Footium Yearly Rewind
It has been a very busy year for Footium including growing from a team of 4 all the way to 16 and continuing the build the future of Football management games. Thank you to all of our amazing community for the continued support and enthusiasm for the concept, the game and the team - before we move onto a massive 2023 let’s take a look back at the last year…
Flurry of activity on the club market 🤝
There has been a lot of activity on the secondary marketplace for clubs, with the highest value sale being $31,120 for Haddle FC
Dubbed the nicest badge in all of Footium after stiff competition in the 2022 Footium badge World Cup! Alongside the sales there has been over 500 ETH in trading volume on the secondary marketplace.
Raised $3.35 in Seed Funding 💰
We were delighted to announce that we have raised $3.35m USD in Seed Funding to continue building the metaverse world of Football! The investment was led by London-based VC firm, BACKED, an investment firm that previously invested in Sky Mavis, the creator of the multi-billion dollar Web3 game Axie Infinity.
We are very excited to also receive backing from Angel investors, including Chris Smalling (Ex-Manchester United and England International Football Player) who is currently participating in our beta! Other notable angel investors include Ahmed Al-Balaghi (Co-Founder of Biconomy), Michael Bentley (Co-Founder of Euler Finance) and SOLBigBrain (Big Brain Holdings).
Ran a number of beta seasons 🎮
We have run four beta seasons gaining extremely valuable feedback on features, user experience & bugs. Our current beta season has been underway for over a week which contains our new match engine and game design - with everything being new it has been crucial to test these features and iron out all the bugs.
The content created by our community throughout the last year has blown us away & we can't wait to see more with the new season starting soon!
Onboarded content creators and footballers to the game ⚽️
Onboarded multiple Footballers & Content creators into Footium, purely through their love of our concept.
French lifestyle YouTuber Valouzz (3m+ subscribers) team Bexle Rangers is in the current beta season!
There was even some friendly rivalry between Nigel de Jong and Shaun Wright-Phillips as they found themselves in the same beta league..
We sponsored EFL Club Leyton Orient 🩳
We become EFL club Leyton Orient's official back of shorts sponsors for the 21/22 season. Any excuse to watch this goal again with the advertising boards behind…
Footium Community Event 🎫
We held the first ever Footium in-person community event, with tickets selling out in an hour & people flying in from Scotland, Denmark, Italy & more!
Made a number of star signings ✍️
We have built a fantastic and experienced team of 16 to continue building Footium with Edvard joining most recently.