Football Manager Takes to the Blockchain with Footium

Ever wanted to ‘own’ a football club, build your own squad of players and earn rewards in the process? Now you can do it with Footium, a soccer strategy game where ‘managers’ can mint players from their academy and compete to win prizes.

Gamers Empowered Through Ownership

Co-founded in 2020 by Jordan Lord, a former software engineer at Netcraft, and Oxford economics graduate James O’Leary, Footium claims to improve on existing football games by empowering gamers through ownership.

“By introducing NFTs and a native token, we’ve brought play-to-earn characteristics to the kind of game that millions of users around the world spend hours playing each day,” says Lord, formerly a game developer for Multiverse and in real life a Derby County fan, while O’Leary is a smart contract developer with a passion for gaming.

Millions of people around the world spend hours each day playing football management games purely for fun. What if those hundreds, sometimes even thousands of hours spent playing could also generate revenue and improve their player and club value?

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Jordan Lord, co-founder, Footium

Stake Tokens to Improve Club Morale and In-Game Performance

As Lord and O’Leary were building Footium, they realised the value-adding potential of token staking to improve club morale and in-game performance. As Lord says, “We decided to build the game we’d always dreamed of.”

Footium Division 1 has 1 league with 12 teams in and every division you go down, all the way to 8 the number of teams/leagues doubles. With Division 8 having 255 leagues in. Each club has a badge, kit and stadium. The badge will be based on a number of traits, the rarity of which determines their starting position in the league, along with the stadium size.

Initial Clubs Sold Out, But Plenty More Available on Secondary Market

Twice a day, your team plays in your league against other clubs. The game moves fast, with seasons of 20 games finishing inside two weeks. While the initial round has sold out, there is a total of 3060 clubs to choose from in the Footium universe, with plenty available on the secondary market. Go to footium.club for details. You can also follow Footium on Twitter and join the Footium Discord.

For information on three more new and exciting play-to-earn games, see September’s Crypto News Australia report regarding the growing Solana ecosystem. With nearly US$24.8 billion generated to date, 2021 was even then close to surpassing 2020’s full-year revenue (US$30 billion) and on track to overtake 2019 (US$43.6 billion) as the highest-grossing year ever for commercial gaming.

Last month saw the launch of MonkeyBall, a next-gen esports metaverse also based on the Solana blockchain. Like Footium, it’s a play-to-earn soccer game that combines high-production values, multiplayer gaming, NFTs and decentralised finance.