SkinLords CS2 Esports Which CS2 Teams Have Won The Major: Every CS:GO and CS2 Major Champion

Which CS2 Teams Have Won The Major: Every CS:GO and CS2 Major Champion

Every single year since 2013, the Counter-Strike Major has been the most anticipated and most highly coveted tournament on the professional calendar. Officially referred to as the Counter-Strike Major Championships, they’re the only tournaments sponsored by Valve itself, regardless of who the actual organizers are for said event.

Check out our blog to find more CS2 Major content and other CS2 Esports coverage:

CS2 Esports

Many teams and individuals have tried, and while many have also failed, some did just enough to make an indelible mark on the game’s history forever. Here are all the Major title winners from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to CS2.

DreamHack Winter 2013 – Fnatic

There was a time when Swedish Counter-Strike was the gold standard for really any FPS esports. Early (and dare we say prime) Fnatic was the prime example of this. They went undefeated and only dropped two maps from the opening stage to the Grand Final and became the inaugural Counter-Strike Major winners.

PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 - Natus Vincere

EMS One Katowice 2014 – Virtus.pro

The greatest Polish roster ever assembled was the “Virtus Plow” era of Virtus.pro during CS:GO’s infancy. Anchored by top-ten players of all time in every role, VP dominated in Katowice and only lost a single map in the semifinals in what was an otherwise flawless run to the organization’s first Major title.

ESL One Cologne 2014 – Ninjas in Pyjamas

After nearly a year and two Majors of finishing in second place, Ninjas in Pyjamas finally broke the curse and took down Fnatic in one of the best Major Grand Final matches of all time.

The Major victory they’d long waited for was finally theirs, and the immediate aftermath of their run produced one of the most iconic and emotional photographs in Major history, showing legend Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund on the floor next to the Cologne trophy.

DreamHack Winter 2014 – LDLC

The tournament that gave us a glimpse into the rise of French Counter-Strike, DreamHack Winter 2014, is really remembered less for the Grand Final and more for the now-infamous “olofboost” done by Fnatic’s Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer Gustafsson against eventual champions LDLC.

If the result were allowed to stand, Counter-Strike history would look a whole lot different.

ESL One Katowice 2015 – Fnatic

The second Major trophy for Fnatic came at ESL One Katowice 2015, again at the expense of fellow Swedes Ninjas in Pyjamas. This Major marked the fifth consecutive Grand Final appearance for NIP, and until today, they’ve never been back on the big stage.

ESL One Cologne 2015 – Fnatic

This was the event that truly cemented Fnatic’s place in Counter-Strike history. They became the first team to secure back-to-back Major titles and three Majors overall as an organization. No one knew it at the time, but the ESL One Cologne Major in 2015 was the end of Swedish domination in CS, as a full-Swedish lineup has never won another Major since.

DreamHack Open Cluj⁠-⁠Napoca 2015 – EnVyUs

Fnatic were unable to make it a perfect run in 2015 after EnVyUs knocked them out in the quarterfinals before becoming only the second French team to ever pick up their first Major title.

Part of the iconic EnVyUs lineup from that event were Dan “apEX” Madesclaire, who is still an active player and a four-time Major winner, and Kenny “kennyS” Schrub, who is widely regarded as the greatest AWPer of all time.

MLG Columbus 2016 – Luminosity

MLG Columbus 2016 is one of the greatest Counter-Strike Majors of all time, from the first day of competition up until the Grand Final, but the one match that no one has ever forgotten came in the semifinal of the event.

Down 9-15 on Mirage against Team Liquid, Marcelo “coldzera” David stunned the entire arena with a jumping AWP noscope double kill towards B Apartments. That exact play reignited Luminosity’s game completely, and if it never happened, they’d likely never have won the Major title.

The play is now immortalized forever as a graffiti on Mirage, which coldzera himself also had tattooed.

ESL One Cologne 2016 – SK Gaming

New organization, same roster, same result. The five-stack that was once under Luminosity continued their unparalleled success in the second Major of 2016 with yet another victory, putting all of them just one shy of equaling Fnatic’s record for the most Major titles of all time.

ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017 – Astralis

If Ninjas in Pyjamas had a second-place curse in the early Majors, Astralis had a semifinal curse of their own across most tournaments on the calendar. That all went away in 2017 after they took down Virtus.pro in one of the greatest Major Grand Final matches ever.

PGL Major Kraków 2017 – Gambit

Most of the heavy favorites, including reigning champions Astralis, were knocked out early in Kraków as the world got to witness two complete underdogs in every sense of the word battle it out in the Grand Final.

