Which Are the most Famous and best CSGO Teams?

The Counter Strike franchise has been around for over two decades, being one of the pioneering platforms in rewarding players for their tournament results, playing an important role in shaping what we know today as eSports.

As the game evolved, especially with its transition to Counter Strike: Global Operation (CS:GO) in 2012, so did the monetization factors and dedication to the game by teams, players, teams, coverage, and many others gaming platforms.

With this expansion, it is necessary to know better the main and best CSGO teams in the world and understand what their best results and members are, especially if you intend to place your bets on your favorite team, or on the one with the highest odds, at CSGO Captain.

So today we will be introducing you a little more about some of the most famous CS:GO teams

Natus Vincere (Na'vi) is a multi-gaming organization from Ukraine, being one of the top professional eSports teams, and also the first team in history to win three major tournaments in one year: the Intel Extreme Masters, Electronic Sports World Cup and the World Cyber Games.

The team was founded on December 18, 2009, after the collapse of the Ukrainian team KerchNET, the former players were supported by esports tournament organizer Murat "Arbalet" Tulemaganbetov.

The team is the current CS:GO world champion, and also the only organization to participate in every CS:GO Major, a total of thirteen times, and its team today consists of the following players:

Denis “electronic” Sharipov

Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov

Aleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev

Ilya “Perfecto” Zautskiy

Valeriy “B1T” Vakhoskiy

Its current coach is Andey “B1ad3” Gorodenskiy and their manager is Eugene “Ugin” Yerofeyev.

During the last decade, Natus Vincere has had an exemplary campaign, winning several titles throughout its career. Some of its main titles can be seen below:

Intel Extreme Masters 4, ESWC, World Cyber Games, DreamHack Winter 2010

Intel Extreme Masters 5, Intel Challenge Super Cup 7, Adepto BH Open 2011

IEM 6 Global Challenge Kiev

StarLadder StarSeries 9, Game Show League Season 1

Intel Extreme Masters 10 - San Jose, CS:GO Champions League Season 1, Electronic Sports World Cup (EWSC), StarLadder StarSeries 13, ESL Pro League I

DreamHack Open Leipzig, Counter Pit League Season 2 - Finals, ESL One: New York,

DreamHack Open Winter

ESL One: Cologne, CS:GO Asia Championships e StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 5

StarSeries & i-League CS:GO Season 7

Intel Extreme Masters XIV - World Championship

BLAST Premier: Global Final 2020

Intel Extreme Masters XVI - Cologne

ESL Pro League Season 14

PGL Major Stockholm 2021

BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2021

BLAST Premier: World Final 2021

Astralis is a professional CS:GO team, founded in January 2016 by former members of the Team SoloMid, and was the first player-created organization, who received millions of Danish kroner from Sunstone Capital and entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers to this achievement.

The team currently belongs to the Astralis group, which is subsidized by RFRSH Entertainment, and also owns a Blast Premier championship circuit.

The current lineup of the group's CSGO team has the following players:

Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth

Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander

Philip "Lucky" Ewald

Kristian “Konfig” Wienecke

Benjamin “BLAMEF” Bremer

Alexander “AVE” Holdt (Coach)

Frederik “Lomme” Nielsen (Analyst)

And their main titles throughout the years were:

BLAST Pro Series: Global Final 2019

StarLadder Berlin Major 2019

Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Katowice Major 2019

ESL Pro League, Season 8

Esports Championship Series Season 6

FACEIT Major: Londres 2018

ELEAGUE CS: GO Premier 2018

Esports Championship Series, temporada 5

ESL Pro League Temporada 7

ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta 2017

Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP) is a Swedish eSports organization that is best known for its Counter-Strike history and current Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team, and are one of the biggest and oldest gaming organization in Europe with a reported value of $11 million.

