2024 FIFAe World Cup featuring Rocket League
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 5–8 December 2024 |
| Teams | 16 |
The 2024 FIFAe World Cup featuring Rocket League, part of the 18th FIFAe World Cup, is an upcoming Rocket League esports tournament organized by FIFA. It will be the first edition of the FIFAe World Cup that is played on Rocket League, with the FIFAe World Cup also holding eFootball and Football Manager tournaments. The tournament will be held between 5 and 8 December 2024.
Background
[edit]Between 2004 and 2023, the FIFAe World Cup (previously the FIFA Interactive World Cup and FIFA eWorld Cup) was held on the then-latest edition of the FIFA series, which was developed by EA Sports and featured the FIFA licence. However, in 2022 FIFA announced that they would no longer renew their licence with EA, marking FIFA 23 as the last game in the thirty-year long series and the 2023 FIFAe World Cup the last to feature a FIFA game.[1] EA would develop their own competitive circuit for their football series known as EA Sports FC (using the partnered tournaments they already developed with existing football leagues), which was known as EA Sports FC Pro, or FC Pro for short.
After EA and FIFA parted ways, it was unclear if the FIFAe World Cup would continue with another football video game. On 23 June 2024, FIFA announced that the series would continue, initially with a Rocket League tournament, with Football Manager also added on 26 June.[2][3][4] eFootball (long seen as a rival to FIFA as Pro Evolution Soccer) would be added on 10 October.[5] Both the Rocket League and eFootball tournaments will be played together, as the Football Manager tournament was held separately in late August and early September of that year.
Format
[edit]Nations will send a team of three plus one alternate for the tournament.[6] The participating nations may opt for a qualification process or internally select the team that will represent their country. The teams are split into two groups of eight and compete in single round robin matchups. The top four teams per group advance to a knockout stage, where the world champions will be crowned.
Teams
[edit]16 nations were selected by FIFA to compete in the tournament based on playerbase and previous performances; initially this was announced to be based on the number of representatives from each country in previous Rocket League Majors.[7] Each nation will be responsible for organizing their own qualifying tournaments for the competition, otherwise they can invite their own set of players.[8] The first three nations were announced on 9 August, with the rest being announced on 11, 13, 15 and 17 August.
Participating nations
[edit]| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|
 Argentina
|
1st | Debut |
 Australia
|
1st | Debut |
 Belgium
|
1st | Debut |
 Brazil
|
1st | Debut |
 Chile
|
1st | Debut |
 England
|
1st | Debut |
 Germany
|
1st | Debut |
 France
|
1st | Debut |
 Morocco
|
1st | Debut |
 Netherlands
|
1st | Debut |
 Portugal
|
1st | Debut |
 Saudi Arabia
|
1st | Debut |
 Spain
|
1st | Debut |
 South Africa
|
1st | Debut |
 Turkey
|
1st | Debut |
 United States
|
1st | Debut |
Team list
[edit]| Nation | Abbr. | Team Name | Head Coach | Main Team | Substitute | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | |||||
| Argentina[9]
|
ARG | Messirve | pekitas
(Pablo Agustín Novelli) |
misery
(Martin Santiago Gil) |
UmBroken
(Lucas Fierro) |
ajg.
(Lautaro Gusinsky) |
Same as Coach |
| Australia
|
AUS | N/A | N/A | Fever
(Lachlan Aitchison) |
gus
(Angus Hall) |
Torsos
(Daniel Parsons) |
Rez |
| Belgium[10]
|
BEL | can we play pls | LDC-
(Liam De Cuypere) |
Atow.
(Tristan Soyez) |
Compact
(Zeno Sterkens) |
AztraL
(Maëllo Ernst) |
Same as Coach |
| Brazil[11]
|
BRA | FURIA | STL
(Mateus Santos) |
yANXNZ
(Yan Xisto Nolasco) |
Lostt
(Gabriel Buzon) |
DRUFINHO
(Arthur Langsch Miguel) |
Same as Coach |
| Chile
|
CHI | ELITE | groval
(Alejandro Valdenegro) |
Reysbull
(Victor Duran Parra) |
Davitrox
(David Gárate) |
pan
(Sebastián Andrés Parra Castillo) |
Same as Coach |
| England
|
ENG | N/A | N/A | archie
(Archie Pickthall) |
Joyo
(Joe Young) |
rise.
