Every League of Legends World Champion: Worlds Winners 2011 to 2025
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| Author Competitive Scene
Fifteen League of Legends World Championships have been played since 2011, and T1 owns six of them. On November 14, 2026, Gen.G and Bilibili Gaming meet in the Worlds 2026 final at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and neither roster has lifted the Summoner’s Cup under its current name. Bilibili Gaming already lost one final to T1 in 2024. Gen.G carries the history of Samsung, which won the title in 2014 and 2017.
| Year | Champion | Final score | Runner-up | Final venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Fnatic | 2-1 | against All authority | Jönköping, Sweden |
| 2012 | Taipei Assassins | 3-1 | Azubu Frost | Los Angeles |
| 2013 | SK Telecom T1 | 3-0 | Royal Club | Los Angeles |
| 2014 | Samsung White | 3-1 | Star Horn Royal Club | Seoul |
| 2015 | SK Telecom T1 | 3-1 | KOO Tigers | Berlin |
| 2016 | SK Telecom T1 | 3-2 | Samsung Galaxy | Los Angeles |
| 2017 | Samsung Galaxy | 3-0 | SK Telecom T1 | Beijing |
| 2018 | Invictus Gaming | 3-0 | Fnatic | Incheon |
| 2019 | FunPlus Phoenix | 3-0 | G2 Esports | Paris |
| 2020 | DAMWON Gaming | 3-1 | Suning | Shanghai |
| 2021 | Edward Gaming | 3-2 | DWG KIA | Reykjavik |
| 2022 | DRX | 3-2 | T1 | San Francisco |
| 2023 | T1 | 3-0 | Weibo Gaming | Seoul |
| 2024 | T1 | 3-2 | Bilibili Gaming | London |
| 2025 | T1 | 3-2 | KT Rolster | Chengdu |
Titles by region: LCK 10, LPL 3, Europe and Taiwan one each
Korea dominates the list. Teams from the LCK won ten of the fifteen finals, including the run of five straight from 2013 to 2017. China’s LPL broke through with Invictus Gaming in 2018 and won three titles in total, adding FunPlus Phoenix in 2019 and Edward Gaming in 2021. The only other winners are Fnatic, champions of the first Worlds in 2011 when the event was held at DreamHack in Sweden, and the Taipei Assassins in 2012.
No North American team has reached a final. That stat hangs over every LCS roster that travels to Worlds, and 2026 did not change it.
T1 and Faker: six titles in thirteen years
Faker was on the roster for all six T1 championships, from 2013 in Los Angeles to the 3-2 win over KT Rolster in Chengdu in 2025. The last three came in a row, a three-peat no other team has managed. T1’s run ended in the 2026 semifinal, a 3-1 loss to Bilibili Gaming on November 8.
The closest anyone came to stopping the 2025 title was KT, which pushed the final to a fifth game. Two of T1’s three straight wins went the distance, which tells you the gap at the top was never as wide as the trophy count suggests.
Gen.G or Bilibili Gaming: a new name on the Summoner’s Cup
Whatever happens in Brooklyn, the 2026 champion will be a first. Gen.G inherited the Samsung Galaxy roster spot after the 2017 title but has never won Worlds as Gen.G. Bilibili Gaming would give the LPL its fourth title and its first since Edward Gaming in 2021.
Our lean is cautious. Gen.G arrives with the deeper LCK pedigree, but Bilibili Gaming just beat the team that had won three straight Worlds, and few results at this Worlds carry more weight than that one. Follow every series on our Worlds 2026 results and standings tracker and the full schedule on the esports calendar.
Archive photo: T1 vs Bilibili Gaming at the 2024 Worlds Finals (fomos esports via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0)
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