The association's chair is Andy Payne OBE, who has worked for the Mastertronic software publishing group, AppyNation, Just Flight and is a board member of UKIE, the trade body for the UK games industry.

[11] In December 2021, Team Great Britain and Northern Ireland competed in the first-ever Global Esports Games in Singapore.

The announcement was met with a large negative response on social media, with many concerns being raised around issues with Saudi Arabia's poor human rights records .

In response British eSports issued a further statement on social media [16] clarifying that "no monetary contributions of any kind were received".

Since 2021 the Spring Season/Split sees the introduction of the AOC Sport FIFA Cup,[18] and would normally involve the current version of the game.