Esports will be featured as a medal sport at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines at the Filoil Flying V Centre in San Juan, Metro Manila from December 5 to 10, 2019. It will be the first time that esports will be contested as a medal event in a multi-sport competition sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee after the discipline featured as a demonstration sport in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.