Updated: Esports World Cup Paid Organizations $68.6 Million as Club Pool Reached

What the report says

Organizations took $68.6 million out of the 2026 Esports World Cup, and $30 million of it came from a single instrument that paid 24 of the 270 that won anything.That instrument is the Club Championship, the ranking the Esports Foundation runs across all 25 competitions at the event. AG.AL International won it for $7 million as the event closed Sunday. The pool is not a trophy: at $30 million it is 44% of everything organizations earned in Paris, so the order it imposes on them is a financial outcome and not only a sporting one.

Ranked by the money organizations actually collected, that order diverges from the earnings order across most of the paid field.The Esports Advocate combined the two streams — the $30 million Club Championship pool and the prize money each organization won across the 25 competitions that counted toward it — into a single earnings table. The top 26, extended by one row because four organizations tie at $600,000: Organization Club pool Game prizes Total AG.AL International $7,000,000 $1,224,000 $8,224,000 Team Falcons $5,000,000 $2,093,500 $7,093,500 Team Vitality $4,000,000 $1,104,500 $5,104,500 Natus Vincere $3,000,000 $760,500 $3,760,500 Team Spirit $1,275,000 $1,702,000 $2,977,000 Team Liquid $2,000,000 $976,500 $2,976,500 Virtus.pro $1,275,000 $1,144,250 $2,419,250 Aurora Gaming $950,000 $789,000 $1,739,000 Twisted Minds $800,000 $533,500 $1,333,500 100 Thieves $475,000 $820,000 $1,295,000 FaZe Clan $308,333 $865,000 $1,173,333 T1 $650,000 $511,500 $1,161,500 ZETA DIVISION $475,000 $642,000 $1,117,000 Team Vision $550,000 $480,500 $1,030,500 Nongshim RedForce $400,000 $593,000 $993,000 FURIA $212,500 $603,500 $816,000 G2 Esports $308,333 $495,000 $803,333 PARIVISION — $770,000 $770,000 BaiSha Gaming — $750,000 $750,000 Karmine Corp $212,500 $455,000 $667,500 Geekay Esports — $663,000 $663,000 BIG $308,333 $312,500 $620,833 UNLIMIT — $600,000 $600,000 Dplus — $600,000 $600,000 Kuaishou Gaming — $600,000 $600,000 OpTic Gaming — $600,000 $600,000 The prize figures were compiled from the published placement tables for all 25 counting competitions and checked against the prize splits in the EWC 2026 Global Rulebook.

Each of the 23 competitions for which the rulebook publishes a split reconciles to the dollar. Regional and secondary rosters listed separately have been consolidated into their parent organizations, among them Bigetron by Vitality, Team Vitality’s wholly owned mobile division, leaving 270 organizations with prize money, 219 of which competed in at least one team competition. Co-branded entries fielded by two separate organizations are counted on their own, because their winnings are not a single organization’s. The remaining 51 appear only in the individual competitions, among them 13 football clubs whose only prize money at the event came from EA Sports FC.

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The Foundation has published no consolidated earnings table; this one is TEA’s construction rather than an official figure. Its own $75 million headline is a broader measure again, covering the MVP awards, the Jafonso Award and the qualifying circuit that fed the event, none of which are counted here.Six organizations in the top 25 collected nothing from the Club Championship.The reason is a minimum-success rule. “To be eligible for the Club Championship, a club needs to reach top 8 positions in at least two competitions,” the rulebook states, and 67 of the 103 organizations tracked for club points never cleared it.

Nine organizations won a competition outright and still finished outside the pool, never having recorded the second top-eight finish the rule requires.A second condition governs the title itself. To be eligible to win the Club Championship a club must also place first in at least one competition, and where the points leader has not, the rulebook moves “the highest ranked club with at least one first place result” up into first place. On the Foundation’s own ranking, 13 of the 103 clubs were eligible to win the championship at all. It did not bite this year, because AG.AL led on points and had won two competitions.

In a year where it did, a club could top the table and be displaced by one that finished below it.The nine were not unpaid. They took $5.06 million between them in game-championship prize money, almost all of it from the titles themselves. PARIVISION’s Dota 2 title paid $750,000 and BaiSha Gaming’s CROSSFIRE title the same.