Russian Football Premier League announced the first edition of OLIMP RFPL Virtual Football Cup in EA SPORTS FIFA 17 - an official tournament of the Premier League clubs. In the period between 24 and 26 February 2017 in Ufa 16 virtual football players from all RFPL clubs will meet to determine in their fair play the Cup winner.

Development of virtual football project is one of the modern football components. Famous football game FIFA 17 is not only for a time of leisure, but now it is an official competition where every supporter can become a part of the football family and a fulltime player of a Russian Football Premier League club.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko mentioned the significance of this quickly developing branch of football: "Virtual football is becoming more and more popular. We already have professionals in this kind of sport. Football clubs actively use enormous potential of new method of healthy way of life popularization among young people".

RFPL and FC Ufa would like to invite all those who wish to become a part of football festival event. All those who will come to entertainment center Ogni Ufy and those, who due to the information partners of the tournament - Subholding Match, TV channels Game Show, BST, 8 Channel.Bashkortostan, Championat.com, Sovetskiy Sport, Sport-Express, Sport FM Radio, VK and Mail.ru, will be watching the competition and get a lot of fantastic emotions. Star guests and favourite commentators will add festivity to the tournament atmosphere.

«A great future awaits virtual football both in investments and audience. We are really interested in attracting virtual football fans to the stadia, so they could become real members of big and friendly football family», - Premier League President Sergey Pryadkin said.

General partner of the tournament - betting company OLIMP would like to wish good luck to all participants. Let the strongest win!

Live broadcasts of the tournament will be arranged on the website, pages VK Nash Futbol and YouTube «Nash Futbol»  of the Russian Football Premier League, Premier League clubs social media.