ESL has announced the full lineup of participants for IEM Chengdu 2025. Major stars of the global scene, such as NAVI, Spirit , Vitality , and Mouz , have officially received direct invitations. ESL shared this announcement on their social media.

Complete List of Teams
A total of 16 teams have been invited to IEM Chengdu 2025:

Vitality
Spirit
FURIA Esports
pain
The MongolZ
TyLoo
Mouz
NAVI
Falcons
FaZe
Astralis
G2
3DMAX
Lynn Vision
Virtus.pro
Heroic

Notably, all tournament slots are already filled, with no qualifiers this time— the entire lineup was formed exclusively through direct invites based on the VRS ranking.

IEM Chengdu will take place from November 3 to 9 in Chengdu, China, with the venue yet to be announced. Sixteen top teams will compete for a prize pool of $1,000,000.