Esailing Team World Championship

Esailing Team World Championship - The Nations Cup

Tournament information
Established	2020
Number of tournaments	Annual
Administrator	World Sailing
Tournament format(s)	brackets
Host(s)	World Sailing
Venue(s)	virtual
Website	www.sailing.org/our-sport/esailing/
Current champion
France

The Esailing Team World Championship also known as the Esailing Nations' Cup is an annual esports competition, first held in 2020 and officially recognised by World Sailing the main sports governing body.

Year	Finals Location	Winner	2nd	3rd	Discipline	Notes
2020	Virtual	Great Britain (GBR)	Spain (ESP)	-	Team Fleet Racing	[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
2021	Virtual	France (FRA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Italia (ITA)		[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
2022	Virtual	France (FRA)	Great Britain (GBR)	Spain (ESP)		[14]
2023	Virtual	Italia (ITA)	France (FRA)	Japan (JPN)		[15]
2024	Virtual	France (FRA)	Italia (ITA)	Japan (JPN)		[16]

Teams are composed by National sailing federation and must contains male and female players, as well as at least one U21 player. ^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]}

Nation Cup 2020

Participating teams

13 teams participated in the 2020 nations cup. A fleet seeding round allowed to populate a bracket tournament which ran over the months of September to November 2020. ^{[23] [24] [25]}

 Great Britain (GBR), Spain (ESP), Japan (JPN), France (FRA), Ireland (IRL), Sweden (SWE), Denmark (DEN), Poland (POL), Switzerland (SUI), Germany (GER), Italy (ITA), The netherlands (NED), Russia (RUS)

winning team: Great Britain

Name
"Déja Vu" - Mike O'Donovan (GBR)
Donnie Gillies (GBR)
"speedy_1" - Alasdair Ireland (GBR)
"TP52GLAD" - Douglas Newell (GBR)
"AdamGP14" - Adam McGovern (GBR)
"Skippafire" - Bryan Davies (GBR)
"ACF" - Cavan Fyans (GBR)
Phil Manning (GBR)
"isswizz" - Issy Waha (GBR)
Hugh Brayshaw (GBR)

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Championship final table

	Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Championship
	1	Spain (ESP)
	16
						1	Spain (ESP)	8
						8	Japan (JPN)	1
	8	Japan (JPN)	5
	9	France (FRA)	4
											1	Spain (ESP)	7
											5	Denmark (DEN)	2
	4	Ireland (IRL)	4
	13	Sweden (SWE)	5
						13	Sweden (SWE)	1
						5	Denmark (DEN)	8
	5	Denmark (DEN)	6
	12	Poland (POL)	3
																1	Spain (ESP)	3
																2	Great Britain (GBR)	6
	2	Great Britain (GBR)
	15
						2	Great Britain (GBR)	8
						10	Germany (GER)	1
	7	Switzerland (SUI)	4
	10	Germany (GER)	5
											2	Great Britain (GBR)	5
											3	Italy (ITA)	4
	3	Italy (ITA)
	14
						3	Italy (ITA)	5
						6	The netherlands (NED)	4
	6	The netherlands (NED)	6
	11	Russia (RUS)	3

Nation Cup 2021

Participating teams

15 teams participated in the 2021 nations cup. A fleet seeding round allowed to populate a bracket tournament which ran over the months of September to November 2021. ^{[27] [28] [29] [30] [31]}

 Great Britain (GBR), Spain (ESP), Japan (JPN), France (FRA), Ireland (IRL), Sweden (SWE), Denmark (DEN), Poland (POL), Switzerland (SUI), Germany (GER), Italy (ITA), The netherlands (NED), Russia (RUS), Oman (OMA), Turkey (TUR)

