The Call of Duty League’s upcoming year has been revealed, with the competition format and schedule of the CDL 2025!
The Call of Duty League, of course, is back for another go when the new year arrives. We've been given our first look at the 2025 CDL schedule. This includes its format, events and hosts, as well as a return to the Esports World Cup.
Let's go over all of the details we know so far!
CDL 2025 season schedule
The full schedule isn't known just yet for the year of Black Ops 6 gameplay, but the majority of it has been revealed. There are, as you can expect, four Majors, with the very last to be determined. Here's the rundown for the 2025 CDL schedule:
- Major I - Toronto Ultra (Madrid, Spain)
- December 6 - January 26: Online Qualifiers
- January 10 - 12: Minor Online Tournament
- January 30 - February 2: Major LAN Tournament
- Major II - OpTic Texas (Dallas, Texas)
- February 14 - March 16: Online Qualifiers
- February 27 - March 2: Minor Online Tournament
- March 20 - 23: Major LAN Tournament
- Major III - Miami Heretics (Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
- April 4 - 20: Online Qualifiers
- April 24 - 27: Major LAN Tournament
- Major IV - TBD
- May 2 - 18: Online Qualifiers
- Major LAN Tournament Details Coming Soon
- CDL Champs 2025 - Toronto Ultra (Toronto, Canada)
- More details to come.
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CDL 2025 competition format details
Cloud9 (as Cloud9 New York), Team Falcons (as Vegas Falcons), and G2 Esports (as Minnesota ROKKR) join the league as full participants. They'll slot into the CDL 2025 schedule as the following format details were made public:
- Qualifying Weeks
- Four weeks of online qualifiers for Majors I and II, seven matches. Three weeks for Majors III and IV, five matches.
- Minor Tournaments
- New for the CDL 2025 schedule.
- 12-team, single elimination tournaments held over three days.
- Each Minor has a $20K winner-takes-all prize pool.
- 30 CDL points for 1st Place, 20 CDL Points for 2nd Place, and 10 CDL Points for 3rd/4th Place.
- Game Modes
- Hardpoint, Search and Destroy, and Control are the modes for the 2025 CDL schedule.
Esports World Cup 2025 to feature Call of Duty
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were both huge parts of the Esports World Cup in 2024. While not an official CDL 2025 tournament, teams from the CDL will participate once again in the Esports World Cup.
EWC 2025 takes place in August, and more details about COD at the event and how to qualify will come at a future date. It'll be a top tier competition if it at all resembles the Call of Duty tournaments in the first edition of the Esports World Cup.
Stay tuned to esports.gg for more esports news and Call of Duty coverage.
