“Clear: the Big bet eAllsvenskan”
“in Parallel with the allsvenskan is determined in the year also eAllsvenskan – on tv-the game Fifa.”
“It is time to take e-sport seriously,” says Mats Enquist, general secretary of Swedish Football.”
“It’s Dplay and Eurosport which, together with the Swedish Association Football and Dreamhack in the spring making a major investment in the ”digital” allsvenskan”.”
“Just as in reality there are many different clubs that makes up for the title. “
“AIK, Djurgårdens IF, Hammarby IF and Örebro SK, Östersunds FK, Gif Sundsvall, sweden, Örgryte IS, BK Häcken, Helsingborg IF, Jönköpings Södra IF, Malmö FF and AFC Eskilstuna will all have two to five professional Fifa players, as representatives of their club.”
“– With less than a year left until we take over the Allsvenskan, it feels very much that we join forces on Dplay with eAllsvenskan and E-Sports which is one of the largest growing sports in the world today, ” says Hanif Hosseini, director of sports on Eurosport and Discovery Networks Sweden in a press release.”
“First, the implementation of a regular season of eleven meetings between all teams with the eight best teams advance to the playoffs and the grand final is to be decided on may 25.”
” We have a great opportunity to make something good out of this, while also establishing an e-sport with the real football once and for all and attract new target audiences for each other. It will in the end benefit everyone, ” says Tomas Lyckedal, Chief Strategy Officer at Dreamhack.”
“The winning team will be the Swedish champion and receives a half million plus to improve their ranking in the qualification for the eWorld Cup.”