Winning team: France

Name
" UOL Asere" - Tristan Péron (FRA)
" MCES Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA)
" MCES Sinjid" - Alexandre Gouin (FRA)
"Barbie22" - Barbara Cavyn (FRA)
" MCES Tangi2232" - Tangi Le Goff (FRA)
" MCES Valentinelisa" - Stephane Galzin (FRA)
"COOL - xav-nice" - Xavier Noblin (FRA)
"COOL - FanchVR" - François Méheut (FRA)
"julyfra" - David krief (FRA)
"Ginsu 2000" - Luc Pruvot (FRA)
"cricqueville" - Cyril Boivin (FRA)
"LaMerNoire" - Baptiste Gully (FRA)
"L1" - Elouan Le Coq (FRA)
"LaureEVC" - Laure (FRA)

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Championship final table

	Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Championship
	1	Great Britain (GBR)
	16
						1	Great Britain (GBR)	7
						9	Denmark (DEN)	2
	8	Germany (GER)	3
	9	Denmark (DEN)	6
											1	Great Britain (GBR)	5
											5	Italy (ITA)	4
	4	The netherlands (NED)	5
	13	Poland (POL)	4
						4	The netherlands (NED)	4
						5	Italy (ITA)	5
	5	Italy (ITA)	6
	12	Turkey (TUR)	3
																1	Great Britain (GBR)	4
																2	France (FRA)	5
	2	France (FRA)	9
	15	Oman (OMA)	0
						2	France (FRA)	7
						7	Japan (JPN)	2
	7	Japan (JPN)	8
	10	Ireland (IRL)	1
											2	France (FRA)	6
											3	Spain (ESP)	3
	3	Spain (ESP)	8													Third place
	14	Sweden (SWE)	1
						3	Spain (ESP)	8								4	Italy (ITA)	5
						6	The netherlands (NED)	1								3	Spain (ESP)	4
	6	The netherlands (NED)	6
	11	Russia (RUS)	3

Nation Cup 2022

Participating teams

15 teams participated in the 2022 nations cup. Teams have been first been split in 4 Groups of 4 for a Round Robin phase. Each first and second of each group qualified to populate a bracket tournament that ran over the month of November & December 2022.

 Great Britain (GBR), Spain (ESP), Japan (JPN), France (FRA), New Zelande (NZL), Sweden (SWE), Denmark (DEN), Poland (POL), Switzerland (SUI), Germany (GER), Italy (ITA), The netherlands (NED), Australia (AUS), Brasil (BRA), Turkey (TUR)

Winning team: France

Name
" UOL Asere" - Tristan Péron (FRA)
"Barbie22" - Barbara Cavyn (FRA)
" UOL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA)
"Tangi2232" - Tangi Le Goff (FRA)
"AlexK RS" - Alexandre Kowalski (FRA)
"gadek" - Gaétan de Kat (FRA)
"Valentinelisa" - Stephane Galzin (FRA)
"COOL - xav-nice" - Xavier Noblin (FRA)
"COOL - FanchVR" - François Méheut (FRA)
"TRAP BrestPower" - Vincent Cuzon (FRA)
"Pichnett" - Pichery Théo (FRA)
"Ginsu 2000" - Luc Pruvot (FRA)
"cricqueville" - Cyril Boivin (FRA)
"L1" - Elouan Le Coq (FRA)
"CALUKERIC" - Cédric Nickles (FRA)

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Championship final table

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

1st GrA

France (FRA)

8

2nd GrC

Japan (JPN)

1

France (FRA)

6

Spain (ESP)

3

1st GrD

Spain (ESP)

8

2nd GrB

The Nederlands (NED)

1

France (FRA)

6

Great Britain (GBR)

3

1st GrB

Great Britain (GBR)

8

2nd GrD

Turkiye (TUR)

1

Great Britain (GBR)

6

Third place

Italy (ITA)

3

1st GrC

Italy (ITA)

7

Italy (ITA)

3

2nd GrA

Sweden (SWE)

2

Spain (ESP)

6

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Nation Cup 2023

Participating teams

8 teams have been participating in the 2023 nations cup. Teams have been first been split in 2 Groups of 4 for a Round Robin phase.

