The 2023 Kings League, also known as Kings League Infojobs due to sponsorship reasons, is the 1st season of Kings League, a Spanish seven-a-side football competition. It commenced on 1 January 2023 with the first match day of the Winter Split, which concluded on 26 March 2023. The Summer Split began on 7 May 2023, and it is set to conclude with its Final Four on 29 July 2023.
The Kings League is being held at the Cupra Arena, located in the port of Barcelona. The Cupra Arena is part of the Logistics Activities Area (ZAL in Spanish) of the Port of Barcelona. On 20 January 2023, Gerard Piqué and FC Barcelona president Joan Laporta announced that the semifinals and final of the winter split playoffs would be held as a 'Final Four' event at the Camp Nou, the home ground of FC Barcelona, on March 26, 2023.
The kit manufacturer for all teams is Adidas while the kit sponsor for all teams is InfoJobs. All teams have an "11th Player" who usually is a former professional football player and a "12th Player", a guest player who can be different for each match date
The playoffs were held from 24 to 26 March 2023.
Kings League teams have the possibility to invite one player (the "12th Player") each matchday.
A transfer market opened among all participating teams in the month of April 2023, between the Winter and Summer Splits. The rules of the market were outlined in separate livestreams before the end of the Winter Split regular season:
A new points system for the Summer Split was announced on 24 April 2023:
This system, as well as the new playoff format, will also be used in the Queens League.
The playoffs are slated to be held from 22 to 29 July 2023, with a new ten-team format announced on 18 April 2023.
In May 2023, the Kings League announced the addition of a 14th Player, at the time a mystery, available to only one team. It was later revealed to be World Cup and Champions League winner Andrea Pirlo, with Jijantes FC signing him.
Awards
After each match, a Most Valuable Player (also referred to as Simyo MVP for sponsorship reasons) is chosen. After the matchday finishes, a poll in Twitter is launched to determine which is the MVP of the week.
A list of all MVPs awarded can be found on KingsLeague's web.
The 2023 Kings Cup is set to begin on 10 September 2023 and conclude on 14 October 2023.
The groups were drawn during the Draft Day event on 4 September 2023.
The format for the knockout stage was unveiled on 18 September 2023.
The 2024 Winter Split is still considered part of the 2023 season before the adoption of a new calendar model starting with the 2024-25 season. It began on 21 January and is set to conclude on 20 April 2024.
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