FIFAe has announced its first ever multi-title football esports event which will take place from August 28th to September 1st 2024.
It will feature Football Manager alongside eFootball, with VisitLiverpool joining forces with FIFAe for the event. The partnership will see VisitLiverpool become an Official Sponsor of the FIFAe Next Gen 2024, which will be held at Exhibition Centre Liverpool.
20 managers with one assistant manager each will compete at the inaugural FIFAe World Cup featuring Football Manager (of which Arsène Wenger is an ambassador) and represent their respective nation at the event.
Players will compete to be crowned the world’s best and win their share of the $100,000 in prize pool.
On the final two days of the competition, a dedicated show around all things football, tactics and Football Manager will be streamed across FIFAe channels with British football/esports personality Spencer ‘SpencerFC’ Owen hosting the event.
In addition, FIFAe will host the FIFAe Fame Your Game Cup – a special eFootball mobile showcase event. Local players are invited to join a qualifier event on August 29th via this FIFAe Fame Your Game qualifier link, and have the chance to compete against some of the best global players from eFootball mobile leaderboards on August 30th, for a share of $50,000.
“As a city that lives and breathes football, loves bringing people together and relishes putting on big events, we’re delighted to be welcoming the first FIFAe Next Gen event to Liverpool.”
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region
To support local communities as part of the Good Game Promise, FIFAe will also work together with UK gaming charity TheRockinR to provide gaming carts to a hospital in Liverpool and with EveryoneCan to offer event equipment to their disability gaming centre in Manchester.
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said: “As a city that lives and breathes football, loves bringing people together and relishes putting on big events, we’re delighted to be welcoming the first FIFAe Next Gen event to Liverpool. We are home to a vibrant and growing digital and gaming sector with strong esports credentials.
“This will be a fantastic opportunity to establish our city as a long-term host for the esports industry, boosting the local economy through tourism, hospitality and retail.”
Spencer Owen added: “By merging the worlds of esports and football with this exciting event, we are bringing together fans and players from various football titles in one of the world’s most iconic football cities. Don’t miss out – tune in to the broadcast starting August 31st!”
Member associations for the 2024 FIFAe World Cup featuring Football Manager
- Belgium
- England (Two seats as hosting nation)
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Korea Republic
- Lithuania
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Switzerland
- Türkiye
You can sign up to take part in the Liverpool FIFAe event here. More information about the format for the FIFAe World Cup featuring Football Manager can be found here.
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.
