LoL Worlds 2025: Teams and seeding confirmed

Kieran Lynch, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 29/09/2025

The League of Legends World Championship 2025 (LoL Worlds 2025) is rapidly approaching and here we have the list of all the confirmed teams, as well as their seeding.

Taking place in China, 17 teams will battle it out to become League of Legends champions for 2025.

The tournament will start with a Play-In on Tuesday, October 14th, before a Swiss Stage will determine the eight teams that take part in the Knockout Stage.

One team will walk out as the world champions on Sunday, November 9th.

Teams and seeding for LoL Worlds 2025

Notable teams in the LOL Worlds 2025

Defending champions T1 will have to go through a Play-In to reach the Swiss Stage of the League of Legends World Championship.

They will face Invictus Gaming on Tuesday, October 14th, with the winner joining 15 other teams in the Swiss Stage.

Bilibili Gaming will hope to go one better than 2024, after losing 3-2 to T1 in last year’s final.

Their roster includes Jungler Zhao ‘Shad0w’ Zhiqiang, who became the first European to win the LPL in China.

Shad0w is an Italian pro having been born in Milan to a family of Chinese heritage. He has revitalised his career with Bilibili Gaming, starring in their 3-2 Summer Split triumph against Top Esports.

Top Esports did however qualify for the LOL Worlds Swiss Stage, beating Invictus Gaming to avoid the Play-In.

Gen.G and FlyQuest are first seeds after winning the LCK and LTA championships respectively.

CTBC Flying Oyster became the first LCP 2025 Champions after the Asia-Pacific’s regional unification.

The team were dominant throughout the entire Season Finals split, winning every series they played from Phase 1 to the Grand Final.

Who has qualified from the EMEA region?

G2 Esports were crowned as LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs champions, to qualify for the League of Legends World Championship.

They completed a 3-0 sweep over Movistar KOI to be crowned as champions.

The German esports organisation is joined by Movistar KOI of Spain and British team Fnatic at the World Championship.

Fnatic qualified for the League of Legends Championship last week for the ninth consecutive year, ending the season of Karmine Corp with a 3-1 victory.

Last 10 League of Legends world champions

• 2024 – T1
• 2023 – T1
• 2022 – DRX
• 2021 – Edward Gaming
• 2020 – Damwon Gaming
• 2019 – FunPlus Phoenix
• 2018 – Invictus Gaming
• 2017 – Samsung Galaxy
• 2016 – SK Telecom T1
• 2015 – SK Telecom T1

Format and dates

The League of Legends World Championship 2025 starts with the Play-In between Invictus Gaming and T1 on October 14th.

Then 16 teams will take part in a five-round Swiss Stage format between October 15th and October 25th.

The top eight teams will then play in a single elimination bracket from October 28th until the Grand Final on November 9th.

Kieran Lynch, Senior Editor

Kieran Lynch is an esports journalist who writes about several games including EA Sports FC 25, Call of Duty, Rainbox Six Siege, and more. He previously worked as a sports journalist for MailOnline.

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