League of Legends EMEA Championship
| Upcoming season or competition: 2025 LEC season | |
| Formerly | European League of Legends Championship Series (2013–2018) League of Legends European Championship (2019–2022) |
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| Game | League of Legends |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Owner(s) | Riot Games |
| Commissioner | Artem Bykov |
| No. of teams | 10 |
| Venue(s) | Riot Games Arena, Berlin |
| Continent | Europe (2013–2022) Europe, Middle East and Africa (since 2023) |
| Most recent champion(s) | Movistar KOI (4th title) (Spring 2025) |
| Most titles | G2 Esports (16 titles) |
| International cup(s) | First Stand Mid-Season Invitational World Championship |
| Official website | lolesports |
The League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) is the professional League of Legends esports league run by Riot Games in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region, in which ten teams compete. Each annual season is divided into three splits: Winter, Spring and Summer. At the end of the season, the top performing teams qualify for various international events: the First Stand Tournament by winning the Winter Split, the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) for the top two teams of the Spring Split, the League of Legends World Championship for the top three teams of Summer Split. The LEC represents the highest level of League of Legends play in the EMEA region.
With the exception of some touring events, all games of the LEC are played live at the Riot Games Arena in Adlershof, Berlin, Germany. In addition to a small studio audience, all games are streamed live in several languages on Twitch and YouTube, with broadcasts regularly attracting over 300,000 viewers.
The popularity and success of the LEC has attracted significant media attention. On 30 September 2016, the French Senate unanimously adopted the last version of the Law for a Digital Republic, significantly improving the visa process for LEC players and esports athletes in general, giving a legal framework to esports contracts, introducing mechanisms to ensure payment of cash prizes, specifying rights for minor esport athletes, and more. A few months before, France also introduced a new esports federation, "France Esports", which has the duty to be a representative body of esports towards the government and serve as a "partner of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee for all matters relating to the recognition of electronic sports as sport in itself". Spain did the same in November 2016, creating the Spanish Federation of Video Games and Esports Spanish Federation of Video Games and Esports. The LEC has attracted sponsorships from LG UltraGear, Kia, Red Bull, and Erste Group.
Fnatic is the only team remaining that has played in every split since the inaugural 2013 Spring Split. G2 Esports is the team with the most champion titles, with 16 in total.