esports/LFP: eLigue 1 Uber Eats 2024 with 13 teams to be held from 09/01 to 29/04/2024

The eighth edition of the eLigue 1 Uber Eats, the Ligue de Football Professionnel's official professional esports championship played on the EA SPORTS FC 24 football video game, will take place from 09/01 to 29/04/2024 with 13 teams, announced the governing body on 02/01/2024.

Organised with the UniTeam agency, the competition will be played exclusively on the PS5 console from PlayStation (Sony), the event's official partner. It will be contested by the same 13 teams as in 2023. The LFP will once again be allocating a total of €60,000 to the top four teams to support their esports activities.

For this new edition, the LFP is introducing two new features:
• "The introduction of Super Week. Due to the tight schedule, two Super Weeks will be organised during the competition. Two rounds (from 16 to 19/01, then from 19 to 22/03) will be played in the same week over the space of four days;
• The creation of 'l’affiche de la semaine by Uber Eats' (Fixture of the Week by Uber Eats). For the first time, one match per week will be played in person, in Paris, and will be the subject of a major…