FC Online e-Sports Opens Professional e-Sports by Introducing Club Franchises
Feb 24, 2025
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Starting this year, the e-sports competition of 'FC Online' will face a major change. It plans to expand into a stable and sustainable league by introducing club franchises, building a league ecosystem, and strengthening expertise, and maximizing e-sports' inherent fun by linking the narrative and games created in the tournament.
It will strengthen league expertise and competitiveness by abolishing the existing platform and introducing franchises. Eight clubs also playing in LCK, including T1, Gen.G., KT Rolster, DRX, BNK Pierx, Nongshim Red Force, DN Freaks, and D-Plus Kia, will participate as franchises, and each team will have a competition with a large number of talented newcomers, including players who played in last year's tournament.
The entire league structure is systematically reorganized to build an ecosystem that is organically connected according to each league level. The top league in Korea, 'eK League Championship', will be renovated into 'FC Online Super Champions League (FSL)', and the game method will be changed to focus on individual matches according to the characteristics of soccer games. It will be held twice a year, and a total of 32 professional players will compete for the top spot with four players from eight teams.
In the second division 'FC Online Futures League (FFL)', which will be held during the same period as 'FSL', 32 people, including professional aspirants and club reserve players, will participate, and after the end of the league, they can get a chance to play 'FSL' through the transfer market. In addition, Nexon said it will hold semi-professional level open leagues more than six times a year to link them to the professional level and support various amateur competitions held by local governments and public institutions through the competition support platform.
The '2025 FC Online Super Champions League Spring', the first league since the reorganization of the tournament, will be held at the DN Coliseum in Jamsil from March 31 to June 14. This year, the total prize money will be quadrupled from previous years to 1 billion won, and the top two teams will be given the right to participate in the international competition 'FC Pro Masters'.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
