Here are all the Major winners attending IEM Cologne 2026
IEM Cologne is set to start on June 2nd with play in Stage 1. Two Major winners are featured in Stage 1, four in Stage 2, and twelve in Stage 3.
The team featuring the most Major winners is, unsurprisingly, back-to-back defending champions, Vitality. Vitality IGL, Dan "apEX" Madesclaire has a tournament-high four CS Major trophies, with the rest of his team trailing him with three wins.
The first Major won by any player at IEM Cologne was EMS One Katowice 2014, which was won by Janusz "snax" Pogorzelski. The aforementioned apEX achieved his first Major victory at Dreamhack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.
Here are all the Major winners at the IEM Cologne 2026 Major, sorted by Stage.
Stage 1:
• 
Fernando "fer" Alvarenga - 2x Majors
• 
Janusz "snax" Pogorzelski - 1x Major
• 
Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhaylov - 1x Major
Stage 2:
• Boris "magixx" Vorobiev - 1x Major
• 
Myroslav "zont1x" Plakhotia - 1x Major
• Danil "donk" Kryshkovets - 1x Major
• Dmitry "sh1ro" Sokolov - 1x Major
Stage 3:
• 
Dan "apEX" Madesclaire - 4x Majors
• Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut - 3x Majors
• 
Robin "ropz" Kool - 3x Majors
• Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo - 2x Majors
• 
Shahar "flameZ" Shushan - 2x Majors
• 
William "mezii" Merriman - 2x Majors
• Valeriy "b1t" Vakhovskiy - 2x Majors
• Lotan "Spinx" Giladi - 1x Major
• 
Mihai "iM" Ivan - 1x Major
• Dzhami "Jame" Ali - 1x Major
• 
Finn "karrigan" Andersen - 1x Major
• 
Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen - 1x Major
• Ihor "w0nderful" Zhdanov - 1x Major
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