title: League of Legends Continental League
text: # League of Legends Continental League
  
  The League of Legends Continental League (LCL; Russian: Континентальная лига по League of Legends, tr. Kontinental'naya liga po League of Legends) was the top level of professional League of Legends competition in the Commonwealth of Independent States, organized by Riot Games Russia in 2016-2022. It replaced the SLTV StarSeries that was organized by StarLadder in 2016. There are eight teams in the league. Each annual season of play is divided into two splits, spring and summer, both consisting of five weeks of double round-robin tournament play, which then conclude with a play-off single elimination tournament between the top four teams. The winners of each split qualifies for the Mid-Season Invitational and the World Championship.
  
  Prize pool of the competition in 2016 and 2017 amounts ₽4,5 million per season.
  
  Due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, LCL has been cancelled.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### As SLTV StarSeries
  
  | Year | Split | Champion | Runner-up | Third place | Third place |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2014 | Season 1 | Carpe Diem | Dragon Team | Revival Dragons | Good Team Multigaming |
  | 2014 | Season 2 | Hard Random | Virtus.pro | RoX | Internationally V |
  | 2014 | Season 3 | Dolphins of Wall Street | Hard Random | RoX | Moscow Five |
  | 2014 | Season 4 | RoX | Moscow Five | Virtus.pro | Team Just |
  | 2015 | Spring | Hard Random | Moscow Five | Virtus.pro | Glacial Phoenix |
  | 2015 | Summer | Hard Random | Dolphins of Wall Street | RoX | Carpe Diem |
  
  ### As LCL
  
  | Year | Split | Champion | Runner-up | Semifinalists | Semifinalists |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2016 | Spring | Hard Random | Team Empire | Vega Squadron | Natus Vincere |
  | 2016 | Summer | Albus NoX Luna | Vega Squadron | RoX | Natus Vincere |
  | 2017 | Spring | Virtus.pro | Vaevictis Esports | Vega Squadron | M19 |
  | 2017 | Summer | Gambit Esports | M19 | Virtus.pro | Team Just Alpha |
  | 2018 | Spring | Gambit Esports | RoX | Team Just (3rd place) | M19 (4th place) |
  | 2018 | Summer | Gambit Esports | Dragon Army | Team Just | M19 |
  | 2019 | Spring | Vega Squadron | Elements Pro Gaming | Gambit Esports | M19 |
  | 2019 | Summer | Unicorns of Love | Vega Squadron | Gambit Esports | Elements Pro Gaming |
  | 2020 | Spring | Unicorns of Love | RoX | Gambit Esports | Elements Pro Gaming |
  | 2020 | Summer | Unicorns of Love | Gambit Esports | One Breath Gaming | CrowCrowd |
  | 2021 | Spring | Unicorns of Love | CrowCrowd | Gambit Esports | One Breath Gaming |
  | 2021 | Summer | Unicorns of Love | CrowCrowd | One Breath Gaming (3rd place) | Vega Squadron (4th place) |
  | 2022 | Cancelled due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | Cancelled due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | Cancelled due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | Cancelled due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | Cancelled due to the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |
  