Reading the LoL match board
Every start time here shows in your own local timezone, taken from your device. Live series sit at the top, and everything still to come is grouped by day, with today first.
That grouping matters more in League than in most esports. The major leagues run in Korea, China, Europe and the Americas, so a single day of professional play covers most of the clock: an LCK match that starts mid-morning in Europe and an LCS match that starts late at night in Korea belong to the same day on this board. Seeing the day laid out in order is what stops that being confusing.
Each row carries the league behind the match, which is the fastest way to judge what a fixture is worth before you know the teams. The filters above the board narrow what is listed, and the date control moves you to a specific day rather than scrolling to it. The wider scene sits on the LoL hub.
Quiet days are normal rather than a sign something is missing. Regional leagues play on fixed weekly schedules and most of them rest between splits, so the board thins out in the gaps and fills again when the next one begins. International events are the exception, running daily for weeks at a time.
The leagues you will see on the board
Professional League is organised into regional leagues that run their own seasons and then send teams to a shared set of international events. Six of them sit at the top tier, and between them they account for most of what appears here.
| League | Region | What it feeds into |
|---|---|---|
| LCK | Korea | MSI and Worlds |
| LPL | China | MSI and Worlds |
| LEC | Europe, Middle East and Africa | MSI and Worlds |
| LCS | North America | MSI and Worlds |
| CBLOL | South America | MSI and Worlds |
| LCP | Asia-Pacific | MSI and Worlds |
The two international events are where those leagues meet. The Mid-Season Invitational falls partway through the year, and the World Championship closes it. A team's league season is effectively a route to one or both, which is why a regional match late in a split can carry more weight than its scoreline suggests.
Beneath the top tier sit regional and academy competitions, and those appear on this board too. They are where rosters are built and tested, so the names are often unfamiliar even if the league is not. Worth knowing when a result looks surprising: a top organisation's academy side and its main roster are different teams.
League branding changes more often than in other esports, and the Americas in particular has been reorganised more than once in recent seasons. The list above reflects the current season, and the league shown on a row always comes from the fixture itself rather than from this list, so the board stays correct even when a name changes.
Live scores and results
A live series updates in place while it is being played, and what moves is the series score: the count of games each team has won. The game score underneath it is a different number, describing the game currently in progress rather than the series around it. A series can sit unchanged for a long stretch while a game runs, because nothing on the series line moves until that game ends.
Completed series move off this board and onto the results page, which keeps the schedule here focused on what is live and what is next. That page carries final series scores, the game-by-game results underneath them, and the league each result belongs to. Open LoL match results to read a team's recent form. We run the same board for the CS2 match schedule.
LoL match questions
What timezone are LoL match times shown in?
Your own. Start times are converted to the local timezone your device reports. It is why an LCK start time can look unusual on this board: the match is being played on the other side of the world.
Which leagues does this page cover?
The board carries the top-tier regional leagues, which currently means the LCK in Korea, the LPL in China, the LEC across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the LCS in North America, CBLOL in South America and the LCP across Asia-Pacific. It also carries the two international events those leagues feed into, the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship, along with regional and academy competitions beneath the top tier. Anything with a tracked schedule appears, so the list is wider than the major leagues alone.
Where can I watch LoL esports matches?
Official broadcasts run on each league's own channels, with the schedule and streams collected on Riot's LoL Esports site, and co-streams in several languages on the larger international events. Worth knowing before you go looking: regional and academy matches often have no English-language broadcast, and some are streamed only in the language of their region. A scheduled match on this board does not guarantee there is somewhere to watch it in your language.
What is the difference between the series score and the game score?
The series score counts games won and decides the match: a best-of-three runs to two, a best-of-five to three, and a best-of-one is settled by a single game. The game score describes the game being played at that moment and resets when the next one starts. Both can be visible during a live series, which is where the confusion comes from. A team ahead in the current game is not necessarily ahead in the series, and only the series score decides who advances.
Does this page show finished LoL matches?
No. Completed series live on the LoL results page, which you can also reach from the Results tab above the board.
See today's LoL esports odds
The board shows what is on. The odds board shows how the market rates it, across every tracked book.
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