ENC LoL teams revealed, and direct invite teams confirmed. Who is competing for Team GB?

Craig Robinson, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 19/06/2026

The ENC has finalised all of the LoL teams attending the Esports Nations Cup, with 16 teams directly qualified to the main event / Play-Ins. It puts some stacked nations on the direct list, with the rest scrapping it out through various play-in stages or qualifiers to get to Riyadh in November.

The invited teams for LoL ENC Play-Ins and Group Stages

To no surprise, there are some very powerful teams getting direct invites to the Group Stage of the event. This is based on the nation’s scores for players’ performances over the last year or so and is obviously based on player nationalities.

To absolutely no one’s surprise, China and South Korea top first and second, respectively, and they have some incredibly stacked rosters.

China takes the core of BLG, featuring Chen “Bin”Ze-Bin, Zhuo “Knight” Ding and Luo “ON” Wen-Jun, and adds Yu “JackeyLove” Wen-Bo and Gao “Tian” Tian-Liang from Top Esports.

Meanwhile South Korea is essentially a T1 superteam from a few years ago, with Choi “Zeus” Woo-je, Kim “Canyon” Geon-bu, Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, Lee “Gumayusi” Min-hyeong and Ryu “Keria” Min-seok on the lineup. Only Canyon has not yet played for T1 in his career. It means the roster has two members of Hanwha Life, one Gen.G and two T1 players as it stands.

Next up, there’s various players from across the world. France is third with Adam “Skewmond”, Ilias “nuc” Bizriken, Caliste “Caliste” Henry-Hennebert and Théo “Zoelys” Le Scornec. It adds players who are in ERLs and have played in the LEC in the past, alongside arguably the best jungler in the world through First Stand 2026 results, Caliste, who is the ADC prodigy, and Nuc, who has been a staple midlaner in the LEC for several years now.

Then we have Vietnam. I don’t know the names too well, but Lê “SofM” Quang Duy and Hoàng “Eddie” Công Nghĩa jump out thanks to recent appearances from Team Secret Whales at international events. Brazil is next in line, with players who have performed well locally, with the core of FURIA in Arthur “Tutsz” Peixoto Machado and Andrey “Ayu” Saraiva, who are also attending MSI representing Brazil.

Sixth is USA, with Niship “Dhokla” Doshi, Robert “Blaber” huang, Eain “APA” Stearns, Sean “Yeon” Sung and Choi “huhi” Jae-hyun representing NA.

Seventh we have Chinese Taipei (Taiwan if you’re so inclined to start a diplomatic incident), thanks to players from the region going to the LPL and performing well in the Pacific region, which has Worlds representatives and more. You’ll probably recognise the names of Tsai “HongQ” Ming-Hong and Chiu “Doggo” Tzu-Chuan from that team list.

Eighth on the list is Denmark. The roster, featuring the likes of Martin “Wunder” Hansen, Rasmus “Caps” Winther and Jesper “Zven” Svenningsen is certainly star-studded, with the additions of Casper “Cboi” Simonsen and Mads “Doss” Schwartz, with Doss having featured in the LEC previously.

After that, the teams ranked ninth to sixteenth get byes to the Play-ins, with the nations as follows:

• Turkey
• Greece
• Poland
• Argentina
• Spain
• Canada
• Sweden
• Czechia

Each of these teams has known faces and could have crept into the top eight if the LEC had gone a little differently and some teams had managed to climb a little higher. Czechia springs to mind, with Marek “Humanoid” Brázda and Matyáš “Carzzy” Orság from Vitality there, alongside Adam “Jackies” Jeřábek from GiantX. Spain also features three of the MKOI roster, with other Spanish names like Víctor “Flakked” Lirola from Heretics on that list too. Greece also features two Fnatic players, alongside Labros “Labrov” Papoutsakis from G2, and Markos “Comp” Stamkopoulos, who was a top player on Rogue several years ago. Poland is also very stacked, with Marcin “Jankos” Jankowski and Kacper “Inspired” Słoma both in the roster as junglers, with Adrian “Trymbi” Trybus in support alongside Alan “Busio” Cwalina, who has opted for his Polish nationality over his Canadian nationality. How’s that for some World Cup crossover?

The remaining 110 invited nations will have to play through regional qualifiers to reach the finals.

When does Team GB play?

Team GB, whose roster got announced today too, features classic UK names, with the likes of Jordan “Shikari” Pointon, Matthew Luke “Deadly” Smith  and Raymond “Kasing” Tsang  being our long-time heroes on the roster. They are accompanied by Aslan “White” Panglose who plays for UoL. There’s also BZ, whose name we cannot verify online, but he does run a highly viewed YouTube channel specifically on League. Rounding it off is Ronan “Chemera” Stewart, who has played in the UK scene as a support player since 2019. 

The coaching staff also features Mac, the coach of coaches at Vitality, alongside former professional, Maxlore, who historically brought T1 to a five game series in the 2017 Worlds Quarter-finals. You can see the full coaching staff announced via the Team GB Esports X account.

The UK, being a team that was not invited, have to play through the EUW qualifier, which starts today on June 19th, with the final day on Sunday June 21st. There are two slots up for grabs in the EUW qualifier, with all other regions getting two slots into the Play-ins. It rounds up to a 24 team Play-ins, with the final two slots awarded to a Wildcard and a host region team not already qualified.

The Rocket League and Siege squads have received direct invites in their respective competitions, but the MOBA boys in LoL and Dota 2 have a tough ask on their hands. If there’s one thing for sure, we know they won’t go down without a fight. 

Craig Robinson, Senior Editor

Craig began his career with Esports News UK back in 2015/2016, looking to write about a passion while studying at Manchester Metropolitan University. He stayed there for several years before moving on to other websites to begin his career after graduating. Now he's back, covering esports adjacent topics and UK stories.

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