The Esailing Team World Championship also known as the Esailing Nations' Cup is an annual esports competition, first held in 2020 and officially recognised by World Sailing the main sports governing body.
Year Finals Location Winner 2nd 3rd Discipline Notes 2020 Virtual - Team Fleet Racing 2021 Virtual 2022 Virtual 2023 Virtual 2024 Virtual 2025 Virtual Teams are composed by National sailing federation and must contains male and female players, as well as at least one U21 player.
Nations Cup 2020 Participating teams 13 teams participated in the 2020 nations cup. A fleet seeding round allowed to populate a bracket tournament which ran over the months of September to November 2020.
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winning team: Great Britain Name
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Nations Cup 2021 Participating teams 15 teams participated in the 2021 nations cup. A fleet seeding round allowed to populate a bracket tournament which ran over the months of September to November 2021.
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Winning team: France Name
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Nations Cup 2022 Participating teams 15 teams participated in the 2022 nations cup. Teams have been first been split in 4 Groups of 4 for a Round Robin phase. Each first and second of each group qualified to populate a bracket tournament that ran over the month of November & December 2022.
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Winning team: France Name
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Nations Cup 2023 Participating teams 8 teams have been participating in the 2023 nations cup. Teams have been first been split in 2 Groups of 4 for a Round Robin phase.
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First and second of each group then seeded a bracket tournament that ran in December 2023, with the final taking place on 17th of December.
and qualified from group A.
and from group B.
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Winning team: Italia Name
Nations Cup 2024 Participating teams 7 teams have been participating in the 2024 nations cup. Teams have first meet in a round Robin phase.
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The round robin results of the teams allowed to seed the nation's cup knockout table. Quarter finals were held in December 2025 while semi were held in January 2025 with bronze finale and finale taking place on 25 and 26th of January 2025. Championship final table
Winning team: France
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Nations Cup 2025 Participating teams 8 teams are participating in the 2025 nations cup. Teams have first been split in 2 Groups of 4 for a Round Robin phase.
Group A : 11 pts 10 pts 5 pts 4 pts
Group B : 11 pts 10 pts 5 pts 4 pts
The round robin were run in December 2025. and results allowed to seed the full nations cup knockout table.
The knockout table games has been run over the month of January 2026 and grand final held on 1 February 2026 with Japan winning its first nations's cup.
Championship final table
Winning team: Japan
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