Pro Evolution Soccer mouse pads for the desk

These Pro Evolution Soccer and eFootball mouse pads and desk mats carry football art inspired by Konami's series, printed edge to edge in high resolution on a 3 mm neoprene pad with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. There are eight sizes, from 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) to 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), and a design's product page lists the ones it is made in. Nothing is printed before you order.

The series grew out of Konami's International Superstar Soccer games and has always been called Winning Eleven in Japan. ISS Pro Evolution arrived on the original PlayStation in 1999, the Pro Evolution Soccer name followed on the PlayStation 2 in 2001, and the yearly editions carried the eFootball prefix from PES 2020 before the series became eFootball, a free-to-play game updated each season, in 2021. Whichever name you grew up with, the subject is the same: a pitch, a ball and twenty-two players, and all three fit a desk surprisingly well.

A pitch in the right proportions

A full-size international pitch measures about 115 by 74 yards (105 × 68 m), a ratio of roughly 3 to 2. The XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), is exactly 3 to 2, so a whole pitch fits it with almost no stretching: both penalty areas, the center circle and the touchlines all where they belong.

On a desk, that layout lines up neatly. The keyboard sits over the center circle, the mouse works in one penalty area and the other goal stays visible at the far end. The 4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), is longer at 2 to 1, which leaves room for a strip of stands or a running track around the pitch, and the XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), suits a stretched, stylized pitch or a single half.

A penalty area and a ball for the small pad

The 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad is too small for a whole pitch to read well, but a penalty area fits it nicely: the box, the six-yard line, the penalty spot and the arc, seen from above, with the goal along the top edge where your hand doesn't reach.

The classic ball works too. Its pattern of twelve black pentagons and twenty white hexagons is one of the most familiar shapes in sport, and a single ball in the upper corner of a plain green or black pad says football without a word of text. For a retro touch, a slightly pixelated ball nods to the PlayStation years.

The controller comes first

PES and eFootball are built around a gamepad, and on PC you'll probably play with one too. So the mat has a different job here. It becomes a soft, non-slip place to set the controller down between matches and a base that keeps the keyboard still when you reach over to type in a chat or a team name.

Local matches add another controller. Two friends playing side by side at one desk need room for two pads and their elbows, and a 4XL gives you that, with the keyboard pushed back or put away. If you play alone with a controller and use the keyboard for everything else, an XL holds both comfortably, with the controller parked at the end away from the mouse.

Master League and the default squad

Master League, the series' club career mode, started you with the same fictional squad across many editions. Names like Castolo, Minanda and Ximelez belonged to no real footballer, yet anyone who played those seasons remembers them, along with the long climb from a weak starting team to a side that could win the league.

A team sheet makes a good in-joke for a desk mat: a formation of those invented names on a green pitch, laid out like a manager's notes. It reads as a generic tactics board to anyone else and as a whole era of the series to anyone who played it. The 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm) size suits a sheet like that beside a laptop.

Edit mode and invented names

For years, PES lacked licenses for many leagues and clubs, so teams appeared under invented names, such as Merseyside Red and West Midlands Village, in kits that were close to the real ones but not quite. Players fixed that themselves in edit mode, renaming teams and players and redrawing kits, and option files with corrected names were passed around online every season.

The licensing went both ways: with PES 2020 holding exclusive rights to Juventus, EA's FIFA 20 had to call the club Piemonte Calcio. For a desk, the lesson is the one PES learned long ago: colors carry a club without any crest. Pick a design in shades close to your team's, a plain kit or a pitch striped in those tones, and anyone who supports the same side will see it at once.

The tactics board

Before a match, PES and eFootball ask you to set a formation and tactics: a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1, player roles, who presses and who stays back. The screen that shows it is essentially a coach's board, a pitch from above with dots and arrows.

That look translates directly to a desk mat. White lines and position markers on dark green or slate read as a tactics board even to someone who doesn't play video games, and they suit an office as well as a gaming room. Keep the markers away from the near edge, where your wrists rest, and point the attacking arrows toward the far end, so the plan stays visible above the keyboard.

