FIFA 2K25 rumours explained: Will EA Sports FC really have competition next season?

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Ever since EA’s split from FIFA to forge its own path to create and release EA Sports FC 24 onwards, rumours have been rife regarding 2K developing FIFA games and the supposed release of FIFA 2K25.

The FIFA 2K25 rumours have been picking up some pace in recent months/weeks, but nothing is yet confirmed by either party.

2K would be a natural replacement for EA Sports, given their successful NBA 2K games and WWE titles to name a couple examples.

Has anything been said by anyone with any authority? What has FIFA said about making and releasing new games? We’re here to explain it all.

Here are those FIFA 2K25 rumours explained, what has been said by FIFA, and what we think about it all.

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There have been rumours that 2K has been given the rights to develop football games under the FIFA name for a while now – ever since EA split with FIFA to forge its own path with FC 24 onwards.

2K have been considered frontrunners for the FIFA franchise ever since the split with EA took place. The studio has tons of experience in sports games including the NBA 2K titles and WWE games.

A leaker back in February claimed that «if 2K is making a new FIFA game, it’s possible that they will announce it around the time of the Lego 2K Goooal! announcement/release».

There has been no confirmation of Lego 2K Goooal, either…

During the FIFA congress in Bangkok earlier in 2024 (thanks, Independent!) organisation president Gianni Infantino explained that FIFA «will develop a new e-game, because [the] football simulation game is called FIFA for hundreds of millions of children around the world.

»When they play [a] football simulation game, they play FIFA, it cannot be named something else… We are developing new partners and a new game which, obviously as everything we do, will be