eSports: match of the "VBL Club Championship" broadcast on ProSieben Maxx in Germany weekly

The German audiovisual group ProsiebenSat.1 (via its subsidiary 7Sports) has acquired, from the DFL, the broadcasting rights to the "VBL Club Championship", the official eSports competition for DFL clubs (Bundesliga and 2.Bundesliga) on the video game FIFA 19, indicated the German League on 20/12/2018.

"The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga and 7Sports, the sports business unit of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, have entered into a partnership on the coverage of the VBL Club Championship. In future, the free-TV channel ProSieben MAXX will show a selected match every week, which will be recorded as a featured match in a specially developed eSports studio for broadcast on TV and live streaming on ran.de and prosiebenmaxx.de. Additional news and highlights can be accessed via ran.de and eSports.com," stated the DFL, which indicated that 22 clubs from the Bundesliga (13) and 2.Bundesliga (9) will participate in the first edition of this competition, on 10/12/2018.

The "VBL Club Championship", which will crown a German eFootball champion in mid-March 2019, will start on 15/01/2019. "Participating…