Sorry, FIFA 23 – eFootball snags exclusive rights to Inter Milan

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Inter Milan has signed an exclusive partnership deal with Konami and eFootball, running the entirety of the 2022/2023 season, which means the Italian giant won’t officially feature in FIFA 23 – or anywhere else for that matter – for at least another year, and potentially beyond.

Announced <a href=«https://twitter.com/play_eFootball/status/1542795175210000384?ref_src=» https: www.pcgamesn.com rel=«noopener»>via Twitter

, Konami now has exclusive kit, stadium, and logo rights for Inter Milan, for use in eFootball. The team – comprising names like Martinez, Barella, and, um, possibly Lukaku again – joins eFootball’s modest but star-studded exclusivity roster, which also features Manchester United, Bayern Munich, and Arsenal.

Inter also issued a statement, stating that the eFootball logo would be used on various Inter kits for the “2022/2023 season and beyond”, suggesting that the partnership may last longer than the coming year.

Disappointingly, however (at least for eFootball fans), Konami recently announced that it was ending its partnership with Juventus, the other dominant force, and one of Inter’s rivals, in Italy’s Serie A. Juventus’ kit and other official imagery will remain in eFootball’s 2022 version, but will likely be removed in the next annual update.

Signing Inter Milan is potentially an effort by Konami to replace Juventus as its key, licensed, Italian team.

As part of the partnership deal, Konami has also gained the rights to display the eFootball logo on the reverse of both the Inter men’s and women’s trainings kits, and has the privilege of temporarily rebranding Inter’s training ground – the Konami Youth Development Centre in Memory of Giacinto Facchetti is named for the legendary Italian left-back, who