With the spring portion of the 2022 League of Legends esports season now concluded for every region on the globe, Esports Charts have released viewership figures for the leagues around the world.
South Korea's LCK dwarfed the rest of the leagues in terms of global viewership with 74.2 million.
LCK's elite level of play and cultural relevance in South Korea played a part as always, but spring champion T1's undefeated run to the trophy and flawless qualification for the 2022 Mid-Season Invitational put LCK at over double the viewership of Europe's LEC.
The LEC was the second-most watched league this spring with 36.5 million viewers, and along with LCK, was one of only two major regions that trumped the viewership of the CBLoL. The passion of the Brazilian League of Legends esports fanbase is well-known, and that passion resulted in 17.4 million viewers this year thus far, just narrowly edging out North America's LCS at 17 million viewers. The viewership for the LCS Lock In was listed separately by Esports Charts at 5.8 million viewers.
China's LPL was the fourth most watched major region and fifth overall with 15.5 million viewers. Two of the European regional leagues and Vietnam's VCS round out the list. France's LFL has been growing in popularity for the past couple seasons due to the elite performance of Karmine Corp and the cultural phenomenon surrounding their success, and that was before star AD carry Martin "Rekkles" Larsson joined the squad for the 2022 season.
The LVP SuperLiga is the top-level Spanish League of Legends esports league and was watched by 6.5 million viewers this spring. The only league below the numbers of the LCS Lock In is the VCS with 3.1 million viewers, but given that Vietnam is heading to their first international event since 2019, that number is expected to rise as the year continues following Saigon Buffalo's upcoming appearance at MSI 2022.