 Japan (JPN), France (FRA), Sweden (SWE), Poland (POL), Switzerland (SUI), Germany (GER), Italy (ITA), Turkey (TUR)

First and second of each group then seeded a bracket tournament that ran in December 2023, with the final taking place on 17th of December.

 France (FRA) and  Japan (JPN) qualified from group A.

 Italy (ITA) and  Poland (POL) from group B.

Championship final table

	Semifinals					Championship
	1st Grp A	France (FRA)	6
	2nd Grp B	Poland (POL)	3
						France (FRA)		4
						Italy (ITA)		5
	1st Grp B	Italy (ITA)	5
	2nd Grp A	Japan (JPN)	4			Third place
						Poland (POL)		4
						Japan (JPN)		5

Winning team: Italia

Name
"ITA 4172" Nicolo Gatti (ITA)
"Lorenzo42" Lorenzo Sorrenti (ITA)
"Sosi" - Rosalba Giordano (ITA)
"Velista25" – Amos Di Benedetto (ITA)
"FIV Rock" – Rocco Guerra (ITA)
Luca Coslovich (ITA)
"Velista86" – Alberto Carraro (ITA)
"Charizard" – Stefano Bonatti (ITA)
"Moro Di Napoli" – Antonio D’angelo (ITA)
"TommyTamble" – Tommaso Tamblè (ITA)
"JL77" – Jacopo Lucchetti (ITA)
"Habibroo" - Lucia Zane (ITA)
"La Gatta Gnuda" – Gianfranco Parretti (ITA)
"Velista71" – Filippo Lanfranchi (ITA)
"MIK bayern" – MIchele Catucci (ITA)
"Movimento 5 nodi" – Carlo Sbacchi (ITA)
"Lele Adani" – Fabio Zaccolo (ITA)
"Fujivia" – Michele Rossi (ITA)
"Lostrio" – Alessandro Vadacca (ITA)
Ottavio" – Ottavio Mozzoni (ITA)

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Nation Cup 2024

Participating teams

7 teams have been participating in the 2024 nations cup. Teams have first meet in a round Robin phase.

 Japan (JPN), France (FRA), Sweden (SWE), Poland (POL), Switzerland (SUI), Germany (GER), Italy (ITA)

The round roobin results of the teams allowed to seed the nation's cup knockout table. Quarter finals were held in december 2025 while semi were held in january 2025 with bronze finale and finale taking place on 25 and 26th of january 2025.

Championship final table

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Championship
	1	France (FRA)
		BYE
						France (FRA)		7
						Poland (POL)		2
	4	Sweden (SWE)	4
	5	Poland (POL)	5
											France (FRA)		5
											Italy (ITA)		4
	2	Japan (JPN)	8
	7	Switzerland (SUI)	1
						Japan (JPN)		3			Third place
						Italy (ITA)		6
	3	Italy (ITA)	9								Poland (POL)		4
	6	Germany (GER)	0								Japan (JPN)		5

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Winning team: France

Name
"Asere" - Tristan Péron (FRA)
"AlexK RS" - Alexandre Kowalski (FRA)
"ATL Pepito" - Tim Carpentier (FRA)
"TRAP Barbie22" - Barbara Cavyn (FRA)
"BlackPanther" - Aurelie Martin (FRA)
Stephane Galzin (FRA)
"TRAP BrestPower" - Vincent Cuzon (FRA)
"Pichnett TRAP" - Pichery Théo (FRA)
"Ginsu" - Luc Pruvot (FRA)
"cricqueville" - Cyril Boivin (FRA)
"Halkaléa" - Jean Philippe Arras (FRA)
"Capitonio" - Ludovic Celerier (FRA)
"Mournier" - Adrien Fournier (FRA)
"July fra" - David Krief (FRA)
"FullHydroSail" - Andres Lemos (FRA)
"COOL - Voiles de Metz" - Thibaut-Hugues Gallois (FRA)

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