IEM Cologne 2022: Winner, Results and Schedule

Popular as the “Cathedral of Counter-Strike’ IEM Cologne is one of the biggest events in the CS: GO calendar year. The marquee tournament features the best teams from across the world competing not only for a sizable prize pool but also for the glory and prestige of having won this event. The IEM Cologne 2022 features a million dollar prize pool with 24 of the best teams in competition. Here’s all you need to know about this event including the live results, participating teams and streams.

IEM Cologne 2022 Live results

• Playoffs
• Group Stage

BIG tabseN on gob b: "For me personally, it's just a blessing to have him around. [...] He's doing basically every job that I did in the past"

BIG are now in the lower bracket of the Play-In Stage

• News

Rohan

Jul 5

Day 1 – July 5

Play in Day 1 (Upper Bracket Round 1)

Play in Day 1 (Upper Bracket Round 2)

Play in Day 1 (Lower bracket round 1)

Day 2 – July 6

Play in Day 2 (Lower Bracket Round 1)

Play in Day 2 (Lower Bracket Round 2)

Day 3 IEM Cologne

Group A

Navi coach b1ade: "(electronic) is more involved now in trying to control the situation all the time. I think he needs more time before he becomes more comfortable in this position"

Playing with a stand-in, Navi aim to win yet another tournament at IEM Cologne. How far can they go?

• News

Rohan

Jul 7

Group B

Day 4 – July 8

Group B Upper Bracket Round 1

FaZe Clan power through 00Nation in debut IEM Cologne match

FaZe are now one match away from securing their playoffs spot to play at the LANXESS Arena.

• News

Rohan

Jul 8

Group A Upper Bracket Round 2

NaVi decimate NIP to qualify for IEM Cologne 2022 Playoffs

With sdy surpassing even s1mple's performance, and the AWPer pulling out miracle after miracle, NaVi took down NIP at IEM Cologne.

• News

Arnav Shukla

Jul 8

Group A Lower Bracket Round 1

MOUZ sneak in an amazing comeback on Nuke to eliminate Heroic

Heroic's first tournament with their new player did not go as per expectations.

• News

Rohan

Jul 8

Day 5 – July 9

Group B Lower Bracket Round 1

Group B Upper Bracket Round 2

Group A Lower Bracket Round 2

"Both players and the CSPPA are at fault": Vitality apEX and Magisk on 2023 CS: GO Player break

Players share their thoughts on the 2023 Player break which will take place from June 12 - July 9, 2023.

• News

Rohan

Jul 4

Day 6: July 10

Group A

Group B

Playoffs

Grand Finals

FaZe wins 3-2

• Inferno 13-16
• Overpass 16-13
• Ancient 19-16
• Mirage 9-16
• Nuke 14-16

IEM Cologne 2022 Teams

The 2022 edition of IEM Cologne 24 teams, but not all teams start at the same time. There is a Play-in event which has sixteen teams starting off their Cologne journey. These teams play in a double-elimination bracket which starts off with a best-one-series.

The top eight teams from the play-in stage will make it through to the groups. 

Play-In Teams

• Heroic
• Team Vitality
• Outsiders
• 00Nation
• Complexity Gaming
• MIBR
• ORDER
• TYLOO
• BIG
• Astralis
• Team Spirit
• Imperial Esports
• Movistar Riders
• paiN Gaming
• MOUZ
• Sprout

Directly Qualified Teams

• FaZe Clan
• Navi
• Cloud9
• G2 esports
• Ninjas in Pyjamas
• ENCE
• FURIA esports
• Team Liquid

Tournament format

There are three stages to this tournament that take place from July 5-15. The tournament will feature a live audience for the playoffs, where the Lanxess Arena will come alive with CS: GO fans. 

Play-In Stage

The play-in matches feature double-elimination bracket but start with best-of-one matches. Subsequent matches, which are mostly elimination or qualification matches, are best-of-three series. 

Sixteen teams take part in the play-in stage, only eight advance to the group stage.

Group Stage

The 16 play-in stage teams are joined by the Directly invited teams in the group stage. There are two groups of eight teams each. The teams play in a double-elimination bracket. The top three 

Play-off stage

The Playoffs stage has six teams – the top three from each of the two groups. The top team in each group advances directly to the semifinal while the next two teams in the groups move to the quarterfinals. 

All matches in the playoffs are best-of-three series with the Grand finals to take place on July 15. 

Prize pool distribution

• 1st place: $400,000
• 2nd place: $180,000
• 3-4th: $80,000
• 5-6th: $40,000
• 7-8th: $24,000
• 9-12th: $16,000
• 13-16th: $10,000
• 17-20th: $4,500
• 21-24tth: $2,500

Where to watch IEM Cologne 2022?

IEM Cologne matches will be broadcast live on Twitch. You can catch all the action here. 

Stream A

Stream B

Stay tuned to esports.gg for the latest IEM Cologne news and updates.

Rohan

Content Editor | Twitter: @rohan_esports | Twitch: rohan_3105

Started esports with Dota, moved to CS, then OW, back to Dota 2 and now a bit of Valorant. I love city-building games, have spent hours in Cities:Skylines only to have the traffic defeat me. Love travelling, an admirer of fine movies, writing a sci-fi novel in spare time and coding (Javascript)