November 10 – The German FA (DFL) has finalised the 22 teams that will kick off the first edition of the TAG Heuer Virtual Bundesliga (VBL) in the battle to become Germany’s first club champions in eFootball. The Bundesliga will provide 13 teams while nine will come from Bundesliga 2.
Starting January 16, teams will play 21 matches taking them through to March.
Each match will consist of three contests. Two will be played in one-on-one mode (one on the PlayStation 4 platform and one on Xbox One), the third game will be played in two-on-two mode on the console of the home club’s choice. The same number of points will be awarded for each win, meaning that the final number of points will be the sum of the results of all three matches.
The players from the first six clubs in the final VBL Club Championship table qualify directly for the VBL Grand Final in May 2019. Players from the clubs placed 7 to 16 will take part in the VBL play-offs, another route to potentially qualify for the VBL Grand Final.
The new championship is a reworking and extension of an older competition launched in 2012 by the DFL in partnership with EA SPORTS. It was the first professional league to be integrated directly in the EA SPORTS FIFA game series and since launch has now had more than 150,000 participants.
Competing teams in the 2018-19 VBL Club Championship:
Bundesliga: FC Augsburg, Hertha BSC, SV Werder Bremen, Eintracht Frankfurt, Hannover 96, RB Leipzig, Bayer 04 Leverkusen, 1. FSV Mainz 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach, 1. FC Nürnberg, FC Schalke 04, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg
Bundesliga 2:DSC Arminia Bielefeld, VfL Bochum 1848, SV Darmstadt 98, SpVgg Greuther Fürth, Hamburger SV, FC Ingolstadt 04, Holstein Kiel, 1. FC Köln, SV Sandhausen
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