The 2025 edition of the Esports World Cup is underway with hundreds of teams from around the world competing.
This year’s event will feature a record-breaking $70 million (£52m) prize pool spread across 25 different esports tournaments.
The largest contributor is the $27m (£19.9m) Club Championship, which rewards the best-performing organisation across all EWC events.
This championship causes teams to further invest in esports, expanding into new genres like FPS, MOBAs, or even mobile games.
And, ultimately, it determines who is the best esports team in the world.
You can find out what events are taking place when with the Esports World Cup 2025 schedule.
Otherwise, here is everything you need to know about the EWC 2025 Club Championship.
What is the EWC Club Championship?
The Esports World Cup Club Championship is a way to reward teams for investing in multiple esports.
A leaderboard is determined by the organisations that record the most high-place finishes across multiple EWC events.
The top 24 organisations that rack up the most club points will be awarded prize money from the $27m (£19.9m) pool.
That is, as long as those teams meet the Club Championship participation and winning requirements:
To place on the leaderboard, teams will need to reach the top eight in at least two competitions.
And in addition to that, teams will need to place first in at least one EWC event to be crowned Club Championship winners.
One-trick-pony organisations will receive nothing, and a team finishing second in everything cannot win the Club Championship.
How to earn EWC Club Championship points?
The top eight teams from every event will be rewarded Club Championship points determined by their placement.
This year’s EWC Club Championship point distribution for most games is as follows:
- 1st place – 1,000 Club Points
- 2nd place – 750 Club Points
- 3rd place – 500 Club Points
- 4th place – 300 Club Points
- 5th-8th place – 200 Club Points
However, for Warzone, Free Fire, PUBG Mobile, PUBG, Apex Legends, and Rennsport, the point distributions will be:
- 1st place – 1,000 Club Points
- 2nd place – 750 Club Points
- 3rd place – 500 Club Points
- 4th place – 300 Club Points
- 5th place – 200 Club Points
- 6th place – 150 Club Points
- 7th place – 100 Club Points
- 8th place – 50 Club Points
Esports World Cup Club Championship prize distribution
The EWC Club Championship’s $27m (£19.9m) prize pool will be distributed across the 24 best-performing teams like so:
- 1st: $7M (£5.2m)
- 2nd: $4M (£2,9m)
- 3rd: $3M (£2.2m)
- 4th: $2,5M (£1.8m)
- 5th: $2M (£1.4m)
- 6th: $1,5M (£1.1m)
- 7th: $1M (£736k)
- 8th: $850,000 (£626k)
- 9th: $700,000 (£515k)
- 10th: $600,000 (£441k)
- 11th: $525,000 (£387k)
- 12th: $450,000 (£331k)
- 13th: $400,000 (£294k)
- 14th: $350,000 (£258k)
- 15th: $325,000 (£239k)
- 16th: $300,000 (£220k)
- 17th: $275,000 (£202k)
- 18th: $250,000 (£184k)
- 19th: $225,000 (£166k)
- 20th: $200,000 (£147k)
- 21st: $175,000 (£129k)
- 22nd: $150,000 (£110k)
- 23rd: $125,000 (£92k)
- 24th: $100,000 (£74k)
Who won the 2024 Esports World Cup Club Championship?
Last year, Team Falcons dominated the Esports World Cup Club Championship with double the points of any other team.
The Saudi Arabian organisation racked up 5665 Club Points after winning Warzone and Free Fire, and securing four second-place finishes.
Team Liquid were second with 2545 points and the Starcraft 2 title.
Team BDS, who are undergoing a major rebrand, came third with 2000 points with Rainbix Six Siege and Rocket League trophies.
And finally, Team Vitality came in fourth, narrowly beating T1, with 1650 points thanks to second-place finishes in Rennsport and MLBB.
Teams competing at the Esports World Cup
There are hundreds of esports organisations from all over the globe competing at the Esports World Cup 2025.
Of those teams, forty are part of the EWC Club Programme, which invested $20m (£14.7m) with up to $1m ($736k) per team.
The teams selected for this year’s programme (nineteen of whom are new) are:
- 100 Thieves
- AG.AL (All Gamers)
- Bilibili Gaming
- Cloud9
- EDward Gaming
- EVOS Esports
- FaZe Clan
- Fnatic
- FURIA
- G2 Esports
- Gaimin Gladiators
- Gen.G Esports
- Gentle Mates
- HEROIC
- JD Gaming
- Karmine Corp
- Leviatán
- LOUD
- MOUZ
- Natus Vincere (NAVI)
- Ninjas in Pyjamas (NIP.eStar)
- ONIC
- POWR
- REJECT
- Rex Regum Qeon (Team RRQ)
- S8UL Esports
- Sentinels
- T1
- Team BDS
- Team Falcons
- Team Liquid
- Team Secret
- Team Spirit
- Team Vitality
- Movistar KOI
- Twisted Minds
- Virtus.pro
- Weibo Gaming
- Wolves Esports
- ZETA DIVISION
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