What is the esports player foundation?
The esports player foundation is a not-for-profit excellence and funding institution and sees itself as an elite funding organization. Since January 2020, we have been supporting up-and-coming and top athletes on their way to the top of the world and are the world’s first and only excellence funding institution for esports.
We support our athletes not only with support services within the game, but above all with measures that provide every talent with an optimal development and performance environment. We support more than 100 esports athletes in the globally relevant titles League of Legends, CS2, VALORANT, EA FC and Brawl Stars.
Our values
The esports player foundation and its sponsored athletes are committed to the values of performance, respect and fair play .
- Performance means the will to constantly improve. This includes a willingness to perform, an exemplary work ethic and ambition.
- Respect means the esteem and recognition of all fellow human beings as the basis of one’s own behavior. This is our stance against hate speech and toxicity and in favor of equal opportunities and equal rights for all people.
- Fair play means consciously adhering to the rules. It is the attitude of all our athletes and also means respecting their sporting opponents and preserving their physical and mental integrity.
Our mission
Enable talents to live their dreams…
Every talented gamer should be given the opportunity to pursue their dream of a career as an esports player at world level. The esports player foundation supports its athletes with services from a total of 5 funding modules. This enables our athletes to make the most of their own potential and achieve the maximum.
With our funding, we aim to establish our grantees as world leaders in all relevant esports titles and to further promote the recognition of esports.
At the same time, all of our sponsored athletes are holistic athletes. We support our athletes not only through in-game coaching, but also in the areas of body, mind and nutrition. Our support measures are consistently geared towards the needs of the athletes. At the same time, we also take responsibility for a career after their career. In this way, we want to strengthen self-determination and personal development.
…and serve as role models
Together with our athletes, we are pursuing the goal of establishing esports in the center of society. To achieve this, each of our athletes acts as a role model for all aspiring esports players. In doing so, they have a positive impact on millions of gamers and propagate a self-image as top performers, including fitness, a performance-oriented diet, sleep as an essential building block for 100% performance and strong mental health & strength. All sponsored athletes are committed to our values: performance, respect and fair play.
We are...
a strong alliance from the entire games industry, sport, politics and society. Our advisory board, which is responsible for providing strategic advice to the management, brings together representatives from all of the above-mentioned industries.
Thanks to our partners from business, society and politics, we can enable our athletes to reach their full potential and realize their dream. At the same time, they help our players to become role models for the next generation of players and fans.
As an alliance, we aim to promote the growth & recognition of the Esports industry and contribute to the development of the Esports ecosystem.
Further information
The esports player foundation is wholly owned by game e.V., the German Game Industry Association, and is controlled by ambassadors and a supervisory board made up of the most important German esports companies and political representatives. They ensure that all income goes to the supported players.
The esports player foundation operates as a limited liability company for legal reasons. However, potential profits are always used to support esports players. This is ensured by game e.V. – Association of the German Games Industry as a shareholder, the advisory board and the support of the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The esports player foundation is socio-politically and sport-politically neutral and acts as an institution for elite promotion.