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'EA Sports FC' hallmark may hint at the early name of FIFA

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Update: FIFA 23 might be renamed EA Sports FC, according to a new hallmark filing.

A spotted by VGC, Ea filed an application in the UK and the EC for something titled 'EA Sports FC' last week. The trademarks were filed shortly before the company revealed it was exploring the possibility of ending its decades-tall designatio rights agreement with FIFA.

Information technology's worth noting that EA Sports Football game Club was a social feature that existed in the franchise as early atomic number 3 2011, and ran until 2020. That could mean that the trademark is being renewed in an attempt to resurrect a version of that lineament, but could also bestow the untried name an element of recognition within the series' conventional community.

Original story: Ea has surprisingly announced that it's considering a fresh name for the FIFA series.

The move comes mere days afterwards rival Konami launched eFootball 2022 (below) in situatio of its long-standing Pro Evolution Soccer franchise – to furious elite group media feedback and disastrous reviews.

EA's statement came equally part of a press waiver celebrating FIFA 22's opening weekend, which tallied 9.1 trillion players, 7.6 million Final Team squads and 460 million matches.

"While we are but at the beginning of our journey with you in that twelvemonth's game, we're besides focused on where we go from here," wrote EA Sports GM Cam Weber.

"We're Hera to create the world-class experiences for football fans everywhere… As we look ahead, we're also exploring the idea of renaming our orbicular EA Sports football games. This means we're reviewing our naming rights correspondence with FIFA, which is separate from entirely our other official partnerships and licenses across the football game domain."

[Inaccurate from gaming, FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association, and is the worldwide governing consistence of all things kickabout-cognate.]

The move would be even more sensational than Konami's eFootball rebrand – after all, PES itself was pre-unfashionable past the World-wide Superstar Soccer public figure. In dividing line, EA's football game series has been free low-level the FIFA banner since its 1993 inception on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

The timing is curious too. Plunk for in 2013, EA signed a cope with FIFA which ends in 2022 – covering management games in increase to its yearbook football game sim. By going public in the higher up manner, Ea could comprise preparing the buying masses for FIFA 23 to emerge under a new name, surgery it may atomic number 4 hoping the threat of losing the series drives down the interrogative price of re-upping the world-wide license.

Independent deals, such as splice-ins with UEFA, the Prime League, and Serie A, aren't affected by the FIFA adjoin. All those competitions volition thus remain in FIFA 23, EA Sports Football 23, Rooney Soccer 23, or whatever else the succeeding installing is known as.

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