{"id":28313,"date":"2021-04-28T10:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/?p=28313"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T09:47:07","slug":"fifa-21-ea-sports-will-lose-the-napoli-license-starting-from-the-2022-2023-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-21-ea-sports-will-lose-the-napoli-license-starting-from-the-2022-2023-season\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA 21: EA Sports will lose the Napoli license starting from the 2022\/2023 season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today <strong>Konami <\/strong>and <strong>SSC Napoli<\/strong> have formalized a long-term partnership that will allow the Japanese software house to exclusively use the rights of the Neapolitan club starting from the<strong> 2022\/2023 season<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means that <strong>EA Sports<\/strong> will not be able to include the logo and the name of <strong>Napoli <\/strong>in the official roster of <strong>FIFA 23 <\/strong>and in all the modes included therein. After the <strong>Juventus <\/strong>and <strong>Roma <\/strong>license, fans of the series will also have to renounce the <strong>Napoli <\/strong>license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Official Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Konami Digital Entertainment B.V. has today announced that the company has signed a long-term partnership agreement with Societ\u00e0 Sportiva Calcio Napoli (\u201cNapoli\u201d), the top-tier Italian football club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u201cOfficial Football Videogame Partnership\u201d will commence with the start of the 2021\/22 football season, providing numerous marketing rights. However, from the 2022\/23 football season, the <strong>eFootball PES <\/strong>series will be the only real-time football simulation game to include an authentic, fully licensed recreation of Napoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, KONAMI has announced that they will also become the Official Training Center Partner for popular football club. From 1<sup>st<\/sup> July 2021, the facility will be officially named \u201cSSC Napoli KONAMI Training Center\u201d, featuring a brand-new gaming area for players and guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/E0DKAJUVkAQT8B1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28315\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/fifa-23-all-official-pre-order-bonus-and-release-date-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/pre-order-fifa-23-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-48227\"><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>FIFA 21<\/strong> is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch and in <strong>December 4th <\/strong>for the Next Gen <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong> and <strong>Xbox Series X<\/strong> platforms Keep on following us also through our social <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futukofficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ultimateteam_uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> for other news and information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Konami and SSC Napoli have formalized a long-term partnership that will allow the Japanese software house to exclusively use the club&#8217;s rights starting from the 2022\/2023 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1233,2265],"tags":[789,3011,26,790,3012,2005,146,1405,28],"class_list":["post-28313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fifa-21","category-news","tag-fifa-21","tag-fifa-23","tag-fut","tag-fut-21","tag-fut-23","tag-license","tag-napoli","tag-rights","tag-ultimate-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fifaultimateteam.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}