Cyber football will begin to develop in Kazakhstan

The Kazakhstan Football Federation and the Qazaq Cybersport Federation have signed a memorandum of cooperation, which provides for the organization of new tournaments using football simulators. The document was signed by the presidents of the two organizations: Adilet Barmenkulov, head of the KFF, and Kuanyshbek Yesekayev, president of the QCF.

The partnership under the Memorandum is aimed at establishing systematic work to implement joint programs related to the promotion and popularization of football and esports through the organization of common events for the public. The football simulator FIFA, in its current version of which three Kazakhstani footballers can be found — Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov, Georgy Zhukov, and Alexander Merkel — is included in almost all major esports series in Kazakhstan.

Competitions in this esports discipline are regularly held in the amateur series Alaman, in the official national championship of Kazakhstan QAZAQSTAN RESPUBLIKASYNYŊ KÜZGI KUBOGI, as well as in the regular tournament of the Kazakhstani university league KESL.

At the end of last year, the FIFA simulator became the basis for the regular Qazaqstan Qyzmet Cyber Cup tournament among government officials and employees of quasi-state sector organizations.

In the spring of this year, the Kazakhstan Football Federation and the Qazaq Cybersport Federation implemented their first joint project: they conducted a national selection for the international event FIFAe Nations Series 2022. The winners of this tournament in Kazakhstan, Aknazar Bekseitov and Olzhas Esentaev, passed a two-round regional selection in the UAE in June and will represent Kazakhstan for the first time in history in the final stage of this esports event in Copenhagen at the end of July this year.