Bundesliga signs triple NFT partnership
The German Football League (DFL) has awarded licences worth more than US$179m for stickers, trading cards and NFTs to three companies: OneFootball, Sorare and Topps, which is a 208% increase from their previous deals.
From the 2023/24 season, OneFootball will serve as an Official Partner of the Bundesliga and gain the rights to create digital trading cards and video moments NFTs, which could be collected, traded and sold on their Aera marketplace. Sorare will gain exclusive rights to use NFTs based on the Bundesliga players in a fantasy game, while Topps will have the rights to create physical digital stickers and trading card game and NFT equivalents of the same.
All of the NFT-based agreements will last till the end of the 2024/25 season, while Topps’ physical stickers deal will last until the end of the 2028/29 season.