IEM Krakow invites announced

Through a post on X, ESL has announced the invitations handed out for the upcoming IEM Krakow 2026. ESL's IEM Katowice event now shifts to Krakow, Poland, making it the first ESL Pro Tour event in the country. The invites were sent out based on yesterday's Valve Regional Standings update.

The MongolZ are the only Asian team at the event and they have bagged a direct Stage 2 invite thanks to their top eight position in the Global VRS. Alongside The MongolZ are Vitality, FURIA, Falcons, Spirit, NAVI, MOUZ and FaZe in Stage 2. IEM Krakow will begin in the last week of January on 28th and will conclude on 8th February 2026.

s1mple is set to take stage for his first S-tier event with BC.Game after the organization acquired the core of SAW. BC.Game will start will start in stage 1 which hosts a double-elimination bracket to send the upper half to the next stage. Here are all the teams taking part in IEM Krakow 2026: