eSports: UEFA launches the UEFA eEURO 2020 competition in partnership with Konami (video games, JPN)

"UEFA is introducing UEFA eEURO 2020, a national-team eFootball tournament featuring all 55 of UEFA's national associations and kicking off in November 2019," announced the European body on 20/08/2019.

"The competition will be the largest national-team eFootball event to date and will see participating players compete exclusively on Konami's eFootball PES 2020. The video game will be dedicated to next summer's UEFA Euro 2020 showpiece," added UEFA. The Japanese video game publisher Konami, which had previously obtained the Euro 2016 operating licence from the European Confederation, said that "over 50 national football associations will be available in eFootball PES 2020 at launch, featuring their national teams, and the upcoming UEFA Euro 2020 DLC will include national teams' kits, crests and players, all of which will be faithfully recreated ahead of the real-world tournament that starts in June next year."

"The aim for all competing countries will be to qualify for the final tournament in London from 09-10/07/2020, scheduled just before the final of the real-world UEFA EURO…