PGL Cluj-Napoca lineup announced; Stacked event a major success for PGL

Darragh Harbinson, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 13/01/2026

PGL have announced a stacked lineup for their PGL Cluj-Napoca event, marking a major coup for the Tournament Organiser (TO).

The TO had struggled to attract the top teams to their events in 2025, but 14 of the top 16 teams will attend PGL Cluj-Napoca, with only Spirit (#4) and Liquid (#13) missing from the event.

Heroic and paiN benefit from their absence, taking the remaining two spots as the 17th and 18th teams in the current VRS snapshot.

PGL Cluj-Napoca full team-list:

• Furia
• Vitality
• Falcons
• Natus Vincere
• Mouz
• FaZe
• The MongolZ
• Aurora
• B8
• Legacy
• G2
• 3DMAX
• Astralis
• Parivision
• Heroic
• paiN

PGL Cluj-Napoca’s lineup a major coup

The strength of the lineup at the event is a significant moment for PGL, which struggled to draw the top teams in 2025.

Last year’s event captured only five of the top 10 teams, with Falcons, FaZe, Eternal Fire, The MongolZ, and Mouz in attendance.

But Cluj-Napoca was one of the better-attended PGL events, with PGL Bucharest also attracting five of the top 10, Astana attracting only four, and PGL Masters Bucharest garnering only two – Aurora and 3DMAX.

In this instance, attracting nine of the top 10, and 14 of the top 16, PGL will have cause to celebrate but cannot be complacent, as the year ahead looks deeply challenging for the TO.

The event largely benefits from having space in the calendar, as the only Tier 1 even in February following the conclusion of IEM Krakow.

That benefit will not exist going forward, as PGL have struggled with significant clashes with ESL.

Those clashes have already led to PGL replacing PGL Belgrade with PGL Masters Bucharest due to clashes with IEM China, meaning Serbian fans were deprived of an arena event two years in succession.

PGL have also cancelled an early-October LAN entirely, due to clashes with ESL Pro League 24.

While PGL will end the year with PGL Singapore, the overall picture has been that their circuit has struggled to attract the top teams, making this lineup a major coup for the Tournament Organiser.

Darragh Harbinson, Senior Editor

Darragh Harbinson is an esports writer specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports News UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.

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