The Eintracht Frankfurt Esports squad will have a busy start to the year, with Eintracht’s League of Legends team invited by the German embassy to travel to the Japanese capital Tokyo from 3–7 January 2024 to take part in the ‘German Embassy eSports Cup Japan’.
Sixteen League of Legends teams from throughout Japan have been playing preliminary rounds in December, with the aim of vying for the title at the Shibuya eSports Highschool e-Stadium and making it through to the grand final alongside the Eintracht Frankfurt League of Legends team. The eSports Highschool in Shibuya is the first educational establishment anywhere in the world to have eSports as an integral part of its teaching plan.
For us now to have a presence in Tokyo via one of our Esports teams shows how seriously we take our commitment to Japan.
EintrachtTech CEO Timm Jäger
“It was a great honour for us to receive the invitation from the German embassy in Tokyo,” said EintrachtTech CEO Timm Jäger. “For a number of years now, we at Eintracht have placed a significant emphasis on the Japanese market and committed ourselves to the country. For us now to have a presence in Tokyo via one of our Esports teams shows how seriously we take our commitment to Japan.“
“This trip to Japan is very special for us,” added head of Esports Maximilian Brömel. “Since 2018, we have established ourselves via our grassroots and top-level sports approach as one of the leading German Esports organisations and also laid out a path for the future in terms of infrastructure with the Deutsche Bank Esports Academy. After winning our first international title in League of Legends last year in Austria, we are now looking forward to facing off against the best Esports players in the world in a country that is the home of the sector.“
About Eintracht Frankfurt Esports:
Eintracht Frankfurt have been active in Esports since 2018 via EintrachtTech. The journey began with virtual football on a grassroots level, with an Esports version of club membership being introduced in 2019. The club’s comprehensive commitment to Esports was expanded in 2020 with entry into League of Legends (LoL). Since 2023, Eintracht Frankfurt’s League of Legends team has been playing in the highest German-speaking category – the 1st Division of the Strauss Prime League. In virtual football meanwhile, the team has gone on to establish itself in the Virtual Bundesliga (VBL) as well as in international competitions. Alongside the club’s commitment to the pro teams, Eintracht Frankfurt also set great store by their grassroots Esports offer and runs their own academy, where more than 130 members already to come to train in the two different games. The sporting aspect is complemented by health-focused education and traditional sporting activities and information events for interested parents.
About League of Legends
League of Legends is team-based strategy game developed by Riot Games, in which two groups of five players each face off against one another, trying to destroy the other team’s base. Over 100 million gamers play League of Legends every month, making it one of the most popular games worldwide.
