The French professional football league, Ligue 1, has joined forces with EA Sports to create a digital league containing the same 20 teams.

The French professional football league: Ligue 1 has become the first of its kind to join forces with video game developer EA Sports to create an eLeague based on the world’s most popular sports game franchise FIFA.

The new league billed as e-Ligue will consist of the same 20-teams that currently occupy Ligue 1 and will be composed of a three-phase season system to identify the winner.

The game of choice will be FIFA 17 and each Ligue 1 side will hire two eSports athletes that specialise in the FIFA franchise to represent them in the new e-Ligue with one of the players being a PlayStation 4 expert and the other a proponent of Xbox One.