Some of the biggest clubs in world football will be competing in the PES eFootball 2019/20 season.
Two football clubs from the English Premier League – Manchester United and Arsenal – will be taking part.
10 clubs will be fielding esports teams in the tournament, which will consist of 3v3 co-op matches.
The participating clubs are as follows:
- FC Barcelona
- Manchester United FC
- FC Bayern
- Juventus
- Arsenal FC
- Celtic FC
- AS Monaco
- FC Schalke 04
- Boavista FC
- FC Nantes
The first match day confirmed for Saturday, December 14th in Barcelona, Spain.
The 10 teams will play against each other throughout nine match days of the initial Regular League phase, which will take place between December and April. The top six clubs of the Regular League will progress to the Knockout Stage in May to decide the season champion.
The eFootball League 2019/20 season includes the eFootball.Pro and eFootball.Open tournaments, plus the newly announced eFootball Season Program.
The PES tournaments have a shared prize pool of $2m.
The news comes as developer Konami announces eFootball PES 2020 LITE is available to download now. This is a free-to-play version of the console game available for Xbox One and PC Steam, with PS4 available from December 11th.
eFootball PES 2020 LITE includes local and co-op matches, alongside access to eFootball.Open, the esports tournament open to all players, competing exclusively in 1v1 matches.
The 10 aforementioned football clubs will also be featured in the eFootball.Open tournament, open to all players of all abilities.
The eFootball.Open will divide players into Basic, Intermediate and Expert levels, with matches taking place every two weeks. Only players at the highest Expert level will have the opportunity to progress to regional and then world finals.
Jonas Lygaard, Senior Director Brand & Business Development at Konami Digital Entertainment B.V commented: “This is an incredibly exciting moment for the future of esports and eFootball more specifically.
“To secure the participation of 10 of the world’s most well-known football clubs is a testament to the quality of eFootball PES 2020 and its ability to connect clubs to their fans in new and dynamic ways.”
Jonas Lygaard, Konami
With authentic squads and professional players, eFootball.Pro will be one to watch.”
Konami has made several changes to PES this year – including adding eFootball to its name – as it continues to compete with EA’s FIFA franchise.
Registrations for eFootball.Open are now open here.
Full information about the new season of eFootball.Pro can be found here: https://efootballpro.konami.net
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
