Wayne Rooney appeared in seven covers of the series: every game from FIFA 06 to FIFA 12. Lionel Messi appeared on four straight covers from FIFA 13 to FIFA 16. He took over from Eden Hazard of Real Madrid who was the face of FIFA 20.

Mbappé appears on the front cover of the series for the third consecutive year following FIFA 22 and in promotional campaigns and advertisements. Kerr becomes the first female footballer to feature on the global front cover of the game. Since the 1990s, the franchise's main competitor has been Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer ( PES) series (now known as eFootball).Īs of FIFA 23, Chelsea Women forward Sam Kerr and Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappé are the faces of the franchise. The main series has been complemented by additional installments based on single major tournaments, such as the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA European Football Championship, as well as a series of football management titles.

When the series began with FIFA International Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive in late 1993, it was notable for being the first to have an official license from FIFA, the world governing body of football. FIFA 23 is the last entry to the franchise under the FIFA name.įootball video games such as Tehkan World Cup, Sensible Soccer, Kick Off and Match Day had been developed since the late 1980s, and were already competitive in the games market when EA Sports announced a football game as the next addition to their EA Sports label. FIFA intends to enter a partnership with a new developer to produce 'the real game that has the FIFA name'. On, it was announced that EA and FIFA's partnership of 30 years would come to an end from 12 July 2023 onwards the series will be retitled EA Sports FC. Listed in Guinness World Records as the best-selling sports video game franchise in the world, the FIFA series has sold over 325 million copies as of 2021. As of 2011, the FIFA franchise has been localised into 18 languages and available in 51 countries. Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, DOS, N-Gage, 32X, Mega-CD/Sega CD, Master System, Game Gear, Sega Saturn, GameCube, Gizmondo, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Super NES, Nintendo 64, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Java Platform, Micro Edition, Android, Xbox 360, Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Windows Phone, macOS, Zeebo, Stadia įIFA, also known as FIFA Football from August/September 2023, is a series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.

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