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In the WOW Virtual Bundesliga (VBL), the German Club Champion is about to be crowned: This year’s final of the VBL Club Championship by WOW will take place on March 23/24. The game is played within EA SPORTS FC™ 24, with the players meeting in front of a live audience.
The competition organised by the DFL is aimed at the eSport teams of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 clubs and with 35 clubs in total,it is the largest field of participants so far. The first four final participants have already qualified via the final tables of the division phase: 1. FSV Mainz 05 and RB Leipzig from the South-East Division and SC Paderborn 07 and SV Werder Bremen from the North-West Division.
VBL Club Championship playoffs
Twelve other teams will fight it out in the playoffs of the VBL Club Championship for six remaining places in the final tournament on Friday, March 22nd: Bayer 04 Leverkusen, FC Augsburg, FC Bayern München, FC Hansa Rostock, FC Schalke 04, FC St. Pauli, Hamburger SV, Hertha BSC, SC Freiburg, TSG Hoffenheim, VfB Stuttgart and VfL Bochum 1848.
Jörg Höflich, Head of Virtual Bundesliga at the DFL, said: “A thrilling season is entering the finishing straight: Never before have so many clubs taken part in the VBL Club Championship by WOW, never before have so many clubs taken part in the final weekend. Thanks to the new format of the final, we are looking forward to even more top-class matches over the course of the weekend. It all starts on Friday with the play-offs, for which FC Bayern München and SC Freiburg, two teams competing in the VBL for the first time, have qualified alongside some long-standing VBL participants.”
Mode and times
In the final of the VBL Club Championship, the ten qualified clubs will initially compete in two groups. The top four in each group qualify for the quarter-finals and continue to play in the knockout mode from there.
- On Friday, March 22, the playoff matches begin at 5pm.
- On Saturday, March 23, the group phase kicks off at 11am.
- The last round of the group phase starts on Sunday at 10:30 a.m., followed by the matches in the knockout phase. The decisive matchup for the German championship begins at around 6:30pm.
The reigning German Club Champion is RB Leipzig. The team was successful for the second time at the 2023 final tournament and was able to defend the title it had won in 2022 at the previous year’s final.
