Derrick Ko said the games were being built for casual users, and chief gaming officer Sébastien de Halleux brought prior EA experience from FIFA and Madden NFT projects.

That mix makes Matchday’s launch easy to read: it is not trying to out-simulate FC-style football on mobile. It is betting that licensed stars, fast highlights, and a tight collecting loop are enough to get soccer fans to install now and keep opening packs once the summer football cycle kicks in.