NiP was formed in June 2000, having started its success from 2001. The team competed in Counter-Strike 1.6 until its dissolution in 2007. In 2012, the team returned with a renowned Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. On August 10, 2012, NiP officially announced the switch from Counter-Strike 1.6 competitions to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Its current CS:GO roster includes:

Nicolai “Dev1ce” Reedtz

Nicolas “Plopski” Zamora Gonzales

Hampus Poser

Fredrik “Rez” Sterner

Patrick “ES3TAG” Hansen

Bjorn “THREAT” Pers (as Coach)

The team also has an academy named Young Ninjas, with the current roster:

Love “PHZY” Smiderbrandt

Anton “SAPEC” Palmgren

Erik “ZTR” Gustafsson

Kalle “RO1F” Johansson

Tim “MANN3N” Isak

Linus “LNZ” Holtang

Fredrik “SLAP” Junbrant (Coach)

Fredrik “JAEGARN” Andersson (Mental Coach)

The Ninjas in Pyjamas team has a huge story and titles on the Counter Strike franchise, especially on CS: GO, where they pretty much dominated the competitive scene between 2012 and 2013. They also have gotten to a Major grand final the most amount of times and the most amount of times in a row, with 5.

Their CS:GO titles include the following events:

ESWC 2012

DreamHack Winter 2012

AMD Sapphire Invitational

ESL Major Series One - Spring 2013

ESEA Global Finals Season 13

DreamHack Summer 2013

ESL Major Series One - Summer 2013

ESEA Global Finals Season 14

Dreamhack Bucharest 2013

StarLadder StarSeries VII

DreamHack Winter 2013

Fragbite Masters Season 1

Svecup 2013 Grand Finals

ESL Major Series One Katowice 2014

Copenhagen Games 2014

DreamHack Summer 2014

ESL One Cologne 2014

DreamHack Winter 2014

Gfinity Spring Masters 1

PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-off Season

Flashpoint Season 3

Fnatic is a professional British eSports organization, founded in 2004, being one of the main names in the competitive landscape of the Counter Strike franchise since then. Their CS:GO team is one of the most successful of all time. During 2013 to 2015, the team picked up three Major titles and dominated every tournament. Despite being in the game for a long time, Fnatic’s core CS:GO lineup is still one of the world’s most feared.

Their current lineup is:

Freddy “Krimz” Johansson

Ludvig “Brollan” Brolin

Owen “Smooya” Butterfield

Alex “ALEX” McMeekin

William “Mezii” Merriman

Kevin “Kevve” Bohlin

Peppe “Peppzor” Borak

Lulian “Regali” Harjau

Francisco “Kst” Fragoso

Matias “Banjo” Kivisto

Their current team manager is Andreas Samuelsson.

The Fnatic Team managed to get the following titles in the past few years:

World Electronic Sports Games (2018)

Intel Extreme Masters XII - World Championship (2018)

Intel Extreme Masters X - World Championship (2016)

StarLadder i-League StarSeries XIV (2016)

ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 - Finals (2015)

FACEIT 2015 Stage 3 Finals (2015)

ESL One: Cologne (2015)

ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 - Finals (2015)

ESL One: Katowice (2015)

DreamHack Winter (2013)

G2 Esports is a European organization based in Berlin, Germany, and acquired the Team Kinguin lineup on September 11, 2015, where they finished 3rd and 4th at DreamHack Open: Cluj-Napoca 2015, and their current lineup has the following players:

Audric “JACKZ” Jug

Nemanja “huNter-“ Kovac

Nikola “NiKo” Kovac

Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov

Aleksi “Aleskib” Virolainen”

Remy “XTQZZZ” Quoniam.

François ‘AmaNEk’ Delaunay

Kenny ‘kennyS’ Schrub

Jan ‘Swani’ Müller (Data Analist)

Jérôme ‘NiaK’ Sudries (Team Manager)

From 2016 onwards, the team conquered some great achievements with their CS:GO team.

ECS Season 1 finals 2016

DreamHack Open Tours 2017

ESL Pro League Season 5

Esports Championship Series Season 1

DreamHack Masters Malmö 2017

BLAST Premier Spring Series 2020 Group C

Champions Cup Finals 2019

Good Game League 2019 Finals Champions

Good Game League 2019

Team Liquid is a Dutch esports organization founded by Joy Hoogeveen and Victor Goossens in 2000 and with a Counter Strike: Global Offensive division since 2015, where their CS:GO team received the Intel Grand Slam award in 2019.

