Katowice's Spodek Arena to host EPL S24 Finals

12-8-2025 11:35

The legendary venue will return for 2026.

ESL has announced they will return to the Spodek Arena in 2026 with Pro League S24 Finals, set to be held from October 9-11.

The announcement comes a few months after the tournament organizer announced that one of their two most prestigious yearly events, IEM Katowice, would be moving to Krakow in the future.

IEM Katowice will move to Krakow in 2026

ESL confirmed the Spodek would stay in their circuit at an unnamed event, which has now been confirmed as EPL S24.

"For over a decade, ESL Pro League has been a cornerstone of competitive Counter-Strike, and we've been eager to bring it back in front of a big live audience, as esports is at its best when experienced live in-person," said Marc Winther, Director Game Ecosystems - Counter-Strike, at ESL FACEIT Group.

The news means that the ESL Pro League playoffs will feature arena playoffs for the first time since 2019, when the tournament was held in Odense, Denmark.

Hyped

2025-08-12 11:36

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@HypedTop4Awper2025

2025-08-12 11:37

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🚨🚨‼️‼️‼️ EPL finally not boring⁉️‼️‼️

2025-08-12 12:04

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Finally!

2025-08-12 12:30

who is the Hyped Top4 Awper and why is he hyped instead of just regular top4 awper?

2025-08-12 15:44

WWWWWWWWW

cool

so basically katowice during online era?

2025-08-12 11:38

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They specifically mentioned they wanted to bring it back to a live audience "and we've been eager to bring it back in front of a big live audience, as esports is at its best when experienced live in-person,"

2025-08-12 11:42

what da helly

2025-08-12 11:39

this was known for a long time.

2025-08-12 11:43

Could this specific EPL be a little more prestigious than a random EPL? I hope they kept the trophy.

The trophy is 100% going to IEM Krakow

2025-08-12 17:58

Awesome

Very nice, so now we have IEM Krakow replacing IEM Katowice as the next "big tournament" but Katowice stay for EPL, I like this change, 2 big tournaments in Poland let's go)) (I probably won't attend either one but who cares)

2025-08-12 11:41

Let's hope that tickets will be cheaper for EPL Kato

2025-08-12 14:59

They probably will be cheaper, otherwise I don't see them selling out the crowd and that would be a massive fumble

2025-08-12 16:26

POLISH MOUNTAIN

Group stage still online

it can be beneficial if more teams do it like mouz did it, invite the fans for free sell snacks and drinks at the location + merch sales of course and the team gets to bootcamp, idk man it can work really well. and of course the biggest factor of it all is cutting costs for ESL, im not gonna deny that LOL, its a huuuge cost to host this many teams and provide them all with PCs and hotel stay. ESL and blast seem to scale down since they dont have the duopol anymore ;) the stream of revenue has split in more directions.

2025-08-12 12:17