Konami replaces EA as FIFA’s esports associate
Japanese creator’s eFootball will seemingly be previous in two FIFA eWorld Cups later this 12 months
FIFA has launched a partnership with Konami to proceed its FIFAe World Cup esports event, the utilization of the creator’s free-to-play title eFootball.
The soccer affiliation beforehand ran this competitors in collaboration with Digital Arts, however this partnership got here to an discontinue when the pair shatter up in 2022 after 29 years.
The Konami deal will start with two FIFAe World Cup tournaments inside eFootball later this 12 months, one on cell and the numerous on console. Qualifying fits start today, and a champion will seemingly be named on the discontinue of every and every event.
For this primary 12 months of the contemporary competitors, 18 international locations luxuriate in been invited to rob part throughout the ultimate events, alongside aspect Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, England, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea Republic, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, and Türkiye.
eFootball is the substitute of Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series, which ran for cease to 3 days. Since going free-to-play in 2019, the sport has reached 700 million downloads worldwide.
“At Konami, we now have continued to tackle challenges within the improvement of soccer simulation and esports,” acknowledged the creator’s senior authorities officer Koji Kobayashi. “We’re more than happy to have the ability to contribute to the promotion of eFootball in a brand new dimension via this collaboration with FIFAe.
“We’d should correct our loyal gratitude to FIFA fo