TL;DR: The lol worlds winners list runs from Fnatic in 2011 to T1 in 2025. T1 (formerly SK Telecom T1) is the most successful team in history with six titles, and their mid laner Faker is the only player with six Worlds rings (2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025). South Korea's LCK leads all regions with ten titles, ahead of China's LPL on three.
If you searched for the lol worlds winners, you almost certainly want one thing: a clean, correct list of every league of legends worlds winners by year, with the runner-up and a bit of context, not a wall of marketing. So that is exactly what we lead with. Below is the full table of lol worlds champions from the first event in 2011 through the most recently completed edition in 2025, every row checked against the public record.
The question "who won lol worlds" has fifteen different answers depending on the year, and the names matter. Some are dynasties that defined an era, some are one-off Cinderella runs, and a couple are upsets nobody saw coming. Getting them right is the whole point of a reference page, so we treated accuracy as the job.
After the list we get into the patterns: which regions and teams have dominated, the Faker and T1 dynasty that bends the whole history around it, the biggest upsets, and the records that actually hold up. None of it is from memory. We verified every champion and runner-up against Wikipedia's "League of Legends World Championship" page and cross-checked the player and region tallies, because a lol worlds winners list is only worth anything if it is right.
Then, because this is RiftOdds and we cover the betting side, we close with what fifteen years of history does and does not tell you when you go to back this year's champion on a prediction market. History is a guide, not a guarantee, and we will be clear about the difference. Everything here is 18+ and for fans who like reading the odds, not chasing them.
LoL Worlds winners list: every champion by year
Here is the complete lol worlds winners list. The "Region" column is the league the winning team represented (LCK is South Korea, LPL is China, LEC is Europe, GPL was the old Garena Premier League covering Taiwan and Southeast Asia). The "Host" column is the city where the grand final was played.
| Year | Champion | Runner-up | Region | Final host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Fnatic | Against All Authority | EU (LEC) | Jönköping, Sweden |
| 2012 | Taipei Assassins | Azubu Frost | GPL (Taiwan/SEA) | Los Angeles, USA |
| 2013 | SK Telecom T1 | Royal Club | Korea (LCK) | Los Angeles, USA |
| 2014 | Samsung White | Royal Club | Korea (LCK) | Seoul, South Korea |
| 2015 | SK Telecom T1 | KOO Tigers | Korea (LCK) | Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | SK Telecom T1 | Samsung Galaxy | Korea (LCK) | Los Angeles, USA |
| 2017 | Samsung Galaxy | SK Telecom T1 | Korea (LCK) | Beijing, China |
| 2018 | Invictus Gaming | Fnatic | China (LPL) | Incheon, South Korea |
| 2019 | FunPlus Phoenix | G2 Esports | China (LPL) | Paris, France |
| 2020 | Damwon Gaming | Suning | Korea (LCK) | Shanghai, China |
| 2021 | Edward Gaming | DWG KIA | China (LPL) | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 2022 | DRX | T1 | Korea (LCK) | San Francisco, USA |
| 2023 | T1 | Weibo Gaming | Korea (LCK) | Seoul, South Korea |
| 2024 | T1 | Bilibili Gaming | Korea (LCK) | London, England |
| 2025 | T1 | KT Rolster | Korea (LCK) | Chengdu, China |
A note on team names, because they trip people up. SK Telecom T1 rebranded to simply T1 in late 2019, so the 2013, 2015 and 2016 SKT and the 2022 to 2025 T1 are the same organization. Samsung White (2014 champions) and Samsung Galaxy (2017 champions) were Samsung's two squads that later became Gen.G. Damwon Gaming (2020) became DWG KIA and then Dplus KIA. Those continuities matter when you count titles by org, which we do next.
