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EA Sports developers are currently busy working on the next edition of the brand's FIFA series as they look to follow up FIFA 19 with an even better football video game experience.

When it arrives this year, FIFA 20 will be the 27th instalment of the best-selling game, which first hit the shelves back in 1993 as FIFA International Soccer, and the anticipation is already building.

Details will be trickling out in the coming months and, in the meantime, Goal takes a look at everything we know about FIFA 20 so far.

Who will be FIFA 20 cover star?

My prediction is that Messi is one of them.

Will Messi, which continues to make history in Barcelona, be on the cover of FIFA 20? FIFAplay is one of FIFA's most popular fan sites. Through a survey of about 1 million people, the stars that players hope to see in FIFA 20 are identified.

Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo, Salah, De Bruin and more stars in the survey, first place, FIFA 19, Ronaldo was removed from the cover. Next up is Ron Heo-min's 17 million votes, which is the South Korean star Tottenham Hotspur's Ronaldo, with 170,000. Messi won the third place with 161,000 votes.  Data Sources : https://www.haberturk.com/fifa-20-nin-kapak-yildizi-kim-olacak-2400778-teknoloji

Will FIFA 20 be a subscription service?

At the moment, the FIFA series is not a subscription service and gamers must purchase the game either in disc form or as a download.

However, there has been plenty of talk in recent years that EA Sports could turn to such a model. EA's CEO Andrew Wilson admitted in a 2017 interview with Bloomberg that he expected the video games industry to follow in the footsteps of music and television, though he acknowledged that it may take a while to implement.

"The greatest disruptor to the consumption of entertainment media in the last five years has been the combination of streaming plus subscription," Wilson said.

"It's changed the way we watch television. It's changed the way we listen to music. It's changed the way I read books. The notion that it wouldn't impact our industry I think is naive.

"Will it take a little bit longer? Yes, for a whole bunch of reasons: file size, level of interactivity, design.

"But I do believe it will play an important part in our world in the future, the same way it does in music, movies, TV and books."

Those musings suggest that it is just a matter of when and not if FIFA will become a subscription service, similar to the likes of Spotify and Netflix. That said, it would appear unlikely that FIFA 20 will be available through subscription.

When is FIFA 20 released?

A release date has yet to be announced, but EA Sports traditionally go with a date at the end of September, which allows plenty of time for promotion in the run up to Christmas.

Last year, FIFA 19 was released on September 28, while FIFA 18 was released on September 29 in 2017, so the 2019 release date of FIFA 20 is expected to fall on a similar date.

If we take the last Friday of September as the traditional release date, FIFA 20 will released on September 27 this year in shops and as a digital download.

Official confirmation of the release date will probably happen at some point in June, perhaps at the 2019 EA Play event which takes place from June 7 until June 9 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.

This is the end of today's news, and everyone must be looking forward to the arrival of FIFA 20.