Garena reveals Free Fire Esports 2025 roadmap
Garena has announced the roadmap for Free Fire Esports 2025. Similar to the 2024 season, the publisher will organize regional World Series (FFWS) events next year. The company will conduct two international tournaments of the game. The Esports World Cup will be played in July 2025 in Riyadh, KSA. Later, the Global Finals of the FFWS will be hosted in November 2025.
Garena hosted many regional tournaments in 2024. The year saw two global Free Fire events — the Esports World Cup and FFWS Global Finals — each featuring a $1 million prize pool. Teams from across the globe are now gearing up for the upcoming 2025 season.
Free Fire Esports 2025 structure
Garena will host official local Free Fire events in five regions, including Southeast Asia, Brazil, LATAM, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Pakistan. There will be a total of two seasons, for spring and fall. The top teams from the spring season will fight in the season edition of the Esports World Cup in July 2025.
The fall season will also feature an official event in each of the aforementioned regions. The FFWS Global Finals 2025 will be played towards the end of the year, where the top global teams will compete against each other for the trophy and prize money.
Garena has added a Pre-Season FFWS event in Southeast Asia and Brazil for 2025. The Free Fire World Series SEA 2025 Spring will kick off in April 2025, where the best teams from Southeast Asian countries will clash against each other. The top teams from this tournament will qualify for the Esports World Cup in Riyadh. The FFWS SEA Fall will start in August 2025.
Brazil will see two editions of the regional World Series. The spring season will be played from April to July 2025. Meanwhile, the fall season will be held from August to October 2025. A Brazillian team, Fluxo Esports won the FFWS 2024 Global Finals, which was played in December 2024.
Garena will organize two events next year (2025) in LATAM, including an EWC Qualifier and FFWS. The EWC Qualifier will be hosted from April to June 2025, while the FFWS LATAM will be held from August to October.
The Free Fire Mid-Season Clash will be the first tournament of 2025 for the Middle East and Africa regions, with FFWS MEA being the second (scheduled to be held from August to October 2025).
Only two local qualifiers will be organized in Pakistan in 2025. The first will be played in May and June 2025, while the second qualifier will take place from August to October.