Santos F.C. has added a League of Legends team to its esports roster.

The team will seek to qualify for the 2019 Challenger Circuit, and eventually earn a spot in Brazil’s professional league.

Earlier this year, Santos ended it’s three-year partnership with esports organization Dexterity Team to start its own esports branch.

Santos F.C., a top Brazilian soccer club, has expanded its esports branch to include a League of Legends team. The LoL squad will be added to Santos’ existing esports roster, which includes Pro Evolution Soccer world champion Guilherme “GuiFera01” Fonseca and an all-women Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team.

With its new LoL team, Santos e-Sports will look to qualify for the 2019 Challenger Circuit, Brazil’s semi-pro league which feeds into the region’s professional league, CBLoL.

Santos began its esports venture in 2015 as a title sponsor of Dexterity Team, which then rebranded to Santos Dexterity. The partnership ended in March 2018, when Santos launched its own esports brand with the help of esports management company Select e-Sports Management.

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The Brazilian club has taken a somewhat unique approach to its esports strategy, with some influence from other clubs’ entries into the industry. Paris Saint-Germain took a similar approach by becoming the title sponsor of LGD Gaming’s Dota 2 squad, but the French organization already operated its own esports division.

Rather than start in esports with a FIFA player like many European clubs or jump straight into the top tier of professional competition like FC Schalke 04 did with its League of Legends investment, Santos took a more measured, careful approach—learning about the industry through its partnership with an existing organization before launching its own initiatives.