2023 Call of Duty League season

The 2023 Call of Duty League season was the fourth season of the Call of Duty League, an esports league based on the video game franchise Call of Duty.

Regular season
The 2023 CDL season began on December 2, 2022. Teams competed in five Majors throughout the season, culminating in the Call of Duty Championship tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada. The five Majors were played in Raleigh, Boston, Arlington, Columbus, and Toronto. The Minnesota ROKKR also hosted two home series matches in Madison, Wisconsin and St. Paul, Minnesota during the Stage 4 and 5 qualifiers.

Stage 1
Stage 1 group stage began on December 2, 2022, and ended on December 14.

Major
The Stage 1 Major ran from December 14 through December 18, 2022, at the Raleigh Convention Center. All twelve CDL teams, alongside four Challengers teams, competed against each other. The teams were put into four groups of four, with three CDL teams and one Challengers team in each group. Teams played the other three teams in their group once, with the top two from each group advancing to a double elimination bracket.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Stage 2
Stage 2 group stage began on January 13, 2023, and ended on January 29.

Major
The Stage 2 Major ran from February 2 through February 5, 2023. The Major was hosted by Boston Breach.

Stage 3
Stage 3 group stage began on February 17, 2023, and ended on March 5.

Major
The Stage 3 Major ran from March 9 through March 12, 2023. The Major was hosted by OpTic Texas.

Stage 4
Stage 4 group stage began on March 31, 2023, and ended on April 16.

Major
The Stage 4 Major ran from April 20 through April 23, 2023. The Major had no host.

Stage 5
Stage 5 group stage began on May 5, 2023, and ended on May 21.

Major
The Stage 5 Major ran from May 25 through May 28, 2023. The Major was hosted by Toronto Ultra.

Championship
The 2023 Call of Duty League Championship took place from June 15 through June 18, 2023. The top eight teams from the regular season standings competed in a Double Elimination bracket.

Grand finals
The 2023 Call of Duty League season Grand finals were held on June 18, 2023. It was best of 9 (first to 5).

Broadcast and viewership
In early 2020, Activision Blizzard signed a three-year broadcasting rights deal with YouTube, making the streaming platform the exclusive broadcasting partner for the CDL. The 2023 CDL season marks the first season since the expiration of the deal. In December 2022, the CDL announced that it would be broadcasting the entirety of the season exclusively on Twitch and its official website.

The opening weekend of the 2023 season saw record viewership. The highest viewed match was OpTic Texas versus the Florida Mutineers, which reached a peak of over 190,000 on Twitch. The peak viewership made it the fourth-most watched CDL match of match of all time, only behind the three championship matches from 2020 to 2022.