eFootball: Konami and FIFA join forces

The market for serious football games is comparatively small. The two biggest titles are EA Sports FC and Konami’s eFootball. The latter have now landed a partnership that is likely to cause sweaty brows at Electronic Arts.

Konami has teamed up with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The primary purpose of the collaboration is to strengthen e-sports in the football segment. Therefore, two tournaments will be held in Konami’s eFootball.

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According to current plans, the two FIFAe World Cup tournaments will take place on mobile devices and consoles. The purpose of the platform selection is to enable as large a portion of the community as possible to participate. If you’re interested in taking part, you can start straight away. The qualifications start today, October 10, 2024. You can find all the necessary information on the corresponding page from Konami.

For the first year, 18 nations were invited, based on the user base and the previous performance of the players from the respective countries. Below we have listed all the participating associations for the first FIFAe World Cup in eFootball:

• Argentina
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• England
• France
• If
• Indonesia
• Japan
• South Korea
• Malaysia
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Saudi-Arabian
• Europe
• Thailand
• Türkiye

Koji Kobayashi, Senior Executive Officer of Konami Digital Entertainment, is very enthusiastic about the collaboration: “We are very pleased to be able to contribute to promoting eFootball in a new dimension by working with FIFAe. We would like to express our sincere thanks to FIFA for this “We can’t wait for the FIFAe World Cup to begin. We look forward to sharing the enthusiasm, excitement and joy of our players around the world through the FIFAe World Cup.”

Of course, it will be interesting to see to what extent the collaboration will impact the future.