All Gamers, Team Falcons and Team Spirit lead the EWC 2026 prize money rankings

With the end of the Esports World Cup, it is time to take a look at the statistics from the 2026 edition. The most important point, unsurprisingly, is the cash prizes collected by the participating clubs, amounts that obviously differ depending on the results but also on whether or not the club was part of the EWC Partner Program. Thus, unsurprisingly, it is All Gamers, winner of the Club Championship and its $7 million prize for topping the overall standings, that leaves Paris with the biggest check.

Sheep Esports, therefore, took the time to manually calculate which organizations walked away from EWC 2026 with the most prize money (some figures may contain minor errors as a result). It should be noted, however, that outside of the Club Championship, which probably ends up largely in the clubs' coffers, competition cash prizes generally contribute more to the players' finances. Since it is impossible to know exactly what was agreed in the contracts of each of the thousands of players competing at the EWC, this article simply counts the amounts won.

First in the Club Championship, All Gamers therefore walked away with $7 million, ahead of the $5 million earned by Team Falcons and the $4 million won by Team Vitality, who finished third in this Paris edition. If we add the cash prizes earned across the different games, 25 in total at the Esports World Cup 2026, the podium remains unchanged. It should obviously be noted that not all clubs in the competition competed in every game and that some of these games offered larger prize pools than others, with totals ranging from $500,000 on Trackmania and the MLBB Women's International to $3 million for Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile.

The Chinese organization therefore remains the club leaving with the biggest check, with more than $8.67 million in total, including $1.67 million from competition cash prizes alone. This result was notably helped by the $350,000 earned by Khawaja "M. Zubair" Muhammad Zubair for winning Tekken 8. In addition to this title, AG.AL secured three second-place finishes in Free Fire, Honor of Kings, and chess, earning $180,000, $360,000, and $190,000, respectively. The Chinese club ranks third among the organizations that earned the most cash prizes in competition.

Team Falcons made the biggest jump and, above all, earned the most cash prizes, a statistic that can be partly explained by the fact that the club had the most participants at this EWC, competing in 22 games, ahead of All Gamers with 18 and Team Vitality with 17. Falcons therefore earned just over $2 million, including $400,000 from Rocket League, $245,000 from chess, where two of its players faced each other in the third-place match, and $215,000 from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, where it also fielded two teams.

Finally, Team Spirit, which finished fifth overall and earned an additional $1.275 million, also ranks second in terms of competition cash prizes, despite the club being present in Paris in only six games, a figure that exceeds its Club Championship result. As winners of both Counter-Strike 2 and Mobile Legends tournaments, the Serbian-Russian organization earned $600,000 and $1 million, respectively, for a total of $1.702 million.

Respectively winners of Crossfire and Dota 2, BaiSha Gaming and PARIVISION are therefore technically very well placed in the Club Championship standings, but are not eligible for this money, as they did not reach the Top 8 in any other discipline. Even so, and with only the cash prizes from the two games, the Chinese and Serbian-Russian organizations each earned $750,000.

Last and second-to-last in the Club Championship, DRX and Spacestation Gaming earned nearly $125,000, thanks to the points collected by their rosters, with the South Korean club earning all of its points in fighting games, while Rocket League came to the rescue for the North American organization. There was therefore little to show for them outside of the overall standings, with SSG ranking 49th among the organizations that earned the most competition cash prizes, ahead of DRX in 52nd.

In addition to this calculation, Sheep Esports did not take into account the amounts received by the 40 organizations that are part of the Saudi organization's Partner Program, as these figures are not publicly known. According to information from sources close to Sheep Esports, the 40 clubs that are part of this program in 2026 will receive at least six-figure funding. The amount will depend on the club's social media influence and its ability to promote the competition and, by extension, Saudi Arabia to the public.