Counter-Strike 2 record
Longest time as a pro
apEX (Dan Madesclaire) has been listed on pro rosters since Feb 14, 2011 and plays for Team Vitality today. The median of the sample is 6.1 years; the shortest belongs to DarkMeister at 0.9.
- sample
- rosters of 8 teams of the season, as of Oct 18, 2026
Counter-Strike 2 record “Longest time as a pro”: 15.7 years on pro rosters. apEX (Dan Madesclaire) has been listed on pro rosters since Feb 14, 2011 and plays for Team Vitality today. The median of the sample is 6.1 years; the shortest belongs to DarkMeister at 0.9. Among 40 players of this season’s teams; sample: rosters of 8 teams of the season, as of Oct 18, 2026. Sqady, https://sqady.com/cs2/records/longest-career/
every player in the sample by years pro
from the earliest roster date to the site’s today
This table by player country (by citizenship):
- Israel — 5 players; median — 6.1 years; highest — flameZ, 10th place.
- Mongolia — 5 players; median — 4.3 years; highest — bLitz, 16th place (shared by 2).
- Denmark — 4 players; median — 5 years; highest — HooXi, 5th place.
- Ukraine — 4 players; median — 5.9 years; highest — w0nderful, 18th place.
- France — 3 players; median — 12.8 years; highest — apEX, 1st place.
- Russia — 3 players; median — 7.2 years; highest — sh1ro, 12th place.
- Hungary — 2 players; highest — torzsi, 15th place.
- Slovakia — 2 players; highest — frozen, 3rd place (shared by 2).
- Belarus — 1 player: tN1R, 34th place.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina — 1 player: huNter-, 8th place.
- Canada — 1 player: Twistzz, 3rd place (shared by 2).
- Czechia — 1 player: PR, 30th place (shared by 2).
- Estonia — 1 player: ropz, 7th place.
- Finland — 1 player: Aleksib, 6th place.
- Kosovo — 1 player: makazze, 35th place.
- Lithuania — 1 player: ryu, 16th place (shared by 2).
- Poland — 1 player: jcobbb, 37th place.
- Romania — 1 player: iM, 9th place.
- Sweden — 1 player: phzy, 13th place (shared by 2).
- United Kingdom — 1 player: mezii, 11th place.
The span runs from the first roster date to Oct 18, 2026, and breaks in the middle are not subtracted: the figure is “from the first roster to today”, not “years spent playing”. A first roster date is on record for all 40 players, so the table carries no dashes.
For 4 spells of 194 the start date is January 1 — only the year is known. For 2 players that date happens to be the earliest one (ZywOo, matys), so their span can be off by up to a year. They carry an “≈” in the table; a dash would be false here — the date exists, it is just coarser.
longest at the current club
the top 16 of 40 current spells
The second table measures something else: not the career, but the current spell — the open roster row at the club the player is listed with on this site. 40 of the 40 players have one, and nobody has two. The bench counts as a current spell too: jabbi (Astralis, since Nov 24, 2023), HooXi (Astralis, since Jun 18, 2025), DarkMeister (The MongolZ, since Jul 12, 2026) and Tikuak (The MongolZ, since Jul 12, 2026) are listed as inactive — with the club, but not playing. So does a loan: JBOEN is with FaZe Clan on loan since Jun 25, 2026. The median is 1,042.5 days. First place is shared by apEX and ZywOo: their spells began on the same day, Oct 8, 2018, so the next row is ranked 3.
Facts and records
The holder of this record, apEX, also tops the records “Most prize money” ($2,801,787) and “Most clubs” (13 spells). Second on time as a pro: ZywOo, 12.8 years.
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Team Vitality is the veteran club of this list. Five of its players sit in the top eleven by years as a pro, led by apEX, who first appeared on a pro roster in February 2011, more than two and a half times the median of 6.1 years. He and ZywOo have also been at Vitality since the same day, October 8, 2018, the longest current spell among the 40.
FaZe Clan has the widest spread. frozen and Twistzz, both on pro rosters since October 2015, share third place at 11.0 years, while JBOEN and jcobbb, whose first rosters date from 2023, are among the five shortest careers here.
The two shortest careers both belong to The MongolZ: Tikuak and DarkMeister first appeared on pro rosters in 2025 and have been listed as inactive since July 12, 2026. By country, the three French players have the highest median at 12.8 years, and the five Mongolian players the lowest of the medians shown, 4.3.