With NFTs, many sports clubs, leagues or competitions are revolutionizing their approach to interacting with fans.
The goal of these digital assets is to increase the engagement between the sports entity and its supporters, creating a practically unlimited series of products, from the official shirt to the football stickers or the stadium, everything can be transformed into Non- Fungible Token and the main feature is that these products can have an exclusive property in a specific subject, the fan.
Fans can therefore own NFTs by purchasing or collecting video moments, collectibles and tokens created ad hoc.
In addition to having a value, most often commensurate with cryptocurrencies, the ownership of NFTs allows fans to participate in the main decisions made by clubs.
As reported by Geekflare, Crawley Town Football Club recently signed a player based on the votes of the English League Two club’s NFT-holding fans. Barcelona has launched its first NFT collection and many other top clubs have launched into this new market.
Here are some of the most popular NFT projects in the world of football.
- Sorare – the birth of NFTs has revolutionized the mission of Sorare, a French platform that has created a fantasy game centered on football, where the player can buy, exchange or collect NFT cards of footballers and participate in various online tournaments. The most expensive NFT sold on the Sorare platform is that of Erling Haaland which has exceeded 600,000 euros, beating the record of 400,000 euros held by Cristiano Ronaldo’s NFT sticker.
- Socios.com – is an online platform developed for football fans. With the help of this platform, fans are empowered to exert major influences with decisions that matter to club strategies. Thanks to the numerous partnerships signed around the world with clubs, leagues or competitions, Socios has a very broad portfolio of players in the football sector.
- LaLiga and Dapper Labs– Dapper Labs has partnered with LaLiga to make official collectible highlights in NFTs. The collectibles consist of iconic game moments from the Spanish league over the past 20 seasons. The value of a particular NFT varies based on its demand and rarity.
- Fanz– is a blockchain-based football platform dedicated to fans. The platform aims to connect the fan culture with the blockchain, the main aspect being the innovative concept “Football in Web 3.0”. Platform users are provided with a gateway to gaming, governance and NFTs.
- Topps NFT – Topps is an American company that produces licensed stickers, through NFTs it has launched into this new online market for licensed football collectibles, entering the Web3 world with a series of official Bundesliga NFTs, having formed a partnership multi-year with the German championship.
- Shirtum– is a platform that allows fans to buy official NFTs directly from football clubs or players. Some of the highlighted partnerships available on the platform include Galatasaray and a legend like Ronaldinho.
- Football AIFA– is a decentralized gaming platform that makes, builds and sells AI bots with the help of NFT, AIFA stands for Artificial Intelligence Football Association. The game was created using Altered State Machine (ASM) to boost the presence of soccer in the metaverse with NFT technology. Players can compete against potential opponents to earn NFT Tokens and other rewards. The ASTO token is the in-game token that you can use in the ASM gaming ecosystem.
- Fanzone– trading cards has a huge market all over the world, Fanzone is an online platform that facilitates fans to trade, buy and collect digital trading cards. The platform runs on Polygon (Ethereum’s layer 2 scaling solution) and LUKSO (a domain specific blockchain).
- Fantestec SWAP– is another platform for football fans that gives the opportunity to trade, collect, buy and sell NFT collectibles. The collectibles cover iconic moments from major European football clubs such as Real Madrid, Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund.
- Real Fevr– Based on BNB Smart Chain, RealFevr allows users to acquire various football-based NFTs, digital highlights of the performances of many footballers, as well as NFT video collection can be purchased from the RealFevr marketplace. FEVR è l’utility token della piattaforma che si può utilizzare per acquistare NFT.
Here are the 10 most popular NFT projects in the world of football
With NFTs, many sports clubs, leagues or competitions are revolutionizing their approach to interacting with fans. The goal of these digital assets is to increase the engagement between the sports entity and its supporters, creating a practically unlimited series of products, from the official shirt to the football stickers or the stadium, everything can be transformed into Non- Fungible Token and the main feature is that these products can have an exclusive property in a specific subject, the fan. Fans can therefore