RenderZ is what happens when obsessive football fandom, a deep love for EA Sports FC (back then just “FIFA”), intensely competitive DNA, and some programming knowledge all crash together to catalyze something new and awesome.
In 2017, Founder and CTO of RenderZ ApS, Sebastiaan Dirks, was playing FIFA every single day. He was a young computer scientist in the Netherlands at the time (one of his first working pieces of code was a Minecraft server plugin), and after classes every day he would boot-up FIFA Mobile to try to create the best possible team. Of course, as all game players know, it’s not ONLY about dexterity and reflexes within the game, but also about making optimal decisions when selecting players and building your team. With tens of thousands of footballers to choose from, there was too much data and not enough information, and no great or useful tools to close the gap.
As the Christmas holidays approached in 2017, Sebastiaan decided to solve this problem. He wanted to build a tool for himself, and maybe also share it with the world. Fortunately for our FIFA/EAFC Mobile community, that worked out well! On 22 December 2017, Sebastiaan made a hot chocolate late in the night, slowly devoured a home-made — and spectacular — spaghetti bolognese, and started building RenderZ in his bedroom. He didn’t sleep for 9 days, but did take some breaks to play FIFA! Then, on the 1st of January 2018 at 06:37 while the sun was rising over the Dutch horizon, RenderZ was born. Its genesis was a searchable player database with basic stats, and has evolved massively since then — as we continue to see with regular updates.
Sebastiaan continued building RenderZ on his own while studying for his Bachelor of Computer Science degree at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, through his internships at Payaut B.V., and continuing through his employment with Amazon as a Software Development Engineer. The RenderZ community grew rapidly, and then exponentially. RenderZ has become the world’s #1 FC Mobile player database website, online community and so much more! Community members are able to look up all players included in the game, view their stats, as well as upgrade those players based on the in-game mechanics. Players can be compared and community members are able to build and share teams on the Squadbuilder.
The website and apps are used by more than 175,000 users daily and more than 5 million unique users each EA FC Mobile iteration. Today, RenderZ equips community members with the resources needed to strategize, optimize, and enjoy FC Mobile like never before through its extensive database with more than 30,000 searchable football players from various leagues worldwide. This was achieved while Sebastiaan was working part-time, and he wanted to be fully-dedicated to his hobby.
In March 2023, he agreed to a partnership with Victor Folmann which brought more staffing, resources and investment to RenderZ. These changes allowed Sebastiaan to build a medium-sized product & engineering team. Long-time community members will have seen all the positive growth since then. RenderZ now has a stellar team of football fanatics all working together to create great community experiences. Sebastiaan and Rasmus run Product & Technology. Victor runs business development. Other advisors/stakeholders like Marinus Elgaard, Oliver Grønne, Nikolaj Nyholm, Jason, Ben, Simon, Leif, Christian, Jonas, & Jeffrey Haas help with strategy, goalkeeping and maintaining the pitch.
As for our worldwide community: THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! YOU ARE AWESOME.