EA is getting the most out of its final FIFA-titled game: it includes two officially-licensed World Cups for the first time.
FIFA 23 is of course EA’s final FIFA-titled football game. From next year’s game, EA will use the EA Sports FC title instead, ending a run of almost 30 years of EA-made FIFA games.
EA confirmed FIFA 23 includes World Cup Qatar 2022, which kicks off this November, and the Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023, which starts in July 2023.
“People will be clamouring for football, and we have the opportunity to take advantage of that global momentum,” line producer Matthew Lafreniere said in a presentation attended by Eurogamer.
EA did not say what form the World Cups will take in-game, although some sort of World Cup-specific mode alongside online features and Ultimate Team integration seems likely. FIFA 18 got a free World Cup Russia update that added all the qualified teams, stadiums and a World Cup FUT mode.