Esports match organiser ESL has unveiled its Counter-Strike 2 esports calendar for the ESL Professional Tour in 2028.
Over the course of the 12 months, the match organiser will function six Tier 1 occasions between January and November.
The six occasions confirmed all through 2028 will type a part of the ESL Professional Tour, the organiser’s devoted Counter-Strike 2 esports circuit.
Along with the confirmed occasions, ESL has additionally revealed that it could function further occasions in the course of the 12 months. Additional info on any new occasions might be introduced individually.
ESL CS2 2028 Occasions
Following ESL’s 2028 calendar announcement, the total checklist of dates for every occasion might be discovered beneath:
- Occasion 1 – January twenty sixth to February eighth
- Occasion 2 – March third to nineteenth
- Occasion 3 – April tenth to sixteenth
- Occasion 4 – August 2nd to thirteenth
- Occasion 5 – September sixteenth to October 1st
- Occasion 6 – October twenty third to twenty ninth
The match organiser has but to disclose the areas for the six occasions.
ESL is the primary occasion organiser to unveil its plans for 2028, adhering to Valve’s Event Operation Necessities. Tournaments going down after December thirty first, 2026, should be introduced “no less than 22 months” earlier than the match’s important occasion begins.
ESL’s Future Plans
All through 2025, ESL has continued to unveil its plans for numerous CS2 occasions going down over the following few years.
In August, it was revealed that IEM Cologne 2026 will host the primary Main of the 2026 season, marking ten years since a Counter-Strike Main happened on the Lanxess Enviornment.
Later within the month, it introduced that Katowice, Poland, would host the ESL Professional League Season 24 Finals in 2026. The occasion is the primary time the Professional League has taken place in a large-scale venue since ESL Professional League Season 10, which happened on the Jyske Financial institution Enviornment in Odense, Denmark.
