If you are looking for a Worlds winners list, you probably want the whole picture at a glance: who won each year, who they beat, what the series score was and where the final was played.
The League of Legends World Championship has crowned 15 champions since Season 1 in 2011, and this page lays out every final in order, then counts titles and runner-up finishes by region.
Several teams changed names along the way, so SK Telecom T1 and T1, Samsung White and Samsung Galaxy, and Damwon Gaming and Dplus KIA get their own explanation further down.
Because Worlds 2026 is being played in the United States right now, you will also find the quarterfinal bracket and the final date as of November 3, 2026, with times for both coasts and the UK.
At the end, there is a short section on saving your own ranked games so you can put them next to what you watched on the Worlds stage.
The short answer: T1 leads with six titles, Korea with ten
T1 is the most successful team in Worlds history with six titles. It won in 2013, 2015 and 2016 as SK Telecom T1, took the T1 name in 2019, and won again in 2023, 2024 and 2025, the first three in a row the tournament has seen.
T1 has reached eight finals and lost only two: 0–3 to Samsung Galaxy in 2017 and 2–3 to DRX in 2022. Faker played on all six winning rosters, which makes him the only player with six Worlds titles.
The Samsung organization, now Gen.G, is the only other multiple winner, as Samsung White in 2014 and Samsung Galaxy in 2017.
Seven teams have one title each: Fnatic (2011), Taipei Assassins (2012), Invictus Gaming (2018), FunPlus Phoenix (2019), Damwon Gaming (2020), Edward Gaming (2021) and DRX (2022). By region, Korea's LCK has 10 titles and has won four straight from 2022 to 2025.
China's LPL has 3 titles and 5 runner-up finishes. Europe has 1 title, Fnatic's win in 2011, plus finals losses by Fnatic in 2018 and G2 Esports in 2019. North America has never sent a team to a Worlds final.
The 2026 final is on Saturday, November 14 at 2pm ET (11am PT, 7pm GMT) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Every Worlds final, year by year
- 12011 to 2013: Fnatic, Taipei Assassins and SK Telecom T1's first titleSeason 1 in 2011 was played at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden, and its final was a best-of-three: Fnatic beat fellow European team Against All Authority 2–1. In 2012 at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, Taipei Assassins beat Korea's Azubu Frost 3–1. In 2013 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, SK Telecom T1 swept China's Royal Club 3–0 for Korea's first title.
- 22014 to 2016: Samsung White, then back-to-back SK Telecom T1Samsung White beat Star Horn Royal Club 3–1 at Seoul World Cup Stadium in 2014. SK Telecom T1 beat KOO Tigers 3–1 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin in 2015, the first final between two Korean teams, then beat Samsung Galaxy 3–2 at the Staples Center in 2016 to become the first team to defend the title and the first three-time champion.
- 32017 to 2019: Samsung Galaxy's rematch, then two LPL titlesIn a rematch of the 2016 final, Samsung Galaxy swept SK Telecom T1 3–0 at the Beijing National Stadium in 2017. Invictus Gaming won China's first title in 2018 with a 3–0 over Fnatic at Munhak Stadium in Incheon, and FunPlus Phoenix beat G2 Esports 3–0 at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris in 2019, the last time a European team reached the final.
- 42020 to 2022: Damwon Gaming, EDG and DRXDamwon Gaming beat Suning 3–1 at Pudong Football Stadium in Shanghai in 2020. Edward Gaming beat DWG KIA 3–2 at Laugardalshöll in Reykjavík, Iceland in 2021. In 2022, DRX started in the play-in stage as Korea's fourth seed and finished by beating T1 3–2 at the Chase Center in San Francisco, the first champion to come out of the play-in.
- 52023 to 2025: T1's three in a rowT1 swept Weibo Gaming 3–0 at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul in 2023 and beat Bilibili Gaming 3–2 at The O2 Arena in London in 2024. On November 9, 2025, at the Dong'an Lake Sports Park Multifunctional Gymnasium in Chengdu, China, T1 came back from 1–2 down to beat KT Rolster 3–2. Gumayusi was Finals MVP, and it was the first Worlds final played under Fearless Draft.
- 62026: New York final, quarterfinals as of November 3Eight teams reached the knockout stage in Allen, Texas: Top Esports vs Invictus Gaming (November 3), Gen.G vs LYON (November 4), Dplus KIA vs Bilibili Gaming (November 5) and T1 vs Karmine Corp (November 6), all at 4pm CT (5pm ET, 2pm PT, 10pm GMT). The semifinals follow on November 7 and 8 at the same time. With Karmine Corp and LYON both through, it is the first time since 2021 that two Western teams have reached the quarterfinals, and T1 is going for a fourth straight title. The final is November 14 at 2pm ET at Barclays Center.
Worlds titles and runner-up finishes by region (2011 to 2025)
| Region | Titles | Runner-up finishes |
|---|---|---|
| Korea (LCK) | 10: T1 six times (2013, 2015, 2016 as SK Telecom T1; 2023, 2024, 2025), Samsung White 2014, Samsung Galaxy 2017, Damwon Gaming 2020, DRX 2022 | 7: Azubu Frost 2012, KOO Tigers 2015, Samsung Galaxy 2016, SK Telecom T1 2017, DWG KIA 2021, T1 2022, KT Rolster 2025 |
| China (LPL) | 3: Invictus Gaming 2018, FunPlus Phoenix 2019, Edward Gaming 2021 | 5: Royal Club 2013, Star Horn Royal Club 2014, Suning 2020, Weibo Gaming 2023, Bilibili Gaming 2024 |
| Europe (today's LEC region) | 1: Fnatic 2011 | 3: Against All Authority 2011, Fnatic 2018, G2 Esports 2019 |
| Taiwan | 1: Taipei Assassins 2012 | 0 |
| North America | 0 | 0 (no Worlds final appearance) |
| Everywhere else (Brazil, Vietnam, Japan and others) | 0 | 0 (no Worlds final appearance) |
Six things that trip people up when reading the record
- SK Telecom T1 and T1 are the same team. It took the T1 name in 2019, so its six titles include three won as SK Telecom T1.
- Samsung White (2014) and Samsung Galaxy (2017) won under different names but belong to the same Samsung Galaxy organization, which KSV bought in 2017 and renamed Gen.G in 2018.
- Damwon Gaming (2020 champion) and DWG KIA (2021 runner-up) are today's Dplus KIA.
- Chinese fans number the tournaments S1 to S15 for 2011 to 2025, so Worlds 2026 is S16 on Chinese sites and streams.
- Every final since 2012 has been a best-of-five. Only the 2011 Season 1 final was a best-of-three.
- Five finals ended in a 3–0 sweep (2013, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023) and five went the full 3–2 distance (2016, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025).
Recreate a Worlds moment in your own games
Watching Worlds usually ends with wanting to try a pro pick or a teamfight setup in your own ranked games. DOR is a free Windows app that records PC games.
When you launch League of Legends, it detects the game and records the whole match, and kills, multikills and objectives are also saved as automatic highlight clips. Everything lands in My Clips in the app. How to save a LoL pentakill clip walks through how those clips are captured.
Replays and spectating are switched on by default in League's recording settings, so playing back one of your own .rofl replays in the client records that playback too. To set your games next to a pro match and review them the same way, follow how to VOD review your League games.
When a play is worth keeping, trim it in the app to 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 and send a dor.gg link that opens right in a phone browser, or open DOR Studio to merge clips, add text and BGM, apply effect templates such as shake zoom, and export an mp4. Sharing League gameplay with friends covers the sharing side, and the League of Legends hub collects every recording setting in one place.
