Enter the World Steak Challenge

Benchmark quality, breed credentials and processing standards on an international stage

ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN FOR 2025!

Entries are OPEN for 2025

Welcome to the 11th edition of the World Steak Challenge. Since we launched in 2015, we have set out to deliver a recognised stamp of quality to support world-class steak production on a global platform. The World Steak Challenge gives steak producers from across the world a unique opportunity to benchmark product quality, breed credentials and processing standards on an international stage.

After ten successful years and with over 25 steak-producing countries having participated, we're continuing to evolve the challenge to better reflect the industry. With the introduction of grass and grain-fed winners for the fillet, sirloin and ribeye categories, plus the two company awards in the form of small and large producer awards, there is even more opportunity for your business to be recognised on a global platform. Entries for 2025 will close on Monday 7 July 2025.

Securing a medal in the prestigious World Steak Challenge is a great opportunity to raise the profile of your business and open the door to new customers and opportunities. The World Steak Challenge generated over 1.2 billion opportunities to see via print & online press coverage in 2023!

Here are just some of the benefits of entering:

  • Gain an internationally recognised stamp of excellence
  • Independently prove the quality of your product
  • Benchmark quality, breed credentials and processing standards on an international stage
  • Feedback report put together by our panel of industry expert judges
  • Utilise the awards scheme to build exports and drive sales in home markets

So are you up for the challenge? Enter your best fillet, ribeye, sirloin or wagyu steak now and be in with the chance of being crowned the World’s Best Steak!

Categories

Enter one or more categories by selecting the correlating tick-box(s).

£650.00
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£650.00
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£650.00
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Process or clear your selections to enable the item buttons.

£650.00
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Process or clear your selections to enable the item buttons.

Please note:  Only full blooded Wagyu can enter the Wagyu category, all cross-breeds will need to be entered in the relevant cuts

Deliveries will take place on the 8th and 9th September at Vlees & Co, Amsterdam. 

FAQ's

Once you have completed and paid for your entry, a member of our dedicated team will be in direct contact with complete information about the dispatch and successful delivery of your product.

Judging Information

Find out more about our Company Awards

Company Awards

Awards Medals


All qualifying steaks from each category will be awarded a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal. Winners can utilise these medals on product packaging and marketing efforts, aligning their produce with an internationally recognised accreditation scheme that symbolises quality.

All Gold medal-winning steaks automatically qualify for our international categories, where we announce the best steak from Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America. We will also reveal who will receive the coveted award of The World's Best Steak.


Judging Integrity

The World Steak Challenge prides itself on offering an independent, robust and fair judging process from start to finish. Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. Every steak is judged on its own merits against the internationally agreed judging criteria.

Stage One – Technical judging

All steaks are scored blindly on raw and cooked criteria by our expert panel of judges.

Stage Two – Scoring

All scores are totalled and the winners are verified by our judging panel.

Independent

The judging is independent and monitored at every stage. Every steak is judged on its own merits against the internationally agreed judging criteria.

Results

All steaks have the chance to win a gold, silver or bronze medal. The top-scoring steak will receive the coveted award of The World's Best Steak.

“The World Steak Challenge is the only event of it’s kind in the world. We import products that – from a quality and value point of view – are very far off the standard. We are delighted to finally have with the WSC a neutral platform of comparison that makes it possible to see where our quality is positioned on a global scale”.

Frank Albers Albers GmbH

“The World Steak Challenge is a wonderful and exciting way to test your beef quality. Gold & silver awards have been a great achievement for NOVILLO REAL beef from Uruguay and is a crown on the long-time performance of our beef in international foodservice and retail markets”

Job Goedegebuur FN Global Meat – The Finest meat from around the globe

“Really enjoyed the experience and meeting people who are as passionate as we are about steaks from the grass pastures to the plate”

Des Buckley FXBuckley Steakhouses

“The recognition and award we received in this competition is a major opportunity for our country, putting Romania on the map of quality producers and internationally promoting the Angus brand from Transylvania – meat produced in Europe for Europe. This success is indeed extremely valuable for us as a producer as well as for our country and the domestic production of a top product. “

Samuel Widmer Karpaten Meat Group

"In such a short time it has turned out to be the biggest and most recognised contest worldwide in terms of finding the best beef in the world”

Steffen Nagel JN Meat International

"WSC is a magnificent event celebrating beef from all over the world, and is a brilliant opportunity for farms, countries and producers to showcase their products - and be proud of their quality and what they do”

Ioannis Grammenos Heliot Steakhouse