Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. is delighted to announce that in the eFootball™ division of the National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship 2025 SHIGA, held at Proceed Arena HIKONE in Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture, on Saturday, November 22, and Sunday, November 23, 2025, UDI- (console) and eioh (mobile), representing Chiba Prefecture, won the championship.
Chiba Prefecture representatives
Left: UDI- (home console) Right: eioh (mobile)
The National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship is a national esports tournament where prefectural representatives who have won their regional qualifiers compete against each other and has been held annually in the host city of the National Sports Festival (Kokutai) since 2019. Our soccer game, eFootball™, has been featured as one of the competition titles since the inaugural tournament. This year, to allow more players to participate, the competition was held across two platforms—mobile and console. In the finals, five teams from Chiba, Tokyo, Shizuoka, Kumamoto, and Shiga, the host prefecture, who had advanced through the qualifying rounds, competed for the championship.
The showdown in the finals was an intense battle between the Chiba Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture representatives. In the first match (console), UDI-, the eFootball™ world champion, faced off against Kuma, the winner of the National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship 2021 MIE. Both titleholders refused to give an inch, going back and forth until UDI- finally scored the first goal. He managed to hold on to the lead to win. In the second match (mobile), Tatsumaki, the Kumamoto representative, scored first, setting up for a comeback, but eioh, the Chiba representative, responded with a goal of his own to make the overall score 2-1, resulting in a stunning victory for the Chiba team. This gutsy performance in the eFootball™ division ultimately led to Chiba winning the overall National Prefectural Competitive Esports Championship for the first time.
<Comments from the winners>
UDI- (console)
First of all, I'm just really happy. We've been competing in this National Prefectural Competitive Championship since the very first one, but we've never made it this far until now. It's a dream come true for us to join forces and win the whole thing for the first time.
eioh (mobile)
I didn't play all that great, but thankfully UDI- scored the first goal. I'm just glad we were able to hold on to that lead.
<Scenes from the day>
You can watch the match on the official eFootball™ YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCaa3uQUYA
In addition, we held several visitor participation events for attendees, such as an eFootball™ showdown with popular influencers and a rock-paper-scissors tournament featuring exclusive prizes, bringing the fun of esports and eFootball™ to the people of Shiga Prefecture.
eFootball™ match between Choburi and a visitor
Rock-paper-scissors tournament with influencers
Konami Digital Entertainment will continue to bring the fun and excitement of esports to fans everywhere through its esports initiative.
[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