Fewer Than Four Percent Of FIFA 22 Players Have Played A Women's Match

thegamer.com:

FIFA 22 is coming towards the end of its lifespan as players prepare for the next iteration of EA’s annual football simulator. However, achievement statistics show that just four percent of players have played a women’s football match in the game’s 10-month lifespan.

TheGamer measured this by tracking the Passion achievement across Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam. To unlock the achievement, you must “play a women’s International football match,” which very few players have done. 3.3 percent of players have unlocked the achievement on Xbox, 4.2 percent have on PlayStation according to PSNProfiles, and 3.9 percent on Steam. That averages out to 3.8 percent of players who have played at least one women’s International football match on FIFA 22. We have not taken into account Nintendo Switch players, as achievements aren’t available on the Nintendo console.

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This trophy only measures women’s matches played in Kick Off mode, either in the Women’s International Cup competition (think the World Cup in all but name) or one-off friendly matches, including House Rules. You can play as women in two other game modes, Pro Clubs and FIFA Street’s spiritual successor, Volta. However, both of these modes put you on mixed gender teams and offer a different experience to your usual FIFA fare. FIFA 22 also added Alex Scott as a co-commentator in Career Mode, but she doesn’t feature in modes like Ultimate Team.

While more players could choose to play Women’s International matches, EA could do a lot more to promote the women’s game in FIFA. Currently, there are no domestic women’s teams available to play as in-game, only the national teams. This means there’s no option