The F League, the professional competition of Women’s Football in Spain, will be in a video game for the first time. The organization of the tournament has reached an agreement with EA Sports so that the players and teams appear in the title of the next edition, which will be known as EA Sports FC 24 after the end of the relationship contract with FIFA.
Several women’s leagues already present
Thus, the 16 teams and more than 300 footballers that are part of the F League will appear in the biggest sports game, which incorporated for the first time women’s football in 2016. He did it with the national teams, until in the 2023 edition, the last one under the FIFA ‘naming’, he added the Barclays Women’s Super League (England), Division 1 Arkema (France), the National Women’s Soccer League (USA) and the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
“For the first time, the F League joins the select group of women’s competitions in the video game,” say the signatories of the agreement. The new EA Sports FC 24 will be released next September, ahead of the start of the 2023/2024 season.
“A boost for women’s football”
“In addition, teams from both organizations will work together on various initiatives in order to bring women’s football closer to the fans“, they point out from Liga F. For the tournament, “this agreement represents a new milestone in the promotion of professional women’s football, which contributes to enhancing the value of the competition, its clubs and the soccer players of Liga F” .
It should be noted that EA Sports has recently become the ‘title sponsor’ of LaLigawhose First Division has been renamed LaLiga EA Sports, while the Second Division is called LaLiga Hypermotion, a technology used by the video game.
The F League sticker collection
This step means expanding the female category and situating it in a global environment. On the same path goes the according to Panini, made public in March, for which a collection of 365 stickers was launched. The link between both companies will last until the 2026/2017 season.
Both the presence in the video game and the sticker album stage the interest in women’s football and the F League, which has had to face important challenges in its first year of life. From the referees’ strike to the negotiation of an agreement yet to be formalized.
2023-07-13 19:18:13
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