Event Details & Date

The FC Pro Champions Cup will occur September 9th to December 12th, 2025 as the final event of the EA FC competitive season. Both FC Online and FC Mobile will be featured, highlighting the best players in fierce competition.

Immediately following, the FC Pro Mobile Festival will take place on September 13 & 14, 2025. In contrast to the Champions Cup, the Mobile Festival will be designed around community fun, with professional players working with influencers in a community-driven format.

Prize Pools & Formats

The FC Pro Champions Cup

The two events that are occurring in Shanghai will have a combined total of $365,000 in prize pool money. The FC Pro Champions Cup will include both FC Online and FC Mobile.

There will be twelve teams competing in FC Online for the $300,000 from China, South Korea, and Japan. There were six players in FC Mobile that qualified through local tournaments playing a round-robin into playoffs. The total prize pool is $60,000, with $20,000 for the winner to be played out on September 11.

Details of the Format:

• Eligibility: Players must be 16 years old or older.
• Group Stage: Single round-robin; each match will be two games.
• Playoffs: Cross-bracket system. Winners go to semi-finals and losers get another chance through elimination matches.

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FC Pro Mobile Festival

The FC Pro Mobile Festival will feature a smaller $5,000 prize pool, and the goal is entertainment and regional representation. There will be ten duos, composed of one pro player and one content creator, playing on the day. Regions being represented are: China, Korea, Southeast Asia, MENA, Brazil, Europe, and USA.

The event structure: day one will be group stage round-robin format, and day two will be a single-elimination knockout to produce the winning pair. There will also be opening ceremonies, entertainment, and content celebrating mobile esports culture alongside the matches.

Whether fans want to watch pro play, or the creator matchups, this week in Shanghai will provide it all. With the FC Pro Champions Cup and the FC Pro Mobile Festival taking place, the city will be the hotbed of competitive virtual football this September.

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The showdown will take place on August 9, 2025, at 3 PM UTC (6 PM KSA) in the stc Esports Arena, Riyadh Boulevard City, Saudi Arabia. Both of them is expected to use their own Ultimate Teams in EA FC 25, which make the event even more interesting for viewers who want to see their style of play in virtual form.

How to Watch the Ronaldo vs Kaka Showmatch

The match will be streamed live worldwide through the Esports World Cup channels on YouTube and Twitch. People who prefer to watch from the arena itself can buy tickets for 90 SAR, either directly at the location or online from the EWC official website. For many, this will be a rare chance to see two greats competing face to face on a digital pitch.

This special match is part of the larger EA FC 25 tournament in EWC 2025, which started its group stage on August 7. The event will move forward to the Ronaldo vs Kaka meeting, before heading into the final rounds. The playoffs and grand final is set for August 10, when the new champion will be decided.

With such legendary football names stepping into esports competition, the EWC 2025 Showmatch might become one of the year’s most remembered moments for fans in both football and gaming world.

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Two Major Tournaments: Independence Day Cup & Diwali Cup 

There are two flagship in-game competitions within the campaign: the Independence Day Cup (August) and the Diwali Cup (October). Indian players will contest in these tournaments for limited-time in-game items, leaderboard placements and cash prizes. In addition, selected winners will be invited to meet some of their favourite celebrities in the finale in Mumbai

Star-Studded Lineup Joins the Celebration

To mark the occasion, KONAMI has teamed up with some of India’s biggest names across sports, entertainment, and digital culture:

• KL Rahul – Cricket icon and crowd favorite
• Sunil Chhetri – The face of Indian football
• Nitish Kumar Reddy – Promising new cricket talent
• Ahan Shetty – Rising Bollywood star
• Focused Indian – Popular gaming content creator
• Santanu Hazarika – Acclaimed visual artist, debuting a surprise Independence Day-themed artwork

These personalities will take part in community challenges, live streams, and exclusive giveaways, turning eFootball India into a cultural gaming festival.

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Community-First Approach & KONAMI’s Vision in India

The campaign is more than just in-game, as it also connects with fans on the official eFootball India Discord server. This is where the continuous updates, registration, quizzes, scrims, and fan events are posted. The leaders of the contest and the most engaged fans can possibly earn tickets to the Mumbai Meet & Greet, which will have VIP access.

Junichi Taya, General Producer of eFootball said, “India is one of the most exciting communities for eFootball, and added that “through a host of partnerships, we are leveraging some of the biggest names in Indian sport and culture with activities aimed at celebrating India. As the industry continues to grow in India, we are seeking to lead the way forward through eFootball”.

Lastly, gamers can join the eFootball India Discord server, where they will find all the promotional details about tournaments, events, and rewards. With celebrity participants, national pride and an enthusiastic community, eFootball India 2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest gaming celebrations of the year.

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FC Pro Open Cups Getting The Attention

A Multi-Stage Tournament Format

The FC Pro Open Cups are expanding even more throughout the 2024-25 season. Three monstrous events, occurring in November 2024, December 2024, and January 2025. Each event includes two categories:

• Regional Ladder Level
• Playoff Bracket Level

Players must complete a minium of 20 ladder matches and find themselves on the leaderboard to qualify for the further playoffs. It will begin with day 1 in a Swiss style format that cuts the playing field and on day 2 it will start with a single elimination round.

Truly Global Coverage

The tournaments are open to players from all across the world, divided into eight main regions:

1. North America
2. Latin America
3. Europe West
4. Europe East
5. Middle East
6. Africa
7. Asia North & South
8. Oceania

This regional structure ensures fair competition and a more level playing field, offering broader access to the FC Pro ecosystem.

Circuit Points & Prizing

You earn circuit points for your playoff wins. These points are integral for qualifying for the FC Pro World Championship taking place in the Summer of 2025.
The best players will earn upwards of $8,500 in each region and a grand total of $321,000 in prizes across the three Open Cups.

Dual Gameplay Presets: Competitive vs. Authentic

EA SPORTS FC 26 will feature two separate gameplay presets allowing better distinction between competitive esports and casual play.

Competitive Preset

This preset is designed specifically for competitive gaming such as FC Pro. It modifies the input tuning, player responsivenes, match pacing. It’s faster, more precise, and punishes mistakes. Bottom line: a competitive mastery-centric design.

Authentic Preset

This preset is designed specifically for realism in fields such as simulated ball physics, player inertia and realistic AI reflections in game. The intention behind this is to copy the real look and feel of a real football match whilst targeting fans.

Strategic Impact on Competitive Play

Standardized Gameplay Across Events

Using competitive preset gameplay, EA has provided a better product. This means that all participants in FC Pro Tournaments would play under the same conditions and thus eliminating randomness among players and also allowing for the raw skill of the players to devolope and come out.

Adaptation Over Time

The three Open Cups took place over months, with the play-offs for the first Open Cup happening in June and the play-offs for the third Open Cup taking place in July. The three Open Cups lucky stand on its own, but what the three Open Cups allow players to do is evaluate their flaws, change and return with a better game plan. This is not a one-off format, this is a serious competitive circuit.

Depth and Accessibility

The new expanded format provides more pathways to be able to get aspiring players in, more opportunities for qualification and also more equitable regional representation.And of course, more casual players are still playing the game, on their own time, using the Authentic preset, with immersion and realism still intact.

Conclusion

The enlarged FC Pro Open Cups and dual gameplay presets now add some serious weight to competitive future for EA SPORTS FC. If you are an esports pro collecting competitive points, or a fanatic focused on realism, we have you covered, because the Open Cups have brought scale, fairness and depth never experienced before.

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