With FIFA 23 set to launch late next month, EA Sports has given fans plenty of reason to be excited about the newest edition of the annual association football franchise. EA has already revealed changes coming to several game modes, including new additions to Career Mode like Player Career Personality allowing players to more directly define their player character. With professional clubs from all over the world being featured in the game, EA has recently revealed the staggering number of players represented within the soccer game.
EA Sports recently announced several major renewals and partnerships for the future of its football franchise, including several clubs and stadiums for the upcoming FIFA. With all of its new additions and renewals, FIFA 23 was revealed to boast an impressive 19,000 players, including 700 different teams representing 30 different professional leagues worldwide. Some of the most notable partnerships for the 2022 edition of the game include legendary Italian team Juventus and an extension with English club Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Alongside the newly-introduced clubs and players, FIFA 23 also revealed several new stadiums set to be introduced in the upcoming soccer game. The previously-mentioned Juventus will bring with it the team's home arena of Allianz Stadium, as well as SC Freiburg's Europa-Park Stadion and the Manchester City Women's home turf of Academy Stadium among others. The partnership will also include Juventus legend Claudio Marchisio as a FIFA Ultimate Team Hero in FIFA 23.
EA's renewals came alongside a major announcement of a partnership with Spanish professional league La Liga to begin in the 2023/24 season. EA Sports' soccer franchise, under its new name of EA Sports FC, will obtain naming rights for La Liga competitions as well as an EA Sports FC rebranding of the Spanish league. La Liga will also see an increased presence in EA's annual franchise, with unspecified "in-game integrations" for EA Sports FC as well as broadcasts available in-game.
The plethora of new clubs and players coming to FIFA 23 arrives as EA Sports says farewell to the FIFA branding. EA Sports officially confirmed the end of its partnership with FIFA earlier this year, concluding a collaboration with the soccer association that had lasted thirty years. EA Sports' FIFA franchise has grown into arguably the developer's most successful sports franchise worldwide, with FIFA itself reportedly looking for a new partner. FIFA 23 will mark the end of an era for the massively popular soccer franchise.
FIFA 23 is scheduled to release on September 27 for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.