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Ligue 1 link up with EA Sports
- Updated: October 19, 2016
The French Professional Football League has announced a partnership with EA Sports to launch the first European eSports football league – e-Ligue 1.
The league will use EA Sports’ FIFA 17 as the game for its competition, with each of the 20 football clubs in Ligue 1 sponsoring two FIFA players to compete.
Each team will sponsor both a PS4 and an Xbox One player, with the competition also open to professional football players.
The tournament begins in November with this first ‘winter’ season ending in December.
This will be followed by another tournament hosted between February and March, with the e-Ligue playoffs to be hosted in May.
It is believed that additional European countries will also be announcing similar FIFA …
