- The LALIGA FC Pro Cup will be held during the weekend of 6 and 7 April.
- The event will gather the tournament’s community of fans together, and will also feature a large number of free activities.
The city of San Sebastián is to play host to the LALIGA FC Pro Cup for the first time in the tournament’s history. The event is to be held in the Kursaal’s Conference Centre and Auditorium over 2 days, 6 and 7 April, as part of a larger programme flying the competition’s colours in this northern city.
The LALIGA FC Pro Cup is to be held in San Sebastián for the next two years thanks to the agreement struck by economic development agency for the capital of Gipuzkoa province Fomento San Sebastián, which wishes to make the city a venue for these kinds of major events which home in on the use of technology, and young people play a leading role.
The event, a chance to bring the world of sport to the city, has arrived in Donostia thanks to Fomento San Sebastián’s work and interests common to LALIGA and Real Sociedad football team, and also the Kursaal Centre, which will be ready to host an event with a huge social and media impact.
The event was presented by Local Economy and Employment Councillor, Ane Oyarbide; the managing director of Fomento de San Sebastián, Iñigo Olaizola; and the head of LALIGA’s Digital Strategy, Alfredo Bermejo.
Local Economy and Employment Councillor Ane Oyarbide pointed out how important it is for San Sebastián to host such an important event as LALIGA FC Pro Cup, which will transform the city into the capital of electronic sports, an activity which is rapidly multiplying followers and already commands a large industry. Sports, and football in particular, are experiencing considerable growth, with increasingly more professional competitions bringing in young fans, featuring a considerable number of women, who account for 36% of followers in the State. She also noted the major economic dimension aspect and jobs in relation to the industry of videogames and sport competitions. This is an extremely dynamic economic sector, in keeping with the positioning of San Sebastián as a city of innovation and technology, generating a large volume of jobs – and an industry with a very bright future. Oyarbide hopes all fans will converge on the Kursaal on 6 and 7 April for a fun event, and to support Real Sociedad, a competitor in the tournament.
The head of Digital Strategy at LALIGA, Alfredo Bermejo, pointed out the huge opportunity represented by the arrival of the LALIGA FC Pro Cup in San Sebastián, for the city and also for LALIGA, as a fresh chance to bring the event to the community of tournament fans and also to create synergies and opportunities for the younger population. Moreover, an event carried through by LALIGA, the local institutions in San Sebastián and the Real Sociedad team is a definite guarantee of success.
The LALIGA FC Pro Cup will be held over two days featuring competition events, and also a number of activities open to the public. Admittance to the event will be free of charge, and visitors will be able to check out the biggest national competition EA SPORTS FC 24, in which 24 LALIGA FC Pro clubs will be contending for the largest prize pool in the history of the Cup. A total of 100,000 € in prize money, the largest amount ever in the cup’s history, double the amount the previous year, with 25,000 € for the winning club.
Clubs playing in the eighth round of LALIGA FC Pro Cup will also go through automatically to the grand final of finals in April.
Clubs competing in the LALIGA FC Pro Cup and competition format
The new season returns to the 1v1 format, with 3 points for a win, and 1 for a draw. A draw in the LALIGA FC Pro Cup will lead to extra time, and subsequently penalties.
Next stop after the LALIGA FC Pro Cup
The 16 clubs emerging from the Cup will have taken one more step in the direction of glory in the LALIGA FC Pro Finals at the end of the month. As in previous years with Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza and PortAventura World in Tarragona, these public events will be staged in other cities, bringing emotion to their communities once more.
The biggest prize pool ever
The prize pool will top 350,000 €. The first game in the SuperCup had a pool of 7,000 €. The Cup pool in April will be 100,000 €, the largest ever in the history of the competition, with 25,000 € for the winner; 10,000 € for the runner-up; 7,500 € for the third and fourth placed; and the first 24 clubs will all receive a money prize. As if that were not enough, there is also a 250,000 € pool for the final, with 60,000 € for the champion; 40,000 € for the runner-up; 20,000 € for third and fourth; and a money prize for the first 16 clubs.
The winner and the runner-up will also automatically go through to the FCProWorldChampionship, and the four semi-finalists go through to the eChampionsLeague.
LALIGA FC Pro, with the community at all times
LALIGA FC Pro will continue to broaden its presence with new innovative contents on its TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch and YouTube social media, with the most interesting and entertaining contents on the competition and the EA SPORTS FC Pro ecosystem.
About LALIGA FC Pro
LALIGA FC Pro is the national EA SPORTS FC competition organised by LALIGA in association with EA SPORTS. The official LALIGA FC Pro competition in Spain has experienced exponential growth since its beginnings in the 2017/2018 season featuring 10 clubs, to 38 clubs during the last season. The competition evolved during the 2023/2024 season with a new nomenclature introduced by the official sponsor of LALIGA, EA SPORTS. LALIGA FC Pro has also now emerged on the international stage following the establishment during the 2020/2021 season of a competition among several countries, online and in situ, with amateur players from all corners of the globe, and in 2021/22 this moved on to the Beat The Best concept, which the international tournament is continuing this season. All the information on LALIGA FC Pro is available on the tournament’s social media: Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok and Twitch.