(Finlay Ferguson) |
Toxiic
(Ben Salmon) |
| Germany[12]
|
GER | TRRC | Catalysm
(Leonardo Christ Ramos) |
Tox
(Damian Schäfer) |
Rezears
(David Wünsch) |
Rizex45
(Riccardo Mazzota) |
Same as Coach |
| France[13]
|
FRA | N/A | Ferra
(Victor Francal) |
Vatira
(Axel Touret) |
M0nkey M00n
(Evan Rogez) |
Zen
(Alexis Bernier) |
Same as Coach |
| Morocco
|
MAR | N/A | N/A | dralii
(Samy Hajji) |
itachi
(Amine Benayachi) |
nass
(Nassim Bali) |
Yeca2k00 |
| Netherlands
|
NED | Team oaly. | ViolentPanda
(Jos van Meurs) |
Joreuz
(Joris Robben) |
MikeBoy
(Mike Verkuijlen) |
oaly.
(Ole van Doorn) |
Oscillon
(Maarten van Zee) |
| Portugal
|
POR | Str1ve eSports | ordep04 | rafa.
(Ivo Rafael Pereira) |
beyond
(Gonçalo Cunha) |
vadyy
(Valdemar Silva) |
Same as Coach |
| Saudi Arabia
|
KSA | Team Falcons | d7oom-24
(Abdulrahman Saad) |
Kiileerrz
(Yazid Bakhashwin) |
Rw9
(Saleh Bakhashwin) |
trk511
(Mohammed Alotaibi) |
Same as Coach |
| South Africa
|
RSA | Precious | CpZebra
(Nicholas Fourie) |
Sweaty
(Joshua Kleynhans) |
2Die4
(David Morgenrood) |
Snowyy
(Gareth Spiers) |
Same as Coach |
| Spain
|
SPA | Genios de la Redonda | Braan.
(Brandon Porto Fernández) |
AtomiK
(Sergio Pérez Cortés) |
crr
(Cristian Fernandez) |
stizzy
(Gaspar Rosalen Andres) |
Same as Coach |
| Turkey
|
TUR | N/A | N/A | Jzmmm | Lorely
(Arda Teker) |
zgocBrayt
(Mustafa Can Sarı) |
Andeque |
| United States
|
USA | N/A | Tormet
(Kyle Stormer) |
Atomic
(Massimo Franceschi) |
Daniel
(Daniel Piecenski) |
Firstkiller
(Jason Corral) |
Same as Coach |
References
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- ^ McCaskill, Steve. "First post-EA FifaE World Cup will be powered by Rocket League". SportsPro Media. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "FIFA to host Football Manager World Cup for $100k prize". ESPN. Reuters. 27 June 2024. Retrieved 27 June 2024.
- ^ "Following its EA split, FIFA is partnering with Konami for eSports". VGC. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-11.
- ^ "UPDATES on the FIFAe World Cup featuring Rocket League participating nations". FIFAe. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "FIFA Will Feature Rocket League in 2024 Iteration of Its Esports Competition". IGN. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ Bolding, Jonathan. "FIFA will host an actual Rocket League world cup complete with national teams". PC Gamer. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "FIFAe World Cup 2024 ft. Rocket League - Argentina". FIFAe. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
- ^ "FIFAe World Cup 2024 ft. Rocket League - Belgium". FIFAe. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ "FIFAe World Cup 2024 ft. Rocket League - Brazil - Playoffs". FIFAe. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ "FIFAe World Cup 2024 ft. Rocket League - Germany". FIFAe. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
- ^ @FIFAe (2024-10-26). "The official France team roster 🔥 🇫🇷 @zenrll 🇫🇷 @M0nkeyM00n 🇫🇷 @Vatira5 🇫🇷👨💼 @Ferra_RL #FeWCRL" (Tweet). Retrieved 2024-10-27 – via Twitter.