This year's LOL World Cup final will be held in Chengdu, China, on Nov. 9
Jul 26, 2025
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This year's final match of the '2025 LoL World Championship" (Rold Cup) will be held at the Donganho Sports Park Multipurpose Gymnasium in Chengdu, China, on November 9.
Riot Games announced the venue for the 2025 LOL World Cup, which will open on October 14 and be held in three Chinese cities until November 9. The play-in stage and the Swiss stage (round of 16) will be held at the Beijing Smart Esports Center in Beijing.
The quarterfinals and semi-finals, which will be held in the tournament, will then be held at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, and the final match to determine the winning team will be held in Chengdu.
Seventeen teams from five regions will participate in this competition. Four teams will compete each in LCK (Korea), which won the recent international competition 'MSI 2025', and LPL (China), which has the second-best performance. Three teams will participate in the LEC (Europe), the LTA (America), and the LCP (Asia-Pacific). Korea's Gen.G., who won the MSI, is already the first to qualify for the LOL World Cup.
The play-in stage runs just one day on October 14. LCK and LPL's No. 4 seed teams will play a best-of-five 'Guillotine Match' for the Swiss stage. The match between Korea and China, the best card, will be held from the first day of the competition. Of course, the team that lost here plays only one game and closes the LOL World Cup schedule early.
Next, 16 teams will participate in the Swiss Stage, which will be held from October 15 to 25, with one team eliminated. In the Swiss stage, where teams with the same wins and losses are decided, every time they build one win, they get close to the tournament stage, and if they lose, they get close to elimination. In other words, the team that wins three games advances to the tournament stage, and the team that loses three games is eliminated. Although it is a single match, the Swiss stage will be held in a best-of-three series.
The eight surviving teams left Beijing for Shanghai. The quarterfinals and semifinals, which will be held from Oct. 28 to Nov. 2, will determine the two teams that will compete in the final. Mercedes-Benz Arena, where the tournament stage will be held, is one of the first stadiums in Shanghai to be certified as a 'A-class esports stadium' and is China's best e-sports stage, with several LPL finals held and the final of the Valorant Masters last year. It will be held in the best-of-five series, and it is expected to be a physical and mental battle as the quarterfinals and semifinals are held in the same week without rest for the first time in the history of the LOL World Cup.
Chengdu Duong Lake Sports Park Gymnasium, where the final will be held on November 9, is a modern stadium in western China, with a capacity of up to 18,000.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.