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So, Phygital Football is part of the Games of the Future, a global multi-sport hybrid event that combines physical disciplines and digital eSports. Phygital Football is one of the official disciplines, merging mini-football (5v5) with a digital football simulator (UFL instead of EA FC 25, which was used in qualifications, for the 2025 global finals). Teams compete in both a video game and a real-life football match, with the scores combined to determine the winner.

The Phygital Football competition takes place during the main GOTF 2025 event: December 18–23, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Phygital Football at the Games of the Future is the flagship global championship for hybrid football. It crowns the world’s top phygital football team, following a year of international qualifiers, serves as the official showcase event for UFL as the designated digital simulator in the finals, and is one of the most visible competitions pushing the phygital sports movement worldwide. It attracts professional footballers, futsal players, eSports athletes, and national teams competing under unified hybrid rules.

This makes it the premier global event in the hybrid football/“digital football” ecosystem and is organized by the Games of the Future International Organizing Committee, under the wider Phygital/Future Sports movement. Strategic partners include UFL developers, national phygital sport federations, and the event hosts in Abu Dhabi.

Where Will Phygital Football at the Games of the Future 2025 Be Held?

Phygital Football at the Games of the Future 2025 will take place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), the main hub for all the event’s competitions. As an indoor venue, ADNEC ensures that the entire tournament is held in a fully controlled, offline, in-person environment, which is essential for the hybrid nature of phygital sports. The physical component—mini-football—is staged on a compact indoor pitch, while the digital component is played on-site using the designated football simulator for 2025.

The Phygital Football tournament is one of the largest disciplines of the GOTF 2025, supported by a dedicated prize pool of US$600,000. This amount forms part of the broader five-million-dollar event-wide prize fund distributed across all eleven phygital sports. While the organizers haven’t yet publicly released the detailed breakdown of how the prize fund will be divided between final placements, the allocation confirms phygital football’s position as one of the marquee events of the competition.

As for participation, the organizers haven’t published the exact number of teams that will compete in the 2025 finals. However, all phygital football teams follow the same structure: each squad consists of five to eight athletes, combining mini-football players with digital football specialists. A strong indicator of scale comes from the “Phygital Contenders: Abu Dhabi – Football” qualifier, which featured 21 clubs competing for six tickets to the GOTF 2025, suggesting a sizable final roster once all regional qualifiers are included.

Which Teams Will Take Part in Phygital Football at the Games of the Future 2025?

From the final qualifying tournament (Phygital Contenders: Abu Dhabi – Football, held 25–29 July 2025), the following clubs secured qualification for the upcoming Games of the Future:

• México Quetzales – Armadillos FC (ALUNIA SA DE CV)
• CM JARDIM (Phygital Games Brazil)
• Greni Smith (eJadranskaLiga-eAdriaticLeague)
• Zero Tenacity (Serbian Electronic Sports and Esports Association)
• FC WhiteBird (Belarusian Federation of Phygital Sports)
• La Crema (Asociación de Deportes Electrónicos y Videojuegos de Argentina)

The pathway includes several tiers: Phygital Origins – local/regional tournaments, Phygital Rivals – national stage tournaments where winners progress, and Phygital Contenders – international qualifying tournaments ahead of the main event. For example, Phygital Contenders had 21 clubs from around the world competing for place(s) at GOTF 2025. The semi-finalists and certain highest-ranking other clubs, based on club performance plus additional ranking/social engagement criteria, secured their berths. However, the total number of participating teams is yet to be disclosed.

Features of Phygital Football at the Games of the Future 2025

We couldn’t find a published source that provides the exact number of distinct competition stages/tournaments for the final GOTF event for Phygital Football, nor a fully detailed format for matches (e.g., best-of, first to, aggregate over two disciplines, knockout vs group stage, pure knockout, double elimination, etc.). While the national qualifier format is given (5v5 + one console match on EA FC 25, aggregate goals), whether the GOTF 2025 event uses identical rules or modifies them isn’t publicly confirmed.

What’s clear, based on national qualifiers, one match of Phygital Football consists of one 5v5 mini-football match and one game of EA FC 25 on console. The winning team is the one that scores more goals in total, including both disciplines. Specifically, for the digital/console part: first pair plays first half, second pair finishes second half; each half lasts three and a half minutes.

Who’ll Win Phygital Football at the Games of the Future 2025?

Some of the stronger clubs to keep an eye on are México Quetzales – Armadillos FC: winners of the Phygital Contenders: Abu Dhabi – Football qualifier. Greni Smith (from eAdriatic region), likewise among the six clubs from Contenders, and Z10 (Zero Tenacity, Serbia): same qualifier group — likely dark-horse threat.

Betting on Phygital Football events is still emerging. If the event is covered by major global eSports bookies and sports-betting platforms, you might find markets like match-winner (which club wins a specific tie), overall champion of Phygital Football, and specific props (e.g., total goals, digital discipline outcome vs physical, etc). Check that the operator explicitly covers the “Phygital Football/Games of the Future” event. As this is a newer format, you may need to contact support or look for “Phygital Football” in their menus.

The official website of Games of the Future (GOTF) signals that live streaming will be available. Streaming platforms:

• The official YouTube channel for Games of the Future: “The Games of the Future Official” on YouTube.
• The GOTF website “Watch”/“Live” pages (though specific broadcaster names for each region may still be listed closer to the date).

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