Following yesterday’s teaser trailer, we now have the first piece of licensing news surrounding PES 2016 as Konami have announced a 3 year extension to it’s licensing agreement with UEFA – first signed in 2009.

As a result, the PES series will exclusively feature iconography and presentation elements associated with UEFA’s major club competitions. This includes both the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, which will be allowed to feature as both individual modes and within a larger season overview. The UEFA Super Cup will also feature within Master League mode.

Speaking about the extension in the official press release, Konami’s European Brand Director, Sean Ratcliffe said “The UEFA Champions League is the biggest prize in club football and we are delighted to have extended our exclusive agreement with UEFA to feature it in the PES series” before going on to comment that these are “exciting times for the PES series”.

He also mentioned the work with UEFA in creating the PES Virtual UEFA Champions League – a global competitive PES website, the World Final of which was this year played alongside the UEFA Champions League Final in Berlin. The two grand finalists of which took part in a special exhibition game in front of thousands at the Olympiastadion.

It goes without saying that this is great news for the brand with the UEFA competitions bringing a massive amount of realism into the game. In terms of PES 2016 itself, the host stadiums of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League were both included in PES 2015. Therefore, could it be expected that this year’s Final hosts – the San Siro in Milan and St Jakob Arena in Basel – will both be appearing in this year’s offering?

http://www.pesfan.com/blog/2015/06/11/konami-and-uefa-announce-new-three-year-deal/

Nice. I hope that bring some competition to the footballmarket. Also, bring PES to the WiiU, 3DS and Vita (no sport competition and a strong potential sales in Japan).

i think Konami already announced it is for PS4, XBOX 1 and PC. 

They could still look to do a handheld version in the future now. Now that EA have thrown in the towell on 3DS and Vita, particularly Japan and Asia is now a competition free market for them. Good time to ressurect the 3DS version and look to a Vita version. Especially as their Baseball series has started doing some decent(ish) numbers on Vita now and PES has a global appeal.

UEFA deal is cool... but I wish they'd get the Sky Bet Championship so the mighty Terriers can finally properly be in the game haha.

i hope they'll do a handheld version for PES 2016. I also even want Nintendo to collaborate with Konami to have a Wii U port but i don't know if it can happen though.

PES seems to get traction against Fifa not in sales but in the game itself. hope it may continue.

PES on Vita could do good if done well, Konami's baseball games do well on the system and the Japanese tend to prefer PES over FIFA.

There was a glorious period before the 360, where PES was actually starting to catch up to FIFA and had the reputation critically that it was the superior title. However Konami then continued putting the PS2 PES out when the HD systems released and at the same time FIFA improved massively and so they lost all the ground they gained in the first 4 titles.

if PES 2016 is pretty polished and have bigger improvements + just Man Utd as the English Premier League licensed club. i'll skip Fifa.  I don't know if Fifa's improvement this year is just those women's team.