To celebrate and honour the entire TCG landscape together with community and experts

Trading Card Games are more than products. They are culture, creativity, competition, community, and craftsmanship. Yet despite its scale, innovation, and cultural impact, there has never been a dedicated platform that formally recognizes this. There is now! The global Trading Card Game industry will receive its first dedicated international recognition to honour dedication and excellence in the TCG-world: the TCG Awards.

Initiated by Card Sports League GmbH and Hana Sports & Entertainment GmbH in partnership with Merz Verlag, organizer of SPIEL Essen, the worlds largest and most important fair for all tabletop games including trading cards, the TCG Awards establish a new institutional benchmark for excellence across the entire Trading Card Game ecosystem which will be celebrated at SPIEL Essen 2026 for the first time.

All information is found on the website of the TCG Awards.