The European League of Legends (LoL) teams battle for three tickets to the World Championship 2025. The biggest favorites are in the upper brackets already. Fans hope for spectacular matches with potential upsets.
The Summer 2025 season in the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) treated us to an interesting change. Natus Vincere returned to the competition: the org purchased the roster and slot of Rogue. Beyond that, the Group stage of LEC 2025 Summer did not bring big surprises — those who you would expect to see in the playoffs are here, in their rightful placements.
Winning the regional split is a nice achievement, but the main goal of LoL esports teams at LEC 2025 Summer is more than just this. Three qualifying spots for the League of Legends Worlds 2025 are at stake!
Everything about LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs: the stream, brackets, details, and final results.
Stream: Watch LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs
All playoff matches of the Summer 2025 season are on the official YouTube channel of LEC. You can watch them right here as well: the stream is embedded below.
Schedule
It’s a pretty long tournament period, as the event goes on from Sept. 5 to Sept. 28. The format is double elimination brackets: best-of-five (Bo5) with fearless draft.
Here is the schedule of LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs. All the matches start at 5 p.m. CEST / 11 a.m. ET.
Date | Tournament stage | Matchups |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sept. 5 | Crossplay Decider | Heretics vs Vitality |
| Saturday, Sept. 6 | Crossplay Decider | GIANTX vs Team BDS |
| Sunday, Sept. 7 | Upper Round 1 | G2 vs Karmine Corp |
| Monday, Sept. 8 | Upper Round 1 | KOI vs Fnatic |
| Saturday, Sept. 13 | Lower Round 1 | Team Vitality vs TBD |
| Sunday, Sept. 14 | Lower Round 1 | TBD vs TBD |
| Monday, Sept. 15 | Upper Round 2 (final) | TBD vs TBD |
| Saturday, Sept. 26 | Lower Round 2 | TBD vs TBD |
| Sunday, Sept. 27 | Lower Round 3 (final) | TBD vs TBD |
| Monday, Sept. 28 | Split final | TBD vs TBD |
Results: LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs
The final standings and the match results of LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs are highlighted in this section.
While the game itself is extremely interesting to watch, the tournament outcome boosts the importance of each match. The top 8 teams advance to the League of Legends World Championship 2025 (LoL Worlds 2025).
Final standings
Placement | Team | Prize money | LoL World 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | TBD | €40,000 | + |
| 2nd | TBD | €25,000 | + |
| 3th | TBD | €10,000 | + |
| 4th | TBD | €5,000 | - |
| 5th-6th | TBD | - | - |
| 5th-6th | TBD | - | - |
| 7th-8th | TBD | - | - |
| 7th-8th | Team Heretics | - | - |
Brackets
Crossplay Decider
LEC 2025 Summer Playoffs start with two elimination matches. These teams were 3rd and 4th in their groups, so they should prove to be strong enough to battle for the Worlds 2025 qualification.
- Team Heretics 1:3 Team Vitality
- GIANTX vs Team BDS
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Upper Round 1
These are the semifinals, and winning here is super important. Basically, these are the Worlds 2025 qualification matches: those who advance to Upper Round 2 (upper final) are in the top 3 for sure.
- G2 Esports vs Karmine Corp
- KOI vs Fnatic
Looking back at the Group stage
In the starting stage of LEC 2025 Summer, G2 Esports finally abandoned their habit of shaky performance in the split beginnings. It’s the only team that finished the Group stage with four wins and zero losses.
At the regional EU LoL tournaments of 2025, G2 players are in the top 2. The international performance is rather disastrous. G2 got eliminated by FlyQuest at MSI 2025 is not a result to be proud of.
KOI were #1 in their group. They got ahead of Karmine Corp only thanks to losing one game less.
Movistar KOI reached the top 8 at the MSI 2025, but CFO eliminated them.
Karmine Corp were the heroes of the First Stand 2025. They played in the grand final, but Hanwha Life Esports turned out to be too hard opponents.
Fnatic have been struggling this year: they couldn’t qualify for International events. Can LEC Summer 2025 bring a different result?
During the Group stage, Fnatic were in one group with G2 — and they lost only to this rivalry org.
Underdogs
GIANTX, Team Vitality, Team Heretics, and Team BDS are in the underdog category. They experienced some losses in the LEC 2025 Summer Groups. It would be a pretty big deal for them to make it to the top 3.
SK Gaming could not qualify for the playoffs only because of the game score. Three teams in their groups had the same results of won-lost matches, 1:3.
NAVI lost all the Group stage matches. It’s an experience they earned, right?
The LoL World Championship 2025 is from Oct. 14 to Nov. 9. Qualification tournaments happen in all main regions.
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