Who won the most LoL Worlds: the team table
Count it by organization and one name sits clear at the top. Here is the breakdown of multi-time and single-time lol worlds champions as of the 2025 edition.
| Team | Region | Titles | Years won |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 (formerly SK Telecom T1) | LCK | 6 | 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Gen.G (Samsung White / Galaxy) | LCK | 2 | 2014, 2017 |
| Fnatic | LEC | 1 | 2011 |
| Taipei Assassins | GPL | 1 | 2012 |
| Invictus Gaming | LPL | 1 | 2018 |
| FunPlus Phoenix | LPL | 1 | 2019 |
| Dplus KIA (Damwon Gaming) | LCK | 1 | 2020 |
| Edward Gaming | LPL | 1 | 2021 |
| DRX | LCK | 1 | 2022 |
T1 has won six of the fifteen Worlds played, which is to say they have won as many titles as the next three winning orgs put together. No other team has more than two. If you are wondering "who has won the most lol worlds," that is the answer and it is not close.
Which region has won the most Worlds
The team table already hints at it, but the regional picture is the clearest story in the whole dataset. South Korea's LCK has won ten of the fifteen titles. China's LPL has won three. Europe's LEC has one (Fnatic, all the way back in 2011), and the old Garena Premier League has one through Taipei Assassins in 2012.
| Region | Titles | Runner-up finishes |
|---|---|---|
| South Korea (LCK) | 10 | 7 |
| China (LPL) | 3 | 5 |
| EMEA (LEC) | 1 | 3 |
| Taiwan/SEA (GPL) | 1 | 0 |
The Korea versus China rivalry (LCK versus LPL) is the axis the modern game spins on. Korea won the first stretch of the dynasty years, China broke through with a three-year run from 2018 to 2021 (counting the 2020 Korean win in the middle), and Korea has reclaimed the cup every year since 2022. The West has not lifted the Summoner's Cup since Fnatic in 2011, and that drought is the backdrop to every "can the West finally win" storyline you will read each autumn. We dig into the money and stakes behind all this in our piece on the LoL Worlds prize pool and betting.
The Faker and T1 dynasty
You cannot tell the history of league of legends worlds winners without Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok. He has won six World Championships, in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024 and 2025, which is the most of any player and matches T1's six titles exactly, because he was on every single one. No one else in the game's history has more than two.
What makes the record absurd is the span. Faker won three titles in his early SKT years (2013, 2015, 2016), went seven years without one, and then came back to win three straight from 2023 to 2025 in his late twenties, an age when most pros have long retired. The 2025 title made T1 the first team ever to three-peat at Worlds, and Faker added a second Finals MVP along the way (2016 and 2024).
The dynasty is not just Faker, though. SKT and T1 have built winning rosters across multiple generations of teammates, which is why the org has six rings while no individual besides Faker has been there for all of them. When you see T1 priced as a Worlds favourite year after year, this history is the reason the market respects them, even in seasons where their regular-split form wobbles.
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Open PolymarketThe biggest upsets in Worlds history
For all the Korean dominance, Worlds produces genuine chaos, and the upsets are part of why it is the best event to follow. A few stand out:
- DRX, 2022. The clearest Cinderella run in the history of the event. DRX entered as Korea's fourth seed and had to grind through the play-in stage just to reach the main event. They then beat the defending champions Edward Gaming in a reverse sweep, took out the LCK summer champions Gen.G, and beat Faker's T1 in the grand final, 3 to 2. No team had ever won the title starting from the play-in before, and none has since.
- Samsung Galaxy over SKT, 2017. SKT had won three of the previous four Worlds and were the heaviest of favourites. Samsung Galaxy, the team SKT had beaten in the 2016 final, came back a year later and swept them 3 to 0. The reigning kings did not even win a game in the final.
- Invictus Gaming, 2018. Not an upset on paper so much as a watershed: IG gave China and the LPL their first ever Worlds title, ending the perception that Korea simply could not be beaten over a full bracket. It cracked the door open for China's run of titles that followed.
The pattern across all three: the favourite is beatable in a best-of-five, and the market's pre-tournament read can be badly wrong by November. That is exactly the gap a sharp viewer is looking for.
