Big bang: As the first big game developer EA Sports reacts and bans all Russian players as well as the national team from FIFA 22. After a long waiting period and speculations if the whole thing will happen at all, it is now with Title Update 9.
FIFA 22 Russia.
EA puts the announcement into action. EA Sports
Already on March 2nd EA Sports announced to remove Russian clubs from FIFA. On April 13th it will be official: With the Title Update 9 EA finally reacted and removed the Russian players and clubs from FIFA 22. Of course we ask ourselves: When will they come back in a FIFA part?
Russian players and clubs removed from FIFA 22 – When will they come back?
Together with our partners FIFA and UEFA the Russian national team and all other Russian teams will be removed in this Title Update.
This is the information about Title Update 9. Of course we don’t know when exactly the players and clubs will be back in the game. Of course, this also depends on the situation in Ukraine. If the war of aggression of Russia continues, it could be that FIFA 23 will be released without Russian teams and players.
We will keep you up to date.
Interim state from April 8th: EA has NOT removed Russian players from FIFA 22
EA asked in their statement of March 2, 2022 for patience for the fact that the removal of the players and clubs could take time. But now we have already April and exactly nothing happened. After all, it is possible for EA to remove icons like Diego Maradona or Marc Overmars from the FUT packs. The same should be possible with the Russian players – but here it’s due to reasons we don’t know.
It is also not due to the fact that no updates for FIFA 22 have been released since March 02, because exactly the opposite is the case. In one of these updates the teams could have been removed, nothing happened. We don’t want to push any political statements or consequences with this, but if EA announces to take the measures, then they should put them into action promptly.
Original message: EA announces removal of Russian players from FIFA 22
On the evening of March 2, something historic happens in the world of esports. EA Sports reacts for the first time clearly to the political developments in the world and removes all Russian players and the Russian national team from FIFA 22 because of solidarity with Ukraine. We have already written some days ago about the fact that EA has to react to the crisis. After UEFA has already excluded all Russian teams from intenational competitions, this now applies to the online world as well.
A correct and important step that EA is taking. But maybe it happens a few days too late. However, it will never be possible to please everyone. At the same time, rumors are circulating that Roman Abramovich wants to sell Chelsea FC. These are simply crazy times in which solidarity actions are more important than ever.
FIFA 22: EA Sports wants to delete Russian players and national team
To make this clear to our readership: Neither we, nor EA, nor the rest of the world has the slightest hatred for the Russian people, let alone Russian athletes, footballers and clubs. They are people like us. People who have to suffer under their regime, which is now facing the consequences in really all aspects of life. Even in our online world, attention is being drawn to this. But why are Russian athletes so categorically excluded?
They have nothing to do with the war, of course. And we don’t want to get too political either. But these sanctions only go against Putin, no other Russian is to be attacked with them. But the changes must come from within Russia; little will happen from the outside. And that is only possible if something changes. This statement of EA is only a very small part of the whole.
EA makes a statement
To what extent further solidary actions on the part of EA will come, the Canadians left open. Here is the official statement via Twitter:
FIFA 23 RELEASE – WHAT IS KNOWN SO FAR
FIFA 22 is still in full operation, but in the background the game makers of EA Sports are already working on the next part – FIFA 23 will be released in autumn 2022.
But under which name will the classic game be continued in autumn 2022? As things stand, it is not at all certain that the game will continue to bear the name of the world association FIFA. We have the most important information about FIFA 23 for you, why the game series will get a new name and on which consoles the next part of the soccer simulation will be available.
WHEN WILL FIFA 23 BE RELEASED?
We can’t give you an official launch date for the next part of the FIFA game series yet. EA hasn’t communicated much in this regard yet, so so far we can only assume that FIFA 23 will be released in the period between mid-September and early October 2022, just like its predecessors. In the past years, the latest launch date of a FIFA game was October 06.