Chinese esports organisation EDG and Lyon have officially confirmed on Weibo that they have joined forces to form a FIFA Online 3 team.

The roster has added three players on top of Lyon's existing four man roster for the mobile football game. The roster will compete at tournament called the Tencent FSL professional league on November 4.

Lyon have since updated their logo and changed their name on Weibo to 'Lyon EDG E-Sports Club' as they look to tap into the Chinese market.

Edward Gaming have announced they are partnering with European football club, Lyon

As reported, both organisations took to Chinese social media website, Weibo, to make similar teases about the upcoming announcements. Lyon said they were going to partner with a gaming team and EDG revealed they would partner with a European football team.

Both announcements used GIFs scrolling through the badges of different clubs and both graphics featured EDG and Lyon.

In their announcement, EDG said: 'Tomorrow, we will announce a partnership with a giant international football club to build a cross-border super team.'

Lyon also used the phrase 'cross-border super team' in their announcement: 'Lyon, France, is committed to pioneering and innovative football club will be announced tomorrow and a well-known gaming clubs work together to create a cross-border super team, this will be a combination of exciting traditional sports and electronic games.'

EDG have had CS:GO and Hearthstone players in the past but by far their most successful is their League of Legends team who are five-time LPL champions and recently competed at the LoL Word Championships in China.

However, EDG had already confirmed that this partnership will not involve their LoL squad. The most likely option was a FIFA team or more specifically, FIFA Online 3 which ended up being the case.

Lyon already had a Chinese esports team in FIFA Online 3 and have now added more pros

FIFA Online 3 is a mobile version of FIFA available in China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore.

Lyon already have an esports division with FIFA 18 player Fouad 'Rafsou' Fares who participated in the FIFA Interactive World Cup earlier this year. On top of that they also had a team in FIFA Online 3.

The French club became the first first foreign football club to participate in esports in China earlier this year when they signed the team made of of four Chinese players: Sun Jiangfeng, Song Di, Xu Qingmu and Feng Rui, the latter of whom also works at the team's manager.

Now three extra players have been added the newly named squad. The team is already established amongst Chinese fans and makes perfect sense for them to connect with EDG who have more experience of the scene.