ZywOo knocks NiKo out of the top 10 richest CS2 players

The Top 10 ranking of the richest CS2 players in the world has changed following Team Vitality’s win at IEM Krakow 2026, and Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut has taken the place of Nikola “NiKo” Kovač in the top ten.

This is indicated by statistics from the Liquipedia portal.

Thanks to the tournament victory the club earned $400,000 in prize money, which also allowed Team Vitality rifler Robin “ropz” Kool to climb to second place in the ranking. The undisputed leader remains Dan “apEX” Madesclaire, who also plays for Team Vitality.

It is worth noting that three players from the current Team Vitality roster are included in the top ten richest CS2 players.

Top 10 richest CS2 players:

• apEX – $2.330 million

• ropz – $2.254 million

• dupreeh – $2.237 million

• device – $2.172 million

• karrigan – $2.165 million

• Magisk – $2.061 million

• Xyp9x – $2.014 million

• gla1ve – $1.954 million

• rain – $1.883 million

• ZywOo – $1.848 million

Earlier it was reported that billionaire Pavel Durov’s girlfriend had played 4,000 hours in CS2.