The 10 Biggest Counter-Strike Organizations of All Time

Counter-Strike has been around since 1999, and its competitive scene is almost as old. Over 27 years, a handful of organizations have grown so big that it’s hard to picture the game without them.

You see their names everywhere. They fill the biggest arenas, pull the most viewers and own a huge share of the sticker market. Browse any of the popular CS2 trading sites and search for stickers. Most of what you find carries one of these logos.

So who are the biggest Counter-Strike organizations, and how big are they really?

How we ranked the biggest Counter-Strike organizations

“Biggest” can mean a lot of things, so we kept it simple. This list ranks teams by total Counter-Strike prize money, based on Liquipedia’s all-time prize money table as of November 2026. Prize money doesn’t tell the whole story, but it rewards both long careers and wins at the biggest events.

Title counts below also come from Liquipedia and include first-place finishes at every tier.

1. Team Vitality

Total prize money: about $13.9 million

Vitality are the team of the modern era. The French organization only arrived in October 2018. Even so, it now sits at the top of the all-time money list. Vitality passed NAVI after winning ESL Pro League Season 24 in October 2026.

For its first few years, Vitality ran a mostly French roster built around ZywOo. In January 2022, the team went international with the arrival of dupreeh and Magisk. The trophies followed. Vitality won the Paris Major in 2023 and then back-to-back Majors in Austin and Budapest in 2025.

Their captain, apEX, is also the highest-earning player in Counter-Strike history.

2. Natus Vincere

Total prize money: about $13.7 million

Ask anyone to name a Counter-Strike team. NAVI will probably come up first. The Ukrainian organization formed in December 2009 around markeloff, Zeus, Edward, starix and ceh9. Within a year, it had won both ESWC and the World Cyber Games.

In CS:GO, the spotlight moved to GuardiaN and then to s1mple, often called the best player ever. With s1mple, NAVI won the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 without dropping a single map. A rebuilt roster added a second Major in Copenhagen in 2024.

NAVI held the top spot on the money list for four years before Vitality passed them. With 60 titles, they still have far more trophies than Vitality.

3. Astralis

Total prize money: about $11.7 million

No team has a more decorated peak. Astralis formed in January 2016 around Denmark’s best players and won its first Major, ELEAGUE Atlanta, a year later.

Then came the run that defined an era. Astralis won FACEIT London 2018, IEM Katowice 2019 and StarLadder Berlin 2019. Nobody else has won three Majors in a row, and nobody has matched their four Major titles. The team also held the number one spot on HLTV’s ranking for 406 consecutive days, a record that still stands.

4. FaZe Clan

Total prize money: about $10.4 million

FaZe started out in 2010 as a YouTube group known for Call of Duty trickshots. Its Counter-Strike team arrived in January 2016, and it quickly became known for star-studded international rosters.

That approach finally paid off at PGL Major Antwerp 2022. FaZe won the trophy with karrigan, rain, Twistzz, broky and ropz, five players from five different countries. FaZe is also the last team on this list to pass $10 million in prize money.

5. MOUZ

Total prize money: about $8.8 million

MOUZ, formerly mousesports, has been around since 2002. Few organizations have stayed relevant for that long. MOUZ won back-to-back ESL Pro League titles across 2023 and 2024, then added PGL Cluj-Napoca in 2025.

The one thing missing is a Major. MOUZ have come close plenty of times. Many fans think the current roster can finally get it done.

6. G2 Esports

Total prize money: about $8.2 million

G2 has always collected stars. kennyS, shox, NiKo and m0NESY are just a few of the big names that have played under the samurai logo. That star power made G2 one of the most popular teams in the world.

Surprisingly, G2 has only 19 titles, far fewer than most teams here. Its wins have come at big, well-paid events, though, which explains the high prize money. Like MOUZ, G2 is still chasing its first Major.

7. Team Spirit

Total prize money: about $7.8 million

Spirit is the newest powerhouse on the list. The Russian team won the Perfect World Shanghai Major in 2024, led by teenage superstar donk.

Spirit has kept winning since then, including PGL Astana in May 2026. With donk still young, the team is likely to climb higher on this list.

8. Team Liquid

Total prize money: about $7.0 million

Liquid is the most successful North American organization in Counter-Strike. It entered CS:GO in 2015 and slowly built the team North America believed in most at international events.

The peak came in 2019. Liquid won four big ESL and DreamHack events in a row. That earned them the Intel Grand Slam in a record 63 days. Only Astralis had won the Grand Slam before them.

9. Fnatic

Total prize money: about $6.4 million

Fnatic has more titles than anyone on this list, with 110 first places. The British organization already ruled 2009. That year, f0rest helped it set a record as the highest-earning team in Counter-Strike.

In CS:GO, Fnatic became the first team to win three Majors. It took DreamHack Winter 2013, then ESL One Katowice and ESL One Cologne in 2015. That Swedish roster with olofmeister, JW, flusha, KRIMZ and pronax was the main rival of NiP for years.

10. Virtus.pro

Total prize money: about $6.0 million

Virtus.pro dates back to 2003, but most fans remember its Polish roster from the early CS:GO years. With TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, Snax and byali, VP won EMS One Katowice 2014 in front of a home crowd.

That same roster ended NiP’s famous 87-0 map streak and later won ELEAGUE Season 1 in 2016. VP sits at 82 titles today.

Honourable mentions

Ninjas in Pyjamas: NiP just misses the top 10 on prize money, with about $4.5 million. Its legacy is still enormous. The early CS:GO roster won 87 LAN maps in a row between 2012 and 2013. That record will probably never fall. NiP also won ESL One Cologne 2014 and has 100 titles.

Team Falcons: The reigning Major champions. Falcons swept FURIA 3-0 in the IEM Cologne Major 2026 final, which gave NiKo his first Major.

Cloud9: Cloud9 won the ELEAGUE Major Boston in 2018, still the only Major won by a North American team.

Who will be next?

The top of this list changes fast. Vitality only took first place in October, and Spirit has climbed into the top 10 in just a few years. The PGL Major Singapore later this month offers $1.25 million. The order could shift again before 2026 is over.