Gambit entered the competition as one of the participating teams that, while strong, didn’t look Major-quality entirely. They went home from Kraków with a newfound team status as and a chapter in the book of Counter-Strike all to themselves.

ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018 – Cloud9

Depending on who you ask, the Grand Final of the ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018 would be the single greatest match ever played. Group stage demons and international team superstars FaZe Clan took on local heroes Cloud9 in a battle that would’ve changed the lives of any of the ten players on the server.

The final result? Well, FaZe Clan blew a 15-11 lead in the 2018 Boston Major to Cloud9, giving NA its first and only Major in CS:GO history.

FACEIT Major London 2018 – Astralis

This Major marked the start of the greatest dynasty in Counter-Strike history. Astralis earned their second Major trophy with a core lineup that would end up being the golden standard for what a dominant force in the professional scene looks like.

Astralis joined Fnatic with their second Major title as the most successful organizations in the game’s history (not counting Luminosity/SK due to team switching).

IEM Katowice 2019 – Astralis

Astralis took home their second consecutive Major title and third overall at IEM Katowice 2019, completely dominating ENCE in the Grand Final and spoiling their hopes of a successful Cinderella run in the process.

StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 – Astralis

The StarLadder Major in Berlin was the event that truly cemented Astralis’ status in Counter-Strike history as the greatest team and greatest lineup of all time.

Apart from a wild quarterfinal match against Team Liquid, which many consider to be the unofficial Grand Final of the prestigious tournament, Astralis barely had any trouble dispatching of the teams they faced.

The StarLadder Major was their third in a row and fourth overall, which put them clear of the record they once shared with Fnatic. As of 2026, no other team has been able to replicate such a feat.

PGL Major Stockholm 2021 – Natus Vincere

The king of CS:GO finally earned his crown on November 7, 2021. Natus Vincere, behind the greatness of Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, captured their first Major title with an undefeated run from the Legends Stage to the Playoff Stage without dropping a single map.

PGL Major Antwerp 2022 – FaZe Clan

In 2022, FaZe Clan finally proved that international teams could find success in such a challenging tournament format after securing their debut Major title. They denied Natus Vincere’s repeat bid and became the first international team to ever become Counter-Strike Major winners.

IEM Rio Major 2022 – Outsiders

The IEM Rio Major was historic and polarizing for a multitude of reasons as the first one ever held in South America, but it also became the first Major since Kraków to have a truly surprising champion.

The five-stack of Outsiders (formerly Virtus.pro before the Ukrainian-Russian war), led by Dzhami “Jame” Ali, swept Heroic in the Grand Final.

BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 – Team Vitality

The final Counter-Strike Major Championship of the Global Offensive era, the BLAST.tv Paris Major was fittingly won by some of their own.

Hometown heroes apEX and Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut took home the Major trophy on home soil, while former Astralis riflers Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen and Emil “Magisk” Reif added to their already-stacked trophy cabinets. The Paris Major was dupreeh’s fifth title, which put him one above his former Astralis teammates and cemented him as the greatest Major player ever.

PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 – Natus Vincere

The PGL Major Copenhagen featured a Grand Final rematch two years in the making, with some old and new faces. Natus Vincere and FaZe Clan went the distance, and this time it was NAVI who delivered the finishing touches on a spectacular campaign.

Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 – Team Spirit

The Perfect World Shanghai Major was truly historic as the first Major ever held in Asia, and with the eventual champions having one of the youngest cores ever. It was also the breakout tournament of one Danil “donk” Kryshkovets.

At the Shanghai Major, donk became the youngest Major MVP and Major champion of all time at just 17 years and 324 days old.

BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 – Team Vitality

A revamped lineup was all Vitality needed to regain its Major title after a year in the backseat. The Austin Major was apEX’s third in his whole career, putting him well clear above any other French player and equal to Fnatic’s three Majors.

StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 – Team Vitality

The undisputed best team in the world throughout all of 2025, Vitality did it again in Budapest for their second straight Major title and third overall, which is something that only Astralis has done before.

ZywOo won yet another HLTV MVP for his hard work, and apEX’s tally now equals everyone on the most dominant Astralis roster ever, with the exception of dupreeh.

Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major 2026 – Falcons

Where were you when Nikola “NiKo” Kovač stood alone in front of the rest of his team and lifted a Major title for the first time in his storied career?

The IEM Cologne Major 2026 will never be forgotten, and that’s a guarantee.