{"id":874174,"date":"2025-09-19T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/team-vitality-and-psg-esports-announce-long-term-partnership\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:12:00","slug":"team-vitality-and-psg-esports-announce-long-term-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/team-vitality-and-psg-esports-announce-long-term-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Vitality and PSG Esports announce long-term partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><picture fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"><source type=\"image\/webp\"  ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/team-vitality-psg-esports-partnership-large.jpg\" alt=\"Football Image of PSG Esports and Team Vitality logos on a blue background. On the right of the image, Team Vitality players are posing while wearing PSG jerseys\"  >\n<\/picture><figcaption>Image credit: Team Vitality, PSG Esports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Team Vitality<\/strong> has announced a long-term partnership with <strong>PSG Esports<\/strong>, the esports branch of French football club <strong>Paris Saint-Germain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration between the two parties will focus on <strong>EA Sports FC<\/strong>, beginning with the 2025\/26 FC Pro season. This notably includes Team Vitality\u2019s EA Sports FC division being rebranded to <strong>PSG.Vitality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the deal, French FC Pro players <strong>Ilian Bouchi<\/strong> and <strong>Brice Masson<\/strong>, both of whom represented Team Vitality during the EA FC 25 esports season, will compete for the new team.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release, PSG is \u2018taking another significant step forward,\u2019 as it continues expanding its presence within the esports industry. The French side was one of the first football clubs to embark on esports initiatives after creating <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2016\/10\/paris-saint-germain-latest-enter-esports-stratosphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its first esports franchise back in 2016<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a decade later, PSG remains one of the most active football clubs operating within esports. In July, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/psg-talon-league-of-legends-return\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the club returned to competing in League of Legends<\/a><\/strong> esports after renewing its deal with Asian esports organisation <strong>TALON<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Team Vitality has a rich history in competing in FIFA and EA Sports FC esports. Since 2015, it has competed across several international events, with Masson scoring a second-place finish at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/liquipedia.net\/easportsfc\/FC_Pro_25\/World_Championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the FC Pro 25 World Championship<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"esi-heading-68cdcbc40c11d\">\n<h2>Football <span id=\"team_vitalitys_continued_growth\">Team Vitality\u2019s Continued Growth<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Joining forces with PSG is another chapter in Team Vitality\u2019s continued growth throughout 2025. In July, the organisation secured a seven-figure deal with online casino and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/07\/team-vitality-stake-partnership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sportsbook platform Stake<\/a><\/strong> in addition to expanding into the Asian market through <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/05\/team-vitality-acquires-bigetron-esports-interview-mlbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the acquisition of Bigetron Esports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The newly-formed PSG.Vitality players will begin their <strong>EA FC 26<\/strong> campaigns by qualifying for the first <strong>FC Pro Open <\/strong>event of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Players who reach Division 4 in EA FC 26\u2019s Ultimate Team Rivals mode will earn a place at the regional qualifiers, with the top 48 advancing to the first Global Qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>The first <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/08\/ea-fc-26-details-key-updates-esports-ecosystem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FC Pro Open Global Qualifier<\/a><\/strong> will take place as part of <strong>DreamHack Atlanta<\/strong> from October 31st to November 2nd.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsinsider.com\/2025\/09\/team-vitality-psg-esports-ea-fc-partnership\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> Jonno Nicholson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Team Vitality, PSG Esports Team Vitality has announced a long-term partnership with PSG Esports, the esports branch of French football club Paris Saint-Germain. The collaboration between the two parties will focus on EA Sports FC, beginning with the 2025\/26 FC Pro season. This notably includes Team Vitality\u2019s EA Sports FC division being rebranded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3635,3790,98449],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-874174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-esports","8":"category-football","9":"category-vitality"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}