Stripes, chalk and floodlights

A football pitch has its own palette: mowed stripes in two shades of green, chalk-white lines and, for evening matches, the cold white glow of floodlights over a dark sky. Mowed stripes running across the mat, parallel to the front edge of the keyboard, make the desk look tidy, because they line up with everything else on it.

Day and night give you two moods. A sunny pitch in bright greens suits a white desk and daylight. A floodlit night match, green turf under a black sky with a ring of stadium lights, suits a dark setup with cool white lighting, and it sits more easily next to black peripherals than any daytime scene.

Kits and national colors

Every football fan already has a palette: their club or national team's colors. Yellow and green, orange, sky blue and white, red and black: any of them can set the tone of a desk as clearly as a logo would.

Bold two-color schemes work on the larger mats, where a broad stripe or a sash runs the full length under the keyboard. On the small pad, a single color field with a ball or a shirt number at the top is enough. Keycaps or a coiled keyboard cable in the same colors finish the look without a crest anywhere on the desk.

eFootball and player cards

eFootball's squad-building mode, Dream Team, builds teams from player cards, each with a rating, a position and special versions released through the season. The card format, a framed portrait with numbers and a colored border, is a strong graphic in its own right.

A card-style design suits the small pad or the 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm) size, with the frame placed toward the top. It also makes the quietest eFootball mat for a work desk, since a single framed card looks more like a collectible than a game screen.

The view from the goal line

Not every football design has to be a pitch from above. Stand on the goal line and look out, and you get a different picture: the net in the foreground, the posts and crossbar framing the field, and the stands rising behind. The net alone is a fine, even grid, and as a faint pattern across a dark mat it is about as understated as football art gets.

A goal-mouth design suits the deeper sizes, where the crossbar can run along the far edge above the keyboard and the net fills the rest. On a white desk, choose white netting on light green; on a black one, dark netting under floodlights keeps the surface calm and still unmistakably football.

Three looks from three eras

The series has changed its look several times. The PlayStation 2 years had chunky players, bright kits and simple stadiums. PES 2014 moved to the Fox Engine, Konami's in-house engine, with more realistic faces and lighting, and eFootball switched to Unreal Engine in 2021. Each era suggests a different kind of design.

A retro look, with blocky shapes and saturated colors, suits a colorful desk or a shelf of old consoles. A modern, photographic stadium suits a clean, dark setup. If you're not sure which era someone loves, ask which edition they played most with friends; the answer usually settles it.

Sizes for a football desk

Look up a design's sizes on its product page. Here is how they fit football art.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	A penalty area or a single ball
Laptop desk	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A Master League team sheet
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	Mowed stripes in two greens
Keyboard and controller	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	A half pitch or a stylized full one
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	A full pitch in true proportions
The whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	A pitch with stands, or two controllers

L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), and 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), fill the gaps: the first for a long strip of turf or a sash in club colors, the second for a pitch on a desk too shallow for XXL.

Gifts for a PES player

A PES pad suits someone who still remembers their first Master League title, a friend who played every local match on the same sofa, or an eFootball player building a Dream Team today. The start of a new season in late summer is a natural moment for it. Choose by their team's colors or by era if you know them; if you don't know the desk, an XL fits a keyboard and a controller with room to spare.

We need 1–3 business days to print and stitch each pad; after it leaves Turkey, US delivery usually takes another 2–5 business days.

Cleaning after match day

Green pitches hide small marks well, but crumbs from match-day snacks show up quickly on a dark night-match design. Shake the mat out or wipe it with a damp cloth. For a deeper clean, wash it by hand in lukewarm water with a mild soap, rinse, squeeze the water out inside a towel and leave it flat to dry. No washing machine, no dryer and no iron; the fade-resistant print keeps the chalk lines white without them.

A note on names

Pro Evolution Soccer, PES, Winning Eleven and eFootball are used only to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Konami, or by any club, league, federation or player.