Coaches
Coaches, analysts and managers: who prepares the teams, and how the job is done.
G2 Moves On From Five-Year Coach Dylan Falco Ahead of Worlds
G2 Esports ended its partnership with head coach Dylan Falco after eleven LEC titles, handing the coaching staff to Luka 'Perkz' Perkovic before Worlds 2026.
CoachesAstralis appoint NEO head coach and add a performance coach
A month after parting ways with ruggah, Astralis hired its first head coach from outside Denmark, NEO, and brought in Xirreth from Natus Vincere as performance coach.
CoachesG2 Esports bench Dylan Falco and make Perkz LEC head coach
Hours after its exit from MSI 2026, G2 Esports moved head coach Dylan Falco to the bench and gave the job to Perkz, starting at the Esports World Cup in Paris.
CoachesHEROIC replace coach TOBIZ and analyst R0nic with doto
HEROIC named its former academy coach doto head coach on July 6 and parted ways with TOBIZ and analyst R0nic. A day later, the five he was to lead had changed too.
CoachesCloud9 promotes IWDominate to head coach as Inero leaves the LCS staff
Cloud9 rebuilt its League of Legends staff for the LCS Summer Split: Inero leaves, IWDominate becomes head coach, and Arrow and YamatoCannon join as assistants.
CoachesAstralis part ways with coach ruggah after Cologne Major exit
A week after going out of the IEM Cologne Major in Stage 2, Astralis ended its work with head coach ruggah. The club says talk of other changes to the team is unsubstantiated.
CoachesENCE bring allu back as head coach of its Counter-Strike team
ENCE named former player allu head coach on June 9, four days after parting ways with Whitey. The young roster promoted from the academy in April stays under evaluation.
CoachesTeam Heretics appoint Nukeduck head coach for LEC Summer
Team Heretics will start the LEC Summer season with Nukeduck as head coach in place of Hidon, pending Riot approval. The change follows a last place in the Spring Split.
CoachesFaZe name enkay J head coach after missing the Cologne Major
FaZe have filled the head coach seat left open in March with enkay J, formerly of ENCE. He takes over a team that will sit out a Major for the first time since 2016.
CoachesFaZe part ways with coach NEO after nearly three years
FaZe have ended their work with head coach NEO and put analyst GruBy in charge for now. The change comes two days before a tournament that counts toward its Major invite.
CoachesSentinels replace Valorant coach kaplan with Ewok after Kickoff
Sentinels have parted with head coach kaplan after a winless VCT Americas Kickoff and named former RRQ coach Ewok. The dispute was over who decides the roster, and that rule is changing.
CoachesSouth Korea names Hirai League of Legends coach for Asian Games
The Korea e-Sports Association has picked Hirai to lead its League of Legends team at the 2026 Asian Games. How the choice was made, and what the staff must now build.