How to Get League Medals in Clash of Clans

You can get League Medals in Clash of Clans by participating in the monthly Clan War Leagues (CWL), where your clan competes against seven other clans over a week of daily battles. The number of medals you collect depends on your clan’s league tier, your clan’s final placement, and your individual star contributions. Clan Leaders and Co-Leaders can also award bonus medals to standout performers after the season wraps up.

League Medals are a premium currency exclusively tied to CWL. Unlike farmable resources such as Gold, Elixir, or Dark Elixir, these aren’t just tokens that could be mined or looted off of. They are there to give the participants of the war leagues access to the League shop. The shop is packed with amazing powerful magic items, hero skins and even some exclusive decorations to speed up your villages progression.

What Are League Medals in Clash of Clans?

League Medals sit alongside Gold, Elixir, Dark Elixir, Gems, and Raid Medals in the game’s economy, but they serve a unique purpose: unlocking items that are either exclusive to the League Shop or far more efficient to obtain through medals than any other method.

Their standout value comes from Magic Hammers. Unlike Books — which only finish an upgrade already in progress — Hammers both start and complete an upgrade instantly, skipping the resource cost and the timer entirely. At higher Town Hall levels where upgrades stretch past 20 days, a single Hammer saves enormous time and loot.

Players can hold a maximum of 2,500 League Medals. Any surplus is automatically converted into Gems at a punishing rate of 1 Gem per 10 excess medals, so spending them before each new CWL season is essential. The League Shop is accessible from the Home Village through the regular Shop’s League Shop tab.

How to Earn League Medals in Clan War Leagues

Clan War Leagues are the sole source of League Medals in Clash of Clans. No other game mode, event, or challenge distributes them.

Participating in Clan War Leagues

Two prerequisites must be met before you can collect medals. You need to be a member of a clan, and your Clan Leader or Co-Leader must enroll in the clan during the two-day sign-up window that opens at the start of each month.

During sign-up, leadership selects a war roster of at least 5 and up to 50 players. Being placed on this roster is critical — even if you never attack, roster membership alone guarantees a minimum medal payout.

Once registration closes, your clan is grouped with seven others of the same league tier. The season spans 8 days: one preparation day followed by seven war days. Each day brings a different opponent, and every player in that day’s lineup gets exactly one attack. There are no make-up hits — every missed attack is a permanent loss for your clan’s star total.

As of the February 2026 update, CWL supports three formats: 5v5 for smaller clans, 15v15 as the standard, and 30v30 for large rosters. Champion League clans are restricted to 15v15 only.

Winning Wars and Placement Rewards

After seven war days, all eight clans are ranked by total stars. This standing determines medal payouts and whether your clan gets promoted, stays, or drops a tier. Typically, the top two clans are promoted and the bottom two are demoted.

Your individual payout follows a specific formula: you receive a guaranteed 20% of your clan’s maximum placement reward just for being on the roster. Each war star adds another 10%, and reaching 8 stars unlocks the full 100%. For example, if your clan’s placement yields 300 medals at full payout, a player with 4 stars receives 60% (180 medals), while a player with 8+ stars collects the full 300.

League Rank Rewards

Your clan’s league tier is the single biggest factor in your monthly medal income — more than your personal star count or your clan’s placement within its group.

CWL features six divisions with three sub-tiers each (I, II, III), totaling 18 leagues. From lowest to highest: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Crystal, Master, and Champion. When a clan enters CWL for the first time, it is placed based on roster strength — anywhere from Bronze III up to Master League I — and climbs or falls through promotions and demotions each season.

Here is the full medal payout table (at 8+ stars) by league and final placement:

A 1st-place finish in Champion I yields 508 medals — nearly 15 times more than the same placement in Bronze. Even finishing last in Champion III (375 medals) eclipses a 1st-place Bronze result by over tenfold, which is why climbing tiers is the most impactful thing you can do for long-term medal accumulation.

Bonus Medals from Clan Leaders

Beyond placement rewards, Clan Leaders and Co-Leaders receive a pool of bonus medals to distribute among rostered members. Each bonus ranges from 35 medals in Bronze III to 105 in Champion I. The number of available bonuses grows with each war your clan wins — every victory adds one extra slot. Leaders have 21 days to distribute all bonuses at once.

To position yourself for bonus medals, follow the war plan, attack assigned targets reliably, and aim for clutch three-star performances on difficult matchups.

How to Get More League Medals Faster

The most effective strategy is joining a higher-ranked clan. Medal payouts scale dramatically with tier, so moving from Silver to Crystal or Master can double or triple your monthly income. Look for clans with experienced rosters, consistent CWL participation, and leadership that actively manages war lineups.

Earning at least 8 stars every season is non-negotiable — that threshold unlocks 100% of your placement reward. Coordinate with leaders to secure enough war day appearances, and practice attack strategies in Friendly Challenges beforehand.

If organic progression feels too slow, acquiring an established COC Account that belongs to a top-tier clan lets you bypass months of league climbing and immediately benefit from Champion-level payouts.

Finally, never let your balance sit near the 2,500 cap. Spend strategically before each season to keep room for incoming rewards.

What Can You Buy With League Medals?

Here is every League Shop category, ordered from most impactful to least:

Hammers (120–165 Medals, 7-day cooldown per type): Hammers of Building, Fighting, and Spells cost 120 medals each; the Hammer of Heroes costs 165. Each Hammer instantly starts and completes one upgrade with zero resource cost or wait time — the best use of medals for progression-focused players.

Builder Potion (30 Medals): Makes all active Builders work 10 times faster for one hour, saving 9 hours per Builder. With six Builders running, one potion compresses 54 hours of construction into one.

Research Potion (20 Medals): Accelerates Laboratory research 24 times for one hour, completing roughly a full day’s worth of research per use. Exceptional value at higher Town Halls where lab timers stretch past two weeks.

Resource Potion (10 Medals): Boosts all Home Village resource collectors for one day. Helpful for passive income, though modest compared to active farming.

Wall Rings (10 Medals each): Applies a fixed resource value toward upgrading one wall segment. Lower-level walls need a single ring; higher-level walls require multiple. Convenient but generally less efficient than Hammers or potions.

Gold, Elixir, and Dark Elixir (25 Medals per pack): Trades 25 medals for 2.5 million Gold, 2.5 million Elixir, or 25,000 Dark Elixir. These amounts are farmable in minutes, making raw resources the least efficient medal purchase.

Hero Skins (2,000 Medals): Cosmetic skins for the Barbarian King, Archer Queen, Grand Warden, and Royal Champion — purely aesthetic with no gameplay advantage.

Statues and Decorations (250–2,000 Medals): League-themed prestige items, some requiring your clan to have reached specific tiers to unlock.

War Arena Scenery (2,400 Medals): The most expensive League Shop item — a full Home Village scenery overhaul and purely cosmetic flex.