• Team Liquid was the first North American team to reach a CS:GO Major grand final at ESL One: Cologne 2016, they Previously won the most prize money from one big event with a stand-in. The event being ESL One: Cologne 2016 with s1mple standing in. The record was beaten by SK Gaming after winning EPICENTER 2017 using Ricardo "boltz" Prass as a stand-in, winning $100,000 more than Team Liquid.

Their current roster is composed by:

Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski

Keith “NAF” Markovic

Joshua “oSee” Ohm

Richard “shox” Papillon

Eric “adeN” Hoag (as Coach)

Steve Perino (as Manager)

Team Liquid managed to make some great results on 2019, placing first on the following events:

Intel Extreme Masters XIV - Chicago

BLAST Pro Series: Los Angeles 2019

Intel Grand Slam Season 2

ESL One: Cologne 2019

ESL Pro League Season 9 - Finals

DreamHack Masters Dallas 2019

Intel Extreme Masters XIV - Sydney

FaZe Clan is a European professional esports organization founded by Americans, present in the competitive scenario of several games, which joined Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2016. The team was founded from an old lineup of G2 Esports and participates in numerous important championships of the modality. They have won multiple big events with different stand-ins: IEM Sydney 2018 with Xizt, ESL One: Belo Horizonte 2018 with cromen and BLAST Pro Series: Miami 2019 with AdreN.

Its current lineup includes the following players:

Havard “rain” Nygaard

Helvijs “broky” Saukants

Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken

Finn “karrigan” Andersen

Robin “ropz” Kool

Robert “RobbaN” Dahlstrom

And some of their main titles includes:

ESL One: New York 2017

Esports Championship Series Season 4 - Finals

ELEAGUE CS:GO Premier 2017

StarLadder i-League StarSeries Season 3

BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2019

BLAST Pro Series: Miami 2019

EPICENTER 2018

ESL One: Belo Horizonte 2018

Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Sydney

Team Vitality is a French esports organization founded in August 2013 by Fabien Devide and Nicolas Maurer. It has various professional teams and content creators from across Europe and India, they entered Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in early October 2018.

Its current roster includes:

Dan “apex” Madesclaire

Herbaut “ZywOo” Mathieu

Rabier “misutaaa” Kévin

Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen

Emil “Magisk” Reif

Jayson “Kyojin” Van Nguyan

Danny “zonic” Selim Sorensen (Head Coach)

Mathieu “MaT” Leber (Assistant Coach)

Their managers are Lars Christian Robl and Matthieu Péché, and among their titles are:

Intel Extreme Masters XVI - Winter

BLAST Premier: Fall 2020

Intel Extreme Masters XV - Beijing Online: Europe

EPICENTER 2019

Esports Championship Series Season 7 - Finals

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Charleroi Esports 2019

DreamHack Open Atlanta 2018

Virtus.pro (VP) is an esports organization based in Russia. Founded in 2003, the organization currently has players competing in such games as Counter Strike: Global Offensive n November 2015, the team got an investment of over US$100,000,000 from Alisher Usmanov's USM Holdings Since 2015 Virtus.pro is a part of the ESforce esports holding.

Their current roster includes the following players:

Timur “buster” Tulepov

Aleksei “Qikert” Golubev

Dzhami “Jame” Ali

Mareks “YEKINDAR” Galinskis

Evgeniy “FL1T” Lebedev

Dastan “dastan” Aqbaev (as coach)

As they have a vast historic of results, check below the tournaments where they managed to get first place:

SLTV StarSeries V (2013)

EMS One Katowice (2014)

ESL ESEA Dubai Inviational (2015)

SL i-League Invitational: Kyiv (2016)

ELEAGUE Season 1 (2016)

Dreamhack Bucharest (2016)

Dreamhack Masters Las Vegas (2017)

Adenaline Cyber League (2017)

Ploish Esport League Spring (2019)

Blast Premier CIS Cup (2020)

IEM XV New-York Online: CIS (2020)

Flashpoint Season 2 (2020)

Dreamhack Open December (2020)

Cs_summit 7 (2021)

Pinnacle Fall Series #1 (2021)

That's all for today, I hope it helps you in getting to know the CS:GO Teams and, who knows, maybe even find your favorite to cheer and bet during the tournaments season!