ESL One Birmingham 2026 invited teams have been announced

Team Yandex, Team Spirit, PARIVISION, Xtreme Gaming, OG, and Tundra Esports received direct invites to ESL One Birmingham 2026, as they showed the best results at DreamLeague Season 27 and took the top spots in the ESL Pro Tour Season 2025/2026 leaderboard.

In addition to the six invited teams, 10 more teams will compete in the championship after passing the qualifiers. One quota will be played in the qualifiers for Western and Eastern Europe, North and South America, as well as China and Southeast Asia. Later, the organizers will announce four more regional qualifiers, in which the remaining slots will be played for.

ESL One Birmingham 2026 will take place from 22.03.2026 to 29.03.2026. The main stage of the championship will take place from 27.03.2026 to 29.03.2026 at the BP Pulse Live arena in Birmingham, UK. Sixteen teams will compete for a prize pool of $1,000,000 and 35,460 EPT points. The top eight teams in the ESL Pro Tour rankings will receive a direct invitation to the Riyadh Masters 2026.

The previous ESL championship in Birmingham, ESL One Birmingham 2024, took place in April 2024 with 12 teams participating. Team Falcons won, defeating BetBoom Team 3-0.

As previously reported by CyberScore, the full schedule for DreamLeague Season 29 has been announced.