eFootball season Update Maintenance announced: All Details

Konami has officially announced the large-scale in-game maintenance ahead of the release of the next version, v5.5.0, in the upcoming days. eFootball 2025 is heading towards its end as the community now awaits the release of its new version this week. Konami has revealed some important instructions and updates ahead of the release of its new version. The company has officially announced the items and content that can no longer be utilised as soon as the maintenance turns live.

With more than 100 million downloads across the Play Store and App Store, eFootball is already one of the giants in the football simulation genre. eFootball recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special in-game campaign. The game also gave the users free Epic cards and coins during its anniversary celebrations. As eFootball 2025 nears its end on August 13th, users remain optimistic of receiving a better in-game experience in the next iteration of the game, which is eFootball 2026.

eFootball season Update Maintenance announced

Konami announced the upcoming maintenance period through in-game notification. Just following the daily reset, on August 11th, 2025, Konami posted an official in-game update to inform the users about the time of maintenance and the availability of various items and content in the game. One of the trusted news sources in the eFootball community, @Efootball__PES, took to his official X(formerly Twitter) to post Konami's notification.

@Efootball__PES, posted the information on August 11th, 2025, at 1:17 AM UTC. The post revealed the schedule of the official maintenance period. The game shall not open during the maintenance period between 13th August 2025, 15:30 UTC, to 14th August 2025, 13:30 UTC. The announcement also included the set of items and in-game content that the users won't be able to use once the maintenance starts. These in-game items are as follows:

• Match Pass
• eFootball™ League
• Special Player List
• Highlight: 30th Anniversary Elites
• Player Of The Month: Brazilian League
• Player Of The Month: J.LEAGUE
• National Team Selection: Worldwide Jun '25
• Packs
• Belgium '25
• P. Kluivert 2025
• Themed Event
• Objective

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Community Reaction to eFootball Season Update Maintenance

The announcement has brought in new excitement to the eFootball community. A user, @irfandaniaal, appreciated the fact that the maintenance time is being restricted to only one day. Earlier, Konami used to take more than a week to launch a new version of its game.

Some users queried about the region-specific changes, like @jo_seph_AJ wrote.

One user, @wareezzz, queried about the timings of launch in Nigeria.