Bundesliga: Konami (JPN) becomes a partner of Borussia Dortmund for 2016-2020

Konami Digital Entertainment, a Japanese video game publisher, became a partner of Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga) for an initial period of four seasons (2016-2020), on 17/08/2016. The announcement came at Gamescom 2016, a video game trade show held in Cologne (GER), in which two players from Borussia Dortmund - the Japanese international Shinji Kagawa and the Gabonese international Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - participated in the promotion of the football simulation game "PES 2017" at the Konami stand.

Konami Digital Entertainment announced a first-level partnership, which has not yet been confirmed by Borussia Dortmund, and who do not display the Japanese video game publisher in their list of partners, as of 19/08/2016. As part of the agreement, Konami holds the exclusive 3-D modeling rights to Signal Iduna Park (81,359 seats) as well as Borussia players and shirts. The PES 2017 game also incorporates some songs of supporters of the German club.

Borussia Dortmund will organise a tournament for the PES game, in which fans and players will participate, as well as providing the…