The car proved to be very successful in the World Rally Championship-2 class, winning thirty-five events between 2015 and 2018.

Starting in 2019, Škoda Motorsport entered the Fabia R5 in the professional class of the World Rally Championship-2.

[5][6] The car was originally launched with the R5 group nomenclature, but in early 2020, Škoda Motorsport announced the update of their car names according to the new FIA pyramid, renaming successor, the Fabia R5 evo as the Fabia Rally2 evo.

Gustavo Saba won the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Codasur South American Rally Championships.

From a commercial and competitive standpoint, the Fabia is one of the most successful cars in the history of the R5 category, winning over 700 rally competitions all around the world, and selling over 240 units to independent teams and owners over a three-and-a-half-year period.