FC Barcelona will take part in the Elite Superliga esports tournament with its League of Legends team

FC Barcelona, ​​one of the biggest football clubs in the world, has officially announced its participation in Super League 2022. The latter is an elite-level professional esports tournament for League of Legends in Spain. As a result, the club will announce its own team of League of Legends players, which will take part in the competition, which will take place early next year.

The club’s statement regarding the announcement of its League of Legends team for the Super League 2022 states: “The commitment to developing the new Barça esports division is part of the club’s digital strategy and is motivated by the same desire of FC Barcelona on the pitch to become a major player. in the digital esports sector globally in the next few years by creating a leading division that will help connect the Club and its philosophy to new audiences, especially in the emerging markets of the football fandom, and bring the Barça brand to countries such as the United States of America. America or China.

FC Barcelona is already present in the esports industry thanks to three other games – eFootball (formerly known as Pro Evolution Soccer or PES), Rocket League and Hearthstone. The club has been fielding teams in esports tournaments for all three of these games for two years now, and League of Legends has added a fourth title to its foray. Since the beginning of its esports initiative, the club has stated that it will only take part in non-violent esports games.

The Super League 2022 is one of the biggest esports tournaments in Europe and the biggest in Spain. According to reports, the total number of viewers of the 2021 tournament has increased by more than 2.6 million hours. The Grand Final was watched by over 3 million unique viewers, more than quadrupling the number of viewers in 2020. The average tournament minute audience, or viewers who watched the tournament for at least one minute, has grown to 43,191 viewers in 2021. – by 165 percent from 2020.

Interestingly, the Superliga 2022 League of Legends tournament also has a team co-owned by Gerard Piqué, who is the captain of the FC Barcelona first team, reports say.