Vitality Takes Top Counter-Strike Earnings Spot From NAVI

Team Vitality has overtaken Natus Vincere in Counter-Strike’s all-time recorded earnings after winning ESL Pro League Season 24. Vitality’s total reached $13,886,593, putting it $204,133 ahead of NAVI and ending NAVI’s four-year run at the top of the ranking.

Astralis ranks third with $11,712,259, followed by FaZe Clan with $10,440,259 and MOUZ with $8,750,374. Vitality’s lead over NAVI is about 1.5%.

The ranking measures recorded competition earnings. It includes player prize money and, in some cases, club rewards and circuit bonuses. It does not measure revenue, profit, sponsorship income or total business value.

Vitality entered Counter-Strike in October 2018, while NAVI began competing in the game in 2009. Vitality had about $9.57 million in recorded Counter-Strike earnings at the end of 2025 and reached $10,223,593 after PGL Cluj-Napoca in February 2026. It added more than $3.66 million before winning ESL Pro League Season 24.

Vitality earned about $3.93 million in 2025 from tournament prizes, the ESL Grand Slam and BLAST’s Frequent Flyers Program. The team won nine international tournaments that year, including the Austin and Budapest Majors. Each Major paid $500,000 to the champion. More than half of Vitality’s current recorded earnings came in 2025 and 2026, based on published figures and estimates.

ESL Pro League Season 24 had a combined prize and club-reward pool of $1 million. Players received $300,000 across the event, while organizations received $700,000. Vitality’s first-place allocation included $125,000 for its players and $170,000 for the organization.

Vitality’s recent total also includes $1 million from the ESL Grand Slam and $1 million from BLAST’s Frequent Flyers Program in 2025. Those payments were separate from standard tournament prize money.

NAVI has 56 recorded tournament titles, compared with 41 for Vitality. MOUZ has won 72 tournaments but ranks fifth in earnings. The results reflect different prize levels across events, with Majors and other major international competitions paying more than smaller tournaments.

Prize pools were smaller during NAVI’s early years. The 2010 World Cyber Games offered $40,000, IEM Season IV paid $100,000 and the first CS:GO Majors in 2013 offered $250,000. Major prize pools rose to $1 million in 2016 and reached $1.25 million by 2025.

Counter-Strike tournaments awarded more than $32.2 million in 2025, up 41.5% from 2024. The ranking uses nominal amounts, so earnings from earlier years and current earnings are counted without an inflation adjustment.

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