The Rarest CS2 Stickers: Katowice 2014 Holos (2026)

The rarest and most expensive CS2 stickers are the Holo team stickers from the 2014 Katowice Major. The Titan (Holo) averages over $125,000, the iBUYPOWER (Holo) trades from about $65,000 up to reported six-figure listings, and even mid-table teams from that event now sell for tens of thousands. On 9 September 2026 there were only around 250 unapplied iBUYPOWER Holos left in the world.

A paper sticker outpricing almost every knife sounds absurd until you understand the supply. This file explains why Katowice 2014 is the one sticker capsule that matters, which stickers lead it, and the mechanic that makes the whole set rarer every day.

Why Katowice 2014 is different

Katowice 2014 was the first Major to sell team stickers, and Valve had no idea what it had. The capsules were on sale briefly, bought by a small player base at a time when few treated skins as assets, and then never reissued. Every later tournament sold far more stickers to a far larger audience, so no other event comes close to the 2014 scarcity. The Holo versions, the shiniest and rarest variant in each capsule, are the grails within the grail.

The scale is worth spelling out. In early 2014 Counter-Strike's audience was a fraction of what it became, and skin trading was barely an idea, so the number of capsules opened was tiny by any later standard. Contrast that with a modern Major, where millions of capsules are sold to a global audience, and the gap in supply is not double or triple but orders of magnitude. That single accident of timing — the first sticker capsule meeting the smallest audience the game would ever have — is the whole reason a Katowice 2014 Holo is worth a house deposit.

The Titan Holo, the rarest of all

The Titan (Holo) is widely regarded as the single rarest tradeable sticker in Counter-Strike. Titan was a French organisation that dissolved not long after the event, which froze demand-side nostalgia and supply-side count together, and its Holo is the one collectors chase hardest. Average market value sits above $125,000, and clean unapplied copies have traded into six figures. Because so few change hands, any single sale can reset the perceived price, which is exactly why we treat these figures as bands rather than a fixed number.

The iBUYPOWER Holo, the famous one

The iBUYPOWER (Holo) is the most storied sticker in the game, because iBUYPOWER was the North American team at the centre of the 2014–2015 match-fixing scandal that saw its players banned. That notoriety made the sticker a collector's trophy. On the check-date the lowest ask was around $65,000, with listings ranging up toward $144,000 depending on marketplace and condition, and roughly 250 unapplied copies believed to remain. Its price has compounded at a steady clip for years as the surviving stock thins.

The mechanic that makes them rarer every day

Stickers are consumable. Applying one to a weapon binds it there permanently — you can scrape it off, but that destroys it — so every time a collector or a scammer applies a Katowice 2014 Holo, one leaves the tradeable pool forever. The supply is not just fixed, it actively shrinks, which is the opposite of almost every other asset. That is why prices have only ever trended up over the long run, and why an unapplied capsule copy is worth more than one already stuck to a rifle.

Applied stickers do add value to the weapon they sit on, though. Four Katowice 2014 Holos on a Souvenir Dragon Lore are the difference between a $10,000 AWP and a $400,000 one, which is the compounding effect explained in the souvenir Dragon Lore record and priced across the most expensive CS2 skins board.

Other stickers worth knowing

Beyond the Katowice 2014 Holos, a few others command real money. The Reason Gaming (Holo) from the same event is another five-figure rarity; the Crown (Foil), a non-tournament sticker Valve gave out in 2015, became a collector favourite and trades in the thousands; and the Howling Dawn sticker carries the story of the M4A4 Howl's removal. Later Katowice and Cologne Holos from 2015 onward have their own tiers, but none reaches the 2014 numbers.

Applied, scraped and capsule condition

Not every Katowice 2014 Holo is equal, and the difference is condition. A capsule-fresh, never-applied sticker is the most valuable form, because it can still be placed on any weapon and because it proves it was never at risk of a botched scrape. An applied sticker is worth whatever it adds to the specific weapon it sits on, and once applied it cannot be recovered. A few collectors even track the wear of applied stickers, since scuffing changes the look. When you see a Katowice 2014 price, the first question is always whether it is an unapplied copy or one already committed to a gun.

This is also why the population figures you read are estimates rather than counts. Nobody can see exactly how many unapplied copies remain in private inventories, so numbers like “around 250 iBUYPOWER Holos” are careful community estimates that trend downward over time. We publish them as such, with the date we read them, rather than as a hard figure — the same discipline the rest of this record book applies to prices.

Buying a five-figure sticker safely

Unapplied high-value stickers sell on the same peer-to-peer markets as record skins, and the same rules apply: verify it is unapplied, check it is the Holo and not the paper or foil variant, and never trust a price without a screenshot of the actual item and a date. These are among the least liquid items in the game — a Titan Holo can take a long time to sell at ask — so if you are buying one as a store of value rather than to display, read the honest risk case in is investing in CS2 skins worth it first.