In December 2019, Arsenal midfielder Mesut Özil was completely removed from the Mandarin version of eFootball PES 2020 in China following a tweet from Özil, himself a Muslim of Turkish descent, that characterized the Xinjiang re-education camps as a “crackdown” on Uyghurs. Due to PES Productions focusing development efforts on eFootball 2022 for the ninth generation consoles, the game was based on the eFootball PES 2020 engine. On 15 July 2020, it was announced that eFootball PES 2021 Season Update would be released in celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary. Özil was later added during the 2022 April update. Umbro went all out for Ajax’s swansong season at the historic De Meer stadium.