What the winners history means for betting today
So you have the full lol worlds winners list. How should it shape the way you bet this year's event on a prediction market? A few honest lessons fall straight out of the data.
- Region is a strong prior, not a law. The LCK has won ten of fifteen, so a Korean team in the favourites is rarely a surprise and a Western team as outright favourite would be. But "strong prior" is not "certainty." China has three titles and five runner-up finishes, and any given year is one bracket, not the average of fifteen.
- Dynasties get priced in. T1's six titles mean the market will rarely give you a long price on them when they look healthy. The value in a favourite like that is usually gone. If you want an edge, it is more often in correctly fading an overrated favourite or backing a live underdog than in piling onto the obvious name.
- Upsets are not flukes, they are the format. DRX in 2022 and Samsung in 2017 happened because best-of-five series let a hot, well-prepared team beat a better-on-paper one. A price of 60 on a favourite still means they lose four times out of ten. Treat every number as a probability, which is exactly how Polymarket lists them.
- History tells you who can, not who will. Knowing T1 and the LCK dominate helps you sanity-check a market. It does not tell you the 2026 winner, and nobody can. If a tipster claims certainty, that is the tell that they are selling, not analysing.
If you are new to reading prediction-market prices, start with our walkthrough on how to bet on League of Legends, and if you want the off-season context that shapes form going into Worlds, our explainer on what MSI is in League of Legends covers the mid-year tournament that often previews the favourites. The live winner market for the current edition lives behind our Worlds hub.
How Polymarket prices the current Worlds champion
Polymarket is a prediction market, so the "odds" are probabilities. Each contender in the Worlds winner market trades as a price between 0 and 100, and that price is the crowd's estimate of the chance that team lifts the cup. A team trading at 28 is the market saying roughly a 28 percent chance, which, set against the history above, is the market weighing T1's pedigree, the LCK's record, current form and the bracket all at once.
Those prices move in real time as the tournament plays out, which is what makes them more useful than a static preseason power ranking. You are watching fifteen years of "who can win this" get updated game by game with what is actually happening on stage. You can open the live market for the current edition below.
Bet responsibly. Prediction markets are 18+ and restricted in some regions. Odds are probabilities, not guarantees, and the history above is full of favourites who crashed out. Never stake money you cannot afford to lose, and remember that one result is a single outcome out of many that could have happened.
Frequently asked questions
Who has won the most LoL Worlds?
T1, formerly SK Telecom T1, is the most successful team in Worlds history with six titles, won in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024 and 2025. No other team has more than two. By player, Faker has won all six of those, the most of any individual.
Who won the first LoL Worlds?
Fnatic won the first League of Legends World Championship in 2011, held at DreamHack Summer in Jönköping, Sweden. They beat the French team Against All Authority in the final for a 100,000 US dollar prize pool. It remains the only Worlds title won by a Western (LEC) team.
How many Worlds has Faker won?
Faker has won six World Championships, in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2023, 2024 and 2025, all with SK Telecom T1 / T1. That is the most of any player in the game's history, and he also holds two Worlds Finals MVP awards (2016 and 2024).
Which region has won the most Worlds?
South Korea's LCK has won the most, with ten of the fifteen titles played through 2025. China's LPL is second with three titles. Europe's LEC has one (Fnatic in 2011) and the old Garena Premier League has one (Taipei Assassins in 2012).
Who won the last LoL Worlds?
T1 won the most recent completed Worlds, the 2025 edition, beating fellow Korean team KT Rolster 3 to 2 in the final held in Chengdu, China. It was T1's sixth title and an unprecedented third Worlds win in a row, with Gumayusi named Finals MVP.
Can you bet on who wins Worlds?
Yes. Polymarket runs a live Worlds winner market where each team trades as a probability between 0 and 100, updating in real time as the bracket plays out. It is 18+ and restricted in some regions, and the prices are probabilities rather than guarantees.