Five matches, five Worlds appearances by the same team, and a record that has stood since 2024. The most-watched match in League of Legends esports history is the Worlds 2024 final between T1 and Bilibili Gaming, which peaked at 6,941,610 concurrent viewers. The Worlds 2025 final came 189,025 short of it. T1 recovered from 2-1 down to beat KT Rolster and take a third consecutive title, in front of a peak of 6,752,585.

Every figure here comes from Esports Charts and excludes Chinese platforms such as Bilibili, Huya and DouYu, where much of the LPL audience watches.

The top five of all time

T1 played in all five, and lost one of them — the audience is not turning up for a champion, it is turning up for Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok. No organisation in the game is watched more, they appeared in four of the five biggest matches of Worlds 2025, and the two editions that set all-time peaks, in 2023 and 2024, both ended with Faker lifting the trophy.

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The tournament picture

Worlds 2025 finished as the second most-watched esports event in history, behind Worlds 2024, with 136.4 million hours watched.

It was not the most-watched LoL event of its own year. The LCK 2025 Season, running from April to the end of September, generated more than 161 million hours watched on the strength of its length rather than its peaks.

What 2026 needs

Worlds 2026 runs from 15 October to 14 November, with the final at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The time zone works against the Korean and Vietnamese audiences that drove the last two records — Vietnam alone accounted for more than 1.2 million concurrent viewers during Worlds 2025.