Women’s Super League clubs will feature on FIFA 23 for the first time
- EA Sports’ latest FIFA game will feature top English and French women’s leagues
- FIFA 23 will also be the first time gamers can play men and women’s world cup
- Chelsea’s Sam Kerr to be first female player featured on FIFA international cover
- FA boss Navin Singh ‘delighted’ by move to ‘accelerate growth of women’s game’
Women’s football clubs including England’s Women’s Super League will feature for the first time ever in the next FIFA football game, FIFA 23.
Clubs in England’s and France’s top leagues, the Women’s Super League and Division 1 Féminine, will feature with international women’s teams in the latest release of the longrunning EA Sports franchise.
The FA’s commercial director Navin Singh said he was ‘delighted’ by the move, saying it supports their goal to ‘accelerate the growth of the women’s game in England’.
FIFA players will be able to play as women’s football clubs or the first time when FIFA 23 launches in September. Pictured: A screenshot of FIFA 23 with Chelsea’s Sam Kerr jumping over Manchester City’s Chloe Kelly
Chloe Kelly (left) will be playable with her team Manchester City in FIFA 23 along with the rest of the English Women’s Super League
Gamers will also be able to play both the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cups in the same game for the first time.
The 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be included as a post-launch update for free.
Top Chelsea goal-scorer Sam Kerr will be the first female player to feature on the international cover of a FIFA game.
Top Chelsea goal-scorer Sam Kerr (pictured) will be the first female player to feature on the international cover of a FIFA game
The Australian-born footballer won this year’s Football Writers’ Association Women’s Footballer of the Year in after being voted the best of the season in English Football.
In April she broke her own club record for goals scored in consecutive matches, being instrumental in a 2-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur
Until now, female footballers have only appeared on regional covers of installments of the popular video game series.
In 2015, Canadian Christine Sinclair and American Alex Morgan appeared alongside Argentina’s Lionel Messi on the North American editions of FIFA 16.
‘I’m delighted that the Barclays Women’s Super League will be one of the first women’s club competitions to feature in EA Sports FIFA 23, with the franchise historically having one of the largest and most engaged gaming communities in the world,’ said Navin Singh, The FA’s commercial director.
‘The added visibility a global brand like EA Sports will provide for our league, teams and players cannot be underestimated.
‘This very much supports our ambition to accelerate the growth of the women’s game in England, and highlights our commitment to open up the Barclays Women’s Super League, and make it even more accessible, to new audiences around the globe.’
Women’s club football will feature in a FIFA game for the first time in FIFA 23, alongside male football stars from men’s football such as Man City’s Jack Grealish (pictured in-game left) and PSG’s Kylian Mbappé (pictured in-game right)
FIFA 23 releases on September 30 for PlayStation 5, XBox Series X|S, PC and Stadia, as well as last generation consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Pre-orders are available now with early access for FIFA 23 Ultimate Edition beginning on September 27.
FIFA 23, will be the last football video game from EA Sports to have FIFA branding as the games company’s partnership with the international football body comes to an end.
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