- Event
- 2026 League of Legends World Championship final
- Teams
- Gen.G (LCK, Korea) vs Bilibili Gaming (LPL, China)
- Date
- Saturday, November 14, 2026
- Start time
- 2 p.m. EST (19:00 UTC), per the LoL Esports schedule
- Format
- Best of five
- Venue
- Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York City
- Opening ceremony
- K/DA and True Damage, before game one
- Fan Fest
- Pier 36, Lower Manhattan, November 12 to 14, with a final watch party at 2 p.m. on November 14
- Source
- LoL Esports schedule and Fan Fest guide, League of Legends on X, Barclays Center events page; regional times are our conversions
T1 won the last three world titles and will not be in New York. Bilibili Gaming beat them 3-1 in Allen, Texas, on Sunday, November 8, which leaves the first Worlds final without T1 since 2021 and a rematch of a rivalry that has gone both ways: BLG knocked Gen.G out of MSI 2023 and the Worlds 2023 quarterfinals, and Gen.G beat BLG twice at MSI 2024, both times 3-1, according to Wikipedia's record of the final.
When is the Worlds 2026 final?
The Worlds 2026 final is on Saturday, November 14, 2026, the last day of a tournament that started on October 15 in Los Angeles. Riot's LoL Esports schedule lists one match that day, Gen.G against Bilibili Gaming in the Finals block, played as a best-of-five: first to three wins, so anywhere from three to five games of League of Legends.
What time does the Worlds 2026 final start?
The final starts at 2 p.m. Eastern (EST), which is 11 a.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. in the UK and 19:00 UTC. That is the start time stored on the official LoL Esports schedule, and it matches the 2 p.m. finals watch party in Riot's Fan Fest guide. US daylight saving time ended on November 1, so New York is on UTC-5 that day. In Korea and China, where the two teams come from, the final starts in the early hours of Sunday, November 15.
| Region | Local start time |
|---|---|
| US Pacific (PST) | 11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| US Mountain (MST) | 12:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| US Central (CST) | 1:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| US Eastern (EST) | 2:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| Brazil (Brasília) | 4:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| UK (GMT) | 7:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| Central Europe (CET) | 8:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| Eastern Europe (EET) | 9:00 p.m., Saturday, November 14 |
| India (IST) | 12:30 a.m., Sunday, November 15 |
| China (CST) | 3:00 a.m., Sunday, November 15 |
| Korea and Japan | 4:00 a.m., Sunday, November 15 |
| Sydney (AEDT) | 6:00 a.m., Sunday, November 15 |
We converted these from the schedule's 19:00 UTC start. The opening ceremony comes first, so the first game begins some time after the listed start.
Who is playing in the Worlds 2026 final?
Gen.G, from Korea's LCK, play Bilibili Gaming, from China's LPL. Both reached the final without much trouble. Gen.G swept LYON 3-0 in the quarterfinals and Invictus Gaming 3-0 in the semifinal on November 7. BLG swept Dplus KIA 3-0 in the quarterfinals, then beat T1 3-1 on November 8, results all listed on the LoL Esports schedule.
Riot's own broadcast of BLG's semifinal against T1 is on the LoL Esports YouTube channel.
For Gen.G it is a first final under the Gen.G name; the organisation last won Worlds as Samsung Galaxy in 2017, and mid laner Chovy reaches his first final after semifinal exits in 2022, 2024 and 2025. BLG are back for the second time after losing the 2024 final to T1.
Where is the Worlds 2026 final?
The final is at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the home arena of the Brooklyn Nets, which lists the League of Legends 2026 World Championship on its events page. It is the first Worlds final on the US East Coast; earlier North American finals were in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Tickets are sold through Ticketmaster, which the LoL Esports site links as its ticket seller.
How to watch the Worlds 2026 final
The final streams on lolesports.com and on the LoL Esports YouTube channel, which carried the semifinal against T1; GGRecon also lists the LoL Esports Twitch channel. The poster on the official League of Legends ceremony announcement lists lolesports.com as the stream, as Inven Global described it, and puts the ceremony at 11 a.m. PT, 2 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. GMT, the same slot as the schedule. Our live esports page lists the esports streams on air at any moment, including Riot's when the final is running.
Who is performing at the Worlds 2026 opening ceremony?
https://x.com/LeagueOfLegends/status/2112987398783066292
Riot hasn't named the songs. K/DA's FIRESTARTER EP came out the same day, October 21, as Strafe reported, and it is the group's first finals performance since 2018.
What is the Worlds 2026 Fan Fest?
Fan Fest is Riot's fan area at Pier 36 in Lower Manhattan, open to all fans from Thursday, November 12 to Saturday, November 14, subject to venue capacity, according to Riot's guide. It opens 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST on Thursday and Friday and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST on Saturday, when Hotline League with Travis Gafford runs at 11 a.m. and the finals watch party starts at 2 p.m.
The main stage carries a dev panel on Thursday and a cosplay showcase and the Coinbase Mundo Dodgeball finals on Friday, with an ARAM: Mayhem booth both evenings where winners submit balance changes for a custom build on site.
What we don't know yet
- The exact time game one starts after the opening ceremony.
- Which songs K/DA and True Damage will play, and whether anyone joins them on stage.
- How many tickets are left; Ticketmaster availability changes by the hour.