Q. League of Legends World Championship winners: who has won Worlds since 2011?

At Worlds 2026, Dplus KIA beat T1 in the Swiss stage, and nearly every report described T1 as the three-time defending champion. If you are new to League of Legends esports, that raises an obvious question: who has actually won Worlds, and which teams have lifted the Summoner’s Cup since 2011?

The short answer: T1, called SK Telecom T1 until late 2019, has won the League of Legends World Championship six times, more than any other team. Fnatic won the first one in 2011. Counted by the league each champion plays in, teams from Korea’s LCK (League of Legends Champions Korea) have 10 titles, China’s LPL (League of Legends Pro League) has 3, and Europe’s LEC (League of Legends EMEA Championship) and the Asia-Pacific LCP (League of Legends Championship Pacific) have one each.

Who has won every League of Legends World Championship?

Worlds is the yearly world championship of League of Legends, a game in which two teams of five race to destroy each other’s base, the Nexus. Riot Games, the game’s maker, runs it, and the top teams from regional leagues around the world qualify. Here is every final so far, with team names as they were at the time.

Year	Final held in	Champion	Runner-up	Score
2011	Jönköping, Sweden	Fnatic	Against All Authority	2-1
2012	Los Angeles, US	Taipei Assassins	Azubu Frost	3-1
2013	Los Angeles, US	SK Telecom T1	Royal Club	3-0
2014	Seoul, South Korea	Samsung White	Star Horn Royal Club	3-1
2015	Berlin, Germany	SK Telecom T1	KOO Tigers	3-1
2016	Los Angeles, US	SK Telecom T1	Samsung Galaxy	3-2
2017	Beijing, China	Samsung Galaxy	SK Telecom T1	3-0
2018	Incheon, South Korea	Invictus Gaming	Fnatic	3-0
2019	Paris, France	FunPlus Phoenix	G2 Esports	3-0
2020	Shanghai, China	DAMWON Gaming	Suning	3-1
2021	Reykjavík, Iceland	Edward Gaming	DWG KIA	3-2
2022	San Francisco, US	DRX	T1	3-2
2023	Seoul, South Korea	T1	Weibo Gaming	3-0
2024	London, UK	T1	Bilibili Gaming	3-2
2025	Chengdu, China	T1	KT Rolster	3-2

The 2011 final was a best-of-three, so the first team to win two games took the title. Every final since 2012 has been a best-of-five, first to three.

Several names have changed along the way. SK Telecom T1 became T1 in late 2019. DAMWON Gaming played as DWG KIA in 2021 and 2022 and is now Dplus KIA, the team that beat T1 in this year’s Swiss stage. Samsung Galaxy was bought by KSV eSports in 2017 and renamed Gen.G in mid-2018. Riot calls Gen.G “Samsung Galaxy’s successor”, and Wikipedia credits Gen.G with both Samsung White’s 2014 title and Samsung Galaxy’s 2017 title.

Which league has won the most Worlds titles?

Counted by league, LCK teams have won 10 titles, LPL teams 3, and LEC and LCP teams one each. The LCK is Korea’s league and the LPL is China’s; the LEC covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the LCP covers Asia-Pacific.

The first two titles need a note. Fnatic now plays in the LEC, so its 2011 win counts for Europe. Taipei Assassins, a Taiwanese team, played in 2012 in the Garena Premier League (GPL), which mixed teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia. That region’s league has been renamed and reshaped several times, and Taiwanese teams now play in the Asia-Pacific LCP, so this article counts the title for the LCP.

Add the runner-up finishes and LCK teams have reached 17 finals, LPL teams 8, LEC teams 4 and LCP teams 1. Six finals were played between two teams from the same league: an all-European final in 2011 and all-Korean finals in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2025. The LPL’s first title came from Invictus Gaming in 2018, and in 2022 DRX became the first team to win Worlds after starting in the play-in stage, the qualifying round before the main event.

Which team and which players have won Worlds the most?

T1 has six titles: 2013, 2015 and 2016 as SK Telecom T1, and 2023, 2024 and 2025 as T1. It also lost the 2017 and 2022 finals. The 2025 win made T1 the first team to take Worlds three years in a row. Samsung, now Gen.G, is the only other organization with more than one title.

Rosters change from year to year, so here are just the repeat winners. T1’s Faker (Lee Sang-hyeok) has won six titles, in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024 and 2025, more than any other player. According to Wikipedia, he became the first player to win four in 2023 and the first to win five in 2024. His SK Telecom T1 teammate Bengi (Bae Seong-woong) won three, in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Oner (Moon Hyeon-jun), Keria (Ryu Min-seok) and Gumayusi (Lee Min-hyeong) each won their third during the 2023-2025 run, and Doran (Choi Hyeon-jun) won his first in 2025.

What is the Summoner’s Cup?

The Summoner’s Cup is the trophy the world champion lifts; in League of Legends, players are called summoners. Riot has commissioned three versions of it.

According to Wikipedia, the 2012 and 2014 cups were made by the British trophy maker Thomas Lyte. Riot describes the original as a 70-pound (32 kg) trophy and keeps it on display at its Los Angeles campus, while Wikipedia says the finished cup was made lighter so it would not be too heavy to lift, which is why different weights get quoted.

In 2022 Riot began a multi-year partnership with the jeweler Tiffany & Co., whose redesigned cup weighed about 20 kg (44 lb). For LoL Esports’ 15th anniversary in 2025, Riot brought back the original silhouette in a third version. The 2025 cup weighs about half as much as the Tiffany edition, and its seven-inch base is engraved with the names of all 14 previous Worlds winners. T1 was the first team to lift it.

When and where is the Worlds 2026 final?

Worlds 2026, the 16th edition, runs from 15 October to 14 November in the United States. The final is on 14 November at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, the fifth Worlds final held in the US after 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2022.

T1 came in as the champion of 2023, 2024 and 2025. It lost to Dplus KIA, the former DAMWON Gaming, in Round 2 of the Swiss stage on 24 October (US time), then beat Movistar KOI 2-0 in Round 4 on 28 October to reach the quarterfinals with three wins and one loss. Dplus KIA and Gen.G got there first, unbeaten at 3-0. The quarterfinals and semifinals are on 3–8 November in Allen, Texas. If T1 wins again, it will be the first team to win four Worlds in a row.

In short

Fifteen Worlds finals from 2011 to 2025 have produced champions from four leagues, and T1 has won the most, with six titles. LCK teams have 10 titles, LPL teams 3, and LEC and LCP teams one each, while Faker holds the player record with six. The 16th champion will be crowned in Brooklyn on 14 November.