Worlds teams

Worlds 2026 has 19 qualified teams. The field is Anyone’s Legend, Bilibili Gaming, TOP Esports, and Invictus Gaming from the LPL; Gen.G, Hanwha Life Esports, T1, and Dplus KIA from the LCK; G2 Esports, Movistar KOI, and Karmine Corp from the LEC; Team Liquid Alienware, LYON, and Cloud9 Kia from the LCS; Team Secret Whales, CTBC Flying Oyster, and MVK Esports from the LCP; and LOS and FURIA from the CBLOL.

Worlds 2026 has 19 teams. Fifteen enter the Swiss Stage directly, and the Play-In winner takes the sixteenth Swiss Stage spot.

Karmine Corp from the LEC, Cloud9 Kia from the LCS, MVK Esports from the LCP, and FURIA from the CBLOL play the Worlds 2026 Play-In, a four-team best-of-five double-elimination bracket. One team advances to the Swiss Stage.

The Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage has 16 teams playing up to five rounds, each round pairing teams with the same record. Three wins advance a team to the Knockout Stage and three losses eliminate it; rounds 1 and 2 are best-of-one, and the matches that advance or eliminate a team are best-of-three.

Worlds 2026 sends four teams each from the LPL and LCK, three each from the LEC, LCS, and LCP, and two from the CBLOL.