Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KONAMI) is excited to announce that the prefectural qualifiers for the National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship 2025 SHIGA, which uses eFootball™ as its competition title, will be held online starting next Monday, September 22.
The National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship 2025 SHIGA is a national esports tournament where prefectural representatives who have won their regional qualifiers will compete against each other. Since 2019, the tournament has been held annually in the host city of the National Sports Festival. KONAMI's soccer game eFootball™ has been featured as one of the competition titles since the inaugural year. This year, in order to get more players to participate, the tournament will be held on two platforms: mobile and home consoles. Cross-platform play will also be supported on consoles starting this year, allowing players to participate on PlayStation®, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Steam®.
The eFootball™ division prefectural qualifiers, which kick off next Monday, September 22, are an online tournament where one player from each of the mobile and console divisions will be selected from among those who have advanced through the in-game events from Rounds 1 to 4 to determine the representative teams for each prefecture. Each representative team will advance to the final tournament on Saturday, October 25. A total of five teams, including the winners of the four prefectures as well as the representative team of the host prefecture, Shiga, will compete in the main tournament, which begins on Saturday, November 22.
Scenes from the finals of the International Esports Championships 2024 SAGA
For more details on how to participate, please visit the special site.
Special website for eFootball™ division: https://e-football.konami.net/kokuspo2025/
Entries for the eFootball™ division of the National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship 2025 SHIGA will be accepted until Sunday, October 5. Be sure to sign up and compete for national glory!
[About KONAMI’s esports initiatives]
The eFootball™ series of soccer games has been loved and supported by fans around the world since its launch in 1995 as the console Winning Eleven series. The eFootball™ series continues to attract attention as competition titles both in Japan and overseas, being featured in exhibition matches at the 18th Asian Games Jakarta-Palembang, the Inter-Prefectural Esports Championship held as part of the National Sports Festival Culture Program (for seven consecutive years starting in Ibaraki in 2019). In 2024, we signed a contract with FIFA to collaborate in esports and co-hosted the FIFAe World Cup 2024™, which used eFootball™ as the competition title and had more than 14 million players participating worldwide. We are also expanding our efforts to combine esports and real sports by holding the eFootball™ Championship 2024 Club Event with our European club partners and co-hosting eJ.League eFootball™ with the Japan Professional Football League (J.League), which featured all 40 J1 and J2 clubs.
[About eFootball™]
Since its debut in 1995 as Winning Eleven, eFootball™ has been loved by soccer fans around the world, boasting over 900 million units sold and downloaded. This year, 2025, marks the 30th anniversary of the acclaimed eFootball™ series. Users can enjoy a variety of content in eFootball™; In Dream Team Mode, they can build their own original team, choosing from players lighting up the scoreboards in real matches, superstars active in major leagues or legends who have made their mark in soccer history; in Co-op Mode, they can experience the thrill of competing online with their friends in 3-on-3 matches. In addition, eFootball™ has been used as a competition title in various esports tournaments both in Japan and abroad, spreading the joy of soccer digitally around the world.
eFootball™ official website: https://www.konami.com/efootball/ja/
Official X account: @we_konami