There’s no doubt eSports are on the rise–the eSports market is expected to be worth $4.3 billion in 2024, up from just $2 billion in 2020. In some circles, the pandemic was credited with giving eSports a boost, and whilst that might be the case in terms of views, the general growth of the industry has accelerated at the same rate since those troubling times.
Within the eSports sector is the exciting soccer platform FIFA. Just as with real-life soccer, there’s been a huge visible rise in female players’ participation. What has driven that change? We explore female eSoccer players in more detail here.
The Game
The only major platform for female players at the moment is still known as FIFA, although its proper name is EA Sports FC. It is still very much ‘FIFA’ to players, at least until the license is sold to a new company. FIFA, like proper soccer, can be played at many levels. Girls might just be playing with friends in their rooms, or they could be competing in major tournaments across the world. The ECL Women’s FIFA eSports events focus on attracting female players to their screens in a tournament with the same prestige as big unisex events. There’s much more to FIFA, or EA Sports FC, than eSports, but it is the one area of the game that captures the…
