What the Borussia Dortmund Team-Up Means for ‘FIFA Rivals’ Players

FIFA Rivals, a cellular Web3 soccer sport Legendary Video games, introduced Monday its first membership partnership with German Bundesliga crew Borussia Dortmund.

The multi-year collaboration will convey unique Borussia Dortmund content material to the iOS and Android sport all through the 2025/26 season, together with digital participant playing cards that includes present squad members comparable to Karim Adeyemi, Serhou Guirassy, Nico Schlotterbeck, and Gregor Kobel.

The team-up will convey varied fan engagement options into FIFA Rivals, together with official crew kits as collectible objects. The sport can even host giveaways that includes in-game collectibles, match tickets, and bodily merchandise.

“Partnering with Borussia Dortmund is a giant second—not only for FIFA Rivals, however for the broader imaginative and prescient we’ve got at Legendary,” Legendary Video games Head of Communications Nate Nesbitt instructed Decrypt. “BVB brings an unimaginable fanbase, deep historical past, and unmatched power, and that’s precisely the sort of DNA we would like infused into FIFA Rivals.”

“You’ll begin to see customized in-game occasions, main giveaways, branded content material, and neighborhood activations that put the BVB expertise entrance and middle for our gamers and BVB followers,” he added.

To begin the partnership, FIFA Rivals is internet hosting a particular giveaway week via August 24, providing free Borussia Dortmund participant card packs to all customers who log in day by day in the course of the promotional interval. The sport can even hand out official crew emblems, and promote premium emblems that include a stat increase.

Borussia Dortmund Managing Director Carsten Cramer stated in a press release that the FIFA Rivals deal “creates a singular bridge between the digital and actual worlds, enabling us to attach with our followers all over the world in modern methods.”

Nesbitt stated that Legendary has seen an “superb” response to FIFA Rivals to date, racking up greater than 1 million downloads for the reason that June launch. As with NFL Rivals, in-game belongings are minted as NFTs on Mythos Chain, a Polkadot-powered gaming community, and at present tradable by way of a web-based market. Legendary is working to convey buying and selling into the sport itself, too.

“We’re seeing actual momentum construct throughout the aggressive facet of the sport,” Nesbitt instructed Decrypt. “What’s notably encouraging is how nicely the neighborhood is beginning to embrace the digital possession mannequin, which has actually shifted their gaming expertise. We’re tremendously trying ahead to {the marketplace} coming instantly into the sport quickly.”