The 2024 FIFAe World Cup featuring Rocket League, part of the 18th FIFAe World Cup, was a Rocket League esports tournament organized by FIFA. It was the first edition of the FIFAe World Cup played on Rocket League, with the FIFAe World Cup also holding eFootball (Mobile and Console) and Football Manager tournaments. The tournament was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 5 to 8 December 2024. As the host country, Saudi Arabia won the tournament, defeating France 4-1 in the final.
Background Between 2004 and 2023, the FIFAe World Cup (previously the FIFA Interactive World Cup and FIFA eWorld Cup) was held on the then-latest edition of the FIFA series, which was developed by EA Sports and featured the FIFA licence. However, in 2022 FIFA announced that they would no longer renew their licence with EA, marking FIFA 23 as the last game in the thirty-year long series and the 2023 FIFAe World Cup the last to feature a FIFA game. EA would develop their own competitive circuit for their football series known as EA Sports FC (using the partnered tournaments they already developed with existing football leagues), which was known as EA Sports FC Pro, or FC Pro for short.
After EA and FIFA parted ways, it was unclear if the FIFAe World Cup would continue with another football video game. On 23 June 2024, FIFA announced that the series would continue, initially with a Rocket League tournament, with Football Manager also added on 26 June. eFootball (long seen as a rival to FIFA as Pro Evolution Soccer) would be added on 10 October. Both the Rocket League and eFootball (Mobile and Console) tournaments were played together, as the Football Manager tournament was held separately in late August and early September of that year. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was confirmed as the host on 25 November 2024.
Format Nations will send a team of three plus one alternate for the tournament. The participating nations may opt for a qualification process or internally select the team that will represent their country. The teams are split into two groups of eight and compete in single round robin matchups. The top four teams per group advance to a knockout stage, where the world champions will be crowned.
Teams 16 nations were selected by FIFA to compete in the tournament based on playerbase and previous performances; initially this was announced to be based on the number of representatives from each country in previous Rocket League Majors. Each nation will be responsible for organizing their own qualifying tournaments for the competition, otherwise they can invite their own set of players. The first three nations were announced on 9 August, with the rest being announced on 11, 13, 15 and 17 August.
Participating nations TeamAppearance Previous best performance 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st 1st
Team list NationAbbr.Team NameHead coachMain TeamSubstitutePlayer 1Player 2Player 3 ArgentinaARGMessirvepekitas (Pablo Agustín Novelli)misery (Martin Santiago Gil)UmBroken (Lucas Fierro)ajg. (Lautaro Gusinsky)Same as Coach AustraliaAUSN/AN/AFever (Lachlan Aitchison)gus (Angus Hall)Torsos (Daniel Parsons)Rez BelgiumBELcan we play plsLDC- (Liam De Cuypere)Atow. (Tristan Soyez)Compact (Zeno Sterkens)AztraL (Maëllo Ernst)Same as Coach BrazilBRAFURIASTL (Mateus Santos)yANXNZ (Yan Xisto Nolasco)Lostt (Gabriel Buzon)DRUFINHO (Arthur Langsch Miguel)Same as Coach ChileCHIELITEgroval (Alejandro Valdenegro)Reysbull (Victor Duran Parra)Davitrox (David Gárate)pan (Sebastián Andrés Parra Castillo)Same as Coach EnglandENGN/An0ah (Noah Hinder)archie (Archie Pickthall)Joyo (Joe Young)rise. (Finlay Ferguson)Toxiic (Ben Salmon) GermanyGERTRRCCatalysm (Leonardo Christ Ramos)Tox (Damian Schäfer)Rezears (David Wünsch)Rizex45 (Riccardo Mazzota)Same as Coach FranceFRAN/AFerra (Victor Francal)Vatira (Axel Touret)M0nkey M00n (Evan Rogez)Zen (Alexis Bernier)Same as Coach MoroccoMARN/ASatthew (Matthew Ackermann)dralii (Samy Hajji)itachi (Amine Benayachi)nass (Nassim Bali)Yeca2k00 NetherlandsNEDTeam oaly.ViolentPanda (Jos van Meurs)Joreuz (Joris Robben)MikeBoy (Mike Verkuijlen)oaly. (Ole van Doorn)Oscillon (Maarten van Zee) PortugalPORStr1ve eSportsordep04rafa. (Ivo Rafael Pereira)beyond (Gonçalo Cunha)vadyy (Valdemar Silva)Same as Coach Saudi ArabiaKSATeam Falconsd7oom-24 (Abdulrahman Saad)Kiileerrz (Yazid Bakhashwin)Rw9 (Saleh Bakhashwin)trk511 (Mohammed Alotaibi)Same as Coach South AfricaRSAPreciousCpZebra (Nicholas Fourie)Sweaty (Joshua Kleynhans)2Die4 (David Morgenrood)Snowyy (Gareth Spiers)Same as Coach SpainSPAGenios de la RedondaBraan. (Brandon Porto Fernández)AtomiK (Sergio Pérez Cortés)crr (Cristian Fernandez)stizzy (Gaspar Rosalen Andres)Same as Coach TurkeyTURN/AN/AJzmmmLorely (Arda Teker)zgocBrayt (Mustafa Can Sarı)Andeque United StatesUSAGen.G Mobil 1 Racingtorment (Kyle Stormer)Retals (Slater Thomas)MaJicBear (Christopher Acevedo)CHEESE. (Carlos Aguado)RawGreg (Gregory Alex)
Group stage Group A
Group B
Knockout stage Bracket
References
See also 2024 FIFAe World Cup of Football Manager