FC Barcelona, protagonist of a 'war' between Konami and EA Sports for its license

The agreement of the FC Barcelona with Konami has come to an end during this summer and the culés look for a new agreement. According to information of the half Argentinian 'TyC Sports', the Catalan team would be debating between following with the Asian corporation, with the one who had an agreement of exclusivity from 2016, or join to Electronic Arts and his renewed proposal EA Sports FC.

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📌 The agreement of the Barça with Konami has finished. The club now is evaluating if associate with EA Sports for EA FC or continue with Konami for EFootball.

— Folders Blaugranas (CB) (@carpetasFCB) July 11, 2023

The Barça was the only club of LaLiga with licence of scoop of Konami eFootball, what allowed that his competitors -the video game FIFA- did not have the licence to use, for example, the Spotify Camp Nou. Like result of this, in FIFA, the stadium appeared with a design and generic name, what did to the experience of game with the team culé something 'agridulce'.

The video game eFootball would look for to keep the licence of the Barcelona group, since it is one of his banners, beside the Bayern Munich, the AC Milan, the Inter of Milan, the Manchester United and the Arsenal. Besides, they possess other 23 licences of clubs. Lose to the square of the Catalan capital to hands of his big competitor, EA Sports FC, would be a hard hit in the market of the games of video for the Asian corporation.

Electronics Arts, by his part, would look for at all costs have to the FC Barcelona in his list of grantings, that includes to more than 19.000 players with complete licence, 700 teams and 30 leagues. They want to do to the club like one of the visible faces in his process of 'rebranding', since they left to call FIFA and now have the name EA Sports FC. Add to the Barcelona group would be a big step to begin with strength in this process.

EA Sports Already boarded agreements of sponsorship with LaLiga

EA Sports Already has done a big moved in Spain when doing an agreement of sponsorship with The League Santander, that now will happen to call LaLiga EA Sports, and the second division, that will happen to call LaLiga Smartbank to LaLiga Hypermotion. This change does reference to the graphic engine that uses EA FC to do the game of football from does a pair of years, a movement that could be a decisive factor so that the combined of the City Condal finish to decant by the North American company.