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FIFA, the global football governing body, announced on Tuesday that it has launched FIFA+, a digital platform to connect football fans globally. FIFA+ will provide access to live football matches, interactive games, news, tournament information, and video content around the men’s and women’s games, etc.

FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is the first sports federation to offer such an extensive streaming and content experience to its fans.

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“FIFA+ represents the next step in our vision to make football truly global and inclusive, and it underpins FIFA’s core mission of expanding and developing football globally,” says FIFA President Gianni Infantino. “This project represents a cultural shift in the way different types of football fans want to connect with and explore the global game and has been a fundamental part of my Vision 2020-2023. It will accelerate the democratisation of football and we are delighted to share it with fans.”

What to expect?

According to FIFA, it will stream around 40,000 live games per year from 100 Member Associations across all six confederations, including 11,000 women’s matches, by the end of 2022. The platform will offer Europe’s topflight leagues to previously unserved competitions in men’s, women’s, and youth football.

Ahead of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, FIFA+ will be featuring every FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women’s World Cup match ever recorded on camera, totalling more than 2,000 hours of archive content. 

Fans will be able to watch full-match replays, highlights, goals, and magical moments, all in one place. 

The FIFA+ archive will launch with more than 2,500 videos dating back to the 1950s, with many more to come. 

The platform will also have ‘The Match Centre’, which will allow football fans to consume rich football data across 400 men’s competitions and 65 women’s competitions. 

Further, it will also have interactive games, including votes, quizzes, fantasy games, and predictors. 

FIFA+ will feature full-length documentaries, docuseries, talk shows, and shorts – localised into 11 languages.

“The content on the FIFA+ platform will continue to grow and evolve in 2022, providing fresh, globally relevant as well as localised content across the year,” writes FIFA. 

Users can also expect exclusive titles, including: 

• Ronaldinho: The Happiest Man in the World 
• Captains: Season 1
• Croatia: Defining a Nation
• HD Cutz
• Dani Crazy Dream
• Golden Boot
• Icons
• Academies

FIFA+ will be available across all web and mobile devices and a range of connected devices soon. 

It will be available in five language editions (English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish), with an additional six languages to follow in June of 2022.