Enthusiast Gaming’s Fantasy Football Scout partners with English Football League for new Fantasy EFL game

New fantasy game to leverage Enthusiast’s broad network of fantasy football channels for content and marketing partnership

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enthusiast Gaming Holdings Inc. (“Enthusiast Gaming” or the “Company”) (TSX: EGLX), a leading gaming and media company, today announced that Fantasy Football Scout, the UK’s leading fantasy football advice service and a subsidiary of Enthusiast Gaming, has entered into a partnership with the English Football League (the “EFL”) to promote and support Fantasy EFL, a new fantasy game mode launched by the EFL for the 2024/25 season.

Fantasy Football Scout has been dominating the fantasy football market since 2009, with a mix of editorial content, videos, data and tools, serving an audience of over 10 million a year via multiple media channels. The business already has partnership agreements in place for fantasy games with many of the largest football associations in the world, including the Premier League (for Fantasy Premier League with 11M+ players) and UEFA (Champions League and Euro 2024 Fantasy with 3.5M+ players), as well as several leading clubs and other fantasy games. Adding Fantasy EFL for the 2024/25 season will only strengthen this dominant position in the market.

Formed in 1888, the EFL is the world’s original league football competition and represents the largest single body of professional clubs in European football. The new Fantasy EFL game allows users to make selections from all 72 Member clubs across the Championship, League One and League Two in a fresh and exciting take on the fantasy format (https://fantasy.efl.com/team).

The partnership involves the creation of editorial content and tools to help inform Fantasy EFL players of tactics and selections, which will feature on the official EFL website (https://www.efl.com/), as well as extensive editorial, video and marketing on Fantasy Football Scout’s multiple channels.

“Fantasy Football Scout has always been a labour of love, created by fantasy football fans for fantasy football fans and our first mission is serving that incredible community,” said Chris James, CEO of Fantasy Football Scout. “I have the pleasure of working with the very best team in the business and serving a truly global audience. The chance to work with the English Football League, part of the fabric of life for hundreds of millions of fans around the world, as well as work on a brand new exciting fantasy game is an absolute privilege, about which we are all very excited.”