Mario Strikers (series)

The Mario Strikers series, also known as the Mario Football series in Europe and Australia and the Mario Soccer series in South Korea, is a series of Super Mario games that began in 2005 in which Mario and his friends play "Strike", a more extreme variant of association football (commonly known as "football" or "soccer"). The series consists of three games: Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged, and Mario Strikers: Battle League.

Playable characters
Not counting goalies, a total of 23 playable characters have appeared in the series.

Trivia

 * To promote the first entry in the series, a browser game was released in 2005 called Super Mario Strikers -- Heads-Up.