The 2026 Call of Duty League season will be the seventh season of the Call of Duty League, an esports league based on the video game franchise Call of Duty.
Teams Team Location Joined Owner Boston Breach Boston, MA 2022 Kraft Sports Group Carolina Royal Ravens Charlotte, NC 2020 ReKTGlobal, Inc. Cloud9 New York New York City, NY 2020 Cloud9 FaZe Vegas Las Vegas, NV 2020 Atlanta Esports Ventures, FaZe Clan G2 Minnesota Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN 2020 G2 Esports Los Angeles Thieves Los Angeles, CA 2021 100 Thieves Miami Heretics Miami, FL 2020 Misfits Gaming, Team Heretics OpTic Texas Dallas, TX 2020 OpTic Gaming Paris Gentle Mates Paris 2020 Riyadh Falcons Riyadh 2020 Team Falcons Toronto KOI Toronto, ON 2020 OverActive Media, Movistar KOI Vancouver Surge Vancouver, BC 2020 Canucks Sports & Entertainment, Enthusiast Gaming
Regular season The 2026 CDL season will begin on December 5, 2025. Teams will compete in four Majors throughout the season, culminating in the Call of Duty Championship tournament. This season the four majors are split between the United States and Europe and will be held in the cities of Dallas, Birmingham in the United Kingdom, Atlanta and Paris respectively.
Standings
Major 1 Major 1 online qualifiers began on December 5, 2025, and ended on January 25, 2026. The Major was hosted by OpTic Texas in Dallas, United States. The champions were the Paris Gentle Mates, who defeated OpTic Texas 4-3.
Online qualifiers Pos Team Overall Series Overall Games Qualification 1 Paris Gentle Mates 5–2 18–11 Winners Round 1 Seed 2 FaZe Vegas 5–2 16–10 3 Riyadh Falcons 5–2 16–12 4 Carolina Royal Ravens 5–2 16–13 5 Los Angeles Thieves 4–3 14–13 6 OpTic Texas 4–3 14–13 7 G2 Minnesota 3–4 16–15 8 Toronto KOI 3–4 14–14 9 Miami Heretics 3–4 15–15 Losers Round 1 Seed 10 Boston Breach 3–4 15–17 11 Vancouver Surge 1–6 13–18 12 Cloud9 New York 1–6 4–20
Major
Major 2 Major 2 online qualifiers began on February 13, 2026, and ended on March 22, 2026. Only 10 teams attended the LAN event. The top 6 teams automatically qualified to the main bracket, teams 7 to 10 played a single elimination match to determine the 2 remaining teams that played in the bracket.
The champions were the FaZe Vegas, who defeated OpTic Texas 4-1.
Online qualifiers Pos Team Overall Series Overall Games Qualification 1 OpTic Texas 10–1 31–10 Main bracket 2 Miami Heretics 7–4 25–14 3 Los Angeles Thieves 7–4 26–17 4 Riyadh Falcons 6–5 24–18 5 FaZe Vegas 6–5 22–19 6 G2 Minnesota 6–5 20–20 7 Carolina Royal Ravens 6–5 20–20Play-in 8 Toronto KOI 5–6 18–19 9 Vancouver Surge 4–7 14–26 10 Paris Gentle Mates 4–7 21–25 11 Boston Breach 3–8 14–27 12 Cloud9 New York 2–9 11–31
Major
Play-in
Main bracket
Major 3 Major 3 online qualifiers began on April 17, 2026, and ended on May 10, 2026. This event was a Pro-Am and featured four challengers teams.
The champions were the Los Angeles Thieves, who defeated OpTic Texas 4-3.
Online qualifiers Pos Team Overall Series Overall Games 1 OpTic Texas 5–0 15–6 2 Toronto KOI 4–1 14–6 3 Los Angeles Thieves 3–2 12–8 4 FaZe Vegas 3–2 12–9 5 Riyadh Falcons 3–2 11–9 6 Paris Gentle Mates 3–2 11–10 7 Carolina Royal Ravens 2–3 11–12 8 G2 Minnesota 2–3 9–10 9 Vancouver Surge 2–3 8–11 10 Miami Heretics 2–3 8–12 11 Boston Breach 1–4 7–14 12 Cloud9 New York 0–5 4–15
Major Group stage Group AGroup B
Group CGroup D
Playoffs
Major 4 Major 4 online qualifiers began on May 29, 2026, and ended on June 21, 2026.
The champions were OpTic Texas, who defeated Los Angeles Thieves 4-3.
Online qualifiers Pos Team Overall Series Overall Games Qualification 1 Los Angeles Thieves 5–0 15–7 Winners Round 1 Seed 2 Riyadh Falcons 4–1 12–9 3 OpTic Texas 3–2 13–8 4 Paris Gentle Mates 3–2 11–7 5 FaZe Vegas 3–2 12–8 6 Boston Breach 3–2 12–10 7 G2 Minnesota 2–3 12–12 8 Carolina Royal Ravens 2–3 8–11 9 Miami Heretics 2–3 8–11 Losers Round 1 Seed 10 Toronto KOI 2–3 9–13 11 Vancouver Surge 1–4 5–12 12 Cloud9 New York 0–5 6–15
Major
Championships The 2025 Call of Duty League Championship took place at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas, United States from July 16 to 19.
Bracket
Grand final FaZe Vegas (host eSports CDL team) to compete against the 2025 CDL champions team OpTic Texas in best of 9 (first to 5) at 3:00 PM (15:00) venue time (PDT), translating to 6:00 PM (18:00) EDT, and 22:00 UTC, on Sunday, July 19, 2026, the timing is to avoid conflict with the 2026 FIFA World Cup final to occur 3 hours prior of Argentina/Spain.
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