The 2019/20 football season in the Dutch Eredivisie was terminated prematurely due to the COVID 19 pandemic. There was no champion and no relegation.
Not for the German licensee Sportdigital FUSSBALL. The Hamburg-based pay-TV operator developed an innovative broadcasting format using a mix of match data, virtual reality and real archive match images and simply continued to play the cancelled season. How did it work?
For this innovative “Predictions Eredivisie” format, Sportdigital FUSSBALL cooperated with 2 specialist companies. The sports simulation company AccuScore provided the exact match data to realistically simulate the further results of the Eredivisie up to the last match day. The video game manufacturer Konami supplied the virtual match images for the highlight summaries of the remaining match days via the football simulation “Pro Evolution Soccer”. These virtual clips were skilfully mixed in post-production with the real archive match images from the Eredivisie and absolutely new and unique highlight summaries were created of the outstanding matches at the time – which had never actually existed in this form.
Who was champion in the Eredivisie 2019/20? The answer was only available in the innovative studio broadcast format “Predictions Eredivisie” on Sportdigital FUSSBALL!
